skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As mentioned previously, Python warns about inconsistent indentation. Also, I learned programming at age 12 and understanding indentation didn't take more than a few seconds.
Judea Pearl continues to insist on causal diagrams, but the rest of us have moved on to probabilistic programs ;-).
I didn't post the details because I was more interested in hearing if others have had the same general experience vs. a big debate on the merits of my case. Seems like many have, and now that I've seen the blog post I know SO is at least aware of the problem.
This is the reason why Google Analytics can be configured to read marketing parameters out of the hash fragment instead of the query string. A surprising number of sites will choke when unexpected data shows up in either the query string or the hash fragment, but very few will choke on both (most sites that mishandle query parameters are from an era before rich use of fragments became common).

Notably, most links with GA marketing parameters are under the control of the website owner. Facebook links are not. This makes such a work-around less feasible.
No, clearly not. Enforcement of behavior is a terrible thing.
And of course it won't stop with a few, fairly reasonable suggestions. It never, ever does.
Truth to be told, learning Category Theory will make you a better software engineer in the same sense and to the same degree as learning Quantum Field Theory would make one a better electical engineer. It might get you more excited about your profession, but at the practical level it will be more of a distraction than an aid.
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I'd rather see a constant symbol like

rtf.format(3.14, Intl.RelativeTimeFormat.SECOND);
David Simon talks to the creator of Godwin’s law about his Twitter suspensions
See http://sqlite.1065341.n5.nabble.com/Regarding-CoC-tp104277p1... for a complete rationale. For the point discussed in this part of the thread: "I published the currrent CoC after two separate business requested
copies of our company CoC. They did not say this was a precondition for doing business with them, but there was that implication." and "One final reason for publishing the current CoC is as a preemptive move, to prevent some future customer from imposing on us one of those modern CoCs that I so dislike."
Systemd, invented by the guy you are quoting, is, however, objectively crap.

I am about to start a separate, new service and have wide leeway in how it will run. I am moving away from Linux towards a mix of BSD and Solaris/Illumos. And Systemd played a part in this technical decision.
Every company at some point has some kind of incidents. It just happens. GitHub is most of the time rock solid and doesn’t deserve to be judged based on one major incident like this. On the contrary they need our support. Bitbucket and GitLab both have had problems of the same magnitude.
Something to eat is __better__ than nothing. You keep reducing The World to The US and it's not the same thing. Many, many people in the world starved in terms of vitamins and other nutrients, and they just fill their body with rice or corn floor. Which is just shy of dying from starvation, and put any body in the brink of the death at the minimal illness.

In those cases, almost any increase in the quantity of food different from rice or floor is beneficial. Suddenly, millions of people could add carrots, tomatoes, oranges, pepper... to their monotonic diet, for the same or even less money. Yes, billions of people are eating __better__ than 30 years ago.

But you insist this is wrong because some people in the US cannot shut their mouth and somehow are forced to eat beef in buckets. Please, explain me how this is related to people starving in Africa 20-30 years ago, or if you are saying thantobesity is a problem there.
"In fact, some people are invigorated by strong words as opposed to being cowed and driven away by them."

Maybe. But I'm going to guess that those that are "invigorated" by seeing someone be told that they should be "retroactively aborted" are not demotivated by not seeing that, and that more people are demotivated by seeing that.
This incident report tells very little. I hope they release what actually happened and how it affected their services. And how they are going to avoid it in the future.
Almost any issue can be publicly described as: stuff broke because of network.
It was actually drawn by hand, a process that took a lot longer than digital work and required an artist to contemplate every part of it during its creation. That’s a lot of time to make tweaks and adjust things to communicate better.
> "the appointed maintainer(s) of a GNU package can, if necessary, tell a contributor to go away; but we do not want to need to have recourse to that."
We have a roadmap item to add blockchain style tamper evidence to the storage engine. The crypto we'll use is certainly a step along the path you describe. If you have a use case, we love talking to developers to help make sure we are building features you can use.
A theory explaining why reality appears to be 3 dimensional
Telling only part of the story, showing bias, spinning things. Surely. But fake news? Examples please..
>Maybe discuss with that person the possibility of continuing their work but having a small group of other people between them and the general public as an interface layer that handles the less important work.

So you mean you want to unseat me from leading the project I'm in charge of? What kind of punishment is this for violating some silly guidelines? [1]

>If you think that setting up such a compromise might either be too expensive, might risk burning out the interface people or has some other downside, maybe have a frank discussion with them about the benefits and costs of their contributions to the process.

Wait, but I thought that this was a guideline. Are you saying that there's actually an implicit threat within this guideline that I might be removed from the project against my will? Why wasn't that stated explicitly? How am I, a valued contributor, able to make informed decisions if rules are arbitrary and decided on behind closed doors without any ability for public input, comment, or even knowledge?

In case my point isn't obvious here, an explicit CoC has a number of advantages over a document like this one when it comes to actually resolving conflict, instead of trying to prevent it. It makes value judgements, but only because at some point in the conflict resolution process, leadership will be forced to make value judgements.

Making those value judgements explicit, and public, is a commitment from project leadership to not favor the in-group over the outgroup either explicitly or implicitly, when resolving conflict. It allows people to cite a prior commitment from the leadership to act in a certain manner. You still must trust the leadership to resolve conflict in the manner they stated they would, but you can verify that their resolution was in-line with the process and commitments they provided.

This doesn't mean that a CoC prevents leadership from attempting to mediate conflict when it comes up, and come to mutually agreeable solutions in cases when that is possible. But it does mean that in those rare cases when it is no longer possible to assume good intent that everyone is aware of the values that leadership and the decision-makers opted in to, and can hold them accountable to making decision in line with those values.

With this, Stallman hasn't made a commitment. He's written some nice platitudes, but when it comes down to it, how am I supposed to know if (again, hypothetically speaking) I'd had bad interactions with GNU or its members previously, Stallman would really value my experience strongly enough to take action instead of just letting me suffer to maintain the status quo? How can I try to hold him accountable when I don't know his values, and it would be completely possible for him to write off my complaint as simply not assuming good intent on the part of other contributors?

I can't. That's the problem.

[1]: Note that in this little hypothetical, you're my "boss", so the suggesting to put someone between me and the people I lead can be reasonably interpreted as a demotion or attack on my authority.
This reminds me how old I am now and how young I was back then. At the time, stuff like this filled me with excitement. Now I look at it and think it's obvious that the annoyance factor and lost performance will vastly outweigh the legitimately cool applications.

It also reminds me that I used to tweak a bunch of settings in OS X to speed up and disable animations, but I gave up years ago because Apple kept breaking them. Now I just use OS X with its default settings and stay away from things like Spaces that insist on cramming animations into my attention. That makes me sad, so I am going to go back to not thinking about it.
This will most likely be the same as gclid for AdWords .
You can’t tie it back to individuals for gclid and I’d expect the same there .
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Sorry, but in this case it most definitely is.

Now you may argue that there are social and health benefits to having handicapped people doing useful (if inefficient work) and that's a perfectly legitimate argument to make. But the fact of the matter is that such subsidies, while ethically or even socially positive do not have a positive ROI in financial terms, hence they are by definition a hand out.
"but it's definitely a fallacy that if you do bad things it nullifies good things that you do."

That's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is that if you inject yourself as a moral arbiter into a debate, then the people you're marketing to with that stance are going to demand moral purity. You open yourself up to more criticism when you first criticize. I'm not really making a moral argument here at all actually. I'm more saying "those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones" from a practical standpoint unless you're ready to abandon good business practices in the pursuit and constantly moving goal posts of moral purity.
We are using nginx with pm2, we didn't have any major issues so far.
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For systemd-based os, I use systemd, and for others, I use supervisord.
Yeah, I most likely got seduced by all the fancy stuff in the early Compiz days and then used the wobbly windows long enough that they are what feel normal.
systemd is not a good advertisement for prioritizing social pacification over software quality.
But a multiple origin solution seems the most sensical. We have failover for everything infra and services.. it seems we now need failover for cloud-based code. It just seems logical, especially if all 3 of the big cloud providers have big incidents.
It does happen, Galaxy S8+ and S9+ is much narrower than iPhone 7+/8+ for to the point that it's actually easier to hold the phone.
yeah, and that would end up about as glorious as state pension funds did.
That doesn't really address the issue as much as it acknowledges it.

It's like someone is pointing out a hole in the bottom of the boat, and the captain looks at it and says "yes, there's a hole in the bottom". A good thing to be sure, but not one that actually fixes the issue,...
> Showing prices up front would be the very least we could do to start to clean up this fraudulent billing mess that is healthcare here in the US.

It would, but Medicare would never agree to that, because it would cut off a major source of indirect revenue for them.
Umm.China does indeed kidnap people off foreign soil. They just do so more efficiently and far more smartly than the incompetent House of Saud.

http://theweek.com/speedreads/764194/intelligence-officials-...
> I'd posit that the most effective thing you could do is create a bullshit startup and get them to invest

This sounds like a long-term con that would take years to implement - sovereign wealth funds are more into late-stage pre-IPO rounds and not as much into $5k AngelList syndicate rounds.

For short-term reducing personal dependence on oil sounds like a good start.
On Windows WCHAR is defined to hold a 16-bit unicode character, and is defined to be unsigned. In standard C wchar_t can be any damn thing, and isn't even guaranteed to be wider than char. It can be signed or unsigned. It is useless.
For example not calling a problem in the code “a problem” but “possible place for improvement” as to do so might lead people to think their code is “problematic”... then i resigned...
Sometimes I think I'm really lucky. I was dx'd with stage 2b Hodgkin's lymphoma 20 years ago. Half a year of twice-monthly chemotherapy and then an agonizing month of daily radiation doses was able to eradicate the disease. Because of the health insurance I had with the startup I was then working for, my total out-of-pocket cost to was $0. We never paid a single co-pay or saw a single bill for any of the treatment (there were co-pays for the 10 years of follow-up visits).

To this day I don't know what the total cost of saving my life was. I guess it was 6 digits USD.

I contrast to the health insurance I have now. Were I to get sick like that again, I know my out of pocket expenses would be at least $8K per year, and I expect I'd hit that limit several times over the course of the follow-up period.
> How are we supposed to have civil discourse when the meanings of words are constantly shifting?

We aren't. To some parties, that's the whole point of doing it. I don't think that's what's happening here, though. He isn't changing the meaning of the word. He's contradicting a previous re-definition of the word by restoring the traditional meaning.

from TFA:

> The courts and their ideological backers -- the Chicago School economists who used shitty math to prove that greed is good and that corruption consists solely of direct quid-pro-quo bribery -- have served as enablers and even cheerleaders for this new Gilded Age, celebrating anonymous political cash contributions as a form of speech protected under the First Amendment and arguing that the Framers of the Constitution would have agreed wholeheartedly with them.

> Lessig walks a fine line between academic and activist as he rebuts this argument...
What makes Eastman the spinoff and Kodak the "they" in your statement? The name? That should be 100% a branding decision, and presumably the Kodak name was more valuable attached to the mostly B2C camera business than to the mostly B2B chemical business. If not the name, then what is the token of "genuiness" that stayed with Kodak?
Long term I expect to see the quality of GNU and Linux software falter over efforts like this. This is not because I don't advocate for treating other people well, on the contrary I do. It is because in practice these are politically motivated trojan horses meant to tear down things like a meritocracy, the very thing that created this great software.

I've personally watched the activists pushing these target women and other under-represented minorities using these documents for the crime of disagreeing with the narrative.

IE: https://medium.com/@marlene.jaeckel/the-empress-has-no-cloth...

I fully expect to see purges happen of talented individuals based on politically motivated targeting etc. with secret tribunals where the accused are guilty until proven innocent etc.. It's happened to people like Larry Garfield of Drupal, the Opalgate crew tried to do it to a guy who dared to express his conservative views on Twitter in a personal capacity etc..
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Elon Musk's extreme micromanagement
That is fair, I didn't check when the author posted.

The first link (for me) when googling fbclid is the reddit post in r/analytics I linked to, which doesn't have a ton of info but gives more than what the author had. Though you're correct, it was posted after the author originally posted, and I can't fault him/her for not checking in again a few days later.
Are you saying that it's better for anyone to starve in his youth, to be shorter and to save "resources" when he becomes adult? This has to be the most short-sighted thing I've read in a long time.

You should write a book explaining that theory: "Parents, malnourish your kids so they need to eat less in their adulthood". Maybe cutting a leg or an arm could save resources too: less body needs less food.
You need to judge them by the recovery in the context of what happened. GitHub has a world class engineering team, but major outages still happen. Even in the context of a major outage, they have best-in-class status pages and frequent around-the-clock updates.

I helped manage a hosted DVCS and CI system in my previous job, and do you know what we would've called an outage that happened at 7:00PM and had recovered partially before start of business?

A Tuesday.

Wait for the RCA to come out before throwing any stones.
It's nice to see more libraries helping for this kind of things. But looking at the article it seems like the api needs you to pass the language and the unit (days, hours, etc).
Does anyone know if there exists an option to not add one? For dynamic values this feature is pretty important. For example, when I post a tweet, I need to see "a few minutes ago" but look at the tweet later, "34563434 minutes ago" is not great.
If the developers have to start mapping time values to units (60: 'hours', '24': 'days', etc) that doesn't make the library very useful in a lot of cases.
Yes, I am aware of that but are LTS kernels in any for different from the mainline kernel? Can LTS kernel contain code that is not approved and tested in mainline first? They are 'older' but they contain same feature set that is already approved by Linus, right?
I think you realize that at some point a line has to be drawn, given you called "targeting another person's emotions" wrong; and also that everyone's line is in a slightly different place and what's reasonable to some will be uncomfortable or hurtful to others.

Given that, why is it wrong for people to try and influence their community in such a way that it minimizes people's discomfort? Shouldn't every community have the right to self-determine what conduct they're okay with?
Sustainable investments, ethical investing are mostly similar to sharia financial products https://international-adviser.com/uae-among-true-believers-i...
It breaks some server-side caches. And the article itself notes that pages were indexed by Google with the "fbclid" parameter attached.

I don't get the part about async requests. What's the scenario?
They only care when it can be used as political ammunition, i.e. in this case against Trump
From what I can tell your site is only served via HTTP, including your login page. You're sending people's passwords in the clear - please fix!
> a factual statement -- people either are not paying attention, or are being misinformed -- is unkind.

That is bluntly unkind. You've taken an opinion and phrased it as "a factual statement." The "fact" you're positing is that there are two camps, those that don't understand because they are purely ignorant, and those that don't understand because they are intentionally fed false information. (How charitable!)

What was the original "factual statement" again? I don't even know, because you've told "me" that whatever my opinion is, if it disagrees with yours, then I'm in one of two camps and they're both wrong.

(NB: you didn't tell me anything, I'm just trying to engage you in this thought exercise that you seem to want to have.)
> It's still much safer to only have sex while in a monagamous relationship where you and your partner have been tested for HIV. And checking test results before having sex with someone is also a very safe practice that is really common. But in the end if you're often sleeping with people who you don't trust, PrEP can be worth the risk.

Please stop spreading anti-PrEP misinformation.

Statistically, it is literally safer to be on PrEP and have multiple partners of unknown status than it is to be in a monogamous relationship and not be on PrEP.
This is what should be scaring people. SA is not giving the US money out of the goodness of their heart, they are playing a long game. They eventually want to be powerful/influential enough to control international politics, rather than being a by-standard.

We know that their government has no respect or appreciation for Western values. Yet our companies and governments will gladly take their money and provide them with weapons and investment opportunities which increase their wealth, technological understanding, and military power; knowing that SA is aiming to turn on us when the opportunity arises.
Long-time HFT and stat-arb trader here. Not really your target market here, but I have a few suggestions that you may or may not find useful.

- Don't write the core platform in python. The lack of support for concurrency is going to bite you in the ass down the line when you're trying to trade at scale or deliver high performance. I'd stick to C++, Java, Rust or Golang.

- Don't send market data in HTTP/JSON. It's way too bulky and slow. Of course, you can still expose JSON to the end-client if that's what they want. But make sure to send internal messages in a fast, low-overhead, low-bandwidth. Like ZeroMQ + fixed binary encoding.

- Have very clear policies about when/where/why you throttle market data. If you This is the biggest reason why most "algo-platforms-in-a-box" suck. (Using fast market data encoding will help here.)

- Make sure that paper trading isn't running against throttled or consolidated market data. This is going to distort the results by assuming a trader can hit a price that may already be stale.

- Since it's comm-free, you (or your broker) is monetizing with payment-for-order-flow. At the very least be transparent about your policies here. I'd offer the ability to upgrade to smart or exchange specific routing for a commission.

- Since you're doing payment-for-order-flow, keep meticulous records of your trades with microsecond time precision. You can use that dataset to shop around for better deals on the order flow. If you wind up growing the business where you're doing a significant amount of volume, a major wholesaler like Citadel or Virtu can use that dataset to give you a very competitive offer for your flow.

- Be very careful with the market data licenses and make sure you're totally in legal compliance. Exchanges do not mess around and frequently audit their vendors to make sure they're in compliance.
The problem isn't with hedge funds, it's with dumb money (or corrupt money). I'm not sure why people are laying the blame on the funds, I'm sure they wanted to produce good returns as much as anyone else.

The blame solely lies on the incompetent pension fund managers. There are plenty good choices for alternatives in the market that are accepting new money (AQR or 2 Sigma or Bridgewater come to mind).

It's 100% on the pension fund managers that they squandered the money on some no-name fund with no track record.
I’ve heard of a few cases of murder in Saudi Arabia where the accused was found guilty and facing execution, but was set free after blood money was negotiated and transferred. Knowing that fact, I think the author intended the title of the article alludes to the practice with respect to recent events except with tech being recepients of said blood money.

From Wikipedia:

Diya (Arabic: دية‎; plural diyāt, Arabic: ديات‎) in Islamic law, is the financial compensation paid to the victim or heirs of a victim in the cases of murder, bodily harm or property damage. It is an alternative punishment to qisas (equal retaliation). In Arabic, the word means both blood money and ransom, and it is spelled sometimes as diyah or diyeh.[citation needed]

It only applies when victim's family want to compromise with the guilty party; otherwise qisas applies. [0]

The murder of Yvonne Gilford comes to mind [1].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diya_(Islam)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Yvonne_Gilford
They were probably doing an A/B test / phased rollout and didn't want to announce it until it was available to everyone.