skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CockroachDB-style "set and forget" clusters.

If I can just put a container image into my kubernetes cluster, and set it to auto-scale, and postgres automatically scales depending on load, and it all just magically works, then it’d be perfect.

Knowing how well engineered everything else in PGSQL is, I’m sure this is going to happen sooner or later.
Because the static languages of the time, C++, Java, etc had serious deficiencies that made that style of static typing a hindrance. Type inferences, type class style generics, and gradual typing have been huge wins for the ergonomics of static typing. Additionally IDEs have improved immensely since the 90s and static typing makes the experience much better.

Finally I’d argue that the size of apps has increased a lot. Dynamic typing is great for small apps that you need to get out the door. Static typing shows its advantages in the long tail. The more people you have working on a codebase the more the static typing pays off. Typescript for instance was created specifically to manage large JavaScript code bases.
I talked to various developers from a few retail stores a few years ago and they said their companies are absolutely terrified of Amazon. Developers would be happy to use AWS but they are not allowed because it would be giving business to Amazon.

But when there is fear, there is opportunity. So Google is using that opportunity here. Not a bad move. Walmart is on-board as well it seems.

Saw news about Microsoft partnering with Amazon recently for some machine learning API. But wouldn't Microsoft compete with Amazon too? Though wonder if they are more worried about Google, "enemy of my biggest enemy is my friend" kind of thing.
At MIT a “school” means something larger than a department.

Most people outside MIT dont realize that MIT has never had a distinct computer science major, even though MIT has been doing leading edge computer science for 75 years and spawned lots of computer companies. For the last 37 years CS has been a co-major with electrical engineering with some of its requirements diluted with EE courses.

When I was at MIT in the 1970s, the argument was computer programming was a pedestrian skill taught at trade schools. Most MIT students learned it in high school like typing.

At various times people have proposed adding a computer science course as a core requirement for graduation. (e.g. even MIT music majors have to pass a year of calculas.) But it has never been implemented, mainly due to the large list of other basic requirements.
Wall Street does not claim to improve the world.

Zuckerberg for example claims that he has some goal of changing the world for the better.

Note, I think this is all a little silly when it clearly comes down to rich individuals that define most of the giving. Gates couldn’t have done so much without microsoft.
> Meanwhile I can call Google any time and get great customer support for the products I pay for.

We must not use the same Google.

Lack of available support is one of the most cited reasons for not buying Google hardware, especially their own Chromebooks.
Kind of reminds me when I lived on my own for a while, I really started liking my own company and reading, watching stuff, staying up late and generally doing what I felt I liked best. It wasn't negative really I'd just go to the gym, bake a cake, watch a few documentaries, attempt to learn some code, it was overall a nice experience.

Then I realised that I was liking my own company too much and people weren't all they were cracked up to be. I thought for my own mental health it was best to break this deadlock and start integrating myself more with friends.
Any software tool that is deemed as "complete" is not really complete. Even TeX, which will be releasing its final version when Donald Knuth feels the end of his life is near, is not complete because it is constantly expanded with reimplementations like XeLaTeX and LuaTeX and with thousands of plugins in constant development. GNU utilities like ls are not complete because they are built on top of operating system syscalls which are changing due to updated filesystems, and on glibc which releases a new version every 6 months. A change upstream might trigger ls to be changed, so it's not finished, just evolving slowly. Just look at its git history http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/log/src/ls.c, where the last change was three weeks ago. GNU Make, mentioned in the article, is still evolving. Look at its history. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/log/
On the last point about investing with "these prices" ... remember bitcoins are divisable into many decimal places. So you can "invest" $20 if that's all you've got, and you get an equitable amount (per current market conditions)
I think the pathology of worship of competition and the credentialing system -- insisting you must be the best on a test that you are explicitly told means nothing is a mental disorder developed due to being raised in certain cultural contexts, not a cause of success -- do you really think breaking down in tears at the slightest inconsequential setback is a good recipe for success in the primarily luck-driven market economy we live in? How many times do eventually successful entrepreneurs fail and keep going undiscouraged?
Votes are not insignificant as winners and losers consider the actual votes not just who won. (ex: When drawing district maps.) Further, even if you dislike all the options for president, congress, local election, etc there are still generally referendums where obtaining is meaningless as they are direct Y/N questions.

Not voting on the other hand accomplishes nothing and convinces the system that you don't matter.

PS: I don't necessarily mind you conceding all your power to other people. I simply object to flawed logic.
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I don't think it's there yet, but I believe the long term plan would be delivery from a Walmart/Target near you.

Walmart, at least, was moving that way. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2017/06/01/w...
It also notifies that central host every time someone visits your home, and provides them with video and audio of that person. That doesn't seem like a "neat idea" at all.

"By visiting my front door, you agree to Doorbird's privacy policy"
Sounds like trying to build a real programming language out of propagation networks [1]

[1] http://web.mit.edu/~axch/www/phd-thesis.pdf
i personally would not object to that. i guess farms are not set up to do that (yet).

i've heard that wild sockeye salmon eat a lot of insects and therefore wind up with lower levels of mercury than, say, tuna. farmed salmons is not sockeye.
>I can call Google any time and get great customer support

For what, specifically? Because this is the opposite of reality for everyone else.
First communication, the mean no but say yes.
All meetings has to be done in English, not a big deal but for a dutch company a lot of extra effort is needed. Their lack of skills, they say they are senior, you find out they are on learning level, hidden behind two better programmers. Time difference always bites you in the back. If you just wanna hire 10 or 15, hire 5 good people in your own country. If you need more then a hundred hands and can afford to place some people over there, give it a try.
Starting this month, you'll be able to return some Amazon items to some Kohl's locations. [0] I suspect that will be true for Whole Foods as well at some point soon.

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/kohls-returns-amazon-how-to-2...
For me, calling something an OS requires it to have it's own kernel ... maybe thats just me, but I think this is the 2nd project this month which has called itself an OS when in reality it is just a GUI.
You pay your bills with BTC? Don't you mean that you pay your bills with USD, which you buy by selling BTC?
In the UK, we've recently had a very rare case of a cyclists killing a pedestrian.

The cyclist was highly irrsponsible - he had only one brake, and the law requires two. As a result he was jailed for 18 months [1].

I think his conviction is reasonable. But it's highly unfair that the same standard isn't applied to drunk drivers, or drivers using their mobile phone, or drivers who have failed to renew their mandatory annual safety test (MOT) certificate.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2017/aug/2...
> I wonder how "Wall Street is not your friend" would play in the NY Times.

The comparison here isn't very apt because wallstreeters don't really pitch themselves as visionary innovators out to "save the world" and "do no evil." I mean sure the PR departments of all the bulge brackets will spin their typical corporate BS, but generally speaking, Wall Street is pretty self-aware.

In comparison, tying your mission to some humanistic cause is basically a pre-requisite for a tech company/startup. Case in point from yesterday's WSJ coverage of Outcome [1]:

Outcome has said its mission is to “activate the best health outcome possible for every person in the world” and provide "actionable health intelligence at the moment of care."

In practice, it puts flat screens and tablets in doctors’ offices and gets paid by pharmaceutical companies to run ads on them.

1. http://archive.is/QZnTN
Amazon has been messing up most of my deliveries lately and they make it as difficult as possible to talk to someone to find out why. When I do talk to someone, they always pretend to check the status, say that the item has been lost in transit, ship another one, and extend my prime membership by 1 month. Now I've got a hassle, a late shipment, and often a duplicate on the way that I'll have to deal with later.
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I get the problem with feature creep (who wants a text editor that also implements support for tetris?! ^•^), but as others have pointed out, that sentiment probably isn't precise enough to be all that useful.

Being a command line junkie, what stands out to me is the composability of my tools. This composability, I feel, is the key that let's us separate concerns and write small, standalone tools.
Our local trains have cars that can lean a bit on their own. Bank the track a bit, lean the car as needed, the humans on board don't recognize a turn unless they're watching intently out the window.
> I don't get why they're to blame for Russia's meddling in the election

Bad things happened through their products that would not have been possible, or at least as undetectable, without their products. "Bad things" refers to a foreign power running political ads to influence our democratic process. This is provoking a backlash.

I find analogy in the financial services industry's response to the 2008 crisis. Let's zoom in on Goldman Sachs creating structured products with hedge funds betting against said products [1].

Goldman created a product referencing an index. This is like an ETF [2] referencing the S&P 500 except the relationship isn't 1:1 and the index isn't the S&P 500. Goldman asked a hedge fund to help it build the index because (a) the hedge fund knew the market well and (b) Goldman hoped to sell the risky part of the product to the fund. (The risky part bet on things going down. In every trade you need a buyer (long) and a seller (short). In every structured product you need parties betting up (long) and betting down (short).)

TL; DR the hedge fund bought the risky part, Goldman marketed the other part, Goldman got paid its fee and the hedge fund made its money.

"But these were sophisticated parties!" "But Goldman were acting as a market maker! They didn't have a fiduciary obligation to anyone and their counterparties knew this!" "But the hedge fund is an independent agent!"

Doesn't matter. There was popular consensus that everyone looked like shit. If you don't say "that was shit, we won't let it happen again" you're in trouble. Society will create the laws and regulators to ensure it for you. Remember: laws are codified social constructs. The rule of law means codification precedes enforcement. But the social construct --> law process, the legislative process, is political. It's animalistic because we're animalistic.

The counter-arguments I presented above are technically correct. Just like it's technically correct to claim Facebook doesn't manually review its ads. Or like it's technically correct to say said ads probably didn't sway the outcome of the election. It doesn't matter. Russia would not have been able to micro-target fractures in American society with the precision, and without detection, from afar as they did with the algorithmically- and selectively-deployed ad platforms Facebook, Google and Twitter built. That the negative effect is an inherent consequence of the system doesn't help. In fact, making that claim is counterproductive since it implies an independent outsider, i.e. a regulator, is needed to help rebuild the system.

[1] https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/regulators-tackle-co...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange-traded_fund
Case after case in the US has shown that all you need to do is claim it was an accident and you'll receive the most minor of slaps on the wrist.
With that said, I’m really irked that amazon is using “private” shipping companies, I’m tired of seeing joe schmoes ring my bell in their Honda Civic or uhaul rental van, with my goods, my address, and seeing my house and family. They even take pictures with cell phone of package at door, wtf. Is there any background check, nope. Stick to a professional shipping company and not fly by night, random folks please
To someone who is morally OK with torture, it is much easier to convince them to stop by saying it is ineffective than by trying to change their morals.
You would probably have more success selling off 25% of goldman sachs than 25% of all bitcoin.
It is in many countries. For example, in Germany, in any situation where a driver and a pedestrian or cyclist crash, the driver always has partial fault. In cases where the cyclist or pedestrian dies, it almost always is a crime for the driver.

In some situations, when the driver is driving recklessly, it becomes murder. On February 27, a driver was sentenced to lifelong imprisonment for murder by car: http://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2017-02/berlin... (that was two drivers doing an illegal car race, and hitting a car that wasn’t participating).
> I get paid in BTC

Out of curiosity: Do you get paid x BTC per month/week or do you get x $/€/£/etc. in BTC?
Not true. Plenty of people in the finance world consider the driving force of capitalism to fuel progress by increasing value to the economy.
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What do you mean when you say the crash of the Fiat market? Could you give me an example to help understand?
F*cking awful. I'm a great engineer. I'm not a good manager. There is a big difference, and most of the other replies have done a great job laying out the differences. All I want to do is sit in my corner and build stuff.

/end cathartic outburst
Jellyfish should be fine
"Like the article says, "Criminal law punishes bad intentions and bad acts, not traffic accidents.”

Well, the article is quoting the attorney of the person who ran over a cyclist, so it's fairly narrow in scope. The law finds accidents worthy of punishment everywhere, everyday -- regardless of provable ill will.

But I absolutely agree with what you've said. There is little to gain by punishing the perpetrator of an accident.

The problem arises when the truly guilty use the facade of accident to commit crimes that they want to commit.
that "market cap" formula is simply the number of outstanding bitcoins multiplied by the current price. Completely made up and fairly meaningless
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I agree with you, from the nerd perspective. The general public cares more about utility than privacy, unfortunately, but the equation is similar in both cases: are we getting more value than we’re giving up in control?

Much as HyperCard, Excel, etc have allowed non-nerds to solve their own problems or scratch an itch, there is room in IoT for these people to tinker. They just need the right tools and framing.
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> Really? Amazon is often very late with Prime deliveries in my experience, only hitting the 2-day mark maybe 60% of the time.

I wonder if that depends on a city. I have ordered probably over a thousand things from amazon over the years and it was late for 2 day delivery maybe once or twice. And customer service is also the biggest reason why I use amazon even if the price is higher. I know that I can online chat with someone within minutes and they solve my problem most of the time. I had issues with paid google g suite or whatever they call it now, account and I don’t want to deal with their non existent customer service again.
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You can also kill someone in another car and not be charged and convicted, unless you did it purposefully or were driving with reckless disregard for human life.

It's not that pedestrians and cyclists are treated as a special case.
There is a reason regulations exist. While I don't think regulations should be so onerous as to destroy businesses, they are definitely a good way to ensure that our economy is working for the benefit of everyone, including the environment.
In the Netherlands, it goes as following:

- Car drivers' fault? -> Insurance of car driver pays

- Cyclist' fault?

1. Cyclist younger then 14? It's the car drivers' fault. In any case. Drivers should expect younger cyclists to behave unexpected.

2. Bicycle driver older then 14? 50% of damage is drivers' fault. Unless cyclist does reckless things the car driver cannot anticipate on (e.g. cycling through red traffic light over a busy intersection where drivers drive fast).

- Car driver & cyclist made mistakes? -> Cyclist is able to get more then 50% of damages depending on the situation.
I think we need a good competitor in this space, and can't think of another company that could help to leverage retailers enough. To me this is like google vs apple. Only good can come out of this for the consumer.
It's not. What you say is true, but there's a crucial difference. 65 million people live in the UK and all of those have to pay their taxes in GBP. Also, all listed companies in the UK are listed in GBP. That guarantees that there will always be significant demand for GBP. Not the case for BTC. Note that I'm not saying that there WONT be other reasons that could generate demand for BTC, I'm just saying that BTC is nothing like GBP.
> I wonder how "Wall Street is not your friend" would play in the NY Times

Well. The New York Times is generally for more financial regulation. If you're calling for a FINRA, SEC, CFPB, House Financial Services Committee, Senate Banking Committee and state-by-state financial services regulatory equivalents for tech, then you'll probably find yourself in agreement with (a) the New York Times, (b) most of the media and (c) a growing fraction of legislators and the American electorate. Partly because of what happened. Largely because of the flippant response the offending companies, and our Silicon Valley culture as a whole, has had to the complaints.
"To the three of them, it appeared as if Norton was trying to move her car to the side of the road. But in the process, she drove over Morgan’s head, with her right front tire placed squarely on top. (Norton’s attorney says that she was in a state of shock.) They screamed at Norton to back the car up, which she did, but after getting out of the car a second time, she reentered the vehicle. “I was horrified that she was trying to drive it again,” Richardson says. “I was screaming at her through the passenger-side window, which was down. She was trying to put her keys in the ignition… I was trying to reach into the sedan to grab her keys.”"

I got sick reading this.
Yeah, cryptoz's experience goes totally against the grain with respect to all of my friend's and family's experience too. Although I do have issues with Prime from time to time, Amazon's customer service usually kicks me a discount or another month of Prime as recompense.

As a bit of an outlier, Google Fiber's customer service has been stellar for me though.
There is also "Death by Dangerous Driving", however the sentences in the UK for causing the death of pedestrians and cyclists are bad.

You could end up being sent to prison for 5 years and a 5 year driving ban while in prison. If you kill someone by dangerous driving then you should be banned for life.
We need to ban assault cars at once! No honest person needs a 300+ horsepower tank powered by a fuel that is literally explosive.
Looks like it might evolve that way...

"Could move to bare metal eventually but it's useful for now to run hosted while experimenting"

And this: https://github.com/vygr/ChrysaLisp/blob/master/sys/kernel.vp
> are there any reliable alternatives?

The Old School method was to ask around, find actual company insiders or former employees.

These days it's relatively easy to find these individuals via a quick sort on Linkedin. Simply, reach out and talk to these people direct.
Perhaps I'm just naïve but I spend a lot of money on sporting goods and the companies I buy from seem like friends. Sure there's a profit motive, but I think our interests are pretty well aligned.
By harshly punishing drivers you provide a deterrent against the next accident.

It makes sure that drivers have both an atruistic reason (preventing an accident) and selfish reason (preventing their license being revoked) to pay attention.

Also - banning a driver isn't really a punishment as they'll get to discover how much fun it is to cycle to work and gain the life-long benefits of exercise and a friendly, social, activity :-)
You are right. I will try this approach next time for a small project, just to see if it results in something more constructive.
I do 100% Clojure work, but am learning Elixir (and may someday use that at work as well). In any case, there's a lot to like on both sides, but there's also a dichotomy: communicate by sharing state (Clojure - atoms, channels) vs. share state by communicating (Erlang/Elixir - everything is a one-way message).

To be honest, what I really like about Elixir so far is the developer affordances: excellent REPL, super-fast startup time, and building on 30-ish years of OTP.
Some people dont know Woz spent some years as an elementary school math teacher after leaving his full time Apple job. So he as insight as a teacher.
> I can't think of any tech companies that promoted themselves as a force for social good rather than a pure business.

It's actually a trope for SV companies. It was lampooned in season 1 episode 1 of the show Silicon Valley:

> And yes, we're disrupting digital media, but most importantly we're making the world a better place. Through constructing elegant hierarchies for maximum code reuse and extensibility.

http://siliconvalleyism.com/silicon-valley-quote.php?id=206
It can be very difficult for someone to notice a bicycle on 40~55mph roads. Cyclists are definitely taking a risk. I wear Neon cycling shirt and avoid peak time when cycling.

Laws aside, I don't think Cyclists should block lanes esp' during peak traffic time. I actually would like a ban on main roads during rush hours, number of folks change lanes and create very dangerous situations for all.
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> Look at the game Overwatch

Or Nest [1]. Or Sonos [2].

[1] https://www.wired.com/2016/04/nests-hub-shutdown-proves-your...

[2] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/22/sonos_forces_revise...
What really grinds my gears is the frequency with which cyclists are legally forced onto the roadway in a high-traffic area, when there is a perfectly good sidewalk available.

Just assume that Bob is going to have an accident on his bike today. Would you rather see him struck by a car and become a likely fatality, or see him hit a pedestrian and cause a few scrapes and bruises? Why would you unnecessarily force people into a potentially deadly situation for the crime of riding a bicycle?