skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen this twice in my journeys in IT as a consultant.

Two separate IT Directors had a second PC in their office that just had Eve on it. While working with them, they didn't pay attention to it, but when we would take a break or I was setting stuff up they would hop on for a few minutes here and there. Both said it was their part time job, and they did make some ISK out of doing it. I don't know anymore details though.

It was kind of distracting in the same sense as people who hop on their phones for a minute between pages or whatever.

I'll give them this, they did pay attention to the training or whatever and I had no issues with working with them.
One thing I question is what kind of WAN link a single chicken fast food restaurant can get, or is economical. A lot are in places where the only last mile ISP options will be adsl2+ over copper or docsis cablemodem. I don't see it being a good use of money to spend $600/mo to pay some local ISP for a dedicated 100Mbps line on a 5 year contract.

But then again it's highly likely that what they do is not bandwidth intensive and will work fine on a 5Mbps x 1.25 Mbps DSL connection.
I insist on the truth you are satisfied as long as its "truthy"

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/magazine/17FOB-onlanguage...
Yeah, me too, but at least I wasn't writing Medium articles about how cool it was that I was generating revenue to be funneled directly into conversion therapy youth camps.
> Their economy is obviously capitalist.

Does mandated 50% local (aka party) ownership align with "obviously capitalist"? That seems a stretch (aka crony capitalist).

Xi has asked for indefinitely long term of power and gotten it. Handover of power?
From my experience, "those evil companies" isnt actually a common argument in free software circles. It's only a problem in the sense that they fail to pass on the freedoms required by the license (breaking copyright law) or attempt to circumvent the intent of it (see Tivoization).

It's pretty common to actually see the opposite. When companies genuinely create/modify/support free software they tend to be praised and actively supported in the free software community.
CBP has a pretty handy app to lookup wait times at US airports at https://awt.cbp.gov/ . Looking at the wait times for JFK for the past week, the maximum wait time for non-US citizens exceeded 120 minutes often.
> * You can choose your metric! Specific a distance function and you're good to go. Haversine for a great orange peeling, Levenshtein for visualizing word spelling (and maybe provide an embedding for ML-based spell checking?)

t-SNE, at least the implementation I usually work with (from the R Rtsne package) happily accepts any distance matrix as input. I successfully used all kinds of distance measures with it.
The company themselves chose this political stance, not the community around them.
Does this mean we can now have wine without breaking packages and having to reinstall?
int in python2 is a more simple structure (fixed precision for non-long integers) than int of python3 (arbitrary precision)
Sure they do! They just may or may not be any good at it.
How many times do countries have to collapse before we can be sure?
Gardein "chicken" products aren't bad. And tofu and tempeh can be awesome replacements for meat.
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Raspi cannot be used for a semi serious server application due to microsd card write wear issues. All other methods of attaching external storage by USB bus to an rpi are not reliable or suitable for this sort of purpose. Nowhere near the longevity of something with a native sata or m.2 SSD interface and a real SSD.
> Otherwise, I find microservices much simpler to reason about.

A counter-argument can be made on this point. You can implement the same isolation levels (modules) but as a monolith using message passing. How is it harder to reason about it then?

In other words, the hard part is how to split your program complexity in modules that are as simple and as orthogonal as possible.

The worse you do this split:

- In a monolithic system, the system becomes exponentially more complex and hard to maintain. You get more bugs, and developers running away from this project as fast as they can, but the thing may fulfill its goals to some degree.

- In a microservice-based system, you may end up either with a handful of huge services (a monolith that uses network-based messages instead of function calls/inproc message passing), or with gross inconsistency problems if you force splits in the wrong places.

Given the operational overhead and that most startups will never get to large scale, I'd say go with the monolith and try to gain traction with your startup. If/when you finally require scale you should have plenty of resources to either split the monolith (if it was well modularized) or just rewrite chunks as services until you get to a fully microservice-based architecture.
My housing and the healthcare services I pay for are the same as in 2008. I now have to pay twice as much in USD for the same goods and services.

That is the definition of currency inflation.

Exchanging more for the same.
I absolutely agree, I just presented two poles, I figured it was obvious it's a continuum and that there are other dimensions as well.

Most programmers have relatively low social status, and exhibit the thought processes and behaviors thereof. You may not think of it in those terms, and that doesn't matter, as long as you pragmatically understand these typical behavior and thought patterns, which it sounds like you do. For what it's worth, the fear of ostracism you describe interfering with reporting issues is a characteristic low status fear. High social status individuals don't fear ostracism, they do the ostracizing.
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1 Human = 100 GB

500,000 Humans is a small sample of the UK population one company is looking to create.

All this is in the article.
Maybe it's just time to crank up the revenue to make this worthwhile.

https://redislabs.com/press/redis-labs-secures-44-million-fu...
How come the society has yet to collapse if the salaries can't cover a few days of spending. I mean this reaches a critical point, as far as I see it: At some wage, the employee will bail out. Because it cost more to do the job (transportation/food) than the job pays.

Apparently, this is not the case. As the workers are still going for work. The equation is certainly bad (I have no doubt about that) but it has not reached a critical point where everything collapses (Examples could be Libya and Syria).

To see for yourself, go to Caracas on Google maps and turn traffic on. Try that on Damascus.
Gitlab EE is one.

Not closed source since the source is public and freely given [1].
Not open source because the license [2] forbids use based on field of endeavor which is required in the OSD [3].

[1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee
[2] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/blob/master/LICENSE
[3] https://opensource.org/osd-annotated

Not that Wikipedia is a source of truth but it does corroborate that at least some other people agree with this analysis [4].

[4] https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_source

Edit:

As for the other direction, you can't have software be Open Source and closed source simultaneously since being Open Source requires the source to be available. Or in symbols.

Free Software ⊆ Open Source ⊆ source-available

closed source ∪ source-available = 𝕌

closed source ∩ source-available = ∅
don't forget about cats... they are spreading like the plague and there's an easy solution to that...
My question is: why can't we process the incoming passengers in flight?

When I board a USA->EU flight, I have to record my passport #. The passport and its holder are visually verified at checkin. If anything is out of order I can't board.

So why, during those 8 hours while I fly over, can't I just be cleared? If I show up and my face matches my passport (visually, biometrically, chip ID-wise, whatever) and my visa status is in order, can't I just proceed to customs?
A colleague and I developed a good routine for a while. He's a much faster programmer than me. But his code quality is usually much lower (not wrong, but often poorly structured and hard to maintain). He'd code fast, I'd code slow. Then I'd clean up his stuff while we waited for feedback on the system and he did other things. Refactoring work and the like, no meaningful (to an end user) changes.

This was effective. Except that management saw him as fast and so he kept getting more work, and completing it. But the quality wasn't there because no one went in behind him to keep it clean and tidy. Management never really saw the issue, they just thought the rest of us were bad programmers because we were so slow. We were slow because: 1) some of us (like me) work slowly; 2) the fast guy introduced a lot of technical debt (or we introduced it because we weren't given the cleanup time I used to have).

He's still a good programmer (in general), but without the support structure his products are far less useful than they same at first glance (due to the introduced technical debt).
Thanks, but that requires action from the head of the estate. There doesn't seem to be anyway for an unrelated individual to request anything regarding a notable account like @humblebrag.
Using MEMS barometers as high-resolution tactile sensors (2014)
There probably aren't any. Ever since Pan-Arabism died with Nasser, leaders of Muslim countries are mostly concerned with keeping themselves in power and keeping things stable in their own borders, which means a) downplaying if not actively suppressing supranational ideologies and b) playing nice with countries like China to keep the money flowing. And the only real Pan-Islamic movements are the extremist ones, which don't have any official state support.
How Finland beat the sedentary lifestyle [audio]
First OpenAI Five Match at The International Today
I've found this very strange as well.

Best guess is that it hasn't fully reached their populations / news audiences. It's only in the last four to six months that Western media has begun to actively talk about it and pursue the truth of what's going on there.

Alternatively they don't protest China because they know it does no good.

The Guantanamo Bay detention camp had less than a thousand total detainees over its history (currently an estimated 40 people held there), most of whom were pulled directly off of battlefields. Guantanamo became a global scandal and blackeye for the US, drawing countless mass protests across the Middle East.

Here we're talking about millions of Muslims being tortured, 're-educated,' stripped of their Islamic beliefs, and apparently many are dying or being murdered in the process. An estimated 1,300 camps and growing. All without any external access or oversight, happening under an aggressive rights-denying dictatorship.

These millions of Muslims are not just going to give up their beliefs willingly, so what is China's next step? Vast genocide has to be the concern going forward.
Perhaps worth mentioning that Paul Erdős had a somewhat vagabondish lifestyle as well - I suspect refugee experience.

Back in the early 80s, Rudolf Peierls did a talk to about a hundred of us at Birmingham University about the war, quantum mechanics and Heisenberg. It must have seemed desperate in 1940 in the dark days with worries about family &c.
Meanwhile, Norway kills more whales than Japan on average according to the WDC[1] and proceeds to increase their quota for number of whales they can kill[2] all while running government-backed campaigns to market whale-meat as hip-and-trendy[3].

The real gruesome thing here is how we're not just hunting whales, but that the ones we do hunt are roughly 60% of the time pregnant ones[4].

[1] https://us.whales.org/whaling-facts

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/07/norway-b...

[3] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-30/whale-meat-marketed-to...

[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/30/world/asia/whales-japan.h...
At least we know the ocean is not empty yet...
In general, having Trump speaking on something in 2014 doesn't mean he'd not flip on it in 2018, but Trump has showed very definite desire for reducing regulations, so without an explicit statement I'd say it's unlikely he'd support Net Neutrality. He also doesn't have much tactical reason to - NN is the cause of major content companies, like FAANG, and those are no Trump's friends, and neither they are friends of his base. So Trump has no reason to try and make nice with them.
"If you are 2 years old, don't hold a knife"

Yeah, sure, knives are useful and you can always find exceptions for a few 2 years old.

But still. Pretty good rule.
Apparently they're only temporary controls... I drove from Spain to France a few weeks ago... there was a sign saying "France"... and that was it.

I had to Google for this: http://www.blather.net/theblather/2016/01/crossing-border/
Mayan farming put lots of carbon in the atmosphere
Commons Clause is neither open source nor closed source; it is proprietary. Something cannot be both open source and closed source.
What constitutes journalism?

I remember in the mid-2000s that online-journalists whose sites had millions of impressions per month were denied journalism visas because they weren’t traditional established print newspapers - then there was a debate about the difference between a blogger and a journalist.

I’d like to know if a non-journalist who maintained a very popular blog, such as an influential software engineer, who occasionally blogs about political or topical stories, constitutes a journalist or not. If they’re in the country for an industry conference but write about political events on their blog while they’re in the country have they violated their visa?
This is the definition of currency inflation.

Goods and services costing more in my currency than they used to—and trust me, the housing hasn’t gotten any nicer, nor my healthcare services.
Following the link: I find it odd that his google plus pic is of him wearing a tux, with what looks to be a pile of money on fire above him.
It's no more absurd than calling North Korea “democratic” because that's literally the first word of the official name.

But also not much less absurd than that.
I always tell people that if they can't build a monolith with their team they shouldn't do microservices. Micro-Services are often used as a bandaid over lack of coordination. This works for a little while but once you need a refactor over several services you are in deep trouble.
Bad tooling, unpaid work, overpromises? Scala ecosystem contributors open talk
If steam can charge 30%, why can’t Apple/Google?
Apple or Pear?

Sorry, but seriously, I've been trying to work on this, as well. I don't know your exact situation, but I've found a lot of this comes down to being able to have the confidence to tell your boss "No, I don't think I should be working on that, for X, Y, Z reasons."

There are shit bosses out there, who will still blame you if they put you in a bad situation and it goes bad, but the best you can do is be upfront that you do not believe this situation is set up for success and how it could be improved.
Yes, those are tourist industries, no surprise there's a lot of English. But the tier one customer support for a large teleco, or a bank? They probably aren't requiring fluent English for that.
We did a case study on Nordstrom recently in the CNCF, check it out: https://www.cncf.io/case-study-nordstrom/

Here's a recent talk from KubeCon/CloudNativeCon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=xZO9nx6GBu0
There are lots of places where money comes from.

One is the following observation. Customers are usually willing to spend $X on a solution to their problem, but are relatively agnostic on how $X is divided up. So if customers are willing to pay about the same for Oracle on Sun, and for Oracle on Linux, but Linux is cheaper than Sun, then Oracle can (and did!) successfully charge more to run on Linux. The result is that it is in Oracle's interest to make the Linux solution available and preferred by any means necessary..including improving Linux.

The same logic applied to IBM contributing to Apache so that they could charge for Websphere. Or any other case where there is a required component of an overall solution.

The widespread recognition of this back in the late 1990s was why the open source movement so quickly got a lot of corporate sponsorship from big companies.
Scala Many IDE Services: SBT ENSIME Metals. Worry Not, LSP in Scala 3 Builtin
Yes, exactly. You can't use an unmodified Apache 2.0 license and then try and tack on some extra clause which is incompatible with the underlying license and end up with an intelligible end result. You certainly can't call it "Apache 2.0" and direct people to apache.org. It looks like a legal nightmare.

Even if you like this license, please never use it!
I just entered the US at SFO a couple of weeks ago.

There were big (permanent) signs up directing us to a citizens line and a noncitizens line. They weren't taking that especially seriously; there was also a staffer at the fork directing citizens into the noncitizens line and noncitizens into the citizens line.

My guess is that this was an attempt to balance the waiting time in each line. It was a horrible system, largely because the system was barely able to admit noncitizens at all. Both lines crawled as the noncitizens stepped up to a booth and were s-l-o-w-l-y fingerprinted and eventually waved on their way.

Contrast what happened just a couple weeks earlier when I entered China. Fingerprinting was required for entering noncitizens there too. But you didn't have it done at the booth while everyone waited in line behind you. You got yourself fingerprinted at one of a row of unmanned machines, got a receipt from the machine, and then went to get in line. All the immigration booth did was take your receipt.
ELI5 whitebox macros and blackbox macros in Scala
The one company that I worked for that did everything “right” - unit tests, paying down technical debt, code reviews, etc. was led by a manager who was originally the founder of the product that got acquired by what was then a Fortune 10 company.

After two years working on the new well tested, well written product, no one wanted the new .Net product, they stopped working on it and put everyone on the old PHP based product where there was a demand. Within 6 months after people’s vesting period elapsed, everyone (14+) developers left because no one wanted to do PHP.

Also, when he was a young hungry startup, he didn’t worry about “good practices”, but now that he was flush with cash and didn’t have to worry about going out of business, he could do things by the book.

I learned a few lessons over the years after that product and seeing how things really work - especially at smaller VC funded companies. No one cares about code quality, just growing features, acquiring customers, and the exit strategy.

It worked for Twitter....
Does that remain true if you grossly over-provision the SD card? Use a 64GB card for 1GB of data and you have a lot of wear leveling space.
Must be fun spending years in academia getting your Phd in Machine Learning and Computer Vision only to create an Emoji app. How much talent is being wasted on worthless trash like this??
FWIW, I do not see how eating a dog or cat is morally worse than eating a cow. I am not a vegetarian, but honestly, that is mostly due to laziness and a fair amount of hypocrisy.

And yes, the thought of eating a dolphin or a humpback whale is kind of sickening. I guess that is largely due to Greenpeace and their "Save the Whales" stickers that I remember as being nearly omnipresent in my childhood. The difference, I guess, is that cows (and dogs) were not hunted close to extinction.

OTOH, stopping the hunt for whales is one of the few things where a huge number of countries all over the world has been able to find a consensus before whales are a different memory known only from skeletons in museums. Japan is basically giving the rest of the world the finger, and not because they are facing starvation without that precious whale meat.
Change headline to type O- they have not managed to make it Rh-negative.
And North Korea calls itself "Democratic People's Republic of Korea", but anyone with a working brain understands that NK is neither a Democracy, nor is it is government for the people.

Taking the words of totalitarian leaders literally is very naive.
The issue which most people oppose is neither whale hunting nor whale farming but whale extinction. Sei whales and certain subspecies of Minke whales, which are the specific species mentioned, are listed as endangered and near-threatened, respectively, on the IUCN Red List.
If that time comes it will be interesting to see how the owners of ycombinator react. China's anger has made many high profile companies fold at the earliest signs of tension. Remember the guy who got fired from the hotel chain because he was logged in to the hotel social media account and simply like a pro-Taiwan post? Within days China had put pressure on the hotel to get rid of him. Remember when the clothing company put out a shirt that showed a map of the world and had Taiwan as its own country? Chinese pressure made them completely pull that piece of clothing and redesign it to remove Taiwan.

God forbid they allow Chinese moderators on HN or some type of Chinese-centric oversight
Some flights you can/must? clear customs pre-flight. It's weird (well, maybe not so weird, airports are weird legal areas), as you are considered in u.s. territory even though your still in a foreign country.
What data does CFA actually /need/ to collect in their restaurants? Orders and supply chain metadata? Store traffic statistics? Cleanliness and user ratings?

I hope it isn't Bluetooth or WiFi (or worse yet, GSM/LTE) metadata from their customers.
Chik-Fil-A is not an arbiter of LGBTQ rights. Their small 6-figure donations to organizations that focus on other issues do very little in the grand scheme of things.

Do you really think Chik-Fil-A is directly causing more suffering by donating to a few charities in amounts this small than by raising in captivity and then killing billions of chickens? I see no way to reasonably argue that.
> Netflix Inc. and video game makers Epic Games Inc. and Valve Corp. are among companies that have recently tried to bypass the app stores or complained about the cost of the tolls Apple and Google charge.

Valve appear to even be complaining about the 30% fee, that is _equivalent_ to their own fee.
> We've got TSA holding the nation's airports hostage back in 2015 by slowing EVERYTHING down in order to get more funding.

But this is about the CBP, not the TSA.
You are focusing on a currency’s value relative to other currencies.

A currency can be devalued because cost of living can go up without any appreciate in quality of living—your USD buys less assets than it did in 2008.

Just because USD has been doing better than the Euro doesn’t mean inflation isn’t occurring.
No, the grandparent's political stance is to be outraged at anybody he/she disagrees with and has an unhealthy obsession to blurt it out on discussions that aren't political.
Frankly I've found both days completely underwhelming and the only companies that have even a hope of approaching unicorn territory are the Pharma startups and even then they don't seem terribly groundbreaking.

YC has gotten stale.