skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This could be aimed at a specific powerful senator/congressman that can change policy.

What federal rule hampers Amazon, and if unleashed would cause great profit?

Privatize USPS
Internet tax?
Transportation (own roadways)

What policies?
The paper rejects the hypothesis that this is the full explanation:

Lastly, as the relationship we
found remained significant after controlling for demographic
variables and personality traits such as openness to experience,
conscientiousness, or political attitudes, it is unlikely that the
association we found can be entirely explained by a collection of
personality traits stereotypically associated with psychedelic
users (e.g. being of the “hippie” type).
Speaking of warmly: if you happen to visit in summer, dress more warmly than you normally would because the museum is fairly cold to better preserve the ship.
I went there, along with several of my friends. Most of them now work for Amazon, several in the extant Detroit office and commute there from just outside Ann Arbor. You'd be surprised at how easy an hour commute is in South-east Michigan, esp. compared to Cali or Jersey traffic.
I don't know what kind of emphasis you've seen, but being able to look at a public example of code a person has written is IMO the single biggest risk reducer available to a company hiring developers (well, other than actually having worked directly with the person before, which is an order of magnitude or two less common) because it gives me a picture of performance on real world software. Hiring is substantially about risk reduction because there's a huge amount of stuff you don't know about how the candidate will do. It would be foolish for companies to not take advantage of this potential source of signal. If it's not available, then I would proceed with my normal assessment process. Lack of public code isn't going to disqualify a candidate, but it does help to increase my confidence.
This is true, although it does vary from country to country, as beyond being EU members, some have entrenched it in their legal systems. The UK, for example, requires its judges to, so far as possible, interpret laws so as to be compliant with the ECHR, though they can't directly strike them down. The UK also allows human rights claims to be taken to UK courts first, rather than having to go to Strasbourg straight away.
Can't resist referring to the relevant xkcd here:

https://xkcd.com/927/
that's a really dickish reason

Indeed it is. I and many others would agree. But capturing a market and "lock-in" are common, and often-lauded business practices.
very insightful. thank you.
oh of course. If I understand correctly, the FDA has already approved them to provide genetic testing for 10 diseases. That is the big sell they are going for. They have plenty of data from the sentimental folks like me to play with.
HTC and Google “in final stage” regarding sale of smartphone business
Terrible performance, constant bugs, data loss.
I wonder if this will eventually be the main HQ. Amazon is a mass market company which competes on the lowest costs. Seattle is too expensive now. Most big retail stores are not based in expensive cities Walmart is based in Arkansas, Target in Minnesota etc.
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This is seriously one of the killer features. How can a company use this if everything is in the clear? How can you even have a conversation if at any time it can all be dragged up and pored over? The double ratchet of Signal, for instance, is open source so just implement it already.
Amazon to spend $5B on second US headquarters
On the contrary. I can't imagine experiencing the emotions of all the people in 10000AD; at our current population growth rate, 10000AD will witness an unfathomable number of human beings! Being concerned about all those people is far too much emotional stress for any one mind.

(Of course, experiencing others' emotions can in general be debilitating. Obviously, then, experiencing trillions of others' emotions would be trillionsfold worse.)
8 Marketing Tactics (And Apps) That Turn Shoppers into Buyers
Could you at least add what your criticism on those two products is?

Jira and Confluence get a lot of hate, but I feel like that's mostly because of how it's set up by organizations.

At my organization we've set up Jira (and later Confluence) in a very developer-centric way, by looking at the best way it could help the developer first, project manager second.

This has led to universal adoption and no complaints or ill attitudes toward Atlassian products.
Squirro | Frontend (ES6, Javascript), Backend (Python/Elasticsearch) | Onsite, EU passports only | Zurich | Salary: 100k-120k CHF

We build a Python- / Elasticsearch-based solution that helps enterprises to get valuable insights in their client-base. We have just raised a successful round with a famous US-investor and we hope, we will become the next European unicorn and we look for frontend (user-facing stuff, dashboards, visualizations) and backend engineers (core search product) to join in our Zurich office.

Interview:

1) Phone screen

2) 2h home-work

3) Onsite with the team, no whiteboarding

Email us:

jobs@squirro.tech
Looks like Amazon is looking at metropolitan area instead of city limit.
This seems like a pretty small set of data to base your conclusion on. Anyway, if fidelity is the concern, most new cars support just directly plugging in your phone via USB.
Perhaps this is a different Olin school? (There are a number of universities with Olin schools or colleges on them.) The current cost of attending Olin before factoring in the half-tuition scholarship is $71,825 (see http://www.olin.edu/admission/costs/cost-of-attendance/). After including the half-tuition scholarship, which all students receive, costs drop to $47,525 per year. I'm not sure where an extra $100K in student loans would be coming from. Additionally, Olin provides need-based aid for those who qualify.
Someone pointed out on Reddit last night - that it seemed obvious to him that Apple likely removed the headphone in the iPhone 7 to get the controversy out of the way ahead of the iPhone 8, which wouldn't have any room in it for a headphone jack - and for which said controversy would be a distraction against launching a new flagship device.
I would imagine Python's approach to introducing new language features had a lot to do with it. Having to go through the PEP system takes some time, and changes like these tend to be reserved for minor-version releases. All in all, I love the PEP system, it's such an open concept and I've been surprised by the amount of quality proposals that get implemented. Wish Go had something like it.
Fixing Prusa MK42 Heatbed
New America chair says Google didn't prompt critic's ouster
At a glance, I think this is an alternative to docker/kubernetes. The general idea seems to be to cut the middleman/topman out and let the bottom man (app server) be the "unit" of configuration. Like a sort of integrated docker/<YourLang>-runtime.
Most IRC clients
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My statement is about condescendingly calling humans doing their job 'lossy filters', and challenging the deeply-ugly assumption that they should have bowed to the candidate's correctness.

The recruiter wanted to advance the candidate through the pipeline; they told them exactly what they needed to do to proceed; the candidate didn't think it was necessary to modify their position to conform with the requirements, in the face of someone asking nicely.
A very exciting petri dish result! If this actually works in an animal model, it could be a true breakthrough. I am wondering if THC in vivo might undergo some kind of subtle metabolism after being ingested or smoked so that it still binds to cannaboid receptors, but doesn't affect beta amyloid.
I'm on call a lot, otherwise I'd be right with you.
While I'm inclined to think that personal choices are a more powerful predictor of outcomes than race, I agree that we don't understand cultural dynamics well enough. I think this is all the more reason we should pause before accusing someone of white supremacism, etc.
Besides, we've already got a solution to maintain IPv4 connectivity from IPv6-only networks anyway, DNS64 and NAT64. There's literally an entire /96 subnet in the IPv6 address space dedicated to this task, 64:ff9b::/96.
now we just need a chat app that bridges all the chat apps. (again)
Surely if you're storing numeric values as strings, it would be better to use something like base64 encoding to use as much of the available symbol space as possible?

If you can sort a numeric string in base 10, you can sort one in base 16, or base 64, or base 256.
I think it's possible Amazon is not so much shopping for a second HQ as it is looking to move work from the high rent, pro union Seattle area. Only, they saw how much negative press Boeing received after making their true intentions known for moving work to southern states. Amazon is being sneakier. If all works out, long term I imagine much of their high end development work may move from Seattle.
Not having to manage a server, better history searching, better ux for less technical users, better user metadata, voice and video calling, and lots of other things. I prefer IRC, but the benefits for a business should be pretty clear for anyone not extremely stuck on seeming like the cool IRC guy in the office.
> I definitely need indexes

No you don't. You need iterators, which behave like pointers. Let's say you're hundreds or thousands of characters into a string at the start of some token. Now you want to scan from that position to the end of the token.

With indexes it works fast only if it's by codepoint. in a language that properly supports graphemes this would mean it would have to scan from the beginning to get to that index.

With iterators it can start scanning from that position directly. Same speed no matter where you are in the string. With indexes the larger your input the slower your parse gets, and not in a linear way.

It's also super easy to get a slice using a start and end iterator. As for line x character y messages, you can't get that directly from an index as it depends on how many new lines you parsed so indexing doesn't help there.
> I get the arguments that the HR recruiter was a bit off a buffoon, but at the abstract level, you lacked the pragmatism and interpersonal skills to brush through something that clearly isn't important seeing as you have the relevant skills.

Maybe that was the test all along :)
MongoDB is definitely ready and capable of handling your traffic. There are best practices to follow, however, as is the case with any deployment. I would concur with mattbillenstein that HN definitely skews anti-mongo.

There are many, many companies using MongoDB very successfully. I have found that "issues" being reported with MongoDB are based on old versions and information, or an improperly configured and tuned environment. I recently wrote a blog post covering some topics around this. I'd encourage you to read it: https://www.kenwalger.com/blog/nosql/mongodb/mongodb-perform...

I think you'll find that MongoDB will meet, and exceed, your expectations for performance.
OK, for you maybe. For me I'd much rather have the thinner waterproof phone than a port I never use collecting pocket lint. Making the screens bigger is different in that it's a tangible benefit that a bunch of people are willing to trade size for, but that trend has also reversed itself (the Nexus 6P is smaller than the Nexus 6 for instance).
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There's some funny ones there. std::random_shuffle because it relies on rand() which may be bad, but ironically most (all?) the rng's that are in the standard library would be considered "bad" by modern standards.
The New York Times shows how to fail miserably while writing about Africa
More examples of needless tool cloning. Rather than reinvent IRC of the 90s/00s, where is the real innovation from Silicon Valley and the tech world?
Definitely agree that people cause issues in communication.

Tools can encourage good behaviour and discourage bad behavior though.

I've found that GIFs end up being a bit too far down the "pop culture" spectrum to be worth having in Slack, for example. Net negative for comfortable communication when not everyone is on the same meme spectrum
Why do people who call out capitalism for being a broken system, fail to acknowledge socialism (in all of its purest forms tried so far) is also broken and doesn't work when you have non-altruistic self interested humans in the mix or at least people who will look out for others but mostly people in their social proximity. I'm all happy for an alternative, and something better than capitalism. but at least suggest a working alternative. Capitalism for all its faults seems to have the highest chance of success, especially when you hybridize it with some socialist policies which is more or less what most western countries have done and even then there are basic issues, but neither extreme capitalism or socialism works. Both have a tendency to encourage different forms of corruption and different levels of inequality, or just short lived gains.
Federal overreach. I find it incredible that they want fully autonomous cars, but we do not yet have fully autonomous aircraft. This stuff isn't safe yet, and may not be for some time. If a state doesn't want to allow it on their roads, DC should not get to overrule them.
The Dems seem to have take up that role now, so I think you may be right on Obama's presidency opening up a new era of sorts wherein the minority party just tells the majority party to pound sand.
Dude your comment is complete nonsense, whats up with that?
I once wrote some software that needed to interact with RFID readers. I couldn't talk about protocols then and I still can't today, but the program is still running just fine 10 years later.

Don't underestimate the value of some general understanding / intuition of how systems will probably work combined with a little googling.
Not sure how it is related. Unit is an app server, it runs app processes and manages them, handles graceful restarts and etc.

Kong is just an API gateway: you run your own infrastructure as usually and put a gateway on top of it.
>Bluetooth audio is an open standard isn't it?

not if you care about quality, non crappy codecs require aptX with patent fees owed to Qualcomm.
I think you could use this method with other bases, although be careful with base 256 -- if your strings are stored in UTF8 or something, then base 256 isn't actually that useful.

However, the important bit (to me) is that you can use your database's sorting function to compare the numbers.

The advantage of base-10 is it's easy to display the number :) Others bases do provide a constant speed improvement of course.
article is a value-added summary of:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160629095609.h...

which is based on this press release:
http://www.salk.edu/news-release/cannabinoids-remove-plaque-...

original paper here:
https://www.nature.com/articles/npjamd201612
"Amyloid proteotoxicity initiates an inflammatory response blocked by cannabinoids"

original paper:
https://www.nature.com/articles/npjamd201612.pdf
True, but the recruiter on the other hand should show more experience and cognition. The emails might refer to systems the recruiter doesn't understand, but the actual words make complete sense.
The Definitive Habits for Success
Fair enough. I stand corrected. I should have specified "western thought".
Thanks for taking the time to say that. One of the most rewarding experiences of my role has been accepting thanks like yours, online and in person, on behalf of the team that actually built the product. We owe all of our success to your recommendations and referrals.
Yes! Pricing is a key step to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. An invitation for entrepreneurs hop on board. How much does a ton of carbon dioxide sell for? Can I pull it out cheaper?

Reducing emissions is necessary but not sufficient. Even if fossil fuel emissions stopped 100% tomorrow, we would still have an issue: 403 ppm of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

We must develop tech to remove carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere. The ideal outputs are economically-priced carbon-products without subsidy.
Interesting results, but they may not be testing for the right personality traits.
I technically do, it's called property taxes which are directly tied to the assessed value of my house.

That said, I agree with your point, just bad example.
NAT doesn't solve the issues with IPv4, it merely delayed them. IPv6 is still the future, but everyone from ISP's to switch and router manufacturers have been dragging their feet on a real push to get us off IPv4. Hell, there are still modern switch platforms out there with full Layer 3 IPv4 support but IPv6 is curiously omitted - you've got to buy a bigger switch to get support for modern protocols (or an implementation that isn't totally gimped).
Probably depends on priorities, the big cities will give you greater access to talent, but would require flexibility on how a campus could be built out and how quickly it would happen.

It's likely possible to build out a campus the way you want in a large urban center. Universities do it, but they do it opportunistically over a long time.
Many JSON parsers will treat long numbers as doubles. Therefore the only safe way to store them without potential loss is in a string. Without the encoding in the article or something along these lines, the sorting done by a database is not compatible with the integer sorting.
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Attention deficit disorder
I might have forgiven them if they had gone USB C.

But they launched the 7 without a jack and the latest MacBooks without USB A so their latest phone couldn't connect to the latest MacBook without a single.

I know - lightning to USB A makes sense for legacy laptops but still. It was a bizarre decision, one that I doubt Jobs would have made.
Other than out of bounds memory accesses and legacy code I feel there is not much that can go wrong.

If only we could stop at single-threaded applications :-)

I'm not convinced modern C++ stops all issues with pointers/iterators and ownership either. But it's hard to tell because every large-enough application inevitable has to interface with legacy pointer code.
Fair, but the headline on this one is offensively inane.
> There are many voting schemes that offer all the benefits of paper voting

A major benefit of paper voting is that you don't need a math PhD to verify for yourself the integrity of the vote process.
It's really SOA without the XML based service bus.
You're right, but most communication to solve big issues for me do not come from chat apps, but that's also affected by the fact that the company I work for doesn't have remote workers.
Wake me when AWS, Azure or GCP have proper IPv6 support.
But companies want records of communication! They want/need auditable records.

If two employees want to chat in secret, companies sure don't want that happening
The Slack app on my mac kept using up a lot of RAM frequently. I'd have it running for a few days and suddenly the laptop would be unusable, with only ~200MB of RAM free. Slack would suddenly be using 2-3GB of memory. Kill slack and everything works fine.

I've restored to using slack on Safari now. This problem still occurs, but reloading the slack tab is easier then finding and killing the slack process.
It's hardly data, it's personal experience. Seems the main thrust of your argument is that if I spend a load of money I'll get better results. Well Duh
C++ still produces the fastest and most memory efficient programs.
>Build the foundation of your service mesh.

Not directly related as Unit seems to be advertised as app server primarily, but you can see quoted text on main page.
Utah could be a great fit based on Amazon's preferences for a site if they build something along the I-15 corridor. It's within 30 miles of a population center, within 45 minutes to the airport, directly off a major highway, front runner rail stations run along I-15, and you might be able to find 100 acres of space - especially if they were to put it out where the prison is now (it's moving soon).
I could definitely envision a Philadelphia location. Comcast is building a new skyscraper as we speak with a ten year tax abatement. The local city government would easily grant them the same deal.
I like where your question is headed. Carbon dioxide removal tech must be powered by solar/wind with low emissions for this to work.
How to develop a dashboard with React/Redux
I'm still not sure I understand "Unit".

I can't speak for the other languages (PHP, Go, Python) but I have some reservations about it helping Java (as well as Erlang and other (J)VM languages) as FastCGI like stuff has been attempted for Java in the past with not very good success with the exception of Resin.

I guess it would be interesting though if they did a native Servlet 3.0+ implementation like Resin but I doubt that is is what will happen. Regardless Netty, Undertow and even Jetty have caught up speed wise to Resin (well at least according to techempower).
I'm shocked that the article, which started out as an interesting and fact-based history of the genesis of health insurance, ran head-on into an opinionated rant about the social consequences of a private system. Actually, I'm not. This is why the Gray Lady is breathing its last gasps.... fiscally speaking. As a constitutionalist, it's offensive to me that the NYT feels the need to lecture me on what is good and what is bad. Manhattan and San Fran values do not represent the other 2/3rd's of our nation... but you cannot tell that, from the NYT.
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He doesn't address any of the central mysteries of the manuscript, including that none of the plants in the herbarium don't actually exist in nature and the "tubes" that the women in the bath section travel through, not to mention their odd skin coloration. Plus his exploration is convenient in that he doesn't have to actually decipher anything.
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Sounds really complicated, like "usually badly designed and written code" complicated.

GraphQL and Falcor are interesting, and I like the sort of query-as-befits-the-view aspect to working with it. Taking a wait-and-see on those.
I find Slack to be less useful when it is used by more than a single person. I use it as a notification log/sink and it works great. Definitely trying out atlassian stride.
I take it you've never made a mistake programming before then? A relatively trivial example is passing by const reference [0]
While it's fairly clear in this example that you're getting a reference to a local variable, it can easily slip through if you pass something through a level or two of a function. Note there's no compiler warning for this. It also (probably) won't show up until you actually try and use St.m_x at some point, which may be in a very different place to where it was initialised. In most cases, if it shows up in an optimised build, you'll get next to 0 useful information from a debugger/stack trace.

[0] https://godbolt.org/g/XTh5Mv
and nothing to do with docker containers

in fact nothing like it really AFAICT
1. Complete most your tasks on time.

2. Complete all your tasks on time.

3. Come up with new ideas related to your domain.

4. Implement at least one of your ideas.

If you manage to do that within a year, you'll be a good asset to your team at any given point. No one will excpect you to start at step #4. Be humble and keep asking questions until it's clear in your head. The tech world won't change tomorrow, cold, big ego, etc. though, time is your friend in this case so just be patient and follow those steps.