skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Classic: You get what you measure.

But years ago the same thing happened to me at Apple. I was fixing bugs in every part of a major framework to help SnowLeopard ship only to get passed over for a minor promotion because I wasn't "critical on any one project".

I thought it was especially ironic since SnowLeopard was supposed to be a stability/performance release only to get massively delayed by people "shipping" things like the Objective-C garbage collection that made XCode unusable for months. The same stability/performance release that had a day-1 point release.
are there any data centers that are shielded from this sort of event?
I like how if you read it out of context, the first part of that sentence seems perfectly fine in something like a text about sewage; and then the second part catches you by surprise.
Seconded. SQL server does work quite well on Linux and was surprisingly easy to get going. I prefer Postgres but sometimes we don't always get what what we want and hey, I'll take it cause I can use it on Linux!

As for MS Windows, WTF? Not only the forced ads making it seem like in some kind of casino built for 4 year olds (assume it's some kind of play to suck the kiddies in?), it's an abortion of mismatched UI, half of it trying to look like a cheaply built web app, then on next screen dumping you back into some NT style select panel. It's just awful. To say nothing of invasive updates and general Windows unpleasantness. I can say without reservation I have no use for the OS at all, Linux is just so much more pleasant to use at this point.
I can understand asking people to update their browser, for security considerations.
Summaries are extracted with Aylien API, free plan. Sometimes they can be a bit random or missing.
C and C++ are sharp tools. They have extensive undefined behavior, but also a formal memory model, so it means something to say, "this code is correct." They also have a culture of people who understand how to deal with undefined behavior, and tools (sanitizers) that make it more feasible.

Rust is safe, unless you go out of your way to be unsafe. It's not just "use a lock," it's "if you try to access shared mutable data without a lock, your program won't compile."

Java has data races but not undefined behavior. It also has a formal memory model.

Swift gives you none of that. Treating threads as a library rather than something with language support is something that might have seemed like a good idea 20 years ago, but now I think we know better.
> I see a lot of parallels with software development.

A well written story can be open to many interpretations, well written software... not so much.

However, I can see some similarities in the mechanics if I squint hard enough.
> U.S. prosecutors charged Snowden with espionage.

Was anyone of the US Government criminally charged for this whole thing or they only bothered to charge the guy who exposed the crime?
> Their feedback was that it was decided that I didn't show a high enough level of day-to-day coding ability and because of that I would not be given an offer. This felt like a kick in the gut, it was insulting and belittling...

And this is why you never ever give feedback to possible recruits. There's nothing in it for you and occasionally they will turn on you.
Analyzing the Evolution of Linkin Park's Music with Pandas
I have an EFF sticker specifically for this.
Location: Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yup

Technologies: Python, Django, DjangoRestFramework, ReactJS, VueJS, ReactNative, Android (Kotlin)

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KSVQL6rygJlVYq5XLEIBal8Bwn5...

Email: mr.unagaldai@gmail.com
Or when the Senate gets a Democrat majority
My security, my choice. If i say no ('X') then they shouldn't keep nagging me.
Rust and a New Way of Thinking
Math ≠ Science. In fact, it is questionable whether math even is a science.

"There is disagreement,[16][17] however, on whether the formal sciences [these include mathematics] actually constitute a science as they do not rely on empirical evidence."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science

Science can never, ever "prove" anything correct, all scientific knowledge is provisional.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_rationalism

"Thus we are led to ask: What is a proof? Heuristically, a proof is a rhetorical device for convincing someone else that a mathematical statement is true or valid."

https://www.math.wustl.edu/~sk/eolss.pdf
I'm finding it much quicker in just about every way than the old UI, using Firefox.
I think Spotify's even closed in on $4B.
That's a very personalizing argument.

No, MS does not "try to help Linux out of the goodness of it's heart."

(a) its a corporate - corporates don't have hearts

(b) even individuals usually have an ulterior motive for their actions. Perhaps by helping Linux, we get some personal ego boost from seeing our own name on the contributor's wall. Or perhaps when Linux wins, the market for our Linux skills grows.

Whatever, no-one does anything much out of the pure goodness of their hearts.
How to Create the Best Remote or Virtual Team?
It's clearly dishonest and wrong. It's also sneaky and smart.
"Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries."

Blocked here in Europe - just FYI in case the link does get changed.
only because if there is a better option available at a website which pays less or no affiliate money the reviewer is incentivised to recommend the one which earns money (but costs more/is a worse product).
Reminded me of this story about Puerto Rico's practice of sending those with addictions to Chicago:

http://interactive.wbez.org/puertoricochicagopipeline/
Well at least we know now there are zero motivations for them to fix that bug so you should be ok.
My argument is weaker, it's just "trust but verify" plus our disagreement about the background probabilities of such rumors being correct based off of the contextual information we each believe is relevant. Chinese espionage and tech transfer is not a new thing but it's only recently been coming to a head in geopolitical discourse.

Try browsing this 2018 report: https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/Section%20301%20FINAL.P...

Most of the indicting evidence is mainly cyber-security related, which is not always the same as exploiting a hardware backdoor. But hardware backdoors are a solid vector for penetrating digital systems and this strategy has been exploited by state actors and corporate actors in domestic and foreign operations before. Like NSA plus Intel chips or their Google data-center taps as revealed through the PRISM leaks. Or Google with their microphones bypassing the recording lights.

So even if the evidence currently falls in Apple's favor, which is fine, there's still no good reason to believe that this will always be true and it's still good security hygiene to go through a cycle of paranoia to ensure that it stays true. China is just the most recent bad actor to add to the pile of institutions to defend against.

I agree that the rumor itself could be weak. But I would also be curious under what conditions you would be willing to take on the possibility of compromised hardware. Would it have to be Apple's CEO taking the issue public, risking their stock price? Would it have to be a verified Apple insider putting their reputation on the line for leaking trade secrets about their pipeline without confronting their superiors first?
The market doesn't really seem to care all that much about it. Windows is practically clean on install compared to any Android phone I've owned. My favorite in terms of pointlessness was my Samsung phone that had both Chrome and a Samsung browser based on Chromium on it, and the Samsung browser was the default. It was worse in every way than just Chrome.
There's a virtually unlimited stream of drugs coming into this country. There are many people who have mental illness.

Anybody with a drug problem should be able to walk into a hospital, say "I'm addicted to X" and get into treatment immediately, free of charge.

Anybody with a mental illness should be able to walk into a hospital, say "I can't take care of myself because X keeps happening in my brain" and get into treatment immediately, free of charge.

If you've ever tried to help someone get clean or get mental health inpatient care in the U.S., you can completely understand how people end up on the streets who could otherwise be productive members of society.
The "T" in ETL is important here. You might not care but the end users of that data should. It's very easy to take raw data and strip it of a lot of useful information by transforming and normalizing it.

The person doing modeling or data analysis should ideally be dealing with the raw data, know how it was collected and understand what each field really means.
Is this like a simple version of Google Vizier-style blackbox optimization?
My laptop is good. Not as beefy as the desktops issued at Google but moreso than the vast majority of the laptops. The new gmail, along with Google sheets, are sluggish as hell in Firefox. On the occasion I use Chrome they are noticeably faster. I have no insight as to whether it's on purpose. If I'm forced to switch to the new gmail, it's the gmail web client I'll be dropping, not Firefox.
The intractable problem is that helping the homeless is seen as moral hazard by a large segment of the American populace. Our programs are incoherent because some want to provide assistance and others to withhold it.
Have you ever gotten something that's not actually in the Amazon warehouse in 2 days?

In Australia, 2 day shipping (from Amazon) doesn't really exist, anyway.
Google+ User Creates Freedom-Based Alternative as Google Announces End of G+
The headline is clickbait.

EFF should say if you value your privacy, move off Xiomi, Huawei, your Samsung smart tv, your company hosted email, even your non-google android phone filled with bloatware and phone home systems that sell your viewing habits to data brokers and move TO google / apple branded devices.

Just about everything you buy / touch OTHER THAN apple and google actively trashes your privacy without a care in the world on sometimes huge scale. Facebook, facebook apps, comcast/xfinity etc. Even dell was selling (or employees were selling) their customer lists out to indian call centers - you'd literally get a scam call from "dell" after purchasing your system with all your details.

Ask yourself, will your companies sysadmin fight these kind of requests (see below)?

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/20/technology/google-resists...

I can't find it, but some hacker said the best thing they did was use google email because they got a state of the art legal team involved for free.

Let's have an OUNCE of perspective here.

I'm not saying google should get a free pass on privacy, I'm saying others should copy them, from google takeout, to the disclosures they do about how they use info, to the options they provide, to the legal response they bring to over-broad subpoenas.

Are they perfect? Certainly not. They obviously build a profile to market to you while keeping that private from the advertisers (not always common).This is the tradeoff folks get for free stuff, and my point was that users seem pretty happy to make that trade. Youtube is dominating its sector, chrome is dominating its sector etc. I don't, I like to pay for the google services I use such as email, and use other services that I find more secure.

Apple has an even stronger stance here in my view (and I'm on a iphone for that reason). But places like eff seem to attack category leaders not because google is the worst offender, but because it a) generates a headline, and b) is different than what people think.
Use an IMAP client.
The author completely lost me. Analysts produce reports. Data scientists produce models. We don’t ask a data scientist to produce a model unless we have a serious intention to put it in production. There are significant engineering challenges in taking a model from the data scientist’s batch-mode workbooks and Hadoop queries to a reliable near-real-time online service, and the relationship can get dysfunctional, but it has nothing to do with data scientists being BI in disguise.
China’s ‘Useless Edison’
It's anti competitive and analogous to Microsoft's behavior in the 90s
It can't be criminal because corporations can't go to jail. The only punishment you can apply to corporation is to take a little bit of its money, but not so much that it declares bankruptcy and gives all its assets to a new corporation formed by the same owners, who are protected from the Limited Liability structure from having to pay their debts.
D: Get a job in the first place.

Putting a homeless shelter or no address at all on your work application is a great way to get it sent straight to the circular file.

Even living in public housing can be a job killer if the addresses are well known enough. People at Cabrini Green had to hope they had a relative that would allow them to use their address to apply for jobs with, and hope on top of that the public housing officials wouldn't find out about it.
I always wondered if personalities like Satya Nadella browse these forums under different identities to understand what the rest of the tech world might be saying? Wouldn't it be pragmatic for them to align 80% of their priorities with their core users? I guess they can still use the remaining 20% to focus on their obtrusive advertisers!
I was taught unity is strength.
Pendulum swung.
Diversity is strength now.
Pendulum has begun to swing again.
I've tried a lot of different note taking solutions, org mode, vimwiki, apple notes, etc. etc. But at some point I became dissatisfied with them all. My distaste for digital solutions lies in their lack of flexibility: at the end of the day, there's as of yet no digital means of note-taking, that I'm aware of, that achieves the same degree of flexibility and tight feedback loop offered by pen and paper.

Are my thoughts better captured in words or in images? No problem, with pen and paper I can switch modes seamlessly, and, furthermore, mix them without any hassle. Should I come up with tags and some appropriate naming convention so I can find my notes later? No need—when everything is stowed away in a compact notebook, I can quickly flip through and find a multitude of phrases or doodles that indicate what subject I've explored. There's something charming, too, about flipping through the musky contents of a forgotten notebook that I find lacking when I peruse old digital files.

Plenty of people find digital solutions more appropriate, and sure, they do eliminate some of the hassle of carrying around a notebook and pen, they make notes easier to share with collaborators (this is where they excel!), and if you have a large number of notes it may serve for better organization, but at the end of the day, note-taking is one domain in which I've found newer tools aren't necessarily better tools. Something about the tactile and fluid experience of taking pen and paper notes still gets my neurons firing in the right ways...I think the persistence of whiteboards in the workplace also attests to the value of analog means for capturing our thoughts.
I believe that that is the case, yes.

A helix is a quaternion.
Rare is not the same as won’t. Save some folks some potential trauma.
>I imagine that it's just the classic case of developers having good machines.

But, like, that's ridiculous! Developers should be testing the performance of their stuff, either by looking at system resources or by keeping some "crappy" testing machines around. Preferably both.

I wonder what the environmental impact is of users upgrading their hardware in order to run completely unoptimized stuff like this?
No. The government is sovereign; no one can prosecute the government. Only individual scapegoats can be prosecuted.
You can make the email list more compact, (and in fact it tells you as much the first time you open the app).
I think you’d find that half or more would be completely unable to grasp the Twin Paradox, or double-slit even in principle, without the math. Probably the number would be closer to three-quarters, or even more if you factor in just how disinterested many would be. I like the idea of a world in which all 16 year olds are both capable of understanding your syllabus, and exposed to it, but I have doubts that we live in that world.

I do think that everyone should have access to such a syllabus though. More realistic if less transformative might be a program of teaching people very basic critical thinking skills. Use advertisements and Instagram posts to analyze deceptive languages and images. Show people that the world they think they live in, that’s projected all of their screens isn’t a very accurate representation of reality. Drive map-territory relations into them via the medium of political, corporate, and interpersonal deception they experience multiple times every day. Maybe half of them would get that, if it was made interesting enough to hold their attention.
DST works pretty well for London and the south of England, but if you go somewhere more north, say Aberdeen, the sun doesn't rise until nearly 9am in the winter and sets before 3:30pm. [0] In the summer it's light enough to drive without lights from 4am - 11pm. Shifting either of those times by one hour to maintain the same time zone all year around work make barely any different to most people.

On mainland Europe it's even worse, the sun rises 1.5 hours later in the west of Spain compared to the east of Poland, yet they all share the same timezone.

[0] https://www.gaisma.com/en/location/aberdeen.html
Given the tight cooperation between Canonical and MS for WSL I would somehow expect that MS would use Ubuntu if they were to ever sanction a desktop Linux. This is just my guess, though.
Previously.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11312243
At the company I work for, we have integrations with Stitch Data and Fivetran. Both are good and have been responsive to my needs. Neither have been perfect, so when I've noticed a problem I've had to keep on top of them to fix it. I also maintain a few of our own ETL jobs for data sources that aren't supported. I will say that I recommend using an ETL vendor without reservation. The nominal cost is more than made up for in the headaches you'll save yourself in creating and maintaining a homegrown ETL.
hey! email me at ajobforhackers@gmail.com

We can talk about the project and see if you're interested.
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Isn't responsive design essentially just CSS media queries?
I’ve done external reports for clinical trials and agriculture, and I guess they weren’t as up on getting certifications. Thanks for the very detailed replies.
It’s usually cemeteries that require vaults and caskets not the government.
Ah! I often wonder, how and why does Google decide to change the UI to well established products like Gmail? It's certain to annoy veteran users, so I'm particularly puzzled when the decide to shake things up, UX wise, for no apparent usability or feature gain.

I suppose your post is at least partly an explanation.
> Maybe the author thought that using initials sounded more mystical or authorative

Unless she's lying, the author tells what she thought in the previous quotation

> they were trying to disguise my gender.
Thunderbird is real fast.
Maybe rights issues?
My parent’s table pads do precisely that. After a particularly baffling family tech support call I drove over. Their kitchen table pads magnetically lock to stay nicely aligned, and also either put a laptop to sleep, or keep it awake when closed depending how you place them.
Publisher(9am): Time for the morning scrum...

Author: Yesterday I worked on a few paragraphs where the antagonist was just about ready to reveal to the protagonist his knowledge of the protagonist's long lost brother. But I'm blocked on the historical research about Vietnam POW camps. Hopefully, if my research assistant can run that down soon I can move that paragraph from the unblocked column back to in progress. In the mean time I'm pulling in the foot chase scene "story" but at this time I think both these "stories" will carry over to next sprint.

Publisher: Hmmm, that's going to negatively affect your velocity.
Was not sure if that was allowed here. Updated now.
There was a post recently about how YouTube uses depreciated web APIs and then polyfills them to every browser that isn't chrome so YouTube loads slow on non chrome browsers.
They could still be freemium, or could use less targeted advertising. Would it be a catastrophe if Mark Zuckerberg only made $20B off Facebook instead of $40B?

Also, today, privacy conscious users are cut off from the main forums of discourse. Is that better?
Your comment prompted me to do a little digging, and I found this link:

https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/blog/atlantech/2012/04/g...

I guess this office was smaller than I had thought to begin with.
Show HN: Interactive implementation of the NIST Blockchain use case flow chart
> A well written story can be open to many interpretations, well written software... not so much.

Well written tools can be reinterpreted for use in many different ways. Is your favorite text editor something you use to write code, or write term papers, or to express your thoughts in diary form, even if it's eventually published online?

Our relationship to the software we use changes over time, even if the software is mostly static. In that respect, maybe software is often like poetry. A lot of the benefit is us finding your own interpretation of usefulness from it. Certain software resonates with some of us while others see little use in it. You'll have to pry Vim from my cold, dead hands, but I don't begrudge anyone their Emacs, or Sublime Text, or whatever they find works well for them.

It's a rosy, romantic view, but I pity the software engineer (or amateur code-monkey, however you identify) that doesn't feel this to at least some degree. The road is long, you might as well find some friends along the way.
Unless it does. Maybe if there was no junk they could command Apple premiums for their devices and get Apple sales numbers.
It's an interesting proposal, but it seems like it would work best for more equatorial regions. In my not too northern location, that would mean in the summer I get up 5 hours earlier than in the winter.
Strictly speaking, Soviet goods (very few of them, though) were of somewhat decent quality when compared to the cheapest crap made in a non-name sweatshop for dollar stores. Or export to the Eastern Europe and ex-Soviet countries.

Even in the space, USSR achieved much more launches than the US for a simple reason -- Soviet satellites crapped out in months instead of years.
I use gmail over IMAP, performance on IMAP hasnt changed a bit.
Why Crowdsourcing will die
Weren't these just CIA informants i.e. not actual CIA officers? I think the word "spies" is a bit misleading.
https://www.rp-photonics.com/hollow_core_fibers.html

> A general problem of hollow-core fibers is that their propagation losses are substantially higher than for solid-core fibers – in particular when single-mode guidance is required.
> Also, don't unroll sellotape. Is a wideband source that emits from microwave RF, right through the visible spectrum, all the way up to x-rays.

Wow, how does this work? I mean in terms of the mechanism(s) that cause it.

You mention it goes right through the visible spectrum. Does this mean I could create circumstances that would allow me to see the effect in the dark?
HN is not their core users.
Windows 10 is a solid OS but they trash it with these awful little pointless decisions

While those are definitely irritations I would like to add something a little (IMO) more important: file path limits.

I can fudge around it in various ways, but it is infuriating:
https://serverfault.com/questions/232986/overcoming-maximum-...
I've used StitchData at a startup with AWS Redshift. Pair it with something like dbt for transforming your data, and you have a great match. A little pricey, but totally worth it, IMO.