skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why does it need to focus on who is doing it? I think merge is generic enough term that can describe both actors (i.e. if you for example have a right to write into upstream, you can merge it yourself, without asking the primary owner.
Wow, the 'id' getter strategy is devious and effective on Chrome.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7798748/find-out-whether...
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39434655 they are all about interacting with the public, but they are proper soldiers.
Samsung drops 128TB SSD and kinetic-type flash drive bombshells
Pointing out the potential for differences in performance based on human genetics and physiology does not make you "alt-right" or "racist," and this kind of slanderous conflation by media like NYTimes is partly responsible for the rise of populism.
Very nice, I will take a look.
PIA actually scores as one of the highest on the objective measures. The star count is just a subjective impression and experience with getting it set up. They connect over HTTP on startup instead of HTTPS (which is unacceptable for a privacy company). They then ping almost a hundred servers on startup (no other app does this, at least not to this extent).
Of course I'm not saying 'they should not be allowed to'. I'm not quite sure how you'd get that.

I'm saying that their deep obsessiveness, and issues relating to being deeply obsessed, makes their organization as a whole write worse software. They sometimes write good code on their own, especially if they don't have to work with others, but usually they're a net negative.

Honestly, I don't know how this isn't obvious to anyone who's ever worked on a team.
Kernel development shouldn't have a low bar, it should have a very very high one. Anyone that finds email a high bar for communication doesn't belong in Kernel development.
There have been significant foreign incursions. Not a real occupation I guess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Washington
Where public transport exists, sure. But that's only in metro areas, and even then it's on a timetable that's less convenient than hailing a car. It also requires a bicycle or a long walk to travel from origin to departure, and from arrival to destination.

Everybody will still own their car, and use it just for long-haul trips. Daily commuting to work could be cheaper in a hailed (electric) car than driving your own (gas) car.
So they would never expect it!
For me as for the guy who only look at Lazarus not as developer, but as user who just go to compile map editor of our game (developed by other very skilled developer) main frustration was multi-windows interface.

Not that I can't understand why some would prefer to work in that mode, but that alone make it feel more dated than it's actually is. It's still weird why they still ship it in multi-window mode by default, but fortunately all you need to do is install "anchor docking" and then it's become a lot more usable for guys like me.

Also ability to patch and recompile your own IDE on the fly without waiting for half of hour to it to compile is just great. Nothing like that is possible in case of 99% C++ projects.
Interesting this showed up on HN the same day as the exposé on Facebook's Onavo VPN logging its users activity.[1] I'm guessing Onavo should be put on that list and given zero stars.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14972125
Two hours of driving is half a Tesla's capacity, so that scenario is already solved.

It's not going to get any less solved over time.

People will own cars individually for the same reason that people own horses now - they enable a specific kind of activity, or a native appreciation for the object in itself. Certainly motorsport is not going to die any time soon.

What percentage of automobiles are used for touring and racing? I'd guess it's around 3% looking at my state's DMV figures, but form your own opinions I suppose. (A good proxy: Motorcycles are owned largely by the kind of people I'd expect would continue to own cars - 140k out of 4.2 million registrations in my state)

There's about 1 non-passenger-vehicle for every 4 people. I'd guess we see vehicle ownership and registration by private citizens drop to about that number - so 50% reduction total.
I always hit DDG first then if the results aren't great just append the Google bang (!g) in the DDG search field to get an unbubbled goog search.

The DDG bang system is one of its best features in my mind. https://duckduckgo.com/bang
She shard on a turtle!
As someone who lives in a very rural area away from the metro with an EV I say: so what?

Unless you're going 300mi+ in a day(which is 6+ hours of driving) you're fine. Even if you are large parts of electric charging infrastructure is coming online at a rapid pace.

Take for instance the Olympic Peninsula. Used to be really hard to get to via EV. There's now a Supercharger in Sequim and Aberdeen with another planned for Forks. If you have electricity all the fundamentals for the infrastructure are there.
Dave Thomas: Elixir for Programmers
Here's a recent example with the shale boom-bust:

http://www.energytrendsinsider.com/2015/11/04/boom-to-bust-5...

This is extremely typical in the history of energy (wood, coal, oil, solar, nuclear, wind, and on and on) because of the speed at which things move. First, you come up with a new innovation, pump capital into building tons of it (the boom). Then, someone else comes up with an innovation, which busts you.

It's fundamentally impossible to defend an advantage/monopoly long term in energy (except with governments, e.g. utilities). Coincidentally, this is why we don't see much VC participation in energy, and when they do participate, they usually lose their shirt. The competitive fundamentals of energy aren't compatible with monopoly seeking.
>> The last few days have really highlighted how quick people are to pile on with outrage and self-righteous indignation before getting all the facts.

Amen.
Electric cars can have ICE's strapped onto them, and it works really well. The Chevy Volt, for instance, is perfectly designed to handle the situation you described. It gives you 52ish miles of all electric range, so you can commute and grab groceries and do all of your normal driving on pure electricity. And for various road trips, it still gets 40-ish MPG for hundreds of miles without any electricity needed.

It also needs zero fancy charging infrastructure. Have a regular US household power outlet anywhere in your garage or home exterior? Then you have everything you need to charge it up every night.

We could easily eliminate 50+% of US personal vehicle emissions, simply by putting 2013-era PHEV technology into every single car /SUV / truck, and getting people to plug them into regular 120V US household outlets overnight. Even rural folks would benefit greatly from getting 1 or 2 free "electricity gallons" every night.

Pure EV's are obviously ideal, and way cooler. But even just a little bit of electricity in a PHEV goes a long way to reducing/eliminating emissions.
What do you think of the actual points raised by the author, though?
> it costs you equity, it costs you control, and it costs you opportunity

Obviously VC costs you equity.

I think control is something you have and lose depending on your ability to deliver. Larry has it. Travis lost it.

I really don't understand the opportunity part. Can you give an example? I'm just drawing a blank.
Linux will likely outlive all of us. Network effects are massively strong for operating systems, we've been stuck with the same basic 3 for decades and that's likely to stay the same.
It is also an Eastern europeam country with a population of 10m people (link to wikipedia to be added). Does this fact make it more or less agressive?
Profiting on and propagating racist memes is a bad idea (even as a joke). Having this be an example project for your company shows extreme lack of judgement.
> We can fund this by stopping the high-speed rail, and spend the $68+ billion we are planning to spend on that on better local rapid transit systems, improved bus lines, and new roads instead

This proposal would replace a real and coming solution (HSR) with vague proposals ("improved bus line") and tech that may not pan out for years if ever ("electric airplanes"). I'm skeptical.

The HSR will provide a significant improvement for the Bay Area->LA route, and provide rail service to places that currently don't have it at all (eg. Fresno->San Jose). If we kill HSR, it's entirely likely that we'll end up with both no HSR, no hyperloop, and no super-speedy self driving cars. I'd rather keep chugging along on HSR, and build the hyperloop (or whatever comes next) when it's ready.
Sort of; they are good at flagging VPN ips but you can always spin up your own to get around this.
1. Electric motors are cheaper to maintain. Railroads worldwide know this. ( random article: http://www.american-rails.com/support-files/locomotive_opera... )

2. Not correct - OP is pointing to current Priuses that have exceptionally long lived batteries "Current estimates for the lifetime today’s electric vehicles are over 500,000 miles." and "But today there are anecdotal stories of Prius’s logging over 600,000 miles on a single battery."

3a. Maybe there is sentimental value to a Mustang... but that crappy car with headliner coming down? .. no..

3b. Utility as in always available, possibly. However consider just the case of a family going from 2-3 cars to a single car. (Which is what my family has done) That alone could halve the number of cars purchased.

Not smug -- futurist is predicting future.
You've been posting like this over and again. It amounts to waging ideological battle on a site that exists for thoughtful and considerate intellectually interesting discussion. Please don't, it's not what we're here for.
> Very little of nursing is like that.

You can make the same argument about IT. My point is not that what I'm saying is true, but that (like the macrosociological claims in the paper) it sounds plausible, yet is unfalsifiable and hence, unscientific.

> You are forgetting one huge thing. Lots of women doing something make it automatically attractive to women just because it'll be common in their circles.

I am not forgetting anything. My argument was in essence a reductio ad absurdum. If you want to advance a social argument why women are over- or underrepresented in certain professions and why Damore is therefore wrong, that would be an entirely separate argument. You're welcome to make it on your own, but I don't think the memo is worth that much of a time investment myself.
Why on earth would they want to provide free private repo's, that's something they charge for... ON PURPOSE. They aren't taking "forever", they're simply not going to do that.
GET news is pretty good
I've been to a talk where one of these two presenters informed a fairly public audience that HR had told them they were not allowed to present. They then continued telling a whole load of things about salesforce and eventually stopped even pretending to hide which company they worked for.

Awesome talk because they said so much stuff you'd otherwise never hear leave the building. But color me unsurprised they were let go.
https://www.startpage.com gives you Google results but proxied.
The Black Swan has a good point to make about reliance on over-simplified mathematical models, but Taleb's macho anti-intellectualism is ultimately nihilistic since he denies even the possibility of achieving a deeper mathematical understanding of risk. But what I really have a problem with is that he has created a band of idiot Twitter acolytes who can be counted on to heap brainless abuse at anyone who Taleb chooses to disagree with, which these days seems to be almost everyone with even slightly diverging views to his. He will not attempt reasonable debate, especially when he is faced with superior erudition: in this regard Mary Beard is only the latest of his many victims. The guy is a pure and simple thug.
It's funny that you claim that "most of the parts listed almost never require repairs" when the list explicitly is the top 10 most frequent actual repairs that were performed in 2015.

Also "they may require specialized equipment to maintain" is a guess that's not true, while everything requires particular tools, repairing and maintaining electric drivetrains requires less specialized equipment than ICEs.
> There are so many, I could hardly list them here.

OK, just try to list ones that you think are important examples.

> In San Jose, a leftist mob attacked people leaving a Trump campaign event, while police stood aside and watched

OK, here you go:

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/man-accused-of-assaulting-...

http://www.lex18.com/story/35275736/transylvania-university-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/us/pizzagate-attack-sente...

> There have been worse events, including kidnapping, torture, murder and attempted murders, but in that case the police seem to have been accomplices.

OK. Yeah, I guess if police are covering things up, then there are all manner of awful events that we don't really know about.
He's looking for a big debate. I don't know if it's fair to call it trolling. That implies his primary goal is to make other people upset. I think he actually wants to change
people's minds.

I think he cited dangerous jobs like coal mining because he is trying to build a case that certain personalities lead genders, on average, to different professions.

He does not support this opinion with any research, and that's where his argument falls apart. He ignores societal factors and assumes biological factors explain gender employment gaps.
Just using OpenDNS or Google DNS does not prevent DNS-based attacks. ISPs in India are known to do transparent DNS proxying. See https://www.dnsleaktest.com/what-is-transparent-dns-proxy.ht...
Can the certificate be received by completing the course in audit mode and then paying at the end of the course.
I want fewer fossil fuels as much as the next guy, and while the core argument about ICEs is beyond my expertise, the data the author presents seems to support it so that's pretty neat. However, I take issue with the article's casual conflating of oil with all fossil fuels, and fossil fuels used for transportation with all uses of fossil fuels.

It signals a lack of awareness when the author writes things such as:

>The pipeline was built at a cost of about $7 billion ... Keystone XL will go down as the world’s last great fossil fuels infrastructure project.

Without even straining my memory, I recall that Cheniere Energy's Sabine Pass Terminal opened in the last year. It cost about as much to build as the $7 billion quoted here, and they are planning another now at a higher projected cost [0].

Overall I agree with the author's proposed trajectory and order of events involving self-driving cars, fewer used car sales, and so on, but differ on the time scale. I figure things will progress at one-half to three-quarters that speed, at fastest. I don't think the "simple" argument of "people will select the cheaper option" is as simple when it comes to automobiles. A combination of inertia, identity and utility are going to make it slow going.

Not only am I "not a car guy", I actively dislike the task of driving. So it took a long time for me to really get why people identify with their vehicles, but now that I do, I can see how limited my eco-progressive perspective of "Everyone would prefer to live a car free life just like me!" was. I still arrogantly think everyone else will come around, but it's going to take longer than the author, or younger me, thought it would.

Definitely the generation born after the self-driving car is widespread will be the ones to complete the job. I don't think that timeline plays as cleanly into the oil (or fossil fuel) narrative that this article sets up, though.

[0] http://wgno.com/2016/12/21/8-5-billion-natural-gas-plant-and...
Christ, what a shitstorm.
Discipline means thinking about the error paths in your code, not just the happy path.

Discipline means regular testing.

Discipline means documentation.

Discipline means fixing the bugs - not just the "bad" ones, but the annoying little ones. (Not every bug, though - some bugs truly are not worth fixing.)

Discipline means communicating with your coworkers (including those annoying bosses and managers). It means making estimates, and taking enough time thinking them through that they're actually something close to accurate.

Discipline means thinking about the design before you start coding. (This does not mean that you can't explore before deciding on a design. It also does not mean that you can't iterate the design after discovering some issues with it implementation. In fact...)

Discipline means refactoring the design and code so that changes fit, rather than just being hacked in somehow.

Maybe a summary: Discipline means working like the code is going to be used for the next twenty years, rather than like it's going to be used only for the next week.
1. Battery production, like any production, has an environmental impact - but the motivation for battery-electric vehicles is to eliminate local environmental impact (e.g. urban centres). If all of the pollution happens at a single source then it's easier to contain, reduce, and eventually eliminate.

2. Diesel fuels are still very dirty - and the reliability of petrol engines is not a big-enough problem to justify switching to diesel engines - and ICE cars have far more moving parts compared to BEVs than just the engine.

3. Tesla did look into fast battery-swap stations that can swap a battery in less time than it takes to fill a gas tank - they stopped further development due to a lack of consumer interest: users are perfectly happy to charge at home overnight, when the car's aren't being driven anyway, and when electricity is often cheaper at night. As more use-cases switch to electric there will be an impetus to adopt battery-swapping, but it remains an option.

4. 24-hour solar is possible with energy-storage, which is what Tesla is looking into, but again, the point of BEVs is to first eliminate local pollution, then make it easier to eliminate energy source pollution thanks to the fungibility of electricity and centralisation of pollution sources.
The FCC is wrong. The Internet is intertwingled with everything we do these days. I live in non-urban Montana at the end of a DSL line suffering "bandwidth exhaust", a term my ISP (CenturyLink) coined to describe what happens when they sell "high speed" Internet to many customers but do not adequately provision their DSL network to support them. This shortfall is being fixed, but progress is glacial. How to bring everyone on-board the Internet is still a work in progress.
Zero rating is not serving as an on-ramp to the internet
>what difference does the statistical differences found between genders in the general population matter for any small subset of that population?

With all due respect, this is an absurd question. Statistical differences between the genders in the general population will very plausibly cause differences in the representation of each gender in a particular field, like computer science.

Do I really need to elaborate more on why this is the case?

To claim that the causes of gender differences are a settled science, that agrees with the postmodernists and feminists, and so assuredly that an opinion based on a different interpretation deserves to be punished and otherwise ignored, is absolute nonsense.

If anything, the social constructionist position on gender differences has been thoroughly discredited by the experimental evidence, to the point where the media and Google's reaction to the memo is, without a doubt, an expression of anti-scientific dogma.
Don't use their app then. In fact, I can't think of a reason why I'd install any vpns app if they support openvpn.
One consideration is that if fossil fuel cars drop to a very low level in cities, the spending put into maintaining the fossil fuel infrastructure might become unsustainable. That would in turn drive up the price in rural area as well. In the end, it is very expensive to maintain parallel infrastructures as such and densely populated cities (unfortunately maybe) drive the trend of which infrastructure is going to win.
At Prosperworks we offer a CRM which integrates closely with G Suite applications like Gmail and Calendar.

We consider our app to be maturing if not mature. It is certainly complex - we integrate with dozens of partners and external APIs. We have 80 tables and 300k LoC of Rails code which is runs on several TB of PostgresSQL data. We have not broken our app into multiple micro-services. Like everybody, we always feel that our developer resources are constrained.

Our data model is very similar to the CRM example in Ozgun's article: _mostly_ we have a master customer table and a wide halo of tables which are directly or transitively associated with customers. We called this the "company sharding domain". Since we allow one user to be associated with multiple accounts, we shard our user table independently: there is a smaller halo of tables in the "user sharding domain". And we have a handful of global tables for content and feature configuration in the "unsharded domain".

We kicked off our migration project from unsharded Postgres to sharded CitusCloud in early Q4 2016. We had one dev work on it solid for one quarter updating our code to be shard-ready. Then another 1.5 devs joined for a month in the final build up to the physical migration. We migrated in late Feb 2017, then consumed perhaps another 3 dev-months on follow-up activities like stamping out some distributed queries which we had unwisely neglected and updating our internal process for our brave new world.

Two years ago at another company I was tech lead on a migration of two much larger Mongo collections to sharded Mongo. That was a larger PHP application which was organized partly into microservices. That effort had a similar cost: as I recall I spent one quarter and two other devs spent about one month, and there were some post-migration follow-up costs as well.

I am confident that real world applications of significant complexity can be migrated from unsharded to sharded storage with a level of effort less than 1 year. I admit that 8 weeks feels fast but I'm sure I could have done it if we had been willing to tie up more devs.

Why were these efforts easier than 2 years? Because we didn't have to build the sharding solution itself - those came off the shelf from some great partners (shout outs to CitusData and mLabs). We just had to update our applications to be shard-smart and coordinate a sometimes complicated physical migration, derisking, and cutover process.

That said, I can imagine the work growing slowly but linearly in the number of tables, and quickly but linearly in the number of micro-services.
And this is how car manufacturers going to make up the revenue loss of the new much more reliable electric drive train.

AI + Autonomous driving.

Both of these requires sensors, and silicon. Both hates abuse from vibration and heat/cold cycle, in short, they will fail.

So instead of paying for things that would break in the old car, why not pay for things that only exists in the new car.

It's not hard...
I assume they are pretty good about blocking popular VPS host ip addresses too, though.

So not just spinning up your own, but finding a VPS host they don't yet know about.
Huh, that's interesting... the article took a science-laden report and turned it into a misogynistic and politically-motivated hate piece.