skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple has made huge improvements to the iPhone since the 4S. LTE, 802.11ac, much better cameras, the lightning port, bigger screens, faster processors, six times the RAM, four times the storage space, multitasking in iOS, 3D touch, multiple rear cameras, waterproofing, NFC for Apple Pay, wireless charging, and probably some other stuff I'm forgetting.

There are of course going to be some people who aren't affected by those changes, but you're part of a very small minority and most users get a lot of utility out of their current iPhone compared to one that was released in 2011.
Gotta say, reading that made me more disappointed in my state than I already am. I honestly have no idea why such activities would be banned, can't even make the private prison argument since it's run by the Idaho Department of Corrections.
Thrilled to hear that. Welcome to BuyMeACoffee, Trevor. Glad to be your first supporter!
Time seems to me beyond our comprehension beyond the most trivial intuitive level; defined as numbers, a fourth dimension or recursively by some itself timy concept will not do. But claiming that does not exist has to employ some paradigm outside our normal concept of it, perhaps something purely literary?

Anyhow, bookmarked and saved for a rainy day, thanks!
I've found I almost exclusively listen to "Discover Weekly" and "Release Radar" during my commutes, and every now and then grab a song for some playlists for other times.

I do wish there were better ways to shape what songs end up in there as sometimes it can be a bit of a miss.
> 5. LAMP

MySQL+PHP? Any framework in particular? Just curious

> BTW please choose a payout method to make your page public

Sure, done.
Probably. In some amount of fairness, Trustico's stated motivation was that they didn't feel like they trusted Symantec (reasonable!) and the same people were involved with the move to Digicert (which I think is correct, some employees moved but technical oversight should have moved to the more organizationally-competent Digicert team) and the same problems were likely to happen again (I think Digicert is generally good at being a competent CA, but it's not unreasonable for them to decide the risk is too high if some of the same people were around).

They also state in the MDSP thread, "We were also a victim whereby Symantec mis-issued SSL Certificates owned by us, subsequently we were asked to keep the matter quiet, under a confidentially notice."
Spotify is not issuing new shares so they will not have any price to set. It's up to the "Registered Shareholders":

> The Registered Shareholders may sell their ordinary shares covered hereby pursuant to brokerage transactions on the NYSE at prevailing market prices at any time after the ordinary shares are listed for trading thereon.

Plus:

> prior to the opening trade, there will not be a price at which underwriters initially sold ordinary shares to the public as there would be in an underwritten initial public offering

As I said, this should be fun to watch!
True. What's funny is that if you ask people how their individual circumstances are, they overwhelmingly answer "good and improving". But then you ask them about the state of the world and they answer "horrible and getting worse".

And of course politicians have also been at it for some time. See Adam Curtis's excellent The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear.

https://archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmares-AdamCurtis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmares
> paying a software engineer to fix a memory leak: $x,xxx,xxx

Paying the software engineer would be a fraction of the cost to fix the memory leak in software. Recertification of the software would blow it all away.
"I've been planning to implement the "assist" metric, similar to basketball, on my own team for a while."

Sounds like a super fun place to work. ;)
It is true that massive debt could do that.

However, it depends on what the debt is for.

If the debt is for a huge mortgage owning a 10 unit apartment building, but you are making a couple hundred bucks a month in net profit... then you do not feel pressure as compared to someone who took out a 30k loan to build a swimming pool.

These discussions about "income" are so skewed towards a certain type of income, namely wage income.

The people conducting these studies have their own biases: justifying taking other people's wealth via forceful means such as taxes.
I think one difference between Dropbox and Spotify and Twitter and Snap is that Dropbox and Spotify sell a desirable, useful product to end users.

In other words, there's a clear function being offered and a clear path to giving them money in exchange for that function.

While both Twitter and Snap are functional, their only real offering is a slight twist on you general social network, and their only way to make money is by advertising to their vast consumer base.

As an investor I'd be far more interested in the revenue streams provided by Dropbox and Spotify.
Teams are spontaneously disbanded and their projects are moved to other countries because it prevents people who share the same allegiance or ideology that runs counter to Google's from conspiring to hide "accidental" exploitable bugs in the code which could later be used to damage the company. The project gets audited by the next team's fresh eyes and if an exploit is found then it is patched and can be traced back to the moles who can then be monitored or fired. Rinse and repeat until launch.
From the article

"However, the timestamps of the two radar pulses being compared were converted to floating point differently: one correctly, the other introducing an error proportionate to the operation time so far"

The code had a defect that effects its aim from turning it on but because it took 100 hours to drift by 1/3 of a second the problem wasn't apparent when rebooted regularly. If software can't continue to do basic math without manual intervention its defective.

In fact everyone including the company that made it admits it's defective.

Its possible your teacher picked a great example to illustrate a communication failure.
Awesome! Happy to be your first supporter :)

We're a tweet away if there's anything –
https://twitter.com/TheBuyMeACoffee
I have a personal refusal to ever own a minivan, despite the wife, kid, and mortgage. :-) I just note that I go home to the family to indicate that I can't go to the evening events where more interesting people & discussions are.
Experimental Space-Shield Shreds a 7km/s Speeding Bullett
> despite also being Electron-based, is only available on Windows and Mac

Electron does not make cross-compilation easy. It's about as cumbersome as building any other C++ project for multiple platforms.
Is there an unwritten diversity requirement for these open positions? That would explain it.
Jump to the first ever Hacker News mention of a term
That's the point where you rule probabilities to commit a crime is an actual crime.
Some fundamentalist Christians are convinced that D&D is occult, a gateway to Satanism and demonic possession, a cause of suicide, etc. I wonder if any prison administrators share that belief system, which might contribute to a decision to ban D&D.
This will be rolled out further and further, first the rest of China, then other parts of Asia, eventually Europe and the Americas. Strongly resist the rollout of this technology, along with the social credit rating systems.

This is like the last chapter of humanity before we stagnate for hundreds of years.
Since when is Spotify a Electron application? I recall it having the UI made with JavaScript, HTML and CSS but all the rest is handled with C++. Think they were using Chromium Embedded Framework.
John Frum and the Cargo Cults (2007)
Another instance of State legislatures ignoring their constituents' wishes and covering their asses. Remember this next time you end up in the voting booth.

State, county, local positions

They matter
Kind of makes sense to me, once you get to a point where you're set. That is you can easily afford the main things (housing, food), plus the extras (electronics, vacations, hobbies) you need a much larger income to "move the needle" so to speak.

You still need to work 40 hours a week or whatever, and only get X weeks of vacation. Having a 180K salary instead of 150K doesn't change any of these obligations, or change your life in any significant way, you just put away more money into the bank.

Of course, stepping from 40K to 100K in salary is practically life altering. Unless you absolutely suck at budgets you can easily get out of debt and start having real vacations. You can afford hobbies, etc.

That's one thing I've always wondered. Unless you can reach super high incomes, the "buy/rent a jet" incomes, your life isn't that different from "all the rest." You still commute to work daily, have a house, etc. I mean sure, the house and car may have higher price points, but the lifestyle is still the same. Maybe I'm wrong and all those luxury brand commercials are right, spending 30 minutes (or however long) per day in a 80K car is so much more rewarding than spending those 30 minutes in a 40K car.
For sorting comments on usefulness. Of 10 toplevel replies to a post, which should be displayed first? The highest-voted/most-recent one. Also spam.
Environment dominates over host genetics in shaping human gut microbiota
Flagging people for human review and monitoring =\= detaining them
Germany says its government computers secure after “isolated” hack
This is all kinds of crazy at the same time.

Why would Trustico want to revoke certificates under the previous root anyway? Why not just start issuing certificates under the new, and just skip the part about broadcasting their little secret to the world?
I would like the see analysis of the politicians that allowed this.
I'd like to just add a shoutout for the word "convolve" as the verb referring to this particular action of convolution.
Two options:
a) use a reasonably short retention period, e.g. 6 weeks
b) if you key your entries in Kafka, a new entry with the same key will overwrite the old one. That way you could overwrite PII content with an empty message.
This and Dropbox, I'm not excited to invest in either, but I'll keep using their free-tier services, and I wish them the best.
I used to use GPM and am now a Spotify customer. For starters, I was annoyed that Google removed some of its playlist interface around the activity-based radios. You'd click an activity and there would be several stations/playlists for different styles of music that were great for that general activity. Loved it. Now I can't find it anywhere.

Second is the interface in general. Spotify realizes that especially on mobile, you have limited screen real estate. I really dislike Google's choice to overly emphasize giant thumbnails of album art I'll never care about or recognize, at the expense of not providing a list view for all levels of the hierarchy. This also leads to situations where artist names are truncated beyond recognition because there's only a few characters space for them.

The GPM app on my Pixel XL also takes seemingly forever to load and play, podcasts often lose their place, etc. Spotify just works.
I live in a very not-white-collar neighborhood these days and am on in variety of neighborhood e-groups.

Facebook is used, heavily, by the lower class. Very. heavily.
> you'll end up littering your filesystem with these empty files for every one of them

These files are information just like files that are not empty.
I mean, compared to the non-pro iPad line, the iPad pro has a larger screen for better multitasking, more RAM, faster processor, pencil support, and keyboard case support.

I see no problem with calling it an iPad Pro, even if you're not the kind of professional that it's aimed at.

There are also plenty of professionals who will not more than 16GB RAM in their laptop. Many are probably still using 8GB without a problem. Again, just because you need or want features that Apple isn't putting in their devices doesn't make their devices unworthy of the 'Pro' moniker.
> The people who go and hold up a convenience store aren't doing it because of a reasoned cost-benefit analysis based on risk of capture, differential value of prison vs freedom, and future discount rates. They're doing it because they don't do those things.

Conversely, at least some percentage of the people who don't have made that cost-benefit analysis.

Plus some part of the people who go and commit felonies, mainly the young and naive, have made at least some basic cost-benefit analysis; they mistakenly think they'll be the leaders/tough ones in prison and it'll be okay.

I'm not a fan of the punitive prison model, but fear of consequences is a good deterrent.

(I sound like an uptight prick, but I'm speaking from experience. Then again, I've never been in a US prison, so I can't say much about them and I don't like what little I know)
> Second, you're a lot better off working at a good company -- MUCH better off

Working at Google ruined my mental health. Granted, it hasn't been great to begin with, but being in SRE made my absolutely miserable. Every night, coming intellectually wasted and couldn't even work on my own project because of draconian IP clauses in my contract.

Quit half a year ago, went (back) into freelancing and I couldn't be happier. Don't care about the money or prestige anymore.
Have you ever worked for a company that was faced with running out of money? Things get real pretty quick when you hear you only have X months of runway.
It's a popular request, and we avoided this to do justice to the design and the overall minimalist nature of the website. I'll be sure to bring this up in our next brainstorming session. Thanks!
I've switched to an Amazon ecosystem (dot, fireTv, etc) and Spotify just works seamlessly between them all. I love it.

I have to wonder how many users Spotify picked up when Apple blew the christmas HomePod release and Amazon flushed out Alexa-enabled devices at heavy discounts.
Using probabilities as "evidence" of a future action is the real crime.
Or, heaven forbid, A slightly larger battery!
The full fact list is on GitHub[1]. The fact list was a lot more interesting and important when searches took longer to run. One of the bad things about improving the performance so much was the fact that the facts don't have as long to display :P

[1] https://github.com/jwngr/sdow/blob/master/website/src/resour...
It would depend on whether they were relying on it to work or not.
I suspect there is another level above that at financial independence, where you have enough wealth that you don't have to work. Where you can lose the fear of losing your job, or go off and work on what you want even if it doesn't make much or any money.
Nah, sometimes stuff is confiscated just to make life more miserable for the inmates.
Well, it wasn't the missile that caused their deaths. Strictly speaking, it was the explosion of the missile.

Well, wait. It wasn't the explosion - technically, it was the impact of the pressure wave on their bodies that caused ... well, no. Really, it was the fact that their organs stopped working after impact of the ... well. If you really want to be accurate, it was the fact that metabolism ceased to be practicable after their organs stopped working.

Well, no, actually, the fact that their mental processes depended on their metabolism - that was really the cause of their... Well, no...
Intersting. Just did some reading on that grape. I am going to have to try to find a bottle of it try. My wife and I have a large wine collection and we always love finding new varieties we have never tried.
what exactly are you proposing as the mechanism of these power interests pushing this book?

> slating for reviews, inclusion on top lists, discussions on television shows, interviews with author etc.

Are you suggesting there are specific people who are actively pushing this book, who are not directly tied to the marketing of the book?

> yes

since they are "power interests" or some such

> Are you suggesting that power is not a legitimate criterion of social analysis? Just to understand the quotations

What does it mean that "cultural power interests that are interested in stability" (paraphrased) are pushing the book in a way that's more than just marketing?

> It means they are doing it because they don't care about the sales, they care about the message being spread widely.

I'm not saying it's coordinated. I'm not saying it's some sort of conspiracy. But yeah, it's clearly more than "some people like this book"
I’m mostly in column 3) which is why I support severe punishment (eg death penalty for almost all murders) but also more focus on guilt assessment (all capital punishments require a second independent trial with higher burden of proof and greater restrictions on prosecution)
Something about the Makefile in your post is a bit weird though: You only declare "test" as a PHONY target, but every other target in the file is just as PHONY. And since you don't even explain that line, it could be a bit confusing.
I felt that I was not depressed anymore and I started working with my psychiatrist to reduce dosage until I was on the minimum dose. Then I stopped when I was feeling particularly good and kept a bottle of 5-HTP on hand. I'm not sure if that was necessary or not.
> I was a longtime user of KeePassX.

Probably you mean KeePass (the "original" one), which is written in C# and requires Mono in Linux ? KeepassX has always been native C++ and cross-platform.
"Hey George, how are those TPS reports coming? Also, do you wanna get drinks after work?"

"I'll have those reports for you by EOD. Please send me a message on Facebook Messenger about that non-professional inquiry."

I just don't see it happening like that. I have people I contact on both Messenger and Slack, and while I tend to keep professional communications to Slack and personal to Messenger, they bleed over.
$100K would be a fully tenured professor at a good school, and some time under their belt. Even then, $100K is on the high end of the scale. There are exceptions that go significantly higher even without tenure, but the average with tenure is closer to $80K.
The thing I like about Makefiles is the declarative structure you get by defining the targets. It really can serve as a form of documentation about your different stages of development.
So belief without evidence. Do you see how it is non-sensical to then say "misplaced faith in evidence"?
Tim Bajarin on Apple and iPhone Revenues
hmmm honestly it is just a case of "I used spotify first". If spotify hadn't been my first choice I probably would have gravitated to GPM instead. At this point I don't want to sacrifice any more of my life to Google, so if I had to switch it would probably be to nothing.
I meant during onboarding, Stripe was showing up as both disabled and recommended.
At the prison I was in (northern Indiana), dice were banned as "tools for gambling" -- yet playing cards were OK. Yea, it didn't make sense to any of the staff either.

We carved our own out of bars of "state soap" (the cheap Barker brand inmate soap that gets distributed in just about every institution). We carved out the little divots on each side for the numbers and used Kool-Aid to stain them. Some of the older guys who had been incarcerated for a long time were so good at making them[1] that they were damn near indistinguishable from the real thing until you felt them of course (they were made out of soap after all). They actually rolled fairly true as well.

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1: they could also carve out some very intricate chess pieces. I mean these were damn near works of art. You couldn't use state soap for those though, it's far too thin and brittle. You needed the good Ivory-brand stuff from the commissary.
This is depressing. One of my middle school classmates had a brother killed in a SCUD strike.
It highly depends on how you measure value. If you measure value in terms of what they bring to the overall organization, people from top 10 schools are very likely overvalued. If you measure what value they bring to the team, top 10 schools are probably correctly valued. The difference is that the manager of the team hiring from Harvard can speak to people in more senior roles about how great their team is and how they have the best talent.

At the end of the day, value is driven by how much political leverage a hire can give a manager, not by how much value they add to the org.
I've had Spotify before and switched to Apple Music because of the student pricing. When I had Spotify, I would discover new music and new artists all the time. Since getting Apple Music, I really haven't discovered anyone new.

Although I've graduated, Apple seems to think I'm still in school and is still only charging me $5/month. The moment that ends, I'm switching to Spotify. Also, the Apple Music app on iOS is horrible. Spotify's app is so much better.
This is great news. Now we can compare what ISPs do in NN states verses non NN states.
I thought I was the only weirdo that prefers to interact with random strangers rather than people I know on Facebook. I miss the days of IRC and AIM screen names. Now we have "real name policies"...
I'm not even lying when I say this: 2 out of my last 3 jobs as a remote site reliability engineer have come from Reddit. They were contract gigs, and you have to do a bit more work vetting folks, but every now and then you'll find a recruiter who actually knows wtf they're doing with tech people.

So yeah, 2/3 in 5 years getting quality remote jobs via reddit of all places.

/r/forhire, /r/devopsjobs, /r/sysadminjobs
One idea: look up the closest somewhat-relevant tech meetup on meetup.com -- it might be worthwhile to travel, even if it's 3 hours away.
I think it's more a matter of people using their authority over prisoners to satisfy their sadistic power fantasies.
Commit directly to master. Dotmesh engineering principles
Politics is everywhere. Misaligned incentives are everywhere.

The best you can do is find a place where those with the power to promote also have skin in the game. Usually that means working directly for an owner, or being an owner yourself.

Politics dominates when those who do the promotion do not suffer the consequences of losing good people or promoting bad people.

All organizations become shit after they grow to 10,000+ people. It’s not possible for politics to be kept out at that scale. Google may be worse than many other places because its steady profits allow it to keep many useless individuals on the rolls, who would be fired elsewhere.
Presumably they mean non-Bazel external projects, which that link doesn't even touch on ("The other repository uses make... just rewrite their build system!") - an external project with the same build system is the "easy" case for things like this and CMake; any new contender has to accept that there is a wide ecosystem of other solutions it's going to have to interoperate with.

...unless you are in a corporate environment with a build team to integrate complicated external projects into a monorepo and where things like build system can be mandated.

That's always the feeling I've gotten from Bazel - you either do things the "google" way, or find something else.
The Evolution of Data at Reddit
You have articulated my thoughts about this love of raising prices.

Your second point is spot on. McDonalds is still in business, after all.
Downsizing Data Centers as Part of a Cloud-First Strategy – NetApp Blog
this looks very interesting! Has anyone used it before?
since it's paid content. Does the book also talk about why people believe in it? Because that it's an illusion is not something I would need to be convinced about. I have more problems following the imperative that there always needs to be an unsustainable amount of growth and why people happily sacrifice stable huge profits just to fake a little more growth.