skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, I don't write off whiteboard interviewing altogether - if you know exactly what you are hiring for, it can be very helpful to have e.g. a systems engineer write out some C code or go through tree problems. The issue comes in that a lot of people aren't entirely sure what they are hiring for, just that they need a warm body who can code to some arbitrary ability. That's why I always make sure to ask the interviewer what the burning problems are and what kind of action they are looking for on Day One.
Found three rather boring very technical concerns to harp upon for what Microservices are supposed to deliver and why they're not the bee's knees.

What microservices actually work towards is a viable strategy towards the Two Pizza rule, where teams can be kings and queens of their kingdoms & drive their own agenda forward without needing to consult with everyone else working on the monolith. Containerizing your software allows containerizing your culture, keeps there from being ancient legacy top-down hierarchical culture and praxis set forth long ago and which will dwell ever on in the monolith your whole company must collectively lurchingly keep trying to push forward. Free yourself from the more brutal pieces of Conway's Law. Create an organization that can continue to try new ideas, that allows team's freedom to work without always bumping elbows with others.

At the end of a somewhat different thread amid these comments, gloverkcn happened upon a wonderful synopsis:

The problem is that it's easier to grab the people sitting next to design something than scheduling a meeting with groups you rarely see. This is a key driver of Conway's law.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14416752

Microservices & their platform infrastructure are the answer to make this not a problem, to free you from tight organizational grips of Conway's Law.

For small and new companies, technical and organizational structuring has not accrued. These are not major problems in early stages, because everything is small enough to be changed easily anyways. But as time goes on, as software or head count grows, maintaining the liberty to ongoingly innovate and pick up new ideas and new technologies is a liberty that has to be fought for. Making your way from a 1->many service organization comes with a lot of complexity and cost, but it is a key step to allowing diversity and innovation and technical growth, particularly for multi-department organizations.
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I would recommend two books.

1. "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto", by Michael Pollan.

New graduates are moving from an environment where others took much of the responsibility for choosing their food to one where they will be handling that. If they can establish good eating habits now, that will serve them very well for the rest of their lives. If they get into bad eating habits now, they greatly increase their chances of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and probably assorted other problems.

2. Something on personal investing. I haven't read this one yet (it's sitting on my Kindle waiting its turn), but based on comments I've seen here and elsewhere, perhaps "The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing" by Taylor Larimore, Mel Lindauer, and Michael Leboeuf.

As with eating well, investing is something for which good habits developed early will pay off (literally!) in the long run. Many people think investing successfully requires that you be some kind of financial genius, or have insider information, or that you have a lot of time to actively manage a portfolio, and this leads them to leave their money in savings accounts, or in CDs, or worse just sitting in a checking account.
Do you think you could be persuaded to do a different mountain?

Summitting Everest as most people do it now simply isn't that impressive--anyone with a mediocre level of fitness and a deep enough wallet can do it. It's more of a status symbol than an achievement. And in the process you'll end up supporting and industry that pays sherpas a fraction of the profits to risk their lives doing all the difficult and dangerous parts of Everest climbing for you.

Sure, an Everest summit photo will impress your dentist and your mom, but people who climb are just going to laugh at you. There are more difficult faces on every continent, and you can climb an equivalently difficult climb near where you live for a fraction of the cost. People in the know will be much more impressed if you tell them you climbed Rainier than Everest.
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Current AWS Employee, and it's not that way where I'm working (Security). At 23 I'm the youngest person on my floor (excluding the intern), there's a couple people within a year of me, but everyone else is older than 30. On my team I'm the only one not married, and one of two that doesn't have kids. Two of the people on my team are the same age as my parents. If I ever want to make people on my team feel old, I remind them I'm closer in age to their kids than them :).

Maybe security skews towards an older demographic, but that's been my experience.
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I'm already looking at setting myself up with a private Mastodon instance for my friends, I never liked the idea of funnelling my life into a service I don't own and I don't think my friends do either.
So, about that federated DELETE operation. In a decentralized network, we can't unilaterally delete a shared piece of content; that is one of the main features of decentralization. Even providing that verb seems kind of deceptive to me; it implies that content that enters the network, could conceivably be purged, which will affect how people use the network. Perhaps DISOWN would be a more accurate verb, especially if it would only be accepted from the original owner.
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Practically speaking a peer list is usually required in an otherwise decentralized system
#1 i dont follow, it's common and trivial to do this

#2 i dont follow at all sorry
Well, they did not "override" Fedora Linux name, because Fedora Commons preceded its OS counterpart by a couple years and has a trademark for the Fedora logo: http://fedora-commons.org/about

By repository they mean digital asset management repository instead of a version control system repository.
Indeed. Less a love letter than a cheap porn adaptation, IMHO.

As a long-time GITS fan, the new movie was a complete disappointment. It added nothing new or interesting, and dropped almost all of the philosophical content of the original.

If you haven't seen the original, start there. And then move on to the sequels, the TV show, etc. if you want. But avoid this new one. None of the individual elements (soundtrack, cinematography, etc) are the equal of the original and as whole it is utterly lacking in style and substance.
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Google Introduces Payment Process Layer via Payment Request API
Mozilla and BBC to Deliver Concert Quality Audio from Royal Albert Hall Over Web
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14411126
Aren't these the guys behind the npm fiasco? Wouldn't use them.
Federation is important because the average web user today is less likely to regularly visit individual sites than in the past. People tend to only visit new content if it shows up in their social network's feed. So, if you create content with a tool, but that tool doesn't post the content across social news feeds where people will actually find it, what's the point?
Mastodon is great, but its nature makes it inaccessible to those who would benefit most from open discourse and conversation: the layman. It's got a high barrier because it's aimed at the more technologically literate.
Looking at the ID format in the first example, I have to recommend against including the protocol ("https:") in a key/ID. This makes it hard for people to later upgrade from HTTP to HTTPS, because it breaks all of those references. It also makes it hard to try out new protocols side by side, like IPFS.
Seek therapy.
The rep is the human, you're the resource.
I've been browsing around job boards lately and see a lot of "DevOps Engineer" positions, but the descriptions of each vary widely. Some of them appear to be "real" DevOps roles, that is they sit somewhere between the traditional dev and ops roles and the basic mission is to get code out to users fast. But then many of them are simply rebranded systems engineers, while others are dev roles where managing infrastructure is part of the job, while other job description have read like very basic sysadmin job descriptions.
I can't see any reason to favor that over COBOL on COGS[0].

[0]: http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM
https://swarmation.com/

Our team of 3 won the first Node Knockout by a slim margin with this realtime, multiplayer, pixel formation game.

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Also, it's harder to grok merge history because we humans have a hard time with complexity, and merge history in a system with thousands of developers and multiple upstreams can get insanely complex. The only way to cut through that complexity is to make sure that each upstream ends up with linear history -- that is: to rebase downstreams.
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It's called animism (a modern term for something that predates what we call "religion"). In prehistoric and hunter / gatherer civilizations, this was how we thought about the world. In many ways this mindset was the precursor to science. We employed what's termed as sympathetic magic where we used our pattern-recognition capabilities to try to control nature. If we were experiencing a drought, for example, we might put blue stones in our pastures because they looked like raindrops, hoping this would bring rain. This is crazy of course but it set the stage for trial and error which eventually enabled us to learn things empirically.

Shintoism has held onto this vestige of proto-science. It's amazing and beautiful.
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This doesn't really contradict the author; the army of young coders doing the "day-to-day" work are not the ones envisioning or driving the successes of the company. Any large firm is necessarily going to have a great number of less-experienced grunts than seasoned managers and executives. The implicit point here is that some tech companies seem to fill their higher ranks with kids while AMZN maybe not so much.
Just a point of interest with Alan -- he has raised a ton of money for Alzheimer's research through his climbing. I can speak for others, but he's the real deal an an amazing guy. Had a chance to talk to him prior to my Mont Blanc climb a few years ago. Class act.
What age is youth?
Which kind of hard disk is this? (picture attached)
“Mom, I always told you I'd come back and get my degree” – Zuckerberg
When I was 23, at my job, I was the youngest person on the cyber security team. Not AWS but US Federal Cyber Sec. I imagine moreso for US Federal but also for other realms of Cyber Sec., there's a rather dry aspect to both knowing the "rules" and measuring "compliance" which aren't so attractive to younger people. That's my supposition, anyway.
This is actually a pretty decent article, in part because it signals its audience properly: (semi-?)experienced React developers who haven't dealt with optimization yet.
Fedora (the repository software) predates Fedora (the operating system) by about six years: http://fedorarepository.org/about
The URL for vst-install.sh should be: https://vestacp.com/pub/vst-install.sh
My devpost profile: https://devpost.com/yeldarb

I tend to work solo at Hackathons.

My favorite project was a presentation remote for Google Glass[1]. You could control your presentation with the touch bar on the side of the glasses, see your current slide in the HUD, and it also included a timer so you could make sure you didn't run over your talk's time limit.

Second favorite was Cardwolla[2]. A system where you could register your credit card and your dwolla account and a corresponding API for websites. If user and site had both opted in to taking dwolla it would route around the credit card system using the dwolla api to avoid to avoid the 2.7% credit card processing fees.

[1] https://devpost.com/software/presentation-remote-for-google-...

[2] https://devpost.com/software/cardwolla
Just have to find one, right? Then it can clue yours in on the rest. So manually provision any neighbor, once?
This is called film cooling, and SpaceX actually does use it on their second stage engine, the Merlin vacuum variant (MVac). You can see the beautiful exhaust plenum wrapping around the nozzle [1].

This isn't used for the regeneratively-cooled portion of the nozzle, but for the large radiatively-cooled nozzle extension, visible here [2].

[1] http://imgur.com/HvtBYIi

[2] https://i.stack.imgur.com/9qIFO.jpg
Some more work is in the pipeline. Looking at actual effects in samples from recently infected kids - but takes time because measles infected children are (thankfully) not too common these days. The idea about autoimmune disease is quite interesting and some I hope to explore in the near future. Of note, measles-related viruses are being looked at as potential therapeutics for cancer. There's a growing body of work on that front. - Michael Mina
Stand Alone Complex is actually an amazing social commentary on emergent resistance movements among a group of marginalized people in the era of "fake news" or "false memories". It was way ahead of its time -- and even more relevant today than it was a decade ago.

Trump is basically the galvanizing "cult of personality" figure who was able to connect with a population that was marginalized by both the government and the media -- much like Hideo Kuze was to the refugees. In the case of Trump, he energized the people, but also similar to Kuze, he can't really control every aspect of the emergent behavior (anti-semitism in Trump's case, etc). I would even say that it's similar to the Kuze storyline in that the "cult of personality" figure is actually being manipulated by a foreign power (ironically the American Empire in SAC) for their own ends.

Similar comparisons can be made with Al Qaeda, ISIS, Boko Haram, or any other movements that start with legitimate gripes but are manipulated by false information to different ends.

It's definitely not a new phenomenon, but SAC was amazingly prophetic about how it would play out in an age of instant communication. It's unfortunate that it's so difficult to approach (you won't really "get it" until your second or third watch through) -- I don't know any other show that had multiple episodes that were essentially philosophical lectures by the main characters / tachikomas .
I know there is a lot of negativity about this movie from various quarters but I do think it's a love letter to the anime. I had the idea for the phrase when I saw that even the glitching motifs from the title credits were recreated in the movie (and expanded to the extent that glitching is part of the plot).

I mean, if we just step back, when I watched the anime I never expected that one day I'd be able to see a live-action version of the tank fight. It was very unlikely for this movie to have been made at all, in between Avengers 12 and Fast and the Furious 17. I'm glad it exists.
I have nothing good to say about Kik. I just want to remind anyone who is thinking about giving them money that they are the same litigious assholes who forced node and npm to give them (and not just deactivate) the namespace kik.

They are obviously shitty people and everything they touch is shit.
This game is super fun! congrats
> HR exists primarily as a mechanism to minimize staff/employee lawsuits.

And don't wait until it's too late to learn this!

I had a minor form of cancer a few years back, and I went to HR to let them know about it, thinking what I told them would be kept in confidence. I had been with the company for 11 months, and they didn't offer medical leave until 12 months, so I figured with my positive reviews to-date it'd be easy to just get that bumped up a bit.

The next day my manager knew, so everyone knew, and the HR folks that had been seemed so kind and understanding were cold and aloof. Instead of granting my request, they sent me a nice form letter reminding me to read the employee handbook around who would qualify for medical leave and suggested I postpone my treatment until I had been with the company for 12 months.

Of course, this had a lot more to do with me being a key player in helping them land a big project. I'd been the pitchman that the prospective clients liked, and had the most rapport with. To help ensure the company landed a stupid project they were willing to tell me to hold off cancer treatment. Ethical? I mean... it was legal, so they did it. (I resigned and got treatment immediately, also told the prospective client why I resigned. The company didn't get the bid.)

And, if you are ever laid off or fired, HR are the ones who will come down on you about talking to your old friends at the company and do everything they can to save the company every last penny (by screwing you out of it).

Another situation... I had a personal friend at a company, knew him before I got the job. Then I then got laid off with about half the team when the company didn't make numbers one-quarter. The severance package was very specific about us not talking to current employees or clients, but I figured since I knew the guy and he was a friend it wasn't going to be a big deal.

Someone in HR instructed IT to set up a filter to catch all the emails coming in, and when my buddy asked me a question and I responded (it was something silly like the combo to the paid gym in the building -- he wanted to use my membership since I wasn't going to need it), they ran it up the flagpole and immediately cut my health benefits (without warning) and demanded I repay my severance payment. It took a lawyer to get them to back down about repayments, and I never did get my health benefits back.

HR is not to be trusted. Get everything they say in writing. Don't tell them anything you aren't comfortable sending out in an all-hands email.
It is undeniably true that HR departments exist for the benefit of the company, not its employees, but I've never quite understood why that leads to the bad outcomes it does.

If an employee complains to HR of harassment, it seems like the most coldly rational, protect-the-company reaction they could have would be to do everything in their power to prevent the complaint from going public and creating a PR nightmare. Taking the complaint seriously is in their power, usually make the complainant go away peacefully, and makes you the "good guy" in the court of public opinion if it comes to that.

Furthermore, given a situation where one of your staff is abusing their position in any way, I would think most companies would rather find that out from their HR department than from the local newspaper or the district attorney.

So why isn't that the default strategy for HR departments? I understand that not every HR director is necessarily competent, and that large enough power discrepancies can overcome a lot of good intentions, but it seems like best-practice HR procedure is to essentially sweep problems under the rug and hope they go away instead of making an effort to honestly address them. That can't possibly be a good long-term strategy, can it?
addictive :)
The question is also the cost for the planet

Many people could climb it, but if too many people take a flight, buy furniture, food, waste all this energy for just this artificial pride, it's really bad.

But that's exactly where the planet is heading

At least when Jornet climbs it with no assistance, no oxygen, it's interesting, because it's more eco-friendly
It would probably make sense to also link to the deletion discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...
After astronauts came back from space a lot of them became alcoholics or developed other problems. NASA found that the reason for this is because most of them had only one goal in life, one target, to travel in to space. (what tops that!) With out any other goals they became lost, confused, and depressed. I say stay and take the buyout, and while you are bored in your boring day job chair, start thinking of awesome new goals, big and small, great new things to change your life, make a huge list of them that will keep you going till you are well over a hundred years old.
> Why is it better for the people to have dozens of currencies that they can only use for a very limited selection of stores and have to trade for other uses?

It isn't necessarily better to have dozens of different currencies, but it is better to have the ability to issue your own currencies rather than be dependent upon a single monopoly which may (and does) abuse its power.

Second thing is, there is no real way to determine how many currencies/tokens are consumers ok with, other than to really try it out in the market. Let me use an example.

Today if you have Amazon prime TV, then they have a whole section subscriptions for channels where you can subscribe to Prime, Netflix, Hulu, Crackle, CBS, Showtime, Scifi, History Channel etc, services. Initially it started out with just Prime, Netflix, and Hulu, but now there are so many options, you can't just watch Homeland if you have these three subscriptions. The problem isn't just that you need to pay more, but rather that you have to subscribe to so many services.

This is too confusing, but this also means that this is a problem to be solved. In future (and I think some company has already started) to build a package subscription. Maybe another solution would be to have every show a pay-per-view basis (which Amazon already does).

The idea is, that the reason why different subscription services exists because of some other, unavoidable business reason. But this can be solved from the user experience point of view differently without resorting to a govt monopoly on entertainment.

Same thing goes with these cryptocurrencies. They exist for different, unavoidable business reason, but it is also annoying to have to deal with different currencies, so I believe in future there will be more basket of currencies solution (like ICONOMI) which allows people to hold 2-3 cryptos at max, and from their POV, the conversion and payment to the native currency happens seamlessly.
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I'm trying to think of a good word to use instead of 'union', any thoughts? I think the word's been poisoned as much as socialism, so perhaps using a different term can help (in the US?).
> At what point does a premium virtual asset become a "currency"

When you can convert it to other currencies i suppose? Apparently thats not the case here, oddly.
Cloudflare gets another $50,000 to fight “new breed of patent troll”
No, I, don't because they are my own at home projects that haven't taken off, but I'm able to use the same library and code structure at work for things that absolutely do need microservice because of the power of the framework. And if any of my at home projects take off and I have huge teams and load then I may need microservices. It becomes a deployment question instead of a code question with the right framework.