skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get your general point, but it also depends on the scope of X and the scale of the organization.

If X is big, say, "build a new data mart (over the next 6 months)," then your considerations are very relevant. That should have a plan and buy-in from all of the relevant stakeholders; it's a legitimate project and needs the organizational ceremony involved in such.

If X is small, say, "make this internal API return an additional integer field from a datastore it's already using," then that sounds like bureaucracy and politics needlessly impeding development. This is a minor enhancement.

I guess the trouble is that even a small change like my example could be substantial in a large enough organization. Maybe adding the integer field means a new version of the API has to be published, or maybe adding the integer field means DB indexes or caching strategies have to be updated. Even so, the API team should have established processes for solving these issues. So instead of a simple change taking a few hours, it takes a few days, still not a huge divergence of resources.

From the parent using the example "Fine I'll do it for you, I need it now," I'm assuming they're talking about very small scope problems, which would not substantially affect the schedule for Y.

And remember, Y is already being affected, because it requires X to get completed.

So it's not really a matter of working on X when you should be working on Y; it's that progress on Y has halted due to a missing X dependency. What can we do to get Y moving forward again?
And once you remove the money incentive/whip, it gets even worse...
A glottal stop is not really a normal letter (for example in German it is not written at all), while the H is more of one, and it is written with a “'” in Lojban.

Edit: The Lojban “'” can also be considered not to be a real phoneme but to be more like a gilde sound between two vowels.

But maybe the glottal stop is only in German not considered to be a phoneme. (Actually it is more of a short pause, the snap is only an easy but not necessary way to do it.)
Providing capital to someone only occurs in the IPO stage.

The stock market is a secondary market with people trading stocks, not providing capital.
That's a good pattern for straight data retrieval.

Unfortunately if you need to do aggregated queries on all of the SQLLite tables, things may be challenging.

But if you could somehow connect Spark to a folder (on a distributed FS) of these SQLite files...

Edit: Also SQLite has a limitation that only one process can write to it at a given a time. For this particular use case though, it shouldn't be a problem unless you have rewrites coming from various sources (which can happen when correcting data)
Not all crypto is bitcoin. Smart contracts could accomplish the same thing.
It's been 14 years. That's enough time to change one's mind about a thing or two.
You're paying for distance traveled, not the destination.

In Cleveland, the Great Lakes Science Center sits directly between the stadium where the Browns play, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which are all on the same block.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=41.508389&mlon=-81.6955&...

Now say the stadium and the Rock and Roll Hall of fame have an agreement where customers get their tolls covered, but the Science Center doesn't.
I think you've misunderstood evidence based medicine as end-all, be-all of scientific analysis & only restricted to modern science. It is quite natural & largely common sense. Agreed, it is the gold standard for today, but it may not be so in the future, something else will come & upend that too as it always happens with scientific development. Remember Radium painting, that was also part of evidence-based medicine. By that account the Ayurvedic science has had fewer mishaps than science as practiced in modern times. Science is always about trial & error, my point is that it was not different from the times of ayurveda. This is as opposed to the biblical or quranic words of god, not the same thing at all.

Also, it is fair to say that Indian ancient texts have suffered significantly more destruction than others due to religious persecution and genocides against a peaceful civilization. The genocides are especially important because most information was transferred through word of mouth.
I have felt this way for a long time about work, but my schedule demands something close to an 8 hour day. So to stay fresh, I take walks, small breaks, and try and avoid social media, which makes my desk time immensely more productive, oftentimes moreso than if I were to sit and grind for the entire workday.
Why don't they go global? I'm guessing "money exchanged" is the problem, but I'd happily give away that[+]. Give me a reason to trust the "carpooler" and that's all I ask. Heck, allow me to easily coordinate with my colleagues, and that'd still be a gain.

[+] I don't care for the money, in the grand scheme of things you earn nothing from this, I'd rather have the gratitude of the rider; In fact, that's how I do it today when I pick a hitchhiker, I never take their money anyway.
It's absolutely great.

Unless you start having kids. Or work in an area where you need to meet customers face to face. Or both.

Just like working from Bali, working from a van, working from a plane, etc.

If you're a SINK or a DINK, go for it, 100%.
Have you looked into king county ride share?

http://www.rideshareonline.com
When I lose a hand I have nothing in the end. When I buy a bitcoin I won’t lose it if the price goes down until I sell it.
Complexity of DDoS Attacks Is Rising
It is genuinely terrible. I enjoy a lot of their content, but that website is malignant.
Classic case of a superstar at X (video, editing) trying a new sport Y (startup management), and failing spectacularly.

Casey Neistat is a talented daily lifestyle vlogger, and apparently not a talented venture startup video platform CEO.
This is predicated on the idea that you're only really productive in the afternoon, and that the morning is just wasted time.

I'm most productive in the mornings, and my productivity only takes a dive in the afternoon because that's when all my meetings are.

Turns out, anecdotes about an individual's workflow aren't broadly generalizable!
I'm 1000% in favor of spending fewer hours at work, and making those hours that are spent at work count more. However, I'm guessing that the 1-6 was for the bosses, and not for the workers.
I grew up in an area that catered to tourists and there was so much public spending put towards attractions for tourists that had no utility for locals while many useful services were neglected. I think this is a large part of the argument behind the article - that locals are losing out because the rich travelers need to be catered to - and I think it's a pretty legitimate one.
In case of an emergency people should follow staff's directions; preferably without being glued to their phones and without disrupting any ongoing rescue attempts by trying to take a good video...

The only relevant exception are professionals on call (i.e. doctors, police etc) - and they'll make the conscious decision to not attend such a concert unless explicitly exempted from the phone ban.

Everybody else may vote with their wallet. Personally, I'd pay a premium for concerts that enforce a no-phone policy.
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Wow what a skit!

Oh hai! I’m going to the city center!

Ooooh what a nicer phone charger than I have

Oh shoot I forgot my laptop can we go back it will only take a second

OH! I forgot - please stop at 123 B street - don’t worry it’s on the way... this will only take a sec!

Wait! I said I was going to Blake square, but now I’m going to jack square! - I’m so sorry, but don’t worry I’ll rate you five stars!
Personally, I'm resisting the urge to MITM a coffee shop wireless AP and replacing all profile image requests with a request for a random picture of Donald Trump.
Like love, taxes make people do the strangest things
Nice idea but probably not written by someone who writes code or debugs for a living. Activities that imho benefit from long stretches of deep focus. Now perhaps you could work like that -- 16h sessions -- for three days then snowboard for the remainder of the week. That might work.
In other words, they could use a bunch of Torvalds clones to tell the "snowflakes" off.
Wasn't forbes banned here because they had malware in their ads which infected a bunch of people and because most of their stuff is behind paywall?
Here is more information (linked from the article) about how the sponsored stories are personalized while respecting user privacy. The client will download an unpersonalized list of sponsored stories and then filter the list on the client-side by comparing it to the user's browsing history. So the user sees relevant sponsored stories without Mozilla or publisher servers seeing personally identifiable information.

https://help.getpocket.com/article/1142-firefox-new-tab-reco...
Google maps has ads, it's just not so in-your-face as Waze is. Search for stuff and depending on the topic the result list will have an item with a purple "Ad" tag on it (I searched for "tires" and got a hit for a tire store tagged as an ad).

I agree that gmaps has a better interface, at least for routing. I vastly prefer the alternative routes implementation on gmaps (it's right on the map). In waze I need to click through a few screens, which isn't practical when I'm driving. In gmaps I can glance at the map and make a decision without touching the phone at all.
Yes I think that is a good use case. It has the benefit of being concrete and useful, yet there is less notion of "time", which is a difficult part of programming.

There are a bunch of academic papers about "example-based data cleaning", but I don't know much about them. I think the idea is that you provide examples and the system tries to deduce a data cleaning function. Of course, if you do this for the user, then they might learn fewer programming concepts, but be able to get the job done more quickly. So it's a tradeoff.
I wonder if the Doomsday clock correlates at all with the sales of EMP-proof bags. (I also wonder if EMP-proof bags actually provide any non-trivial level of EMP protection.)
HelloSign Introduces Educational Program on Digital Transformation
I actually liked the Pocket on the New Tab page. I've found genuinely interesting articles that I wouldn't have come across otherwise.

As long as they keep it non-political and simply informative, I am checking it out.
I think the point is less about which actual hours, but more about focusing on those hours that you are productive, making those count as much as you can, and not forcing yourself to work more during those unproductive hours "just because".
Hopefully, this isn't a sign that Robinhood is going downhill. I really enjoy the "zero fee" stock trading.
Supporting GraphQL and GRPC at the same time
That was probably around the time when SV was trying to justify its existence with arguing that it could also do 'hard science'. The hype around Theranos maybe being the most prominent example.

I don't think the Grab is innovative either, but it is just as innovative as the majority of popular things coming out of SV in the last decade. I think a lot of the skepticism has to do with it being in Asia, outside the reality distortion field of SV.
You (and Milton, perhaps?) are assuming more about God and God's motivations than is present in the source material. We're told that He "loves" us, but that didn't prevent the many other episodes described in Scripture in which we have sinned and been punished for it. Original Sin isn't somehow different from all those we've committed since. The artist who places her fragile art in the same room with a destructive child, even if she isn't omniscient, probably knows what's coming next. She probably considers the child's actions to be art, as well.
There is no good approach to avoiding asynchrony. There's been nothing new in this department for decades. You have these choices:

- async, continuation passing style code
- async with delineated continuations to make snippets look synchronous which aren't actually
- cooperative multi-tasking (co-routines with async I/O under the covers)
- threading (preemtible multitasking)

Each one of this choices has its problems, and all can be characterized as where on the spectrum of explicit vs. implicit state keeping you want to be. For example, with threads and co-routines you keep a lot of implicit state in the call stack, whereas with async CPS you make all of the state fully explicit. Async CPS code is the least problematic once you wrap your mind around it, but it does have "mind warp" as a hard requirement.

There are times, of course, when your code is very serial, and then you really do benefit from co-routines/threads. For example, PuTTY's implementation of the SSH version exchange, key exchange, and user authentication protocols, is one HUGE C function that is actually running as a co-routine which cooperates with the UI side, with async I/O under the covers. The PuTTY approach is wonderful for that particular case: those parts of the SSH protocols are extremely serial, and the resulting serial-looking code is very very easy on the eyes (so much so that it makes up for the enormity of the function that implements it!). So it pays to be able to reach for co-routines sometimes, but not always, and I'd say not even most of the time.

Programmers today simply have to be prepared to deal with everything-is-async codebases, and they should be prepared to create codebases where everything is async from day zero.
For an origin page utilizing 100% of it's available processor resources, yes.

But in the real world most websites don't do this. What likely matters to the user is that the page they're navigating to opens faster; the user likely doesn't care about the performance of the hidden tab they just came from.

Of course, `noopener` has security and privacy benefits which may outweigh the performance costs (if there are any).
Time Travel: The History of Guidebooks
Yup 100% this.

I shifted my schedule to early morning(6-7am) just so I could get 3-4 hours of uninterrupted work in before the onslaught of meetings. Highly recommend it.
I'll see your July 2017 article, and raise with this August 2017:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/31/end_of_the_road_for...
My goodness, all those people who went to concerts before cell phones must have been so hardcore, taking risks like that.

My guess is that if you put your phone away you're less likely to hurt from, you know, other people doing the stupid stuff they do at concerts.

I understand that people want video, so they can post it, and get their dopa-soc on Facebook, or wherever, but seriously, musical artists (especially the ones who don't lipsync their concerts) feed off the audience's vibe. Its a two-way, not a one-way. Jack White isn't feeling the energy and is doing something about it.

I say, Jack should just take out his phone and sit there recording the audience, until the get the hint.
You've moved the goalposts from "hard" to "impossibly hard." That doesn't seem like what they were saying to me. The original comment even contrasted it with "pretty easy."
Why do people drop buttloads of money getting to the Grand Canyon and then spend their time behind a viewfinder taking landscape pictures that are infinitely worse than you'll find online or purchased from pros, ensuring they spend less (and sometimes no), time enjoying the scenery and environment?
But all cryptocurrencies are not equally valuable, and there's no reason to think that all of any given crypto won't eventually equally be worth (arbitrarily close to) $0.

I can imagine a lottery where usually nobody wins anything but every now and then everyone who bought a ticket wins collectively. It's still a lottery.
I worked at a place that monitored power usage minute by minute across 1000s of locations. We just used MySQL with a time column. Maybe I'm not the target audience but I'm failing to see what this gets me.

The problem is they say the data is imuatable and stored sequentially, allthough our data was imutable with devices on the net the data comes in random order when these ineviatably have connection problems.

We always aggregated our data into larger time blocks. Storage was cheap and doing comparative analysis across locations and time zones was always our pain point.

I think using a Postgres database is wise.
Everyone deals with crap at their workplace. Bad processes, unresponsive third-party dependencies, politics, etc. That happens everywhere, and anyone saying otherwise is either unaware or lying.

Eventually, there's a event that is enough standard deviations larger than the typical crap that the person just breaks. The veil of happiness is irrevocably pierced. And when that happens, all the other crap that they've been putting up with kind of comes crashing down. This is your "additional supporting reasons": they really existed the whole time, but they were at least tolerable before the veil was broken.

In my experience, it's rare that it's more like a dam that eventually breaks under pressure. There's usually that one event that finally breaks the person's will to continue. But then all the stuff that was being held back behind the dam is loosed and there's no coming back from that.
Pocket really should be optional. This move to monetize that integration suggests to me that Pocket is here to stay.
That sounds a lot like Amazon today
Point taken, investing in individual stocks may very well not be helping anyone.
> Accessing PACER from a courthouse is free.

... other than the half day you had to take off work, transportation to the courthouse and fees for printing out an electronic document -- and that is if you are local. What if I want to get a 'free' document in a court that is 2,000 miles away?

> Accessing PACER for a case you are involved in is free.

This is false. If you are an ECF user you theoretically can get "one free view" of a document as they are filed in a case you are a party, however this rarely works so you end up having to pay the pacer fee anyway. You still have to pay PACER fees anytime you view the docket, search, or view any document in a "case you are involved in".

> Getting judicial opinions from PACER is free.

... a relative recent development and only covers some opinions.

> If you convince a judge that the cost of PACER is a burden to you, it is free.

Really? You have a citation for that? I'm sure I can convince at least one federal judge my several thousand dollar a month pacer bill is a burden. That would be great.
I wanted to say that converging evidence is highly valued in neuroscience already. We know every single study is flawed in some way, but attacking the same problem from 3 angles and getting similar answers, you might really have something.
Ah interesting. So they can't front-run their own clients, but they can sell the data to others who will? ;-)
Not only that, but because Facebook is an online platform, they'll be fighting not only typical online security threats, but mass bot/troll campaigns to influence the result.
The model is RECAP before Free Law Project took over. It was backed by Princeton (which didn't spend much), had far fewer expenses (certainly no one got paid $90K a year; it was a grad student project), and moved forward code-wise via the coding challenge my foundation sponsored which cost one-fifth as much. See https://free.law/2013/04/02/two-recap-grants-awarded-in-memo....

The problem here is that RECAP may need money, but it is not being transparent about how it gets its money and is misleading users as a result.

Mike has made deliberate choices about how he runs FLP. I run Think Computer Foundation and PlainSite, which does the same thing as CourtListener. PlainSite is financially self-sustaining. CourtListener is not. There are alternatives to FLP's new "model."
plus 1 for mentioning Lisa Gerrard.
Discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16231806
The difference is that with investing, you have a reasonable indication where your investment will end up in the future. Chances are, in 10 years Walmart is still going to be profitable and continue to pay out dividends. There's no telling what will happen to Bitcoin in the next week, let alone the next year, so it's a gamble to put your money in Bitcoin.
These two are a very common form of dysfunction in large companies. The team trying to do feature Y needs feature X, the team responsible for feature X is behind because feature W is taking longer than expected. Sometimes a person can see that feature W is hung up waiting on feature Y, and you discover an structural form of deadlock.

At the ground level engineers are frustrated because if they could just get "those idiots" to do the one thing they needed they could make progress. Without ever realizing that they were the "those idiots" in someone else's dependency tree.

If you are a senior technical leader (or want to be one) it is always worthwhile to follow these threads to figure out what is going on, even though it might seem like a distraction. The larger the organization the more challenging this can be but most people will tell you what they are working on and why its important (which is to say what will be fixed/improved/made possible by its delivery)
In fact (unless something has changed dramatically without my getting the memo), that's how you would write many data structures in Rust---either for better memory behavior or you have cycles and Rc won't cut it. You have to use a vector of nodes and indices as pointers; if you try using references, the borrow checker comes and kicks sand in your face.
I'll login for this.

Timeline:
* Susan Cooper
* Tolkien, Lewis, Saberhagen, Howard
* Le Guin, Wolfe and Ellison.
* Jack Vance.

With Vance I understood all in fantasy and everything before but you need to have read those imitators/influences to understand Vance. Wolfe may be the exception but he is jaundiced by religion. I find decoding him without merit now.

I once told (online) Le Guin that her opinion was without merit and was without intellectual honesty in condemning the habits of other (political figures) promiscuity: those days had come and gone. I don't think she was wrong. I think she was beyond the temporal distinction.

This hurts. She was amazing and kind and I will miss her and Ged.
personally i don't think Jack cares that its being recorded. he wants an audience.
Perfect is the enemy of good.

Snark is just bad.
Neistat is a great guy, but I just don't get what CNN expected, whats supposed to be ROI of 25m price paid!?
Well, two of those weren't political and one was literally two generations ago...
I have to agree. However you characterize Grab, it seems he's gone there precisely because it isn't doing something unique; but because it's in an big, exciting and rather equal contest. Which is fine, but doesn't fit logically with the long reason for leaving Google. For all we know Grab is a well-funded me-too company. Maybe the real key is adrenaline, not benefits to society. He finds genuine, unique innovation exciting, but he also finds head-on fights exciting - either way he gets his adrenaline, his work seems to matter to somebody and the work can't be "mailed in." Google's "fault" is that it's been allowed to leverage a monopoly (patent, originally) and extend it in ways that used to be illegal, for decades, and now they have a rather massive series of moats. It's never really in emergency mode.
hmm. He did sold the company for millions of dollars to CNN. Should have made more money than most "venture startup video platform CEO"s in their lifetime.
I don't see why. Part of the article is that you get down to what you need to do as soon as possible during the working hours. So you have your 1-6 (or whatever stretch of time you choose), you get down to it as soon as you can. No YouTube, no HN, nothing. Deep focus like that can really only be sustained for so long. I'd imagine that around dinnertime, I'd be ready to wrap up.