skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The phrase "we had to burn the village in order to save it" was uttered by the officer who perpetrated the My Lai massacre, and it was an unironic paraphrasing of "better dead than red". Nothing about addressing the past and ongoing effects of long-term discrimination requires destroying anything. If you think affirmative action is reverse discrimination, then fine: there are other ways to address systemic disparities.

Taking your boot off someone's throat doesn't make them your equal when they're still on the ground.
Software engineers and people who work in IT departments in general should unionize, because outside of the big five tech companies, these employees are mistreated relative to other employees at their company.

Consider:

1) Workers in IT departments are less likely to get bonuses.

2) They are often asked to put in longer hours than people in other departments, because of deadlines.

3) They often have to work weekends because of “emergencies” and DevOps-related tasks that can’t take place on weekdays. Guess who’s patching the servers this Saturday? I’ll give you a hint: it’s not Bob in Sales.
> a FANG

What's this?

> When companies complain that they "can't find qualified candidates," they really mean people willing to work cheap enough.

Well maybe they can't find anyone who will work cheaply enough to justify hiring them based on how much they will generate the company? That's just economics.
And those stories were flagged to death, too...
"But flippancy is the best of all. In the first place it is very economical. Only a clever human can make a real Joke about virtue, or indeed about anything else; any of them can be trained to talk as if virtue were funny.

Among flippant people the joke is always assumed to have been made. No one actually makes it; but every serious subject is discussed in a manner which implies that they have already found a ridiculous side to it."

- Screwtape
Barely. It's thread rage-jacking and is bad.
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How do you access these VPS's? Load balancer? You'll need a globally distributed load balancer as well. DO LBs only have availability tolerance cross-AZ, not cross-Region, and are $20/mo. You might need a GCP Global Load Balancer.

How are your git repos stored? Attached block storage? Seriously? Those aren't highly available at all, and it wouldn't even work in your proposed setup because each instance will have its own block storage.

No, that won't do. You'll have to implement some form of cross-region replication, possibly blocked by S3 or something. Good luck. Its not easy.
Choosing the status quo is still a choice, in this case in favor of the inherent class structure of capitalism.
He built his entire career, as a leader of USA financial policy, as a hardcore Randian Objectivist (he was a close friend of Ayn Rand herself, probably the most powerful Randian in the world), and then on the way out said "oops, I was wrong"?
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Akureyri isn't really a "small town" by Icelandic standards though. Once you get into the actual small towns over on the eastern side of the country for example, English proficiency is much, much lower.

But yeah, certainly the more populated areas are extremely English-friendly. My folks in Arkansas probably see more non-English speakers in the average month than I did in Reykjavik.
My friends and I used to play this a race. We weren't concerned so much with the number of hops as how quickly we could get here.

It was always fun reviewing each round and seeing how everyone got to the destination.
It'd be a regressive concession misaligned with the goals of serverless - a return to peak capacity planning. How many containers do you keep warm? Might as well just use traditional non-serverless platforms at that point.
Is there such a thing 'escrow as a service' in face to face transactions?
Shouldnt employers have the right to refuse to negotiate with a union and instead hire non union employees if any are available?
> Ultimately most of what I learnt in College is crap and useless

College degree programs have a lot of flexibility in classes you choose to take. If you choose poorly, or look for the easy classes, your education will be worth a lot less.

I.e. college provides you with an opportunity to learn. What you make of that is up to you.
Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google.

It's mostly used in reference to their stocks.

As for your edit: you could be right, but if that's the case, they really should say that. Because not being able to find qualified people is different than not being able to find affordable people.
I'm a Star Citizen fanboy, and have kept a close eye on the development process.

Yes, the development has been full of fits and starts, but they've also solved some amazing technical challenges. The 64-bit map size aspect was critical for having solar-system-sized maps with proper precision for multiplayer. The independent physics grids per ship implementation was a big deal. Also, they were able to pick up many of the core CryTek engine developers who had built the engine in the first place, and that's paid off with the rapid development of their procedural planet generation technology.

Sure, the development has been repeatedly behind schedule, and we've learned to pretty much ignore any projected deadlines they announce. But, they've got several hundred people working full-time on a pair of AAA-class games and the current alpha versions _are_ playable, so it's not just vaporware. They also have been posting the current project task planning info on the website for about the last year, with info drawn directly from their internal JIRA, and the community is watching that eagerly to calculate weekly progress update diffs. Supposedly CIG is aiming for quarterly patch releases this year based on what's ready at the time rather than a specific feature list target, with 3.1 due out this month. We'll see how that pans out, and if they can actually manage more consistent releases.

I pitched in for them to make the game of Chris Roberts' dreams, and I'm enjoying watching the development process. As long as they continue to make progress, I'm quite happy to sit back and wait for them to get it "right".
Native desktop apps are limited in number are nowhere near the dumpster fire the web is. My desktop isn't routinely downloading and executing payloads from the web. They're clearly different.
(commented out hastily-written comment, too late to delete).
Are there any notable tech coops?
localbitcoins is an absurd solution. It takes a lot of time to coordinate and execute a meet and exchange, it's also risky, and worst of all it's ridiculously expensive in both directions. Localbitoins is only a legit solution in the "I have to pay a ransom ASAP and can't wait for KYC confirmation" scenario.
I think you start your argument from the point, that sustainable energy is around the corner. I have to point out, a lot of people have thought that way for a long time. The instantaneous effect is very important if there isnt sustainable energy around the corner. If it isnt, this is plain and simply an extremely inefficient way to produce plastics.

Creating plastics from non petroleum sources is of course a great process, but it wasnt developed by Lego. Others arent using it because they produce actually a bigger footrpint with this "sustainable" process".

If I dont miss anything, Lego adapted to that process before there was a positive impact or even before a non negative impact is a realistic prediction.
FAANG: Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google -- It's a generalization for tech companies that have been doing exceedingly well in the public market in the last 5 or 6 years.
From the article:

>There was a hashtag, I don’t remember if it was trending or just in my timeline, called #whitegirlsaremagic. I clicked on it, and found it was racist and sexist dross. It was being promulgated in opposition to another hashtag, #blackgirlsaremagic. I clicked on that, and found a few model shots and borderline soft-core porn of black women. Armed with this impression, I set off to tweet in righteous anger about how much I disliked women being reduced to sex objects regardless of race. I was not just wrong in this moment, I was incoherently wrong. I had made my little mental model of what #blackgirlsaremagic was, and I had no clue that I had no clue what I was talking about. My 60-second impression of #whitegirlsaremagic was dead-on, but #blackgirlsaremagic didn’t fit in the last few tweets my browser had loaded.

Her mistake was that she didn't understand a hashtag before she railed against it. It turns out that she railed against someone misusing the hashtag, but turned her anger to everyone using the hashtag.

Thanks to this mistake, and the internet's idiotic idea that you can't be friends with someone without subscribing to all their beliefs, she was fired. No amount of apologizing for a mistake made in good faith was enough.

Or, if you're a pessimist, her mistake was bothering to try to help people.
This has a Nieztschean tint. When you have a hammer, everything looks like a Linux 4.2.0 kernel, erm, nail.
Ah whoops! Sorry about that; I'll try to get an updated one. In the meantime, feel free to contact me (email address on my webpage at neerajkumar.org)

Dropbox does offer visa sponsorship in some cases.
case study would be much more useful if you at least gave a vague description of what the company does (what kinds of widgets they sell). i'm willing to believe that for some sectors this might work but for many others it won't (e.g. pizza ovens to small pizza places).
Loans don't make people wealthier. The loans are backed by collateral, and have to be paid back. It is not at all the same thing as counterfeiting.
I think he's saying that California is at-will employment. Not that unionization is bad, but that it makes it very difficult to unionize, if you can just be fired immediately and replaced.
Also written as FAANG: Facebook Apple Amazon Netflix Google
If there's one thing we've learned in the last two years it's that what's obviously silly to anyone with broad sources of information and critical thinking skills may be considered plausible by a shocking number of people.

I would prefer that Snopes error on the side of stating the obvious.
Marking of a submission as a dupe that was previously itself flagged off the front page is patently dishonest. Of course, HN is curated, its members can curate however they want, for whatever reasons they want, and those reasons are not always going to be good ones, which in this case they obviously aren't.
Have a look here: https://www.thebalance.com/understanding-minimum-car-insuran...

People are recommended to have more than the minimum if they own a home, or otherwise have a lot of assets to protect.

Commercial requirements are much higher.

It works different in the states because the person or property being injured also has insurance, which will cover them. Insurance covers you not the person or property being injured.

So if you smash a building with your car, the property owner will collect from their insurance. That insurance company will then sue you, and your insurance will cover you. If you don't have enough insurance, they'll take what they can get, and if you don't have any property or money, they'll give up after that.
The amount of obfuscation going on here is very impressive. It always makes me wonder how these things are even written and designed in the first place.

I seem to recall a C++ protection library that would allow you to define custom versions of types like int and long. It would use operator overloading to allow you to use the types in a fairly normal fashion, but underneath these operators would actually be implemented as a very complicated virtual machine. This way, your algorithm code could look fairly normal but it would compile to an absolute beast of a protection layer.
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I'll admit that I've had very few opportunities to travel abroad thus far, but, for what it's worth, my experience has been the same. In fact, most people seem to be a bit gladdened to find that a foreigner (perhaps especially an English-speaking tourist) is making an effort to learn their native tongue. And also, likely, a bit amused by my shortcomings—but that's no big deal: it's how you learn.
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Not really, they've been trying to get a different job that entire time without success.
> I can even work through the math with them to show them that what they did was more expensive than me just handing them $5000 and telling them to watch TV all summer to save wear and tear on the car.

Who are you to say they wouldn't have found a better use of $5000 than blow it on video games and drugs during a summer? Presumably, if they already have good work ethic, they may come up with a business or a venture with that money that they wouldn't have otherwise, because they were delivering pizza for Dominos.

I would ask them to do the math of driving for Dominos BEFORE handing them a Jaguar, not after the summer has been spent.
Tyranny of the many has dangers just as does tyranny of the few. There can be significant downsides to unions, so it's a bit reductive to think they're a universal good and that to disagree with them in any case is necessarily about "the inherent class structure of capitalism"
I have seen it, it doesn't address the problems with logstash, or the golang elasticsearch client.
What is preventing Europe from creating media that reflect their culture and exporting it to the world? If Europe could create music, movies, etc. that are more popular than the offerings from the US then... problem solved?
No, you can't. There's no free lunch. Printing money makes the person with the new banknotes richer, but everyone else holding banknotes poorer. I.e. it's zero-sum.

> if you want a vibrant, inventive culture

Nonsense.
Reminder that the tech playgrounds of Apple, Adobe, Google and Intel all colluded to keep engineer pay down and to not poach one another's employees.
You want an example besides Stormfront, and I did so in my original post: piracy sites.

If you want something a little more morally clear, take a look at what happens with Sci-Hub. They finally actually lost a court order (which led to the suspending of their hosting), but it doesn't always take that. They've been playing "domain whack-a-mole" for a very long time now: https://torrentfreak.com/sci-hub-battles-pirate-bay-esque-do.... And as that article mentions, less-savory sites such as The Pirate Bay get taken down without court orders all the time.
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> Lithium batteries contain safety systems that become compromised when the part is mechanically deformed.

Reference?

> There are no FAA approved ways to transport damaged Lithium batteries that I'm aware of

Then you haven't done your homework. The official rules are here:

https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/retrieveECFR?gp=1&SID=bba5ad065...

And the version distilled for public consumption is here:

https://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/hazmat_safety/more_inf...

There is no distinction made between damaged and undamaged batteries unless the battery has been recalled.
It can be causal and still be a wasteful signaling game. I think that to first order that's what's going on.
Yeah, I started with X-Wing and Wing Commander always looked like a step back regarding the actual game mechanics and graphics style, too.

Shooting at enemies was more fun in X-Wing and TIE Fighter because everything seemed to move faster (except the laser bolts, see next point) and you had to aim with much greater lead, one of the most important skill elements. The production values of X-Wing and TIE Fighter were incredible, whereas the style of Wing Commander felt generic (I and II) or like Starship Troopers (III).
Programmers promote themselves by moving to a new job at a new company. It's that simple.
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National Labor Relations Act

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Sec. 7. [§ 157.] Employees shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection, and shall also have the right to refrain from any or all of such activities except to the extent that such right may be affected by an agreement requiring membership in a labor organization as a condition of employment as authorized in section 8(a)(3) [section 158(a)(3) of this title].

UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES

Sec. 8. [§ 158.] (a) [Unfair labor practices by employer] It shall be an unfair labor practice for an employer--

(1) to interfere with, restrain, or coerce employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed in section 7 [section 157 of this title];

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Yep. I was born in SE Asia and came to the US for high ed (and have since been living here). Most of the people who I met on the internet and in the US, who are interested in the political situation of my home country, posses a view from a bubble that is very different than the perspective from people there. Overall, people just want to have food, shelter and a good living. They could care less about who is ruling them. It's like some people from Europe think Americans are idiots because of our current leader's doings. Not a lot of people in the US, who reads NYT, Economists and such, do not understand that their glimpse into other countries is very much biased and limited.
Ok, yeah, a third party with cleaned info would help. :)
The sentences following that statement in the hdiutil manual are also helpful:

"The image filesystem currently only behaves this way as a result of a direct attach action and will not behave this way if, for example, the filesystem is unmounted and remounted. Moving the image file to a different volume with sufficient free space will allow the image's filesystem to grow to its full size."

hdiutil has some of the best man pages I've ever run across.
How are c-execs of public corps different from c-execs of other corps? They all get a bonus metric to meet and have the opportunity to game the hell out of it.
Researching tech due diligence question lists
Since my last post here I've been researching a lot. Last post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15958717

My seniors are already somewhat experienced at one topic: technical due diligence for startups or the lighter version code reviews to provide a report about the status of a "tech company". Sometimes this takes 1 - 3 days, sometimes it takes a few minutes.

Story: we (dev/engineering/ops 5 person agency) do about 1 - 2 technical due diligence (code reviews) a week for other tech companies, I think we're going to productise this into a "scan". Do you know any more lists besides this one: https://decodingvc.gitbooks.io/p9-startup-tech-due-diligence-calculator/content/

thank you
Doc2vec is the name of the gensim implementation of this paper [0]. Briefly, it creates document embeddings (document being anything on the level of phrases, to sentences, to paragraphs and beyond) on the basis of either predicting a word given the context words (distributed memory -- DM), or predicting the context words given a word (distributed bag of words -- DBOW).

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.4053
I think I agree with this article (even if some of its argument is bogus). The other thing that all programming classes should teach, regardless of whether they're for CS majors or not is how to debug using a modern (i.e. not command-line-based) debugger. It's insane that programming is being taught anywhere without teaching debugging at all, or teaching only very hard-to-use debuggers.
>So more likely than not, the people calling for regulations on bitcoin have little to no understanding of its basic properties.

How many on HN would gladly jump at the opportunity to "understand the necessary hashtags", and write the software with skinner box like interfaces for our glorious institutions that we owe our mind and body to in order to protect us from ourselves?

Excluding those of you who already work on these profitable boondoggles of course… ;)
>You're easily looking at 150k at a public institution for an intelligent kid per year.

Where on earth are you getting that number? Average student debt for a public university is something like $30k for the entire degree program, so your total cost might break $100k if you consider housing and books. Opportunity cost isn't money spent and you can't exactly stop eating if you skip uni, so it's pointless to even count those.
> Say that the most effective way of entering or leaving this network requires physically meeting somebody and exchanging cash.

Missed the part where I said that, perhaps you could point it out?

We are discussing a world where bitcoins are illegal, obviously the solution will be a bit sketchy.
Windows has provided UI language packs for Icelandic since at least the release of Windows 8.0 in 2012, and now offers them for supported versions starting with Windows 7:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/14236/language-pack...
(The UI translation/localization is partial; the most read strings are in Icelandic, but the rest are typically in English, and you need to install the English UI language pack to load those strings.)

And if you go to Bing's website https://www.bing.com and set your browser to request webpages in Icelandic (via an "Accept-Language: is" HTTP header), then much of the website changes to Icelandic. However, the search query auto-complete suggestions and the search results will only be in Icelandic if you are in Iceland yourself.

From the article, it seems like the Guardian reporter either didn't know this, or doesn't think Microsoft is important (!):

> Online, however, is the biggest concern. Apart from Google – which, mainly because it has an Icelandic engineer, has added Icelandic speech recognition to its Android mobile operating system – the internet giants have no interest in offering Icelandic options for a population the size of Cardiff’s.