skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I honestly don't. But then again I don't care about tax avoidance either, and the Panama and Paradise papers weren't exactly ground breaking and shocking to me.
Few things are sadder than seeing Britain and China post equal "gains" for the 1 percent.
I agree with you. Google has really let parents down.

I downloaded YT for Kids app during its initial release days. It started out fairly well with popular and known TV show episodes. I did not think that Google would let its algorithm rule the wild west of the Internet world.

I sat down to look at the app after this controversy and was aghast to discover what exactly Google has done here. I kept on hitting the "block" on the episodes and channels it was throwing at my kid, and it would continuously show the next bad one. After going through this routine for 20 plus minutes, I gave up and deleted the damn app.

It is really ridiculous how Google has handled this product. Never again!
Google’s chatbot analytics platform Chatbase launches to public
The products and prices are basically the same, so why you guys dont insist on a 2 year warranty, is puzzling to me.
Many public records laws do allow for a fee, or at least a delay if the search requires extensive work. However, the counter-argument is that if fees go unchallenged, they not only become a defense against following the public records law, they reduce incentive for the government to actively be more efficient in disseminating records. There'd be much less incentive for a government to publish online if they were able to charge for any kind of work.

In this case, $750 to email a PDF is not at all a reasonable request.
IQ Bar: A new brain food bar created by a Harvard neuroscience grad
Senators Tell Kushner to Search His Email Again for These Keywords
I think there's a stateful load balancer polling every replica

"By routing read operations only to replicas that are caught up enough to run them accurately"

"To save every api process from having to reach out and check on the replication status of every replica for itself, we’ll have a process called an observer that periodically refreshes the state of every replica and stores it to a Postgres table. ... Keep in mind that this status information could really go anywhere. If we have Redis available, we could put it in there for fast access"

"The observer runs in a loop, and executes something like this on every iteration"

Also, "The technique is inspired by GitLab’s article on scaling their database, where they refer to it as 'sticky connections'"
>p.s. I just finished reading "Grain Brain." Regardless of what you think about gluten,

It's not just gluten. Look into enrichment. https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/0*pBs90R1LfdGOfpTS....

Most people are actually sensitive to the additives added to fortified wheat sold in the States, especially Vitamin B[0] and Iron[1].

[0]: https://freetheanimal.com/2016/05/enrichment-promotes-everyt...

[1]: https://freetheanimal.com/2015/06/enrichment-theory-everythi...
"vosot
A TV news term, an acronym that stands for 'voiceover/sound on tape.' This is a story in which the news anchor reads copy while video plays, and then a short soundbite plays while the anchor stops reading, and then the anchor reads the end of the story. Also spelled vo/sot or vo/b for 'voiceover/bite.'"

Source: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=vosot
TBH, I really don't care about career advancement. I don't need "half-mil-a-year offers" to fund my lifestyle, so as long as I can continue to draw a steady paycheck, I'm good.

Not everyone's a climber, and being in "a dead-end job" isn't really a bad thing if you're not ambitious.

I'd just like to spread the message that it is absolutely OK to plateau. You don't need to be a renowned domain expert, you don't need to go into management, you don't need to start your own company... if you're happy where you are, don't sweat it.
Speaking of Youtube Red, the way they handle if you have multiple devices is just so amazingly bad.

I pay for YouTube Red so that I can play music videos on my tv all day without ads. But if I go to a video on my desktop it will stop the playing of the video on the TV as only 1 session can be had with youtube at once IF YOU PAY FOR RED. If I dropped red, and just used ad blockers I will still be available to have multiple video sessions at once.

Drives me up a while and im seriously considering dropping red.
>It's not meant as a valuation model.

That's not my intention. I'm staying within the bounds of plain accounting for the concept of "debt liability".

If a company has a 5 year lease of $1000/month rent, I think the new accounting rules says it's a 60x$1000=$60000 "debt".

But in my mind, the company really isn't on the hook for all $60k. If the company has an "early termination" or "lease buyout" clause that they can exercise at year 2 with a 6-month notice to the landlord, they are really only in "debt" for 30 months (24+6), not 60. The rest of the 30 months act more like a "call option" than a debt instrument because the company really doesn't have to pay it. I'm not an accountant and just thinking out loud. And to reiterate, this "optionality" math applies more to office space leases than equipment leases like airplanes.
I don't know what addresses they use but github engineering blog has a lot of examples of really useful contributions, e.g.:

> Shortly after our initial deploy, we also started the process of upstreaming the changes to Git so the whole community could benefit from them.

Source: https://githubengineering.com/counting-objects/

But I guess most of their git related work time goes to libgit2.
Renter demand is insane right now, and they have the cash to back it up. I know of people renting a second place to stay, closer to work, because traffic has become so bad. I know that people are snapping up rentals as soon as they come on the market, even if that means supporting 2 leases for the rest of the month just to get what they want. Rent prices never have a chance or reason to drop.

The county's choices are a reflection of its citizens. City council has recently passed several new ordinances to make housing more 'fair', unfortunately this also has caused a significant increase in compliance cost for property managers.

My personal opinion is that zoning should be relaxed in several areas. Nevertheless Seattle price/sqft is in the range of other major US cities and still has room to rise:

https://www.rentcafe.com/blog/apartment-search-2/what-does-1...
Roxy Is Building 'Alexa for Businesses'
The description of the video is sparse. Here's some more info I found:

https://github.com/upspin/upspin

https://upspin.io/

Upspin is an experimental project to build a framework for naming and sharing files and other data securely, uniformly, and globally: a global name system of sorts.

Addressing common issues:

* download a file just to upload to another device?

* download a file from one web service just to upload to another?

* make a file public just to share it with one person?

* accidentally make something visible to the wrong people?
Skylake processors now available in seven regions
That's awesome your moving to a more livable area. I wish more businesses did this
I am sure the GRU could do it much more efficently
There are millions of people in the 1%. The 400 people at the very top aren't going to come into it much.
Work ethic? Nah. That's a different conversation for another day.
Jane Street is probably an exception.
> For adults one can perhaps argue that they (being adults) can choose for themselves whether to give or not to give the permissions

That's wishful thinking. Most people can't tell the WWW from Facebook. People are so bad at writing emails that there are Workshops for Composing E-Mails which sell out quickly. Many disable SIM PINs because they forget them or don't want to bother remembering them. The people who read permissions an app requests make such a little percentage of smartphone users that they can't even be considered a minority.

I beleive we need some kind of CE for software. It's easier to make sure that your parmigiano reggiano comes from Emilia-Romagna that it is to make sure that you can rely on a certain online service provider / platform. That's simply unacceptable.
I'm in the range of 3-5 years out of undergrad, working at a quant firm. My total gross comp for this year will be about 400-450k, majority of that is bonus.

By quant firm I mean either a proprietary trading firm (no outside investors) or a hedge fund (takes outside money), but not a bank.

I have a CS background but have self-studied in stats, and received mentorship from people with strong math backgrounds.

Main advantages of quant shops (doesn't apply to banks) over working at Google/FB/Netflix etc:

- small company size, startup style working environment, but big corp pay (or more)

- more varied/interesting work, e.g. mix of distributed data processing, high performance numerics, or performance optimization in latency sensitive code

- compensation paid purely in cash, no stock options/RSUs
I don't think there is significant overlap between Python's ideal use cases and Haskells. For one, Haskell's advanced static type system lends itself nicely to formal verification and the handling of domain specific languages. Both domains are important in safety-critical software. It also has much better ways of dealing with concurrency (STM and linear types). On the other hand, Python's ecosystem seems to be centred around backend web development, data science, and machine learning.
maybe from miners...
Do you work.... where I work?

Because that sounds like where I work.
vim-plug is soooooo nice
Kind of disagree. Kids are still learning the piano, violin, etc. In my view learning how to play pop songs on your guitar is sort of an instant gratification approach to music. These days a lot of folks just use rapping or electronic production in that niche.
I pre-ordered the Echo so have been using it for a long time too. Interestingly for me I’ve found it’s gotten dramatically worse over the last two or so months for simple commands that I use basically every day (turning off lights, setting alarm)
Sounds like you were really trying to optimize for the top 0.1% :) I think you have hinted that you can't simply "turn on" O_DIRECT and have magic happen and if O_DIRECT is not used with a proper tune, you will be in more trouble. The irony with my story is that even with the horrible DB2 config our "guru" DBA's left us with, all the issues were from the software team. There were many stupid things going on in the ORM that were causing the issues (like grabbing an entire table and then calling a method on each row that in turn got a aggregate sum of a column on the same table... doing that for each row).
Google should be ashamed of how they handled their YouTube for kids app.

I highly encourage all parents to delete this app from their devices. I spent a whole lot of time trying to go through "blocking" the episodes and the channels their algorithm was throwing at my child. I ended up deleting the app altogether because there was literally no end of these fake, mysterious and exploitative videos. Even the ones which seem harmless, are there only to make money, and there's no point to them.
Ask HN: Who here is selling to teachers?
i know it’s a hard market to serve but who here is actually making money by selling to teachers? What are you selling? What are you making?
I work at a mid-sized B2B telecom (just over 500 employees), and looking at the ages of my coworkers, we have more 30+ people than not, and there is a very large contingent of 40+ and even some 50+ people here.

It's definitely the kind of company you want to work at if you're middle-aged.
Maybe quickly changing topics is what causes the confusion. I guess they picked github because it has enterprise offering and enterprise customers are interested in large git repos. So github is like a test lab for GVFS. In the mean time they upstream the changes to real git adjusting GVFS to what git maintainers think is right.
Check out Gibson Les Paul Robot :)
I want to say that would be fantastic, except that the software engineers might be pretty miserable.

Also, aren't there such certs already?
How about I get off your cloud? ;)
(I'm the author.)

I'm storing `min_lsn` directly to the database, so anything connecting to it and loading a user record should be able to take advantage of the information.

I have a note in there about this as well, but although I'm showing how this information can be persisted to Postgres so that I'm only using one data store, it could really live in any kind of shared persistence layer.

For example, replication statuses and a user's `min_lsn` might be put in Redis instead, and be treated as ephemeral data such that we don't worry about losing them because they can be repopulated on every restart. It's also probably a good idea to have individual API workers caching replication statuses directly in memory so they can select a read candidate without even having to go to a database.
The law is different for every state and for the federal government. Fees are allowed for requests, but they can be challenged if exorbitant. Which is what requesters do, and which is why governments aren't nickel-and-diming you for every type of request, nor do they automatically resort to a large fee as a deterrent.

The Maine law states this:

> A person may inspect or copy any public record in the office of the agency or official during reasonable office hours. The agency or official shall mail the copy upon request. The agency may charge a reasonable fee to cover the cost of making the copies for you, as well as actual mailing costs. 1 M.R.S. § 408-A(1), (2), (8)(E)

http://www.maine.gov/foaa/faq/

States have even less defense if there is no print out or delivery cost on their end.

In any case, your criticism about the headline is unwarranted. The article clearly states the issue: that the government is not allowed to assess a fee before fulfilling the request.

The content of the agency's reply does not suggest a "bureaucratic error". They explicitly state their reasoning and the conditions of assessing the fee. This would indicate willful action on their part to deter their responsibility to the law, so the headline accurately sums up the situation. And the OP also links to their research on the Maine law that finds the fee to be $15/hour:

https://www.muckrock.com/place/united-states-of-america/main...

edit: * Maine; added reference to the content of the response
The web development that happens is typically for:

* Systems that analyze flight or test data

* Systems that enable manufacturing, supply chain, or other supporting business activities

* Systems that are considered to be "customer experience" related

* Infrastructure systems that support the other software engineering teams

Our hiring process is straightforward. The dev teams review resumes for a fit based on experience and skillset. Next comes a phone screen where we'll ask a series of basic programming questions. If you're in the Seattle area we skip the phone screen and invite you in for a tour and ask you the same questions in-person. Next we do a full interview, which occurs on-site at our headquarters and typically lasts most of the day. You'll interview with multiple software engineers from different teams. The questions you get asked will be deeply technical and are usually real world problems we have had to solve.
IME, the split is much closer than you suggest between people meaning right-libertarian and not realizing there are more and meaning libertarian more generally, but perhaps associating that with opposition to the left (exluding the use of “Libertarian”—capital “L” in writing, at least when not sloppy—to mean “member of the Libertarian Party", which itself leans right—but not exclusively, I've met left-libertarians who are in the LP.)

But thanks for your “help”.
Let's not forget that health care is a great point of leverage for employers, too. Because often, your spouse is also insured on that same plan, and leaving a job is not palatable if either one is dealing with significant illness.

If you wanted to create a legal equivalent of indentured servitude, company healthcare plus high healthcare cost would be a great solution. I don't think that was the plan, but it sure works out that way.
Ask HN: ML/Data Scientists: Do you use automated platforms such as AutoML/H20?
I wanted to know if anyone had used somethign like AutoML (http://www.ml4aad.org/automl/) or Splunk (https://www.splunk.com/) in their day to day jobs. Was it helpful? Did it still require significant tuning/augmentation?
Well here’s to taking it literally.

All I meant is there are great devs out there who aren’t 21, Linus is one example.

Wow
For buses it is very effective, since they stop every few blocks, whether the stop signal is red or not. It also makes for a huge saving on brake repair and replacement, which you can imagine is a big expense for buses.

Also city buses usually drive under 200 miles a day and then sit overnight so you can have relatively small batteries. All in all, it is hard to think of a type of vehicle where battery power makes more economic sense, and gives you more advantages over ICE.
Feel free to check the SatNOGS (https://satnogs.org) project. It is a satellite open ground station network coordinated via the web.
Especially as a web developer you might be interested in the SatNOGS Network https://network.satnogs.org
and the SatNOGS Database https://db.satnogs.org sub projects
Lots of documentation of the project can be found at https://wiki.satnogs.org and an active community forum at https://community.libre.space/c/satnogs
Pair production usually can't happen unless an atomic nucleus is nearby. This is necessary for the conservation of momentum. I don't think photon-photon pair production has been achieved yet.
No, I only use it to check the weather (Alexa). Haven't really found many uses for it (however, I haven't really explored either).
Number 1, the New York Times wouldn't (I trust) have published the stuff that got Gawker in trouble.

Number 2, the New York Times would be much wiser in how they interacted with the courts than Gawker was.

Number 3, people do sue the New York Times. The New York Times pays the legal costs, and keeps publishing.

Do you really think that a billionaire can bankrupt the New York Times with a lawsuit? I'm pretty sure they can't...
It's true that differentiation is a factor in career longevity, but it's not the point I was trying to make, nor the one that I would emphasize. The true advantage of learning how to do kernel development (over, say, a Javascript framework) is mostly that you're learning a technology is likely to be in demand in 20 years.

Given how much JS development thrashes, it's a pretty reasonable bet that whatever you're learning this year will be out of fashion next year, and irrelevant in five years. That's the high-order bit, when you're thinking about your career.

Even for something as "narrow" as linux kernel development, I can pretty much guarantee that someone will want hire you in 20 years, so long as you are competent. I can't make that guarantee for most technologies.
The company walks away by paying the early termination fee. We assume that type of clause is often negotiated into the contract because the company wants flexibility to break the lease to respond to changing business conditions.
Why doesn't the EU pay developers 6 figures?
Sort of. Entertainment is a classification taking into account purpose (Films are a form of entertaining one's self/time). Entertaining is to do with how one emotionally processes something.

The best distinction is the one represented in Collin's English Dictionary:

entertainment (ˌɛntəˈteɪnmənt) n.
1. the act or art of entertaining or state of being entertained
2. an act, production, etc, that entertains; diversion; amusement

versus

entertaining (ˌɛntəˈteɪnɪŋ) adj.
1. serving to entertain or give pleasure; diverting; amusing
'spacehackers' on Keybase if peeps want to join. I'll be thinking about persistent posts idea as we chat.
My father-in-law is pushing 70 and still coding. He just semi-retired, but up until last year he was employed, despite having little in the way of social skills and living in a remote area, far from any coding hub. If he was just a bit more personable and willing to move within a couple hours drive of Boston he could have fielded multiple offers.
Pure anecdote, but if you're decent, have a little hustle, and don't mind working in a soulless office park, it seems like you'll never struggle to find a gig.
If the company distributes contributions based on the time spent viewing material, then it's just tossing small bits of money into lots of buckets as users watch videos.

You need to ensure a 100% signup by video creators to ensure every creator gets paid and no money is in a hole. That's simply not possible; many creators are probably dead, unable to access their accounts, or unwilling to sign up for this service.

In that case, a very significant chunk of cash would be collected and never distributed. Relying on 100% adoption by creators to ensure no funds are miscredited is a miserable user experience.
The last four I’m willing to forgive as a warning to the large demographic of HN: in case any of you other yahoos think this is a good idea, it’s not.
(I wrote this.)

> Also, instead of updating the `users` table with the LSN of the commit - which creates extra write load - why not store it in the session cookie, then you can route based on that.

The article's a little long, but at one point I do mention that we're putting this information in Postgres in the demo for convenience, but that in a real implementation it might be worthwhile moving it elsewhere as an optimization.

This addresses the first point as well: you're right in that this information can be procured from Postgres, but the point of putting in the observer is to demonstrate a system that could be implemented in a way that's agnostic of storage. It's very plausible that you might want to put `min_lsn` and replication statuses in something very fast like Redis, and even have each `api` worker caching its own version of the latter so that a replica can be selected without even making a network call.
Depends on what you mean. If you're looking at tech trading of stocks from home, quantopian is a great place to start. wallstreetoasis forums for a traditional roles for juniors and people trying to get in.

And just remember its a shrinking area. There are lots of traditional traders that have been laid off and are looking for work.
How would free software prevent permission abuse? Open source spyware is still spyware.
Is there a substantive difference between a physical skill perfected, versus a mental skill?
Not to knock your grandmother, but that sounds a bit on the superstitious side, though probably motivated by reverence for the Precious Blood, i.e. the consecrated wine.

The Catholic belief is that all the observable properties of the bread and wine remain (the "accidents", philosophical term; in modern terms, its chemical properties and so on) while the "substance" (another philosophical term — think essence, what it truly is objectively) has been changed into the sacred humanity of Jesus Christ. Since his humanity is forever united to his divinity from the time his human nature was conceived in his mother's womb, the "whole Jesus," God himself, is present under what are only the appearances of bread and wine following the consecration.

In a hymn[+] attributed to St. Thomas Aquinas, it is explained in this way:

"Hidden God, devoutly I adore Thee, truly present underneath these veils... Not to sight, or taste, or touch be credit, hearing only do we trust secure; I believe, for God the Son has said it — Word of truth that ever shall endure. On the cross was veiled Thy Godhead's splendor, here Thy manhood lies hidden too; unto both alike my faith I render."

The "God has said it" phrase is in reference to the bread of life discourse in the Gospel of John, chapter 6, as well the Last Supper accounts in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke.

[+] http://www.preces-latinae.org/thesaurus/Hymni/AdoroTe.html