skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're firing quick and firing often, yeah you're going to have bad morale. If you're firing quickly, learning from the experience, and then making sure you never have to fire again, the morale won't be an issue.

Firing quickly doesn't mean fire someone for their first offense, it means as soon as you realize the person will never be a good employee, don't waste time trying to fix the unfixable.
The tax code is geared up to help people who are married and have children - my married friends pay 20% less than I do, my married friends with kids pay even less then they do. I take umbrage with this.
I wasn't aware choice of programming language is that important.
Are you serious? Do you not see the difference between driving for uber and driving a taxi?

Let’s start with state-imposed bureaucracy and artificial limitation on supply.
They've started releasing some of the code, I don't think it's at the point of a custom server yet.

https://github.com/Pocket
In languages like Haskell and Scala that supports `do` / `for` comprehension sugar, this could be done without the nesting:

fn :: Maybe Int -> Maybe Int -> Int
fn q z = fromMaybe 0 $
do
q_in <- q
z_in <- z
return (q_in + z_in)
This explanation has never satisfied any of my concerns. I don't doubt Mozilla's motivations but the fact that they bought Pocket does not mean that the architecture is designed with my best interests in mind. I'd rather hear about what Mozilla is doing as the owner of Pocket to continue fighting for my best interests.
Exactly. They never expose a timer of sufficient resolution. That is different from _sometimes_ exposing a timer of sufficient resolution.
Found posted earlier here

https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/commentaries/2017...

Other charts as well
Trump Sh*thole Racism Inspired 'Plop Art'
This article is weak on specifics, especially with respect to differentiating soluble vs insoluble fiber.
If we went back, like 100 years...banks were not these secure, Federally-insured institutions with complex regulations, etc. Banks were robbed. There were runs on banks. They went out of business, people lost their deposits or their accounts. Just look at "It's a Wonderful Life" for a fictional example.

Everyone criticizing the current state of crypto as being worse than banks is missing the forest for the trees. These systems are early tech. Ethereum is barely 2 years old. It was easy to criticize dial-up internet, too. I'm sure Barnes & Nobles scoffed at Amazon at one point. Easy to do this, and assume this "dot-com" thing is just a bubble that's going away at some point.

Decentralization is ONE feature of crypto currency. One of several. It's not decentralization alone, but the combination of features that brings value to crypto, including programmable economic incentives (a powerful concept we're just learning the implications of).

To answer some of your other points: even exchanges are being built on the blockchain now. We have 0x, EtherDelta, etc, which allow you to trade tokens without revealing your identity. So, that problem is starting to resolve itself.

We have Proof-of-Stake coins like Qtum, which avoid the Proof-of-Work issues (Ethereum will be moving to PoS soon).

Still not sold on the idea that proof-of-work is inherently bad though. I consider that system very secure, as Bitcoin has proven. The blockchain itself has proven quite resilient to hackers, DDoS attacks, government intervention, etc.
Many effective police strategies are based on criminals doing stupid things. If criminals were smart most of them would just make a honest living.
You have a "great programmer" on the team that keeps on creating stuff that the others can't review or contribute to unless something more common is enforced.
Yes! Reading the description of DNSFS, i was sure Dan Kaminsky had done something like this years ago, but couldn't track it down - Dan Kaminsky has done a lot of things with DNS.
And another thing -- what's the deal with automobiles? Horses do a perfectly fine job at getting us around.
A 0.2% fluctuation is noise and doesn’t detract from the point. According to the automation fear mongerers we should be seeing massive unemployment.
If you think the midwest is safe, I think you should spend a bit of time reading about the Ogalla aquifer.
They're not reading data out of the cache line. Often the contents of the cache are public anyway.

What they're detecting is whether a piece of memory is in the cache or not. This lets them infer the contents of some other piece of memory.

For example, an if-statement might check whether or not a secret bit is set, and that might lead the process to call function A or function B. By detecting whether it's A or B that lands in the instruction cache, you can infer the value of the secret bit.
Pretty sure they were making a Blade Runner reference
It's to "fix" Firefox's deprecation of XUL-based plugins[0].

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15800634
If you are not 20 year old, single and childless, you should probably not rely on options in a non-public startup to fund yourself.
> Not sure if I would call it clever

What do you mean it's not clever? Sure, they applied a known weakness of non-constant data rate encoded messages to drone monitoring, but that's never been done before. What have you done that's so impressive that gives you the confidence to scoff at the accomplishment of the talented engineers and developers who created something brand new?
What incentives would a government have to undermine their own monetary system?
It's not on us to prove it's not anonymous. It's on Mozilla to prove it is.
I understand the concrete in all directions comment, and that is definitely a problem. As I look at some of America's big cities I think you can see the time frames where we valued open green space and incorporated that into the landscape and where we stopped doing that and let development proceed unchecked. In the Capital Hill neighborhood of DC they did an exceptional job of incorporating green space. Other parts of the city or in places like Baltimore and the newer parts of Philadelphia they didn't do a good job of that and its depressing.

Contract that with the sprawl in most sections of the northeast. Houses extend for miles with little to no public green space, except for a handful of county run parks that you drive to. Newer developments will try to incorporate parks more frequently, but generally they will all have parking lots because the only way to get to them in by car.

Both of those environments are a stark contrast to small town America which has a very different operation then either. Small towns are driveable, lower density then even the suburbs, and generally more pleasant to live in so long as they have the economic driver required to sustain them. Small towns have had their own problems with the rise of big cities and their suburbs, and I think they are a model that _could_ work if we as a nation set them up to succeed, but today all our regulations favor the bigger cities and towns and we have been watching the small towns die out
Many of these policies were put in place by the Obama administration. It wasn’t all fun and games.
How an industry-breaking bug stayed secret for seven months – then leaked out
Both but I think #1 is harder to solve/workaround.

Many modern devices (GPUs are most famous for that but there’re others, e.g. printers) include their microcode/firmware/binary blobs as a part of their device driver. Technically you can reuse these binaries for different OS, but legally, at least if you’re on American soil, you can’t.
Shitty analogy. Cars provided demonstrable benefits to users. Telemetry does not.
We might in the future, but we're unsure what the copyright is on those questions.
Awesome! It has been awhile since we spoke, but it is immediately obvious how much cleaner this codebase is compared to the earlier research work. Even if I have to write my own bindings, this is a huge leg up.

A lot of the stuff I'm wanting is stuff I wouldn't expect Uber to care about, but it doesn't hurt to ask. Did you look at implementing pathfinding? (As I recall, Dr. Sahr said A* should be easily implementable in this scheme. Elsewhere in the thread someone mentioned that joins are not easy. Any other tidbits like that that came up?)
Costco's food court benefits from matching store hours and getting customer traffic from the store (and taking the same narrow-margin approach as the rest of the store takes, because low-but-just-profitable product prices sell memberships which make the final profits less low). This gives it more consistent utilization than most subways would have, which means less labor hours for someone sitting around waiting for customers. And subways sandwich approach is fairly high-interaction tional for fast food, while Costco’s is not, which also keeps labor time per customer down even outside of the idle time.
Yes! I find TypeScript really handy! It makes development easier and faster. Whatever it is you're developing TypeScript will make it better imo. Structural typing is the best of both worlds for flexibility, development speed, and type safety.
We're not sure about the copyright, but that's something we will look at doing if that's not an issue.
Working Calculator Level in Super Mario Maker [video]
In Scala, you can use `for`, although I think your point remains valid for languages without any sort of monad support:

def func1(q: Option[Int], z: Option[Int]): Int = {
(for {
qval <- q
zval <- z
} yield q + z).getOrElse(0)
}
@durkie, do you know of any organizations similar to concrete jungle in other areas? I'd love to participate in something similar. But I live in New England.
> It is the British empire+US hegemony, since WWII/Cold War that makes English lingua franca as it is today.

To be fair, it's also centuries of important contributions from English-speaking countries in science, technology, industry, aviation, literature, etc, etc, as well as, since WWII at least, music, TV, film and other forms of popular entertainment.
> 1) Move money around government currency controls (for a small fee)

It's also an improvement over PayPal or banking for sellers who don't want chargebacks/bad checks/their account frozen for writing "Nico" in the transaction comments.
Hey, there's a great song about this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSgQiltRqNI
Constant bit rate compression isn't a cure-all. It's generally inferior to VBR which is why the latter took off in the first place. CBR is easily degraded by just increasing the amount of visual complexity. Leaves moving on trees in a breeze is a typical problem case.

So if you're worried about being spied on, high-resolution mosaic patterns are your friend. Mirror or high specularity pigments will enhance the effect. For fixed installations a few discoballs and a laser will mess up someone's day.

Of course, if you want real security you'll triangulate on the drone signals and jam, because if you really need to do so getting busted by the FCC is probably the least of your worries.
If you are 20 years old, single, and childless, you still shouldn't rely on options in a non-public startup to fund yourself; your age, marital status, and children or lack thereof don't have any bearing on the fact that those options are a “maybe someday worth something" thing, not something with any reliable value or time when they will be liquid.
Don't know anything about open-sourcing Pocket. As an (open-source) alternative you can self-host Wallabag[1]

[1]https://wallabag.org/en
I don't see why financial organizations need a middle ground. It doesn't seem like our society (USA) wants to give individuals a middle ground so that they're not completely hosed, why should the rich have one?
And also at the same time, even the occasional mass concentrations in between are, in all likelihood, mostly rather bland and boring compared to earth, with its magnificent abundance of self-organizing and self-replicating patterns. Even the more interesting aspects of geology tend to be direct or indirect traces of life.

Or maybe not, and there actually is every imaginable wonder out there, including a planet where mattresses naturally occur, but my money would be on earth being pretty much as amazing as it gets.
For a datum to be mathematically anonymous means that there is a proof that no function exists which maps instances of that datum to identities more reliably than a random guess.

A datum isn't anonymous unless proven otherwise. Today's "practically anonymous" is tomorrow's "deanonymized".
I'll give you a lot of credit for working on Plan9 that long... but yeah, you're correct, a browser port would require a fairly large and well-funded team at this point, on any new OS
That's possible for conventional CMOS as well, one example is power gating. Not exactly zero leakage, but pretty damn close.
No, I am not learning a new language. And no, I can not see any zero-sum. I am surprised you can not see time is the cost involved here, but thanks for your time to involve.
Well thing is, in Paris, you often skip the breakfast, so the real moment where you're breaking the fast is during lunch.
Forget the fallacious appeals to tradition- Are there any competing (possibly superior) specs to POSIX?
This entire issue will eventually become a case study entitled "how to fail at incident response, PR and make customers hate you"
I'm so old I remember when willingness and ability to learn and use new languages was considered a basic trait of a competent professional programmer.
I have worked on products and have made changes based on data I got on how users were using them.

Telemetry doesn't replace user feedback or interviews, but it really does help.
It somewhat reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z1_(computer) although this mechanism is definitely superior in terms of friction. I guess the majority of research into mechanical computers stopped shortly after electrical/relay ones started becoming more interesting, which is why there's definitely better mechanical designs possible.

In fact, people probably use a lot of mechanical devices which can serve as logic gates without knowing it --- although everyone focuses on electronic digital computers, the mechanisms on which computers can be built are surprisingly vast and simple.

Also, the PDF is rather bloaty for the content, because all the figures are extremely high-resolution bitmap images instead of vector graphics, despite looking like they were created with a vector graphics program.
> meditate on death

Years ago I read a story. As I now recall it, a mother drew a picture of her child, each day, as they headed off to school. For she (correctly) knew, that was the last time she would ever see them alive. The child who returned in the afternoon, was invariably a different person than the one who had left that morning, never to be seen again.

One hears advice like "consider that this may be your last day". But it never has been, and for most isn't likely to be. And one-shot it-will-happen-someday processes aren't great for iterative improvement anyway. So I like the story's twist on this.

There will likely be someone tomorrow with your name on them. They will likely be a person very similar to you. Though given the vicissitudes of life, they may have different, even very different priorities than you now imagine. A disk crash, an injury, a phone call, an opportunity - things change. You can give forward - a good night's sleep, a new bit of insight or wisdom. And you can weigh their wellbeing in your decisions, as you do all those whom you variously care about. But for you, this day is it. Was it. You do not get another. You will not see another. As usual, immortality lies in the lives you have touched, now including, some future people, who though they share your name, really aren't you.
Smart idea and it's interesting to compare the 2
I believe you can see the data that's being sent by typing about:telemetry in the address bar.
Well, here's the portugues version, found on google scholar:

http://www.academia.edu/download/46197082/BIOTEMAS_2008.pdf

I find I can get most papers on:

http://libgen.io/scimag/index.php

I think sci-hub tries to acquire papers which are unsuccessfully requested, not sure how long that might take.
What if you took all the water out of the oceans and layered it over the land? how thick would that water be?
Flagging is a majority vote?

Seriously, what's the actual mechanism behind a flagging? I always assumed it was a privilege of one with a high rep point count.
The vowel sound definitely matches /e/. It sounds like /ai/, but there's none of the glide that would be present in a diphthong.

I ran it by my wife, as she's a native Spanish and English speaker, and she agrees with /e/ over /ai/.

Thanks for that link. Very cool site; reminds me of dict.leo.org for German.
Holly Butcher: 1990-2018
Duplicate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16136800
Reusing the kernel and some low level is clearly the way to go. But userland is truly where the game is.

The important thing to note is that the OS show the way. Similar how iOS change everything
What you are describing is a moral hazard. A situation where people will take risks they wouldn't normally take because they know they will be bailed out if they lose money.
Well, 99% of the javascript/web is more about distraction, advertising and tracking than about getting anything done, and the other 1% is a small number of high-frequency sites that can be selectively white-listed.

Plus my bandwidth is a fraction of others and browser responsiveness shoots up...

I think you may have it arse-backwards when it comes to productivity...

/numbers pulled out of said backwards-arse.
> why would the remittance operators be willing to hold XRP now?

They don't hold it forever. The sender and receiver hold XRP only for the period of time that the transaction is confirmed and settled, and according to Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, this time is as little as 3 seconds.[1]

Source: See https://youtu.be/vnGNycbhJlE?t=388 at 6:28. He explains this.
> everyone just treats them the same as American currency and doesn't bat an eye

you mean they accept them at par?
I simply answered the parent question.

A tiny minority of my submissions and comments have been political.
It doesn't matter whether or not Social Security has a nominal surplus or deficit, the important part is what that dollar of Social Security benefit will buy you. Unless there is a secular shift in the tax base such as much more immigration, much higher incomes, or many more children, demographics suggest a smaller portion of the country working to pay for a larger portion of the non working country.

Other countries are already seeing this, but there is no escape from raising the retirement age, and the best way to slash benefits, which is to keep them behind real inflation. Also, medicare is an even bigger problem as it has no upper limit on spend, which will also have to be cut somehow.

Bottom line is, the more resources you spend on the past, such as aging people and infrastructure, the less you can on the future, such as for you and your kids. That is unavoidable.
Haha yes good luck with that now with "full stack node" programmers etc. In their defense, every framework they use redefines their language to the extent it is a new language :)
I personally dislike python, but honestly if you're working as a team you work with what the team uses. If they really are such great programmers they should have no problem picking it up.

But if they have legitimate reasons for wanting to use something other than python, other than they hate it, give them the chance to explain themselves to the team and see if your team is willing to learn something new. It's always valuable having a team that can work in more than one language.

If none of them can come up with a better reason though. I see no reason not to go with your team's decision.
Uncloaking Adversaries through GIS
Isn't this how the technology was described in Stephenson's book "The Diamond Age" in which computing was done with nanoscale Babbage like machines?
What if it’s a cash equivalent like Amazon gift cards?
How is the “new world currency” being updated ~10 times a day reassuring at all? All it takes is one serious bug to wipe out $240bn of wealth.
This gist misleads in a few ways by being so vague and seems to be more about disabling every somewhat useful feature that sounds bad for tinfoil hat enthusiasts. Still has useful things, like disabling Pocket if you don’t want it and forcing newer TLS versions. Others are silly (disabling things that already ask for your permission, like location), dangerous (disabling Google Safe Browsing), or already exposed in the settings UI anyway (DNT, tracking protection, telemetry). To each their own, use these if you think they’re important to you, but for most people it’s fear-mongering about nothing and enabling a few things in the privacy settings page is sufficient.
I believe the standard definition of centralized vs. decentralized currency has to do with the governing of the supply of that currency.
> Well, it's the first OS that isn't built on C/C++ (unsafe languages)...

This isn't even remotely true, but we're in the age of short memories. There have been several operating systems built in Java within our (careers') lifetimes.

And dozens of operating systems that predate C. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_operating_systems

There's nothing preventing other operating systems from being written in a safe way -- they just aren't. There are also multiple definitions of the word "safe". As in, "BSD or Linux are safe to bet the software architecture of my multi-million systems budget".

No new ideas mean no reason for me to even consider adoption until it reaches critical mass. Maybe in a decade I'll give it a look.

Edit: Multics was written in PL/I, which itself just had a new stable release this past September...

Edit2: Redox isn't really that safe even. It's pretty cavalier and leaves a lot up to the application. It uses the unsafe parts of Rust a bit. An application can still malloc and forget to free -- so aren't you right where you started? Really every time this comes up, I would like to posit that "people evangelizing Redox don't even know what the f* they're talking about", but I honestly don't have time outside of my real work to dig into the thing. jackpot51 is fantastic at PR for his project though, and I don't want to discourage anyone from working on. It's good that it has an active community, I just don't need to hear about it.

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.
How to develop new Cordova plugins for Ionic without loosing your mind
I had so much trouble finding info on how to make new Cordova plugins, so I compiled a some information together into a (hopefully) helpful article.
I'd start with this tutorial on how to write a debugger using ptrace, it's not too difficult to go to spoofing syscalls from there: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2011/01/23/how-debuggers-work-...
It should really be "pull a RIOT" because RIOT Blockchain was 1 of the 1st companies to pull this off.

Struggling medical equipment company. Acquires a "blockchain mining" company for a few mil, stock shoots up overnight like 500% or something, then their CEO dumps all his stocks.

Related: http://www.businessinsider.com/riot-blockchain-citron-resear...
Yes, and there are dozens of spam packages registered (and deleted) every day.
Just a guess, but around 14000 feet.

If 3.5% of the water is salt and that would create 500 feet of salt if staked on land, then the remaining 96.5% would make 13785.7 feet of water assuming salt and water has the same density.
Right sorry, raise the retirement age. Which is not good for people, but fits with the idea that people are living and working longer in general.