skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bias towards those whose profession benefits from a growing abundance of laws?

Sounds like a recipe for disaster.
more IPA speech synthesis

https://eu-west-1.console.aws.amazon.com/polly/home/Synthesi...

http://speak-ipa.bearbin.net/

http://developer.ivona.com/en/ttsresources/phonesets/phonese...

Also indirectly: http://espeak.sf.net/
Next you'll be telling me that the US won the Vietnam war. I mean, the politicians failed and the military failed, but the plan would have worked if they could have seen it through. Therefore the war worked.
Probably their CDN: Fastly. Certainly they use Varnish, which is what's giving me 503 errors at the moment.
I recommend the following books to learn more about the work involved on the Ops side:

https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Linux-Administration-Cutting-E...

https://www.amazon.com/Practice-Cloud-System-Administration-...

https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html

https://www.amazon.com/How-Linux-Works-Superuser-Should/dp/1...

https://www.amazon.com/Effective-Monitoring-Alerting-Web-Ope...

https://www.amazon.com/Ansible-DevOps-Server-configuration-m...

https://www.amazon.com/Terraform-Running-Writing-Infrastruct...

https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Services-Action-Andreas-Wittig...
When growth numbers are consistently not hit. Always push for transparency at a smaller company - if there isn't one already, attempt to implement an all-hands meeting at least bi-weekly that reviews goals for the quarter / year and the company's progress. If direction is constantly changing at a 1 or 2 month cadence, it's likely that there may be a shakeup coming sooner rather than later.

It's wise to have a bit of cynicism when discussing company goals, progress, outcomes - things may not always be as bright as they seem. It's a good exercise to take these numbers and reduce them by a certain percentage, and see if those numbers are still good for company growth & stability.
So you haven't gotten a raise in a year and a half?

(In my experience, if someone really deserves it then either a bonus or an out of cycle raise or promotion will be given, I've gotten both.)
Oops... I plead autocorrect.
I wouldn't say "superior". I don't know anybody who'd have assumed that at all. You must have gotten that wrong somehow. Especially in my business, people assume German companies to be far more superior (which is also not really true based on my experience).

However, you do expect some kind of "business culture" especially because the company usually forces the advertisement for it onto you whether you want or not. Our floor are plastered with Fremdscham posters and phrases in english. Often you also hear a manager in a meeting praising some new trope from the East Coast regarding office layout or similar.

What really sticks with is the informal "you" though. It's really helpful most of the time.
imgix down. Status page is green though (Linode style communication - soon to be updated with partial outage affecting a minority of customers ;D )
No more so than a Linux distro does.

With the latter, you're referring to base. FreeBSD isn't really any more monolithic than your average distro in that regard though; it's just that with some services, the userland, and the like it (historically) made sense to maintain with particular stable versions of the kernel. Base is being slimmed down where possible though: bind has been replaced with unbound, dma is likely going to replace sendmail in FreeBSD 11, IIRC, and now that pkgng is proven, the process of packaging the base system should be complete for FreeBSD 12, which will allow freebsd-update to be (mostly) replaced.
Seat 14C – A Sci-Fi Competition from the X Prize Foundation
I saw how they make LED bulbs on-site, on the Shenzhen markets, and thus I'm not particularly confident in them. Related, the company my SO works in sells LED bulbs imported from China (among other things). I bought a bunch of them, and had them burn out on me one by one, with an average life time of a bulb around 1 week (one or two were broken already, a few burned out within first 2 days, rest worked for few months).

In a parallel comment I described my negative experience with USB cables, which I tested on-site to find some that actually work for charging a cell phone. I also sourced USB chargers from China and have two burn out on me. Random Bluetooth headset from Aliexpress managed to completely mess up Android on my phone (how that was possible is beyond me, but I guess crappy Bluetooth 2.x firmware).

So, anecdata to anecdata, I don't share your confidence in any kind of electronic products. I stick to sourcing components now.
Their status page isn't correct. HTTPS://www.resditstatus.com

Since other sites are down I'm wondering if it is an issue with their CDN, Fastly.
FYI http://www.redditstatus.com/
Any rollback of free food perks is a bad sign. It's not always a sign of bad health, but if it's not it means the company is softly lowering the status of it's rank and file in order to put in another layer of management.
Petya Ransomware Spreading Like WannaCry Ransomware
The "I am your father" bit he did should be the end of that particular trope. It won't be, but it should.
> How often do salary reviews generally occur for someone working as a developer (or IT I suppose?)

It's served me well to have at least one interview per year with a different company in your field to see what they're offering. Doing this has really helped me understand what the market is willing to pay for my skills, and has more than once caused me to shift the direction of my career because the work they were doing was interesting enough that I switched jobs.

You don't necessarily have to accept the job, and I would caution against switching jobs every single year, but I've definitely found the experience helpful. It also forces you to keep your CV up to date, and it's also great interview practice. I've definitely taken lessons learned from my various interviews and applied them to interviewing candidates for our company.
https://www.theverge.com was also affected with the same error. But it seems to be back up
I won a Surface Pro 3 a few years ago and used it as a lightweight dev machine/school laptop. It was really nice for those tasks, but I had plenty of issues with it that I solved by buying a used Macbook Air. Most of the issues were just personal preference (I didn't like the stand, the keyboard was annoying compared to a builtin keyboard, weird screen aspect ratio, Windows).
The entire top half of Keen 3 map 8 is inaccessible because of incorrectly placed blocks:

http://www.commander-keen.com/levelmaps/3/008.gif

It's not necessary to complete the level, and it's harder to notice when your screen doesn't have the resolution to see the whole thing at once, but it's interesting that it was released like this.
China has something like this: bureaucrats have to pass the civil service exam, which is like a souped up IQ/SAT style test. The former president, Hu Jintao, apparently had a photographic memory. Make of that what you will.
Npmjs registry is down.
One tip I have from years in a company that was undergoing major changes in its business model is to pay attention to other workers. In my case, the shop floor guys at an automation company smelled the shift in the wind long before anyone else, and weren't afraid to call it out. When the vast majority (maybe 500-1k machinists) were let go in rapid succession, it was shocking...except if you'd paid attention.
Hitting us too - something's up with Fastly.

https://status.fastly.com/
How fragmented is the industry? A fragmented industry is waiting for a well capitalized player to consolidate small companies into a industry leader. How close the founder is to retirement... As the founder approaches age 65, he might be looking to cash out.
While that is probably true for most actors, Hammill tweets Star Wars trivia all the time and genuinely seems to enjoy the attention with a good sense of humor
It seems like there is currently a widespread DDoS ongoing at the moment
reddit works now for me
Flawed Reporting about WhatsApp
https://status.fastly.com/ indicates an outage
Creating Curb Appeal – CAR Infographic
It definitely perplexed me until the word "gasoline".
In principle I agree that subsidies don't always benefit the worst off. In this case, they do however, since the downward price pressure is mainly on low priced, lower quality segment consumer goods.

You could make the argument that while the costs of the goods are now lower and consumer surplus goes to most americans, they're out-competing US made products, that would generate wages for the worst off. Then you'd be arguing for protectionism though.
Yes we are: the admission process is algorithm-led. The admission process is totally blind and removes human biais.

During the admission process (please tey it :)) we try to replicate as much as we can what students will be living at Holberton. Simce we are project-based and students also collaborate a lot with each other, the admission process is a project where you have to collaborate with other candidates. Basically if you has fun doing the admission process you will love Holberton and if you don't then you will drop-out during the admission process vs dropping out from school. Most of the applicants don't finish it. It takes anywhere from 10 to 60h to finish it - depending on your current level (this is designed for ppl with 0 level in CS/programming)
Sessions: The Vim Feature You Probably Aren’t Using
Well, if it's my backyard you're talking about, a company doing business in it might as well obey the house rules.

Google isn't entitled to doing business in the EU either. If they do, then they need to follow the law.
> Optimism disconnected from reality is either an attempt to mislead you or a sign of blindness to results.

This is so important. If management is continually pitching a story which you don't see reflected in the work you're doing, or the progress you're making, then it's time to think deeply whether management is out of touch with reality.

That's one of my biggest signs that it's time to leave a company. If management is ignorant to the progress of the company, or continuously gets it wrong, it's time to find yourself new management.
Yeah, the last time I got on a bus the driver beat me and then killed me.
Commander Keen and Captain Comic, i do not think i spend more time on anything else at that age.
Technically it's not a huge problem; politically, bundling unrelated software together means that the bundled software has an advantage and a tendency to get more market share than its competitors who compete fairly. In the case of open source distros, I'm sure that this isn't illegal, but it seems like it isn't in the interests of the community.
I agree :) This was definitely luck, most people never get celebrities tweeting about their games. And I guess now I am getting some marketing value out of it, but honestly I just wanted to share this with an audience that I knew would appreciate it. When you program cool stuff you want to share it!

In any case, I guess I'll get some extra traffic today, but at the end of the day it's a Yahtzee game, nothing exactly groundbreaking, so I don't think all the people that saw this post are going to start playing Yahtzee all the time ;)
Droids are apparently bad at estimating outside odds since the two instances we see in the movie end with an unlikely outcome given the estimate.
CDN Fastly is down, breaking lots of popular sites
One problem with UHMWPE is it's slippery, so hard to glue to a rigid composite.

Also, don't count out the path dependence of even very competitive industries. They know carbon fiber, so that's what they use, and they then make small increments from their known territory.
Something tells me if the landlord knew you were making 20% margin you wouldn't be making 20% margin for long.
MSDN really? I never use it. I always end up someplace else. The information is there somewhere, maybe. I don't use other vendors much to know but MSDN sucks for me majorly. Not a microsoft fan generally though so maybe too much pain this past 30 years for an objective view.
I've seen: never; yearly; semi-annually;

In the "never" case, not that you never got a raise, but that there was no "review" component. Just a notice of your new salary.

When I was working for a big consultancy (many years ago) it was common to get a review after rolling off of a client engagement.
You can implement many forms of I/O on FPGA's that let you bridge things that otherwise can't communicate for whatever reason. The FPGA can also be used to accelerate I/O vs a software implementation. For example, many network devices offload TCP/IP from the host. Finally, the connecting systems might have the necessary I/O built-in but FPGA accelerates some computational part of it. You see that in compression, TLS or IPsec engines.

I don't know what Bitcoin people are doing. The above are common use cases, though.
AI will automate production.

It says nothing about consumption.

Economic activity requires both.
My main thing is are they at all organised as a whole - if everything is in disarray and departments have no idea (or interest in) what the others are doing then it's likely going to be very painful. A company that is pulling in one direction is an exciting place.
I've given another answer, but on the meta level, it shouldn't matter to you if a company is doing well. The only thing that should matter is are you learning skills for which there is a market? Getting in the mindset that your "job" does not determine your well being but your skills do.

That mindset presupposes a few things:

A) that you always have your finger on the market and the skills that are in demand

B) your network is strong - including recruiters.

C) You live below your means and have enough in liquid savings to survive a job loss and getting a new job.
redditstatus.com never showed anything other than green "Operational", but if you look at the 'request rate' graph, you can see the drop off of requests that occurred.

Everything is back now. I'll be interested to see what Fastly report because they've actually acknowledged that an event occurred.

http://www.redditstatus.com/

https://status.fastly.com/
Wouldn't The Flash be more appropriate?
Sorting 2 Tons of Lego, Many Questions, Results
Ten Persistent SRE Antipatterns:

https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon17americas/program/p...
Well, Ian Goodfellow and Andrej Karpathy for starters
Console FPS written completely in awk
Me and people close to me been a witness to a startup demise several times. In a startup it's really easy to tell - the product falls short of revenues/active users expectations, the funding starts to run out, the management starts to act frantic and invents all kinds of "creative" ways to "revive" the product, core team members start departing :)
I abandoned TLC's Halt and Catch Fire when the IBM 3033 started up with a black on white CGA font on a 3278. And, of course, booting into PC-DOS.

I made https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font for a reason.
If you are going to build a bridge are you going to hire an engineer or a cook? Now if you're going to create laws would you hire someone who has studied roman, germanic, sharia law since the times of Hammurabi, philosophy, sociology, politics and everything necessary to understand human interaction and association, or a bus driver?

We get the government we deserve, proportional to our level of ignorance.

There is a big difference between picking from a pool of politicians (crooks who climb the ladder by manipulation, backstabbing and deceit) and the best lawyers according to market forces and meritocracy then randomized.
Request rate is very low all of a sudden. Could that be a result of the DDOS attack?
Fastly Global Outage
http://wykobi.com/tutorial.html
But it's Google's website. Why shouldn't they be able to promote their own products on their site?
I would argue that 21% of Windows users are saying they'll consider getting a Mac, not necessarily plan on switching. Apple might be able to get 10% of those considering to switch (a SWAG) which means they might capture 2% of the Windows market. That seems much more reasonable.
I m interested by this topics and I recommend a book by David van Reybrouck that speaks about this topic: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jul/18/against-electi...

I think the way we produce new legislation and control the government is not satisfactory as it is. My favorite approach would be to have a sortition (based on a quota method maybe) then some intensive training (law, constitution ... ) before the one term and after that training of the member of the assembly that go back to the civil life.
> Do we want the statistical average of us to create laws that stick around for years?

Yes. The alternative is to open the door for systemic abuse. Randomness ensures perfect balance between all social classes and it makes it difficult for special interests to lobby the legislators. Such a system can dispense with elections and reduce the power of big media trusts. I think common people selected to serve for a short term would have much more decency than career politicians.
Looks like they are back on up. Varnish errors are gone.
We could also bring back ostracism (not from society, but from government, at least). We wouldn't be able to select our representatives, but we would be able to rule out those we definitely don't want.
don't you need a little bit more info about that list of calendar appointments? like at least an assumed time length?

(assuming the list happens on the same day)?
I am surprised that 2% is not higher. There are very few alternative to Mac if you want a GUI and a UNIX like system. I really hope Apple invests in Mac. It used to be that Mac hardware was very innovative compared to Software but now, I like their Software (uniform experience on multiple devices) but the Hardware is lacking. Especially the drop of MagSafe and limited Memory and processor support on their New Macbook pros. But I haven't given up on Macs yet. Remember, 'An Apple a day keeps Windows away'.
I really want to switch away from Mac, but there doesn't seem to be anything that fits in the intersection of "easy to use UNIX GUI" and "well built hardware."

Dell XPS DE? https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/01/dells-latest-xps-13-...

Or Purism? https://puri.sm/products/
It's really hard to tell as an employee.

Management can blow sunshine at these kind of meetings and you'd need second sight to see the truth.

Last time I was at a company that suddenly imploded everything was great one week, and then a week later half the staff got laid off.
It's an acquired skill, being able to sleep anywhere. Military people tend to acquire it by necessity, Asians seem to have cultural reasons for it.

It's not too hard to acquire it with some practice, every time you feel like it would be a good time to have a nap, close your eyes and try to have a nap. For a while, you won't actually get to sleep, you'll just be lying or sitting there with closed eyes, but after trying for a while, you'll actually start napping or sleeping.

These days, if I'm a passenger in a vehicle for a > 30 minute trip, you're almost guaranteed to find me sleeping.
I thought it might be on the compiling platform to provide GC if it wants to.

As you said some devs/apps are better off without GC, but also I imagine competition would more or less ensure the most performant or overall effective platforms would end up being the de facto standards.

And some platforms (e.g. React, Vue, etc.) may find one GC tends to work better than another for them or want to implement their own.

I'm not sure if WASM can host libraries on CDNs, but if so once a user has that stuff cached from one site or another bloat wont really be a problem either.
Female sniper cheats death at hands of IS
My thinkpad running Linux is a bit temperamental when changing displays, often enumerating an existing display port as a new one.

I use the following script to switch to dual external monitors at a standard resolution, and a counterpart script to switch back to the internal hidef monitor.

If only I could reliably fix xfce4's panel placement all of the time...and not have to restart chrome and pycharm/intelliJ on each display change!

#!/bin/bash

EXT1=`xrandr --current | sed 's/^\(.*\) connected.*$/\1/p;d' | grep -v ^eDP | head -n 1`
EXT2=`xrandr --current | sed 's/^\(.*\) connected.*$/\1/p;d' | grep HDMI | head -n 1`
INT=`xrandr --current | sed 's/^\(.*\) connected.*$/\1/p;d' | grep -v ^DP | head -n 1`

xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Xft/DPI -s 96
xfconf-query -c xfce4-panel -p /panels/panel-1/size -s 28

xrandr \
--output VIRTUAL1 --off \
--output ${INT} --off \
--output ${EXT2} --mode 1680x1050 --pos 0x150 --rotate normal \
--output ${EXT1} --mode 1920x1200 --pos 1680x0 --rotate normal --primary
I'm still not sure that's bad. With this plan, the school would much rather you land a job getting $50/hour instead of $7.50 per hour because they make more money. I can think of a few ways that could make this better (such as a sliding scale that goes lower if you are making less), but overall the incentives seem to be aligned with them landing you a good job, and getting you a good pay scale early on (since they only get paid from your first 3 years).
I think employees are a lagging indicator. If the product is being offered at all, look at customers.

If you're not customer-facing, talk to a customer-facing engineer or even account manager. "How's the X account?" "Tell me about a customer we've made successful." Don't accept "The account is fine." Drill down and ask for details; they're the only things that matter.

You're internal, so unless your company is really $&#+ed up and silo'd, you shouldn't have a problem getting a feel with a modicum of social skills.

If you're not making customers happy, and management is proceeding with business as usual, start looking for a new job.
wat? why? they have some sort of 'message will self-destruct javascript' in their page which is carried into the wayback machine?
The central point of the article is that "Google shopping is search". Full stop, bringing ads into the article is expansion but not necessary.

You're allowed to have a monopoly, as long as you gain it fairly and defend it fairly, and don't use it to give other products an unfair advantage.

So then the question simply becomes: is Google Shopping a separate service or is it search.

The author argues that Google Shopping is search, the EU argues it's a separate service. There's merit to both arguments IMO.
If you have any interest in WebGL (1), I've been publishing screencasts on YouTube for a while now- I'm up to nearly 100.

The playlist for WebGL is https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPqKsyEGhUnaOdIFLKvdk...

I'm also covering 3D Math fundamentals now.

My channel https://www.youtube.com/user/iamdavidwparker
I completely get that, but that's not what I'm saying - if we're just in the coding for money (which there is nothing wrong with), let's just be honest about it, like we would be about the accounting gig: "Yeah, I don't love it, but they pay's great".
See also: http://nesmaps.com/
Although I've noticed that the come down for me feels like the comedown off some anti-anxiety medicines or amphetamines. It certainly works as a mild anti-depressant while the drug is working.
Exhausted as a developer?
I have been a Developer for over 7 years now and I feel exhausted and losing motivation to continue learning new tech and still be excited about coming to work.

I was wondering if someone felt the same a some point in time and what you did to fix it.

I took 6 months off last year, but the moment I started working again, I started to feel the same
Very true, I should have prefaced my comment above with "Not a startup"
> too many universities are in the business of signing in students and not finding them a job

If you are a university in the "business of finding students a job" you are university'ing wrong.
While I agree that learning by doing is the best way to start, once you get beyond the basics its nice to have some patterns and best practices outlined so you can try to do things more "properly".
The justice system is not just one jury.