skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hopefully this won't be taken as an anti-MS rant. I've been developing exclusively on Microsoft's platforms for over 20 years.

But, if developing and hosting in a cloud environment doesn't convince you to go Linux, nothing will.

While for the most part as far as feature parity and development tools, AWS treats Windows developers like first class citizens. The "Windows Tax" is clear in AWS when you can see the cost difference between running the same instance size with Linux as Windows.

Even worse, realistically, running any Windows instance with less than 8GB of RAM is painful. Your minimum cost is $70 a month.

Being in the Windows world so long, I was amazed when I started using AWS and found how much you could do with relatively few resources in the Linux world.

I never cared before, I was using other people's money.

But I'm not leaving .Net Core, its made transistioning to Linux hosted development less painful.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-lightsail-update-mor...
> My conversion followed from the thought of having sock-less shoes

But you're supposed to wear Birkenstocks with socks!
Meh. Look at the bandwidth pricing. If bandwidth is the Soda. DO is coke and lights sail is McDonald’s selling coke. You can get it direct at wholesale or buy it in a bottle for 5x more.
It is, but not everyone is comfortable with why that is true, hence leaving it the way I did.

But you're right, it would otherwise be an appropriate simplification.
Solving a Vexing Solid-State Lithium Ion Battery Problem – Design News
You can calculate approximately how much of that growth was from buybacks, because it is near the same as if the company had spent the money on dividends instead except the money was rolled into the stock price instead of disbursed. So again, not very much. Stock grants vs bonuses is irrelevant other than that you are forced to hold grants for longer. Also irrelevant is how much the price has appreciated due to other factors. Are you certain it isn't yourself who is conflating issues?
>Due to architectural differences

Microarchitectural differences. They are, after all the same architecture, i.e. x86-64.

/pedantic
The author's self deprecation is brilliant. She uses her "meager useless" writing skills to broadcast to the one of the world's largest wealthy educated (kind?) audiences, readers of the NYTimes (not to mention HN), also subtly shaming anyone responsible for her mother's poor care past or future to the broadest most influential audience she can reach. What more can a mother ask for? I'm proud of her. Guanxi is not the only form of human influence in the world... isn't the "pen mightier than the sword?" (Sometimes). I wish the best for her and her mother.
Does everything need to be a family platform? A bit of an extreme example, but the adult entertainment industry seems to do fine without catering to families - I don't see why Snapchat couldn't do the same?
I was pleasantly surprised by the quality and ease of use of Vultr. Really on par with DO.
weeks!? ...
I think the main difference of guanxi is that it's bilateral.

In order to survive good in China you need some kind of in brain CRM

Where as "institutionalised networks" more or less implies like-minded people sharing the some common value.

Just my two cents.
There are academic studies of pair programming. If I remember, it does obviously decrease software defects, but almost everyone that wants pair programming ignores the fact that you are now paying twice as much for the same software. The software is not 2x better. Obviously a programmer's salary is so minuscule to the business managers don't even factor this into their thinking. Usually they want pair programming for political reasons, i.e. no single person can ask for a raise due to being the most knowledgeable.
Ah, I see thanks.
My issue with irc is everyone can see your ip adress right?

Is there any chanel of hackernewsers with the same spirit as HN?
Just wanted to note that HtDP is the best pedegogy for teaching the foundations of CS that I've ever found.

However, the book really needs professional editing.

Instead, take a look at the Intro CS classes from University of British Columbia [0][1].

They are taught by the excellent Gregor Kiczales, and directly follow the course structure from HtDP, in an extremely learner-friendly way. Absolutely the best online course I've ever done, Gregor really put an enormous amount of effort into doing this right.

[0] https://www.edx.org/course/how-code-simple-data-ubcx-htc1x
[1] https://www.edx.org/course/how-code-complex-data-ubcx-htc2x
A2Z: A computer designed and built from scratch. Custom CPU on FPGA (2017)
So, in short: You might get written up for taking a bathroom break if the bathrooms are far away from where you work?
Hey looks like you wrote almost the same comment as I did! I totally agree, Gregor is absolutely terrific!
thx for being interested in my project
Slack’s own IRC bridge was quite terrible and had been for years. It had multiple unimplemented features and multiple bad bugs. Evidently they decided they had done enough embracing and extending, and so rather than fixing it it was time to extinguish.
That depends somewhat. Freenode for example allows you to request a "cloak" to hide your IP as long as you're a) registered, b) not using the web client.
Thanks James! We just published the office hour transcript: https://sayit.pdis.nat.gov.tw/2018-08-22-james-lee-visit

(as a radically transparent Minister, all visits and all internal meetings I chair are published on the internet: https://visit.pdis.tw/.)
The author is too pessimistic about the healthcare system in Shanghai or China. That's to say, the article is way too exaggerated and involve too much mood. I think one of factor she thinks so is she is too far away from her mother geographically. The lesson from her article: if you get sick, go to hospital as soon as possible, don't wait.
Visit EFnet or Rizon, but yes, social IRC is mostly dead now
There are plenty. Breakouts from them forming their own communities every few years. The base of our community has been around for at least a decade and the main channel is on its fourth iteration since I joined.

Telling exact channel names would out me pretty fast though I reckon.
Apple's Tim Cook is about to get a $120M payday
So they can hold you for 51 days and you just have to sit in jail until your trial?
Regular single occupancy apartments (Either studios or 1K).

I think some estate agents are a lot more smooth about it than others. They'll only show you pre-vetted "foreigner ok" apartments. My experience is that if you go on a property site, draw up a list of places you're interested in then prepare to be disappointed.
OnlyOffice (https://www.onlyoffice.com/) is the only one that I believe comes very close to either of these.
It has several components that can be used individually or together, I believe all AGPL-licensed.
They have fully featured in-browser editors for documents, spreadsheets and presentations that can be used with their document management system (also very good) or integrated into Nextcloud (or similar).
There's also a PMS, CRM, E-mail and calendar.
> a modern, 1st world mindset,

Yours was a valuable testimony. Let me just comment on one aspect of the mindset bit. Class, as you noted, still very much exists, but modern day aristocrats don't expose themselves to snipers as they did two or three centuries ago. Instead we get celebrities and players and self-made rich critters out there to catch the limelight and flak. And family, the key base to aristocratic wealth and power, is played down as unnecessary, because a meritocratic system needs no more than individual prowess to succeed.
Like tinder for dogs? You pay me $1 to read such ideas.
The Amazon reviews are very divided. What did you like best about this book?
OVH better than the others in any regard?

That's rather optimist speculation about a company whose incompetence almost lost my business its primary domain name... twice. Shame on me for not taking appropriate measures after the first time. They should be renamed Incompetence Ltd.

This sounds like a rant because it is one. It's been a few years, but I'll never forget the several mandays I spent troubleshooting OVH's incompetence.
Lots of people from North Africa are leading this life too. North Africa is richer but the inequality is sometimes is surreal.

The countries' bad infrastructure and the lack of options to move to better countries (visas restrictions) give them no choice.
I only develop for iOS)
Don't be evil -> Do the right thing -> At least we are not dropping bombs on schools in Yemen
Botnet of smart air conditioners and water heaters could bring down power grid
Hairy MILF Jana uses a toy on her natural pussy sex video
Safest level of alcohol consumption is none, worldwide study shows
Colorado Prepares to Install “Smart Road” Product by Integrated Roadways
Both of the Google SRE books contain some chapters on this. I can highly recommend both of them.
How Paper Batteries Charged by Bacteria Could Power the Internet of Things
Experts call for security-by-design hardware – Embedded
IST Austria: Color effects from transparent 3D-printed nanostructures
New algorithm could improve diagnosis of rare diseases
Smart homes can be easily hacked via unsecured MQTT servers – Help Net Security
I would certainly question that line about paying 30% more. Without more details, it could easily be a distortion… For instance, comparing labor wages in an urban market like Seattle to a national average that includes places like rural Nebraska. Next I would wonder, why would Amazon pay so much more than their competitors? Would their shareholders accept that as fiscally responsible?
The Truth about Apple's Supply Chain – EE Times
No, you can be released on conditional bail, but it cannot be tied to money. Commonly the conditions include reporting to the police station every day, not contacting certain people, staying at home except for certain hours etc.
> By being at the intersection, [JSON] turns out to be the thing that everybody can agree on, and so it's really easy to pass data back and forth. Prior data interchange formats tended to try to be the union of all the languages,
and that turns out to be horrendously complex and really difficult to deal with. JSON by being so simple actually became really easy to use.

- Douglas Crockford ('discoverer' of JSON)

https://youtu.be/-C-JoyNuQJs?t=730
Before the minimum wage was introduced the market didn't do a very good job of ensuring workers had a livable income.
And how is the performance of the "Avoton" Atom CPUs?
If I had to appear for such an interview, I would read:
The Architecture of Open Source Applications[0]

[0] http://aosabook.org/en/index.html
For a simple client, the original RFC 1459 is still just enough.
Emulators from third parties not related to the original publisher are using copyrighted firmware and the only way you are going to play games realistically is using pirated images. I'm no making a moral judgement. Plenty of movies have fallen off of the back of truck onto my Plex Server.

The company that owns both the original console and the copyrighted game is free to publish a game that runs on top of an emulator. Sega has plenty of games on the App Store that are basically the emulator bundled with the game image.
> The first documented death related to asbestos was in 1906, yet it was only banned a century later

Incredibly it's still not generally banned in the USA; only a small list of products are banned by the EPA federally.[0] It was increasingly banned in Europe from the mid 1980s, and totally banned throughout the EU in 2005.[1]

[0] https://www.epa.gov/asbestos/us-federal-bans-asbestos
[1] https://cordis.europa.eu/news/rcn/13445_en.html

> but who knows about it ?

That was big news in Europe, e.g. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34615621
In the US you have a right to a speedy trial. Most sign away this right while being processed. The excuse given was the lawyers needed time to prepare for trial.
Eventbrite are still expensive in my view and their business model perpetuates the 'booking fee' mentality of the industry.

To sell 250 tickets for $10 each would cost the event organiser (or ticket buyers) $560, excluding payment processing. That's a hefty chunk of cash for relatively little work.

I don't think it's a fair model so I set up Ticket Tailor for this reason - https://www.tickettailor.com. The same event would cost $25/mo, with no contracts or commitment. We have facilitated 8M ticket sales for savvy event organisers who are fed up with [Eventbrite | any other ticketing company].
I'm glad too, but some of your numbers are a bit off;

https://www.gov.uk/arrested-your-rights/how-long-you-can-be-...

Also its worth noting our anti-terror laws seem to allow indefinite detention without charge. And ant-immigration laws allow for long (months even years) detention of migrants, without even suspicion of a crime.
Thank you for adding that — I didn't know the edX courses were still online under a different name! The links from wikibob's comment for those interested:

https://www.edx.org/course/how-code-simple-data-ubcx-htc1x

https://www.edx.org/course/how-code-complex-data-ubcx-htc2x

I also love Gregor's teaching style and philosophy. It clicked with me and felt obvious and natural in a way the book never did.
Not all medical professionals wade around in pools of blood on a daily basis ;)
Syscalls – A tool for building seccomp-bpf policies
Oh, wow. I see. With push notifications, mobile clients, TLS encryption this _could_ work in a company setting …provided you keep logs and make search results available for staff, too. Cool. Thanks for the links!
The title directly contradicts an article that appeared recently in the Guardian [1] (although as you say the title hardly seems appropriate given the content of the article)

A slightly better summary can be found at [2] which explains the differences better (i.e. moderate drinking lowers risk of dementia and heard disease, but increases the chance of e.g. accidents)

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/03/alcoho...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/health-45283401
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Surely it's a problem that in JSON, duplicate keys are allowed?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21832701/does-json-synta...
Suppose you have 8 runnable processes and a 4 core / 8 thread system.

With 4 execution units, 4 processes run at a time, and they all get swapped out every scheduling tick (losing all their cached lines). OTOH each process gets a full measure of cache to use during its slice.

With 8 execution units, 8 processes "run" at a time, they interleave based on stalls and CPU resources, and the OS doesn't need to reschedule anything every tick (so they hopefully keep their cache lines hot). But each process gets a half measure of cache to use.

In reality, code tuned to use a full measure of cache will be better off matching the number of processes to the number of execution units available, so you'd run half the number of processes with HT disabled. And cache-tuned code tends to fall off a performance cliff when it exceeds cache available, so it may easily run more than twice as fast, depending on the work.

The win from HT depends on most code not being tuned to full measures of cache, and having a lot of memory stalls or other heterogeneous work that other work can fit into. And most code is like that. Cache tends to have a declining marginal return - you have to add exponentially more cache to avoid cache misses - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law_of_cache_misses .
Yeah but most projects I worked on used soap as a data format. I had to interface with a french administration that parsed the xml manually (poeple printed and read it) and an american administration that used regex to read the xml.

Just having devs reading the dom correctly, including namespaces, is a rare occurence. It's sad, but we are living in a time were too many software is written, and not enough competent devs are available.

So simplicity, again, wins.
Disclaimer: former OVH employee

I set up a small personal service a few months ago. My requirements were being dirt cheap and not having to manage anything statefull myself.

After looking at all cheap providers, very few of them had managed databases. So I ended up using OVH VPS + Postgres cloud database. The combo costs me 10€/month and runs surprisingly smoothly.
People look at the recent actions of the PRC while ignoring the vast past economic harm 1949-1960. Set your house on fire and the rebuilding process looks like real progress.

They have done ok recently. That said they have made slower progress than many countries which spread out the boom times from industrialization. Which is why they are still beyond Taiwan even though Taiwan’s recent progress is relatively slow their boom was extremely fast.

In context China was a much larger share of the worlds economy in 1700 which more or less represents it’s share of global population and resources it’s currently slightly below the global average per capital GDP which is a reasonable threshold for good governance. https://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-chinese-economy-1...
wtf

2 vCPU + 2 GB RAM is about € 2,50 ($3.00) on https://hetzner.cloud. (Not affiliated, just a happy customer.)
We're talking about the stock market itself. Not the side effects. What is the stock market from a very essential core stand point? It is people buying paper at a lower price and selling it at higher prices. This has side effects both good and bad, but it is clearly fundamentally different from shifting capital to buy a house and more similar to shifting money to gamble it at a casino. That is the key difference.

Your list describes the beneficial side effects of a stock market. Opening a casino has beneficial side effects as well. Casinos can revitalize economies and support an entire city. Casinos have benefited Las Vegas and drives the growth of the city. But this is a side effect to what gambling essentially is: a game where money is exchanged and no production of goods takes place.

People who study finance study it from a very capitalistic point of view. They worship freedom of choice to sell and buy anything while ignoring the consequences of wealth inequality. Finance is a biased lens. Stop telling me that this isn't finance. Finance doesn't tell you how to examine the stock market with a critical eye, it just tells you how to invest in the stock market, how to manage risk. Almost every guy in finance worships capitalism.

I study economics. I don't worship capitalism, nor do I worship the alternatives. I look at it with a critical eye to see what it is from a theoretical perspective.

To address your request of whether I "made up" (highly offensive I might add) my theories or got them from a book/class room... I have learned a lot from a man named César A. Hidalgo. He is a Chilean physicist, writer, and entrepreneur. He is an Associate Professor at MIT and the director of the Collective Learning group at The MIT Media Lab. He is mainly responsible for forming my views about the relationship between economics and entropy. He wrote a book on economics.
When Asian parents says, don't get a literature degree, become a doctor, they have a good reason to say it.

It's not necessarily this bad in terms of standard of living (the above description would be subsistence levels, maybe less than 200$ a year), but the median household income in China is about $12-15k US a year compared to $56k in the US. And it's not that in China everything is cheaper so 12-15k goes a long way - no, they just live with less. Things that we take for granted, like insurance, available hospitals, quality goods, good customer service, safety of food & goods (a big one we don't even notice) - these are the result of a developed economy, and we definitely pay for it - we (as an economic whole) have the additional income to allow for these things to exist.

Even with a 10% GDP increase per year, it would take China another 15 years to get to US level standard of living. With a 5% GDP growth, it would take 30 years. These are just numbers to me (12k vs 50k living, I can see one is 4 times better!), but my parents know firsthand what the difference feels like and it makes their urgency much stronger.

For reference, I think my grandparents would be living on an equivalent of around $2-3000 a year based on what I know my mom gives them (and maybe other family members).
Many actually improve when you disble JS
> Most of the time people get rich by doing exactly what you want to do: help others.

I don't think that's true at all.
It's not quite that simple though, because plenty of high profile apps have gone through large rewrites from native to Electron. Skype is probably the biggest offender here, taking an app that was actually quite good and turning it into a steaming pile of crap.

Alternatively, we've got closed systems like Slack that are slowly and pervasively getting rid of open systems like IRC.

I'm really not sure that there's an engineering time advantage in taking a reasonably solid existing piece of software and rewriting it in Electron. Is the technical debt really that large?

Really, I think the problems we have are political, and not technical. I include things like NIH syndrome in that group.
Face Recognition to Be Mandatory for Aadhaar Authentication
Are your parents in the US or India?
The best coders in the world only know a small fraction of everything
What amazes me is that I regularly train people in IT that have never used JSON themself and are not sure what's it good for.

So something that is quite everywhere now, is simple, easy, and has existed for a long time, is still far from being a given.

It definitely puts in perspective people that are telling me that my webpack configuration from last year is obsolete, that I should ditch everything and learn Elm, that nix is the future of package management or that webassembly is going to change everything next week.
Because that's the architecture?
This reminded of a counter-exemplary story, A Tiny, $25 Million Mistake:

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/09/16/348975479/a-ti...

> Levine had always thought a contract was binding. Now he saw two big companies laugh off his little mistake. The other side agreed to revise the contract to pay the extra $25 million.

> The whole experience surprised Levine. "I thought it was a game," he says. "You sort of score points. And they had scored this point through my fault, and they were going to get something for it."

> Business may be a game, Levine realized, but it's not a one-time game. It's more like an infinite game. It's a game in which people have to live with each other, work with each other again, and perhaps, write another big contract.
Off topic, but people who use Airbnb over hotels, what is the primary motivation to do so - besides cost?

One of the experiences of traveling for me is the hotel experience where I can just let go of all my worries and let the hotel handle everything from clean laundry to changing the sheets.
I couldn't find any end to end solutions for seccomp-bpf policies definitions.
The idea is to monitor a flow of an executable, on the run, and get a set of all the syscalls it performs.
PostmarketOS aims to deal with this very problem, https://postmarketos.org
Can anyone explain these graphs a bit. I.e the first one shows no impact what-so-ever, but are the benchmark conditions real-life-y enough?
This seems like a misleading press release. This article basically talks about (newish[2011], additional) epigenetic mechanisms.

Epigenetic sequencing would indeed require even more storage.
I have nothing but good things to say about Vultr. Plus they're one of the few providers with a Sydney datacentre presence.