skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does this mean Meadow sells counterfeit marijuana, pays such low wages that many of their employees need food stamps, and fosters an environment where employees feel the need to piss in bottles to avoid bathroom breaks?
https://raindrop.io/
References would be personal references - someone with a cell number and call the college he attended; they should also verify enrollment and completion. You don't want to be calling the HR department. Also, a secret is if the reference (not HR) only verifies employment, that's a negative review. They are concerned about liability. If it was a good employee, the references have no qualms about saying so; it's the negative aspects that carry legal liability.

You need to ask for those, not just prior companies. My resume has a "References available upon request" at the bottom and I'd happily give them. Is that no longer practiced? It used to be a requirement.
What I learned when I met the monk who ran 1,000 marathons
Cassandra allows you to configure a "partitioner" that determines which nodes a primary key belongs to. There is a ByteOrderPartitioner that stores partitions in order lexicographically by primary key. There is also a Murmor3 hash based partitioner (which is the recommended default).

Cassandra allows you to store multiple records in sorted order within a partition. The normal recommended way to get data locality is to store records that are frequently accessed together in the same partition.
Hi, how would you show the necessary attribution if you are making a video? Caption or perhaps credits at the end?
I wouldn't have called it Scala 3. And if I had the big brain of Martin Odersky, 5 years ago I would've had started thinking about an intermediate step in programming productivity, correctness - instead of doing Doty. I don't follow Scala that much anymore, but it seems that it's mostly a reworking of the internal consistency of Scala from an implementation perspective. At least that was the gist of it I got from watching Odersky give a talk about it a couple years ago.
I don't know if he disagrees with you. I read his list as simply a list of examples he could think of where you might see someone describe something as "the rise of <problem>", regardless of whether it's a problem at all or whether it's always been a problem that is just now being called out.
So, after all this time, the best approach to interoperable messaging is still XMPP. Google, carriers, etc. should just drop ALL of this non-standardized crapola, bundle an (optimized, efficient, well-written) XMPP client with Android and call it a day.
I used to bookmark things, then realized I never went back to look at them.

If I find something especially interesting and important, I email a link to myself.

Most of the time if I want to find something again it's easier to just google it again than to dig through bookmarks.
hmm i wonder if anyone from DO reading this might be able to help you stand this up for free? :)
> - Browser integrations for every browser worth mentioning

I'm missing the ability to sync with a browser's built-in bookmarks.
I just set my dock animation delay to 0. I rarely click icons in the dock though.
I agree with your points about the incomprehensibility and onerous terms of such agreements. And in cases of coercion or semi-coercion (e.g., it can be hard to get a job without owning a cell phone), I can understand accepting the T&C's despite those problems.

That's why I'm limiting my argument to other situations such as Netflix and video games. For those situations, I'm arguing that adults should accept full responsibility for choosing to accept those horrible T&C's.
One reaction at a time in a chain of reactions. If you lift your arm up, are you asking me how did that happen? Muscles fired to go from point A to point B. I'm confused by your question to be honest; are you telling me change occurs because of time? Or trying to tell me change depends on time? Then yes, but change is just a perspective as well. There's only ever going to be right here, right now.
I think I'm going to start a 21st app that implements a new protocol that unifies the other protocols...

https://xkcd.com/927/
Same. My bookmarks are a form of write-only memory.
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Evernote for things that I may need to come back to later in the future or remember (documentation, guides, workarounds, lists, etc), Pocket for articles that I'd like to read sometime but that I never actually read.
Thanks for elaborating. I'm out of my depth so I can't contribute much, but I enjoyed reading it and hope you keep sharing your thoughts :).
"IANAL and this is not legal advice" is not meant to help naive strangers. It's meant as a defense against a potential lawsuit. https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/683/usa-is-i-am-not-...
Kozmos: https://getkozmos.com

It simplifies adding and organizing bookmarks into a heart button, also uses modern & open source libraries (https://github.com/kozmos/likedb) so you can build your own clients & servers.

ps. I built Kozmos as one of the first users of both delicious and pinboard, feedback is welcome.
Iconomi publish quarterly reports and in the latest one they had over $9m cash. They've also previously said they always aim to have ~2 years of runway in cash to protect against a long term bear market: https://medium.com/iconominet/iconomi-financial-report-q4-20...
It's zero issue since the packages are updated regularly and hashed before installing.
It doesn't matter. Because pyspark is still the go-to language.

In fact with spark 2.3 python UDF, the performance gap has also reduced. https://mindfulmachines.io/blog/2018/4/3/spark-rdds-and-data...
If Capitalist America was doing "quite well", then "economic anxiety Americans" wouldn't have elected an orange populist.
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Used to just use a plain text file, but that's become untenable.

Going to really start using pinboard.in

Have been bookmarking in Firefox, which is great for syncing between devices. But I got so many even that's seeming slow and hard to search through (but to be fair maybe I'll have the same problems with pinboard once I get to that many.)
Warriror Letter Issue #7
that's probably true, but I can't say for sure: I purged all of my local browser bookmarks years ago.

Pinboard is ground truth for me for specific links.

Feedly has become my repository of bookmarks-of-sites-i-like-to-read-in-general.
> being sexually permissive while he served as an ambassador or in other settings

Who cares if he dated around? Seriously, he was a human being. Human beings are, by nature, sexual creatures. Stop treating this like it's some illegal, shameful thing. (note: if he abused women, then that's something entirely different)
They gimped the hangouts extension with the great chats that would slide up on the screen and could be individually rearranged though and replaced it with the new useless "app". Now I either have to load inbox/gmail or hangouts.google.com, which loads slowly for something such as messaging
I started on other peoples computers personally. I poked around and played with linux and some networking and when I went to school for it I realized that it was too late to learn it from the ground up. If you are still trying to figure out how a driver is written in C then you aren't up to date on any current programming paradigm. While I get that 20 years ago you needed to care exactly how memory was handled to properly optimize your code, now I am writing data processing jobs that take 10-15 TB of memory spread across 30 computers. If I fuck up 1 MB of ram per computer it really doesn't matter and it is way more efficient to just add another machine rather than pay me for two months of work to fiddle it down to perfect.

The scales I work at are more about Big O than anything. If I make a mistake that is N^2 vs Log N then I wait a week for a job to finish verses 1 hour. That is an issue. If I add on 10 min because I inefficiently use swap space it doesn't matter. I need to pay attention to the higher abstraction rather than the minute details. Sure I can fix a computer but if I do that rather than stopping a job from doing puts across regions it will cost the company 12000 dollars for each hour I am removing malware.
It's rare to see Amazon as a positive comparison these days, at least on HN. I was expecting the article to be about how Meadow was strangling the life out of its competitors or abusing its market dominance or something.
Datasette plugins, and building a clustered map visualization
If time did not exist in some fashion, then change would be impossible. Remove time and everything is simultaneous or eternal. What we say was or will be exists along with all we say presently is. Naturally, this leads to a contradiction. Imagine something moving along a trajectory that was at position p1, is at position p2, and will be at position p3 is now in all three positions. Add another object on an intersecting trajectory. A collision occurs when two objects are at the same position at the same time. Without time, these objects are both colliding and not colliding.
comdb2 is not a big data db per say. it compares more to mysql than foundationdb
https://blog.dripstat.com/first-look-at-bloombergs-amazing-c...
Thanks, I'll take a look. Though I think I have the media question answered, and I settled on M-DISC for personal stuff (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC). It only has special requirements for writing, reading can be done on standard drives.
https://pinboard.in

Been a Pinboard user for several years. Simple and flexible. You can use tags to organize everything or fill in the bookmarks description field and use search. Have over 4,000 URLs saved with no issues. Easy to backup with a one line script.

curl "https://api.pinboard.in/v1/posts/all?auth_token={$pinboard_api_key}&format=json" -o $pinboard_backup_dir

Pinboard also has some good Twitter integrations that might speed up your Bookmarking process https://pinboard.in/faq/#twitter_archive_extent
Well, Steele not only worked on Lisp and Scheme before, but he also co-wrote a C book and was working on High-performance Fortran.
Okay, they wanted it by Monday, yeh that's rough.
I'd like to see you try to define these terms.
Thank you for sharing this. I am in charge of archiving the family files - pictures, video, art projects, email. I want it available through the aging of standards and protected against the bitrot of aging hard drives. I'll be converting any xz archives I get into a better format.
I use Things 3 to store bookmarks.
This. So true, it almost makes me want to cry. Why is our industry such a mess?
You just need to hire engineers that fit the space (between 5'9" and 5'11" tall). What is the problem? Hiring is difficult anyway ...
CryptoKitties (Yes, cute little cartoon cats) that you can trade, auction, gift, breed and more with contract services on Ethereum might be the fun, fun, fun and compelling use case you're looking for, see https://github.com/cryptocopycats/awesome-cryptokitties/tree...
I agree. It's (usually intuitively learned) reasoning that's very similar to the logical reasoning of mathematics. I think if you were to study, say, calculus in a manner typical of a first course in college, you'd be missing out on that sort of problem solving, but you'd definitely get that if you took a proofs-based class in analysis ("This function is continuous on this interval, so it must have a maximum. How can I use that to prove what's being asked?").
Default compression for debian packages is xz as well: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/en/man1/dpkg-deb....
Your own ignorance of the law and unawareness of what constituted consent at the time does not reflect on the state of society at the time. It was always illegal and immoral to have sex with someone who was very drunk (at least, well before either of us was born). The line was and is not always clear, but there have always been clear cases (e.g. having sex with someone who has passed out or drugged is obviously illegal and immoral).

Similarly, legal contracts require a meeting of the minds, which requires that parties not be intoxicated. A quick search suggests such contracts are not void by default but are voidable.
References would be personal references - someone with a cell number and call the college he attended; they should also verify enrollment and completion. You don't want to be calling the HR department. Also, a secret is if the reference (not HR) only verifies employment, that's a negative review. They are concerned about liability. If it was a good employee, the references have no qualms about saying so; it's the negative aspects that carry legal liability.
You need to ask for those, not just prior companies. My resume has a "References available upon request" at the bottom and I'd happily give them. Is that no longer practiced? It used to be a requirement.
Or they could put that kind of thing in the job ad.
There are way too many emotions and little facts provided in this article, it's a really hard read tbh.
I have occasionally had downloaded tarballs that were truncated by network failure. It's nice to be able to get a meaningful error when decompression fails, instead of silently decompressing only part of the data. So built-in integrity checks are also desirable for short-term distribution.
Reminds me of an anecdote Richard Feynman had in his book on the Brazilian education system [1]. Basically, the students could memorize crap from books but didn't really comprehend what they were learning, such that when Feynman would ask a question such as "if I hold a glass of water in front of this picture, what will it look like?" they couldn't answer. But if he asked "What is the refractive index of water?" they would answer instantly.

[1] http://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education
For sites that I visit often, I add them to my browser bookmarks in Chrome. Mainly for the autocomplete when I start typing the name of the site. Things to read get queued in the browser bookmark bar where they are visible, and I fight a losing battle with this getting too full.

For links to reference material and reading I have a collection of private OneNote notebooks with links and notes and bits of code. These notebooks are sync'd in a onedrive folder so I can access then in Office on my primary machine, or via the onenote webapp at work. It may not be fashionable but I like OneNote.

I used to use delicio.us back in the day, but never found its social aspect that useful. The nearest I now have to a public list of links is my HN favourites.
According to the article, xz minus extensibility.
Kare's icons are so much more simple, and yet convey more detail. GEM tries really hard, but just ends up looking muddy.

It's one of the clearest versions of "Less is more" that I have ever seen.
I’ve been slowly realizing this, too. I’m finding it more effective to categorize ideas based on certain topics, and then have a Google Doc where I store links, with a brief paragraph accompanying each link on my key takeaways from the link. E.g. I’ve got an “Investing Notes” doc, a “Psychology Notes” doc, etc.
> How much revenue your code is earning says nothing about the quality of the code.

It does say something. In this case, it might be saying that, for this particular application, the quality of code is simply not that important.
Planning Order, Causing Chaos: Transantiago's Bus System
A Human Chimera
Relationships between estimated autozygosity and complex traits in UK Biobank
250 hours: that is the number of hours required to actually read all the adhesion contracts the typical American is exposed to in a year.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/03/terms-of-...

250 hours is a full man-month of time. Do you have a free month in your calendar to read contracts and do very little else? Nobody I know has that sort of free time. So calling people or their behaviors "failures" for not reading all contracts is an unfair, unrealistic expectation.
> People's live will depend on the decisions of these machines so people will start trying to game them. They will make sure to always purchase odd number of bananas, they will wear hats but only on Thursdays etc etc.

But that's just another reason to use 100,000 factors instead of twelve. If someone's income is a huge factor in everything, people will spend more than the optimal amount of time working (instead of tending to their family or doing community service etc.), or choose to be high paid sleazy ambulance chasers instead of low paid teachers, because the algorithm makes the returns disproportionate to the effort.

If buying an odd number of bananas is a factor but the effort of learning that it's a factor and then following it is larger than the expected benefit from changing one factor out of thousands, they won't do any of it.
This patent will be struck down as soon as it's challenged. Business method patents are generally no longer valid after Alice, and it's shocking that the patent examiner approved this patent. Among other issues, the text of the patent itself doesn't even claim a specific process, it merely suggests general processes for tracking and correlating Bitcoin transactions.
But that's mostly logic, at best mathematical logic. I don't think anyone formally reasons when writing code anyway, we mostly rely on intuition. Maths isn't about numbers but it's not about intuition neither.

Programmers doing actual math would be modeling problems and creating proofs for their solutions. Usually we clasify those problems based on the field of math we use to model them.

Saying we do tons of math implies we use a lot of knowledge from a lot of those fields. But most of the time, programmers use only the introductory notions of those fields. We are usually guided by a domain expert anyway so that the math part is correct.

Programmers don't use a ton of math. They use some math.
I think he had to give people time and stir things up gradually, if he wasn't happy with their ways and pace.

It's quite ironic that author mentioned backpressure (in different context though): people were responding negatively to his pressure, but he kept on.
If I walk into a McDonald's, I wager that the social normality requirements and laws that permit my access there and permit the owner to legally throw me out is longer than the 50,000 words cited in the article. However, I fully understand enough of them that I'm able to transact the purchase of my hamburger and leave. All the rules there are in the owner's favor, and very few are in mine. I'm not trying to be reductionist, I understand the backlash, but there is no inherent right to use PayPal.
Yeah, same. Hell, as a kid, I'd use GVoice really often just to send texts when I had wifi but no cell signal, or had a device without cell service (like a tablet). Saved me a couple times when I was younger and, say, ran out of toilet paper.
This is one of the strangest stories of Reddit, both scary and useful. Glad to see it here.
Here's the mobile friendly version of the article:

https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/4/19/17252486/goo...
I think your productivity in Scala would be quite a bit higher than in Rust. I've done reasonable amounts of Rust and quite a lot of Scala, and _given the current state_ Rust is simply slower to develop in. C++, well, you know what the downsides there are if you prefer it over Python.

I think for a particular data science mindset (the category theory toting, bijection loving person) Scala actually _is_ essential to the work of data science. But these people are in a minority.

Anyway, if you're truly in the second category, then the fact that the best library for doing X is in Scala would mean you're going to write some Scala, despite the fact that it's ~accidental that it was written in that vs Python.
This is absolutely dope. Thank you!
Rather than an over supply of philosophy PhDs, perhaps we have a shortage of hemlock?
Thanks for using the app! Let me know how I can improve it.
There's a quantum port: https://github.com/gapop/pinboard-webextension
Also universally supported across time.

People have no sense that they might want to look at something in 10-20 years in that web service that was so handy at the time...
I use xmarks. It is free and simple.

http://www.xmarks.com
The problem is the average adult doesn't get educated in the ways of contract law.

In fact, I think this is a symptom of the fact that attorneys and legal practitioners are a "protected" class with a relatively high barrier to entry to basic education in their field.

While everyone has the "freedom" to learn on their own time, it seems disingenuous to be able to legally bind people who honestly have no clue what they are agreeing to.

Also, from the tech perspective, UX demands that "onboarding" to a product be as minimally difficult as possible. Tech will ALWAYS give you the option to skip reading the EULA, and T&C because otherwise, most people would look at the terms being laid out and just say "Screw that noise."

You have a fundamental asymmetry which will be ruthlessly exploited.

If not by the legalese and banking on the user not understanding, then by the company just glossing over how skewed in their favor the terms are and rushing the user past the ugly bits to the custom designed addictive parts.
I upvoted this because it seems to make some good points and I think the topic is interesting and important, but I can't understand why the "Then, why some free software projects use xz?" section does not mention xz's main selling point of being better than other commonly used alternatives at compressing things to smaller sizes.

https://www.rootusers.com/gzip-vs-bzip2-vs-xz-performance-co...
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I would bet on Scala over Kotlin for the server side. Java is starting to incorporate Kotlin features so in a few years there won't be that much different. Kotlin reminds me of Coffeescript. It was a much nicer javascript but then Javascript just incorported coffeescript features.
I don't understand why this is getting downvoted. It seems to be a genuine statement.
Thank you. I try to go with official plugins, because who knows about all those similar named plugins made by random people. But this one looks legit.
Toby [1] - the only actual bookmarks I have are for the bookmarks toolbar quick links. Anything that I need to save for later use goes in Toby.

[1] https://www.gettoby.com/
What's the optimal layout for a hardware MPEG-4 decoder?

We have heuristics not laws.
It would not surprise me in the least if Facebook was the primary example used by GDPR creators while crafting the regulation.
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What's even more odd, is that in some cases the company gets to select the arbitration company (and repeat business is based on outcomes).
I find async/await to be much better for conditional execution, especially with lots of branches. For example, I had a scenario where I tried one async call and if it didn't have the information I needed, I had to make two subsequent async calls to get the information I needed before proceeding with the final call. Monadic composition was a nightmare where async/await was perfectly suited to the task.
And you can find them when you need'em the most, when actually typing a URL in the address bar. I also use this.
I still have the issue where MMS seems to just sometimes not work for days or even weeks on end, then suddenly start working again. No OS updates and no APN settings changes in the meantime. Normally it's not an issue, since I don't really use SMS all that much anymore, but my mother and I tend to send pictures back and forth a lot and she still uses SMS.

SMS itself usually works fine, but MMS is particularly bad.