skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man, I'd be interested but all the web stuff is not my wheelhouse. Maybe the better path is I tinker with lmbench for you just for fun. I'm not really looking for work so much as some interactions with sharp people.

Since I retired I've been doing some for hire tractor/excavator work (I live above you in the Santa Cruz mountains, have 3 Kubotas) and a lot of wrenching with my mechanic. Who is a decent mechanic but because he's in so much pain he frequently self medicates which makes him not a member of the sharp people team.

So I'm missing the conversations that engineers have. Normal people are fine and all but not as fun as poking at a hard problem with someone smarter than me.

I kinda think the job that might be good for me is helping out a VC firm that funds sort of system stuff, like cloud stuff, I/O stuff, etc. I'm a dinosaur, I like C, I like kernels, I like thinking about I/O and how to scale it. Systems stuff is where I like to be and there don't seem to be too many places that want that anymore. Or I'm just not aware of them.

Brendan if you ever want to go to lunch and yap about lmbench or tell me what you are working on, hey, lunch is on me. We can go to crappy chinese (I used to have offices in the water tower plaza and that's what we called the chinese place that's just up the street from you. It's the best chinese we could find but it's nowhere near as good as San Francisco chinese food, hence the name) or whereever is good, I'd love to find a new good place for food down there.
Because you need somewhere to park $xxB. What are your other options?
Thanks for the kind words :) I wrote a series of posts a while back about all of the thinking which went into the campaign https://john.onolan.org/the-anatomy-of-a-successful-kickstar... - OP might find that useful. We borrowed a lot from other campaigns that came before us (Ouya/Pebble/etc)
I thought data had gravity.
Tangent: supposed Microsoft decided to do just that. Would the anti-monopoly rulings from the 90's stop it?
I might be biased by the experience my friend from high school had up until he completed his service and got himself honorably discharged to make it stop.

It started out voluntary enough but the lack of a sex life led to that sort of problem.
yeah they are. i've worked for 2 of them.

the problem is you think there's "special" people and "special" businesses... there aren't. there's just successful, and not, and you can't determine a priori which it's going to be.

furthermore, the number of $10 million - $100 million businesses (including consulting firms) operating today that you've never heard of is probably in the tens of thousands.
Found it nice as well, but one could argue that a couple of boxes are missing to the left: Requirements and Design. See for instance https://www.experimentus.com/itm/W_06_00055_The_Cost_of_Defe... (love linking to "waterfall methodology" pages - makes me feel old :))
How America's Amtrak compares to China's bullet trains
I took this number ($4.3) from https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-transactionfees... and similar number is on bitmarket.pl BTC withdrawal (0.0008 BTC, $3.74), bank account withdrawal is $0

But thanks, if real fees are smaller i need to try it.
Learning a language (spoken, not programming) is similar. If you're willing to sound like an idiot with a bad accent, constantly messing up words and parts of speech, it's easy to get immersed. If you're self conscious it's significantly more difficult.
Also possible that FB and Instagram might have some double-counting of personal accounts occurring as well.
You're mistaking Microsoft's purely reactive strategy to something like real planning and commitment to open source. MSFT has been pushing into that area (sort of) recently because they kept getting their lunch stolen by all of the open source technologies out there.

Do you think it was anything but the most incredible terror and desperation that drove them to add a Linux subsystem to Windows? To open source their "crown jewel" of .NET? To support Linux on Azure? To make Visual Studio almost entirely free? To adopt Electron as the base for VS Code? To ditch TFS for GitHub?

Edit: Corrected to be more precise Chromium vs. Electron.
Scott Hanselman has said a few times that two layers of abstractions is generally sufficient. I'm not sure if he stole it from someone but using your example, that means to be a great Java developer, you should have a good understanding of the JVM, and an adequate understanding of C++. Do you need C++ to be a good Java developer? No. If you've got a decade of experience in both, are you a better Java developer than the guy who learned it in school and that's all he knows? Probably, but not necessarily.

In addition I think the argument falls apart the closer down you get. Granted I am no C expert but I don't think you need to know any assembly to be a very good C developer.
Declarative Application Management in Kubernetes (Brian Grant)
Some kids are less inhibited and scared but some aren't and they need active help to get through the anxiety. I think there is a genetic component at play because how else is that learned behavior.
3 Years of Living in a Camper Van and Running a 20 People Remote Business
TL;DR: People love to hate CSS, but it's the reality. People have various solutions to deal with the major problems with CSS (i.e. cascading global styles mean impact of any is unpredictable) but recently people have begun tying the CSS to the particular HTML collection it applies to, and the author likes that and points out some particular implementations he likes (I'm assuming "Rich" is/identifies as male).
What does roll a check mean?
Ive had severe wrist pain before, saw occupational therapists, was diagnosed with repetitive stress disorder, changed hands for the mice, tried trackballs, trackpads, ergonomic mice, the only thing that worked for me was getting a Wacom tablet. It turned out that it was clicking the mouse button that aggravated my wrist. Been pain free for years except when I play too much with my phone. It takes about a week to get used to the tablet but I actually prefer it to the mouse now, even when not taking into account the wrist pain. Good luck.
That sounds both systematic and disciplined! I rarely got close to my limits simply because I couldn't focus that long without getting distracted.

(Result: Quit after undergraduate, got a job, was happier with that than academia, but I admire the discipline it takes to get through proper PhD research and even more, a career in research.)

(Other result: I learned that I'm much more socially motivated than internally, so group projects and collaborative environments are much more my style than most of the work I found in school. If research had been more collaborative and had more hackathons, maybe I would have stuck with it longer.)
Banks (and other financial institutions). They more or less have to in order to make the books add up; or, in the clearing process, leave their money with another bank, most likely the central bank, which will pay little or no interest.

If you try to leave your money with the Swiss Central Bank they will charge you 0.75%. Buying bonds is definitely preferable to that. https://www.snb.ch/en/ifor/finmkt/operat/id/finmkt_nz
Mozilla does not and cannot dictate what happens with Rust, given that we operate by consensus and Mozilla does not hold a majority position in governance. This is on purpose!
swiss and some german bonds have been known to sell for negative yield because losing a small gauranteed amount is better than losing a lot
Sorry, I guess I'm being slow -- I get that the sample size is too small to confirm the effect, but I'm not seeing where the selection bias is.

Is it that the type of people who would be attracted to founding a startup are more likely to apply/be accepted to Olin than Stanford? That seems to confirm the original article's thesis rather than invalidate it, in my eyes, so I don't expect that's what you're thinking..
Looking at the people who belong to this organization, I get the feeling that the majority of the JavaEE development was outsourced to India.
What Is the Best Way to Enter the Open Source Community as a Contributor?
Name is too long for a modern startup, it needs to be something memorable like Palmr, Handi, or Shakr.

If it doesn't look like your keyboard is missing some keys you are doing it wrong.
PHP – Flat File Database
I was curious too, because the article was very specific about the wavelengths emitted. I found some sources saying that the 8-13 um wavelengths are in a band that isn't absorbed much by water vapor, e.g. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/06/18/a-window-on-water-vap....
Publishing with Apache Kafka at The New York Times
All of the commenters might find this useful.

Olin outcomes for the class of 2017 http://www.olin.edu/blog/career-and-graduate-stories/post/co...

Olin is trying to reinvent engineering education for this century. They did locate at the edge of Babson college because they think that having business knowledge is important. The student can take classes at Wellesley and they think that is important also. aka Liberal Arts.

The are working to export their engineering education successes. I can't find a link that explains that right now but they want to change engineering education widely.

They are selective. They require an onsite interview and observed team work after you have been academically qualified. They want students with grit, that know have to reflect, and students that know success comes via failure. You can read about the incoming class of 2021 here: http://www.olin.edu/blog/olin-admission/post/welcome-class-2...

Full disclosure: My youngest daughter is a first year 2021 student. She is not a start up kind of person but she iterates toward success via failure and has 4 years of FLL experience, 6 years of FRC experience and 2 years of FTC. She has assembled a 3D printer, written a state law that funds after school STEM (it passed and was funded) and worked with underserved middle schools on after school STEM enrichment for a year between HS and College (gap year). Yes I am proud.

FLL - First Lego League
FTC - First Tech Challenge
FRC - First Robotics Competition

I have a engineering degree and a pure science degree. I would die and go to heaven if I could go to Olin. And yes Dr. Allen Downey is amazing. I have spoken with him when he visited the university I work at, read several of his books and my daughter has already had classes with him teaching Modeling and Simulations with Python.
Watson Was Pitched as a Revolution in Cancer Care. It's Nowhere Close
I write and distribute a 'weekend update' just about every week and send it to my team on Sundays. It serves two purposes:

1. Clearly communicate project progress and near-term goals to everyone involved, including non-technical people. I outline the features / issues & resolutions in fairly technical detail while tethering it to more accessible concepts. If things were truly easy or exceptionally difficult, I note that. This has helped Sales and Marketing better manage expectations. The times I'm most stressed are when Sales and Marketing have underestimated the difficulty of something they've promised a client. It's typically not frustrating because it's hard or there are time constraints, it's frustrating because they're prioritizing something that may not be aligned with technical or user priorities. Pile several weeks of this and it can be exhausting. The 'weekly update' has helped that.

2. The process of writing the update offers reassurance that whether the week felt productive or not, progress was achieved. This is the piece that makes sitting down to write it feel like a fun activity rather than a chore. My mind may be saying, this week wasn't productive, but by 15 minutes into composing the update, I'm finding things I had already forgotten about. The week may have been less productive than expected, but it's almost always more productive than the mind gives credit, and writing the update forces the mind to acknowledge these small achievements.
> You're comparing unequal things. OpenJDK was a community effort

> The correct comparison would be to .NET's community based alternative, which is Mono.

This is disingenuous at best. OpenJDK was started with a huge codebase from the existing Sun JDK at the time, similar to how .Net core was started with with a Microsoft codebase.

Meanwhile Mono had to be written from scratch and was a far cry from being somewhat compatible for years after it started (e.g. capable of running a Visual Studio compiled .NET GUI program)

> Further, note that Oracle only open sourced Java a year after Microsoft did .NET Core

I'm not sure what you mean by "open source Java" in this context. The Java Community Process was started in 1998, and as said OpenJDK started in 2007. Java EE being open sourced like now would be much more comparable to Microsoft releasing something like Windows Presentation Foundation as open source, as it's a oft-used part of .NET but not part of the language per se.
Java EE is trash compared to Spring/Play Framework.
We recently managed to implement Cognito User Pools with hosted pages, the details are on the StackOverflow page[0].

[0]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45828654/aws-cognito-use...
I would, however, recommend against using Thinkpads as they are simply no longer a quality line. It's sad to see how far they've fallen as they were my goto for many years.
Doesn't FB require you to be 13?

What are the chances that the self reported 18-24 group is full of younger teenagers and kids?

Just like the age checks on Youtube or Steam.

I'm 101 years old, per Valve's superior analytics :)
You have to admit that your perception of hugs as less intimate than handshakes is not held by the general public.
I think you're replying to the wrong comment but to try and answer your question if a region is completely isolated from the rest of the bitcoin network one of two things can happen:

- If the region doesn't have a significant hash power (the case in most places in the world really) then the block rate will effectively go to zero, meaning that bitcoin will effectively "pause" here and be unusable until fresh blocks can be retrieved from the outside and new transactions broadcasted to the external miners.

- If the region has enough hash power to mine new blocks regularly the region will fork its chain. If it has more than 50% of the global hash rate this new chain will be the "real" one and will take over as soon as it's reunited with the rest of the network (invalidating the "outside" blockchain and all its transactions since the fork). If it has less than 50% hashrate then the opposite happens, as soon as the longer outside chain is received it'll invalidate the fork.

In both these situations bitcoin is effectively unusable in the minority fork since you know for a fact that the chain will be erased as soon as the network is reunited.
UK universities targeted by cyber-thieves
I don't think homeschooling is "completely irrelevant" to radicalization. There are American homeschoolers who are pretty radical in their beliefs and take their children out of school to prevent them being exposed to other beliefs.

I would agree that with Islamic radicalization (probably the only kind of radicalization being considered) in Europe, education at home by parents is not a significant source of radicalized youths.
It's not like google can't crawl their own unlisted links on YouTube and google docs. I suppose google is the one that cares though.
>People choose to have pets. We didn't choose allergies. Leave the animals at home.

For example, consider the peanut allergy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_allergy). Its is a pretty dangerous one. People choose to eat peanuts. Allergic people didn't chose that allergy. Instead of banning peanuts from society there is a kind of reasonable trade-off established where peanuts presence is explicitly communicated, and after that it is up to the allergic people to keep themselves away from that danger. And that pattern can be seen everywhere, not just for allergies. The dangers and pitfalls must be clearly marked and after that it is up to the people to keep themselves away from those dangers.
correct — he/his/him. Yes, exactly, the key here is that CSS is meaningless except in the context of markup: if you can statically analyze the two things together, good things happen.
If you want to take mono into account as the first free .net implementation you should take GCJ into account as free Java implementation. GCJ was started in 1998....
That 404s, did you mean vanilla-css.com?
If they removed the drivers from the installation image so people had to manually install software for Synaptics devices to work, I think Synaptics would notice rather quickly. They are not some obscure vendor that has gone out of business.

It's just another excuse for shoddy quality.
In-flight entertainment would be categorized as DO-178B Level E software and DO-254 Level E hardware:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DO-178B#Software_level

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DO-254

By definition, it should have no impact on "safety, aircraft operation, or crew workload".

Mistakes can happen, but this is what is aimed for.
I'm not sure of anything, but if I had to pick one thing to bet on it would be that none of us, or our children's children['s children] will be here in 400 years.
You can contribute to open source projects for another kind of challenge
I knew a couple of folks in Client Services at Basho, one of whom later moved over to the engineering side. From what he told me, the client services group was a great team to work with and had great management.
I suggest going through all the RICON talks, https://www.youtube.com/user/BashoTechnologies/playlists

This talk on LVars by Lindsey Kuper blew my mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dFO5Ir0xqY
Key word in that quote is "trust". Probably a matter of social intelligence to determine with whom one shouldn't be talking.
It's not like the USA has ever had unlimited free speech; it's still illegal to shout 'fire' in a crowded building or make certain kinds of threats (generally the specific kind.)

China thinks it should be illegal to say something that threatens the stability of the governing party as an institution, so they control information more heavily. But it's not yet clear what they've proven in the past 60-odd years. Remember that their centralized system did also lead to things like the 'Great Leap Forward'...

People still call the 250-year-old USA an experiment, and apparently it still has some surprises up its sleeve. So what does that make the upstart PRC? Certainly not a bedrock reaching back to Neo-Confuscionism and beyond.
I've had a chance to read his books and talk with him. Amazing. down to earth and brilliant at the same time.
Personally i don't get the obsession with ninja turtles.... /s
Phasing Out Brokerage Integrations
I'm not too keen on the idea that I'm now supposed to watch on a laptop. If I wanted to go to that kind of trouble I wouldn't be confining myself to whatever crap was on the in-flight entertainment system in the first place.
At a certain point you have to crunch, but you should take notes but also share your notes. Present lists of questions from the notes you took last time and show off the fact you are trying to catch up. The most frustrating thing to a lot of teachers is people that nod along and then ask the same question next week.

Also another good thing is to dig and ask around for older documentation/simpler versions. It is a lot easier to sometimes work at the task at hand if you can compare the naive version to the one with hard-won fixes. Sometimes the simplest explanation for what you need to do is the first few times the idea was pitched, not where it is now where that is an accepted norm of knowledge.
No, you're wrong. You can compare Mono to GNU Classpath (1998) and the like. But OpenJDK was backed by Sun. They started releasing the source code in 2007. So it's 10 years ago.

You can read it all here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenJDK
It's also a way to isolate team members who don't drink. You may think it's an "easy" way to build a team and yes perhaps that does hold true for some groups but overall, this attitude that having pseudorandom happy hours (in my opinion) flawed and is opposite of the current PC movement in the industry.
For those not in on the joke, "Data Gravity" is a concept proposed by Basho's former CTO: https://datagravity.org/
Exciting that they have varieties that are resistant.

I don't think that is the finish line though. The finish line is decades in the future when there are mature trees in many of the forests that lost their elm to the disease.
House Introduces SELF DRIVE Act
How much algorithm work does your dev team deal with on a day-to-day basis?
Google Fiber shut off customer’s service because she owed 12 cents
The guy probably has the terms mixed up.
This new recruiting platform combines talent-seeking tech with psychology
> In a way that's always traditionally been used for untrusted communications (e.g. network sockets), so that they know not to trust each other.

So your "trusted" components now incorporate a TCP/IP or another network stack. Plus you'll somehow have to authenticate the other end...
If your organization uses any of: Linux, Android, emacs, gcc or any GNU utility, OpenJDK, or MongoDB, then GPL is clearly not a no-go. GPL only poses issues when the product is a library. For standalone products or ones with linking/access exceptions like OpenJDK, GPL poses no issues, and organizations aren't afraid to use it, especially when they don't intend to modify it.

GPL is a great license that ensures that improvements to the product are shared back with the community. In fact, for a database like Riak, Affero GPL, like the MongoDB license may even be better, as organizations that make improvements to Riak but don't redistribute it but run it internally on their servers would also be required to contribute back their modifications.
I'd recommend getting a laptop that is built from the ground up to support Linux. System76 and Purism seem to be doing a decent job (though they are still far from working flawlessly)
How many of those reasons are one of "something money can fix" or "something getting a European visa can fix".
I was using CSS in JS or CSS scoped to components, but what really solved my problems was tachyons
Is there a reason for the masses to hold it?
Just got diagnosed with ADHD-PI (ADD) recently and this sounds a lot like me. If you're not sure, take a look at the wiki page, especially the "Examples of Observed Symptoms" for adults:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_deficit_hyperactivit...

If that fits, you may wish to speak with a psychologist/psychiatrist. Best not to self-diagnose :)

My experience since getting the diagnosis has been pretty positive. I've dropped a lot of personal guilt after realizing many of these traits were not my fault. And I've also better understood how to manage them.

Finally, I'm titrating onto medication and so far my experience with that has been quite positive as well. It's nice to feel like I have productive weekends.
Also there are regulations that say that banks have to hold x% of there reserves in govt. issued bonds for those reserves to count as Tier 1 capital.
Sorry, to be clear, is there an actual (e.g. performance review?) problem, or are you just feeling imposter syndrome?
Canada's consumer price index hasn't exceeded 4% since 1990 and has averaged 1.74% since then. So investors who are buying those bonds could reasonably see things differently than you do.