skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not fair. America has dangerous snakes too; I grew up in a place where rattlesnake (and scorpion) encounters were not uncommon. And water moccasins are common in other parts of the country.
The basic laws of supply and demand have two sides, but you are just looking at supply. The post you are replying to contains a suggestion as to why the demand side may, at least in some circumstances, mask or compensate for supply-side effects.

Large institutions that have been performing the same work for decades do not fully represent the economy as a whole.
We're not talking about the right to be served ads. We are talking about the right to not be discriminated against.
I used to laugh at stuff like this, then at orientation the place I was working with said "The best way to show your personality is through your socks." I noped right out of there.
"Burberry accessories - Burberry hats are for Chavs"
I love Burleson and his small-horses, I cannot believe he made hacker news ;)

Guy is really old school, raises mini horses for fun, and literally shows up in Google for any Oracle error ever. He is long tail SEO before there was such a thing...
I agree that this comes across as pretty old-fashioned although many of my sales compatriots routinely dress more conservatively than I do these days. The dress codes for a consulting company I worked for 15 years years ago were fairly conservative but not this conservative.

For what I do, even traditional business casual starts to look more like being a "suit" than I prefer.

[ADDED: As someone else said, do read to the bottom. This is a commentary on what clients are looking for.]
You can already do that. In the age of smartphones, it’s trivial to record audio for a whole day.

It’s not necessary either. The downside of capturing everything is that you capture everything. The employee ends up getting canned for claiming a 30 minute lunch when she was gone for 40. A good, factual journal is the best weapon in most cases.
Besides being a tragedy, this is a national embarrassment. It's a fucking train on a track on it's maiden voyage. And they crashed it.

It should not be humanly possible to configure the train to run at 80 mph over a section of track rated for 30 mph. The idea that some people say we need billions of dollars to make this work only compounds the embarrassment.

We want Level 5 self driving cars but we can't control a single variable (velocity) in a 1 dimensional problem space?!

Shame. Shame. Shame.
Also illegal in Europe.
Except... the very premise of the service isn’t particularly reasonable.

You won’t change my mind, so don’t bother replying.
The author writes regularly and her posts almost always reach the top of HN. Like most skills, improvement comes with practice. If a person is willing to put in the same time and effort as jvns has, I'm sure they would be rewarded with similar results.
Honestly, this is pretty straight-forward stuff, and I'm surprised you're getting any argument. If a technologist cannot explain how a proposed implementation is going to provide value to the business, that project is probably better off left alone. Prettier code and better tests don't provide value. But fewer customer-facing P1/P2 tickets provides value. That prettier code and better tests leads to fewer tickets is an implementation detail.

Let's put it this way: Netflix has one of the most robust microservice architectures I know of. I promise you will find zero mention of it anywhere on their customer-facing pages. Because that is not the problem that Netflix solves for their customer; they solve a media library and streaming problem.

The business is your customer. You need to understand their problems and how you're going to fix them. Everything else is an implementation detail.
Yeah. I can understand some level of minimum dress code but that is goIng pretty far into specifics.
Here is the original documentary I watched. There is more information on the individual sites on more recent news and magazine sites, often referenced on wikipedia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjA0EQPeUGM
netstat and ifconfig tend to be deprecated on Linux in favor of ss and ip. I do have to wonder if ss was tried, but still, the learning experience is quite valuable. :)
This looks amazing. I was really hoping to read some intelligent commentary about it here.
Top books that I read this past year:

- Hillbilly Elegy By JD Vance

- Golden Son by Pierce Brown (second book in a trilogy) liked the whole trilogy

- Rosie Project/Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion

- Graceling by Kristin Cashore

- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Unhackable computer under development with $3.6M Darpa grant
This dress code, much like “Oracle consulting”, has gone out of style.
We certainly don’t hold roads to a standard like “financially viable,” and systems like Metro, LIRR, and BART may have their problems but they exist.
I haven't seen such an ugly website in a while. I'd give that much more weight than physical appearance
I can’t speak to Hamburg but I can say that this analysis of Berlin cyclists is completely, even laughably, incorrect.
Also no Jetson TX2, which seems an odd omission given its ridiculous FLOPS/Watt. It was announced in March.
Thanks, but it looks like that data requires SQL Server.
> Software should really only be measured by the value it provides.

The problem is when the "negative value" is externalized leading to false evaluations. "Oops, so sorry we leaked all your social security numbers. Our bad."
This attitude is probably closely aligned with why the federal government can't find good help, and why start-ups struggle to attract federal contracts.
Just because it's the expected behavior in california doesn't make it correct or right in the rest of the world.

The other comments pointed out that california have dashed lines for bicycle lanes around intersections. That may be the signal.
If the next sentence was “The skirt allows for ease of access,” it would not shock me one single bit.

This is pretty insanely regressive.
They aren’t. The only thing coupled is the auth, from there on it’s the app’s data provider giving the stream, not one universal stream source for some piece of content.
Yours is better IMO. Also, you showed an actual demo and very thorough explanation of your approach.
> It's very rare to take Amtrak and not spend what can often be many consecutive hours waiting at a junction for a freight train to pass.

Its true that Amtrak often has to yield to freight on a lot of rail, but saying its “rare” to ride without being stuck for “hours” seems a gross exaggeration, or at least starkly different from my own rides. (Up and down west coast, northeast corridor, a couple times across the middle - highly recommended if you have a few days to spare).

Usually it’s 5 minutes of waiting, and for me I don’t recall ever more than 20.

Riding across the entire country (Oakland -> Philadelphia) I probably accrued 30 minutes of waiting.
so? it's the same workflow and way of thinking.
Make sure you scroll to the bottom to see the pic of “Burleson home office” attire.
Still not realistic. Assuming an entry level dev in sv is making 100k, most 50 year old devs are not making $500k.

More like 50% more or at most twice as much.
This dress code provides great insight into the culture/personality of BC (and why I would never want to work there), particularly this part:

> If you have been working all night and have an early morning meeting, you can use an anti-inflammatory hemorrhoid cream (e.g. Preparation H) to quickly shrink those unsightly puffy bags under your eyes.
We did this lab at the University of Utah because the Systems class is taught out of the same textbook. I also loved this lab. If I remember correctly we had a leaderboard, and it was fun competing with everyone else.

Most of the labs for this textbook were great: writing a shell, implementing common math functions by bit twiddling, buffer overflows, disassembling the bomb with the debugger, etc. It was a great class. Definitely not easy, but a lot of fun.
Sadly, it's hard to convince people that doing things right is better than doing them wrong, but quicker.

That customer needs this code on the 1st, that is a hard and fast deadline! So shit is churned out, and handed over on the 1st. Then, three or four 1sts later, the customer finally gets their shit together and deploys it, and, voila, it is shit. And the cycle continues, as the scramble ensues to patch the shit by the 15th with yet more shit. And you end up like the little Dutch boy at the dike, except instead of fingers you're using hotfixes made of excrement.
Desktop: Dual-Core E5500, 2GB RAM (upgrading to 8GB soon).

Laptop: ThinkPad T450, i5 broadwell CPU, 8GB RAM, 256 SSD.

I run Arch Linux with i3wm on both computers.
That’s not how it happens now, but that is how it could work, sure! Now the only thing that’s couple is the auth, once you are logged into XYZ app, the cable company isn’t consulted until the auth expires.
Interesting reference to the bushy eyebrows of the legendary Admiral Zumwalt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_Zumwalt

Zumwalt, as Chief of Naval Operations, was responsible for the roughly ten-year span when sailors were allowed to wear beards, outraging the naval counterparts of Mr. Burleson here: https://news.usni.org/2014/10/23/brief-history-grooming-u-s-...
Nomad appears to be better designed, more scalable, and easier to operate than k8s, but it will fall behind pretty rapidly since k8s has 100x more developers.
Since you appear to be californian, do the bicycle lanes over there have solid lines or dotted lines?
I liked the stories of Zuckerberg attending investor meetings in his hoodie. Sad to see him in full suit attire these days.
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Seems to me like that applies just as well to the prior ban.
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That's just bullshit overhead that Apple likes to bake in. How about a removable battery so customers arent screwed every 2 years?
One issue is that the motor vehicle fatalities table seems to include data from buses (that is how I understand the references), which are safer than cars. I tried looking at the sources for the passenger rail data but a quick glance was not very informative.

Here is another study, from 2010, showing some very different numbers:

http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~ipsavage/436.pdf
So would it also be illegal to advertise your job positions in teen Vogue but NOT in AARP magazine?

It doesn't seem much different in this case. Bit methods target young people.
I think that varies on a rail-by-rail basis. I was chatting on 2 meters the other day with someone who does transport with BNSF on the route this train runs and in that case at least freight yields to passenger trains.
I suddenly live in a world where I can't tell whether or not this is satire. And I was a consultant!
Tech is especially bad, but other fields don’t necessarily reward gray beards. Many industries have career path pyramids that get much narrower as they go up and no tolerance for not advancing. The military officer corps for one....

Anyways, yes, that grey haired architect probably knows what they are doing, but how many architects didn’t survive to that point?
Thanks for your patience!
The mechanisms of early computing devices --- the gears, levers, springs, cams --- somehow strikes me as more ingenious than modern silicon and software. That all those moving parts worked well and fairly reliably is amazing to me. And to think of the development effort... No testing in VM that you can just start clean whenever you need to. Of course that's also why the basic bar and bail mechanism was used for three decades.
How you dress, matters.
Those trailers are very common in The Netherlands! Weather doesn’t play that much of a role, from what I know, neither does the fertility rate as cycling has been popular here when it used to be much higher, decades ago.

It is very much a cultural thing in my experience. Nearly all children go to primary and high school on their bicycles, by themselves, although the trips for high schoolers are often < 8 km I would guess.

I think that touches on why it might not be as popular in other countries, as other countries might not be as flat or lack city planning that takes cyclists into account, e.g. dedicated bike lanes.

It’s also an excellent choice for a country of our size that has limited space, as bicycles make much better use of it than cars.
I've experienced "no methodology; just people kind of describing what they want and you make it up as you go along" and Scrum and I prefer the former, but I suppose it's possible that someone out there is doing Agile in a way that is better than the one I learned in a bunch of excruciatingly boring training sessions from consultants.

e: Actually I did Kanban too and that was OK, but that is a lot closer to the "no methodology" thing and anyway doesn't involve you making decisions like "oh, can't start working on that, because the sprint is almost over."
Tezos board member resigns and posts statement to Reddit
Not with adblock + noscript.

Probably a naughty tracking script.
Yes that brand name is quite obnoxious. Airbnb might ignore just as many laws, but at least they have a goofy unpretentious name. The only thing I can think of like "Uber" except worse might be "Darth".
Everything about this is so overdone for 2018. I understand you should be a bit on the conservative side and not do outright stupid things (flip flops for e.g.) but this is just too much.

(I had a hardcore Oracle guy once walk in when I was at a Bank - there was a product issue nobody was able to solve. This person had a pony tail, white t-shirt, blue jeans and sports shoes. Charged a ton of money for his 3 days and by the time he was gone things were measurably better off. Nobody was minding his attire - and it was 8 years ago.)
I haven't been at a k8s shop yet, but at my last job we used Marathon (on DC/OS). I know you can run Kubernetes on DC/OS, but the default scheduler it comes with is Marathon.

Is there an advantage to one over the other? It looks like in both cases, you need a platform team (at least 2, maybe 3 people; we had a large complex setup and had like 10) to setup things like K8s, DC/OS or Nomad, because they are complex systems with a lot of different components ..
components like Flanel vs Weavenet vs some other container networks, handling storage volumes, labels and automatic configuration of HAProxy from them (marathon-lb on DC/OS).

All schedulers (k8s, swarm, marathon) seems to use a json format for job information that's pretty specific, not only to the scheduler, but to the way other tooling is setup at your specific shop.
You can set your age to whatever you want on Facebook.

Seems no different than advertising a job in young skewing magazines vs targeting older demos.
I intended my comment to be on the topic of the thread I replied to, and not the subject of the article. I meant that I don't really understand when you can and can't discriminate based on things.
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The solution you're asking for exists and is called Positive Train Control. They didn't have it.
While the rules are stodgy, they generally line up with mainstream men's business fashion guidelines. Charcoal or navy suits, pressed white shirts, conservative ties, a pair of captoe oxfords (Allen Edmonds or better, black and/or brown)
I rewrote a 900 line class today by writing one generic function that encapsulated a pile of common logic that the monstrosity had copied and pasted with slight changes over, and over, and over, and over, ad nauseum, and wound up with less than 100 lines of code. What a glorious day.
>It doesn't make sense to me to discriminate against people with more experience. Can someone explain it to me?

It's worth considering that, statistically, the discrimination might be justified. Of course the only way to know for sure is to get rid of age discrimination laws and see what happens to the market. Companies bias "incorrectly" at their own peril, to be outcompeted by companies without said bias.
There are many small, excellent ISPs; for instance Sonic [1] and Wave [2].

I hope people can and will now focus on the deeper problems behind awful Internet access in the USA, compared to most of the developed world -- local franchise monopolies, plus legislation against community-owned broadband (municipal, coop, etc. see what happened in Longmont CO). Once these problems are gone we won't need to worry about any issues supposedly solved by "net neutrality" regulation. SpaceX will soon offer satellite-based access. Maybe Google will restart its fiber program, too.

[1] https://www.sonic.com

[2] https://residential.wavebroadband.com
Imagine how much money Facebook or Google would have been worth if they'd had a dress code like this.
Ask HN: Where to read about crypto?
It seems that the majority of information out there about the various cryptocurrencies falls into two categories:

1. It's a Ponzi scheme/bubble/worthless.

2. Crypto take over the world! And by crypto I mean this coin I own a lot of.

Where can I find reasonable discussion of the technical merits and promise of various coins?

P.S. What's your favorite?
Like a car you're welcome to do it yourself, or take it somewhere else if you think it's a better deal.

Edit: just got a quote for an iphone 7+ battery replacement from one of the mall kiosks here: $120. If there is so much fat in the cost surely they'd at least undercut Apple by $20 to get the business.

Removable batteries are a completely different conversation but you can still buy phones with them so go ahead and indulge yourself.
>I don't follow the logic in your first sentence.

When you're running the highly publicized 1st run of a new route you don' t use that time to play angry birds on your phone, you pay attention.

>The copy pasted quote is nothing but speculation.

He's saying that there's things other than driver error or mechanical failure that could have contributed to the crash
Yep. I believe the idea is to trick the browser into believing that you're interacting with the third-party site so that they get first-party treatment with respect to cookies and such.

I'm not sure if it's still true, but at one point, submitting a form (even via JavaScript) counted and let the site store cookies.
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While I appreciate and agree with the point that people judge others by their looks, I'm just going to put this out there:

When you socially optimise for superficial appearance, you'll both work for clients who value superficial appearance and attract employees who optimise for superficial appearance.

Not a day goes by that I don't thank god I don't have to work for a consultancy, though I do often dread that I'll have some brought in and have to deal with the particular kind of moron employees they attract.

/superficial generalisation
I refer to him only as 'Cowboy'. Everyone I work with knows who I mean.
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If you do that the battery will last longer. So what you didn’t up with is basically what’s already happening: you have longer battery life on the phone is new and shorter battery life when the phone is old.

And then people will once again claim that Apple is shortening their battery life with updates.

Of course you could artificially The battery life so that people can’t tell that when new it’s longer than it appears.

But someone will figure that out and clean that Apple is purposefully hampering things so they can make people buy new phones. Because they ARE.

There is no solution to any of these problems that people will like and won’t end up with terrible headlines.
Dress codes are just a coded way of communicating that you conform to a particular social group’s norms. On Wall Street, it’s Zenga and Rolex. In Palo Alto, it’s T-shirts and Allbirds. In Tokyo, it’s gaucho pants and beanies. In stuffy old consulting companies, it’s stuffy “business” garbs from the 1990s. In other words, it’s just local fashion.
Shops that use strongly-typed functional languages are, in my experience, a good bet. They usually made that choice because they have an unusually compelling need to write correct code. Aerospace also has a few sub-industries where correctness is priority #1 (like commercial autopilot software).
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There are certainly more options, however from personal experience I can attest that ESXi’s free license supports GPU pass-through.
You don't even need GPS, or an external signal at all. All you need is an odometer.

1) Engineer selects the train's starting position (the station and departure gate) and selects the route.

2) Train software presses the equivalent of a 'trip reset' button that our cars have had forever. Current Position = 0.0

3) The train and the engineer each program a maximum speed. The train determines the maximum speed by selecting the maxSpeed which has the highest Position less than currentPosition. The engineer determines the maximum speed as she normally would.

4) The train's speed must not exceed the lower of the two configured maximum speeds.
Exactly what I thought.

I've also had to deal with a lot of this 'security'. It really inhibits normal work so much that security is probably reduced.

Any machine should have tcpdump, netcat, lsof, strace as well.
If you want to make it more secure - well set permissions appropriately and/or use selinux/apparmor.

Hell, may as well put osquery on it as well. Why make life difficult for people to do their jobs?

At an interview I was asked how to diagnose a running program.
I mentioned strace of course, but they were also looking for gdb use. I've not had gdb on any prod machine for 'security reasons'. :-(
Both (Craigslist prostitution ads and age specific jobs ads on Facebook) are publishing something which is illegal.

The party which should be pursued is the one posting the post which goes contrary to law.

I'm ok if FB or CL proactively root out those posts, but I'm not so sure I see it as their responsibility to do. It's good oversight but still I feel the people who should be punished are the agents of the wrongdoing.

So, no, I don't see them as an accessory to the crime.

That said, the companies/individuals doing the actual discrimination and or illegal solicitation should face the consequences of their actions. In this case, I'm not condoning companies discriminating on the basis of age.
I'm not anti-professionalism, and have come to appreciate putting in some effort at work for clothing thoughtfulness, especially among people with more authority. But it's interesting to see how skilless roles like bankers and financial consultants focus on this stuff to weed out people they don't like. Interesting opposite to the idea of a merit based system that they pretend to uphold.
At least there is cubeworld. That guy won't release it till it's perfect :) ... Seriously thou, there should be someone who's job it is is to put these things into perspective to the suits. bad design does cost money. engineers aren't MBA's (usually) and are bad at speaking their language (usually). And the "we're young therefore we know everything about technology" stereotype needs to go. The world is complicated, it can't be boiled down to buzzwords or stereotypes.
Before you get out your pitchforks, this page is from 2001. He's made updates and added email commentary since then but it's reflective of a very different age from someone (Don Burleson) who was very much considered "old fashioned" back then too.