skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author's acronym is silly, but it's a real problem. Soylent liked to blither about their "infrastructure", for a product that sells a few times per minute. They could be using CGI scripts on a low-end hosting service and it would work fine.

Wikipedia is some MySQL databases with read-only slaves front-ended by Ngnix caches and load balancers. That seems to get the job done. Wikipedia is the fifth busiest web site in the world.

Netflix's web site (not the playout system) was originally a bunch of Python programs.

The article mentions a PostGres query that required a full table scan. If you're doing many queries that require a full table scan, you're doing something wrong. That's what indices are for.
It was regulation (specifically, antitrust) that broke up Ma Bell.
Doesn't matter from our probabilistic perspective. Odds of seeing someone with a father who survived atomic testing is different from odds that your father survived atomic testing.
Auer did not onsight 'Weg durch den Fisch'. He did the route some years before and rappelled down the day before to try the hardest moves.

http://www.planetmountain.com/it/notizie/arrampicata/hansjor...
I don't think I believe this. I know that it's associated with me and can be my bias purely. But for now I will refer to this well written article: https://www.vox.com/2015/3/23/8264355/research-study-hype
(This is why you shouldn’t believe that exciting new medical study)
This video is great. I'm glad I watched it and as soon as I finish writing this I'll be looking for more like it.

"Let her speak please", there are some many things wrong with this, starting with live tweeting this panel's discussion.

Just watch the video! There are so many more interesting and inspiring things to discuss. Listen to what they are saying. They are talking about the nature of reality and if it's possible for us to understand it.

Edit: I just got to the point where the audience member yelled out. What a disgusting display, who do they think they are, they should "check their privilege". This type of forum is not the place for aggressive behaviour like that. It's not good enough.
Uber algorithm calculated lowest possible comp offer for job candidates
It's true you can't please everybody, but at least in my case this doesn't apply: I own both the manga by Shirow and the movie by Oshii, and absolutely prefer the movie -- in fact, I don't like the manga very much. Back in the day I didn't complain the movie by Oshii wasn't like the manga, I celebrated it because it was so much better! Likewise, the new movie fails not because it's not exactly like the classic '95 movie, but because it's not as good as that movie... and makes me wonder why it was needed at all.
I think it's used in "Caro" coffee substitute (among other grains though). Maybe that works to stretch coffee?
the real issue is why the firewalls were randomly blocking puppetmaster and/or ntp and why the puppet ssl stuff stopped working (apparently randomly?)

Everyone involved sounds like they need a lot more experience.
You think that post is secret? Beware – it can come back and bite you
As someone who jumped at the chance to have the best of all possible worlds and snagged up a NI Adam on release day, I can tell you that the display was harder to get used to than I'd expected. View angle was a bit odd, and all of the qualities you'd want from a color display suffered a little.

That said, it wasn't the thing that killed the Adam - that was the weird approach to PR combined with lack of delivery on device-specific software.
Posting inflammatory comments on divisive topics is trolling. We ban accounts that do that, so please don't do it again.

Others have been doing this in the thread as well, but you've repeatedly posted uncivilly to HN in the past and we've warned you more than once. If you don't want to be banned, you need to fix this.
A reputation system might help alleviate those concerns; it might even result in your tools being better maintained. I've never tried a car-share, but the general idea seems legit.

The primary motive for you to join, would be the opportunity to use the best specialized tool for every job, every time. If not even that would convince you, then you must have a truly awesome lab/workshop, and therefore you are out of our league, so to speak. Congratulations on your success, I hope to see your work on Youtube.
When Coursera took away the ability to take quizzes and assessments without paying, I stopped using it. I think the price point is too high and timeline too rushed for a casual investment. I usually don't need/want mentoring or people just an online course.
Are there any JS frameworks that make it easy to build SPAs that degrade gracefully when JS isn't available?

I know there's a lot of work done on making server-side rendering work with React / Vue / whatever, but I'm wondering if there's a framework available that asks for some tradeoffs in how your SPA is structured in order to maximize the amount of functionality available when scripting is off (similar to how Redux asks you to make state-management tradeoffs in order to get hot-reloading, dev tools, etc.).

For example, you'd probably want, at a minimum:

* By default, all code related to fetching or subscribing to data from a server is tied to URL routing.

* By default, all code related to sending data to a server works with standard webforms.

The closest analogue to what I'm thinking about is Turbolinks and Ruby on Rails, but I'm curious if there's some equivalent in JS-land because you'd get less context-switching when adding extra JS-only SPA interactions on top of the core JS-optional form-based interaction.
It seems to me just a complication of YAGNI.
> chasing compat issues, writting wrappers, choosing small libs and packing it all together, you could have done your site.

I don't know about you, but usually my projects last longer than a week, so those sorts of savings don't represent a significant chunk of my overall development time. Also, I'm not a shit programmer, so I can actually write a for loop that does what I want on the first try. I've spent more time trying to figure out jQuery's goofy syntax and what the hell it's doing with AJAX queries than it has ever saved me in development.
If men are 3x as likely to engage in violent behaviour, is it sexism or simply a biological tendency? And if it is a biological tendency, is it not sexist to shame men for their more assertive tendencies?

/sarcasm
A lot of this just sounds like Resume Driven Development, not people thinking they're Google or Amazon.
Once "they" have your machine you have to assume it is compromised. If they have the ability to install kernel patches or custom binaries, they most certainly have the ability to install monitoring hardware and/or modify your bios. That is, no matter what you encrypt your machine is compromised and your only recourse is to recover the encrypted data and move on to a new system. Here "they" is someone who would take your machine, modify it, and get it back to you maybe without your knowing.

If you are just concerned with identity thieves and basic asset protection then as long as that stuff is encrypted you are fine, whether that is whole system, home directory, ~/Private directory, or just those specific files.
In precisely what way is any of what I wrote not real?
The Boolean Satisfiability Problem and SAT Solvers
It's really, really simple. Just restrict access to the production databases. Structure the access in such a way that this kind of honest mistake simply cannot happen. Add an extra hoop to jump through to access prod. Easy as that.

Better yet, prod should be in a different "cloud universe" (root account, etc) from dev.

> The company/CTO made the huge mistakes.

Absolutely.
Hmmm, good question. Looks like for the nitro can they're using a nitro widget, like canned Guinness uses. They're pretty controversial - were discussed to death when they first came out.

I guess, hypothetically, when the can is opened you're releasing all the nitrogen at once, and it could result in a short-lived physical change.

edit: I'm also seeing some reporting that some of Stumptown's products are pressurized with nitrous oxide, and may not be 100% coffee. (eg, have dairy or emulsifiers.)
Why on earth would you need a nuclear weapon to intercept a ballistic missle? Certainly conventional explosives would have more than enough yield to destroy a single missle. Or is the idea that you don't have to hit the target exactly, you just have to be in the ballpark?
It is annoying. My kids play some games on their phones I downloaded back in 2009. Lemonade art and is one. The game doesn't even appear on the App Store anymore and only works with older versions of iOS, but if your phone is compatible you can still download it from the 'Purchased Apps' section.

All that will go away, but on the other hand I really don't expect them to support 32bit apps forever. You always have the option of simply not upgrading iOS. It's a trade off.
> never really go anywhere

Better to sweep them under the rug and pretend they don't exist then.

> there are already better fora

Such as? This is a tech forum, one of places which currently has a lot of issues with sexism and discrimination. It should be one of the first places addressing it. What's this alternate forum? Somewhere out of sight and out of mind I'm sure. The fact that my comment got flagged is just testament to its veracity.
JavaScript’s new #private class fields
This is why, when you see gaping holes in production systems, security or otherwise, and those holes aren't your fault, your best course of action is to do nothing. If you explore it, you might trigger cascading effects and you'll be blamed for it. If you expose it, you'll embarrass someone potentially much more senior/powerful than you. If you do nothing, someone else falls in and you plead ignorance.
This is just a "my technology stack is better than yours" post like countless others we see daily. Sorry to dismiss it so abruptly but it gets tiring.
Can you link to the information re: "having at least 25 riders be former sex offenders, sexual assault, and murderers just in Cali"

Don't see it in the source article.
laugh, and then cry
Only one data point, but my experience at several companies has been that annual follow-on/refresher grants more than make up for dilution from new rounds. A company which only gives you a single grant upon start of employment and then lets it coast for 4 years is doing it wrong.
Agreed, my comment was tongue in cheek. But at least we agree the prequels were terrible!
A purpose-built laptop that just runs emacs at init and uses one of these as the display. I would buy one so hard.

Hoping the ReMarkable will be simple enough hack that I could hook it up to my own cloud and use it as a terminal device. Would be nice to sketch lemmas in my handwriting and have a gesture recognition system pick it up and run it past a theorem prover, get back results. etc.

I'm awaiting the arrival of e-ink displays on laptops.
>No, the effects of deliberate, targeted differences in socialization by gender aren't the fault of the people experiencing adverse impacts because of the intersection of those with social structures that respond better to people socialized in the manner which is targeted at the other gender.

I've heard this argument before - that women are deliberately socialized to be subordinate.

Personally, I believe in the strength & agency of women.

>It's not sexist to recognize that the consequences of past sexism may require corrective action that is sensitive to the gender-differentiated effects of that past sexism.

I don't understand how using a persons gender for gauging ability to cope with forceful men isn't sexist.
Regulation has also been used by companies like Comcast to stifle competition, in addition to the large initial cost to starting an ISP.
That precludes the breed of jerks who will talk over anybody that will tolerate it.

What makes you think there aren't women who also like to claim the center of attention, regardless of other men OR women around them?

I don't understand this need to idolize one sex over the other, when the issue is that some people (like this moderator) are just more tone deaf or inconsiderate than others.

Equality between sexes implies treating everyone as a human rather than assuming that this moderator is a stand-in for men in general.
I was heartened by a recent article I read about a tracking protection feature being added to safari desktop browser. While I do not know their reasoning, affiliations or motives Apple Inc. has been in the news recently supporting their users privacy rights.

I do not know if Apple would support this proposal, but it demonstrates the recognition of the market demand by a major economic player in the technology sector.

I was able to put a couple of hours into research on EU privacy laws, while I did not stumble upon the aforementioned right to know what data is being collected, it sounds like it is half of my proposal. I just believe that we also need the right to know what has been done with that data, only then can we make an informed decision to continue a business relationship.

While I agree with the right to be forgotten, I believe that the issue at play there is fundamentally separate from what I might dub "The right to an informed decision".

I have also come to realize another fundamental difference in an example presented about the vitamin supplement which might come into play. There is a very mature example of this with the United Laboratories (UL). I see their stamp of approval on most electrical devices. The difference here is that it focuses on the product in question instead of the user.

What we really need is the fundamental right to be acknowledged. Once it is recognized that we have this right, then we can begin building specific laws through the use of the judicial system.

This is more akin to freedom of speech. It was recognized long ago and set in law as an ammendment to our constitution and problems were delt with as they came up. Is there any regulatory body around freedom of speach?

This leads me to a possible path. In recent conversations based entirely on anecdotal evidence, there are two main ways rights have been established through litigation and through constitutional amendments. I think if we were able to make one constitutional amendment other rights might build up in a new body of law through litigation.

If we could convince one state to recognize this right then it would provide legitimacy to our claim. This plan, I think, will fit into the current political climate of deregulation nicely as it would allow companies to decide themselves about the details of how they honor this right.
Uncontrolled common cause: Alcohol use, daily stress, and sleep quality. Stress and sleep affect "mental skills" more than any other, esp over a 30 year period.
Nothing I've built has ever needed anything more than a $5 Digital Ocean droplet and one of my services gets around a thosand requests a second at peak. Purely anecdotal and I'm not doing anything CPU intensive but I really feel startups are overdoing their infrastructure.
Hmm. That's a much better acronym, but it makes me come back to my original question - an acronym I guess is a way to make a process (dare I say algorithm) easier to remember, yea? So like, when you're switching to a new technology, the steps are as you listed, which are basically just

1. Understand what your problem is, and the potential solutions to that problem.

2. Use your brain.

3. Make an intelligent decision.

Or really just

1. Use your brain

I mean I just don't see the need here. Could be arrogance, I guess? Is this the very problem the author was trying to solve? Create a defined process for technology choosing?
Use config management to render the proper shell config per user.
Woah there cowboy
Am I the only one who thinks Ja Rule's line in The Fast and the Furious: "Monicaaaaaaa!"
Science is about stuff that is falsifiable.
Whenever I look at drastic improvements in performance, I remember that a while ago I managed to speed up a custom parser at work, by about 30x. When I emailed my colleagues, I just said "You may consider this to be work of a genius. Or you may think I was stupid when writing the original implementation. I'll let you pick the narrative that you fancy."

Interpretations are fun when there's a baseline :-)
Eon could be what you're looking for. Similar to the Harvest Mac menu bar app, except it also works offline (and doesn't have the history/calendar features that Harvest does). You can use it without an account, or you can integrate it with several online time tracking / invoicing services (including Harvest).

Used to be made by Fuel Collective, but it's apparently now developed by Charlie Monroe Software:

http://software.charliemonroe.net/eon.php
I guess I should expect that an article about not using JavaScript is written on a page with standard Google Analytics tracking and a JS bundle of... partially-minified code that is primarily used to apply styling.
Queries that require full table scans? What are we talking about? WooCommerce?
I've worked at two profitable software companies where every process was manual, and everyone had access to everything. At one, the production servers were just sort of sitting in ... not quite a hallway, but a random open space near the front door. I don't know what's hard to believe about this. Some companies put all their focus/investment on selling a product.
or just set google alerts.
If what you say is true, Gopher needs to make a resurgence, its immune to the kind of cancers riddling the modern web.
Let's also reduce the mass of the vehicle, to a fraction of its payload. Then, let's have the user supply the energy from their own food supply. These improvements will also improve health, safety and space/cost/energy efficiency.

https://imgur.com/gallery/DAijq#qcfLWFs

Plastic safety bumper plates around the front seems like a good idea for this build. It might save a dog's life.
Interrupting somebody else isn't physically hurting anybody. This is a real argument that affects lots of people. Don't dilute it with your sarcastic strawmans.
Working in the D.C. area has given me a high tolerance for acronyms and backronyms (seriously: P.R.O.T.E.C.T. Act stands for "Prosecutorial Remedies and Other Tools to end the Exploitation of Children Today").

U.N.P.H.A.T does raise a smile to my face for trying, but if the author is reading, I'd suggest you change it to a prescriptive paragraph where the first word in each sentence becomes a letter in the acronym (e.g. B.A.M.C.I.S).

====

Here's my best try:

UNPHAT:

Understand the problem.

Nominate multiple solutions.

Prepare by reading relevant research papers.

Heed the historical context.

Appraise advantages versus disadvantages.

Think!
Maybe simpler:

DOE

Don't Over Engineer

(which more or less brings us back to KISS principle)
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Trying to further understand, I am unsure why a top Uber executive would need to obtain an actual medical record of a customer who was assaulted in her Uber ride? I can't see what value the medical record would bring for Uber as a company, which in the likelihood will contain medical terminology, that substantiates whether the incident occurred or not. Wouldn't their lawyers be involved with the proceedings, as the likelihood that the company would be included in the trial can be deemed possible as the incident happened in the confines of the business that revolves around them?

On a side note as well, will the names of the people fired be published? Will these people fired be actually penalized, or would they simply be hired with another company and simply move on from the incident?
There already are satellite internet services. They're expensive (beyond a little bit of included data usage) and high-latency. How's SpaceX going to change that?
I lived in UT for several years. I talked with I don't even know how many people who had family in the southern part of the state back then, more or less all of whom suffered similarly.
We temporarily replaced this article's baity title with the text's more accurate self-description.

If someone would care to suggest a good title—i.e. accurate, neutral, and preferably drawn from the language of the article itself—we can change it again.
Geotagging in photos it pretty useful. And find my iPhone. Then there's Pokemon Go - maybe not your cup of tea, but a lot of people love it. It's pretty useful to be able to share your location with someone in iMessage, I've done that a few times. Your mileage may vary.
Sorry, when I drive I can only look out for myself.
> This was around the time that the US started to put Nuclear warheads on anti-balistic missile systems. Nike Hercules would have used high-altitude low-yield nuclear blasts within 100 miles of US cities to stop incoming ICBMs.

This is earlier than that -- the weapon being tested is the AIR-2 Genie, a nuclear tipped unguided air-to-air rocket meant for shooting down Soviet bombers.

And to the statement from the article:

> The country was just beginning to worry about nuclear fallout, and the Air Force wanted to reassure people that it was OK to use atomic weapons to counter similar weapons being developed in Russia. (They didn't win this argument.)

This is incorrect -- the weapon tested in this particular test was the AIR-2 GENIE, which was deployed in operational service from 1957 to 1985. It was felt to be safe enough that it was acceptable to use for defense.
It may not be the fault of the people experiencing "adverse impacts", but they still make a choice on how to respond to them. The commenter claimed that women find it more difficult to respond in the same way as men. To me, that's sexist because they are saying women are essentially less capable of standing up for themselves. I don't understand how anyone doesn't see it that way.

"It's not sexist to recognize that the consequences of past sexism may require corrective action that is sensitive to the gender-differentiated effects of that past sexism."

True, but if the corrective action is treating women differently, then yeah, that's sexist. You can't say this guy is being sexist because he acted differently toward her and then say that we need to treat women differently than men to correct past sexism, but that different treatment is somehow not sexist.
At the time the Nike/Spartan systems were being developed, remember that interception was a lot harder and precision and accuracy was a lot lower.
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Too late for me then
That's why you don't want Qt in the browser? It isn't having to download 25MB for a hello world program?
Inside Trump's secretive immigration court: far from scrutiny and legal aid
A techbro is actually a specific group. Similar to a fratbro. It was my generalization of the term "brogrammer". And I wouldn't really react to such a statement because firstly it's naive, and second it's based on its own definition of feminism.

I'm also quite tired of this "complicated and unique" business. I've been on HN long enough to notice some trends and they all point in one direction. Some people just don't like the mirror turned on them.
The articles "moderate" would actually be an increase in alcohol consumption for most Americans. As the vast majority of adults drink less than 3 drinks a week.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/09/25/think...