skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plenty of people in northern Scandinavia cycle throughout the winter. With the right clothing and equipment, the weather isn't a particular problem. Many of the highest-rated cities on the Copenhagenize Index of cycle-friendly cities are far north. The highest-rated city in the US is Minneapolis. Malmö, Helsinki and Montréal also make the top 20.

http://copenhagenize.eu/index/

People from non-cycling cultures tend to badly under-estimate the quality of utility cycling equipment and over-estimate the impact of weather on a well-equipped rider.

Schwalbe Marathon Winter tires have hundreds of steel spikes and will grip securely even on black ice. SKS Longboard fenders provide a huge amount of protection from rain, spray and road grime. Lobster mittens keep your hands toasty warm in arctic conditions, while still allowing you to operate the brake and gear levers. Epicyclic gearhubs provide up to 14 gear ratios in a completely enclosed and practically maintenance-free package. Good LED bicycle lights are stunningly bright, rivalling the performance of car headlamps. A long john or Christiania cargo bike will comfortably carry two children, a week's worth of groceries or even a washing machine; with electric assist, these bikes are viable even in very hilly areas.
It's also worth considering Xilinx Zync (FPGA with an ARM Cortex A9 in the package) boards. EG Digilent's: http://store.digilentinc.com/fpga-programmable-logic/by-tech...

Not cheap without the 50% educational discount, but very powerful for some workloads. Then again if you have one of those workloads you probably are already using an FPGA...
I hear this a lot, but I don't see it. A lot of people move in to management roles, but others just keep writing code.

I also don't see why "owning a small business" is a virtue in and of itself. Owning a profitable company that doesn't consume my every waking hour would be great. But that's the exception.
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So who goes to jail?

But I have a feeling that the money sucking industry selling a particular solution called "Positive Train Control" has managed to create some sort of undeployable monstrosity. And what we actually need is something completely different which costs virtually nothing to implement.
“Skilless roles like bankers and consultants”. Are you 12? Are you kidding? You should approach things you don’t understand with more respect than that.
30% of the sale price, obviously.

Regarding your second point, interesting, seems like MAS is good to get started until the app reaches a certain volume.
Now he is dressing for the job he wants to have.
Kubernetes takes some concepts from Borg. A system like Borg would be very closely coupled to Google‘s infrastructure that there’s probably very little to open source from there without open sourcing the entire machinery.

Also, any large scale system like Borg developed at a large company like Facebook or Google will have completely opinionated one-way-of-doing-things for a lot of aspects. This doesn’t work for the world outside where lots of developers from different backgrounds, lots of projects with different requirements exist.
> skilless roles like bankers and financial consultants

Those roles are hardly skilless.
Travel. There is nothing better than meeting new people and realizing everyone is just trying to work their way to a better life, day after day.

I traveled across the United States, lived in other states -- worked in a liquor store in downtown Chicago, drove across California while sleeping in my car for the entire week, while sleeping just outside and near some celebrity houses -- and I've even lived in another country long enough to experience culture shock upon living there and returning back home. There are good people and there are bad people all around.

The world can be dangerous if you aren't cautious and careful, but you can survive in most places around the world, in most countries. To talk to people, to learn about their own trials and tribulations, to hear and understand their philosophies, to know who they are, who they became, and even who they want to be, is just so interesting.

Even Hacker News... startups, entrepreneurs, individuals, the bored and the procrastinators, males and females, everyone has their own story and their own life, and they are all just trying to make it, and make it a better life for themselves (and others, usually). I certainly don't want to say everyone is greedy, but most people just want to earn enough to be comfortable and not have to worry about money... and in a way, this connects us all, the desire for peace, the desire to do something, or even change the world.

To experience the human condition, to be a soul living in a human body.. there's no guarantees of anything else other than what is now... so it only makes sense to spend the last year of your life, on the planet you call home, amongst the very species, humans, just understanding what life is all about to them... so that you might be able to understand your own life.
Love that comment section... I wish all comment sections were like this today
When JS stops reimplementing Unix tools or stuff from the Bell ATT labs from before you were born, I'd start getting worried. The fundamentals are important, when you get into anything more complex than slapping crud apps together. Witness the monstrosities birthed by JS "programmers" that have never slung pointers, or been acquainted with tree operations, or think MVC was birthed with Web 2.0.
I don't think you are correct.

Space Shuttle came about because Saturn was not economically sustainable. NASA was getting those massive funds from the Gov for the Moon mission, and after the goal was achieved those funds stopped flowing, and NASA had no way to maintain those expensive rockets.

So NASA came up with a reusable spacecraft design, the Space Shuttle. But DoD wanted the shuttle to have a certain payload capacity/features for their use cases and that forced NASA to change their original design, which also made it a maintenance nightmare.

In hindsight, Space Shuttle would have achieved its mission of being a cheap reusable spacecraft, if NASA were able to use its original design.
Thank you! It's a pleasure to share my ideas with a community like this.
FB got in trouble for this same problem awhile back, but it was for allowing ethnically-targeted ads. Couldn't find a reference, sorry.

edit: references available here: https://stallman.org/facebook.html#racism (Thanks RomanPushkin )
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If you browse around the github repository, you can find csv files for all of the tables, which you might be able to work with. Also, search Google Images for "AdventureWorks Schema" to get an idea of how complex the database is. It seems to be the kind of dataset you're looking for, just maybe not in exactly the format you'd like.
I actually spent a year at death's door. I spent that time doing whatever made me hurt less.

That was about 17 years ago.

Edit: I will note this is a completely unrealistic thought experiment. People who have actually been told they have months to live are typically too sick to reliably get out of bed and leave the house. Yet, most people who reply will implicitly disregard that reality while making up stories about immense personal accomplishments in their final days. Because the question itself implicitly ignores that reality.
Firefox is dinging me about data being sent insecurely. Probably some tracker on the site, but I'm not a web dev.
This works both ways.

When I was at Apple, we had a consultant who insisted on coming into work dressed like a professional consultant. The rest of us were in T-shirts, shorts and jeans, sandals or tennis shoes or hiking boots, a typical hacker crowd.

She wasn't getting much traction. It was awkward to have a "suit" in meetings, even though we knew she was an excellent engineer. A couple of us suggested that it might help for her to dress down. Finally our director (a woman, if it matters) took her aside and had a chat. A few days later the consultant started coming into work in jeans / t-shirt and so forth, and her interactions with us went a lot better.

The hacker in me wants to feel vindicated. But really it just shows how shallow we can be.

In any event, I am never, ever going to wear a tie or a suit to work.
I was about to refer you to Schneier's Applied Cryptography — using 'crypto' in your title is misleading: you mean cryptocurrencies... but IT has used the term 'crypto' for decades already to mean cryptography.
Cycling doesn't need to be any more strenuous than walking. It keeps you much cooler than walking, because the higher speed creates a windchill effect if you're lightly dressed. People from non-cycling cultures tend to think that cycling is inherently hot and sweaty, but that's completely inaccurate. It's perfectly comfortable if you ride at your own pace rather than busting a gut in an effort to keep up with traffic.
Depends a lot on the industry.
I love how their second section is all about the status of the law. Very nice and heavy handed.
Interesting comma usage.
Hahaha the dress code is nothing compared to this http://www.dba-oracle.com/t_make_deer_butt_alien.htm and http://www.dba-oracle.com/redneck.htm
It seems excessive by today's US standards (but not Japan or some other places) but as long as it's not over the top and or excessive for the position, and they are up front about it, I see no problem with it.

I mean, why shouldn't a Metal band, for example, require their roadies to wear leather and spikes or spandex and hairspray if that's their thing.
Wait... this is real? Come on, this isn't real. Is it?
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What many don't realize is that i goes both ways. They might be dressed nicer than us, but I'm going to assume they're sleazy salesmen like just about everyone else that still wears a suit. I'll assume that no one half way competent works at the company, because we work in a competitive industry and the best people have options to work in better environments.

I'm sure most of us here have worked with enough useless consultancies to know that there is no correlation between dress and ability. It's not even a class symbol anymore, the biggest group of people that wear suits to work are in retail these days.
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Just as cool if he were called 'Tex' (be he from there or not).
True, but following this guide to the letter will make you appear boring, overly conservative and unfashionable. Even people who still wear suits regularly would probably be well-advised to branch out a bit from a plain white shirt, black shoes and a conservative tie every day.
You are providing a legitimate case where people get behind on payments. The thread I responded too was making a case that everyone that isn't rich in the US is completely screwed. Sure, there are some cases where you can't make your commitments, but that isn't everyone.

As for little warning, there have been laws requiring ample notice and grace period for a long time now in the US.
Sentences can almost always be optimized to reduce wordiness, you can almost always make a paper shorter and more readable, it is only a matter of how much time you have to do this. As Blaise Pascal once said “I only made this letter longer because I had not the leisure to make it shorter.”
That's true, but I'm not sure if using Jenkins would avoid these problems you outline. And that's really the crux of what the OP is suggesting; that Jenkins or something smaller than Kube would have been a better choice.
If Amtrak has in fact implemented PTC on all of the tracks they control, I would blame the freight railroads who are the other 20 full members of the AAR.

If Amtrak is also stalling on implementing PTC on their own tracks, yeah, I'd stop the buck at them.
When you say suit, do you include sports jackets/blazers? I ask because I do see a few people who choose to wear those as a fashion statement. It's not something super popular, but you see it here and there.
You could read the first sentence of the article:

"Federal officials on Tuesday ended a moratorium imposed three years ago on funding research that alters germs to make them more lethal."

or a little further down:

"In October 2014, all federal funding was halted on efforts to make three viruses more dangerous: the flu virus, and those causing Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)."
I've wondered why "tropical attire" hasn't caught on in the American South and Southwest. In the summers especially it is consistently hotter and more humid than most tropical locations. If anything, multi-layered wool-and-leather getup is inappropriate for the climate.

If plastic melts in your car in the parking lot, maybe requiring people to wear a coat or jacket is a bit much.
Burleson had a good reputation before 2004. His technical reputation in the oracle dba world got ruined by other well know tuning experts in the field.

There are reports that he doesn't pay his consultants.

https://donburlesonfraud.wordpress.com/

https://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/don-burleson-burleson-c...

http://oracledoug.com/serendipity/index.php?/archives/1303-W...

Burleson issuing DMCA notices:
https://hoopercharles.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/on-the-topic-...

I consider a lot of non-technical stuff on his site to be just funny.

Look at this doe bell from one of his sites:
http://www.rampant-books.com/product_deer_butt_doorbell.htm
http://www.dba-oracle.com/redneck.htm
My story with the big O stems from one of their ERP systems. It got pretty tangled, but here's the 2-minute version:

A contract was signed and during early implementation Oracle EOL'ed a significant module with a replacement that was planned but did not exist. Followed by attempts to charge us for their development of the replacement which, again, had been a pre-paid module in their off-the-shelf ERP. Already paid for.

That didn't fly, but later the replacement lacked key features: A web-facing portion collected information. We demo, it works, we ask where data processing folks view it in the forms app... crickets. Conversation ensues:

O: "It's in the database"

Me: Sure, but where do users view it when collating the other information?

O: "Well, a dba can get to it"

Me: Okay, but when we go live, will it show up as a another tab in a form or...?

O: "We've completed our build of this feature"

Me: Hold on, collecting & processing this data is a critical and contractually itemized deliverable. You have developed half of that deliverable.

O: "We've completed out build of this feature"

I was probably fortunate that my CIO was there, and took over at that point. A few weeks later, Oracle walked off the job. There had been delays in a modules I wasn't involved with, and Oracle wanted more money. It was a fixed-price contract, and we wouldn't re-open negotiation on a signed contract already multiple milestones in on its payment schedule. Oracle walked. Literally gone, no word, no message, just dozens of people that were there on Tuesday, gone on Wednesday. That's Oracle.
Is it just for fine-tuning to the exact usecase? Otherwise I'd expect to at least see common libraries pop up.
This is satire, right? It has to be satire. Actually maybe just the pictures.
Lawyers and lobbyists?
I would go hike the more technical peaks I am hesitate to hike, travel to the top countries on my bucket list I haven't visited, and I would get married to my girlfriend.
For 2nd point, "Bitcoin will wither", I do not see in your post the reasonable explanation on that. In my opinion BTC will still be there, simply its first and foremost crypto currency in the world, never underestimate the pioneer. BTC is potential to become world's store of value asset due to its big value and solely usage of bitcoin blockchain( to serve BTC transfer transaction only). Ethereum and other cryptos can be useful for other purposes due to its blockchain flexibility(smart contract and other technology to build dapps on top of the blockchain), but its also the flaw because noone wants to use those blockchains to build end-user platform with billion transactions if those crypto currencies value is too high (that implies high fee when running transaction on blockchain). But lets imagine, with 1BTC = 1M$, you can easily make 1B$ transaction with very low fee in compare to using bank system instead, and the receiver can get that amount of money in the same day (in this case I do not count on bitcoin blockchain scalability project like Lightning network to make your transaction happen instantly ). After all, future has room for all of us.
While much of what you say is true, it fails to get at the extent to which they not only forego innovation, but actually remove innovation from the general market by buying the companies/patents in question and then making them exclusive to the Oracle ecosystem. It's mercenary rent seeking to a degree that isn't often seen elsewhere, and as such we all suffer for it.

It's not pure capitalism, which would provide mechanisms for dealing with this, and it's not too much regulation, which could also prevent this, it's just the right amount of both that allows Oracle to play them against each other to game the system.
I do consulting work with scientific and engineering firms and I'll contend that it still largely holds. For me, the trick wasn't to look at how the engineers dress. Rather, it's how management dresses and they tend to adhere to moderately strict rules for dress. At the end of the day, they're the ones that sign my contract, so it's important that I communicate to them that I understand their rules of conduct.

In case anyone is interested, Alan Flusser's book, "Dressing the Man: Mastering the Art of Permanent Fashion," provides a good background on the history of men's formal dress and why certain things are the way they are. Certainly, we can disagree as to whether it should be important, but clothing is a language, so we might as well understand what we're saying in a particular context.
This article bothers me because it implies that the path to correct code is simply to have code written by white-collar salarymen (as opposed to unkempt youth), and not improved formal methods.
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Seville in Spain is rated as one of the 20 most cycling-friendly cities in the world. Their climate is roughly comparable with much of the southern United States.

http://copenhagenize.eu/index/14_seville.html
At college career fairs you're selecting for people who are graduating with a relevant degree, there is no age requirements for attending college so a 55 year old who is just completing their bachelors could well be one of the people you recruit.

Just because the environment you advertise in is inherently skewed young doesn't make it discrimination, explicitly preventing people of a certain age from seeing your ad is.
I don't think it is rude to ignore them. They are probably mass messaging people anyway. If I do want to respond I use a short non-canned response.
Oh look...

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42425857
Today’s rule is, “when in Rome”
Apple Macbook Pro 2016 13" with Sierra. Base model.
> Since I wasn’t root and couldn’t install any tools (guess I could have copied a netstat binary across)

If you have the ability to write anywhere to disk (e.g., even /tmp, /run), dropping a copy of Busybox (a statically linked, minimal clone of many of the base tools like ifconfig, netstat) has helped me more than once.

(I didn't have a working scp on a machine, and it was the ssh "gateway" to another machine that I needed access to. To jump to the next machine, I needed to run either ssh or nc, both of which were defunct (the HDD was dying). Copied busybox over for nc, and it worked like a charm. I had to write a small python script to transform the binary into a printf command to write it out to disk, as essentially nothing but bash builtins worked due to the condition of the disk. Had a minor panic attack when I realized I needed to chmod +x it, but chmod still worked. In hindsight, I think I could have set the umask prior to the printf to avoid that step.)
I could be wrong, but I read somewhere that almost all of those large transactions are inter or intra exchange movements simply moving money around into different wallets. Also, they only indicate a transfer, it seems very unlikely that anyone has cashed out $25m all at once with bitcoin.
Um... Some people like dressing up for work and feel professional attire gives them confidence.
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Yes, the exchanges would, at least until a bunch more lower transactions took place.
Loved this post! Thanks for taking the time to write it
An automated panopticon.
Many European cities are a bit lucky in that regard, they are much older than US or Australian cities. The European cities are built on top of plans that were made for pedestrians and horse carriages, with city walls and small streets.

Muenster, for example, has a beautiful bike circle around the inner city because that's where the city walls used to be. US and Australian cities are much younger and don't have such 'restraints' to work with, so they become car heavy automatically.
The norm is to double or triple salary between graduation and much experience. Remember that costs is more than just salary.

In SF/NYC, juniors can start under 100k, seniors can go over 300k. Either number could go either way, let's not argue about who got what. The point is, there is a LARGE multiplier.

I recall one friend in London, in a junior position. Left his company because of bad conditions and bad pay. One of his last assignment was to interview some possible replacements. There was one senior guy 20+ years of experience that was great, the company made an offer for around double his own salary.

Do you know what happened? The guy declined.

Guess what we found out later? He joined another company that offered him around three times that double.

Young folks don't realize how expensive experienced folks can be.
Hanlon’s razor comes through in full force.

The vast majority of people making agregrious security errors know no better. You could argue that whoever hired them shares or shoulders the blame, but to suggest they’re not decent people is a stretch. Most I’m sure are. They’re also likely infosec idiots.

Now if you know something is terribly insecure, understand what’s involved in fixing it, and go out of your way not to, then yes ethics come into play. I see that the same as an engineer (in the true sense of the word) staying silent on an issue involving automobile brakes that could lead to casualties. The consequences are not 1:1 but the ethical question is in the category.
Those are transfers, not necessarily transactions. No one probably traded 10m in bitcoin for USD. If an exchange transfers btc from one wallet to another for holding, it will show up on the transactions list.
Okay, I just assumed you used the words as commonly understood. You can certainly say or believe anything you want. I wasn't challenging that.
You're better off going to a place like styleforum.net to learn how to dress well over this archaic nonsense.
I just want to draw attention to a certain chain of logic in one of your sentences...

> usual case
> rape has absolutely occurred
> evidence often amounts to he-said/she-said

All of these things can't be true.
I thought one _always_ had to merge right before turning right --else ticket for turning from wrong lane (even if it's the only lane in that direction). I guess the fear is contributing to a scenario which sets-up a T-bone. I believe this was the case before people even thought about considering bikes. I'm surprised it's not the same in other states. The again, we don't have the Boston left turn rule.
Their central booster is also using refurbished engines. That's is really awesome!
I've encountered at least one circuit court judge who "ruled more favorably toward skirts" as a colleague put it.

https://abovethelaw.com/2015/02/judges-want-women-lawyers-to...