skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the rate of capital growth is intended to outpace the rate of labor

this isn't news, this is the design: make enough money fast enough that you can live off it forever. if you do it too slow, you have to live off the principle and it is more likely that a large cost destroys your principle.
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It's mostly: I use other people's software/media/services which give me a lot of freedom, so it's the least I can do, to release the photos I already took under a license under which I also give those freedoms to other people.

I'm mostly an amateur photographer and only occasionally do payed work anyway. Most of my work with models is TFP (Time for print), and then I negotiate that those pictures become CC too.
They also tend to have the "you offended a random folk for the most ridiculous reason, and because we are so fragile, we will ostracize you for the rest of your life" mentality.

Don't get me wrong: harassment or aggressive behavior are not right and should not be tolerated. But on the other hand, over-cautious attitude that make any controversial comment a potential aggression is a really worrying trend today. The ridiculous cases of "code of conduct" dramas - especially on the js community - is a good demonstration.
Because Google and Bing are in the advertising business, not the search engine business. (There is no "search engine industry".)

Their goal is ad clickthrough, not accurate search results.
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Or maybe someone misclicked. Headline is sensationalist, he could simply create a new twitter account. I don't see how this affects him attending the conference. Don't they send out email newsletters as well anyway?
Your solution does not solve the problem posed.

I suggest you read the article again - mors than once.
I was wondering if it was accidental, but then the author did reach out to a few different sources and didn't receive an answer... which could still be coincidence, but makes it seem less likely.
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Quartz is being sold to Uzabase, a Japanese business media company
LISP always makes me sad. It's a language from which all modern languages could learn so much (and currently a lot of features of LISP get cloned). LISP Machines pioneered basically 90% of what modern computers and the internet do today.

Yet, it's a very niche language, an almost forgotten artifact of time.
Yes, that's the Wikipedia link to the timezone database I mentioned.

But, latency is the issue. The year doesn't officially change until a Muslim makes the necessary lunar observation on the first evening of the new year. You can't pre-calculate a human observation, so to be in strict compliance, you'd need an efficient way to rapidly distribute the observation.

I'm sure that in practice, pre-calculation is almost always used. My question is how this is rationalized in more strict conservative Islamic countries, (or less likely, how they avoid using pre-calculated start of the new year).
I did some blockchain related work and now my linkedin messages from consultants and crypto-practitioners never stop.

If you "want strong blockchain with 100.000 TPS" I can connect you over InMail.
Author here. To clarify: as far as the organizational aspect is considered, those people are competent and top-notch. All the confs were highly professional, their experience with managing this stuff cannot be overlooked. But the social/communication layer is a bit nontransparent, in my opinion.
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Hmmmm....

I couldn’t actually find a McDonald’s that paid the same as the $15 starting rate for Tesla production specialist/hourly as found on Glassdoor.

My bad!

But I did find In ‘n Out Burger that offered the same.
if a feature isn't beneficial to your platform and you can remove the code that implements that feature, well, removing code is beneficial.
This study is simply moving the goalposts, conflating the low-quality screen interactions we have with the actual face-to-face social interactions that they are replacing.

"Hypersocial" has no meaningful definition. It doesn't speak to the quality of the interactions, nor to how they affect us in terms of happiness and quality of life. Those are the real measures that matter, not the number of micro-interactions we have through looking at text on a screen.
> Experienced commenters learn to cut the shit, drive the point home, add some levity, and be done with it.

Good authors do the same.
Right, the ban only covers following the conference online. Which is why I mentioned the verb in the title.

But it also might be their way of saying "also pls do not attend again, we do not want ya".
Fuse has been around for a while, in fact MacFuse was an implementation that was open sourced by Google, although no longer workable given the advances of the MacOS. There is now OSXFuse which is used by a few commercial applications including Transmit and the Storage Made Easy Cloud Service which uses it to support multiple backends including Google Drive and Google Storage.

On Windows there are Fuse implementations but they are not as rock solid as OSXFuse on Mac. The best commercial implementation Windows FUSE I'm aware of is CallbackFS.
No details about the tech behind it, I would like to read their white paper :)
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I feel your pain on the lack of love for analysts and data scientists. IT has just gone and implemented “shiny new database infrastructure” and have been saying we are way ahead of the curve.

Problem is that it doesn’t work for analysis and we are still using our old platform, which works just fine.
Right. So when the subway gets crowded, the ideal thing to do is reduce the number of trains per hour so that people stop trying to ride it.
Protip: MongoDB works absolutely best for analytics when it is replaced with a sane and scaleable column-oriented database like Redshift or BigQuery right before serving that report.
Nice article. I actually liked it better than the book "Commodore: A company on the edge" which is a bit lengthy :)
"Why You Should Never Upload Your Images to Unsplash"

https://fstoppers.com/business/why-you-should-never-upload-y...
My read is, if the goal is a super valuable open source project, developing it and having it stuck in-house sucks. And what can you do? Reimplement it from scratch open source? Sounds like a massive pain, and if the open source tool is an important goal, the closed source project doesn't get you anywhere except frustrated.
Just curious, who does the push-ups? Do you do them yourself in an attempt to manage your anger? Or is it some kind of punishment?
Do you create multiple email accounts because idiots send one to spam or do you just stop talking to them?

I'd guess not unless money was involved. Personally I'd just stop supporting them by going to the conferences and tell everyone why.
I have not experience with running any popular twitter handles, but I can imagine that they block lots of people for various reasons, ranging from trivial to non-trivial. Honestly, if I were you, I'd simply let it go and not care if you can.

Also, from the information you have given, from a certain point of view, you might come off a bit needy: You send in 5-6 proposals per year and send direct messages and mails to multiple people when you don't receive answers and you care about whether some twitter account is blocking you or not.

I am not saying you are needy, I am just saying it could come off that way and that might have lead to either being blocked or communicated in non-tactful ways.
I'm not sure what that had to do with the Lightning Network?

I already get enough cryptocurrency related recruitment mail, ta. Some of it is very scammy - I particularly like the ones that want you to make them a new currency, and propose that they will then use it to pay you!
about 2) there is (was?) an effort by IBM to make an AI chef using techniques from cognitive computing. See https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/28/cooking-with-c...
When the Democratic Party had full control of Congress and the Presidency, they were (collectively) very much against illegal immigration[0]. This is why they passed no "reform" legislation whatsoever.

[0] now-Senate Democratic leader Charles Schumer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=728SW65tlU0
What kind of people tell paying customers they are not worth the time required to answer a question?
Don Van Vliet and his bands were unique talents. Some of the music is challenging, some is surprisingly accessible. Some might even evoke the response "what's all the fuss about" - because it entered the consciousness of so many other musicians, and they reinterpreted it, and made it part of "normal". There is bluesy Beefheart, soulful Beeheart, and jazz-inspire weird Beefheart.

"Clear-Spot" and "The SpotLight Kid" are a good starting point. In the UK they can be found packaged together as a single CD.

Enjoy!
Yes, it seems that the designers tried to make something that would work in the current Google data centers. Which is not surprising as some of the authors work at Google.

I'd more want to know: why does Google need even better synchronization of time stamps than what they have now?
No, you cant. The spread is the difference between the bid and the ask. You can't have disadvantageous pricing without affecting the ask. Which would in term drive up the spread.
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Clojure for me is the perfect modern LISP, too bad it seems it's dying (happy to stand corrected there)
Personally I'd walk away, life is too short to care about why a twitter user blocked you.

But seeing as this is in the EU, the author could use the GDPR to find out why he was banned.
I loved every Blizzard game as a kid. Warcraft 2, Diablo 1, Starcraft, Diablo 2, Warcraft 3, and then WoW. I can't stress enough how much of my life was consumed by Blizzard games.

Warcraft 2 was one of the very first games I ever owned. I still remember my dad taking me to Comp USA to buy it for me after I read about it in PC Gamer. You can hear Starcraft 1 sounds in the background in a bunch of the camera footage that my mom shot in our home while I was still in grade school. I nearly failed out of junior high because I would do nothing but play Diablo 2 outside of school. I spent all of my free time in 10th grade playing Warcraft 3 ladder and DOTA. I was playing WOW on prom night.

Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3 were two of the biggest disappointments of my life. Not just gaming-wise, but out of everything. It was obvious that the people involved with making the originals great were either not involved with the new games at all, or they no longer had a major say in anything.

I heard a second-hand account from someone who used to be high up at Blizzard in regards to what happened with Blizzard North. They said the original BN guys felt they were owed more than what they were getting, that what they were receiving in terms of overall compensation and creative control was disproportionate in comparison to their contributions for the Diablo franchise, which had become a flagship Blizzard IP on par with Starcraft and Warcraft.

They gave an ultimatum, and Blizzard scrapped all of the ongoing Diablo 3 work (the Diablo 3 we got was not what BN had initially started making) and shut down Blizzard North in response. They then made Hellgate London. This is in contrast with the Guild Wars people, who left of their own accord.
This is the same when people message a youtuber and expect some reply - they can't see the hundreds and thousands of messages people get and still need to produce youtube content (or organize a conference) - "I can deal with the mails I get, why can't they?"
> How to make MongoDB not suck for analytics

Easy: you don't use Mongo
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The existence of the blog itself makes me think the truth wouldn't be as clear as it is presented. Was every rejected talk proposal accompanied by emails and tweets asking for explanation? One can be polite and annoying at the same time.

(that being said, their email reply was still unprofessional)
I think it's that most drivers just don't pay attention. I'm able to maintain consistent following distances as speeds change if I pay attention to doing that.

The other problem is that if you maintain a gap as traffic speeds are slowing, someone will cut in front of you to gain a car length. Then you have to slow down using the brakes.
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> author didn't receive an answer

He actually did:

> Hi Ondrej,

> dealing with this is at the bottom of our rather indefinitely long priority list. Don’t expect a swift resolution.

> We’d appreciate not being bugged about this again.

It seems they did it on purpose and they refuse to at least clarify why. My bet is that they did it for some childish reason and they don't have a courage to admit the mistake.

I hope they will now shed some light on what happened.
I just find it so fascinating that it can be cheaper to ship things from Europe than make them locally, even if logically I know that it makes sense.

As another example: the budget branded fries that I brought for $2 for a kg came from the Netherlands. Not only was I amazed that it was cheaper than locally made fries, but that was cheaper than I could buy fresh potatoes.

Somehow it's cheaper to grow potatoes, cut them up, package them, and ship them to New Zealand, than it is to grow potatoes in New Zealand and drive them to the supermarket.

Looking at ballpark estimates, potato chips weigh about 500 kg/m^3 [1], meaning you can fit 27 t in a shipping container [2] with some space left over, as 27 t is the maximum weight for a 40 ft container. This would cost around $4,500 to ship from Rotterdam to Auckland in a refrigerated container [3].

So per 1 kg packet, you're looking $0.17 for shipping costs. That's pretty astoundingly low.

[1] http://www.mpd-inc.com/bulk-density/

[2] http://www.dsv.com/sea-freight/sea-container-description/dry...

[3] http://worldfreightrates.com/freight
`@jsconfeu @0ndras I am also in the @BrendanEich fan club`
You might not care who you're talking to but you do probably care that you're still talking to the same/single anonymous person.
More than 90% of their revenue in 2017 came from selling or leasing cars. That makes them a car company, full stop. If they have more than 10% of their employees doing other stuff, why on earth do they have all these employees that generate basically no revenue?
Yes, I asked for explanation of rejected proposals in 2017 and 2018. And I received it (they even officially encouraged failed proposers to ask for an explanation).
Look at the comments. It's 90% anti-tesla and all the pro-tesla comments get down voted into oblivion. So the community is not "divided" it seems...Statistics is my evidence. The extreme slant and voting behavior of all Tesla threads, mixed with debunked misinformation peddled by oil and gas industries being presented as fact pervasively in these threads is plenty of evidence
It could be the number of proposals. I haven't seen his Twitter, but if he mentioned being a member of the "Brendan Eich fan club" on Twitter as he did on his blog, that may have also led to his being blocked. Brendan Eich was forced out of his role as CEO of Mozilla after a few vocal employees there found out he had donated $1,000 to support an anti-gay marriage bill in California many years before he was CEO. If the people behind this conference do not like Brendan Eich because of this, perhaps the author's support of him is to blame for the ban.
All 100% true points. That's still the buyers problem if they are going after a scarce resource, in this case labor. In every other market you get a better rate for a stable, repeatable transaction vs being able to buy as needed.

Employers are going to have to raise their rates a lot if they expect to have people maintain skills that are relevant to the employer while not offering stable employment.
Well, for starters, it's free :)
Yeah you'd think that after Ondřej reached out to the organisers they'd:

a) give him the benefit of the doubt and say "Not sure what happened, sorry we've unblocked you" (most likely thing)

b) tell him whatever heinous deed he is supposed to have done

IME blocks are either accidental or for some really annoying or inappropriate behaviour. I mean it's "just" a block on twitter, but it's pretty weird for a conference to engage with the community like this.
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The safe bet is that every site that you access logs your IP address. At the very least.
The exposition of the sorting algorithm is beautiful and clear. Thanks!

Your disparaging of academic work is utterly ridiculous. I am a mathematician working in academia with real world data, developing algorithms that are used in industry. This sentence at the begining of your article makes me think that you are not really aware of how the real world works.
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> once we've signed a multi-year contract making it difficult for you to fire me, I may not be inclined to work all that hard

Right... Training, once paid for, is a "sunk cost." The decision to fire or retain an employee can't really be based on recovering costs associated with hiring the employee.
The "Brendan Eich club" is actually a small inside joke, as the sign was one of the official "features" of JSConf.eu 2011, where Brendan was an invited speaker :)
There's no practical technology that would get around that problem.

Homomorphic encryption might do the trick (?), but it's too slow at the moment.
You either follow an account that has been banned, or the accounts you follow themselves follow accounts that have been banned. In the other direction, an account that follows you has been banned or they follow accounts that have been banned. @jsconfeu probably use some of the popular lists.
We already know what causes type 2 diabetes - it's almost entirely a question of lifestyle
From 2013 at the latest. Is something new here? Or.. should I just go home, and do my washing.. (got those Smithsonian institute blues, those Smithsonian institute blues)
Exactly. This whole episode reeks of unprofessionalism. Even if the author were in the wrong, he deserves a better reply than being told he's worthless.
Your point about the trust between employers and employees being poisoned by bad actors has been true everywhere I've worked. I've seen both management micromanaging employees out of fear because they had one employee burn them with poor performance. I've also seen employers try to tell their employees that there was nothing to worry about and no one was going to get laid off despite the rumors, _and_ mean it, but employees started jumping ship because that's exactly what a company that's about to lay off everyone says
When you have an international group of people all speaking English as a second language the conversation can become a bit prickly.

There isn't anything obvious here - a bit of complaining but it all seems mild and accurate: https://twitter.com/search?l=&q=%40jsconfeu%20from%3A0ndras&...

Purely guessing here, you might want to avoid tweeting "Stupid fucking white man" at conference organisers. https://twitter.com/0ndras/status/960901913624576001 -- but this is just a guess. I have no idea if that's why they blocked you.
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Out of curiosity, what part of the GDPR would require them to explain the ban-reason?
You can call them whatever you want to. Judge them based on their actions and behavior. It's not about liking or disliking anyone.
Is there any different link to this book? Not working for me but seems fascinating.
Might not be "on purpose", OP might just be getting caught in some blocklist crossfire.

It happened in a very similar way for a different conference here: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2015/08/twi...

If they're in the middle of a Twitter dogpile, they probably wouldn't care too much about one particular guy on a blocklist if several hundred sockpuppet accounts organising on 4chan are all sending the same whining emails...

(They could have handled that email response more politely, but I can pretty easily imagine a situation where OP looks like part of the problem rather than collateral damage...)
> Perhaps they have small children's mentality

Many do - see selling your soul to evil or signing CoC agreements before being able to attend.
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I ported timsort to C#/dotnet recently. Available in this nuget:

https://www.nuget.org/packages/Redzen/

Source code here (there are three variants):

https://github.com/colgreen/Redzen/tree/master/Redzen/Sortin...

None of the standard framework sort methods perform a stable sort so it's handy for that, as well as being a lot faster for some data, i.e. with pre-sorted runs. Otherwise the framework now uses introsort which is pretty good, so you should definitely performance test with both. I use both sorts depending on the context and I usually end up using the built in introsort, with timsort used for a few special cases.
I agree. 24-48 hours is the ideal refrigerator proofing time for pizza dough in my experience.

Too much beyond that the dough will break down too much, becoming gooey, tearing easily when handled, and resulting in a hard/crunchy crust.

Proofed dough balls can be frozen for storage, however. They keep well in the freezer and defrost quickly when needed.
Depends how much I'm buying. If it will fit in one or two bags, self checkout is often faster. If I'm buying a cart load, the speed of the experienced cashier and separate person bagging in parallel is almost always faster.
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Yes, but that was seven years ago, and Things Are Different Now.

(Just leafed through their twitter. I'm seeing a lot of the same clique as were involved in the node.js brouhaha last year. Is this conference really worth the fuss?)
I only have a copy of the CD with the VRML worlds on it, sadly. I had a copy of the CH4 thing we did the year after (and it was put up on YouTube a few years ago too, maybe it's still there (I'd have to check).
We use the words after the fall, but some EU countries like spain, Italy and Greece are still on the brink with massive youth unemployment
Uh, off-topic but as a non-native speaker, is that use of "capsicum" standard? Where are you located?

I had to look it up to make sure you meant (US: bell) peppers.
Just try this out: https://github.com/EXASOL/docker-db and you will be impressed.
This is an embryo of a real analytical database.

Pros:

- an 8 CPU installation with 64gb memory will probably be hundred times faster then postgres.

-it supports full sql

- It is super stable, even as docker container

Cons:

- it does not support nested data

- once you reach volumes of around 2Tb, you will probably have to switch to a paid version (I mean, you still can continue running on a 200gb ram box, but it will be suboptimal)

P.s. I am not affiliated with Exasol.
> "tell turtle forward 50"

I actually am reminded of this a lot when using SVG: [0]

> Pick up the pen and move it to 50,50

> Put down the pen and draw a line to 100,100

[0]: https://css-tricks.com/svg-path-syntax-illustrated-guide/