skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are they? In a world with libraries and vast amounts of knowledge in the palms of our hands?

My Pops never graduated college but he's one of my biggest inspirations because he goes out and builds things (well, stays in and builds thing I suppose). He started by building fiberglass boats and eventually ended up having a career as a graphic designer (a much less menial job than factory worker to be sure), but when he left work he'd use his time to persue crafts such as woodworking, photography, and these days even stained glass making.

These are of course slightly affluent crafts (although his tools are primarily purchased used and he frequently refinishes their edges or replaces their blades), but my question is, what percentage of people are persuing activities like these in their free time?

Unless of course your implication is that today the factory worker may not be as common as the two/three job clerk barely making ends meet with little to no _time_ for these persuits, and that perhaps the luxury status comes not from the monetary values required but from the less fungible resources of our lives.

In which case, yes, totally agree. But I also think there's something to be said for the people who don't primarily spend their free time scrolling through social media, watching television, and partying and instead perform small iterations frequently towards larger more rewarding goals. And I think that whether through nature or nurture or both, a lot of people just _don't_ do those things.

And then there's less affluent parts of the world where the luxurial aspect may actually be monetary, and places where it is temporally and monetarily luxurious as well.
For those of us deeply disappointed at O'reilly discontinuation of PDF ebooks, I've started an "idea" on O'reilly's support website to bring them back:

http://support.oreilly.com/oreilly/topics/bring-back-pdf-ebo...

Hopefully, if it gets enough upvotes, they'll consider it.
> Of course there should be. Scientists can't publish and format their own journal articles for printing.

They already do! Many (most?/all?) journals require authors to format the paper in journal style.

> Having dedicated reviewers to decide what enters the journal is also great.

In the vast majority of cases (non-tier one journals, basically not Science and Nature) this doesn't happen. They just look at the tick boxes the referees select (Accept with minor revisions, accept with major revisions etc).

> You also need someone to coordinate the peer-review so it's as painless for the involved scientists as possible.

You need a website where reviews can be uploaded. These already exist, and are not a huge infrastructure burden.

> The question is whether those things are worth the exorbitant cost that's currently being charged.

It's clear to most scientists that they're not. What you're paying for is the lockin effect these journals have by virtue of having a high impact factor.
If I am reading you correctly, I disagre. I suspect you couldn't even find two billion people who care if the source is open.

I love FOSS. I donate to EFF. I have met people who are heavily involved. I am in the minority.

If people were going to care about it being open source, the computer realm would probably much different. People just don't care, and it's not like we've been shy about telling folks about its benefits.

Most folks are happy enough with their closed source. No evidence suggests that this is going to change. FOSS has been more than adequate, for most users, for a long time.

There is no evidence that this year will be the year of Linux on the desktop, for example.
From reading this, one of the lynchpins seems to be a user password that encrypts a keychain containing stored key material used in the encryption.

This article doesn't say enough for me to attempt using this as a security product.

What are the key sizes? What is the kdf used to create them? How many iterations? What entropy requirements are enforced on the passwords?
Where and how are the keys stored on the other side of the connection? How do the keys get there in the first place?

Also, what mode of AES is used? What bit strengths?

There is a lot that is unsaid in this, and what is said uses marketing not security terms. Together these lead me to believe there weren't security people involved in the actual design.
it's only really affected from a negative perspective (think: so slow that google can't crawl your website or load it).

Anything faster than 2-3 seconds has very diminishing if not 0 returns.
OP here

That's correct, I should have included a chart explicitly measuring the I/O activity done by the two containers, but I can assure you there was literally no I/O activity, a dozen open files per second is a very negligible throughput. The bottleneck was solely in the cache.
Don't forget that the initial response to labor price-gouging capital was to hire armed goons (like the Pinkertons) to break the strikes. The fight between capital and labor that ultimately led to something more balanced wasn't a purely voluntary economic transaction - there was plenty of violence involved on both sides.

And don't forget that a big part of why many Western countries started to invest more into welfare is because after 1917, their governments realized that the alternative could well be an armed uprising, and that they need to keep their citizens sufficiently content to prevent that - even if that means they have to force the wealthy to share more of their income.

(Note, I'm not saying that Soviets somehow achieved better results. The point is solely that the threat of a socialist/communist revolution was a significant factor in capitalist countries shifting away from unregulated capitalism and towards welfare state.)
Do you want more messaging apps? This is how you get more messaging apps.

The main appeal for Googlers is that participating in Area 120 gets you out of doing Perf for an entire cycle. That's actually pretty huge.

When this was first unveiled internally I don't recall anyone saying this was more attractive than just leaving and creating your own startup. It never even crossed my mind when I decided to leave and start a new project, I can't understand what the upside would be.
A Software Developer’s Lament
On the other hand Congress passes laws with thousands of pages of text they never read. How does that work better than having enough people assigned to each section?

People don't need to actually write the text, just decide on the important points. They will have professional assistance and instruction. I think we could use the same random system to select professional assistance for legislators (by random selection of domain-specific graduates).
Do you want to build Pied Piper or Nucleus?
There was a very similar story a while ago on HN:
"Kid Automates Work, Is Fired, Hired Back, Automates Business "
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4167186

History repeating itself?
I couldn't spend more than 10 seconds attempting to read that website, what with all of the colorful shapes rushing this way and that.

How did we get back here in web design? It truly boggles the mind.
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Regarding the retailer example: Suppose they have been selling counterfeit products and a Canadian court orders them to remove the product from all their stores. It would be completely justified in requiring this to happen worldwide. Allowing a modification of the order if it conflicts with law in other jurisdictions is just being generous.

However, the only consequences that can be imposed for failing to follow the order relate to doing business in Canada. Any corporation has to decide for themselves whether complying with the local law, even if it requires action somewhere else, is worth it for them.

It is in fact quite common for countries to leverage their local power into effecting a worldwide result. E.g. the US embargo on Iran cut off anyone doing business there from access to US financial institutions, and almost nobody wanted to risk that.
It will cost an order of magnitude more to run the app on the blockchain, just like it costs an order of magnitude more to have a decentralized ledger instead of a centralized ledger for accounts. There remains no useful application that justifies the cost, aside from malware monetization and other illegal transactions.
Ads optimization as the reason for life.
The Lonely Story of MongoDB versus the World
It's true, but the review process (while not the publisher) does add value. It's really useful to highlight the gaps in an authors work and suggest additional analysis they could do to support the work and make it more useful. Or even highlight areas where the work is not reproducible (algorithms not sufficiently well described, data not available etc).
So if -for example- you knew the details of fabrication of your car: you consider that you'd still buy a car with a chassis that was deliberately weakened by an employee, instead of just buying a car with an -unknowingly- faulty chassis?

Why would you accept something that, if not tampered, would be better than the alternative? When there's bad intentions or tampering, you'll have a result that is broken to some degree for sure. If everyone does their jobs as good as they can, you'll only face a chance of something being broken. You can always improve over mistakes, not so much over bad intentions.
Google's not forcing employees to pursue every one of their side projects on 20% time, only giving them the option. They're still just as free as any of us plebs to leave and own their code.
Is the guy on the rhs of the 2nd photo of the slideshow working on an invisible computer? One would think that'd be the highlight.
What were you spraying Roundup for? Given that it might be carcinogenic, unless you're using it for something extremely important (a use case I'm struggling to come up with), it may be worth discontinuing usage.
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Beginners guide to p2p lending
"...What the upside would be"

A very low risk great shot at potentially leading a Google product and all the associated upsides?
It never ceases to amaze me, how much controversy the name Monsanto stirs up.

The waters around this company are so murky, that it's less a question of whether the company operates an unregulated extrajudicial campaign against public awareness of their wares and activity, but rather, what's their spend on it, and how deep do they go?

Food security is frighteningly politicized, to the point of bald militarization (see: Canada's maple syrup). Almost nothing would surprise me.
Are you describing Google specifically, or any good employment?
>The geography is special and we're kind of the "Saudi Arabia" of world coal production. As the worlds best producer (or one of the best anyway) we should be the one place in the world still digging coal.

But Trump isn't just saying that the US should remain #1 in a shrinking industry. He claims that he can get coal employment back to where it was decades ago. That's crazy.
One problem with property taxes is that they do not capture the ability (or inability) of the property to generate income - basically, whether and to what extent it is capital.

We also do have taxes on income produced by capital - that's capital gains - but, as the article points out, we tax them significantly lower than regular sweat-of-the-brow income, and offer more loopholes. In effect, our economic system incentivizes rent-seeking over labor.
I'm a US citizen and routinely fly to various out of country locations including somewhat suspicious places like Belarus (no longer need a visa to go there for short trips) and have never had a problem re-entering. It probably doesn't hurt that I'm a middle-aged white guy, though.
That's turning into the Google version of what one of the mods here called 'Wolfram derangement syndrome'.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10978871

Yes Google cancels stuff (usually not without warning). Experimental stuff? Even more likely to go nowhere, just as it says on the page. The response is, by this point, completely content-free.
Facebook is a large crud app. Ethereum is like one computer from the 1950s. How do you get from ethereum to host Facebook?
And here i am, browsing with Firefox for Android with ublock origin installed.
Other than the risk of taking home 1/4 their salary and working twice as long for years and finally leaving with nothing to show for it. Which is by far the most likely outcome.
More like: you can play with your own cool ideas while working here, so long as they're more "cool" than "useful"...and incorporate a green slideshow.
It's great that somebody studied her writing to map the progress of the disease but it's a pity they only sampled three books so it gives no insight into the rate of decline or how early it began to diverge from normal age related mental decline.

".. linguistic creativity dwindled markedly over an almost 20-year period" is based on comparing one book at the beginning of that period and one at the end. We have no idea if it really dwindled over 20 years or all happened quickly on the final year. This is what's most interesting to me - both the possibility of very early diagnosis and being able to predict the rate of decline so you can make informed decisions about how to manage your life if you've been diagnosed.
>What if that person, after studying history, decided that they didn't want to pursue a job in it.

They still would have not decided, if the food on the table thing wasn't pressing, that they should get a job on Amazon (warehouse) over it.
What is "doing Perf" and how long is a cycle?
Ever since the DAO went live on Etherium, simultaneously blockchain became law and smart contracts replaced lawyers.

In short a complex scheme to get the world to sign a contract that reads:

"I hereby enter this contract - because I cant read the language the contract is written - and unknowingly agree that I will agree to all future contracts, and for good measure I'm going to give the other party to this contract access to my money to expedite the next contract."

And that's why yesterday's Decentralized Autonomous Organization is today's Initial Coin Offering...if people could understand the simple truth:

An ICO "crypto coin" is a receipt for crowdfunding an idea for a product. The receipt/coin is not ownership/equity if the idea ever becomes a successful company. Somehow because the receipts are held on a distributed ledger (block chain) and called a "crypto coin" the receipt has somehow become something of value speculators will buy and sell on a secondary market.

Once you understand this truth you understand why traditional brick and mortars are getting interested in block chain technology, soon customers will buy something at Walmart and as a receipt of the transaction Walmart will issue a "crypto coin" on the blockchain and the customer will be able to sell that in the secondary market and buy more product at Walmart.
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Except, they've fled the country and only can continue business because of Google's search results. So, Google is basically contributing to their business existing. That's why the order was granted.
Only if you accept the premise in the first place.

There is no set of rules that won't yield absurd results. FB is always going to carve out exceptions for the powerful. The baseline still starts from Zuckerburg's upper-class, U.S. dominant-culture sensibilities. And so on.
>You're right, it's most certainly not! I wish someone could tell us how it is "elitist" to point out that some people are "smart" and some aren't.

Well, for one it's a sign of a stupid person (who's also not paying attention) to believe that people working at lowly jobs aren't (or worse can't) be intelligent or follow intellectual pursuits.
I imagine it means performance reviews
Sure, make an area120 account github and we'll follow it.
I am not telling people what they should or should not value.

*edited
How delightfully vague.
It is unfortunate that CloudFlare shared enough PoC code to weaponize this.

Edit: for the downvoters, this isn't just my opinion, please read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsible_disclosure
oh, us citizens are very aware of this new isolationism; some of us like me are terrified, but 46% of use seemingly wanted it.
All diseases are just variations on normalness. Nobody remembers 1000s of individual people but we don't feel sad that we can only remember 100. None of use are super intelligent but we cope with what we've got or even feel great about it. Most of us feel emotions more weakly as we age beyond our 20's but we don't feel sad.
The point of his comment had nothing to do with the actual cost of an iPhone. It was just to make a point that iPhones as an example make a strong profit margin.
The author notes that future kernels did decide to introduce limits that would've prevented the slowdowns from happening, but the customer was running an outdated kernel.

That's what made the article disappointing for me. Do all this impressive in-kernel debugging just to find out that you should've upgraded your systems first. Sigh...
The author's philosophy is not to prohibit rent-seeking, but to tax it appropriately.

Given that it's currently taxed less than income from labor, I don't see what's so controversial about that notion.
I wrote them down, put them in an envelope and in my safe deposit box.
So sad. I wish half this country hadn't gone mad
>I wouldn't say we are going technologically backwards if you take a systemic look at energy, manufacturing, & infrastructure.

It's going backwards because we need to be at the cutting edge, which is renewables. Trump is facing the past, when the US was great partly because of coal, rather than looking to where things are going in the future.

>Coal power is also inexpensive

But natural gas is even cheaper, and wind and solar are becoming so.

>cleaner than ever

But it is still much less clean than renewables, or even natural gas.

>Coal can also be converted to diesel allowing states to create their own energy & reducing our need for foreign fuel sources.

That's expensive, diesel pollutes, and besides fracking is already replacing foreign oil.

>Even if we decide to move toward renewable resources, having this coal stockpile in our back pocket will give leverage in acquiring the rare earth minerals needed for batteries & solar cells.

I assume you mean getting rare earth minerals from China, but that wouldn't work because China already has all the coal it needs, and besides is moving fast to get off of coal and onto renewables.
I was once told to stop working on a side project (outside of work hours) and the wording in my contract at the time made it a legit request.

Think I'd still prefer to own the IP though if it was my own thing.
Yeah BA is way over-priced, but aside from a few of their completely nonsensically simple recipes I've never made anything comparable for $2 - $3 a person. The $5.50 mark sounds about right for me in the midwest and I'm buying pretty good quality ingredients still. I often splurge and go to $8 - $10 a person but that's totally excessive :)

I've cooked and bought groceries in NYC several times and while the prices are definitely competitive with some hunting, the 99c whole chicken I found was total garbage and basically was like water and salt.

My step-dad used to swear he couldn't tell a difference between the $1.99 special chicken and the regular stuff I bought that was $4 - 6.99. To me the $1.99 tastes like eating saline solution (I've had saline injections, it tasted like that to me). Maybe it's just a question of taste.
New York Times highlights the growing number of hot days in a warming world
im thinking they tend toward projects that aren't big enough to be their own thing. Ie a new feature to a project they're already working on internally. Or as a way to work on a project in another part of the company from your immediate. Both could be ways to move up/over within the company.
We use Raft underneath the hood to maintain consistency across the replicas.

re: 'There is no GPS sync'd atomic clock in Cockroach', Cockroach actually has a command line flag (--linearizable) which makes it behave like Spanner: wait for the max clock offset before returning a successful commit[1]. This isn’t practical if you’re using NTP synchronization, but if you have atomic clocks at your disposal..

[1]: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/living-without-atomic-clo...
He also has his right hand in his lap, and nobody opposite him. No idea what he's supposed to be doing.

https://area120.google.com/static/images/home/hi/Home_3_imag...
Are you speaking of labs being killed off in the hypothetical? As far as I can tell, it's still there...
"We have a password policy in place that forces our users to change their passwords to something long and random with lots of symbols in it no less than 50 characters every week - we're on the cutting edge of security!"
non-competes aren't universal in the US at least. that said I am moving to a place where non competes DO exist (moving for grad school) and so I would much appreciate any advice and/or horror stories regarding how to manage them.
This is so trivial that it really doesn't matter - it's just sending a completely normal SSDP request, code for which you could find in any implementation of the protocol.
Tainter postulates that societies collapse when they reach their limit of complexity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Tainter#Social_complexi...
Just curious, do you post the same response when Microsoft announces products or services?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Discontinued_Microsof...

You can also add these to the list:

Wunderlist
Sunset
Games for Windows
Silverlight
Zune
Kin
XNA
PlaysForSure
Flight Sim
Expression Suite
SteadyState
Windows RT
Windows Phone 7
Forefront
Front Page
Money

Or Apple?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_products_discontinued_....
> During the year Murdoch was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, she composed a note that was downright ominous. “My dear,” she wrote, “I am now going away for some time. I hope you will be well . . .” She set aside the sheet, took up a second one, and wrote, “My dear, I am now going away for some time. I hope you will be well.” A third sheet consisted of pen marks that did not add up to any intelligible lines.

Reading this part sent chills down my spine. If anyone has seen the movie Antichrist, they might recall a particular scene that echoes (and was perhaps inspired by) this anecdote. I truly think losing ones mind is one of the most terrifying things to imagine -- the very fabric of reality coming apart at the seams.
Check out Polkadot - http://polkadot.io by Gavin Wood (of Ethereum fame)
The laptop thing seemed to have been in response to a legitimate terror threat actually, unlike all the other travel bans we've been seeing. I recall that the UK imposed it too, or was trying to, in response to intelligence reports that ISIS was going to use this attack vector.
The second step is to assign a separate identity to every piece of code

Cool story, but now you will need a time machine to go back 50-odd years and tell them this. And to build that time machine you will need C.
But if you're not interested in starting a company, and instead want to work on interesting things while being paid very well, it sounds pretty good.
Do they? What successful companies have been founded by ex-googlers? I don't think a ton, in income terms. I see this as far more marketing fluff and/or job ads than preemptive recuperation of insignificant future losses. (Though I do hope cockroachdb makes it big).
A free audio logging android application
In what way wasn't he innocent? Did he talk back to the official, or not have a return ticket?
Good catches. ZeroKit seems too much marketing vs. too little security.
I was wondering what style they want to achieve with that.. is that swiss? Or even brutalist?