skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless your system is much bigger than 1M LOC I seriously doubt that an experienced good programmer will need more than one year to understand it.
It never took me more than one month to understand a system, even when I was junior and when the system was > 1M LOC.
You do need to trust the validators in a PoS scheme, but with PoW you also need to trust the majority of miners.
Better yet, why not change your clocks slightly, every day, following the changing sunset/sunrise, to fully optimize each day? It'd only take 5 minutes a day to do all of my clocks.
Yes, the good ol' org-mode. I also consider it the core killer feature of emacs. However I found it doesn't match into all my processes. A text editor you can drop into different kinds of work processes. But a whole engine that uses formatted files as data storage is different. With emacs and org-mode the whole thinking is inside emacs. that's fine if you want to use it for everything. But if you just want to use org-mode and drop it into different contexts it fails.

It's still great tho, no criticism intended.
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I know! I was browsing for one and all the mid-range cards are out of stock, only low-end and super high-end are available. What a ridiculous situation.
Basically inflation of USD is diluted across the world because other countries (until recently) needed USD to trade with many other countries.

Normally, the costs of Hardin's Tragedy of the Commons are distributed among the group. In the case of US Senators and Congressmen, if what you say is true, the costs are outsourced to the rest of the world.
iPhones have Bluetooth?
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Sorry if this question is a bit stupid but could somebody enlighten me on why Keybase seem to regard Monero quite poorly? From what I've heard it seems that its anonimity is more trusted than that of Zcash at least, and both it and Zcash are proof-of-work coins anyways. Is it simply because they already had Zcash, so they'd rather not put something similar in there?
Well, data that the Police is keen to share with as much of the public as possible, as quickly as possible. It hardly seems out of the realm of the reasonable to use Amazon for something like that.
Because miners would move to places where the electricity is cheap.

In theory you could always keep raising the price of electricity, because everybody needs to buy electricity to keep the lights on.

You can't have your cake and eat it too. You can't become a tax haven for international companies either, and then raise those taxes when you have some customers.
There's another facet to this story that's not getting discussed: that of path dependence.

The OP is Silicon Valley royalty. This matters. His site is pretty humble, but this guy was like, employee #10 at facebook and is probably worth high 8/low 9 figures. He is respected in a way most people aren't.

Boz can come in and start making these changes. Most people can't. We need to talk about this more. We labor under this bizarre illusion of non-hierarchical workplaces in Silicon Valley, when the reality is and always has been, some people have more influence than others.

I find it helpful to keep in mind the circumstances about the advice-giver as much as the advice itself. I'm not saying there aren't good nuggets of advice to glean. But who you are and your track record really matter in Silicon Valley and we should acknowledge that. It's not as much of a pure idea meritocracy as people think/pretend.
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This sounds hilarious and awesome. Disclosure: I once worked at Google.
Can these resistant bacterias be credited to excessive prescriptions of antibiotics by doctors?

As I have come to understand, is that some countries they prescribe antibiotic for the smallest thing. In Norway that is not he case. I have the assumption that you need to be really sick to get any.
Thanks for the quote!
However:

> he thinks Tesla will school Toyota

vs

> These things get increasingly difficult, but they're all doable [...] should be like almost 50% more than GM or Toyota got out of the plant. I mean that seems achievable.

Musk has a lot of problems with idealism, but he seems to be pretty grounded here. Maybe still too idealistic ... But "seems achievable" === "Sillicon Valley hubris"? Should we stop with even thinking about improving anything?
Can we all make a conscious move towards modern editors please? Why are we stuck on barely intuitive editors from the 60s? Can we make a push so that all modern *nix deployments come with a newbie friendly editor?
See this[1] article from 2011 that explains Google's "allergy" to the AGPL. (I work at Google)

[1]: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/31/google_on_open_sour...
If you find this interesting, you might enjoy Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle", which is based around a highly dangerous (and imaginary) form of ice, ice-nine.

And even if you aren't super excited about ice-nine, it's still a highly enjoyable read.
there is no meaningful population of German, Polish, Italian, or Swedish speakers, fluent or otherwise, in the United State.

I can't believe you wrote that. Have you been to Chicago? I encourage you to get out your bubble, while admitting failure to reason with you. Parting rhetorical question: what about Hispanics, Asians? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_United_States

This is of course totally apart from the asked question and the notion of heritability, which is dear sir a compound statistical and not a causal notion where you can handwave something away because obviously.
Only the people who pay little attention and wildly overestimate bitcoins impact on these things.

Besides, the "Who cares?" was mostly aimed at the irrelevant comparisons made by gascan.
This confuses me. Coding is more of a tactical operation, and with it you're still going to want a grand strategic vision of what to implement. I think it's foolish to think that you can see the big picture just by trying to make a lot of commits.
You missed the step of "understand why each technology exists."

If you understand why a technology exists you are gaining an understanding of problems, and after repeating a few times over a decade you may see patterns in problems that are being solved.

It's easy to mock "AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean" but whoever created it was not being wholly onanistic, and if you can't understand why it was created, you are going to be in trouble if you ever create your own framework.
I forgot about Magic. I almost want to have emacs open in parallel just to have my projects open in Magit. You never have to tweak it and it’s more effective than anything else.
I experienced this with so many potential "partners/co-founders". It almost always starts with an exciting discussions about the possibilities and how we're all going make s--tloads of money, but as soon as I expect them to commit to the repo they just can't deliver. Most of the times it's lack of skills, missing motivation, or just the fact that they can't work without being micro-managed by me.
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Me too, I just did it without any issues :D
It’s not “radiation levels” per se. Nuclear bomb testing in the mid 20th century dramatically increased the amount of carbon-14 in the atmosphere, which has subsequently been gradually declining. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon-14#Origin
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It’s long past time for the west to start looking seriously into phage therapy, which Russia has been using for decades. Find the virus that targets the bacteria you want gone, and let it do the hard work for you.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy
> All future replies: pretty please address the issue raised concerning systemic problems and stop talking about me and my life.

Stop adding irrelevant personal details to your comments.
I don't know if it's what you want, but it's what you get. [0]

It' all magic! [1]

[0]https://groups.google.com/forum/m/?hl=en#!msg/comp.lang.perl...
[1]https://groups.google.com/forum/m/?hl=en#!msg/comp.lang.perl...
It looks like they installed a certificate only valid for theguardian.com, forgetting the wildcard. And since all calls redirect to www.theguardian.com ...

Someone is not going to the pub tonight.
https://vim-adventures.com/ it's fun if you're wanting a little evil(-mode) in your life.
If you don’t pay for a service, you are the product.

Never for a second believe that what you have with Google is a business relationship. As far as analogies go, you are the cow, and they provide you with a feeder and a shed.
I think the operative word there is "westerner". Particularly in America, there has at least been room for open, somewhat peaceful discourse on contentious topics. One need only look at the Buckley/Vidal debates for proof of that.

Those days are gone, and a emboldened radical left, hell bent on stamping out heterodoxy through violence and intimidation, has the silent consent of progressives.
That's a popular, but untrue, idea. There is a ton of research into new antibiotics, and new classes of antibiotics. We just didn't need to until recently.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/03/14/first-new-ant...

https://www.medscape.com/slideshow/ten-new-antibiotics-60091...

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-43032602
I've seen companies dropping support for it more and more frequently, too. Stripe, for example.
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That’s already been optimized; anyone killed by a drone is classified as an enemy combatant by definition —— it’s on their corpse to prove innocence after they’re dead.

Now that’s a productivity hack!
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Are you talking about people adjusting their clocks and their bodies to accommodate the change in time? Very few people have a big problem with that.

The problems arise when accommodating the change programmatically in code. How many times did Apple fuck this up with the first few versions of the iPhone with alarms not going off at the right time?

2010
https://www.cultofmac.com/67254/how-to-avoid-the-iphone-dayl...

2011
http://osxdaily.com/2011/03/13/iphone-daylight-savings-time-...

2012
http://www.iphonehacks.com/2012/03/iphone-daylight-savings-t...
Yup, that's what would put it on my daily radar.
+1 for Dan Simmons and especially Hyperion. It is more what I'd call "science fantasy" in my personal classification system, but it's an amazing book, in my top 5 for sure.
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All you people living in the US complaining about DST thinking only you have a problem with it.

Well, guess what, you wouldn't have imagined a tiny fraction of people on the other end of the world too have a problem with it.

When DST is in effect, engineers supporting US from India work from 5:30pm to 2:30am. When DST ends in November the guys have to work from 6:30pm to 3:30am. And this is just for east coast. Granted it is just one hour. But it does make a lot of difference when the travel back to home takes 1hr and by the time you are trying to fall asleep, the Sun is shining bright outside the window.

And I have worked in this manner for 5 continuous years in continuous night shifts until I shifted recently to one of the (very few) companies who have day shift jobs in my area of specialization and simultaneously not having a shitty pay. I used to hate going to office between November to March, no matter how much I did like my job and the technology. And so I used to treasure those work-from-home days.

Edit: Added formatting, correct error and added some context.
Ruby isn't that bad.
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Diamond blades on my grinder are great, and there is definite value in their hardness. If I could get nicer looking ones with good clarity it would make cutting rebar and grinding steel prettier.
> I sincerely do not understand the problem people have with changing a single hour in a single day during a weekend in the year.

Other than the fact that it's a colossal waste of time for everyone who has to do it, and it kills people? Every year, people will be dead the Tuesday after the time change who would have been alive had the time not changed. Also, of course, it's not a single day — it's twice a year.
Does China actually view other countries as partners?
In my experience, the more exposure you get and the more variety you have - the easier it becomes to learn.

1) Use apps (Duolingo is my preference)

2) Read grammar books to learn and understand the underlying structures.

3) Read children's books when you have a big enough vocabulary from (1) and then advance to older books as you expand your experience.

4) Listen to media (Netflix, audio books, tv, radio etc). there should be a lot around you in Costa Rica.

5) Practice - use it as must as you can in every day interactions with actual speakers. If speaking with people in person is scary at first there are a number of services online you can find to match you up with a tutor/practice partner.
A huge portion of most zoning codes is made up of that kind of regulations. Land use restrictions are only one tiny aspect of zoning regulations.
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This is exactly what I was thinking about when I saw a reference to someone in a bitcoin post this morning repeating the ecocide myth. Didn't have the desire to hunt down an article on it, but this is a good one!
Don't forget!!!
See also https://www.twitch.tv/communities/programming
So you don't actually hate DST, you hate switching between the two? I agree: we should stick to DST forever, more sun at night!
That was my first thought too, I hope Linus will talk about it at some point. They seem transparent and upfront about their income.
What if one of your videos goes viral? Would that not get very expensive?
In a local FB group we get crime updates, allows you to be active in avoiding beginning a victim; and to be vigilant to help those around you.

Tiny example - you might not think twice seeing someone fiddling with a house sign, but knowing there had been a recent spate of thefts (yes, really) one could challenge or report as appropriate.

More serious example - several attempts to abduct children within a few days of each other allowed me to remind my kids of safe behaviour; as well as reminding myself to be vigilant.

I always read the "missing" reports in the local news as I see a lot of people and have, I believe, a good memory for faces.

Given it's easy to avoid, why would you not want it. Good citizenship makes society better IMO.
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The higher up you get in engineering the IC/management distinctions normally start to blur. I think this is equally good advice for many senior engineers.
The world "leader" is used though. While there are certainly non-manager leaders, most members on any given team are not leaders.

"...the natural instinct to push for early impact leads many incoming leaders into challenging relationships..."
Alexa works on FireTV too FWIW.
You're right and I'd like to add, from firsthand accounts of friends who workthere, facebook seems like an incredibly well-managed company. They have good process, measure what matters, focus on impact, and seem to keep their employees happy.

Most places aren't at their level of alignment or clarity; it's a huge jumble of poorly-prioritized tasks and dysfunction.
Further, we don't know the value. Thought seems cheap to us, but it is clearly valuable to the companies that use it. How do we know it is a fair deal without knowing our thoughts' worth?

It seems unfair to ask us to trade for glass beads.
Looks like they're using Event.srcElement which isn't part of the spec and Event.target has been supported since IE9. So all they would need to do is replace `event.srcElement` with `event.target || event.srcElement`. Ay!
>convenience is not a benefit

Where's that quote about Dropbox just being a fancy FTP account backed by VCS? This one[1] I mean. Convenience is perhaps the most important benefit of software. Not any particular piece of software, but all of it, the industry is one that at its core provides convenience.

Search and indexing is convenience. Document editing is convenience. Computers are tools that make things that used to be a pain more convenient. Math and finance, music, visual art, software makes working in those fields more convenient.

If not convenience, what does software provide?

(Am googler)

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
actually my point was that he succeeds, but never on schedule. On should not expect anything on time from Elon Musk.
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Its one of the things that has kept me away from amateur radion. I'm interested in decentralized/emergency communications and have a good understanding of RF, I've even picked up a couple of Baofeng handheld units to listen in on things and get more familiar with that part of the spectrum but the other people involved in the hobby aren't exactly the kind of folks I want to hang around enough to learn from.
But that's the problem, right? The extra hour of sunshine we get thanks to DST in the spring & summer is exactly what most people want to get rid of.
Have always really liked Hypercard. Would totally be interested in a new Hypercard style system where users can upload and share cards. Kate Compton's "Generominos" project looks like a promising start: http://www.galaxykate.com/generominos/

Aside from the blatant identity politics of this "crime.team" site, it seems to be about the site creator trying to sell other people's submitted work for free.

> By submitting your stack, you are giving me permission to sell your stack as part of HyperCard Zine. I ask that, if your stack is published as part of HyperCard Zine, please wait at least a year after publication to sell it on your own.

Hard pass.
Right - the hardware is already built. PHY, chipset, host CPU/disk/RAM, etc. It really comes down to the whitebox being selected. Facebook does do some hardware design, but it's more of chaining multiple merchant silicon chipsets together or building modular boxes that can house multiple chipsets.

Control-plane/management-plane software is often written by these companies or by contractors.

NICs are another story. MSFT and AMZN both build their own NICs using either FPGAs or custom silicon.
I’ve used emacs for over 15 years and my init file does have plenty of custom code but yes, I also decided several years ago to drop all fancy org-mode config. There is a risk of spending way too much time configuring and dealing with breakage, and the TODO stuff didn’t have the magical effect I’d hoped. As a programmer, I eventually found org-mode too much of a violation of the Unix do-one-thing well design philosophy.

However I still use org-mode as an outliner, containing little code blocks and informal TODOs, and I love using emacs and writing modest Elisp modifications and have successfully introduced people to it. I wish more people knew how to try it out in server mode with emacsclient as there is still a widespread misunderstanding that it is slow to start up.

One final comment: the rise of markdown was a huge blow to org-mode. It doesn’t always make sense for me to draft notes in org when they ultimately will become comments on github (or JIRA for that matter, oh god).
Things that get published in news media all ready, wanted and missing reports, crime info, etc..
Got it, thanks.

Perhaps the parent was trying to conceal the identity of the person in question and gender would be too much of a giveaway.
This whole time I thought moissanite were "lab diamonds" but it appears that it's actually a unique gem in regards to chemical properties
Depends on one's lifestyle a lot. When I was younger I could sleep late so I cared much more about the afternoon daylight. However since I've got a kid I now have to get up before 7am every day to handle all the chores - and so I started caring much more about the morning daylight. Honestly nothing more depressing to me than having to go out of my warm bed into a cold and still pitch dark winter morning. It's just a FML kinda thing...
You've just described the motivation for multiverse: Copenhagen has to stick in a concept of "measurement" that projects wavefunctions onto specific states. As a projection operator it's idempotent and many-to-one.

However, this mechanism is not necessarily a law of physics: we can explain all of the same results without it. So, deciding whether or not wavefunctions "actually" collapse is 100% philosophy.
They’re members of a notorious family of multidrug-resistant pathogens, called carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), which collectively have mortality rates as high as 50 percent and have spread rapidly around the globe in recent years. A 2013 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that there were more than 9,300 CRE infections in the US each year, leading to 600 deaths.

Is it correct to assume that while CREs have up to 50% mortality rate worldwide, the US mortality rate of CRE infections is around 6.5%?

Edit: I applaud efforts to increase access to healthcare worldwide. We really need to do more to combat the spread of such bacteria through better management of antibiotic use, mainly in agriculture.
They are certainly proposing to increase the money available to the poor by much more than the 1% increase in prices that they expect to incur.
Ruby is great, and is not what I was thinking of. But I should have included it as well as AWK.
> I'm done with this debate. Your style of discussion is basically building up a giant Rube Goldberg machine of words for something that is extremely simple at the core, which is turning it into an endurance run of who can keep up with the walls of text the longest. That is neither convincing, nor respectful of the person you are debating with to.

Sorry, that wasn’t my intention. But respectfully, I disagree. I don’t think this topic is at all simple, and I find nuance to be a helpful perspective.
It’s not limited to programmers but I’m guessing programmers as a group favor shifting light later in the day.
What makes them not real? They are identical chemically, so the only difference is Africans aren't enslaved to make them?
That's true, but it's also possible to prevent these problems within a language, as Java does: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/exceptions...

(Not trying to start Java v Ruby here, just looking at how exceptions work)
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I'm going to release the safety on my browning.
Do you have a source for that? Because massively increased percentages is a pretty bold claim to make without a source.
No, the single most important benefit of software is to expand human potential.
House of cards is a pretty accurate depiction of U.S. politics,there are many avenues for one to be “disappeared” in America too. It’s not so much different
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What is the best option for storing my files in the cloud, completely encrypted and secure?

Not like Dropbox, or other services where a government entity could force the company in giving up someone's files. Completely secure.

If rolling my own from home is the best option, any software recommendations?

Thanks!
Have we effectively disallowed or policed the illicit use of $100 bills for drugs, weapons, or other trade?

I agree with you that cryptocurrency is not currently particularly intrinsically useful, but I don't believe that "let everyone use it in a decentralized tamper-proof manner" fundamentally requires "and simultaneously restrict it from the following uses, which a subset of the global population deems undesirable".

(In that regard, it's similar to "regular" crypto. I don't mind that people I don't particularly like are also able to use crypto to secure their communications. It's essential to my use case that they not be able to intercept my comms, and I accept in return that I can't intercept their comms either.)