skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I asked a few friends how they use the word, and apparently there are people that use it to mean "nearly all" and people that use it to mean "more than half", and the first group doesn't realize the second group exists.

This paper[1] gives a couple interpretations, none of which are as strict as the one I use. I wonder if I mixed up "conversational implicatures" with a heuristic for logical implication.

In any case, I've apparently been wrong about the meaning of a basic English word my whole life, and I can't find a good cover story to hide the mistake.

[1] http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/fileadmin/mitarbeiter/solt/Most...
Part I dislike most is that all this publicity just increases their exposure and probably their profits too.

I don't see how you could stop people like this and can't help but wonder how much good the backlash is actually doing.
I think the major market revelation is that entertainment can sometimes be fungible. You don't need lots of subscriptions because one is enough; if they don't have content you're looking for then no big deal, you'll find something else.

I'm a person for whom a subscription makes perfect sense, for the most part I don't have a list of artists I'm a fan of, I just want decent quality and variety.
Yeah, you actually can't "purchase" one without IBM services.
More ridiculous than declaring that you cured a seasonal allergy with food supplements and by sticking needles in your body?
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OpenWhisk - an open source project (http://openwhisk.apache.org/) supported by IBM, Red Hat, and others. I've got quite a few blog posts on it if you want to see some examples (https://www.raymondcamden.com).

Disclaimer - I work for IBM.
[Luigi](https://github.com/spotify/luigi) out of Spotify sounds exactly like what you're looking for. It allows you to specify dependent tasks, pipe input/output between them, and more.
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> I've really gotta get on testing this with my product.

Please do! It's a lot easier for us to react to issues as long as there's no full expectation of compatibility...
As someone else put it well, it's a free market. The best way to know MY value in the market is to talk to other companies about openings and salary. So by coming to you, the manager, without doing that is to let you determine my market value without any other input. That's like the Ford dealer getting mad at me for going to other lots to find the best deal on a truck.

Relationships are important, sure, but you have to understand: management is not typically the friend of the worker, nor is HR.
It's only snake oil when you start trying to convince other people that it works when you haven't demonstrated it, and especially if you start selling it.
> But who will pay cash for the SAFE token at the formula price? I don't know! The point is that we're all having fun.

> It feels sort of appropriate that the two big risks to the tech industry are (1) that many tech startups are essentially unambitious repackagings of low-tech grocery-delivery businesses and (2) that tech firms will build robots so advanced that they will take over the world and destroy human civilization.
I love postgres to death, and they do amazing work. It's certainly the best database I've ever used, and that's before thinking about postGIS and pg-routing. Their documentation is top notch and if you sit in their IRC channel you'll see a lot of people helping each other, including core devs answering basic questions to really involved ones. It's really an amazing project in almost every regard.

I recommend it to anyone who needs a database in almost every situation as your first one. If you outgrow pg's capabilities, including full-text search, then you're probably also having capacity planning and infrastructure issues that need to be addressed too when moving to more specialized software.

However, it drives me bonkers that they don't use a bug tracker because their current mailing-list system "works." I think it makes it hard

* to find the status or history of an issue ("just use the mailing list search!" and then try to piece together and separate multiple threads

* to allow younger developers (which they want to have talk to all the other devs before doing anything at all)

* to look for open issues (which they claim don't really exist because things are fixed quickly, but that's not always the case)

* to make sure issues don't get lost (which they do),

I've also heard it said that bug trackers attract low quality issues, which, even if true, I don't see why that's such a veto issue.

They actually have a quasi-bug-tracker for things like their hacker fest projects where you can find an issue and offer suggestions on it.
I'm note sure I follow your logic. Are you saying that if you can't give specific, alternative explanations for the missing car, we must consider aliens a plausible explanation?
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Do you have any basis for considering this to be effective, besides that one person's experience?
Well, not done, but I am working on basically an information hub for myself. Unfortunately I am not a software engineer, so I am slowly learning python to get it set up.

Basically it will pull a variety of information and display it on a simple website. Things like notifications for social media, my to do list, sports scores/times, weather, etc.

It's a larger task than I realized. I'll probably never finish it tbh haha.
Yeah - it is a "problem"[0] with open source - you need to deal with people that may have completely objectives to you.

It is easier with a closed source / paid service to ask for feature requests. Remember that the maintainers probably get hundreds of similar requests a week, and have merged things in the past that they didn't like and later caused issues.

This causes confirmation bias for them "The last time we allowed code not aligned to codeing styles / test requirements / feature direction / $reason it all went badly", so it is easier to ask for things to align to their world view before merging it.

Being a maintainer is hard - you are damned if you do, and damned if you don't. People give out about not merging code, but they also give out if the code that does get merged breaks things. Finding a balance is hard.

0 - I don't personally think it is a problem, but it potentially requires a bigger time investment, and can be infuriating when you have a small change that really scratches an itch for you.
Is the only concern the 10%? If so, I would stay.

If not, I would go.
I see a lot of people knocking these things in the comments...but if you want guaranteed employment you would be trying to get experience with COBOL. I'm telling you.

Truth is, these things are so much more stable and secure that most projects running on large hardware (think Oracle anything) would end up saving money by running on a mainframe.
This really should have been written on the box explicitly.

I didn't see the connection until someone pointed it out to me when I was already an adult. All I have from this game is memories of boredom playing it with family as a kid.
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Good question. ;)
The easy availability of liquor creates an environment where people are more likely to fall to alcoholism.

That's how I view the selling of a lot of unhealthy products - corporations creating a hostile environment, where you are more likely to succumb to your vices, for their profit. E.g. candy and chocolate placed at the checkout line.
I bet they leverage Watson to ensure cognitive compliance for strategic solutionings.

Fixed it for you.
Generally, if you "stream" (send) me bits, they're mine to do what I want with (practically, maybe not legally).

Although, if anyone could tell me how to do that with AES-SAMPLE HLS video, I'd be very happy.
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That's just ludicrous. Corporations routinely do astoundingly stupid, financially damaging things for all sorts of reasons.
Disclosure: I work at IBM.

Mainframes are not my area, but what I've learned makes me salivate. The next time I launch a startup, one of these Z systems is going to be on the CapEx plan.

The lowest end tier of these systems is something that could be easily afforded post series-A, and the stunning computational power is almost the least important benefit. These systems provide incredible redundancy, reliability, fault tolerance, and transaction processing speed. Decades of engineering experience have gone into building these.

You could hire engineers to figure out to make systems run reliably on a cloud provider, but unless you are one of a tiny handful of unicorns that specialize in this, you are going to do a second-rate job of it. And hiring the staff with the skill set to do that is incredibly expensive and doesn't create differentiating value.
I highly recommend Postgres! The IRC channel has always been helpful and friendly for me as well.
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I think the idea is that the original pirate takes on more risk, since whoever they pass the copy around to may trigger the alarm by getting the $5-10. The real question is how easily can this private key be removed from the content?
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Agreed on Sheriff! Such a fun game.

I think whats important is having one or two people "hosting" the events to realize what you've said above and plan accordingly.

Having a plethora of games to choose from and selecting the right one for certain people and group sizes has made a lot of my friends realize just how much fun they can be.
I'm the creator of Jenkins.

Without fully knowing the context, I wonder if this is just a simple disconnect.

In Jenkins, we collectively cover wide-ranging use cases not by making one existing plugin (say Git plugin) do everything, but by making it extensible so that other people can define additional semantics and behaviours as separate plugins on top of it.

We learned this in the early days of Subversion plugin, back when that was the most popular version control system. Everyone uses a generic tool like that very differently, so as we kept adding individually valid use cases to the Subversion plugin, it became this giant hair ball not just for devs but also for users.

This mode also works better for those who do not want to spend time explaining why their use case is a good/important one, as they can simply code up their idea as a separate plugin and move on.

With all that said, I'm sorry for the frustration you had. Do you still have some pointers to tickets/PRs, etc? I'd like to look into it.
Culture-lock is the very reason China is having such a hard time become a modern technology leading state.

Its the same as in martial arts, the fixed form practices got absolutely decimated by MMA, diversity is a strength and modern cultures are very bad at accepting outsiders.
How much does this apply to senior employees? I have a PhD, started out at the "Senior" level as a new grad, and I just recently got my first promotion to "Staff" Engineer, which represents roughly the 85th-90th percentile for pay in my company.
ive done that,but I used gitlab
If someone would do the same to me I would write a bot to ask him to stop it.
The rationality of the players is central to any argument you make in the line of "there is a competitive labor market and that salary offers thus must be competitive".

If the hiring managers (of any gender) have an irrational bias towards thinking that women are not as effective as their male counterparts, this will affect the respective pay scales even within a competitive market.

Note that I'm not providing evidence or making a claim about the gender pay gap. I'm just saying that the claims you've made have many possible consistent explanations, including irrational bias against women.
To be honest, I find Nietzsche more inspirational and life changing that the Stoics (of course, I'm more familiar with Nietzsche).
Probably legal issues with Soundcloud offloading the data.

This way they can skate the rules and save the data.

Plus startups on the way out usually want to use their data as a bargaining chip to sell whatever remains of the service off, if they give it away they lose that chip.
Are you in Bay Area/Seattle/NY? 200k total is not much for somebody with 10 years experience. Picking right employer and sticking with it could have netted you better pay.
There actually have been clinical trials for managing IBS through diet, e.g. the low-FODMAP diet.

Oatmeal doesn't sound like a very plausible cure for IBS, but whatever they used to eat for breakfast being a problem food for them seems very plausible.
Just in case no one else mentions it...how about transparent geo-clustering? How about duplicated components and self-healing for critical subsystems?

Really, it's the way that non-computer people think that all computers are but actually aren't because they aren't mainframes.
Microsoft Azure has "Functions" which is their name for serverless

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/functions/
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I wonder how strongly this holds after you're into the higher end of the salary range?

My best increase ever was going from my highschool/college web dev job to freelance, where I more than tripped my hourly rate from $12.50/hr to $45/hr. (It probably wasn't quite 3x after accounting for taxes and healthcare and such, but it was still a good jump, and brought more flexible hours too.)

Since then, I've gotten 20-25% increases a couple of times, topping out at $120k.

I was switching more like every 3-5 years, so a 5%/year raise actually ends up being in the same ballpark, if not slightly better. Every two years might be better from a pure cash perspective, but I didn't feel like I was "done" with my roles until the 3-5 year mark - I think I learned more delivered more value, and achieved a better sense of accomplishment doing it my way.

I also live in Ohio, with the exception of one year I spent in SF. I imagine I could double my current salary moving back to SF or over to NYC, but I'm happier here. (And $100k+ goes a bit farther here...)
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> The merchant is charging more to cover the fees.

This is what everyone assumes, but it turns out it's false. We are fortunate to have some experimental evidence on this. In 2003 Australia slashed interchange fees through regulation. Prices did not decline.

"...retailers saved more than $400 million (Australian) annually in fee revenue after interchange rates there were cut, but there was no evidence that they passed any of the savings on to consumers. Instead, consumers saw higher card fees, a reduction in loyalty benefits, and the introduction of surcharges of up to 3% on credit card transactions, the report found."[1]

[1] http://www.digitaltransactions.net/news/story/Report_-Austra...
You've found it. It's time to have an adult conversation with them. They are not treating you like a co-founder even though 10pct is co-founder territory. It's been a year and they've not acted in good faith. Even more importanlty they are probably screwing the employees as well by not having their stuff together. Everyone's options are supposed to vest over time. Theirs and yours and they had better have yours and everyone else's vest retroactively from start date. The other thing is that the valuation of the company went up after taking the million dollars and I don't even know what that would do to options price or how to deal with that. Companies in the US can give you a 80pct discount on the options or something without having tax consequence I think and there are probably other ways to get around that but anyway. Yeah, talk to your atterney. This is bad.
Why? You increase the CPU requirements of the crawl, lose quality from an already low bitrate file and then have to QA the new encode. All for a very small decrease in filesize.
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Link should be http://spieldesjahres.com/en/game_archive/2017
>If the industry manages to wipe out individual track sales, I will pirate music. I would hate to go back to those days, but it's preferable to not having control over my music.

But it's not your right to have this music and you're just stealing it. They're not taking anything away from you, you're just deciding you'd rather steal it than pay for it.
Talk to them right now before you do anything. Take all the paperwork you can get your hands on.
Hello, if I may advise, when I see the term "mainstream media" this is a red-flag for the rest of the post's contents.
I think I am not the only one, so you may want to reformulate towards more precision.
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This article flies in the face of what I have been reading for years. This article is taking some simple data "employees that change jobs get X% raise" and extrapolating it to a whole lot of wrong. It does vary by organization.

For example if you are at an organization where you are basically the most senior employee already and you can take on a new role at a larger organization with new responsibilities or skill growth a job change can make sense. If you are just bouncing around between say Amazon, Google, and Facebook this can often be a dud strategy in the long term.

Take this with a grain of salt, since I don't have time to dig up citations, but I have read that the long term compensation is actually higher for individuals that don't switch jobs so often. I guess the career employee is a bit of a legend in IT these days so we could have a lively discussion about the selection and difference in a big tech firm and a more traditional F500, but I think in the long run these things will normalize because they are basic human nature and organizational structure problems and nothing is intrinsically special about technology companies. They are the special darlings of the era, so they get to break the rules a bit. Maybe it really will foment a long term change in "the rules" or always be a bit of a bubble in terms of how the organizations operate.
This. Its so important for workers to realize just what predicament they're in. So while it was possible for lifelong jobs to be possible in the past, its not so much the case today. No job is really secure, and one does have to stay on ones toes.

Not saying that you should be concerned about getting fired everyday. But if you don't create demonstrable value to your company over a longer period of time (a couple of years perhaps) don't expect to keep the job. Things are moving wayy too fast today.
Never understood why companies will refuse to give valuable employees reasonable raises but when turn around and pay an unproven new hire even more money to replace them. So you refuse to give me a 10% increase because "never negotiate with terrorists" but will gladly pay the 20% increase that I'm getting at my new job to my replacement (because that's the market).
Just seems so short sighted.
I have my own personal recordings up there (although they're also on bandcamp and I still have them backed up). I know of a lot of people who use it to host their music. It's not just podcasts and remixes.
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I always wondered, why socialistic idealism is frowned upon asa idiocy but moralistic idealism is enshrined and a realizable utopia for conservatives.
Good list here:

https://github.com/anaibol/awesome-serverless
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Yup, i've tested every prior release since 9.4 as well, time is just short for me this month to get into it because of projects we're trying to wrap up. I know the sooner they get feedback the better though, hopefully I can make time soon.
So the leaker will quickly find a way to remove the bitcoin watermark just like they do with traditional watermarks, instead of trying to cash out the coins.

The other counter-attack would be to distribute the scanning software to all the people who got the screeners so that there are a bunch of transactions and no way to know which one leaked vs. just took the $5. Probably too small an amount to get many takers, but it would muddy the waters even if only a few did it.
I always hear people say how reliable mainframes are.
But if I have a startup that needs to distribute its application among different regions of the world, how does a mainframe help me with that?

It is still a single point of failure.

Has there been any sort of study, comparing commodity hardware and mainframes in this setting?

I'll not argue a single mainframe is more reliable than a commodity server. It should be, given how much they cost.
Nonstop has already been ported to x86-64 some years ago. It runs fine there - with better performance than it did on Itanium.
Safety, speed, language convenience.

Pick 2.

Safety is an issue everywhere you are programming something, good programmers just know how to mitigate it.

And to be really honest, you don't always need to use C++. Just use it where performance is needed, write good code, review it, etc, and when you need to go at a higher level, use python or any other scripting languages. C++ should be used to write libraries.

There are not so many softwares in the world that need to be entirely written in C++, and if they do, more time is spent writing and fixing such software.

"There are languages people complain about, and languages nobody use".

I don't dislike rust, but when I read its syntax, it doesn't seem simple enough to learn, read and write, the learning curve seems pretty steep, so it won't really do well with students.
> because their observation doesn't fit with the mainstream

what do you mean by "mainstream"? Mainstream medicine?

This isn't pop-music aesthetics, medicine is a profession, and seeking alternate treatments can do real harm.

> I mentioned that meditation seems to help with my depression and anxiety

This is dissimilar to things like allergies. It's also worth noting how many thing do turn out to be BS - your example might be survivor bias.

> But pretending that the only cures that are valid

Its one thing to consider alternativecures, it's another to promote them. Some alternate treatments can be harmful, so there should be a high barrier to recommendation.

> There is plenty of stuff out there mainstream medicine doesn't have a solution

Doesn't mean alternative medicine does though. The same argument is made for religion, called "god of the gaps".
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Leaving Russia was a pre-flop fold, you just don't do it unless you've already conceded your hand will can't win.

Uber is dead in 5 years.
Not all CPUs do register renaming, and almost all architectures will have started out being defined for a CPU which didn't do renaming. Even today, lower end CPUs (think the embedded market) don't do register renaming. If you want your architecture to be able to cover down to the low end then anything that drops the idea of a register file is a non-starter. Also, a register-based architecture is well understood, in terms of how to implement it effectively, how to exploit it in compiler design, and how to hand-code assembly for it when necessary. You need a really strong argument to justify taking the weird and innovative route, usually.
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Treated like what? Not humored with harmful thoughts?

I think the real danger to life trumps ego.