skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wondered why that name was chosen too. Etymology meaning failure does show it to come from Italian far fiasco = make a bottle = dud theatrical performance. Reminds you of GM motors wondering why their Chevy Nova wasn't selling well in Latin America. Why? In Spanish Nova = No va = It doesn't go (work).
Onelogin | Seattle (Redmond, WA) Onsite 2-3 days/wk | Software Engineer | Ruby (Rails), JavaScript (Node.js)

OneLogin provides industry-leading, enterprise IAM solutions for every user, device, and application. We manage and secure millions of identities for thousands of enterprise customers.

Interested? Contact me directly:
elly.hagen @ onelogin.com

Or apply here:
https://www.onelogin.com/company/careers/departments/enginee...
Have a look at getting a job in an optical laboratory.

Lots of different things to do, lots of problems that need solving. Lots of optical labs take people on with no previous experience. But it's not a particularly easy job and the pay isn't great.
A Taco Truck on Every Corner… or Not?
ISS scheduling is responsible for at most one month of that slip - DM-1's capsule will be ready in December, and was set to launch NET January because of station availability.
> I hear that the median time of service for FAANG SREs is just shy of 2yrs. Dirty open secret if it is true.

That's most places, FAANGs notwithstanding. 6 months getting up to speed, realizing what a clusterfuck it is by 12 months, dealing with it to 18 months, and then getting to the I-Want-Out point at 24+ months.

Plus the whole "jump ship every 2-3 years to maximize salary" thing is possible for FAANG-level engineers.
https://segment.com/catalog and https://zapier.com/apps/integrations/ are in that space.
Trapped by the ‘Walmart of Heroin’
Show HN: Tool to Deobfuscate and Visualize US Political Funding Webs
Does it count if you move from one to the other?

I spent 2 years as a L5 (Senior SWE) at Google in MTV. I could not negotiate a deal to work remotely under my VP or find a team under a different VP allowing remote work that I was interested in (and which was interested in me).. I left after promotion to staff (L6) and went to Netflix where I work on the Openconnect CDN. Netflix is so much smaller that I feel like I have an impact, and I'm not just a cog in the machine.
Private health insurance is $3k/yr here, so it's part of the $15-20k/yr.
> I strive to only drink water that doesn't have any chemicals in it

Water is a chemical. And the water you drink probably contains many other beneficial chemicals such as dissolved minerals.
I'm in the same boat, and would have gladly left R years ago if not for all their efforts
Discharge it using a big ceramic resistor maybe then?
My wife received an orchid as a gift. I know nothing about gardening, but I've managed to keep it alive and growing for about 6 months. Just water it when the soil feels dry and re-pot it every other year is about the extent of the care instructions a DDG search turned up.
Watch science and art in action in these award-winning microscopic videos
Entrepreneurship is a lot more complicated. Each startup’s failure is unique and has various mix of challenges.

Suggesting a book for someone who has failed running a startup right away is naive and glib. Also, the OP didn’t put too many details of why his startup failed. Asserting that they have poor entrepreneurial skills - how do you know if it wasn't circumstantial?
>I hear that the median time of service for FAANG SREs is just shy of 2yrs. Dirty open secret if it is true.

I wouldn't read too much into this. I've worked at tech companies where 4 years of tenure was considered old and non-tech companies where 8 years was considered young.

Anecdotal evidence or course, but IME people with strong skills in the tech industry (even if it's tech marketing or tech HR) have a lot more options to change jobs for salary or experience reasons. If you're ambitious you're going to be even more inclined to move up or move out.
You mean half of HN reader? :p
I wonder what it’s like for the astronauts. One moment you’re sitting in a rocket ready to spend the next six months in space, you’ve said your goodbyes, you’re thinking about what it will be like, what sorts of pictures you want to take, what you’ll say when you make that first phone call home from space... and then ten minutes later you stumble out into the Kazakh wilderness and start scanning the sky for rescue helicopters.
I'm definitely sympathetic to the argument that by avoiding allocation in the first place that you don't have to worry as much about memory profile.

I allocate and destroy a bunch of arrays in my code (~100MB every minute), so it's not huge but definitely quite a few pages every time it happens. And so far I've got one process that's been running for 6 months. For the most part, whenever I get new data, I take a slice of an old array and append the new data to it to create a new array. It's fast enough, but more importantly it's just so much easier to do it that way and with a compacting GC I don't have to worry about anything.

Of course I don't know how good jemalloc is at avoiding fragmentation, and I don't have the time to rewrite my code (maybe enough time to simulate, not sure). But my code creates a ton of fragment-y garbage, and I would imagine that with Rust I would end up not just translating my code, but changing semantics to mutate in place, just to avoid fragmentation. I guess maybe /r/rust would be the place to ask.
I'm guessing "because he could". 8 years of L6 at Google should set you up for life if you move to a moderate cost area of the country.
Answer: We don't know yet.
They no longer have QA. Their 'QA' is the Insiders program
Thanks for the recommendation! I've heard great things about it, so it's definitely on my list.
It's pretty simple. Because there isn't a QA. Microsoft laid them off and uses the "Insiders" as beta testers. But they reported this issue but Microsoft ignored it because it didn't get enough votes.

https://mobile.twitter.com/WithinRafael/status/1048473218917...
Ask HN: How do you find motivation to develop products?
GitHub Debug connection diagnostics
Java 11: The Great Removal
Don't apologise. Stick with what works for you. Sharing the fun is the most important part, regardless of your choice of platform.
Using Jlink to Build Java Runtimes for Non-Modular Applications
With certain build systems, this is a solved problem, or at least solved well, but it's a buy-in, so no great solution for MSBuild (for example), but works well in bazel.
Where do you approve them?
That's because most people don't really want a "random" playlist. They want a random shuffle: A set of songs played in random order with no repeats until all have been played. That's not the same as making independent random picks from a list, but that's what most people want when they "randomize" their playlist.
Exposure to opposing views on social media can increase political polarization
It's hard for me to switch between skimming and reading intently. If I've been browsing news aggregator sites, I have to consciously slow down and stop skipping around when I sit down to read a book. Personally it's not as hard as what Wolf describes.
I think all red apples are kind of bland. Green apples are where it's at.
Ex-Facebook. After five years I found my pace of learning had basically plateaued. Combine with organizational politics at any large company and I started looking for something smaller.

Ended up at Atrium, a legal startup in SF. Similar to mtlynch, I didn't expect how much I'd have to hone my front-end chops on leaving a FAANG.

Getting the opportunity to learn what I hadn't been learning and shore up those weaknesses reenforce my decision to switch.

Best parts so far:

* It's 30x smaller than FB was when I joined and 300x smaller than FB was when I left.

* Great people abound. I was worried that this wouldn't be the case at a smaller company but I joined partly on the basis of how intellectually curious the engineers I met were during my interview.

* It's a non-traditional tech company. We work with attorneys and build domain expertise in the problems CEOs and VCs face every day. The hard legal problems of starting a business.

If any of that sounds interesting, we're hiring! Reach out to username at gmail or https://www.atrium.co/careers#current-openings
"Top 10 most boring building in the most boring part of town with no food truck for miles."

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/amazo...

Seriously, besides the DoD contract angle, what's the point in publishing this data?
Has anyone here used hammer? It looks like a different take on static site generators.

https://hammerformac.com/
I agree. This will be hard to scale to an entire application, I would not recommend using this as of now except for very platform independent logic, but hopefully with new releases and more meta-programming (or perhaps meta-meta-programming) features more usage options could be viable.
The article states makes numerous mentions of the "the governor":

>"In this loop, the CPU scheduler notices that a CPU is idle because it has no work for the CPU to do. The scheduler then calls the governor, which does its best to predict the appropriate idle state to enter. There are currently two governors in the kernel, called "menu" and "ladder". They are used in different cases, but they both try to do roughly the same thing: keep track of system state when a CPU idles and how long it ended up idling for."

Could someone say exactly what "the governor" is? Its a code path in the scheduler? It wasn't clear to me from reading the article.
Debugging Distributed Systems With Why-Across-Time Provenance [pdf]
Could be that they take into account shipping and therefore may seem broken?
> I then spent ~1 year at a startup, as CTO - the experience sucked, and I consider it to simply be a big mistake.

What about the experience sucked? What was the mistake?
Do other types of rocket engines not need to be in perfect sync?
Amazon says wage hike ‘more than compensates’ for loss of bonuses
I don't eat any chemicals: I'm on a pure carbon diet.
He also faked his way to creating a #1 ranked restaurant on Trip Advisor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqPARIKHbN8
you can do

make i be (i + 1) * (a / b)

as well as

make i be (i + 1) times (a over b)

make i be (i + 1) times (a divided by b)

The choice is yours :)
> This is again one of those large company political things. Year long promotion packet building, lobbying your work with promotion committees, getting a willing boss, and doing other routine political ground work to set you up for one.

Honestly, I don't care enough about getting promoted to go through that whole rigmarole, nor would I quit a job over having to deal with that in order to get promoted.

Of course, that's also probably why I don't work at a FAANG and never will.
Also clickbait, the demise of the Cavendish is a yearly article with basically the same content published every years.

This one seems to be prompted by the recent rejection of a GMO solution.

This is the banana equivalent of publishing "The Car is dying, the race to save personal transportation is on" as a result of VW emission scandal.
What does pseudo-immutable mean?
People usually say that entrepreneurship should not be disciplined, but chaotic and unpredictable—and it is. But that is precisely why a framework to attack problems in a systematic manner is extremely valuable. You already have enough risk with factors that are beyond your control, so the framework provided by disciplined entrepreneurship helps you succeed by reducing your risk in factors that you can have control over.
You really hope that is the only defect. Considering inspection missed this, what else did they miss?
There's also microsoft's R-Open (https://mran.microsoft.com/download) which I've found is faster than the out of the box R since it supports better multi-threading of commands.
>I firmly believe that money is to buy things that matter to you. To me, not working at a corporation matters.

Damn dude that is a very good way of putting it
I've definitely noticed it myself. I have a much harder time reading novels or any long-form content these days, and I suspect it's due to consuming lots of very-short-form content on a daily basis. On HN and elsewhere on the internet you can consume a huge number of distinct ideas in a very short time. This causes me to now be impatient with long-form pieces where I find myself wanting to just "get to the point already". It's a quantity vs. quality problem. The internet tends to favor quantity.

It's something I'm trying to work on because there's obviously immense value in books and long-form reads (and a lot you get out of them that you can't get out of little snippets and quick articles).
>plants/bacteria need additional energy in the form of sugars to pull carbon out of CO2 in the air.

Sorry perhaps this is not what you meant to write.
For anyone who wants an unmangled understanding of photosynthesis please consult Wikipedia or other text of your choice.
That's not how new services or startups work nowadays. You need critical mass first, and if you put up barriers - like paying money, like ads - people won't use your service. And there'll be a free alternative that takes over.

No, the formula is to invest your own money, hopefully see a lot of growth, get a few rounds of dank investor money to pay for it all and stay afloat, and maybe, MAYBE, come up with a monetization scheme (like idk, reddit gold or premium subscriptions), and then either get bought by one of the big companies or go to the stock market.
Micropayments, crowdsourced
They already said they won't rush anything because that's just as dangerous as using the Soyuz again before figuring out the reason for the failure. That said this does open up a visiting vehicle slot that Dragon could use for their unmanned test flight. That'd only push it up about a month though compared to their current estimate and would require SpaceX to be ready to launch earlier than planned.
I would be concerned with paying the court fees of defendants if this app turns out to be a frivolous case. Is that a risk?
In [Successful Lisp, how to understand and use CL](http://www.communitypicks.com/r/lisp/s/17592186045679-succes...) there is a chapter on debugging. Book's site, free dl: https://successful-lisp.blogspot.com

Also, it may not be necessary to master the most complicated machinery: compiling function by function gives lots of hints, and the very nice [log4cl](https://github.com/sharplispers/log4cl/) is handy.
with spending like that if a decent chunk comes from savings rather than income, you probably qualify for MassHealth.
The address in Palo Alto is right off University Avenue behind the Walgreens. The one in Luxembourg is an office building as well. I don't see much value unless one wants to destabilize internet infrastructure.
Amazing guy I once saw him have a talk about how to communicate with aliens that would have no vocal or written language and later that nite he played an instrument he had invented.
"Moreover, support for dplyr and data.table are on the way. "

Well, I can't really use it in my day to day work, since that almost always involves cleaning and munging via one of those two packages. And it's not like ggplot2 is where my R code is most delayed, usually I'm working on aggregate data or perhaps a very much smaller analytical dataset which requires much less speed for plotting. My hang-ups are in initial munging phases where the data is still very large, which often calls for data.table over dplyr due to the latter's much slower performance.
Funny, the thing that struck me the most was the tag at the end where he's talking about learning pedal steel guitar. I tried and failed - it's the most difficult musical instrument I've ever played. It's harder than drums, which are really really hard to play well.

Pedal steel involves doing a lot of things simultaneously. Chords are assembled from strings and slide, but there are pedals and knee levers that change the pitch of individual strings up or down. So you can do something like play a DGB triad (G major chord), and press a pedal to turn it into EGC (C major chord), while the strings are still ringing. No other instrument can do this. It can be sort of faked by bending a note against another note on guitar, but it's pitifully shallow next to pedal steel. But the pedals and levers, plus the slide, plus right hand picking, plus a volume pedal to control attack and sustain... wow. It's so complex.
Seven Use Cases of Enterprise Blockchain Solutions
monzo
Looks like someone is recording a video feed broadcast via a projector onto a dark wall with a cellphone or camera. Probably a cellphone from 8yrs ago.
Yes, I think incentives matter.

A similar perverse incentive exists in the VC funding world that was parodied in HBO's Silicon Valley series-- namely an incentive against booking revenue early in the game. When you are "pre-revenue" then the mind can go wild with speculation, but as soon as you book revenue those become hard numbers and if they're unimpressive it turns people off. It's incredibly irrational of course, but investors are not on average more rational than other people.

In the ICO world an analog of this is that ICO projects that do ship inevitably suffer from hype deflation since the very first version of anything is never up to the hype that was used to sell it. So there's a dis-incentive to ship. Shipping means contact with reality, so failure to ship leads projects to wander off into scope-creep lala-land and never deliver anything.

I also think the large sums raised could cause pathologies that lead to project failure like ballooning scope, excessive hubris, over-hiring, or factional conflicts among founders. Too much money can defocus a project and too many new hires can actually reduce productivity.

Some ICOs are clearly frauds, but the rest I think are victims of these and other perverse incentives in the system.

Starting companies is hard. Rational investing is hard. Rationally investing in new companies is hard^2.
Checkout https://github.com/vega/voyager
Chris Hadfield on the impact of the Soyuz failure
I guess I need to relook them then. Would definitely make a few things easier in my life. I really don't want my steam directory on my main machine, being able to hard link it to an iscsi drive would be nice if that's possible.
Well, this isn't surprising. I don't really trust or fancy cryptocurrencies, but I'm glad that the banks feel pressure.
> They probably have a different (older?) system to get telemetry, and it might bear additional challenges to feed them into a publicly accessible live-stream.

That is correct. Proton-M launches, on the other hand, had a live stream with probably the most detailed telemetry ever. That particular stream wasn't public, but was available to anyone on request.
Not the parent, but in my current company it definitely helps to be a women, more referral bonus for referring a diversity candidate (post joining), performance targets for managers related to hiring and promoting diversity candidates.

Please note there is no active discrimination against men, but preference in some cases would be to hire a women. Gender is the only criteria for diversity in here.
> What events are you referring to?

A lot of events, all over, but mostly politically and with offenders on both sides. Neither is interested in even trying to understand the underlying emotions and reasons for the actions of the other. They're both so bad at understanding each other that at this point all they see is malice.

> the parties are greedy as fuck, or out-and-out Nazis.

Case in point.
WebGL 2.0 Compute Specification – Proposal
Looks very nice at first glance. I'm just digging into each example visualization. Noticed that the "Bubble with temporal axes" seems to peg my browser (Chrome 69 on Mid 2015 2.5 GHz Intel Core i7 Macbook Pro).
IIRC most of that is because they use Intel's MKL and a better BLAS; if you like docker, using the Rocker containers uses the better BLAS, and I think adding MKL isn't too hard either.
Node 10 is LTS
In Some places 'eFAX' is still a thing, where the staff members can email a PDF (or Word doc etc.) to <number>@<faxmachine.local> and it gets sent out of the building as a FAX over POTS. For incoming FAXs, users register their email address against a phone number or extension, and get incoming faxes as PDFs in their inboxes.

For regulatory compliance reasons these systems are still in place in large banks, insurance firms, and law firms.
Show HN: Voter registration snippet that you can add to your site
The only way I have ever known is to have the idea that every single decision is imperfect in some way, and to keep a low resolution idea in my mind of what kind of imperfection that might be and what consequences it may have. If one possible imperfection nags at me for long enough, then in thinking about it, the resolution can be increased and a determination can be made about its impact, and whether it is an acceptable compromise. This tends to happen preemptively, but can also be used when a concerning unknown begins to rear its head.

This is not as daunting as it might sound. It's somewhat similar to how a "picky" personality would think, e.g. Jerry Seinfeld's character in his sitcom. You have to be an annoying nagger in your mind, albeit without the comedically hyperbolic verbalization, obviously.

This can make you much slower at first, as you'll be debating things in your head a lot. But I find you get a lot faster once you get used to it and the "nagging" happens in a not-very-high-effort thought process.

tl;dr: perfectionism.

Of course, for specific situations, there will be known tools and processes for flushing out unknown unknowns e.g. fuzzing.
I think you are being overly specific. When the average person says "I try to avoid chemicals" you know good and well what they are talking about.

That issue is your perceived issue. The fact is chemicals can most certainly be bad -- but you need to teach them that the positives gained from receiving a vaccine greatly outweigh the risks in the minuscule amount of volatile chemicals (mainly, mercury) you receive.

Ionizing Radiation is most certainly not good for you, and exposes you to risk for cell damage, but people understand the tradeoff when they go to the hospital to get an MRI to find out how best to repair their knee, or PET Scan to find out what the best course of treatment for their cancer is.

You get into these problems when you turn your nose up at people, act smugly, and say "chemicals are fine!" Rather a better strategy to combat those anti-vaxxers is to be up front "Yes there is mercury in here, and yes too much is bad for you. But your body has a liver, kidneys, and lymphatic system that does a tremendous job of cleansing toxins from your system, and the benefits you receive from this vaccine far outweigh the cons from a little bit of mercury."
Microsoft tackles 'horrifying' Bing search results
It'd be great to have something like Numba for R, where you can write a restricted subset of R and have it JIT compiled to native code.

That, or something like Cython where, instead of writing inline C++, you translate a restricted subset of R to C, which is then compiled.
But then the car has full video footage of everything your doing to hand over to the police...
The 6502 in the later 1571 drive ran twice as fast as the C64's CPU.
Dailyprog IRC based programming community organizes a first meetup in Paris
Intuitively, isn't the volume of a pyramid going to be 1/3 of that of a prism with the same width/length/height?
Correct, but my point was that a process with allocates a lot of physical memory will not interfere with the other processes that have locked pages.
>"In some cases, Amazon uses pseudonyms to obscure its presence. For example, at its IAD77 data center, the document states that “Amazon is known as ‘Vandalay Industries’ on badges and all correspondence with building manager”."

This made me laugh. Vandalay Industries is a reference to a very funny Seinfeld episode. Someone at AWS has a good sense of humor:

http://seinfeld.wikia.com/wiki/Vandelay_Industries