skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is called ethics! Its interesting that the idea that a Fortune 500 company could behave ethically is immediately written off, indeed, not even discussed as a solution.
Nope. I want to engineer stuff, not be sales or HR.
"Also arguing that we all agreed to the rules there in would mean that if slavery were legal it would be ok, becase we all agreed to it"

No. That's a poor argument that, in this case, falsely equivocates slavery with financial regulation.

"I dont want to ask the SEC any permission to buy tethers."

That's not what's happening in the least. But if Tether is a scam, then it will be shut down, as it should be. And no amount of "freedom" will justify running a scam on other people.
> We’ve also achieved a significant milestone with our active installed base of devices reaching 1.3 billion in January. That’s an increase of 30 percent in just two years, which is a testament to the popularity of our products and the loyalty and satisfaction of our customers.

My personal example of my contribution to the raise of the installed base was: I've used the Christmas sales to buy a new iPhone for me and a new iPhone and new iPad for my parents. I've considered buying cheaper Android devices for the parents, but the ease of use of iOS and the better security compared to Android still won.

But, dear Apple, dear anybody from the company who maybe reads this: please don't let your current management levels dilute the old clear vision, the "ease of use" goal. My parents are especially annoyed, for example, by not being able to permanently disable the additional "Apps" buttons in the Message app that get in the way. Ditto for not being able to have the former "simple mode" of Notes. (And I'm personally annoyed by "a" looking too much as "o" in the Notes). It's hard to keep the focus that Jobs was able to reach, but please understand that that legacy is still something that motivates at least these older users that I know.

And one more detail: the iPhones I've bought are with the earphones jack, still! I'm not sure I will want these without it. Keep that feature somehow or this may be the drop that moves the writer of these words to the actions of the guy from the Samsung's "Growing Up" ad.
Perhaps. But I think it's better, that if they're willing to play those kinds of games that I wouldn't want to work for them anyways.

All tech companies run their own NIH stack in one way or another. If they aren't willing to admit that to themselves, there's not much I can do. It costs time to train to get new people up to speed... and given what kind of arduous journey learning OpenStack is, I figured they would have understood and went "Well you dont know K8N, but you're trainable in this stack.."
There are a few incubators that focus on bio but even these don't specialize in biopharma (vs diagnostics, med tech, software stuff). Biopharma is where most of the venture money is (over $10B in 2017) but most companies are seeded within VC.

So dealflow is very network driven. Life sci VCs, successful biopharma execs and entrepreneurs and academic key opinion leaders are good sources if they are in your network

Getting to know the cell biology / biochem / bioinformatics community at your local research institution is a good way to find untapped early stage deal flow but to take advantage of this you often need to bring some domain expertise or operational expertise to bear, as a lot of the folks in academia can benefit from operations / industry support. If you can speak at a university event or guest lecture in a class that can be a time-efficient way to get into the flow of things at the institution
Last quarter was 14 weeks vs the normal 13 so it's more like it's flat or a tiny bit up than shrinking.
I don’t really think that case needs to be made - you either agree with it axiomatically, or you don’t. My comment you just replied to nearly lays it out already.

A terminally ill patient cannot recover, but is functionally alive. A brain dead patient cannot recovery, and is not even functionally alive. I realize this comes across as harsh, but if you’re intubating a brain dead patient, you’re just circulating air through a warm corpse. One demonstrates obvious interiority, the other doesn’t exhibit anything except basic reactions that will permanently cease within minutes, if unaided.

If you want to reduce it to ethics, based on the definition of braindeath, one case involves the legitimate moral quandary of whether or not (and when) to allow a thing to die. The other case has no such moral quandary, because the thing is already (definitionally) dead.

Whether or not we like doing it, our medical system depends upon us making valuations about human life, even if only implicitly. If we allocate resources to keep a functionally dead object breathing the way a human being does, we’re taking away resources from a human being that is alive. It’s not rational if you accept the axiom that a braindead human is dead.
No, it is the symptom of a high velocity project. If Kubernetes were to have yearly releases, the list of changes would be four times as long and upgrade path would be a major leap instead of four minor steps.
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Fast front-end setup with webpack, react, redux, router, saga and postcss
> if you know what money really is and how it actually works

OK, I'll bite. What is money really and how does it actually work?
Read all the words, pal. We are not talking about "demand", we are talking about "intrinsic demand", by which we mean the non-currency need for the thing. The theory mr_win has about intrinsic value is not a bad one, but there is approximately $0 demand for the service he describes.

As an example, you can look at Bitcoin like digital Beanie Babies. The intrinsic value of a cute stuffed toy is, as any airport give shop can show you, a few bucks. The market price of Beanie Babies was for a time much higher due to limited issuance, energetic promotion, and a popular craze for them. The intrinsic demand did not change, so when the hype cycle ran out, price fell back toward intrinsic.

Bitcoin's intrinsic value is definitely not "stored energy", because you cannot get the energy back out. And it's not much like gold for reasons already described: gold has real, sustained intrinsic value. Bitcoin doesn't.
Ah, ok, it could just be a cultural thing that I'm missing. I hadn't seen it on any other German job applications though.
Pumped hydro and flywheels are at least demonstrated cost effective solutions. This? They don't even provide any details.
You forgot my favorite P/E, Salesforce's:

14,776
https://www.bluesnews.com is still running, which I learned like 1-2 years ago. But I (like you, I suppose) stopped reading a very long time ago. Can't comment if it's the same team, though.
Just trying to keep up with the shifting sands of web programming is a headache in itself. And now we have people wanting to build our whole infrastructure on yet more shifting sand. Argh.
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Another year, more record profits, maybe they can finally pay the fucking tax they owe.
> Now now relax.

We can have a sensible discussion without condescension.

> You're in a thread about class and you're saying that class distinctions are good......You don't think those people who have experienced the bottom are going to have a reaction to that?

I've "experienced bottom" and I don't really find what I said to be inflammatory or offensive, if we're willing to be honest with ourselves, it's rather quite self-evident.

>You make it sound so easy! But it's not, growing up in a poor community frequently means growing up in poor schools with poor opportunities, no mentors and rare role models.

I'm familiar with how "easy" or not it is - I've lived it. If you graduate high school and don't have a kid before you are married, you're pretty much guaranteed to enter the middle-class.

> Would you say the same thing about racial distinctions? If not, why?

What exactly do you mean? Do I think that racially homogeneous societies exhibit more social order? I don't know, that to me sounds like a question for a social scientist or sociologist. I don't find it to be analogous to what we're talking about here though, as one cannot change their race, but many are socially mobile.
Is that in support of using the Boost filesystem API?
Doing what wrong?
Perhaps they can add support for alternate emails - sign up with your primary academic email, add a secondary. When a user leaves an institution, they can promote the secondary.
I vividly remember trying to deal with an "activities" table in postgresql-8.x, around 2010 or 2011. Every pageview or user action would add a row. It was a nightmare to shard that schema after the fact, once it had grown to hundreds of millions of rows and no longer fit into RAM on the largest machine Softlayer could sell us. We eventually enlisted the help of the core PG team and wrote a bad version of what Citus has done with stored procedures. (In perl!)

If only Citus existed back then. Where the hell were you folks?
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Trillion dollar company by the end of the year.

Sometimes I wonder if I’m just going to be holding my AMZN stock until I retire.
Get your ass to the dentist right now. Gum disease looks symptomless if you don't know what to look for, and it makes all your teeth literally fall out by breaking down the bone in your jaw. Maintenance is a PITA if it goes too far. The few hundred bucks you'll pay today is nothing to the thousands you'll pay if you need to get things fixed the hard way.

Probably you're not at that point, but please go and check.
From the friendly article: Non-advertising revenue from Google combined with revenue from Verily and the other Alphabet companies was $15.5 billion in 2017, accounting for about 14 percent of total revenue, compared to $10.9 billion, or 12 percent, in 2016.

Not much in total percent terms because of how huge the ads business is, but if you look at it on its own, that's up 50% and $5 billion YoY.
Sounds like the niggapoclypse is upon us. Thank god for the Second Amendment.
Isn't short-term investment an option here? Watch AirBnB stock price goes up in the first week of IPO, then cash out before AirBnB comes down? The hype and rise should make some happy. You don't have to believe in the business, you can just believe in the hype.
You can want transparency all you want, but you're not going to get it. I guarantee that, in any large for-profit software product you use, the devs know of at least one unprivileged read bug which they will not disclose.
Off-topic: this page is really hard to read in a mobile browser, it freezes and when you try to zoom out it redirects to another post, I can't figure out what's wrong with it.

Edit: Seems to work ok with content blockers disabled.
There might be an issue with the icon Id's displayed. E.g. I see "chess-board" 3 times.
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> The real problem is all that hardware and software out there in the field vulnerable to Meltdown. There will be unpatched systems for years to come. That's what worries the RedHat guy. They have customers wanting patches to old kernels they no longer support.

What uses cases involve running new untrusted code on legacy unsupported systems?
iPhone ASP was up to $796. That indicates that the iPhone X sold very well.
I don't think your comment applies at all to Kubernetes.

K8s truly simplifies dev-ops and even the smallest team and website can greatly benefit from it.

I speak from 7 years of experience managing my company's infrastructure's website:

Before kubernetes, I ran my company's stack on very cheap bare metal from OVH. It was great while it lasted, but as the company grew and my team grew, it's become harder and harder to maintain this infrastructure. And I'm not only talking about our production servers. In reality you have to maintain your prod, your staging, and, worst of all, your local development environment.

Over time, your production staging and dev all become entirely heterogeneous. Each environment ends up running totally different/incompatible versions of all your stack's softwares, and no amount of Ansible/SaltStack/Puppet script will save you from this. All those scripts become a nightmare to maintain and your infrastructure as a whole becomes brittle with, for example, bugs happening only in production, but never on your local dev environment.

K8s came as a savior to all my issues: I burned all my old ansible scripts and rewrote all my infrastructure in k8s. Now my prod, staging and dev env are 99% the same. It saves me a tremendous amount of time and headaches. I taught my team how to use minikube and create a replica of our production with one command line on their local computer.

K8s is far from being just a trendy buzzwordy shiny new cool toy to play with. It solves real world problems that dev ops have. I am so glad this technology exists and I hope to never have to go back to writing ansible/puppet/whatever scripts.
> To simply say, “but hardware manufacturers should ship perfect products because they are taking my money, and my code can be buggy because it’s free of charge” – is naïve.

With respect to Bunnie – Why? I understand that a complex piece of hardware can never be completely bug-free. But if a bug renders the product unfit for purpose, does the manufacturer not have a legal obligation to either fix the bug or provide monetary compensation? And I'm not sure I buy the argument that this obligation makes manufacturers more likely to try to hide bugs. If they sell products with defects that are known but not disclosed to the customer, are they not committing fraud?
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Maybe they could add it for an advanced setting, but having it opt-out for normal browsing might not be desirable for the average user (if not sending headers breaks popular sites).
> The human body is so complex. We can try to gather some knowledge by means of experiments, models and statistical data, but we must realize that the scientific method is a human endeavour and is therefore imperfect by definition. Being a scientist (I study cosmology), I feel deeply embarrassed whenever I hear people professing their irreducible faith in «science».

Hear, hear! And 'faith' in this case is indeed the right term... I have a similar reaction to those who are convinced there is a bright line between 'hard' and 'soft' sciences. Strictly speaking, you can never accumulate all the evidence.
You can put ads in a lot of places, it's not really the same as a single product line.
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The point there is that what spectre/meltdown exploits are sideffects that are not part of the architectural state as it is specified by any manufacturer. The whole issue points to the fact that security-wise the typical approach used for descriptions of CPU's architectural behavior is insufficient as there can be implementation-specific observable sideeffects that have security ramifications.
I don't care if it's a honeypot, it's the best laugh I had today. Also, I'd be so interested in a large-scale study if this single data point correlates with anything.
You've convinced me. I'm selling all my stock.
I'm glad V8 (and Chrome) are getting streaming compilation for WASM. That was an annoying pain point I saw when playing with it (fat binaries meant a long download and compile time, almost penalizing you 2 times for every byte).

However I noticed that Firefox's recent update with their streaming and tiered WASM compiler is still almost a magnitude faster (using the benchmark at [0] it takes 717ms in Firefox 58, and 4283ms in Chrome 66 on my machine with a good gigabit connection and an i7 4930k)

I tend to think of my PC as fairly "high end" (yeah, it's a few years old, but still is a powerhouse in my opinion!) but I'm just not seeing the speeds that they are talking about in the blog post.

Is the difference really just in Firefox's 2-tiered compiler!? I noticed that the benchmarks are in seconds (!) of compile time, does this streaming compiler only really shine with much larger WASM modules? Or is that benchmark not a good representation of a general workload (it was made by a Mozilla employee, for what it's worth).

[0] https://lukewagner.github.io/test-tanks-compile-time/
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> Also, I find California's Botts' Dots[0] insufficient at marking lanes clearly, but I do like the tactile feedback.

Various municipalities in Texas use them too (called "buttons" here), very inconsistently. I agree with your assessment; ideally, roads should use both paint and buttons, but that's not as common as it should be. From poking around on Street View, it appears that there are a lot of roads in California that put painted lines over the buttons, but I've yet to see any place in Texas that does so (except one road in Addison, but they've since removed the buttons as they're in the process of switching over to paint).

One thing interesting about North Texas is that you can actually tell which suburb of Dallas you're in, based on not only whether they use paint or buttons, but also based on how they lay out the buttons. Some examples follow.

Legend: - = paint, . = button, ] = reflector

Dallas itself uses paint exclusively, with reflectors placed halfway between the stripes:

------------- ] ------------- ] -------------

Richardson places the reflectors at the tail end of each set of buttons, as if the reflector was a button, and they're wildly inconsistent from road to road about how many buttons constitute a set, as well as the proper spacing between each button. You get arrangements such as these:

] . . . ] . . . ] . . .

] . . . . ] . . . . ] . . . .

] . . . . . . ] . . . . . . ] . . . . . .

Plano used to use four buttons, spaced out a decent amount, with reflectors placed halfway between each set:

. . . . ] . . . . ] . . . .

But now they're cramming in a second reflector in the middle of each set of buttons and tightening the spacing between the buttons a bit. They're migrating one road at a time to the new system:

. . ] . . ] . . ] . . ] . . ] . .
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My understanding is that Hilton doesn't own any of the properties, they simply manage them under the Hilton name for their owners.[1]

The practice of franchising is popular within the hospitality industry among most major hotel chains, as the parent company does not have to pay for the maintenance and overhead costs of franchised properties.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilton_Worldwide#Franchising
My taxes support this at least. Ramstein Air Base is a relay station in the drone wars and is partly supported by the German government. And I don't like it either. The scale of it is disproportionate and counterproductive. With each drone bombing, they kill 2 terrorists and create 20 new ones.
Are we in an advertising bubble?

I mean it's difficult to quantify advertising. Most retailers can't depend on just click through rates. If you see a ad for Vans, you might not purchase it online, but like traditional ads, it could make you think about it when you're near a shoe store.

And most normal (non tech/IT people) don't run ad blockers. But at some point there's got to be a low of diminishing return. People are earning less, and in some ways buying more to distract themselves .. yet like any industry, you simply cannot have infinite growth.

What exactly will an advertising bubble bust look like? Or would we not see it directly, as it would be more of an effect of fewer goods being sold due to something else that kills jobs and stifles wages?

How will a dot com break in the 2010s/20s be different from the one in 2001?
I agree. I intended to make it clear with my first sentence that Streams as described in the article is just a subset of Reactive Programming.

My point is that Functional, Reactive, and Streams programming have common concepts that are important programming tools, when used appropriately. However, Reactive Programming is neither exclusively Functional nor Streams-based, although the article implies it.
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