skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or it could figure out how to distribute it's computing and then distribute itself a piece at a time off of the "supercomputer."
OK. I mostly agree.

But in a legitimate democracy, the citizenry cannot be "victimized" by "public servants that don't serve them".

If you hire some servants, and those servants don't serve you, and you don't get some new servants... whose fault is that?

But you're right on the essential point: the democratically elected government (== citizenry) involved here is paying an arguably reasonable price, but the individuals responsible probably are not.
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I'm working on a book about microservices and want to know what questions and topics you'd like to see covered.

What were your biggest hurdles when first adopting microservices? Was it hard for your team to determine service boundaries? Did you struggle with developing and managing them?
Oy...I don't understand why there appears to be zero overlap between people with the skill to bring generics to Go, and the people who want generics in Go.

This debate has gone on long enough that if it were actually going to happen, it would have some obvious traction by now.

So...how 'bout that Swift?
Docker operations slowing down on AWS (this time it’s not DNS)
The notion that the default, most important activity to hold in a park is "protest" sounds also quite dystopian to me.
Respectfully there are two separate things here:

1. The notion that 'coding' is exactly what you're doing now.

I think that doing actual development varies far more widely between roles, company sizes and verticals than in other careers.

As an example: in my programming career I've done everything from work with Navy SEALS (handheld athletic training software) to attend rock festivals (making sure scheduling software stays up and working) to some AR.

I have a friend that makes robotic control software for nuclear plants and flies around the world collecting stories of people who have seriously messed things up. Another friend works at a big bank as one of a floor full of people doing something insanely boring with credit cards. They both seem happy. They both are developers. Their lives could not be more different.

Coding doesn't have to mean 40hrs a week in a windowless office and all of those roles varied between 20% to 60% coding (at a rough estimate) and if you've only ever worked in a large company it's crazy how different building even building your own apps/services can even be.

2. Switching careers.

I've always really liked Scott Adams career advice to try and be the top 25% of two different subject areas:

http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/07/care...

Being a developer is a great '1st skill' because it mixes so well with nearly everything else in today's society. So, I'd say don't abandon it (or your knowledge) but try to pair it with something you find more interesting.
Certainly, and I am in full agreement with you on pretty much everything you said.

I'm ranting against those who continually tell me "it's not that bad", "suck it up", "you're lucky you have insurance" or some variation of the above.

The first step in fixing the problem is to recognize the problem, and there's many I've talked with that reflexively reject the premise that there is a problem in the first place because of what that means for the ACA.

The foundational issue is that we're stuck in an uncanny valley between single payer and private insurance. Either single payer or private could be viable, but not the unholy menagerie we have now.

The high costs, over prescription and under prevention that are bloating the system all driven by that issue and could be solved with a single arbiter that gets the bill, whether that be the government or the citizen.

The best proposal I've seen is a two-tier system like Germany has, with public healthcare for all and private healthcare available for the rich. That tends to rub Americans the wrong way because fairness, but really solves most of the problems because it gets universal coverage to spread the risk pool while accepting the natural impulse to want to pay for better care if you can rather than rejecting that option out of hand like some single payer systems do.
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Most roads are not four-lane ones. Think residential roads, for example.
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Artificial Intelligence: Case Studies in Common Lisp, Peter Norvig. It is also a really good book on programming in general.
> English does not fulfill the neutrality ideal of Esperanto, which many people that speak Esperanto think it's very important.

Yeah, but neither does Esperanto; it's kind of unlikely that a language designed by a human without a strict, mechanical methodology to assure neutrality would, and even then it would need to be isolated from the normal forces that affect natural languages for it to retain that neutrality.

English is probably, in some senses, more neutral than Esperanto; for one thing, English probably has a far greater share of speakers (even first-language speakers) that aren't middle-class-and-above natives of developed countries in Europe or dominated by populations of European descent.
You can tell by how disinterested he seems to be in getting the money back. Anybody who really lost $8 million would be losing sleep, crying, and doing absolutely everything they could to get it back. This guy is not some billionaire, $8 million is a life changing amount for him.

You don't just shrug off losing that kind of money. If I had invested in this project, I'd be in touch with the FBI.
I was never able to find work with Clojure. Always had endless jobs available for JS though.

But agreed, it's still worth the effort to learn as many new languages as possible. It will make you a better programmer.

Haskell and Erlang were particularly eye-opening for me, but Scheme/Clojure was a great entry point into FP.
This isn't a direct answer to the question, but if you are coding professionally (in the USA at least) it shouldn't be necessary to work for 3 decades. If you think you will burn out, optimize your life for getting off the treadmill early.

reference:
http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-sim...
It's almost like feature detection, image segmentation, object detection, scene labeling, and tracking are pre-wired at some level... that would make learning a lot faster!
>As you yourself noted, most people don't read down the page.

"They did it first" isn't a defense. If I slapped my sibling and told mother "They did it first" I still earned punishment.

What you're defending isn't defensible. Snopes clearly lied by using the false rating here.

>They are not saying everything in The Source story is false.

Yes, in fact, they are:

http://www.snopes.com/ratings/

"This rating indicates that the primary elements of a claim are demonstrably false."

The Roof situation is best described by their Mixture rating. Snopes specifically chose the false rating despite elements of truth to this story.
I have been thinking about going that route as well. How and when did you know it was the right choice for you?
this is a key people are ignoring. by moving the win32 mspaint from a native file on the filesystem to app-v/Centennial, it will be able to run on non-x86 hardware with emulation. in two years if Windows 10 S and Qualcomm dominate, having legacy apps available in the store will be a bonus not a burden. it will be similar to the OSX/Rosetta days.
Home cleaning. I was reluctant to let a stranger clean my home but it is totally worth it. My maid cleans home better than I ever did, and she is faster.

I used to use laundry service, that was amazing.
Not really no. The hash has value on it's own. If you lose the bitcoin, you are fucked. If you lose your credentials, they might be recovered. Therefore bitcoin does store the value.
красива is predicate (or сказуемое)
It's MS's fault because paint should continue to be included as part of the base install.
That was very well composed. You explained a laid-back culture in a very lojban way.
Really? What gave you that impression?
> For a while you'd think Ruby was going to over take PHP for web dev but it eventually converge to a steady state the growth rate isn't increasing at all.

Rails downloads almost doubled from 2015 to 2016 (15M -> 24M). Not sure where you see that the "growth rate isn't increasing at all".

Source: RubyGems db data dump (more stats here: https://infinum.co/the-capsized-eight/analyzing-rubygems-sta...)
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Can anyone doing Phoenix in production share their typical HTTP response times?

I built a small Phoenix project about a year ago, and compared to Rails it wasn't quite as fluent but still pretty nice. But ever since then, I've been trying to decide if the extra development time is worth it for the performance gains. I get that Elixir is more scalable, and I love how the RAM requirements compared to Rails are tiny, but what I still haven't been able to really answer is the latency improvement. According to these benchmarks it is about as fast as Django:

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r14&hw=...

Is that really the best I can hope for?
Blood, body water, and eye wash aside, check out Basic English.
A floorplan is just a diagram showing factual data about a house, facts can't be copyright.

If you copy the architects drawings to make the floorplan then copyright may apply, however.

If the floorplan itself had intrinsic worth as a substantial piece of creative art, then maybe, just maybe you'd have a case. But the defence of "i measured the walls in my house and drew a plan" (using a computer, for example) should be watertight.
It seems like Rodney Brooks was saying the same thing to Musk last week. Musk is out of his sandbox here. The latest iteration of AI gives us a nice categorization and pattern matching tool which has certain ethical consequences, but when I hear Musk talk about it it seems like he thinks that hard AI is just around the corner. I haven't seen anything to suggest that it is. We don't even have AI as smart as a housefly.
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>Preferably, I would like to hire senior developers instead, but they are too expensive for my budget.

This feels like a red flag. Do you have existing, more senior, people that can oversee the work? If so, perhaps that's a valid trade-off. It won't reduce the overall cost though, just the monthly burn. More junior means slower delivery, or less quality. There's no free lunch.
I don't take it as a given that bad police get blanket indemnification. They lose jobs all the time.

Maybe market magic would be more efficient, I doubt that in practice it would particularly show up.

I also wonder if cutting the above market clearing compensation would come for free, or if there are real reasons for it.

Edit to add: also, notice that you've addressed something different than what I said; you argue that it could cost less, not that the public would avoid paying.
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Meaning that the algorithms were raising the non-discounted prices automatically because the discounts were driving demand?

If they're going to offer discounts that compare to the original price, that original price needs to actually be an original price, not something that's being changed while the discount is still in effect. If Amazon didn't do this, they're either utterly incompetent or they're letting it happen because they know it will trick people.
Well, the old food pyramid was basically a 'agriculture lobby pyramid':

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_pyramid_(nutrition)#Contr...

It was hardly science-based.
I'm a co-founder of Snips.ai, our vision is to allow companies and makers to build their Voice AI which is 100% on-device and private-by-design.

We don't see why Amazon and Google should send data to a server when you want your AI to open your door or have your connected coffee machine brew a cup, so we build a platform which allows you to create private AI

We will open-source the platform later this year
But it's hard to see cancelling a product as a cause of growth.
Ecosystems grow a lot faster these days because there's tons of prior art.
Take a look at Samsung's Artik platform: https://www.artik.io

I believe these are now available on digikey: https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/s/samsung-led/a...
The root of this issue is that cities maintenance departments dont have the funding and hence ability to maintain new spaces (despite increased populations) espsecially to a high standard. So they push it on private owners in perpetuity as part of the planning process.

Theres two ways to solve it better - the first is to ensure that the public is the owner, in which case we need to accept increased government spending on maintenance (the even worse alternative is no new open spaces because neither the public or private sectors will accept the ongoing cost).

The second is to ensure that the publics rights in privately owned places are unfettered. In which case there are liability issues to overcome legally (e.g. is the owner to blame if someone gets assaulted?) - the owners duty of care is a big reason for pushing undesirables out, even if that means the problems just move to proper public domain nearby. And there are also general maintenance issues - e.g. what happens when someone is destroying the high quality landscape or threatening to.

Your classic 'kids on skateboards' are a risk to both of the above (may cause wear on materials and also risk of accident) even if as a society we would normally accept this in a public place its hard for private owners to do so

Occasionally theres some other private policing arrangement too (eg the city hall london example above where they are trying to stop MPs being harranged as they walk in and out).

Its gets complex when you get into these issues. We also should seriously consider the disparity in quality and upkeep between these new spaces which often 'sell' a development but need expensive upkeep in perpetuity (even if privately owned this liability is usually passed from the original developer to some other body) and the reality of most public parks which are usually neglected, poorly designed and with much more basic materials. And along with this what kinds of public spaces we actually want and need as modern humans in cities
Viewing math as a delimiter of intelligence only works if you can also factor the requisite skills of intelligence and know that math is sufficient to achieve it, which we can't.

The grand AI question has always been, "How much cognitive power + information is needed to implement strong AI/AGI?" The power of linear algebra can't answer that since it measures only one of the two criteria, and only some aspects of cognition. The information threshold to achieve HAL 9000 remains a mystery, not to mention the necessary aspects of the facility to acquire it, namely learning.
Yeah I used to be a huge Redditor trying to constantly keep up with the memes and funny content of the day. After quitting it made me realize how much a slave I was to the platform and how much I needed my hit of random funny crap.

I used HN as a replacement for the industry news and to remove all the other extra junk. Which seems to be working since I only visit about once a day for 15-20 minutes and don't feel a compulsive need to check it constantly for fear of missing something since there's a lack of memes and in-jokes.
Of course, as it puts the public in a place where they're at risk of being harassed by the police without realizing that they're on private property.

The entire system of private property is terrible and I hope it will be abolished within my lifetime.
I repair cars for fun, and do what might best be filed under odd jobs for profit. I live in a rural area, and having a lot of skills puts me in demand. I haven't seen an ide in years and it brings me peace.
The biggest "aha" moment for me was realizing that everyone out there busting their asses and burning out to "increase shareholder value" were making me rich.
Even if the name references Veritaserum, Veritaserum isn't particularly associated with scams. Far more likely they'd be trying to associate with its truth-finding properties. The quoted line is amusing, but no more.
Really doesn't fit in a quick comment. Just search around for Upwork horror stories. Not to mention that it's a giant race to the bottom anyways.
A while back I did a bit of lurking around 4chan, particularly /r9k/. That board is a poster child for people who have given up entirely on the physical world and embraced the digital to the fullest extent.

Once that happens, you become programmed by the addiction, in the same way that opiate addicts end up having their entire lives revolve around their addiction.

Worse I'd say is a place like /r9k/. Any semblance of normality is to be instantly branded a "Normie" and howled at to leave the board immediately. Absolute detachment from the physical world is lauded as the highest achievement. Imagine a board of drug users harassing each other to inject the highest dose, every time.

These people sit around in their own filth and both hate and take pride in their filthiness.

Internet addiction is real, and it can be very, very damaging.

Instead of a drug poisoning your mind and body, it's ideas. Information. Snow Crash
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That’s a flow in general, and isn’t specific to FastNetMon.
So you are saying we should consider one year earlier in the analysis?
there are only three bars in the gif.
That's pretty much my problem. Every attempt to understand why someone would support Trump eventually comes down to either "his supporters are complete idiots" or comparisons to Hitler. Express either one and people jump down my throat saying I need to be more open-minded, respect people's opinions, occasionally consume news that doesn't just conform to my biases, etc.
That system is still there, and at the time you thought it was removed actually got some pretty nice usability and searchability upgrades. I use tags extensively to this day. They just have a slightly different appearance in the UI.
> 's pretty well known that as part of the new iterative release cycle they're slowly moving things

Linux DEs were blasted for things like that, but now they're suddenly OK for a multi-billion-dollar company's flagship product?

> you're running off a spinning drive

I also happen to walk on the ground and climb up the stairs, being aware of alternatives. That's what I've got in a shop and it has MS Windows logo glued to it.

> I would imagine you've got a garbage hard drive.

I imagine that's what gets sold these days. BTW, I've also bought Xiaomi phone for $200 and it's a real snap.
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I found several English versions of the text (which is from the speech Zamenhof gave in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, in 1905 at the first World Esperanto Congress) by searching for

zamenhof "but sincerely"

in case anyone is interested.
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How security flaws in PHP's core can affect your application
What do you use a decompiler for? Just for fun, or is it part of your work?
A very good question for which the answer was NO for a long time.

Prism is a live service using Ethereum smart contract(s).

It is from the Shapeshift people and is a kind of "digital asset portfolio". You can invest in many types of digital assets without having to hold them.

People are spending real money on this Ethereum smart contract.

https://blog.prism.exchange/blog/introducing-prism-the-world...
Look for applicants who have gotten involved in technical projects and clubs in college. Thats always where we find our best interns.
This is an artificial disinction made only by their confusing policy. There is no technical reason that Store has to be a gateway for emulating x86.

And I am pretty sure for Windows RT they just compiled mspaint.exe for ARM.
The mesh nodes have to run either in always-on mode (which makes perfect sense if they are powered by, say, a wall socket, which they often are) or in a sampled listening mode. Sampled listening shaves some 98% off from the radio duty cycle compared to always-on mode, but still is not enough for the mesh nodes to run on coin cell batteries. Give them a larger pack of batteries and they'll run for months though.

To send data to a node in sampled listening mode, the sender sends a string of smaller wake-up packets that indicate when the sender intends to send the real data packet. When the receiver picks up the wake-up packet, it knows when it should wake up again to receive the data packet, so it can safely go back to sleep again for a while. And if the sender knows that the receiver is in always-on mode, because it is powered by a wall-socket, the sender can skip sending those wake-up packets, saving a bit of power.

This requires clocks to be synchronized, but only loosely - millisecond synchronization is enough. The trick is to strike the right balance between communication responsiveness and power consumption.
Aw gee, that makes sense, yes. Never worked for a company big enough to need this. Also, I'm in Italy, so some things might work differently here.
Interesting stuff! I need to free up a weekend for this :)
Just give your child a mobile device. You won't have to worry about making eye contact again, until you take it away :^) Really, not worrying whether your kids learn to pay attention to eyes and faces to understand other people around them, is about like not worrying whether they learn to speak or read. These things might just happen, but if they don't you will both be really miserable by the time they are 10.
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"Has limited understanding" is definitely not the wording I'd chose to mean "is talking of something different," but I see how it could be.
Personally, I like FreeRTOS. I got an ESP8266 and starting writing programs right away. There's no VMM, no true multitasking, but it's better than raw arduino. I managed to port Zork in an afternoon.
> many people's beliefs?

Apple marketed it as such even until relatively recently. I've personally heard a few people regurgitate that argument.

It's probably changing because that marketing worked and the platform became more popular: you don't write malware for a platform that nobody uses.
Right. My point was that it's easy to deploy to one or a couple of distributions but still painful to deploy for "Linux" without further specification. Meanwhile on windows their trainwreck of an installation system works for all windows from 95 usually.
Over time, most cost of a road is maintenance cost, not initial construction. While this probably isn't linear with use, it does scale with use, so that lower use means lower maintenance cost. The cost of a single lane road supporting current usage levels is not an individual less quantum unit of road cost.
I don't have a bachelors, which I expect is a requirement, but this is the kind of suggestion I was looking for.
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I use a tank of gas a month, if that even, and commute by foot. Electric car doesn't make sense for me yet, but maybe someday.

It would have been ironic if the nuclear plant my dad worked at didn't have electric car chargers. Well, I mean now, he retired a decade ago.
Keep neverssl.com in your pocket when you encounter one of these older captive portals that try to redirect Google and you see and HSTS error.
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You absolutely could. But many, many startups suck at this step, and get stuck at the "systems integration" phase, able to connect purchased components like Arduinos to other purchased components with wires, but unable to transition to purchasing the raw parts and connecting them using printed circuit boards.