skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great read. I loved the honest balance between engineering features and how much they ultimately ended up mattering to users. Oftentimes, the features we select can be quite arbitrary -- it's good to do gut checks by running real-time validation of results as often as possible. Fortunately, at Stack, you've got the userbase to do just that :)
Zero downtime is always a goal and never achieved for any complex service. They literally all go down sooner or later.
I think Tesla actually has more miles logged, although that's explicitly not autonomous. I bet Tesla is a close second in terms of tech and the ability to bring full autonomous control to market.
In the same vein, for French translation, Linguee[1] uses many sources from websites of organisations that display official content in several languages (eg. the websites of the EU, of the Canadian Parliament...).
The fact that it's official texts (eg. laws) makes it quite reliable.

[1] http://www.linguee.fr
PostgreSQL 10 New Features with Examples [pdf]
They lost me right at the front page. Left justification of numbers is just wrong...
500 Best Books with Unexpected Plot Twists – BookAdvice – Medium
Record your video reaction to almost any video
No, I don't expect the military to turn a profit because the military is not an entity that is expected to be self-sufficient. I included that wording specifically because it is key for the agency/entity being examined. I don't expect the schools, military, police, fire, etc. to be profitable.

As for the subsidies, I do not find it "perfectly acceptable" at all. That just means the cost is spread to non-users and society as a whole pays more for the service than we would otherwise. Take public transportation. The services near me are cheaper than the private companies because they are subsidized by the government so they can charge less. All this means is that people who drive their own vehicles and don't use public transportation end up paying for their non-use of the public transportation system. Also, the employees of the public transportation system have wages, benefits, and retirement packages that are far superior to the private sector ones. Guess who pays for all that? They are getting special treatment far above what the free market allows.

The electoral incentives are not to be well run - they are to employ as many people as possible in that government agency and look good. It is usually to their benefit to overstaff than be lean and efficient. How good does it look when they are letting people go? The CFO of my previous company got let go during a merger we went through. He went to work for a government agency and he told me that he quite literally does the work of 5 people because he's used to having a full plate and can do what they consider a full day's work at that agency in about 2 hours.
IPLD: the data model of the content-addressable web
Ha! You have a point there.
Wanna be like PewDiePie? Record your video reactions to almost any video you'll find in UpSurf app, then public in your Instagram, Twitter or just share it with your best friend.
What measure are you suggesting is a fair one that we could get other parties to agree to?

You seem to be arguing that per capita isn't a fair assessment, but it is sort of the reasonable one.

(it also isn't the case that reducing emissions must have negative consequences, which you imply with "drag the US down")
You're either an asset or a cost. If you're an asset, you're directly going to generate the company more value than they're paying you by doing your job, whether that's encompassed by 'raw output' or just 'access to your brain'. If you're a cost, well, someone needs to keep the gears running and occasionally cleaned of the worst bugs, make sure communication lines are clear, etc., and there's a certain market rate for that, so at worst you're just another cost of doing business like the hardware you use. At best the company will repurpose largely idle costs so you can potentially become an asset by coalescing and together creating value worth more than the sum of your individual costs. But some companies don't do that, so they just have these skilled workers loafing around paid for their availability (butt-in-chair) to activate on fixing some random problems as they come up.
You had a 1 hour commute each way by bike? Did you live 13+ miles away or did you just take a leisurely pace?
Elon Musk is big on working long hours. And it's hard to argue with what he's accomplished.

What does one have to do with the other?

Unless we can view an alternate timeline where Elon wasn't a workaholic, it's impossible to know if working long hours increased, decreased, or had a net neutral effect on his success.
I think that in the end this will be down the mainboard makers to get validation so possibly will not be validated on non-server style boards. But if there is demand given epic is basicly the same thing just bigger im sure they will do it.
I actually do not, even though I was around back then and had a page like this.

I find the site impossible to see, navigate, understand. We've come such a long way towards more usable, user-friendly sites.
> I look back and wish I had worked multiple jobs when I was younger, not that I had fewer hours.

Paradoxically, I just read an Internet comment how your 20s should be a wild ride of backpacking, meeting people, having sex, and living a carefree life.

I don't think your effort should go into maximising work hours; that's a mistake I have made a few times in the past. You maximise the ROI on your effort by climbing the right hill [1]; and it takes some failures before you find the right one.

[1]: http://cdixon.org/2009/09/19/climbing-the-wrong-hill/
What front end frameworks do you use?
I second this. I've been running Fedora on my MacBook Air, and all my desktops for around a year with no problems, except the occasional wifi issue.
It's a Rails 5.1 application. We are also in the process of migrating some parts of UI to Vue.js
This is a super misleading visualization. I caught wind of this yesterday and started doing some digging. There are some broad issues with this.

1. As others have mentioned, this is them playing with not true misspellings, but the phrase "how to spell X". These are very different things.

2. I don't believe these are actually the true "top searches" in each state. They did some magic here to, I suspect, normalize for the most common of these searches in the English language and then pick the most anomalous search. Otherwise this viz would probably be very boring and just be filled with some of the harder to spell English words.

3. Further evidence this is based on "corrected rank" or something. Looking at the state of Texas, the search for "how to spell beautiful" is much more common than the search for "how to spell maintenance", which their viz claims is the "top" search for Texas. Search for "Beautiful" makes much more sense considering its frequency of use in the English language.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US-TX&q=how%20t...

4. The original version that came out misspelled the word "ninety", which was pretty humorous considering this will be used by thousands to talk about how terrible it is that people can't spell and how autocorrect is ruining america, etc etc.

Of course we should all be shocked that a tweet was somehow unable to convey nuance and detail of a quantitative analysis. /sarcasm

edit: The original source was a tweet: https://twitter.com/GoogleTrends/status/869624196921303040/p...
The Math Behind the Futuregrind Track Editor
The treaty provides a mechanism for taking money from the developed world and giving it to the undeveloped world, in exchange for basically not developing. So it is a direct monetary benefit vs a nebulously defined future one.
Everything shades how we view the world. It's very difficult even for scientific work to truly influence the state of affairs. It sounds like this work was lighthearted, and there's a place for such work even among big cos.
What stops Uber from hiring him again as a contractor?
Probably for the same reason Chrome runs V8 in a different process: planning for inevitable vulnerabilities in the implementation.
Everybody will present their favourite distribution as the "best", regardless of knowing nothing about your skill-set, or personal preferences.

Perhaps you like a GUI, perhaps you like to choose all your software.

I'd suggest instead that you pick whichever distribution you know "local" people are using. Nothing beats having somebody nearby to help/chat with, if you do have problems.
Well off the top of my head there are 4-5 times more people living in China so of course they are going to emit more. Maybe I'm missing your point?
Oh yes, it's still a crime and it should be. But if the public grossly underestimates train safety and refuses to put in safeguards, an accident is a good way to wake them up. And in this case the train derailed, but at least someone was able to press the emergency stop button (to stay within the metaphor).
Turns out they do have a FAQ about this: https://www.qt.io/faq/#_Toc_3_12

It suggests that LGPL + iOS app store is not OK, but doesn't fully explore why not.
Hackintosh – running MacOS on non-Apple hardware, How it works? – SuratNow
The part that comes from risk in this case is the biggest chunk of the interest though. If we assume that AAA-rated have "no risk".
> the language doesn't have any metrics for success

That's because there isn't an exact metric. If we all do our part then we should see climate change slow down and even hopefully reverse. But I expect the Trump admin had problems with the financing part of the deal [1], such as:

"Developed country Parties shall provide financial resources to assist developing country Parties with respect to both mitigation and adaptation in continuation of their existing obligations under the Convention."

As well having to spend more money:

"As part of a global effort, developed country Parties should continue to take the lead in mobilizing climate finance from a wide variety of sources"

Whereas oil companies provide a cheaper option. It doesn't help that Trump thinks climate change is a hoax too.

[1] https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/frameworks/parisagreem...
I often interchange between the two :)
For the most part, this all looks so random that my gut tells me it's statistical noise more than anything else.

The only likely "signals" I can detect are that "pneumonia" shows up 4x and "beautiful" 4x as well, but there's no obvious correlation with the locations themselves.

Now if the correlated the searches not by state, but by income level, years of education, or age, those might be genuinely interesting lists to look at.
Yeah, but how does that generate free money for the Venezuelan state?
install this userstyle to unfuck the site: https://userstyles.org/styles/112927/ieee-spectrum-suckless
I use the system more for work than games but one game it did make a very noticeable difference in was Minecraft believe it or not. Long-view distance + pre-generated map (world border fill) = move/fly fast without chunks taking friggin forever to load :-)
Wonderful world of keyboard fanatics
Kerbal Space Program Acquired by Take-Two Interactive
Judging two trips to Europe in the past 20 years I'm going to suggest that those parking meter things are replaced about every 10 years. If EVs start to take off I expect that cities will move to US style parking meters with a built in chargers as they replace their meters on the normal cycle.

Note the I've seen a lot of the Europe style meters in the US. Each city gets to choose, and the one machine for numerous parking spaces has some advantages, and other disadvantages.
Wouldn't it be a much more accurate measure to track the most commonly occurring words in the "did you mean..." suggestions?
Was it an obvious option? I don't think I'd give the asm.js and WebAssembly developers so little credit.
>every period of over-working ends with equal or longer period of under-working

I've only recently come to accept this. I've recently hit a period of too many clients showing up at one time and I now feel stupid when I work on the weekend because I know that kind of "heroic" effort will be balanced out by me goofing off on Monday.
What's the difference between issuing a bond by Maduro and selling it?
Hiya,

Which features would you like to see in GitLab? We'd love to talk about it. You could also open a feature proposal issues in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues.
Matt Levine's take on this is thoughtful and nuanced, as usual: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-05-30/airlines-...

Scroll to the section titled "Venezuela."
Rhode Island's word does have an 'r' at the end, so maybe that's real.
There's a nagging respiratory infection going around Michigan.

It isn't pneumonia though.
But this isnt about requiring Chateauneuf to do anything, its about restrictions on what people who buy Chateauneuf can do with their bottles, where they can take them and who they can sell them on to.
That one jumped out at me too. Particularly since, given the multiple spellings, entering "How to spell gray" (cf. just "gray") actually makes sense.
That probably wouldn't result in any noticeable damage at all. Boycotting goods and paid services has a larger direct impact and I'm all for it.
And now we have 10S that... requires the app store. Will it meet the same fate? One can only hope.
Yeah, as I Georgia resident, I will gladly accept that we "misspell" a word that really has two acceptable spellings.

FWIW, I'm a fan of spelling it "gray". It just feels slightly more American for some reason.
Do you have any evidence that Github does any better?
I'm a professional C# developer and while I have dabbled in F# it isn't where I ended up when using functional programming languages. I ended up with Elixir and the main reason why is moving off of the .NET framework. There is nothing wrong with .NET but after doing it for a living for 5 years I wanted a change. I really enjoy Elixir and can't see myself going "back" (I was never fully there) into F#.
I love *tex. You want to install software, it pulls in half of the galaxy as dependencies. The equivalent of black holes in software.
Works on contingency?
No, money down!
Promise resolver for the objects
Female CEOs, Though Fewer, Earn More Than Male Chief Executives
Which language is the future of web development?
well insurance companies have something similar now where they track your driving using GPS.

In principle I like that because you pay for the risk you are, but in practice it sucks because I have no way to force the insurance company to just use the data to charge me insurance and not to track my peccadilloes.
The charger rule doesn't change the minimum number of parking spaces, and adding chargers for a small fraction of spaces is a tiny expense compared to the overall cost of parking spaces.

You might want to spend your effort on the parking space rule instead of the extremely minor issue of electric chargers.
Backreaction: Does parametric resonance solve the cosmological constant problem?
Most legal systems disagree. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default_(finance)

Society does not exist to serve contracts - it is the other way around.
I realize you didn't intend this, but as I read what you wrote I can't help but take it as supporting my claim. What you said about the USPS is a perfect example of why the government frequently does a terrible job running operations like this. None of that (except the union battles) would exist if it weren't for government nonsense.

I would be curious to see the details on Chattanooga's ability to provide those lines for comparable cost. My guess is that they get tax breaks that Google doesn't and/or don't have to pay for something else that Google has to - i.e. the land to run the lines. I would be utterly shocked if they didn't have some advantage that existed purely as a result of them being a government agency and were able to compete with Google. Because if they have any advantage, it's not really a fair competition.
Ask HN: I'm an SRE. What's My Path to CTO?
I've worked in IT operations for around 5 years and currently work as a Site Reliability Engineer for a small company (120 people). I have a degree in Business Administration, but never really used it. I love technical work and feel that I'm a little above average as far as understanding technical concepts and applying them. I feel that I have broad vision for long-term improvements.

Now I'm looking toward the future (10 years out) and trying to determine which path to pursue. The CTO route seems rather appealing, but I don't know enough about it. I'm interested in continuing to work for small businesses (100 - 500 employees).

- Do I need more formal education?
- Do I need more well rounded experience? (e.g. development, sales, etc).
- What can I do today and tomorrow to move my career in the "C-level" direction?
- What responsibilities and challenges does a CTO have that I might be overlooking when considering this path?
- Has anyone here followed such a path? (from IT operations to CTO)

Thanks in advance!
They haven't lost my data so far and they had to restore the production database at least once in their history. All circumstantial, but we'll have to wait and see.
Yeah, I was super disappointed. They even seem to be trying to make some "southerners are dumb" jab since they color code based on misspelled word length which just happens to create a big red cluster over the south. As if word length is a strong indicator of spelling difficulty. Asking how to spell "grey/gray" is a legitimately interesting question!
These are great, I need to start a collection like this.

Here's something from this codebase, with names and variables altered but for the most part left alone. Note the hardcoded `ajax_max` variable.

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/2d06bd45222999647d99df54fb...
Yes, it's more of a British English vs American English. Just like "favourite" and "favorite".
Is anyone else in a similar situation? I grew up with Google and spellcheckers, so there wasn't much reason for me to learn how to spell many words precisely. Vocabulary yes, spelling, not so much. I find myself spelling most words correctly, but there are some that I just let the spellchecker handle.

I used to feel embarrassed about this, since the old pros never had the benefit of spellcheckers, and would probably eschew them anyway. But from a writer's standpoint, is it worth feeling embarrassed about, or is it a case of technology enabling us to focus on more important things?
We have a pretty detailed post-mortem on the timeline of events for the outage, as well as actions taken after it to prevent anything similar in the future (with links to related issues).
You can check it out in https://about.gitlab.com/2017/02/10/postmortem-of-database-o...
China is investing heavily in climate policies and cutting their emissions

https://www.ft.com/content/3f1ba5ba-ddac-11e6-86ac-f253db779...
I'll definitely check out Haskell, thanks for the input!
You need to reduce overall emissions to affect the climate, not per capita. Australia is worse per capita, but they could produce 0 CO2 and it wouldn't matter if your goal is to affect climate change.
I'd like to point out the obvious solution to not everyone being there all the time.

Force the sync mechanisms and processes to be "remote only" oriented.

* Instead of meetings, have discussion threads and deadlines for achieving a decision goal.

* Instead of face time, document requests and responses in a more formal way (and have an informal channel as well for sounding out ideas).

* Use a corporate owned chatting mechanism. IRC, Slack, some xmpp nightmare, just find something that works. Preferably run your own server.

* Maybe some jobs where already over capacity, divide the workload further.
Dat – Distributed Dataset Synchronization and Versioning [pdf]
All in all a solid looking release.

I doubt I'm alone when I say I'm very pleased to be able to type pids in the shell, and it'll be nice not to have to boilerplate code_change and co when I don't need them.

ct_slave rebar3 fix is definately welcome too!
Pvnick your opinion doesn't fall in line with evangelical progressivism, so downvoting rather than engaging you directly is in order. Don't you know that politicians always and everywhere make things better, and that billions of individual actors competing and testing various ideas simultaneously is doomed to fail. Also, make sure to ignore competing voices. Science isn't about skepticism, it's who has more people on their side. To quote Einstein upon finding out that there was a book titled 100 Authors against Einstein "If I were wrong, then one [author] would have been enough!". Clearly he was an idiot. Also, ignore those who disagree with our world view like the ones listed below. They're literally Hitler.

> Tom Woods Interview with Patrick Moore: http://tomwoods.com/ep-559-greenpeace-co-founder-repudiates-...

> The 97% consensus: http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.ca/2014/02/a-climate-falsehoo...

> The Non-Expert Problem and Climate Change Science http://blog.dilbert.com/post/154082416051/the-non-expert-pro...
I can never remember which I "use".
They actually gained my trust from that outage.
what is workaholism?

In my mind any type of behaviour becomes a disorder when it has a negative effect on the ability of that person to function. As a result, the answer is "it depends". Personally, I'd say you have a problem if:

1. You have no time or energy to address responsibilities outside of work (budget, chores, etc).

2. You are experiencing a negative impact on personal relationships with friends, family, spouse, children, etc, due to excessive work.

3. You have no time or energy to engage in physical exercise outside of work.

4. You have no time or energy to engage in extracurricular activities outside of work.

I'd also couple in physical symptoms related to continuous stress, including sleep disturbances, mood control issues, high blood pressure, etc.
People might have been wondering how to spell the name of Bob Gray, who ran to replace Tom Price for Congress in Georgia's 6th district. (Or maybe I'm trying too hard to find an explanation. You don't need to know how to spell someone's name to vote for them.)
Ask HN: Lost $400k USD in a deleted email, how contact a Gmail engineer?
On the 8th of June 2014 I purchased 1970 Ethereum from the Ethereum Foundation Presale and received an email to my Gmail account containing my wallet.
As CS student overwhelmed by his thesis I managed to completely ignore the backup instructions and instead left my wallet in my Gmail account.
At least the thesis was good :)

You can probably tell where this story is going.
I promptly forgot about this whole event and in 2015 while cleaning out my email account I deleted most of my recently received emails and incidently taking out the wallet with it.
Again I'd like to state that the loss of the wallet is completely my fault.

Recently, the price of Ethereum has skyrocketed to over 200 USD per coin, meaning the wallet is now worth ~400k USD.
This means that I can now offer a nice bounty on its retrieval!

I'm publicly posting here in the hope that someone from the Gmail team can check and see if they have a copy of the email saved in Google's backups.
Should its contents be retrieveable, I'd like to offer 20% of the wallet's contents (~80k USD) as a finder's fee, alternatively if you choose to forfit this, I'll donate 50% (~200k USD) to a charity of your choice.

I realise that this is a last ditch attempt and that wallet is most likely lost forever.

This brings us to the morale of the story - "make sure you have backups and they work!"
The 2nd morale is - "no matter how badly you mess up, at least you aren't the guy that deleted an email worth 400k!"

If you work on Gmail and you can help or know someone that will lead to its retrevial please contact me [at] lostethpresale@doge.st

Best wishes!

If you want, you can encrypt your mail to me with my public key: (text too long for HN)
https://pastebin.com/raw/zgZpSKJd
"but people tend to ignore that"

You mean it doesn't get much media attention.