skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are some pretty lucrative birthdays
Sure, the game is not done growing in popularity. That's one of the difficult things - they don't just have to scale to 3.4m users because next week the target is moved and now its 4m then 6m etc. It's hard to hit a moving target like that.
Two that really are eye-poppingly exciting to me personally are:

- borrowing in async/await
- embedded work getting first-class attention, led by @japaric

My excitement over these two specifically, of course, reflects the idiosyncrasies of my focus, but yay!
just sent this to some people who work in a drug discovery lab, hope they can use it!
Not being an emacs user, can you compile all that out to slim emacs down?
Good investing, but arguably the harm to the overall economy would be difficult for you to compensate for over time. I’d also guess that you care about the wellbeing of others, in which case your personal enrichment is only part of the story.
A PS4 1TB Slim is $320 right now. Target has it for $300.

During the holidays, they and retailers sold it for $250. After the holidays, I watched slowly as the price started rising each week. Retailers jumped back up to $300, but Amazon was at $270, then $290, and now strangely $320.
>Cryptocurrencies are a new asset class, it doesn't really make sense to compare them to other assets.

Tell that to the IRS who treats them as property for purposes of taxation, that’s right all these college students will owe up to 40% on their trades and will owe regular income tax for coins earned mining. I wonder how many college kids know this, or will actually pay taxes...will bitcoin still be cool when the IRS audits them?

Also the SEC has their own opinion of cryptocurrencies being securities.
D[0] has a lot of open bugs[1], just because there aren't enough people to get to and fix them all. On a rather smaller scale, there's ante[2], although it's unclear there's much that can be done to help there.

0: https://dlang.org/

1: https://issues.dlang.org/

2: https://github.com/jfecher/ante
Yeah, I agree with this. Both Levandowski and Kalanick seem to be incredibly toxic people; removing or lessening their influence on Uber, and replacing them with decent people, would only seem to strengthen Uber's position and reputation going forward.
I had three breaking issues in a year and a half using Arch. By breaking - I mean some piece of software I rely on quit working reliably after an update. These were all upstream bugs - not Arch's fault (KDE in two cases, Erlang/OTP in the other), but Ubuntu and RHEL never saw these versions of software hit their repositories because the problems were found (in at least one case by Arch and Gentoo users) and fixed in upstream long before they made it through the long release and testing cycles.

The nice thing about Arch, its absolutely trivial to rollback a package, or even rollback all your packages to the ones published on any given date. So I was able to deal with all of these issues quite effectively which is a credit to Arch, but it simply is the case that you will see more breakage on the leading edge.
I think the pervasive availability and highly engineered and data driven optimization for engagement that are possible with phones and social media create a novel condition. You couldn’t play Everquest on the bus, in the toilet, in class, and in bed, but it’s now possible to basically never not be on Facebook. Also, Everquest and TV didn’t have anything like the degree of user data and monitoring that we have now. It seems too soon to tell whether excessive social media use, as such, is a big problem and I will admit that I sometimes perceive a whiff of moral panic but I don’t think it’s reasonable to say there is nothing new here.

What I think is interesting about the events in the article is the way the that politicians and media express concern without proposing anything. Could this kind of talk be reasonably interpreted as a negotiation between Facebook and the political class relating to Facebook’s add sales practices and political influence?

People are certainly talking about excessive social media use whether FB likes it or not. I have seen tons of articles and prominent quotes on the subject of social media harm to health. I just searched for “excessive social media use” and got articles from Forbes, The Telegraph, Time, BBC, HuffPo, thetimes.co.uk, Vancouver University, and a large pile of high impact journal articles that seem to contain related language, like “impact of social media use on children.”

So lots of people are upset but neither Soros nor the author proposed any particular remedy, and the problem sounds awfully hard to clearly understand, let alone to effectively regulate. The economics of social media seem to necessitate maximizing user engagement, and wining at network effect. If Facebook didn’t do it this way, would whoever did have won the space instead? How do we incentivize social media companies to make products that are somewhat compelling, but not too much?

Is it cynical to suppose that politicians are using the implicit threat of regulation and bad press to compel FB to limit it’s add sales and suppress “fake news”, while actually having little appetite to intervene in the interest of public health? Also, are conventional media outlets afraid of Facebook because it threatens their revenue model, and undermines their credibility?
Huh. I didn't know mu-metal was a real thing; I always assumed it was something Guardians of Ga'Hoole made up.
Your second note about products/services falling into the local economy is probably not all too true.

A bunch of googlers will not support the local coop grocery store, but instead continue using amazon fresh/blue apron, etc. Not to mention the boutique stores they want to shop at probably don't exist yet (depending on the city).
> V8 among with some other JITs are some of the fastest engines in the world

I find that doubtful, when the jvm is so close to native code in terms of performance, and mozilla said that wasm (or was it asm.js? Forget which) was still 50% slower theoretically than native code.
Ethereum. Funfair is also looking good.
It seems this data leakage mode could be dealt with by combining the Faraday cage material (which blocks EM radiation) with a high magnetic permeability material (blocks B-fields, as discussed in the paper's ref [50] (paywalled)).

Mu-metal screen is a thing, so maybe copper plating over the mu-metal to combine both shielding mechanisms?
Just to be totally clear, you are joking, right?
Since the board schematic is presumably proprietary, and the board could be multi-layered, you'd have to do some fairly destructive investigating in order to confirm that the switch is actually doing what it says it is doing.
Poor move on Netflix' behalf I think. Left a bad taste - they knew it was garbage, but shoehorned Clovie in there and still tried their marketing crap.

I cancelled Netflix as a result of this offering. I was close anyway.
Not quite: his/her point is that it's on the user to validate the author as opposed to the location. If you care about security, you should pull from a repo, then check a against a signature.

Your https connection confirms you got something from github, but you have the ability to prove the thing you got from github was from the same individual.
http://time.com/4913284/kids-sports-cost/

Organized youth sports are expensive (in the US at least), and hockey more so than others. You need a lot of equipment which your kid will keep growing out of, and then costs for ice time. Ice time is likely less expensive in big hockey regions (I have no idea), but it's always a cost. A competitive youth league team isn't practicing on a frozen lake.
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Ethereum is not an ICO, it is a cryptocurrency and a platform, and it hosts approximately zero useful software services.

Nobody is eagerly awaiting new features of some blockchain app they use, which makes their life better in any way. They are looking at the price charts.
I've never had anything like that happen to me. But UPS and Fedex have done much worse by me in the past. This is a welcomed addition the the delivery market in my book.
Not quite. If that were the case, piracy sites like TPB would be forever safe in a country that doesn't recognize US copyright. We've all seen how that ends up. I haven't heard of a single attempt of a patent holder to challenge VLC (not that I'm complaining).
Also, they're distributing the software to people in countries where those patents are recognized.

LAME hasn't included an mp3 encoder for these same reasons, even though its FOSS software.

I always assumed the reason no one bothered VideoLAN was a combination of the fact that 1.) VLC truly has remained a non-profit project, unlike many other FOSS software that makes money via some kind of business model (ads, premium support, etc.) and (less likely) 2.) everyone loves VLC so much that even the people possibly affected by the licensing don't care because they use it themselves.
A brilliant thing about the current state of cryptocurrency markets is that you can buy $10 at a time and the fees are a fixed small percent rather than e.g. a flat $5. GDAX has 0.25% market orders and 0% on limit orders. Trading small amounts on the traditional stock market is between impossible and pointless.
I love how the original leaker doesn’t want to talk to the media citing ‘non-disclosure’.
On Mac VLC 2.2.8 (I don't have 3.0), go to Preferences, then Interface tab, then in the middle of the list you'll see "Continue playback" with a dropdown menu. That'll fix it.
> I used VLC to play videos on BeOS back in college in the late 90s

VLC was first released in 2001, as per Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLC_media_player
If you're into these respective topics:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards

https://www.reddit.com/r/3dprinting

https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio

https://www.reddit.com/r/woodworking

https://www.reddit.com/r/vim

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang

https://www.reddit.com/r/maliciouscompliance
awesome explanation, we need more of these shared context explanations of fit within product development that does not get called out often enough
My echo has a switch, I can press it and it lights up red to indicate its muted.
I've never understood this perspective.

If I buy something from Goldman then they think the price is too high and I think the price is too low. If I sell something to Goldman then they think the price is too low and I think it's too high.

If they're not willing to bet against me then they'll say something like "sorry trader was off the desk". Or if they're just less willing to bet against me then they'll say "sorry mate wide atm due to volatility".
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I can see how this is true. The most successful relationship I've had is with another software engineer. We were both passionate about our work and could share a lot of our experiences.
Its not how most people go broke. Most people go broke because of health care costs.
Maybe in the future you will be one of those things, and your data will still be waiting for you. Unless you’re special enough to see into the future I guess.
The thing is, SHA1 can be faked with identical content.

https://security.googleblog.com/2017/02/announcing-first-sha...
Sunk cost is completely unrelated to current value. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost

Bitcoin is down what 70%? That's hardly a great track record even if it made someone rich, it's running out of greater fools while burning though insane amounts of capital for Mining.

Remember, negative sum game means the average person loses. Aka Pointing at lottery winners does not make the lottery a good investment.
> Back to depression it is?

For some people, I suppose.

For others, a non-trivial point of the work is to learn not to care that other people don't care. It's about improving yourself, changing the relationship you have with the only person you will always be with, regardless of what other people might say, think, or do — that their behavior is entirely about them and has nothing whatsoever to do with you.

And that trying to make their behavior about you is just as much an ego-trap as the more obvious things you'd associate with that notion.

It's pretty remarkable the degree to which a little compassion and self-awareness can take the sting out of other people's lacking those things.
> Go doesn't "do" that

Literally the first example of the Go tour [1] tells you to run "go get". "dep" is not (yet) an official part of Go's tooling. So when the only official tool fetches HEAD and calls it a day, I think it's perfectly fine to say "Go does that".

[1] https://golang.org/doc/
She says "fuck tencent" but she's dealing with a totalitarian government that restricts fundamental human rights like privacy, speech, movement, and even procreation!

The question to ask is: why are you as a foreign-based journalist working with/for the Communist Party of China in the first place? Why are they cooperating with you at all?
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From July on, Chrome will brand plain old HTTP as “Not secure”
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+100 respect for VLC and The Cone after reading this.
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http://5newsonline.com/2016/12/28/bentonville-police-use-sma...
I'm curious what those use cases are in the 90% that don't work? I don't use mine a lot but I also don't seem to have the trouble you do.
From the reading of the article, it sounds like much of their problems were related to several upgrades of Ceph having happened, and possibly also an ABI incompatible libstdc++ update rolling out. Probably not the cause of your RHEL 7 issues, since it is a much more conservative release.

It sounds to me like the choice of Gentoo was at least partially responsible for that 5 day outage.

With RHEL/CentOS, it's pretty good about keeping things stable from a software version perspective.

The downside is when you really do need (or just plain really want) newer versions of software. But at least then you can make the conscious decision to manually maintain a few packages, while the rest of the core stays stable.

I won't run anything but an LTS release in production. People always say "Well <my favorite distro> has release cycles every 2 years, and upgrading your systems that often should be fine." But I've been involved in OS upgrades that require 6+ months to do, and not infrequently.

Most reasonably complex services (in my experience) take man-months of effort to go from, say, 12.04 to 16.04. Start having 3 or 4 such services, and non-upgrade work that needs to be done, and you start running out of time in a 2 year release cycle to complete updates.
Not an ICO in the traditional sense perhaps.

There's plenty of useful stuff being built upon Ethereum. The platform itself is also still in development and improving with every update.

People need to give projects more than 5 minutes to succeed.

Not that I disagree however plenty of money will be lost on useless projects. But that's just the nature of the game (excluding any obvious scams). Plenty (nearly all) of venture capital money is wasted as well.
It's not really a concern for Git [1].

[1] https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/7tp2gYWQugL
Yeah, I'm kind of disappointed to see this interpretation so far down. Bimodal compensation probably says more about corporations than it does about innate skill issues.
That one is derived from MooseFS (https://moosefs.com/).

What turned me away from LizardFS was when they forked the project the very first thing they did was rewriting the code to be in C++, this makes much harder to merge future improvements, and feels like they make some decisions for the wrong reason (the user doesn't care what language it is written in)

MooseFS is quite good and has fairly good performance, but its weakness is that is also that the central point is its master, and the open source version doesn't have HA.

I know that LizardFS supposedly has HA (it didn't have it at the time I looked into it), how is that implemented?
Well, that's trivial - the 'Echo' functionality is just an AWS service:

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-an-Amazon-Echo-W...

On a Raspberry Pi or similar machine, you can hook the logic up to anything; a button, a switch, an infrared remote, whatever.
Why do you carry a GPS tracker around? Why do you put wireless in your home? Lots of things are easy to question until you step back from your single point of view and realize a large population out there doesn't live with a tinfoil hat on. It is not because they don't care about the same security problems you do, it is because they are naive and don't understand how stuff works or what the problematic implications of using them are.
I had heard about that specific incidence during WW2 a few years ago. I can't help but think of that every time politicians and special interest groups push the US Census to collect more and more personal information from citizens.
I tested this with an mpv developer. This depends on a lot of factors, as you might be used to with mpv, but mpv was overall just as power efficient, if not better. This was done months ago with a nightly build of mpv and a nightly build of vlc, I'd be happy to do more extensive testing later if there is interest, but I decided on a particular power friendly configuration for mpv for laptop usage in the end.
LizardFS/MooseFS is mounted as regular filesystem (it behaves like NFS) so I would imagine everything should work with it.
To be honest a lot of my interests and work are heavily male oriented.

I could do things that have a different male/female skew but to do things just to meet women seems disingenuous and energy wasting to me.
> still 50% slower theoretically than native code

How can something be theoretically slower? What's the difference between theoretically slower and practically slower?

Only practical implementations have a speed that you can talk about.

I don't know what you mean by 'theoretically' as an adverb there.
Yes, based on the user's previous AskHNs it's about test/QA automation.
I don't think the problem with programming is that it is complex or has wast domain knowledge, it is true, but this is not a unique problem.

I think the biggest barrier in programming is just how abstract and alien it is, cognitive load can be enormous. Try to teach engineer about materials or steel liquation or semiconductors - it might be abstract or complex but at least it is dealing with real life physical processes.

With programming it is whole different galaxy. Like explaining pointer arithmetic to someone who just started learning CS. Or recursion, or asking someone to rotate tree in their head - there is a huge chance it will simply BSOD them. Programming is much more close to theoretical physics or maths than engineering.
> Now Alphabet comes off looking like a paper tiger for a settlement that requires Uber to do very well to have any value.

The value of the settlement for Alphabet is not in the stock, it is in the “agreement to ensure that any Waymo confidential information is not being incorporated in Uber Advanced Technologies Group hardware and software.”

Of course, the details of that aren't going to be shared, but that's the thing matters.

> Let's not forget they are a major shareholder in Lyft.

Are they? I know GV has a significant stake in Uber, and Waymo has a cooperative deal with Lyft, but I don't recall Alphabet or any of it's subsidiaries holding a big share of Lyft.

Edit: as pointed out in the response, Alphabet is invested in Lyft through CapitalG.
One that’s open source, on servers and devices only you and your correspondents control. Or you could speak face to face.
I've noticed that pasting large amounts of text (> 1000 lines) can make it grind to a halt for several minutes. I don't know if it's due to the mode I'm in.
Does that mean Uber is valued at $72 billion?
Hotspot among with other JVMs are no doubt fast -- but partially that came from Java being a static and compiled language.

Not saying that JavaScript is faster, but JavaScript is fast. If you look at the benchmarks I posted, you'll notice that 50% slower is hardly the norm -- many benchmarks have the VMs performing at a near-native performance, and the VMs are even faster in some cases.

In fact, number crunching in JavaScript has been fast for a long time, and even faster than Java in some cases: http://www.stefankrause.net/wp/?p=144

I'm not trying to advocate JavaScript's performance in anyway however. I'm merely pointing out the fact that performance cannot be single-handedly described as "fast" or "slow", especially "for sure". Context matters. A lot.
A package manager would be vulnerable (to package hijacking via reclaimed Github username) only if that package manager is a transparent proxy to Github. Any package manager with its own central package repo, like NPM and RubyGems, would be unaffected by a reclaimed Github username. Even a package repo like crates.io, which uses Github to authenticate, wouldn't be vulnerable because user equivalence is by user ID rather than username.
> Does nobody remember the 80s? TV was turning people into fricken' zombies.

You may be right that cries of "society is being ruined" are nothing new. However, I think Facebook is different enough from what came before (such as TV) in a few ways that matter, that we should take this more seriously.

* FB is _interactive_. The effects of somebody responding to you, liking your posts, etc., are much deeper than you passively consuming some content on a screen.

* FB is _intrusive_. It sends you notifications on your phone, reminder emails, inserts calls-to-action in your news feed, etc. It's really hard to ignore.

* FB is a lot more _personalized_. It knows a lot about you. Ads are personalized. Content is specifically targeted towards your interests. Stuff is "recommended by <your-friend>". This makes it a much harder addiction to kick.

FWIW, I don't think FB is _that_ bad. Many mobile "free to play" games, on the other hand, ... They use so many dark patterns and insidious techniques to purposely capture people's (and especially kids') attention and time, while simultaneously trying to get them to spend real money. Geez. I hate them with a passion.
I agree, I'd be over the moon to experience a relationship that is rewarding, stress leaving and healthy.

It's down to me to work out why I find relationships to be so exhausting. Thank you.
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So we just went through the process of interviewing candidates for summer internships. Our interview process is far less technical than most and is almost all about determining how the candidate will fit into the team.

I believe it's called Behavior Based Interviews. But basically the interviewing team looks at a list of qualities and picks a few (~3 per person) that they think are valuable for someone joining the team. For example, I chose to look for: Priority Setting, Compassion, and Self Development. Once we have some qualities chosen, we develop questions that are specifically meant to test for those qualities.

Overall I really enjoy this kind of interview process. I feel like these qualities are more important than technical ability, so it's nice to put more emphasis on them during the interview process (We still do assess technical ability of course). And for us, it results in new team members that I'm excited to work with!
> I would suggest that most people who think someone is going to spend their time doing this to get over themselves.

No person is going to personally do that. We have computers and increasingly more advanced 'learning' algorithms to do that for us, and to help us draw conclusions (correct or not) about the person of interest.