skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a bunch of garbage. The article pivots from stating that the 10x developer doesn't exist to then implicitly accepting that they do exist and why you should avoid hiring them! That'd be like a rock band saying "nah, we don't need Eddie Van Halen for our guitarist. Joe here who just finished guitar boot camp is good enough." Yeah, right. That's not to say that rock star developers aren't often prima donnas and toxic to your culture - thus negating all their supposed advantages. That's true. It's also true that a lot of rock star developers don't come with this toxicity. But to use that to claim that the 10x developer doesn't exist is being dishonest.
Wow, we're about to see the end of the 1,400M era. The 1,400M era saw me moving to the big city and getting pushed into project management.

Hoping the 1,500M era is nothing but good memories of getting my hands dirty again.
yeah but better because you don't break the world if you add a new exception to a public method.
Just to offer perspective from the other side, we've been using their product since 2015, we send millions of events through Segment every day without a problem.

There was one short outage I can remember in 2015, the only other issues we ever had, we traced back to misconfiguration on our side.

I think Segment's core code is _really solid_, it shows in how fast a relatively small company is able to iterate, update and release new product.

I think their biggest challenge is educating potential users on what they do (no exact competitor) and educating new users on how to set it all up properly (gotta read the documentation.)
So you want to live “according to nature?” Oh, you noble Stoics, what a fraud is in this phrase! Imagine something like nature, profligate without measure, indifferent without measure, without purpose and regard, without mercy and justice, fertile and barren and uncertain at the same time, think of indifference itself as power – how could you live according to this indifference? Living – isn’t that wanting specifically to be something other than this nature? Isn’t living assessing, preferring, being unfair, being limited, wanting to be different? And assuming your imperative to “live according to nature” basically amounts to “living according to life” – well how could you not? Why make a principle out of what you yourselves are and must be? – But in fact, something quite different is going on: while pretending with delight to read the canon of your law in nature, you want the opposite, you strange actors and self-deceivers! Your pride wants to dictate and annex your morals and ideals onto nature – yes, nature itself –, you demand that it be nature “according to Stoa” and you want to make all existence exist in your own image alone – as a huge eternal glorification and universalization of Stoicism! For all your love of truth, you have forced yourselves so long, so persistently, and with such hypnotic rigidity to have a false, namely Stoic, view of nature, that you can no longer see it any other way, – and some abysmal piece of arrogance finally gives you the madhouse hope that because you know how to tyrannize yourselves – Stoicism is self-tyranny –, nature lets itself be tyrannized as well: because isn’t the Stoic a piece of nature? . . . But this is an old, eternal story: what happened back then with the Stoics still happens today, just as soon as a philosophy begins believing in itself. It always creates the world in its own image, it cannot do otherwise; philosophy is this tyrannical drive itself, the most spiritual will to power, to the “creation of the world,” to the causa prima.
Brainstorming some ideas.

The name. 'Stoic' sounds cool. ('Ubermensch' just doesn't sound good. (Ahem. Was tempted to write "sounds like a Jewish thing".)

It's reassuring for those who feel they have no real control over their lives.

A strong resonance with a puritan loathing for the impure world.

Apatheia is the emotion for the modern world.

Edit: the four fold cure of Epicureanism is too easy: Don't fear the gods, don't worry about death, what is good is easy to get, and what is bad is easy to endure.
There's bookmarks and history permissions available: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/ma...
It depends on the global reach of your website, but please remember S3 is not a CDN. If you host your files in the US, clients in Europe will see a significant latency, for example. If possible place a CDN in front of your bucket.
> The people who promote wars frequently try to cast the enemy as alien, in order to rile up support for the war and to get soldiers to participate.

I'd argue that the cultural perception of the belligerent humans towards their targets is far more important than objective differences.

And you and parent are certainly being overly-reductive compared to the context of the times.

What would a 1930s German have said about being compared to a Polish or Dutch person? Would they have seen themselves as "pretty similar"?

And I'm not sure how many Indians and Pakistanis you've talked to, but they're pretty close to space aliens to each other.

Same with Shia Iraqis and Sunni Iraqis, and both with Kurds. Etc etc.

I don't see how you can say "these peoples are the same" across any modern ethnic or national boundaries without a lot more support without it coming across as "those people all look alike."

Hell, I can localize most folks in the US within five sentences or so.

And yes, there were states that straddled the Mason-Dixon line (and states like Virginia that were shattered because of it), but outside of those limited cases I'm sure the majority of the people involved could have identified "the other" pretty easily.

Point being that if we're finely tuned enough to physical and cultural differences amongst our own species, yet still war on those we can perceive as different... imagine how much stronger that impulse would be against something that didn't even look like us.
Why would it be squatting if you're open to licensing your technology at a reasonable cost to whatever manufacturer is willing to implement your state-of-the-art technology?

Why should the manufacturer have the incentive to fund parallel invention efforts to avoid paying such licensing fees? What if the upfront capital availability for such R&D funds created differential overhead profiles across industries, such that massive up-front R&D costs were now required in order to keep an acceptable op-ex profile?

This is a bit more nuanced than 'you aren't using your patent, you're clearly a vampire'.
That may be true but desert cities are still a reality. It might be possible somehow "close" these cities but that seems like something that is not going to happen anytime soon unless they simply become uninhabitable. So given people are going to be living here it makes sense to make things more efficient.
I feel like it might be related to the interest, in the US at least, in Buddhism (like the secular version that people talk about with regards to meditation and yoga classes etc). I'm not sure where that started though.
Was Marcus Aurelius a saint? Was Einstein?

> Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.

Am I? When I was 9, I cried the whole night because I realized that thousands of years of future adventures, including space travel and meeting aliens, will go on without me. I got over it.

In that poem notice words like "because", "might have", and "too late". If your words did fork lightning, if your deeds did dance in green bays, if you learned early to not grieve the sun, how does this apply? If you haven't made piece with death early on, what kind of life are you living, and how would merely extending it help? What you consider saintly I consider the mere minimum. My own life is neat, but if compared to all of life, it's a pixel in a movie frame. Why be a stuck pixel?
You can go to the "History" page on youtube and delete the video from your watch history. It seems to stop youtube from using it for recommendations.
Frankly, I've never seen that (try / catch / ignore exception) in any commercial codebase I've worked on, running into tens of millions of lines.

The worst I've seen is people logging the error message but not the exception itself (so losing the stack trace), or causing another exception to be thrown (and losing the stack trace or cause of the original).
There are probably a number of aspects:

- Rejection of the cult of personality & "cult of the founder": Stoicism promotes rejection of ego and constantly finding points for growth and adaptivity

- A reaction to current events in politics and tech: Stoicism promotes grounding yourself in what you can control, and not worrying about what you can't (such as the past, increasing complexity in social networks, whether or not North Korea or Trump is going to drop the bomb somewhere, etc.)

- Big names with big platforms like Tim Ferris have been promoting the philosophy lately

...though this is anecdotal and probably doesn't encompass all the reasons.
Well, not while buying avocado toast.

/s
I did that too, and in the same situation (although I got more wrong).
It won't be scientists because they won't want to alter what they're studying by revealing themselves.
Good point. It saw me gain a teenager (second hand) by virtue of being in a relationship with somebody and I love it. Looking forward to 1.5, where we'll hopefully get our house bought together and make a proper life.
Honestly, no. For starters, I don't want a functional language (at least not a purely functional one). Purely functional programming has some distinct downsides. My preferences are firmly on the multiparadigm side, and I'm perfectly happy with a reasonable imperative language (that still supports higher-order functions and closures).

What I'm not happy with is language designers seemingly ignoring the state of the art even when it comes to picking low-hanging fruit.
Antonio Ropero (46) was a Cofounder of Virus Total, a well-known company acquired by Google in 2012, and Hispasec, a Spanish cybersecurity company.

He was a true hacker, a wonderful person, a magician, and a origami lover.

RIP, Antonio.
If it is true that industrialization reduces bithrate below 2 per family, the issue would go away as other nations industrialize. If the whole world industrialized and reduced birthrate below 2, we'd reduce population and hence consumption. I'm not understanding your "critical mass" argument.
No, it's way worse, because you have to write the error handling multiple times even if it is all the same (and it usually is).

For example, in Java, I can make as many method calls I want inside of a try block, and catch an exception from any one of them in the catch block. In Go, I would need the equivalent of one catch block per method call, in the form of "if err != nil { return err }". Why repeat yourself?

If you want to pass on an error in Go, its easy to do accidentally -- just omit "if err != nil". Both types of exception handling models enable this kind of behavior. If you are going to do it, you might as well not repeat yourself while you are doing it.
Also known as the late gmail study
I like Go and it's intentional lack of feature or very slow speed of adding features is my favorite feature. May be I am a pseudo programmer like most people who dislike Go would probably say.
This hit a nerve, so I'm going to leave it up, but after thinking about it I also don't like how purely negative it is. I can't edit it anymore but I do want to make a follow up to say something things explicitly:

I want to be clear I'm thankful for the effort everyone has put into golang. Making something people care about enough to love or hate is hard. Stewarding a FOSS project can be a very negative thankless experience as well. While I'm being critical above, there are also lots of examples of golang folks, core or otherwise, making really constructive and productive comments and contributions. I don't mean to trivialize that or ignore it.
I automated my morning routine with iBeacons, and now I live in the future
Ok, who wrote that?
He was answering his own question
> We won't use Piwik. Mozilla uses Google Analytics for website analytics. Hosting our own is more work for a worse product.

Hi Mozilla, Piwik team here. Would you mind explaining what you found worse in Piwik VS Google and reporting your feedback to us, so we have a chance to improve and in the future to see Mozilla use Piwik to track users, rather than Google?
First registry I've seen that lets you do a 100 year registration.
Pools are not miners. Pools can only make decisions that the miners will tolerate, and historically miners have recognized the dangers even of pool centralization.

There is very little friction to changing pools.
vendor has big problems too. There are some proposals on how to start fixing them, after the dep tool lands (originally slated for 1.7 or 1.8 but still in Alpha?)

To support the uncommon edge case, src/foo/vendor/dep is completely different to src/bar/vendor/dep.

Your src/foo code can't pass src/foo/vendor/dep types to src/bar code expecting src/bar/vendor/dep types. Even if the deps are identical checkouts. Code can become uncompilable by the act of vendoring a dependency.

You have two completely different sets of globals. Code can stop working by the act of vendoring a dependency.

The initialization runs twice. So well known packages like glog will panic if two packages has it vendored because they both try to update settings in the standard library.

GOPATH would be preferable, but none of the tools for managing packages at that level support pinning. So you dare to be developing more than one package at a time, you end up with a single monolithic repository representing your GOPATH and pin your dependencies in src/, or end up with symlink hacks and other unmaintainable tricks.
You replied to a comment praising Scott for improving PHP security by saying "I'm not sure I believe that", and then ambiguously attacked his code. Who are you trying to kid?

I don't much care one way or the other about whether it's OK to try to take people down a peg, but I do care very much when people do that and then try to get away with pretending that's not what they're doing.
Is that established? I believe that there are major giant cities that operate with a lower CO2 footprint than suburban and rural areas might, per capita. But there is the cost of all the CO2 that allowed that urbanization; NYC didn't get the subway without a carbon cost, all that steel in the buildings released a lot of carbon, etc..
I'm not the GP but we would totally be open to putting a badge!

We got 3 months free from Founderskit (via Startup School). Is there a better discount than that? If yes, that would be helpful!
You're saying that as though passively cooled architecture has no drawbacks in terms of cost, structural integrity, versatility, or suitability for building dense living spaces. I doubt we can develop large cities in the future without a serious focus on improved HVAC. Sure, passive methods, geothermal heating/cooling, etc will have a place, but they certainly aren't the only path forward.

For example, how would you passively control humidity. It's 89F and 55% humidity where I'm sitting right now, outside airflow feels like wet hot death.
Sure, but a lot of places(like the north east) rarely get 10% humidity days.
The irony is that consuming less actually leads to increased levels of happiness. If this was more widely appreciated the shift away from consumerism would be easier. I could imagine, for example, some kind of enlightened country/culture that actually intentionally contracts their economy because they've wised up to what really matters.
Got 14/15 because I couldn't tell Emacs Lisp from Clojure. Argh ...
Google is a bit borderline in morally trusted companies lately.

Somehow google and facebook start to be a bit privacy problematic
the development of super-strong residential building codes in response to destructive hurricanes

plus the fact that all construction is much better insulated than the pre-war installed base.
Piet's an esoteric, and GLSL is OpenGL's Shader Language. GLSL looks kind of C-like, while Piet looks like Mondrian paintings (for many programs, anyhow).
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This has been a 'thing' in tech for at least 5+ years.
Hans Rosling has a take on this: The Magic Washing Machine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZoKfap4g4w&vl=en
My Australian bedroom is often that hot, if not hotter during the summer months. I have a fan. You get used to it.
Me.

It's actually Nietzsche -- "Beyond Good and Evil," Part 1, §9. I have very serious reservations about Nietzsche, but he doesn't pull his punches.
Except that charging the mouse during a biobreak/while getting more caffeine will charge it enough to last the rest of the day.
> As other nations continue to grow and industrialize, the issue then doesn't really go away.

Sure it does, as each national industrializes it solves part of the problem; when they all do it, problem gone.

> It seems that the problem would just move around the globe until we hit critical mass.

You really haven't thought this through.
The Impact of Redfin Post-IPO: Part 1 – Brokerages
The typical pc builder (or user) isn't professional so rarely use data that can be corrupted. I edit photos and play games. The photos have backups so I wouldn't sweat a corrupt bit here and there. The largest structure I use is my file system but I try never to get too attached to data on a machine (machines should be possible to reinstall within an hour - data such
as photos should be elsewhere).

People working with sensitive datasets or fragile data structures (large cad files was mentioned) can certainly use ECC with good reason.

But for most home machines? Sure, if it doesnt cost 10 or even 3% extra then I'd recommend it. So it would be great if AMD could pressure Intel towards bringing ECC to consumer chips.

Otherwise for a normal builder just put that $100 towards a better graphics card (if gaming) or a better monitor or whatever, and the lack of ECC will make your game crash once in 3 years (it crashes 99 more times due to bugs and bad drivers...)
> if you run your refrigerant loop through the ground instead of cooling it using the hot ambient air

In the same vein, rejecting heat to the cooler night air is a lot more efficient than using hot day air.

You can operate a chiller at night and generate a bunch of ice efficiently. During the day, you can melt the ice for cooling at day -- without operating any sort of compressor.

Once the melted water gets higher than the desired chilled water temperature, you can turn on the chiller, but you use the water for heat rejection -- which is still colder than the hot outside air.
I don't think a parking lot in rural Bend (or any rural American town) is the best example to use. People in Bend are going to rely on cars a lot more than people in downtown Portland and property is likely cheaper + regulated less.

Here's the first lot I found in Portland... nice, waterfront parking!

https://www.google.com/maps/@45.5319709,-122.6711514,3a,60y,...
I feel like http://concourse.ci/ might be the sweet spot here.
Even rich societies require some function which controls the population. The more you shield people from natural forces, the more you will stress the system as impact of those forces builds up.
Then why don't you come up with a legitimate use case?
there's nothing magic about generics. every time you make a channel or a map in go, you're using a generic function even if go people don't want you to call it that.

there's nothing magic about exceptions, too, it's that it's harder than necessary to use them correctly and that's why it's not as big of a deal to not have them in go - as evidenced by this thread.
I agree on the bit rot. Its been a problem since the dawn of software, and will be for as far as I can see into the future. Fifty years from now it might not be, since the AI will be writing it in a language we don't even comprehend.

I was recently talking to a group in China that is trying to make a system that will let Flash compile to a web-assembly target. But that assumes source and desire. Web-assembly is a nice next target, but mostly people will work in higher level languages.
That's like saying Thomas W. Farley controls 21 trillion dollars worth of companies.

Pools do not control hash power, they merely organize it. That's not to say they don't play a major role in the politics of Bitcoin clients and rules, but to say they 'completely control' Bitcoin is wholly incorrect. These sorts of hyperbolic statements greatly degrade the quality of discourse on centralization.
Good point, though a bike is a perfect vehicle for a short commute like this, since it requires no gas and much less maintenance. Plus it's good exercise!
To save you time, when trying pussy.to:

> You filthy-minded little pervert!

> The Kingdom of Tonga admonishes you. Now go back and think of another name that you wouldn't be embarrassed to say to your mother.

However:

> Congratulations!

> Your name penis.to is available.
The over-saturated emotion comes, perhaps, because photographers are generally making art, not a scientific record. The approaches are extremely different. Art, in the commercial/social sense, needs to compete with all of the other art in the world; a lot of that art is impactful.

On the other hand, imaged thoughtfully and without enhancement, the mundane can be truly beautiful.
He's already doing it with Sheryl Sandberg.
And Phoenix, and Los Angeles, and much of the southwest in general.
I really don't understand the drive to make GNU/Linux a "consumer operating system." The consumers don't care and are happy with absolutely awful software. Shiny GUI toolkits that are a huge pain to develop for, and non-free software gos against what the people who use GNU/Linux now want. That's why ubuntu's unity stuff failed, because they chased after users who don't care and alienated the only ones that might use their product.
I wonder how people lived in Florida for thousands of years then.
Too much, even for smaller icebergs. Desalination is a cheaper option.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/05/could-to...
But be aware with your celebration. It can be slightly off due to leap seconds.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/327361/openbsd-6-0-...
This is more like the harm to society I was talking about, but there is more. Small hotels and b&b are an important part of touristic cities' economy, when airbnb get to drain most of the $ coming from tourists you'll scramble local economy. Booking have the opposite effect imo (it is like uber x taxi apps).
some info to save someone else from having to look it up

1 400 000 000 was 5/13/2014, 11:53:20 AM
1 600 000 000 will be 9/13/2020, 7:26:40 AM
1 000 000 000 was 9/8/2001, 8:46:40 PM
2 000 000 000 will be 5/17/2033, 10:33:20 PM
2^32-1 (4 294 967 295) will be 2/7/2106, 12:28:15 AM

100 million seconds is a little over 3 years
1 billion seconds is almost 32 years.
Its people like you who are the problem. What an idiotic statement. Youve clearly never watched a single campaign speech from trump. Youve never investigated or even contemplated how his campaign really worked or the issues of his voter base. You dont understand anything because youve never attempted to view the whole thing objectively. Please just shut up.
They use images with high aesthetic ratings from the AVA dataset (Aesthetic Visual Analysis). Scoring is described in section 5 in the article.
The Energy Star program is riddled with fraud[0]. (Have you ever seen a modern appliance that wasn't "Energy Star Certified"?)

[0] http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-470

"GAO's investigation shows that Energy Star is for the most part a self-certification program vulnerable to fraud and abuse. GAO obtained Energy Star certifications for 15 bogus products, including a gas-powered alarm clock."