skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am concerned about censorship mostly by the Feds, less so by private utilities, and less still by city halls.

It sounds like what you object to is not network neutrality but rather having it imposed at the federal rather than the state level. But there are two major problems with that.

The first is that interconnection is inherently interstate. Netflix might have no physical presence in Tennessee at all and reach all customers there through an interconnect in Atlanta. Is Tennessee supposed to regulate commerce in Georgia? If Tennessee and Georgia have conflicting rules, which ones control?

This sort of thing is why the interstate commerce clause exists. It's not some fraud where the feds get to regulate intra-state non-commerce because reasons, it's actually black -letter interstate commerce.

Which leads to the second problem, which is that there is a thing called preemption. What it means is that the states aren't allowed to regulate something once the feds have already put their bootprints on it.

You can argue that the feds should stay out of it entirely -- repeal the Communications Act -- but that isn't what the Republicans are actually doing.

> providing the federal government with a legal club with which to beat companies it is not pleased with, perhaps when an ISP refuses to comply with an inappropriate information request.

This is not something major ISPs actually do regardless, because they know where their bread is buttered. See also Qwest Communications for what happens if they try to stand up. This is why everyone is focused on end-to-end encryption -- trusting your ISP is foolish.

> I think there is a real economic and business case for ISPs discriminating based on bandwidth requirements.

The problem with the free market argument is that it's not a free market. Comcast has millions of customers that cannot be reached without going through Comcast. You can't go to Verizon and negotiate better access to Comcast subscribers, and you can't pay for access to Verizon subscribers instead of Comcast subscribers because you need both.

Consumer-level ISPs have market power. You either regulate them or they abuse their local monopolies.

> I think there is a real economic and business case for ISPs discriminating based on bandwidth requirements. You have to throttle streaming and prioritize phone packets because they need stronger latency guarantees.

Endpoints marking packets for QoS has nothing to do with network neutrality. Moreover, in practice most if not all residential ISPs ignore the QoS bits and everything still works anyway, because contention in the core of the network only happens in poorly designed networks that are too oversubscribed.
Are those really WCET? A L3 miss on an i7 4770 is ~60ns and they show 90ns total execution time. If that's true it's incredibly impressive.

[edit]

Also formal WCET analysis for various IPCs is really great and not something you can "bolt on" to a kernel not designed for it.
And interview, how? And find it, how? Who will recommend them? You're asking why they don't just eat cake.

These things aren't impossible, just so much harder that my friends (One in Idaho, one in Kansas) haven't been able to manage it, and not for lack of trying.

It has been hard to watch them floundering and begging for help I don't have to give.
To all the naysayers, Infosys did solve real problems at first; they built a formidable reputation. I don't know when but at some point they expanded like crazy and I believe didn't care for quality so much anymore. There might still be talented people working there, but its know pejoratively as a "bus company" i.e. one which comes to a college to recruit a "bus load" of cheap engineers.
I've been only doing solo and work rides, but I'm trying to get into amateur racing actually and been psyched out getting into a "serious" group of riders, but hearing that is really encouraging :). Of course, this is only flats, but I do try treat almost every ride as a training ride and push myself, and use the weekends to train as well.
Carbon Emissions: Oversharing Bug Puts Security Vendor Back in Spotlight
This wikipedia page[1] is a good start. In particular the last section about dead peasants insurance is the first story I encountered about Walmart's harmful practices.

> Critics, as well as the United States Internal Revenue Service, charge that the company was trying to profit from the deaths of its employees, and take advantage of the tax law which allowed it to deduct the premiums.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Walmart
I see e-books as a fee for a one time read. I'm not likely to read them again and I can't hand it to my neighbor to borrow. A paper book - I can read it, donate it, lend it out - whatever. I do like how many e-books can fit in my pocket, but I'm finding fewer reasons to buy them and more reasons to own the book instead of owning the right to view the book on some specific platform.
Reaistically once you go far enough the only things to see that you couldn't see before are behind you. There isn't much blocking the view of the distant objects (and we're never going to get a close-up of them) once you leave the earth's atmosphere so once you reach the edge of the solar system the only things that are interesting to look at are behind you.
I'm not sure I follow what you are saying here. Censorship is only when your view and others are not allowed freedom of speech?

I feel like I'm not parsing your sentence correctly.
You don't say?!
> Hell, during the Obama era, Google had on average 1 White House meeting a week (!).

I had no idea about this - does anyone have citations on what the meetings were about? Were they just typical lobbying efforts?
>1 is usually sufficient to avoid the negative resume effects

A string of one year stints would be a huge red flag to me. I would have a hard time selling this person up as we don't hire FTE's to come and go in a span of 12 months. Too much churn kills you, I'd likely pass unless circumstances where extraordinary.
for standalone programs, there is simply no better multi-processing library than gevent. Forget the libev performance thing, the api is super pleasant... even more so than asyncio.

When you use gevent to run explicit green threads, you do NOT monkey patch - you call the library functions. You only monkey patch if you want stuff happening for free. Which also works pretty well in production with gunicorn.. and yes with celery.

gevent is officially supported by celery - https://github.com/celery/celery/tree/master/examples/gevent

http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/_modules/celery/conc...
They wouldn't have to prove anything with messaging like his if their search engine was really bigger than we think: they would post search profits that could come even a few miles close to Google. Let's take a look:

> Bing: $2B

> Google: $24B

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/searchengineland.com/google-searc...
Deep Work is absolutely fantastic! I can already feel the difference in productivity just one week into practicing its strategies. I did three things to Slack after reading it:

1. Mute channels aggressively.

2. Snooze notifications often during the day.

3. Disable the red dot badge icon in the Slack app for any new messages (including the ones not addressed to you). This was the biggest source of distraction for me in Slack.
You'd previously said:

> If you need what sawstop offers then there is no way I'd let you in my shop.

I just wondered if your feelings towards table saw safety equipment were transferable to other dangerous machinery.
Anyone who owns a home in the bay area is going to pay 5-6% in fees to sell their home. $10k isn't going to cover that loss.

The ultimate perk (which is often provided by big corporations in a relocation) is to cover the real estate fees.
Fantastic intern project, and fantastic work by the intern!
Very interesting. Needs to account for things like low literacy in certain areas. Medical literacy is a big gap for a lot of people. Asked "What is myocardial infarction? Correct article returned. Asked "What is myocardial infraction?" Got article for Civil infraction. "What is hyperkalemia?" returned a result. "What is high potassium?" No result.
Natural progression of the trend I'm seeing in the comments

Step 1: Peaceful citizen buys an ebike to make commute easier. (person is elderly, permanent injury, has steep climb daily, other reasons that are their own)

Step 2: Rider Wears helmet, slows on oncoming traffic, stops at lights, and is generally a perfectly fine rider like many bike riders

Step 3: Concerned mom-type notices faster bikes with engines in lane and complains

Step 4: Law passed, Rider is now doing something illegal

Step 5: Ticket/Jail/Confiscated bike despite no evidence or numbers that rider was a danger to himself or others any more than cyclists

This is literally every law that affects peaceful citizens.
Their enterprise pricing is per node. So if enough companies sign on to this, ever box/VM they put docker on brings Docker Inc. revenue. I'm sure at large scale this will be more of a flat rate negotiated deal ($XX,XXX per year) but still that's a lot of potential cash on the table.

The risk of course is that the nobody will want to pay per-node and the community will just invest in the open source container ecosystem and replicate the Enterprise features with plugins and forks.

Still, the market might be big enough that they can become another Red Hat just based on support and stewardship revenue.
There's no reason why a statically typed language cannot also use an interpreter and avoid expensive optimisation and code generation upfront. For example, GHC Haskell has an interpreter, runHaskell, that will run a Haskell program straightaway with little delay (type checking is fast).
Except you don't need Docker Inc. for that. Many container runtimes exist now, the user experience is very easy to replicate. Plus, their cloud doesn't seem to be making any money. So I too have trouble understanding where this valuation is coming from.
Totally agree on that. This is how I approach my country's and surrounding region history.

Although it's popular to bash "there's no single truth" people, the more and more I look into history, the more I think that's true. Everyone has a very complicated history which is a product of what did or even didn't happen. Which results in totally different point of views and everybody see truth differently. It's truly fascinating to see how different timelines merge and separate and the today's politics and policies they cause.
Chinese 'cyber-court' launched for online cases
>You can't have a representative group without diversity of gender and race.

I think devmunchies' point is that if you have a finite set of job positions... e.g. 3 jobs, you might have the following situations:

Group 1:

1) white man (Democrat Stanford grad)
2) white woman (Democrat Stanford grad)
3) black man (Democrat Stanford grad)

Group 2:

1) white man (Democrat Stanford grad)
3) white man (Libertarian Kansas kid self-taught)
2) white man (South Africa bootcamp grad)

Depending on what's important, Group 2 would be seen as "more diverse and representative" even though the skin color is all the same. In that case, diversity of thought is valued more than diversity of skin color.
Source Sans Pro released as a variable font
Yeah they should be required to watch Jurassic Park (the original ONLY though the new one is garbage propaganda)
More info about the variable format:

https://blog.typekit.com/2016/09/14/variable-fonts-a-new-kin...
>this may be the ACLU trying to set limits on acceptable free speech, they seem like pretty reasonable ones

Might be reasonable to you. But for someone who carries concealed frequently, I'd consider a political rally unfortunately well above average for a place I'd actually need a gun to defend myself from violence. It'd be a real shame for them to defend everyone at the rally except me, just because I was carrying.
Oh absolutely. I don't think I'm an ass on the road (I stay off sidewalks when I can and give a heads up when I'm passing pedestrians), but I do get into my spandex and treat every ride I do like a serious workout. My commute to work is about 25 miles and try to bike that round trip once a week, and then doing more challenging rides on the weekends.
Its my aggregate impression from a number of different sources. This covers 2016 and differs in some details from my description:

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/...
Seriously awesome work on this! I was expecting some solid improvement when I heard you were rewriting this in Go, but this is beyond what I could have expected. 7x improvement on high end instance types!

Also, what an impressive project to have on the resume as a college intern. I don't think many interns get to tackle something so meaningful.
I just rewrote it without functions in about 5 min. It probably takes less than a minute for a faster typist.

He may have used functions to keep this to a single file and I doubt his 1977 comment (now changed to "30 years") was to be taken literally.

Anyone aware of the overzealous use of more complex build systems in situations where they are not necessary would understand his point. It is possible to build portable software without autoconf and makefiles.

Example: http://nacl.cr.yp.to
1 year stints wouldn't really fly where I live.
I'd say 1 year minimum (if you're unhappy), 3 years max if it's a company you enjoy. If you're "meh", start looking at 1.5 years, but only switch if you find something exciting, take your time.
hey - thanks for this. what do you personally use ? It is more interesting to learn from someone who has been using it for a while.

I'm especially concerned about IDE support, debuggability and testability.
I don't think it's a coincidence WAL-E is named as it is :)
Doctor's aren't public officials. So no, you wouldn't call it that.
It's mainly the speed of creating a huge number of small files on disk. When unpacking a docker image into an AUFS file system, it has to create every file in the shadow system. A robust Ubuntu install has around 100000 files. On AWS with default EBS storage, this can take a few minutes. At OpenAI we pre-built AMI instances with file systems pre-unpacked.
Are you implying that a 97 year old can't learn anymore? My 95 year old grandmother learned to use a Windows machine and an Android phone.
Torvalds did not commit to .net repo
As I understand it, Germany in the 1920s and 1930s was one of those democracies with stricter limits on hate speech, including crackdowns on the Nazis. We all know how that turned out.
Can you elaborate on how much automated testing is behind this? When it comes to backup tools, I am very cautious.
As a thought experiment, imagine a world where household customers were provided internet for free and ISPs earned all their money from the outbound traffic on servers. Want a particular cable channel? Pay the company operating that server. Want the news? The news company earns money from advertising so they deliver it to you. Like you point out total data is the same.

The premise that the ISP payment should be born by only one side of the transaction should not be codified into law.

Also I do agree we should regulate protections for the ``who''. I just think these should come from the cities under whose streets the fiber is laid, not the FCC. There is even a strong case to be made for municipal ISPs.
Reminds me of what Rostand said about murder: "Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god."

Sell one oxycontin and you're drug dealer; sell a million and you're a C level.
That is bigger than I thought tho.
Thanks for the link, it will certainly prove useful in the future.
The fact that there's no documentation on these is a surprise to me. I look at the subdirectory containing the files for a given algorithm such as ACKTR, and I just see a bunch of files with no README or anything like that and I wonder, am I supposed to read each file end-to-end to know where the entry point is?
The point is, if you drive in the normal car lane, it is pretty impossible for a driver, who is not asleep, to miss you and hit you. So while it looks scary, it is very safe, as I assume that every driver tries not to hit a bicyclist. But I have not seen a bike infrastructure inside towns which don't involve crossings. At those crossings it is very easy to hit a bicycle, even if you pay a lot of attention as a driver. So, unless it does not cross car traffic, bike paths are more dangerous than being in lane with cars.
I've worked for many 1 year stints (everywhere I've worked besides my old startup), and have never had a problem finding jobs.

Of course I probably wouldn't know if a place passed on me because of that.

I wonder what the probability distribution for how much hirers weight "loyalty" or "stick-around-ness" looks like.
If by land you mean 'burn up re-entering their atmosphere' then sure. But of course, then those same ape like creatures will just use the meteor omen as a means to justify beating each other ;)
Nice, it looks handy!
Interesting podcast. I didn't know about Zapier so I checked out their website.

It took me like 5-10 minutes to understand what they do. It was only after seeing the Gmail(attachment) > DropBox > Slack I understood what they really do. Which is very cool.

I have one need. I want a quick way of converting a list of stuff on slack into todo list with ability to check off the task as they're completed. OR if I can have a keyword --TODO-- --END-- in gmail and turn it into a todo list. Will Zapier allow something like this?
CH = Switzerland? Definitely found it a safe place to bike, or to drive for that matter.

Also I guess DACH is Germany, Austria, Switzerland. Never seen that abbreviation before, but then I live in North America.
These numbers aren't comparable. You're equating membership of an actual Nazi group with being a member of a far-right party with historical ties to Nazis. A much more apt comparison to these parties would be to look at members of the GOP who support far-right policies, but that's hard to quantify.

FWIW, I don't have a particularly strong opinion on whether laws banning Nazi speech have a large impact on the number of people supporting that ideology. I don't think they increase the number of Nazis, and it makes sense to keep them around given the historical context of countries like Austria and Germany even if they don't have an impact on that number.

I do think you're quite far off the mark if you think less than 0.001% of the U.S. population identifies with Nazi ideology, while it's something like 1% for Austria and Germany.
You're either new to Colorado or ignorant of your (adopted?) state's history: this phenomenon is as old as Colorado itself, dating back to the Colorado Gold Rush of 1859. You're welcome to complain about the people who followed you, of course (a phenomenon that's also as old as Colorado), but please do not pretend that you have an exclusive concession on a state that its inhabitants have been redefining since before you were born.
Odeo Releases Twttr (2006)
Have you considered writing an automatic file syntax check/rename? Reading the thread made the idea pop into my head that it could be a useful tool, especially in fast moving or group environments.

I prefer organizing by year and by category(business, code, etc) instead of by client but overall I'm mostly happy to have any organization of my files at all.
Yeah you will get to 2x much faster doing 1 year instead of 2. Also, you can probably even explain away one job being less than 1 year pretty easily.

"Oh, I didn't get to work there long because X company made an offer that I couldn't reasonably turn down when taking into account my family's future".

Granted you have to get to the interview stage...
If it helps, think of the US as structured like the EU. Lots of common laws but lots that vary from state to state in the details (just like the separate countries).
Tech debt "we'll get to it."
Sure. You can host your own github too. But the future will be containers. They seem pretty good at that.
Just to prove a point here that these "33%" numbers don't make sense. They claim 33% of the search pie but less than 10% of the profits.
Wikipedia has a good summary with 180+ citations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Walmart
Infiniti’s Prototype 9 is a modern electric car with 1940s retro racer roots
Show HN: The Best or Worst way to decline a technical interview
Shortening the patent period (he suggests 3-5 years) will go a long, long way to addressing many of the current problems.

It would incent companies to focus on core inventions, instead of filing 20-year lottery tickets.

Patent value to trolls would be greatly reduced, lowering the incentive for nuisance lawsuits. (Companies can continue to file new patents as they continue to innovate).

It would increase the incentive for universities to commercialize ("get moving before the patent expires!").

In Jefferson's day, when information and innovation moved much more slowly, a 14yr patent period (now 20 in the US) made more sense. Today, it just means the set of in-force patents diverges wildly from the leading edge of innovation.
Well, I haven't yet patented an alternative, but I think it's pretty clear that, in this climate of routine breaches, the old system of secret data is no longer viable.

But, if you're interested in building an alternative, then off the top of my head, I'd suggest that we've got the blockchain. We've all got omnipresent palm-sized computing devices. We've got 2FA schemes, and more. The tools are there for you to create a much more robust system than one that says "here are a handful of secret numbers. Don't let anyone else see them or else your life may be ruined".
I lived in Menlo Park for 8 years with my family. When I moved there the startup I went to work for was a 5 minute walk from my house. My current startup is also in Menlo. A year ago my wife and wanted a larger place. We looked in Menlo and PA. $3M for a teardown / needs tons of work. After thinking about it we started to look outside of the area. School district was a key factor of course. We ending up going as far up the mountain from Los Gatos as we could and still be in the school district. $1.3M+500K remodel. Half of my companies employees are remote. We use G-apps with Meeting and Slack. It works well. I drive into the office 2 days a week timing the drive to be outside of traffic hows. 50KM drive outside of traffic is 30 minutes, with traffic is 1.5 hours. I have friends that moved to Morgan Hill, Gilroy and take the CalTrain in. We other developers relocate out of state because of the cost of living. The cost of housing in the main areas is stupid, even if you can afford it. Menlo and PA are doing NOTHING to support the high density housing required to make things better.

I agree there is something unique about being able to have everyone around you in the same line of business (tech) and it is great for making contacts, etc. However the cost are really starting to outweigh the benefits.

The bay area needs to look to places like Tokyo as an example of how to build out from the trains to the housing.
Doctors have taken an oath and have a public responsibility. They are liable for bad medical behavior (particularly if deliberate) [malpractice].

So let's not quibble over semantics.
How realistic is this though? Imagine you come out of college and work for the Big 4 making $100k. Assuming you make 10% more (compounding) every 2 years, by 38-36 you would make over $200k, by 50 you are making close to $500k. You hit that much sooner if you change those numbers by 20%. At what point do those returns diminish and you're having to do something more creative than simply looking for a job every 2 years?
Non-tech people have no idea what Docker is. Still even a lot of the less up-to-date people know what it is and I suspect vanishingly few people (relative to something like GitHub) really understand it beyond the mechanics of the commands.

Also the intentional re-use of shipping verbiage demands disambiguation.