skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please point out where and how you believe I've been "poking fun at the system," or predicting its downfall, or in some broad way denouncing the US, as you seem to suggest I am doing? Critiquing an element of a system does not = opposing that system in its entirety. In this case, the element I take issue with is our short-term-optimized view of the value of human capital. Essentially, we fail to rationally calculate the NPV of a skilled worker's contribution as he or she grows more skilled over time.

In the context of this subthread, which you have missed entirely, I am explaining to someone outside the US what's led to the rise of the contract labor force here in the US, and providing a framework by which we might view the different types of contract labor in our industry. That is all I am doing. That is the whole, fairly narrow subject of my post.

Yes, I'm pointing some fingers in very specific directions where blame is due. I'm hardly denouncing the whole US system, or even the whole financial culture, and I'm hardly throwing the baby out with the bathwater. To be clear, neither is the Wharton professor in the interview we are ostensibly here to discuss.

You have also failed to cite a single number, which is ironic, given the crux of your post. You have provided a broad sweep of claims without citation or data. Put some specific numbers on the table if you're going to make them the basis of your argument. (And hopefully someone else can take you up on that argument, because once again, it's not at all the argument my post seeks to open. If you want to bait me into some broad argument about whether or not the US system is superior to the European or Chinese or Turkish or Brazilian or whatever system, I am not interested in taking the bait.)

Going forward, I'd appreciate if you actually took the time to read what I am saying in the context in which I am saying it. Instead, you seem to have latched onto my use of the words "MBA" and "Reagan" and possibly "Europe," and have thus attempted to beat me in some imaginary debate on a point I didn't even make. If all you're here to do is torch strawmen, you won't find many interested takers.
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What I'm interested in, is how can they run this stuff? How is it cost effective for them? How is it safe? Runkit is basically free serverless node. It's pretty amazing.

For those interested, the code is here: https://runkit.com/dosyago-coder-0/proxy

It does the simplest possible:

- prepends the URL form to the proxied html page

- prepends a <base> element with the proxied page's uri ( to ensure relative links point to the source and not the proxy )

- prepends a script which captures clicks on anchor links and instead of allowing the navigation to proceed submits the URL ( via the prepended form ) back to the endpoint

Also, for the sake of a technical challenge, I don't know how to get it to work on Amazon.com -- what happens is after the first load, any links clicked seem to break out of the proxy. Anyone who can work out why it doesn't work, please tell me!

edit: oops, seems as if the HN 'glance' of death ( not hug, this has only been on for 20 minutes ) kills it intermittently, and that runkit has a quota that is sometimes exceeded!
It really amazes me how many companies (especially the ones with an avaricious reputation such as health insurance companies) don't take the payment system seriously.
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Didn't find pics of their computers but damn that was an epic hustle.
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Have they always had such a 14-day policy? If not, it’s entirely possible that the policy was different when the account was previously deleted, and the account was being retained under that old policy.

I’m also surprised that his hacker didn’t bother changing his password - maybe it wasn’t intended to be an account takeover.
Definitely there is a "me too" effect where people pile on with what they think is going to be popular.
The main insight is more likely that people like you exist, with your immature attitude/ridiculous theory on suicide. I find your kind to be subtly destructive and all too common.

Take care and aloha.
Your post made me curious. I hit up Google and got a result that may turn into a bit of a time sink.

If you're very busy, you may not want to click on this link:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_u...

I was a bit surprised by some of the results. I honestly wasn't expecting Harvard to be that high. MIT was right where I expected it to be. CalTech was lower than I expected, but your number is too low.

Berkeley really surprised me.
See also: https://blog.walmart.com/business/20171003/who-is-parcel-wha...
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Typically when you quote someone you attribute the quote to them.
At least for European customers. This won’t help everyone.
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Maybe many people do have incorrect assumptions about C, but I wouldn't say it's deceptive. The abstract nature becomes plain when using an optimising compiler for a while. And they have been the norm for at least 20 years.
There is no "subjective science". I am very passionate about science and have a problem with anyone trying to construe something that is not science as science. Science is evidence based reasoning. Anything else is not science, call it whatever you want.
All of them? Maybe I'm naïve, but I don't buy the inherent importance of doing selection. If I could trust that the news source includes all relevant facts they encounter, it'll be enough; I can reach my own conclusions.

> However, you can sort of get this if you limit yourself to "agency" news, ie AP or Reuters.

I've heard something about "wire services" before, but I'm not sure if there are any accessible to individuals at prices a regular person like me could afford. Do you know of any?
Hot code reloading isn't used in practice to much extent in Erlang codebases either. It exists, in my experience mostly for Dev or emergency patch but not for normal release upgrades. Dynamics with tagged values and pattern matching def make Erlang the easiest to hot reload.
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In that sense, we should also think about crowd-founded science. For example, travel costs are always a problem. There are also many table-top experiments which could be realized just with a small cash infusion. Most contributions to universities do not actually benefit an experiment in a direct way.
Well when I "deleted" my account years ago, Facebook made it absolutely clear that it was really only deactiviating the thing and that it would retain its records. Nonetheless, as far as any of my friends can tell, I am no longer on Facebook at all.

So maybe the author of this post removed his account at an earlier period when Facebook didn't make such an honest claim. In that case the title should be "Facebook used to lie."
On ZeroNet you only have to download the data once, after that you only going to receive the diffs/changed parts for the database.
Eh, so are good employees are in the UK.

I've been contracting five years, and the state of software engineering seems woeful in the small and medium sized countries of the UK.
Congrats to three truly brilliant scientists. This is how Hard Sci/Tech is done. Decades long commitments even when everyone around you thinks it impossible!

For a gripping day by day account of advanced LIGO's first candidate detection event and ensuing aftermath. From the very first email with subject line: "Very interesting event on ER8". To publishing the breakout paper “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger”. Read Harry Collins' Gravity's Kiss: The Detection of Gravitational Waves

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/gravitys-kiss
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> The Army Chief of Staff has repeatedly asked Congress to stop buying new Abrams tanks, but the tanks keep rolling off the production line nonetheless.

Wow. One has to wonder when some of those tanks will eventually reach regular law enforcement, like lots of other military hardware tends to.
Check out the Breakthrough Prize.
I'm really really hoping regulators get their act together and come down hard on this sort of things.
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Access to root accounts on some ArcSight boxes only involve challenge-response codes that we were supposed to get from HPE support. Because of how annoying this was, a clever ArcSight colleague of mine was able to create a simple Java program we would run to get the response code ourselves, saving us lots of time. Not sure exactly how he did it, but it only took him a weekend.

Source code or not, some ArcSight servers were already very vulnerable. Whether or not that was done on purpose, who knows.
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Yeah, my guess is there's a CMS mixup. The "Computers4Christians" distro described is a spin of Ubuntu with some preferences tweaked and some variation on preinstalled packages.
Who expects anything different, really, from companies like Facebook?
Microsoft does this with their products like SQL Server. Which is confusing and can cause name collisions . Due to their dominance it’s not hard to search for but smaller products would have that problem .
> because you can express a lot of things in contracts that are not easily expressed in type systems.

Can you give an or some example(s) of this?
I see this as buy opportunity for tesla stocks.
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This happened to me as well when I signed up for spotify under the same email I used for facebook, was shocked to see my ~six year old deleted account suddenly become "reactivated" despite them claiming it was "deleted" at the time. Nope, all the stupid stuff that was hilarious to post in 2007 was still there and came right up.

Turns out they never delete anything.
Does that surprise you?
"Since the 1980s, the way programmers work and the tools they use have changed remarkably little."

On one level this is very wrong -- since that time we have introduced and improved numerous amazing tools like Internet and its family (protocols etc), distributed version control systems, CI systems and Stack Overflow, to name just a few. On another level it is close to truth, as we still do most of the coding in various text editors -- but not for a lack of trying to find something better. If we found something that would provide the same balance between simplicity and power, we would be more than happy to switch.
I agree with the article. I think more humans do need to be added to the "decision-making" process.

I mean, com'on, promoting 4chan to the top spot in a news channel? Too many people in this country don't bother to check, they figure if it's the top article it must be true.
He is an individual contributor
That's a fantastic answer, thank you. :)
...now enter fuzz testing and your first statement goes out the window.
Or they could just do s/Apache/Holy/
Just $225 to read the actual paper... what a steal! If someone would so kindly share that pdf on here I'd greatly appreciate it.

Nvm found it: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/12/28/097170
I use a "mark all read" extention.

Firefox: https://github.com/andreicristianpetcu/HNMarkAllRead/release... (temporary release patched for FF57)

Chrome: https://github.com/danmaz74/HNMarkAllRead
are there videos of the acceptance speeches or ceremonies anywhere? i always want to watch them. are they televised or streamed?
Your critique of Rust can be largely applied to C++. Maybe the latter is a niche language, but that niche was not served by many offerings up until recently, and C++ is still going strong, despite being less safe than Rust.
I think that sentence is good, it's just a matter of changing the 'to' to 'and'.

"Y Combinator represents the union of two ideas that had not previously been combined: the application of mass production techniques [and] startup funding."
I can't see where that was written. Only that malicious users may read past the end.
Huh? It's always been this way. Like more than 10 years ago I messed around trying with account deactivation. I've had a fb account since ~2004 it was only avail to certain colleges. This is exactly how it's always been. Am i missing something here? They never actually "delete" anything whatsoever. Isn't this already well known..
Sounds like San Francisco is exactly on pace, then.
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We are talking years and decades, where "replacing" is applied to entire applications, not chunks of code.

Especially in SOA, it can be cheaper to replace a poorly written service than trying to rewrite all of it over time.
there is that as well :-( eg a train driver gets £60k for a 4 day week plus overtime plus a final salary pension.
The high-Tc superconductor prize was almost instantaneous. BECs were quick, too.

The Nobel committee wants to be really certain that work is correct and impactful before making an award.

It often takes a long time for the importance of a work to become clear.
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Think for one moment: how utterly screwed the internet would be if the majority of consumer computer equipment wasn't behind NAT by default?
But we do know how to write secure C. It's just time consuming and requires discipline. Two things that most developers don't have or want.
Wire services typically sell their feeds to newspapers; nowadays, though, the bigger services make their feeds available on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/AP

https://twitter.com/Reuters

https://twitter.com/AFP

(Associated Press, Reuters, and Agence France-Presse are three of the bigger ones)
> people think that the likelihood of any given piece of code they are writing as surviving more than a few years is negligible

Well, most code is written by relatively-inexperience developers, who have not had to retire a system or support a legacy one, and don't know what should be sought out & what should be avoided when designing a system. Thus, they make decisions with limited information to solve the problem at hand, and only later find out the implications of those decisions when someone wants to (say) deploy it as a dockerized service on k8s.

It's one thing to read The Mythical Man Month, and another to write a replacement system that stops providing business value after 30 months and needs to be rewritten to support the current needs.

> it is so easy to say that the last person's code was garbage, so we are going to rewrite it because that is faster than understanding and then fixing the bugs in what they wrote

There's no black and white answer here: sometimes the code is so convoluted (or in the wrong language) that it has to be rewritten; sometimes the design of the system strongly resists changes in behaviour & so much of it needs to be made more flexible that an incremental improvement would cost about the same as a full rewrite.
This reminds me of the hilarious phonecalls trying to cancel accounts at other companies:

http://time.com/2985964/comcast-cancel-ryan-block/
https://m.facebook.com/help/delete_account states that it will delete your account permanently. Facebook’s current FAQ notes it’ll take about 90 days for your information to be gone from their system.
Conspiracy theory: It was facebook pretending to hack is account so he would log back in and hopefully stay using the service.

But OT: I'm sure that unless they are legally forced to remove the data, they'd rather keep it.
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Detroit is building tiny houses for this purpose; but I don't understand how tiny houses can be better than apartments; nothing is shared - the utilities or the heat on 5 walls -- why not create community?
Well, we're not solely an IIoT company, but we do have an IIoT solution: https://inductiveautomation.com/solutions/iiot

I think we're best recognized as an HMI/SCADA company.
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The problem is that tailor-made FPGA designs won't run nearly as fast as a modern ASIC CPU. That's why for instance FPGA emulators are not more common, for older hardware software implementations are accurate enough and manage to run in realtime so the additional cost and complexity of FPGAs is not warranted.

For more modern hardware software implementations can't reach absolute accuracy in real time but FPGAs big and fast enough to handle these designs are prohibitively expensive (if they even exist in the first place). That's why FPGA GameBoy emulators are not popular and you probably won't see a FPGA PS3 emulator any time soon (unless the pricing changes dramatically in the near future).

FPGAs shine when you need to process very high throughput data with low (or at least constant) latency or for special-purpose algorithm with no hardware acceleration available on CPU or GPU (video codecs, crypto, computer vision etc...). But in general when an algorithm becomes popular enough (AES, SHA-256, H264...) hardware support is backed into the ASIC eventually with much better performance and power consumption than a FPGA.

I see a potential for FPGAs in CPUs for professional applications if you want to process big datastream without having to rely on external hardware. For instance I work in broadcast video transmission where we routinely handle uncompressed HD or even 4K streams, being able to prototype directly on my workstation's CPU would be pretty cool.

As for general purpose programing language optimization I have a hard time imagining what it would look like. The problem is that you don't code for a FPGA the way you code for a CPU. To put it very simply on the CPU serial is cheap while forking and synchronizing threads is expensive. On an FPGA it's basically the other way around. Automatically transforming one form into the other automatically in a compiler or JIT sounds very much non-trivial. Maybe I just don't have enough imagination.
> If it's broken but in familiar, known ways, with runbooks, and the cost of rewriting it is way higher than supporting it for 5 years & hopefully we'll move away from the business model which requires it, don't fix it.
>Amazon beating Walmart

Let's not get carried away here. In the most recent quarter, Walmart had revenues of $123B vs Amazon's $38B. Walmart still has time to figure out the ecommerce game.
Don't be bashful, email one of the people listed in the papers. There's surely some published research with names attached.

Be clear, don't be verbose, be polite, and be grateful, thanking them for their time and contributions. Be sure to mention that the award was what triggered your curiosity.

Also, make sure to ask them to put you in touch with the right person, if they aren't the right person. You're probably looking for someone with 'materials' near their name. There may also be a coordinator for the project. If so, first try them.

Seriously, go ahead and ask. Chances are, you're even welcome to ask follow up questions. I'm retired but I always enjoyed it when people legitimately wanted to know more about what I was doing. It was only a problem if I was busy, but I still made time. It just sometimes took a while.
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Ask HN: Advice for data privacy in Germany
For anyone designing a service that would host PII data of German citizens. Any practical infrastructure advice regarding data privacy laws?
How is "European customer" defined?

If someone is not European but resides in Europe, do they have this right?

If someone not from Europe travels to Europe and issues the request while inside Europe, do they have this right? (If so, would using a VPN work?)
That is not always the case. My last job had unlimited PTO and some of us took 20+ days per year.
Not just variable name a "string" variable name,

See g string ^^
I'm very interested in this question. In the age of massive physical collaborations, it is an oft-debated question whether the Nobel committee should be awarding the prizes to the collaborations themselves and/or the leaders thereof. I don't know anything about Barish's history.