skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently read Hillbilly Elegy, and one of the key insights I got from there was success seemed to be related to a stable home / family, and in particular a presence of mentors and role models.

I wouldn't be surprised if part of the success of Asians (South Asians + East Asians) also stems from the fact that divorce is looked down upon and extraordinary efforts are made to prevent it from happening. Divorcees are often social pariahs in these cultures.
I have it on my Motorola Play.
I feel like I'm getting worse because some of my project surpass my worse-case. All things being equal, the project I'm thinking of involved working with new technologies.

So perhaps the lesson there is to apply an appropriate coefficient according to how well I know the technology.
Not being able to read dead employee's emails seems like a really tiny inconvenience (especially since there are so many ways an employee can effectively delete mails that you're doing something catastrophically wrong if your business continuity is dependant upon a mail account access) in comparison of constant monitoring of peoples private communication.
They did what most "lean startups" did. They made an MVP, and iterated from there. The only difference is that their target audience were gamers who hivemind way more than most other markets.
I think all games should focus on one platform, the PC platform. Consoles drain developer's time and attention from making the actual game. And don't get me started on knuckle-dragging VR.
Step inside of music
It’s used for basically most C/C++ projects and somewhat outside of that.

It’s not been adopted (with good reason) in many newer language communities, so depending on your tooling and platform you may see it less.
Its not platform-independent. However they do use the legacy plan 9 code so some of the opcode and conventions are consistent across different platforms but they can't hide all the differences.
Are there any examples of that working at large scale?
That's the think. The concept of Makefiles are great. The syntax is pretty terrible.

GNUstep's Makefiles are actually really nice.
Submit a PR adding this to a "meta" section?
Yes that's correct, any right that you can waive essentially does not exist in a capitalist economic system -- if you can waive it, the poor will inevitably be forced to waive it. However it's encouraging when compared to the situation in the US. It's definitely better that people know than not know.
This only works if all countries do it

Not true. Using your example, you'd first need to convert your Francs into x-coin. If convertibility is illegal, then congratulations you just entered a black market.

Which is fine if that's what you want to do, but now your risk just increased dramatically. Is that kind of risk taking scalable for a mass market? I doubt it.

As to it being an asset and not a currency, there are many things that do that, but x-coin isn't that because it has the functions of a currency: Store of value, medium of exchange and unit of accounting. In your example, you're using the coin as currency to intermediate an exchange of [mansion].
No. It is not how law works: An employer “cannot reduce private social life in the workplace to zero. Respect for private life and for the privacy of correspondence continues to exist, even if these may be restricted in so far as necessary,” the ECHR grand chamber judgment said.*

"as necessary" is the important part. In fact, it is bad for a company to have a clause that says "we own all your email". Such a clause is invalid and it will be invalidated in court. A more reasonable and justified clause in the contract will hold in court.

* https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/sep/05/romanian-chat-me...
0.4.0 changed the name from `egg` to `new` https://github.com/ofek/hatch/commit/5649b3f6c452b670d919fae...
Right now, it doesn't even have multiuser support.
This sounds like the combinatoric explosion of point 1 in the Mythical Man Month.

It's the one thing I try to make sure all the PMs I work with understand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month#The_myt...
Yes, demand shaping is already done for some big consumers of electricity.

It would be a new development to eg have my fridge defer its cooling for five minutes (or do some cooling earlier) in response to the spot market.
Increasing the life of concrete structures would be a boon to civilization, but it's worth noting that crumbling infrastructure in the United States is more the result of poor planning than technological limitations. The nation routinely over-builds its infrastructure beyond its ability to maintain it.

Strong Towns writes about this often:

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2016/8/9/939-million-sho...

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2016/4/26/what-are-you-d...

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/18/highway-spendi...
Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago Are the Smartest Cities in North America
It was in common usage where and when I grew up several years before Shatner on SNL. Whether my youth was at the forefront or not I don't know...but now that I have a teenager I know that many phrases he uses and thinks are new go back (at least) several decades to when I was the same age.
Things make a lot more sense now. For having been interested tangentially in OpenSolaris (I still have its "bible" as a monitor stand) I never knew Illumos was the kernel, and other OSes based on it. I assumed all the different Solaris spinoffs were complete forks, and thus assumed they were all dead or dying.

I will say the wikis are not inspiring; many on Illumos, OpenIndiana and SmartOS have pages last edited multiple years ago. For Illumos, I think your info above is more useful than the alphabetical listing of distros on the wiki. I think the marketing on OI's site could better tell the "why use me over Fedora/Ubuntu/BSD?" story, and SmartOS could spend less time selling its public cloud service, and more time telling me how to create a private cloud. Its docs are not super discoverable.

All just observations; take them for what they're worth. I do think it's neat that Solaris has lived on, and it makes me want to throw up a lab server to poke around a few hours. Thanks for your work and the comment.
currently I store my "important" documents in my gmail. many banks, utilities etc. have a go-paperless option so all my important stuff goes to my gmail. I have set rules to route those into specific folders so its auto-organized.
There's a lot of misunderstanding of what Cal State is proposing doing with with students who need remedial help. They are NOT changing to give credit for high school level courses, or lowering standards so that people not ready for college can pass their courses.

What they are doing is simply changing the way they provide remedial help to those who need it.

The current way: those students spend a year taking only remedial classes, which are below college level and provide no college credit.

The new way: remedial help will be integrated with the regular college level courses.

How exactly that is done is up to the individual campuses. Some might offer slower sections, taking say two semesters to cover a subject instead of one. Some might offer extra tutoring.
Everything about this is fine and dandy, but I don't understand why anyone would use their work email for personal use. An email address isn't a difficult to obtain resource. Anyone can make a hundred email addresses and use all of them for different things.

I guess the guy just never thought of it as an issue even if he was being monitored until it became an issue. I don't know.
Anybody who currently works on the Windows team know if things are still like this? I know I've read about improvements to the version control system for Windows teams and some other blogs about improvements in management practices but I'm wondering if even after 11 years if this has been fixed.
Totally agree. Elder Scrolls and Fallout and Ultima are some of the best games ever.
> Nearly every modern build system is also a dependency management system, something that really isn't possible using Make

The BSD Ports tree provides exactly this functionality. All package dependencies provided via standard make variables and rules, enabling recursive resolution of all package dependencies.
Google Fi/Pixel.
I have always thought about the shutdown crapfest as not being able to shutdown for like ... 25 reasons? I believe there is a KB entry somewhere listing a bunch of them.

Almost impossible to troubleshoot ( network connections! )
Frankly, I've held the opinion that elections don't matter for so long that I don't see what's controversial about it.
A Fare Cache in a Sharded Data Cluster Using Posgres and Citus
> You clearly would not want those to simply switch over to a fixed rate outlet behind your back in times of scarcity, they need to be verifiably off.

The fixed rate outlet would be quite expensive in that case, wouldn't it be?
Compare and contrast No Man's Sky with Elite: Dangerous. Elite has a lot more defined and fleshed out "roles" to play that have tradeoffs, but they aren't working against each other. The author indicates that this very thing is lacking in No Man's Sky.
> I doubt WhatsApp chose XMPP first

You think it's just a coincidence that WhatsApp, FB messenger, Google Talk, EA Origin, PlayStation, HipChat, Cisco WebEx all use(d) XMPP for their IM/chat/VoIP?

Just because it's open only to a single vendor's client and isn't federated, doesn't mean it isn't still basically XMPP.
To put it cynically, if you other people can reproduce your results, you might not be demonstrating that you are x10 more productive than them.

Which is to say I think starting with the idea that you're aim for x10 is pernicious and tends to create dysfunctional teams. The claim some developers in some circumstances are ten time more productive than others may or may not be true but software development needs processes whose goal is to help an entire team rather than helping an individual to that "level".
Inside the World of Corporate Recruiting
> You'd just need to expose a stable AST front-end, which would be a lot easier than a whole new parser.

"Just". You still need a parser for that AST if it comes from the client, you need to convert that into the actual internal representation with validation and everything.

> I mean, it's just relational algebra right? ;-)

It's really not. A lot of SQL can't conveniently expressed in relational algebra (could luck with recursive CTEs) and a lot of other queries aren't as efficiently representable.
Basically just pick up a Pixel and put it on whatever carrier you prefer.

I prefer T-Mobile.
I think if a loophole exists for a collectible asset class wealth will accumulate there as part of tax planning. This can easily lead to bubbles and unfairness through asymmetric tax avoidance. I think it does pose deep foundational challenges for a wealth tax. Tracking income is far easier and many of the most common abuses defer tax rather than permanently avoid it. Under reporting of a hard to track quantity would result in less taxes permanently in the new system and measures to avoid it would represent a new level of reporting to government that many would find deeply invasive. Given all these flaws are the benefits large enough?
I have done multi-day backpacking trips while just consuming water, green tea and some nuts/dried fruit once a day. I was fine. I had plenty of energy each day.
What about the level of mental gymnastics required to go from what I actually wrote to something about lack of regulations? Because that certainly is not what I wrote nor is it what I meant.
but I do that already using gmail. many banks, utilities etc. have a go-paperless option, I have set rules to route those into specific folders so its auto-organized as well.
It would be easy for them to fingerprint it and block it at a server level, given that it uses some hardcoded headers (which are probably sent in the wrong order versus the browser it's spoofing), doesn't fetch any of the images/stylesheets/etc on the page, and probably fetches scripts/manifests/etc in a predictable order that differs from YouTube's own scripts. Maybe they already do this (fingerprinting and logging, that is), but I haven't heard of anyone being banned for it, so it's probably not something to worry about.

It would also be easy for them to just break the extraction code. The old code used to break every time the signature function changed, and while the current code solves that problem, there are still so many things that they could do to break it, and yet they don't (the current code has only broken a few times that I can think of, and I don't think any of those were intentional on Google's part).

Technically it could violate these parts of the ToS, but they're all grey areas:

- access through anything than the site or 'approved' clients (but youtube-dl does use the site, so it could just be classed as another user agent)

- running automated services against them (running youtube-dl manually is probably fine, even for whole playlists or channels, but running a 'youtube-dl as a service' site like the one in this case is almost certainly not)

- downloading videos (but youtube-dl can also be used for streaming, despite the name)

I'm guessing that Google simply doesn't give a shit, as long as you're not using using it abusively (e.g. offering it as a service or using it to do mass-scraping).
This sounds logical, but the issue is that the price of an asset should fall if its performance decreases. I don't know whether there is a real solution when the (bulk of) ownership of a company is disjoint from those participating in its operations. However, I can comfortably say that organized behavior against rational self-interest is probably not a solution.

Personally, I'm a huge fan of employee-owned companies. But to be 100% employee owned, that means no fundraising based on selling ownership. So growth is probably going to be limited by capital. (Which, also personally, I don't think is a terrible thing either.)
I've tried fixed bid. However, whenever I do a fixed big project it takes longer than I expected and it ends up costing me. Obviously that means I'm under-estimating and/or not charging enough. Or perhaps it means the way I come up with the fixed cost is wrong.

Generally, I break the project down into a list of tasks. Estimate liberally for each task, then multiply the final number of hours times 2 then multiply by my hourly rate.

To your second point, as a small 1-2 person company, how could I afford a sales person? Are there sales people out there who would purely work on commission?
> no-ops deployment

This is the worst joke in tech really. Developers/Managers all jumping on the "cloud" bandwagon because "hey we don't need ops" and then you end up with "Galera is such a POS, you can't use it with RDS".. <facepalm>
“Terminator” vs Range Rover – TerraMax
Yeah, I find it impossible to believe that the person in question could have avoided being fired by NOT messaging his family using his employer's email/IM. They simply would have found another way to get rid him.

Except in the most comically draconian workplaces does anyone _really_ care if an employee sends an email to his wife using a work email address (eg, "Forgot phone, do you want me to pick up pizza on the way home, honey?").

Aren't these rules just conveniences for HR departments so they can get rid of someone using the nearest available broken-rule that can be documented?
I disagree. Firstly, it will set a precedent for personal privacy over pure business interests and, secondly, CCTV can monitor physical locations where privacy is not to be expected but your private communications cannot be made public without your consent on a case by case basis.

I'm quite convinced that you cannot sign away your legal rights on an employment contract and even if you were coerced to do so, the contract becomes illegal by definition. I'm not a lawyer though.
OK, another commenter linked to crc32 in the Go standard library:

https://github.com/golang/go/tree/master/src/hash/crc32

That has different .s files for different architectures, and a .go file with the platform-independent version, so the assembly clearly isn't platform-independent.

It seems a strange decision to disguise e.g. arm64 assembly behind an x86-like syntax, so I'm going to go with "quirk of the implementation."
Efficient Air-Conditioning Beams Heat into Space
The UI is clunky and impossible to efficiently use.

Compare the galaxy map to the one in Elite Dangerous in which it is far easier to control the camera.

They meant well but they might be better restarting
> People who care about technology on an intellectual level - not just on a money-making level, or shiny-trinket level, are still rare and still treated as the weird ones.

For the general population, yes. If you are willing to move, there are companies where you can get coworkers that don't roll their eyes.
I don't think the court really cares if the messages were actual emails or if they were IMs. To them, the difference is immaterial.
Theatre companies made their money by performing live too, and people would go to the rehearsals, copy the script, and rip them off by premiering the act before them. Hence the introduction of copyright law, which predates automatic recording by a couple centuries.
In terms of political theory, communism has always been (a somewhat utopian) theory that shares many ideas with anarchism. I like to think of communism as slightly more pragmatic, in that there's somewhat of an acknowledgement that there needs to be a agency that holds a monopoly on violence (a police force) - as a last resort to mitigate anti-social behaviour.

But if one reads eg Rosa Luxembourg, the lines are very much blurred between the two.

There's a tendency to spend time arguing that the various socialist states that where formed by communist parties were communist, because they were ran by organizations that labeled themselves (and indeed were) communist - I don't think such discussion is much more fruitful than discussing how the US attempted to "liberate" Vietnam, or institute "democracy" in Chile.
https://community.1and1.com/php-7/

That article isn't great, but okay enough for this discussion.

There's a great deal of interpreter level caching + object caching (in more advanced system) that allows modern PHP to reap a lot of the benefits of the "everything fresh every request" model while also being faster than pretty much anything but Lua and Perl.
I've never needed to look into someone else's email because they weren't there.
> Why should an employee have the right to store sensitive personal data on my computer.

Because your employees are human beings and not machines. They have a life, they have needs, etc.

> Are you suggesting a framework where I could be prosecuted for running "cat /var/log/mail" on my own computer?

Yes. That's exactly it. The court ruled that employees have an expectation of privacy, even that can be limited by the company when there are reasons to do so. When you give an employee a computer, it is the company property but it's the employee's computer.

People have rights, even while working for an employer. They are employees, they are not slaves.
How is this any different from running a process with a very short whitelist of system calls? Compare to the original linux seccomp, which only allowed read, write, exit and sigreturn.
Sure, but every open world game includes a gameplay loop of some kind.

Virtually every open world game has the same basic loop: collect, craft/buy/sell, build.

After that, it's just a question of how you motivate players to go through the loop: quests (Elder Scrolls), randomly generated threats (Minecraft, Terraria), multiplayer PC threats (WoW, EVE), etc.

Sounds like this author feels NMS fails to justify itself in this way.
There are no feasible technical justifications for doing so.

The big touted benefit (caching) is a non-issue IMHO, since it only helps the first page (if you haven't visited the site before, at least) - after that, even if the files had been originally delivered from your website, they'd be delivered from cache either way.

As a developer, you might at some point have to develop on a site while not having an internet connection - good luck with that. Even your local copy is going to throw up.

Saying that your site is more likely to be down than Facebook's site is also a false positive. If your site is down, nothing works, obviously. If Google's CDN site is down and yours isn't - your site still won't work. There is absolutely no reason to add one more point of failure to your site. Many of the 3rd-party sites used to load JS and even CSS do not have the technical staff or knowledge of Google or Facebook.

The main reason I actually see this being done is due to laziness. No need to go download the file locally and maintain it. No need to make sure the server is setup properly and sending the right cache headers. Just copy/paste a link and forget about it. Who cares?
Life as an anxious grad student (2016)
Ask HN: Can this person program their way out of a paper bag?
There are many programming interview questions available online, but all the ones I have looked at are testing language-specific expertise. When I used to teach a second year data structures course I would often start with a simple quiz: write a function in the language you learned last term that returns the sum of the integers in an integer array that it is passed. It was amazing how many of the students could not answer that simple question! Tomorrow, I am helping a family member evaluate someone he wants to hire someone to develop some Web server stuff. I want to start with some very simple screening questions to answer this fundamental question: Does this person really know how to program? I would appreciate some suggestions.
Honest question: why so long then?
A lot of NMS problems go away if you mod and cheat your way to game balance...

Play it your way.
Med School Grads Are Going to Work for Hedge Funds
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> I know that sounds weird but I feel immensely guilty throwing away plastic and styrofoam every day just to have a bit of lunch,

That doesn't sound weird at all. Seems perfectly normal to me.

> but it's not like you can show up to a restaurant and say "here, use my tupperware for my to go order."

Have you ever tried it? You might be surprised, especially for a to go order. It works at coffee shops. If they don't want to do it they might throw some health-code BS at you and you can add it to your list of places to boycott, if you wish.

> There's no middle ground in America between bringing lunch from home every day so it's in reusable containers and throw away packaging for anything that's not immediately consumed on premises.

My office's lunch room also has plastic spoons and forks. On the rare occasion that I haven't been able to track down metal silverware I've washed and reused the plastic multiple times.
It looks like PS4 [1] sales almost doubled Steam Sales [2]. There were probably a large amount of non Steam PC sales, but Steam being one of the largest distribution platforms, I imagine its a large portion of total PC sales.

[1] http://www.vgchartz.com/game/84663/no-mans-sky/
[2] http://steamspy.com/app/275850