skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the direction you're thinking - I've wondered lately if there isn't actually some chance for politicians to get us off of perpetual war-based economies and on to space exploration economies. Maybe naive. One problem I see is the added waste of a global governmental effort. Look at ITER - it sounds nice in theory to have several countries work toward a lofty goal like fusion. But in actuality, each country wants it's own piece so it's built all over the world, assembled in France, is way over budget and the end goal is to do prove the concept by 2025, not build an actual commercial fusion power plant. Similar criticisms are made of ISS. Maybe it wouldn't be a bad thing if those 5 countries were in a friendly "space race" with their 1% GDP each. Instead of one big program you could run 5 parallel programs that compete. It got us to the moon after all. Obviously there is a place for international cooperation and openness especially in science, but I do wonder if there need to be more base motivations to really get things moving.
This is a weird thing to say given the number of relationships he ruined by being an abusive jerk. (I also think the "good developers can get a job" line ignores the way people get psychologically bound to abusive situations. It's like the "she can leave any time" response to domestic abuse.)

Look, for example, at the way Jobs cheated Wozniak out of money early on. [1] That's not what I'd call "good at relationships". I'd call that manipulative and exploitative.

[1] https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/steve-wozniak-cried-jobs-kept-atar...
But the Mill is explicitly designed to be a superscalar CPU replacement...
> An "email provider" that doesn't provide IMAP and SMTP isn't an email provider any more than Facebook's proprietary "free internet but only on Facebook" is "internet service".

By your incredibly rigid definition, sure. Good thing the world doesn't live by your definition.

An email service provider is, based on the words alone, someone that provides email services. Do they allow for sending and receiving email from one or more email accounts they manage? Yes? Well then they're an email service provider. Many providers supported POP3 only for years, yet they were still called ESPs just fine, even without the IMAP support. Funny how that works.

This is going to be my final message on this, because your incredibly rigid and stubborn definitions and beliefs clearly leave no room for debate and nobody is going to change your mind because you are totally and completely right™, but what I will say is that if you care about this so much, there's absolutely nothing stopping you from making your own alternative that works the way you think it should. Just stop calling things scams because you disagree with their design decisions.
It is different in that the ownership of the capital changes. Going in it belongs to the company; coming out it belongs to the founder personally.

If I buy an apartment under my own name, renovate it, and then rent it out under my own name, that's a pretty normal business. If I work for a company that rents an apartment, and I, knowing the company isn't using it, personally rent that apartment out in exchange for payments directly to me, that is, more or less, embezzlement. I don't have the legal right to sell or rent the company's property to you.
I don't know about the specific extension, but see https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/blink-dev/LZX...
Choose a stack (I started with MEAN but MERN is legit as well.) then build everything you can think of with it, both to build your skills (and your github commit history!) and to potentially show off to potential employers. Something CRUD (like a blog or todo list), an app with a semi-complex form, an application with complex data passing: child component -> sibling or parent.

follow the road maps

https://github.com/kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap

This first (real) gig is the hardest to get, because you your job history/experience is short. Doing these personal projects won't expand your job history, but it can do wonders for your experience. My first software job I had one thing listed under job history on my resume, and 3-5 listings under Projects/Experience.
FTA: "YouTube's Polymer redesign relies on the deprecated Shadow DOM v0 API only implemented in Chrome". Shadow DOM v0 never was a standard, merely a proposal in a draft.
Using Redux-Middleware-Worker to Prevent App Freezes
OpenInvest Is Hiring Senior Software Engineers
From the article: “I'd emphasize that our technology is based on account behavior not the content of Tweets.”

It sounds like it's an automated system attempting to de-emphasize certain uses of the platform, not someone standing there going "Okay, Republican? Shadowbanned. Next? Republican? Shadowbanned. Next?"

i.e. if you don't want to be shadowbanned, maybe stop acting poorly.
Not sure "Introduction to compute shaders" is the right title here. I was expecting to see come code, but it's more about the history of its design.
This is the wisest comment here.
Really trying to use any other sovereign in a patent case is just plain silly. It is US patents that are relevant for granting barring treaties. They are out of jurisdiction by definition - leaving only diplomatic consequences which are usually pretty mild. France can't stop the US from calling Californian white wine champagne.
Inside Google's Shadow Workforce
400GbE party. Loud knock at the door. Music stops. In jumps Juniper
What if you need features in addition to bugfixes, and you have finite resources?
Since webusb broke u2f: https://pwnaccelerator.github.io/2018/webusb-yubico-disclosu...
Interesting, I have both in my keychain, I destroy all things consumer product usually, but both are fine. 1-2 yrs straight. I do wish other companies would compete in the space.
Do You Work in the European Union? Send Your Firm's URL to incoming@soggy.jobs
The Global Computer Industry Index is a curated list of links directly to the careers portal on each high-tech firm's own website. Our links never expire nor do they go away when positions are filled.

I list both hardware and software shops.

For the last while I've been finding all the world's tech hubs by listing each location of some multinationals. But that has the unfortunate result that each such tech hub's first listings are all foreign companies, most of which are in direct - sometimes vigorous - competition with locally owned companies.

I seek your help in discovering technology companies in the European Union specifically because I plan to promote my EU index by placing paid advertising:

http://soggy.jobs/computer/europe/

I created a separate EU country index because EU citizens can live and work in any European Union member state.

(I'm happy to list any tech company anywhere; just send your company's homepage URL to incoming@soggy.jobs.)

In three months or so I'll launch a crowdfunding campaign. I'm also working towards forming a US IRS 501(c)(3) Tax Deductible Non-Profit Corporation, but my understanding is that the IRS takes about a year to approve applications for 501(c)(3) status.
The Computer History Museum has one of their long form interviews with Avie Tevanian, who led the creation of Mach (multiprocessor BSD) as his Ph.D project. (His faculty advisor went on to head Microsoft Research)

Next and Microsoft both sought to hire him, and he eventually went on to be in charge of the OS at Next and later Apple.

One of the topics he covered in the interview was how Next (and Apple) decided to use and contribute back to open sourced software at the lower levels of their stack.

He also covers what it was like to work for Steve Jobs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwCdKU9uYnE
2. Can the community build an OSS bridge themselves or is it the use of your API that requires a paid acct?
Humans do have a stunning track record of fucking up the things we explored and pioneered. Maybe it's time we clean up the messes we made instead of finding a new place to ruin?
Google Voice for G Suite
Sergio Marchionne, a legend of the modern auto industry, dead at 66
This data is a wet dream for a racist Government.
I guess it has gone off the rails for you. It's pretty clear to me. Feel free to ask questions if you need something clarified.
If you are a group of people reading a book and discussing it in an organized manner you are supposed to pay royalties for it. (Source, I've gotten such money from Sweden)
Bluetooth implementations may not sufficiently validate elliptic curve parameter
who wrote the code that is inside the library?

the takeaway would be that you should promote yourself and your work preemptively.
The link in the article to the institute was broken. Here is an updated link: https://www.comingtounderstanding.com/

Interesting the institute calls itself "Ammonius", not A.M. Monius. And the author of "Coming to Understanding" is clearly identified as Marc Sanders.
> In 20 years we will be able to extract all type of crazy information from DNA and it might be our biggest liability if it is shared across private companies. This will truly be the dystopian future, in which every business will make a decision based on your public DNA profile.

I really doubt this. I've been genotyped by 23andMe and the most interesting information I've seen from their health reports are a handful of disease probabilities and some fairly useless-to-me traits (like, for instance, a probabilistic view of my hair color). Even if you jump into the fray with something like Promethease or look at data on SNPedia, each SNP only has a handful of studies and there's little to no research on hundreds of thousands of SNPs. Only a few sets have been analyzed for specific purposes like Alzheimer's and rare diseases, and those are indeed rare.

Science doesn't advance like the technology industry. It takes slow, methodical research to point to anything super conclusive. If we wanted a dystopia where job aptitude was determined by DNA, for example, we would need hundreds of studies and conclusive evidence that some genetic data indicates a very good match and not just a hunch. That research has to come from somewhere, continually be reproduced, and undergo the scientific process. That's all stuff that has to be paid for, which is something not a lot of people are willing to do.

> why would ANYONE in their right mind give their DNA to a company in Silicon Valley that is explicitely using Google as a model for Data privacy ?

It's more of a curiosity thing. I get a more complete view of myself, and we potentially help advance research in medicine and diseases. It's symbiotic.
<i>> I care to what happens about all living humans today. I simply don't care about the long term survival of our species.</i>

<i>> why should I care whether all of our eggs are in one basket, or two baskets, or a million baskets? The survival of the human race as a whole is not a concern of mine.</i>

In short, because others care.

You cannot reach your goals alone. You need a cooperation from others. But if you didn't care what they care, there would be no cooperation, or cooperation would be not so good as it might be.

Cooperation needs shared values, and the more values are shared, the more effective cooperation would be. If you care only about your goals and not about goals of others, than others would not play with you. If you share some goals (I believe that those who care about long term benefits value short term also) then they accept your cooperation when working on short term goals, but you will not have any influence over them, when they work on long term goals. The only lever on them you would have is a force. Military, political, financial or any other. They would not cooperate willingly.

You can choose war and force those who have other values to work on your values. Or you can respect their values and cooperate with others on them. It is your choice.
That is a lie for public consumption. It is not just based on some general behaviour. The accounts of multiple notorious Republican congressmen are being shadow-banned. They could openly whitelist the accounts of all members of Congress if they wanted to remove any appearance of politically-motivated, selective animus.

I'm looking for the non-public moral reasoning.

[added] For instance, I could tentatively understand an argument that anyone who promotes the violent overthrow of the Republic should be banned, or at the least not be promoted, within the platform. (That particular angle, by the way, is not how Twitter operates.)

Haha. Am I being downvoted by people who really really want me to swallow PR, or by sundry communists?
Hey that's cool. Username is efosmark.
Introduction to SPARK
Haaaaah, same here. Inhaled Red Mars and Green Mars last week. Putting off starting Blue Mars for a few days yet so I can actually get some work done.
This number sounded suspicious to me, so I downloaded the report. What it actually says is that 97% of organizations practice some level of agile, but the percentage of teams using agile is much lower. The most common response (46%) was "Less than 1/2 of our teams are agile", for example.

Saying that "97% of organizations practice agile development methods" makes it sound like it's overwhelmingly dominant, but it's not even possible to tell from these responses if a plurality of the teams who responded to a "State of Agile survey" use it, or what the most common development methodology is.

This is exactly the sort of contextless figure that you'll find torn apart in "How to Lie with Statistics".

> "JavaScript is more popular than ever, and over 69% of developers use JavaScript

Does anyone really believe that StackOverflow surveys gather a representative sample of all developers? This same survey found that 1 in 6 developers target the Raspberry Pi (more than iOS), and 7.5% use assembly language (more than Go, Objective-C, or VB.NET). It's an interesting survey but take it with a grain of salt.
Thank you for writing this and sharing your thoughts. That was the impression I got from your piece too - that he had a knack for seeing past the obvious.

But the fact that you felt you "have to do the right thing and keep it secret from Steve until later" speaks volumes to Steve's leadership style. If everyone has to walk eggshells around you, that's a sign you're prone to flip out on them.

Being stubborn is not the same thing as being hostile. I wonder if steve ever learned how to separate the two.
Yes, that's the quote that led me to my conclusion. ;-)
Pycharm just released 2018.2 with support for pipenv :)
https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/whatsnew/#v2018-2-python
The Sky Burial is pretty gnarly. Your family chops you up, carries your pieces in a bag up to the top of ridge, where vultures eat your remains. Pretty metal.
This tool is the lowest-barrier-to-entry to get into circuit design -- used the applet after trying commercial/trial tools (including "cloud-based" ones), and all failed me.
>...Smallpox is uniquely deadly...

The indigenous people were exposed to many diseases, not just smallpox:

>...Numerous diseases were brought to North America, including bubonic plague, chickenpox, cholera, the common cold, diphtheria, influenza, malaria, measles, scarlet fever, sexually transmitted diseases, typhoid, typhus, tuberculosis, and pertussis (whooping cough).[2][3][4] Each of these brought destruction through sweeping epidemics, involving disability, illness, and extensive deaths

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_disease_and_ep...

>...it wiped out something like 75% of the indigenous population of the americas.

It's hard to give a precise estimate of how many deaths occurred. Some say it was much higher than 75%. For example:

>...Between 1492 and 1650 the Native American population may have declined by as much as 90% as the result of virgin-soil epidemics (outbreaks among populations that have not previously encountered the disease), compound epidemics, crop failures and food shortages.

https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-...
Uh... not really.

Historically, the design of GPUs are essentially about having extremely high data-parallelism of relatively tiny, simple codes (shaders) that all operate on the same massive data unit but have very little communication. The tradeoffs that get involved in making this code means that GPUs are effective at speeding up only certain kinds of computations. Workloads that are memory-latency bound or communication heavy--such as a BFS graph traversal--turn out to be utter crap on GPUs, and you can only claw back some of that performance with epic engineering effort.

Larrabee and its successor Xeon Phi concepts were actually fairly well-received in terms of giving you something that could tackle non-GPU-amenable problems. What caused Larrabee to suffer was that Intel basically tried to flog a "just write C/C++/Fortran and the autovectorizer will take care of everything" model for programming which, well, didn't work (as many compiler people could have predicted for you before you started). Nvidia also made sure to do a massive push to get CUDA working in terms of library support, educational cooperation, and language flogging to get people interested into CUDA, which Intel didn't attempt for Xeon Phi.
A term that is unfortunately abused, at least where I live, by fortune telling shops and other such things.
This is very good news!

It's also great to have https://protonirockerxow.onion/ :)

But I have a suggestion. If I hit https://protonmail.com/ via Tor, there's no warning to use the .onion address. Except for an "Onion Site" link at the bottom. And after I recently created a free account via Tor at https://protonmail.com/, I got that either SMS verification or a credit/debit card number was required for activation. Gak!

But using https://protonirockerxow.onion/, there's no authentication requirement for activation. So perhaps there could be an alert when connecting to https://protonmail.com/ via Tor. As I recall, Bitmixer or Helix Light used to do that. Or maybe just put the .onion address near the top of the front page.
Most of those providers are using your data for ads. It's not free.

I am working on a fairly high scale email service. IMAP and POP are very resource intensive parts of our infrastructure.
If you want to pay cash, sometimes you have to go in and give them money, then they have some way to tell the pump to only put out that much gas. And if you don't pick the right amount, you have to go back in and get your money back.
90210

Canadians can use the first 3 of their postal code.
Unfortunately we're running Windows Server 2016. I may be wrong - be nice if I was, actually - but I thought it required a reboot.
It shouldn’t be too difficult to find a tech job in Munich (see links below).

I am based in the Netherlands (Eindhoven area) and our company is hiring people from all over the world. After the initial CV screening, the hiring process consists of a Skype interview. If you get passed that, you’re invited for a visit to meet several people on site. Etc.

What kind of job are you looking for?

[1] http://blog.honeypot.io/munich-tech-map/
[2] http://blog.honeypot.io/9-european-cities-for-tech-jobs-2018...
Under rated perspective here.
Tech Ladies Job Board: Hire 30,000 women in tech with the new job board
Something about this rubbed me the wrong way and I realized it was because this pretends that ignoring much of the long tail of userbase is not only okay but beneficial to the majority. If, say, Quip ignored bugs in IE6 that's likely fine because my parents using their CRT iMac aren't going to be using Quip, but imagine if a crucial app like Gmail ignored older browsers; suddenly all the disadvantaged people that can't afford new laptops lose access to their email.

If it's a bug that 10 users are hitting because they were migrated from an earlier version incorrectly, sure it might be okay not to fix, but if 10 users are hitting it because they're legally blind and using an extraordinarily large font to use your product, it's crappy to say they don't deserve a fix. You have to understand what part of your userbase is hitting a bug and then decide from there.
Thanks! I'm sprawl2
I found this thing years ago and still occasionally go to it to play around with different circuit concepts. Very cool!
There is information about Colossus: the original GFS paper, an interview with Sean Quinlan with McKusick on Colossus improvements, as well as a talk by Denis Serenyi on more of the gory details, e.g. rebalancing.

There was also a public talk on D, the GFS chunkserver replacement, but there don't seem to be recordings or slides from that.
Discuss HN: Underpaying at Workplace Food Services
I have edited this post to fit HNs terse 2000 char limit. Edits identified by ellipsis "..."
Here is a pastebin of the entire submission: https://pastebin.com/kD3eDWLa

...

Companies with workplace service staff...are objectively underpaying their employees and I feel, at this time, this is more due to an ignorance I feel I can absolve than to any intentional act of discrimination.

I have been an enthusiastic member of this community for many years now. ...while I make my living by preparing people cups of coffee.

I was recently fired from a cafe job...and as such have been looking for work.

Of the places I have been interviewing to work ... there has been a consistent issue that I've concluded I am in a good position to address and felt this forum, due its proximity to the people I want to address, would be the best way to encourage a change in behaviour.

If one is to look at cafe job listings, in the SF bay area, you will find the average pay is currently around 16$/hr.
Such listings include local cafes as well as workplace food and beverage perks...

The discrepancy arises in...service industry pay practice: tipping.

I understand the reasoning...to be without tipping. Part of the recruiting...to further incentivise highly sought after applicants, but regardless...tipping is still unfortunately a significant part of service industry workers' wage. Removing the tipping without supplanting those lost wages results in an objective underpaying of your service staff.

I thought about the viability to name and shame the companies I interviewed with...

Instead, I simply wanted to present this issue to you all, and also to posit a supplemental challenge...:

Post a comment below naming your company and list the pay scales you have in place for your varied workplace services workers; if you are uncomfortable revealing this information here I would hope you would...think about why revealing such information makes you uncomfortable.
Miles per Imperial gallon.
I really hope Twitter keeps doubling down on this behaviour so we'll all end up on a better decentralized system. (An engineer can dream.)
Maybe, but "Words with Friends" doesn't need to be written in Ada with a team of 50 engineers blowing through $20M working on proof systems for verifying the behavior of placing a tile on a board. There's maybe a tiny difference between aircraft control surface stability software and casual video games, as just one tiny example.

So, obviously, as engineers we have to say that it's context dependent - bugs have priorities. And sometimes bugs exist that you can't reproduce in a lab, have only occurred once in history, and you can't even be sure it wasn't some hardware glitch (because, well, hardware is buggy too)... So, the sane and reasonable thing to do is to let those go and spend our time somewhere where we're likely to make considerable and reasonable progress.
I heard that there's a feature which allows you to flag a prediction on Augur as "unethical"?
I mean a synonym for "advertise" is literally "show". What I really have a problem with is when someone else hijacks someone's thread with their own agenda.
Same here. It never hit production, but this simulator was fully-featured enough to replace SPICE and accompany breadboard prototypes before I ordered a PCB run.
There have been some blog posts about it, but you are right, no whitepapers.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/04/inside-capaci...

https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/01/bigquery-unde...