skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But isn't that a symptom of not being able to correctly identify what those metrics should be?

I imagine that even actions that are somewhat indirectly associated with benefitting the entire business should be enumerable in some way and prioritized.

I'm not saying it's easy (how do you prioritize community engagement vs new product development vs how those impact the business short and long term).

But at the end of the day, you'll know best how you value those for your org, and how you want to rank them (along with the employee's actual execution of said goal), but sorting by a percentage of income instead of fixed amounts is probably the best course.

Of course, my armchair quarterbacking is a lot easier than actually doing it :)
Japan's Kasotsuka Shojo, the world's first cryptopop group
Did Intel said WHEN this is fixed in hardware? Or are we supposed to buy this hardware bug in the next generations???
That's not entirely accurate. There are a lot of ARM CPUs that are not vulnerable to Spectre, and that includes a lot of them that are in use in actual devices. For example, my phone happens to use a Cortex-A53, which is not vulnerable. It is however easy to miss this detail from their 'security update' [0] because the table doesn't list CPUs that aren't affected.

Also, I don't believe the single ARM CPU that's vulnerable to meltdown (Cortex-A75) has actually been included in any devices at this point, so for now it is safe to assume any ARM-based device you have is not vulnerable to meltdown.

[0] https://developer.arm.com/support/security-update
I don’t expect him to give anything, however what I was trying to convey (and I admit I was wrong and not thinking of the general positive impact, and therefore what I was trying to convey was pointless) was that this wasn’t newsworthy, and seemed to be a puff piece to make Bezos sound more altruistic than he is.
>Edit3: Checking Redox' source shows that about 1.5% of the code invokes 'unsafe' and they cite this in their documentation, but what I really want to know is how frequently those lines of code are called.

I never used Rust but looked at it several times over the past years. Doesn't the 'unsafe' classification allow for future automated tools/theorem provers to challenge those specific lines? Looking for vulnerabilities/bugs in only 1.5% of the code instead of the entire code base sounds like a nice improvement.
Can you explain why, at least briefly?
Chrome, lets you disable javascript by site. Works like a charm to stop javascript BS.
Uber is more than a trivial tax problem, it is a clear attempt to avoid tax by hook or by crook. Uber has the ethics of the french secret service, ie none.
You're strong enough to admit it, so feel less guilty. I'm as cynical as anyone else, but you do have to step back occasionally and see nice things for what they are: nice.
The experiment is not over so there is no data to canalize yet.
Does Environmental Crime Pay?
Itanium is not binary compatible with x86. Might as well think about arm if it would require change in ci pipeline/the set up from app developers.
I appreciate that, but... When I pass beggars on the street, I've rarely given money to them, even back when I could afford to. It would be a bit hypocritical to do the same thing.

Everyone has problems. They don't define me. The main issue is that staying anonymous wouldn't go over well, and I don't want to be known as that guy with ass cancer.

A strange thing happened in the dota2 community. Dota 2 is a competitive game, and as such, it has casters (sports commenters). One very good caster is Sheever, but she was usually looked down upon as less talented than the other casters. Sheever had her moments, and she was pretty solid, but it's important to have an accurate perspective of your own work.

Then she publicly stated she had breast cancer, and everything changed. Overnight, everyone was super nice, to a ridiculous degree.

I saw similar things happen here, in two instances: 1. Randy Pausch, noted CMU professor who spoke at length about time management: http://www.post-gazette.com/breaking/2008/07/25/Randy-Pausch...

2. The person from HN who ultimately took his own life near the end. I cannot even remember his name... I feel like I owe him more than that.

Death is our shared destination.

The only thing I regret is not ever having enough money to scrape together to father a child... It's kind of the only thing my wife and I want out of life at the moment, but it's totally out of reach. And it's partly my fault. If I traded away all of my time and made my life all about work, I could do that. But then is what little time I have left still worth living?

It's complicated. I enjoy having the option of getting people to listen. People tend to pay more attention when someone is at the end of their life, out of respect. So I'm putting together some writings that I hope will provide at least mild amusement / interest for a week or so, for whoever stumbles on them.

There are worse fates. I get to live in a time when I can connect with you fine people. I really believe in this community, as cheesy as that sounds.

To put it one other way: if my work is not good enough to attract money, for one reason or another, then that says a lot about society. I'm a relatively smart and capable Lisp hacker. I would rather serve as an example of the kinds of problems people with narcolepsy have, which are not fully appreciated or understood. E.g. most people in my life berated me for being lazy, growing up, and most of my memories from that time period were not good. If people understood there was a medical basis for this, they probably would have been more understanding, and I could have carved out a little niche for myself somewhere more easily. I, too, didn't understand what was going on, and thought that most people were just much more motivated than I was, so I started to look down on myself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMPzDiraNnA is worth internalizing. How you deal with problems determines the kind of person you are.
A cheap paintbrush is practically the same as an expensive one, but I'd not trade my $70 watercolor brush for a cheap one. In art, practically the same can get weirdly different results. Simply changing a brand in the same category (paint, for example) can mean color differences and some mixing issues if mixed with some other brands.

With this, it is more issue of price, availability, personal preference and practicality. Some folks will seek out such a thing, but most wont.

I found one from Faber-Castell (generally available brand of art pens/pencils). [1] The hardness isn't marked on the outside of the pencil (good for looks, bad for pencil changes) Though it comes with 14 different hardnesses of lead, refills only come in 11 (You don't need such a wide variety most times though). Oh, and they are $11.50 each.

I'd use at least 3-4 different graphite hardnesses in one picture, usually a few more. $45-$60 with hard to find replacement leads for a small benefit that doesn't seem to improve things the way a good paintbrush does. After all, you can just buy Faber-Castell wood pencils (a set for around the price of one) and get the same quality lead.

Now, more to the point, the concerns I would have switching as an artist: some mechanical pencil lead isn't quite the same substance as the pencils, and it is obvious when one erases and blends. Not only that, but I'm pretty sure that even though you can use the side of lead, the shape of the tip is different sort of support than the wood against the pencil. I can see how folks would prefer one sort over an other, so it might not work out.

[1] http://www.fabercastell.com/products/more-products/mechanica...
Yep. Way off. Thanks for calling that out in a very direct and courteous way. I didn’t deserve that.
Not recent, but Norstilia by Cordwainer Smith is a classic.
> Well, it's the first OS that isn't built on C/C++ (unsafe languages).

That was in 1961 at Burroughs, using ESPOL.

There were plenty of OS being built in Algol and PL/I variants outside AT&T walls since the 60's.

History is full of OS written in other languages that weren't either C or C++, including Apple's Lisa OS and the first editions of Mac OS.
“We’re rewarding you this year by making it easier for you to find another job” sounds insane when you say it like that, but that’s what they did!
I see this as very beneficial but I consider nice to be a very different thing. With that said I have a bad record on being reasonable so let me revisit this tomorrow after I’ve slept on it :)
I hope some blackhat just burns them instead of negotiating chump change.
One problem of creating your own time abstraction class is not only that you need full control of the code base and introduce everyone new to project to always use this class. Some time-based operations can be quite hard to mock, such as wait for thread synchronization primitive or wait for IO with timeout. However those are most often usually used in the domain where you don't want to mock time because, as you say, there the wall-time and the processing-time is more often dependent on each other and you probably want to test everything exactly as it would run in production.
Do people on Ireland use townlands on the ground? They could be a more human kind of postal sector. See Townlands.ie
On the job training provided if you are fresh graduate

That is, in fact, how every Air Force in the world recruits pilots.
Who's Jeffrey and why should he be proud?
Having a child introduces a stubborn force that presses hard against our own selfishness.
Welcome. + I'm as scared of downvotes as the next guy :-)
Why to use any facebook's products ?
HN would be a very different place if downvotes weren’t a threat.

TBH I’m not sure whether that is good or bad. I’ve seen many threads go way down into a place that makes me sick and others that get stifled because the view is dissenting. More concerning are the threads that never happen because smart people know not to even bother getting into it.

On average I think things are OK though :)
Hostile Takover by Susan Shwartz. Not sure it's exactly what you're thinking of, but worth reading - written by someone who is a bona fide finance person as well an SF author.
It should be possible to apply retpoline in the JIT to mitigate that.
Relevant: https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/run-time-null-checks-and-pe...

I've measured the null-checks and other people have too... the runtime performance cost is negligible, so disabling them would get you nothing useful. If they did, Kotlin would have made the compiler flag to disable them (which exists) public... but until someone comes up with an actual reason other than "I feel like it's better" that won't change.
Open Banking: Britain's gigantic financial experiment
In other languages developers can choose between tabs and spaces, delimiter vs no-delimiter, different styles.

Python is rather opinionated and limited, probably the most draconian Soviet-style language of all.
But how many lives are worst because money was spent on Amazon?
Dai: A Cryptocurrency Without Price Fluctuations
There's a good explanation of what this means on Wired [1]. Hopefully this means the end of financial planning apps asking for my online banking password. Interestingly they also suggest online payments might go directly through the bank rather than a payment provider like WorldPay, but I guess that depends on how varied the APIs are.

1: http://www.wired.co.uk/article/open-banking-cma-psd2-explain...
Ingenious!

An enhancement of this technique could be used on one’s own private network of DNS resolvers for the specific purpose of acting like a highly available directory of private cloud nodes, storing the following information:

host:service:port:protocol

encoded in one DNS TXT record per service.

This would kind of be like a mashup of Apple Bonjour and this technique.

The big question is, how long to cache the information for in such a setup, assuming the cloud itself is highly unreliable, so as to make the entire thing extremely fault tolerant?
I don’t think it is any harder than controlling any other part of the lighting in your scene.

A flash (any flash, even your camera’s built in one if it has manual power settings) and a few hours doing the first articles on Strobist will gove you the skills you need to light the pics in this article.
Isn't that a bit presumptuous? We know nothing of his/her background.
I've been wondering if this will be the thing that brings a wave of new users to open source RISC-V chips, starting a virtuous cycle of new chip development and then more users for those new chips.

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/17/10/09/0019212/linux-n...
More commonly called profile-guided optimization (PGO).
This is a tough post to reply to meaningfully without seeming gushing or trite, so I’ll leave it at a genuinely meant:

Good luck :)
I hope this will give RISC-V a boost also, more competition from more vendors is what the CPU market need.
WBUR Reddit-themed podcast “Endless Thread” makes its debut
I'm reading "Surface Details" by Iain M Banks, love the Culture series !
Very sorry to hear about your situation.

FWIW, i had been concealing cancer symptoms for 6 months (denial, was obviously a tumour) when i decided to see a doctor. All tests (physical, bloods, ultrasound) came back negative until I saw a specialist, who confirmed that it was a tumour. Fortunately I was able to visit this extremely expensive expert, because the doctors were not convinced that it was cancerous. Turns out it was an extremely aggressive, and rare in male youths, form of cancer called Embryonal Rhabdomysarcoma.

If I was in your shoes I would be dead by now. Fortunately I had (still have, actually) an employer who backed me during this time including providing generous financial support.

> 2. The person from HN who ultimately took his own life near the end. I cannot even remember his name... I feel like I owe him more than that.

Am really interested in finding out more about this, if you have more information.
VIRAT KOHLI PESONAL LIFE
Russell Conjugation – Eric R. Weinstein
my teams usage is pretty even so the cloudwatch graph is pretty obvious: https://m.imgur.com/a/khGxU
CHANAKYA NITI- WHAT IS FEAR
There are a ton of citizens who would benefit from college but can't afford to go. I struggle to see the utility in discriminating against your own poverty-stricken countrymen in this. What's the real motivation?
What do you mean? How many do you think?
I believe Apple's ARM CPUs are vulnerable to Meltdown.
For some definition of 'newish' - motherboards have stopped including a floppy controller years ago. There's nowhere to plug it in.

You'd have to get a USB floppy before everyone stops manufacturing them.
Wouldn't this let me call `fn true false` or `fn "hi" 2`? Or the second declaration takes the inferred type of the arguments from the first one?
You miss the point, people wants to use vim not the gnome shell.
I couldn't help but think of the wonderful essay "I, Pencil" [1], and how no one person knows how to make a pencil.

[1]: http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html
Yes identifying the right metrics is certainly hard, but managing the conflict between them is even harder. As you rightly point out as soon as you have a few different metrics how do you decide their relative importance and how much time and effort on each one?

Managing is a very difficult skill to master. I most certainly would not consider myself any more than a little above average and only because the average manager is so bad.
How can CORS possibly be related to image pixels in any way?
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I would say it’s at about 1/60. The guy is still sharp but the pencil leads have some motion blur. Slower than that you will start to get motion blur in human subjects if you are unlucky. 1/30 it is still possible to get sharp portraits but some will have motion blur.
Harnessing Code Generation to Increase Reliability and Productivity on iOS at Uber
That's kind of my point. Though if we're being honest, different regions in America have vastly different cultures.
Absolutely loved this book, though I thought the best parts of it were the influx of ideas and worldbuilding in the first 3/4ths of Too Like the Lightning. The last quarter seemed to rush to tie together the threads laid down and I felt that carried over into Seven Surrenders.

Of course I think my approach to reading it also changed as I was eagerly awaiting that resolution. Haven't picked up Will to Battle yet, but very excited for it.
Those three dots are doing a lot of work.
I don't think you should blame yourself about beggars, it's not hypocritical. I don't usually give any money to beggars too, because most probably they are related to some crime groups (someone takes away most of donated money from them) and/or will just spend the money on booze and that's it. On the other hand, I've bought stuff I don't need from beggar-like old women here (babushkas), who just knit socks/hats etc and stand on the street trying to sell it and get some money (there were times in Russia when old folks had very low pensions after retirement). It's two different stories, when you give money to someone who'll just drink themselves to death or to someone who need a little help right now. So I wouldn't say it's hypocritical.
>>The really cool thing about stropping is that it enables you to put spaces in your identifiers.

I think that this is a recepie for confusion and misunderstanding, both for humans and for developer tools. I do not understand how can it be "cool" ?
Governments undermining their own monetary systems is hardly novel, both for stupid reasons and occasionally for clever ones. Governments often implement new economic systems or currencies, with fairly mixed results.
Optional is a special case of a sum type where one of the types is Null.
If you have Null as a type whose only value is null, then an Optional is just a T|Null. No need for Optional to exist.
Meltdown patch reduces mkfile(8) throughput to less than 1/3 on OS X
It's like donating to a charity. If you donate to one but not the other, is it discrimination to the other?
Game of Drones – Researchers devised a technique to detect #drone #surveillance
But Earth is about 4.54 billion years old [1].

[1] https://www.space.com/24854-how-old-is-earth.html
Free Software Foundation Endorses PureOS
In French it is a bout ferré, literally a 'shod tip'. From the verb ferrer, to shoe a horse, from which common source English takes farrier.
I didn't think a question like this would get any attention on HN let alone hit the front page! :)

Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi was one of my favourites last year
They could have left the legacy system running before switching irreversibly to the new bugged system. That way they can rollback the change.
I was expecting movies and shows... How about those though?
The biggest risk factor for most illness is getting old, you can't avoid that with a change in lifestyle.
It's good that they at least recognize that code-generation is a crock.

"If you are using code generation to solve a problem that might be better solved by making your code more generic, code generation will probably have a degradative effect on the health and maintainability of your codebase."

Basically, if you have to resort to code generation:

1) Abandon all hope, ye who enter here[1]

2) The abstraction mechanisms available to you are deficient.

[1] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/able/www/paper_...
That would have been true to say if this was a decade ago. After the advent of .NET and CLI's ability to support multiple languages, Sun started moving the JVM away from being Java specific and including features to support other languages. Your criticism hasn't been correct for years.
What makes "our countrymen" so special and deserving over anyone else? Grow past the artificial box you were born in.
The Intel DQ67OW motherboard has a floppy connector and an LGA1155 socket for Sandy Bridge (maybe Ivy Bridge too).

3.5 GHz Core i7 with a floppy drive is not too shabby.

It also has both PS/2 and serial ports if you would like to plug in a mouse.
John Boyd and the meaning of life [pdf]
How to quit your tech: a beginner's guide to divorcing your phone
By that argument, people on the other side of the earth from you are already aliens to you. Why would it matter if you personally visit everywhere "of significance"?
Think you might have a mild superiority complex going on there, buddy.

There’s nothing wrong with ascribing properties to a noun in either manner. Language is flexible enough to deal with whatever feels appropriate for a given noun-property pair, and this is hardly an egregious error.

Regarding graduation, bear in mind that until the 1960s it was more common for the school to do the graduating, rather than the student; a hypothetical student was graduated from college, they did not graduate from college. Of course, that now seems quite archaic. But the simplification continues, and perhaps in the near future the “unnecessary” from will sound equally unusual.

The point is that language is astonishingly flexible, and generally trying to take the road of prescriptivism is doomed to everlasting sadness and disappointment :)
Here's an interesting, worthwhile read on Dai:
https://prestonbyrne.com/2017/12/10/stablecoins-are-doomed-t...

"Crypto-collateralized stablecoins are the perpetual motion machines of modern finance."
If you speak french, I would recommend Hugo Larochelle channel:

https://www.youtube.com/user/hugolarochelle
I’d be curious to know how much energy would be required to separate all that salt from that water, especially in terms of the total solar energy Earth receives. If, hypothetically, all that solar energy were devoted to desalinization, how long would it take?
> We can use many of the built in security features of docker containers to lock down applications in a way that prevents untrusted code from ever being run on our host.

I doubt OP has understood the vulns. It's data extraction only. None of the 3 variants allow an attacker execution of untrusted code by itself.
Many Americans (myself included) believe most DACA recipients deserve citizenship, as they were brought to the U.S. illegally by their parents while still very young through no fault of their own. DACA recipients often consider themselves American, having grown up in U.S. public schools speaking American English and immersed in American culture. As young adults, the DACA program allowed them to pay taxes, hold down a job, pursue an education, and generally keep on being Americans.

In the view of DACA recipients as unfairly disadvantaged Americans, Jeff Bezos is indeed helping his own countrymen.
All things that are bad for the environment are part of the environment.
Here's the referenced journal article...

"Cliques of Neurons Bound into Cavities Provide a Missing Link between Structure and Function"

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fncom.2017.0004...

NB: The supplementary material PDF has graphs showing dimensions 0 through 7 (note the zero-based indexing so that's 8 total dimensions).
https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fncom.2017.00048...
> because most probably they are related to some crime groups (someone takes away most of donated money from them)

Why is that "most probably"?

Btw, you can give other things than money to beggars as well. Bread or a cup of coffee, for example.