skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The crash was in 2011. Levandowski was fired in January 2016 only after he tried to recruit other employees.

It demonstrates very well how they prioritize safety vs. potential profit.
HyperLogLogs are a great sketch data structure of which a bloom filter is a special case. The cool thing about them is that you can perform approximate set operation cardinalities in runtime proportional to sketch size rather than the cardinalities of the sets you’re comparing.
Such as?

Complaining without providing alternatives is not especially productive.
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By far Dekker's algorithm to ensure mutual-exclusion in concurrent programming: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekker%27s_algorithm)

Less than 10 lines of code to create a piece of art.
I should note that two things've changed: (a) college dorms are often full and students may not get one & (b) rent went up a lot in last 1-2 years because of a shortage of rentable apartments.

But you definitely can live very cheap here if you manage to either get yourself a dorm or find roommates (+ apartment).

(I'm CS student in Prague)
> As for Edge it is already in development, and to be honest it doesn't matter with its insignificant market share.

Er, really? I use Edge. It's just what's standard on the Windows machine I bought. I can't imagine that it has insignificant market share...
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I really worry about the sustainability of this company? Is it a sustainable business model? How secure will your phone be if they can't afford to pay developers or go under? Who do I contact if there is a hardware issue? So many questions.

Also why do they have 'Buy now' links that take you to their kickstarter page, where you can 'pre-order' a phone that may or may not ship in Q3 2019? Seems a little shady. Also price jump of $800 for a compatible 24"monitor and a keyboard + mouse is insane...

Does anyone think this has any market appeal outside of its kickstarter audience?
You are privileged! It is a daily part of life in South Africa -- around 200ms to the EU and more for anywhere else. That kind of delay becomes extremely jarring when you are working on a VPS or doing anything, really. Local VPSs are expensive and just not on par with something like DO. I believe there's a great opportunity for opening up a DO-like service in JHB with VPS @ R70/mo.

We also never have enough players for the latest FPS games that require low latency :(
What is obviously wrong with it?
If you removed the criminal aspect to obtaining it, then what is wrong?

Zero deaths...ZERO!
Not even Potatoes can claim that.
"But nothing a company does it to the benefit of the employee"

Paying them 10's of thousands a year is definitely 'to the benefit of the employee'.

The TSA situation is a really bad analogy because it's a high security environment wherein monitoring is basically a given. It's just that with that open window, management can't help but be idiots about it and monitor 'chewing gum'. The second problem is that it's a highly authoritative system with low skilled staff. If TSA were bankers and lawyers (or developers), they'd collectively have a lot more power.

Case and point: software developers, bankers and lawyers are not monitored for 'chewing gum' and 'bathroom breaks', moreover, they aren't monitored for that much other than communications.

Email and electronic communications have to be logged for a variety of reasons (including legal)but they should not be monitored by managers.
The thought of we may be the only species in the Universe scares me. And, we don't have a great insurance policy.
TNC - since when was this acronym used? Call it what it is, not some vague NASA-like revision.
DUI is also considered a felony in Canada.
Not being the only species is equally frightening.
I run a $30M early stage venture fund. Here's what I wish first-time founders knew:

• Don't bother cold emailing me, you'll end up straight in the trash. Don't even think about reaching out on LinkedIn, I open it once a month to mark everything as spam. Instead, find someone we know in common and ask for a warm intro. I receive way too much inbound, and a referral from someone I trust is one of the best ways to skip the line.

• Have a good deck, and make sure I see it before I talk to you. For the majority of new startups, a deck is the best way to share your story, and I will make my decision of whether to spend time talking to you in person while reviewing a deck.

• Understand what I'm looking for: (1) solving a real problem that matches my investment thesis (look it up on our website), (2) a team that's worked together before and is uniquely qualified to solve this problem, (3) a market that has the potential to build a billion-dollar monopoly, and (4) a real business model and a realistic path from zero to a billion.
Permutive (YC S14) is hiring FP engineers (Scala) in London
Permutive (YC S14) is the simplest, most efficient way to integrate data-driven models into your product.

We're a B2B SaaS company built on top of an innovative real-time data platform. We have product–market fit and customers that love us, and we're growing rapidly in Europe and the US. We raised a $10M Series A at the beginning of the year and have received funding from some of the world's best investors, including Y Combinator.

Everything we build operates at scale: our platform processes billions of requests a day across hundreds of millions of monthly end-users. We're developing a next generation data platform for a world with a trillion devices, and we think applying functional programming techniques like compositionality and type-safety is the best way to build these massive distributed systems.

You would be joining our core backend team on-site in London, working mostly with Scala and 'big data' ecosystem technologies (our full stack is below). We're happy to talk to people with a wide range of experience—from straight out of university to those with decades of experience—but you should have a genuine interest and preferably experience in FP, distributed systems, and stream processing.

Languages: Scala, Haskell, Elm

Libraries: Cats, Cats Effect, FS2, http4s, Shapeless, Circe, PureConfig, pipes, Servant

Technologies: Kafka, Kubernetes, Terraform, Bigtable, BigQuery, Beam, Postgres, Google Cloud Platform

If you're interested and eligible to work in the UK, please email me (co-founder and CTO) directly at tim@permutive.com
> On the bright side, we could finally get some quality data on the health impacts of pot

Doesn't this already exist from other countries where it's been legal for decades?
BitTorrent is foundational to the rise of decentralized stores and sharing: IPFS, Dat Protocol, WebTorrent, Storj, Holochain, etc.

An Introduction to Kademlia DHT & How It Works

http://gleamly.com/article/introduction-kademlia-dht-how-it-...
What I understood from the article is that they left the scene without reporting it.

There was another incident they never reported. The other driver was undocumented and he also preferred not to report.
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I would be surprised if even our concept of cells translates that easily.

Unless of course both forms of life share the same origin, but that just raises more questions.
Pretty much - however the differences we've seen so far are quite interesting. Lung cancer and COPD risks don't seem to be what we'd think for cannabis smoke based what we know of tobacco smoke. Somewhat more minor lung conditions are definitely present though.

It'll also be interesting to see how things like dry herb vapes differ, they basically just heat the cannabis to 350-400 degrees where the cannabinoids and terpenes vaporize without burning it, they seem like the best way to go if you want a reasonably good dose control and safety margin at the moment. Avoids many of the issues with concentrate vapes, flavorings, cheap heating coils, etc but I still have some doubts on perfect safety there.
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Ok. We have 45 views on our video about founders. Yeah, 45. What in the world should I think about this? And, yes, it's unlisted and it has been growing since day one.
Yeah, I'm probably giving them the benefit of the doubt in assuming that they're being stupid rather than outright malicious. The same is likely true here in the UK, given that they've had tech experts yelling at them for years about how you can't add some sort of exclusive backdoor access to software. Still hasn't stopped the last two Home Secretaries (one of whom is now the Prime Minister, at least for now) trying to force companies to create them.
One nice feature to consider adding is linking to the official French regulations for each item you explain in English. This would be helpful for someone like me who can read French but doesn’t know where to look. To me this would add a level of trust to your comments/Advice.
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The entire point of a "Great Filter" is that there is one that wipes out the majority of species that make it that far. If there are multiple then they're just likely cataclysmic events.
This is one of my favorite books ever. I've read it in Russian and English. I have the DVDs of the TV series made in Russia about 10 years ago. Is there a Russian audiobook version anywhere?
Personally, based on my experiences thus far I'd put it down to a web page that's interfering with autocomplete or blocking default actions (like pasting) in the name of "security".

IOW, web designers have already set the precedent for broken autocomplete, no keylogger required.
NYC public schools use a version of this too:
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/nyregion/how-game-theory-...
I still cannot believe that people would voluntarily buy US phones. Would you buy a phone from the country known for its spying abilities with dozen of agencies involved in this, from NSA to CIA to companies like Facebook, Google and the rest? You mean to tell me that all these US phones are nice and clean? Yeah, right.

Disclaimer: I have a Huawei P10. Awesome product.
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" but rather a relatively recent social norm."

Ask your great-grandfather working in factory, or a mine, or as a tenant farmer (basically 99% of all work) - how he was treated by 'today's standards'. Where I did my undergrad, the main office building was built by a logger baron who literally had strikers shot. It's almost universally better today.

" usually it's smaller (often family run) businesses" - are usually lower paying and often less stable. It's really, really easy for a contractor to not get paid for a job, or to make a mistake costing him $$$ - and then to be in a position wherein he can't pay his workers the aloted amount. This is common.

Any entity that provides fairly steady, predictable work and guaranteed pay is doing a good thing for the most part.
People will play video games for days on end and not contribute to society, and could even been seen as "not functioning properly in life"...many people pushed for legalization because there are health benefits (non-addict pain relief, cancer fighting properties, seizure reduction....) - not because it is some cure all.

Ultimately the issues comes down to personal freedom.
If you are not allowed to ingest something that does not cause pain or hardship on others...are we truly free?
It is far, far more frightening to consider we are all alone, given our modern understanding of scope, statistics, and molecular biology. Maybe we are all alone! But that's way more terrifying because not only are we alone, but it's just damned irregular from what we might expect.
I would be very surprised to see life anything like life on earth 10,000 years ago in our solar system. No planet in our solar system can support that level of bio diversity. They are either too hot, small, cold. Additionally none of them have the right mix of atmospheric gases. Plants massively changed the makeup of Earth's atmosphere, some hundreds of millions of years ago, before the first animals on land.

I think there is a chance of very simple life on some moons of the gas giants, if they turn out to have liquid water. Most likely this would be single cell organisms (which can grow quite large, a few inches even) or basic multicellular life.

I would be shocked if we found life like trilobites, or even simple plants. It would be the biggest discovery of our lifetime.
For all the verbiage on the website it’s strange to see literally no mention of the cost of these trips on the linked event pages. Perhaps that’s because they’re just shared costs?
What you are getting from The Economist is their opinions on the news, together with the news.
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What's the best motivational quote that you have seen?
After a unsuccessful interview on google a friend told me this quote.

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm"
-Churchill

It help me a lot, so I was wondering if you had another similar that can inspire people.
It's better than the usual BS which is just repackaged PR coming from Waymo, Uber, and the other self-driving car promoters.
It was in Programming Pearls, IIRC.
5 milestones: My road to 40 employees
Nagle's algorithm: I re-apply it whenever I need very simple throttling of events that could occur in rapid succession.
I agree. I bought the "Bible" Bringhurst's Elements of Typographic Style and while I found it very interesting, I wasn't that convinced it applied to the web.

Vertical rhythm, which is mentioned in the book, is mentioned because when you print on paper pages you want the lines to overlap on the front and back of the page (so they don't bleed through making it harder to read), and so when the one page right next to the other one aren't misaligned.

I don't really think those apply to the web so much.

That said, it's all too easy in CSS to end up with wonky padding/margin if you don't have a consistent rule about whether to apply it to the top or bottom and by how much. So it's possible to end up with headlines up against body text or big gaps before the first paragraph, etc. I think that's worth fixing.
This is terrible advice if I've ever seen any. You do not start a productive long-term relationship my lying to investors or treating them like shit.

I have noticed a growing trend in generally arrogant founders in the past few years, and it's disappointing to see. I do have a strong "no assholes" criteria, and won't fund such founders no matter how good everything else looks. At the end of the day, a startup is people first, and life is too short to work with assholes.
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What happens when there is a power or ISP outage?
If North Korean can make good phones at an affordable price, people will buy them too, just like we buy Saudi Oil.
I'd be interested in a comparison of your earnings over those five years of service compared to the median income for the first five years after graduating from public/private/Top-10 schools. I still think you'd be getting the best deal overall but the community college + state school route may seem more competitive in terms of cost after factoring in the relatively low pay of O1-O3s.
Stranger? We already knew our solar system was strange. At least compared to the other solar systems we observed ( admittedly a tiny fraction - a couple hundred out of 200 billion solar systems ).

We already knew gas giants ( a major cause of our peculiarity ) are rare. And we knew that most solar systems had uniform sized planets ( within a particular range ) orbiting very close to their suns.

The article doesn't offer anything new that would make us think the solar system is stranger. It just reaffirms everything we knew and why we thought it was strange to begin with.
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The point of the Librem 5 is not to make the most popular possible phone, it's to make a better phone than what is currently available.

Markets only matter to capitalists. Real hackers share with each other to make things happen that markets do not comprehend. Whether this project will be a success, only time will tell, but it has nothing to do with the market.
BogoSort is an algorithm. Not a very good algorithm, but an algorithm nevertheless.
No, it's more similar to being denied entry to the US because you have previously driven on the left side of the road in the UK.
Great suggestion. A lot of community colleges also have partnerships with state universities. So you can have your 4 year plan already set as soon as you start at the community college. I know that is true in Texas.
Agreed. +1 for "Floyd's Tortoise and Hare".

-ss
The point of the Great Filter argument is that something seems to be preventing widespread intelligent life. If the Filter is behind us, then while that is not proof that there are no impassible obstacles in front of is, we have no particular reason to believe that there are impassible obstacles in front of us. That is in stark contrast to what has been the scientific dogma for the past several decades, which is that there is nothing special about us whatsoever, which does give us reason to believe there are impassible obstacles in front of us. To be able to put the filter way behind us is still a real change.
I think it might work quite well actually. They could certainly not work with any of the biological systems as ours, such as proteins and fats etc.

But I think it is likely that there would be internal subdivisions in a complex life-form. This is however likening, branches in trees, to cells in an organism, to crystals in a rock.
Time value of money is a serious issue.

There's a nice private engineering-focused school near me that costs $5424 for 8 credits per semester as a "part timer" or $13013 for 12 or more credits per semester. So 50% more credits graduates you 50% sooner but costs a mere 139% more money.

Of course you need to factor in the cost of living to come up with a total cost of taking 8 years vs 4 years.

The math can get extremely weird if you can do scholarships; you might run a moderately large net profit if you join the military in a support role (commo tech?) and take some classes during your enlistment and some CLEP tests, then collect the GI Bill afterward leaving the military while in school if you have some financial self discipline. Or a ROTC scholarship, etc. Reserves will get you less money but go quicker. National Guard service, depending on state, may result in $0 tuition at a state school.

I would recommend against ROTC scholarship in that the military will assign your branch based on stack ranking GPA, and engineering school GPAs tend to be pretty low compared to anything else, not that there's anything inherently wrong with chem corps or air defense. Also officer life is management not technical so if you have an EE degree you're unlikely to get branched commo or cyber you're statistically more likely to manage 50 truck drivers because in the military management is interchangeable cogs. Still, if you're willing to do work unrelated to EE for a couple years the military would provide a negative cost AKA net profit if you want a "cheap degree".
I wondered about that too, but the author points out that the VMs can re-converge: if you have one that does 5 times round a loop and another that does 10, they end up resynchronised.

Any kind of software with a message or input processing loop will naturally re-converge at the top of the loop. It's quite neat.
I think it's helpful to look at a timeline of life on Earth when thinking about that issue.

http://hopefullyintersting.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-drake-eq...

Life's gone through a lot of changes over the time it's around. 10,000 years ago there were already humans and the Neolithic revolution was well underway and agriculture was just starting.

Multicellular life was one of the big revolutions but eukaryotes and before that photosynthesis seem to have taken a very long time to evolve. Interestingly we don't have a lower bound for how long it took life to arise once the Earth's surface started having liquid water, so maybe very simple life is pretty common.
"MongoDB is a bit miffed that some cloud providers — especially in Asia — are taking its open-source code and offering a hosted commercial version of its database to their users without playing by the open-source rules. To combat this, MongoDB today announced it has issued a new software license, the Server Side Public License (SSPL), that will apply to all new releases of its MongoDB Community Server, as well as all patch fixes for prior versions."

That's how open source works. Isn't it?
Thanks; the issue went away after a few hours.
Amount of potential traffic can't grow without limit. People need space to do other things. That puts a natural limit on the amount of traffic because people don't go places just to get there. They go places to do something when they get there.
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Well, shit: you're right.

I do realize that Signal is open source, yes (and I'm guessing from your phrasing you know I know that), but I don't feel a moral imperative to source dive every time someone says something weird. Putting that burden on the claimant seems pretty reasonable. This set of threads alone was exhausting enough without having links to GitHub with every message :-)

In particular: I interpreted your "stored (at least temporarily)" claim as in like, a logfile that's rotated daily or something. I think we can both agree that would be much worse than a 60 second leaky bucket and hence I interpreted that as more outlandish than what you intended.

But regardless, you're right: that's not how it works today, I read that code an extremely long time ago (when it was really just sender ID limited), and having both sender and receiver in plaintext is clearly worse than having just one, and having a leaky bucket with a timer is clearly a much higher resolution timestamp than the day previously claimed. I'm guessing the distinction is between what's stored and what's not? But I'm definitely uncomfortable and will make a note to follow up. In particular, now I would like to know under what circumstances that Redis cluster will attempt to persist. I think the answer is "never--it only has caches and the directory", but you've definitely shaken my confidence in that answer :)
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> only when the system would definitely have crashed.

With no external oversight, no transparency, and a sketchy record of honest reporting.
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Production is legal and regulated in Canada. It's big business, and a major employer in my region. The value of my shares in cannabis-industry ETFs have tripled in the last few months.
> We realized we needed to make changes to ensure the highest level of quality, performance and uptime for our API users. As a result, we’ve made the difficult decision to retire the Weather Underground API.

Wait what? They weren't satisfied with the API, so they decided to end it instead of fixing it?

I pay for an app that has the option to use WU's API (Carrot Weather), so I'm upset by this. I've found their current weather and predictions to be more accurate than Dark Sky.
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Its my favourite text! I must have quoted from it a huge ndres times. The bit about Balinese agriculture is particularly great. Such an observant mind.
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Why?

All of us living now will be long dead before our species die out, so what difference does it really make?
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Well then I expect you to note that the war was not "Western" only, and also take into account the extremely long and well documented history of war across this planet throughout human history. The danger of modern war is in technology, not culture.
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Where has it been legal for decades? I'm not aware of any.
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