skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Non-fiction:

- Factfulness by Hans Rosling

- The War on Science by Shawn Otto

- Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell

- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

- The Storm Before the Storm by Mike Duncan

- The Enigma of Reason by Hugo Mercier

Fiction:

- And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

- The Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson

- The Magicians by Lev Grossman

The non-fiction books were all incredible and highly recommended. I especially appreciate The War on Science as it is highly relevant in today's polarized and emotional political climate.

The fiction books were good, for the most part. However, The Magicians might be the worst book I have ever read, not limited to fiction or fantasy. For more on that, ask.

I managed to read significantly more books this year due to joining an at-work book club, which has been very nice.
Nice idea. Is there a way to see the list of books currently being written?
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My favourite anecdote about this is an old coworker of mine who, at a certain point in time, had a number of successive commits with the commit message being his first name.
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It's a funny notion that by dropping some BSD-licensed code into their OS that every other major operating system has been using for 20 years, Microsoft is somehow becoming the leader in open source.

Maybe that's just my interpretation, but without explaining what being a "leader in open source" means and by what merits Microsoft (a business dealing mainly in proprietary software) is becoming it, that's all I have to go by.
GCP has Serverless Containers coming soon: https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/bringing-the-be...

Zeit V1 supports launching containers (but isnt part of V2): https://zeit.co/docs/v1/getting-started/deployment/#docker-d...
This is intriguing. It reminds me of 750words.com as well. I think what I really want to show with the 200 words objective is that it is reachable by anyone. 1600 words per day is way too much for a regular worker who just started writing.
> I think it's time for MS to develop a new ANSI/VT-compliant...

They are doing exactly that: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/08/02/wind...
New Yorkers earning $18.60/hr are not going to pay $1,600/month for a single-bedroom apt in NYC. Yes, NYC is an expensive city, but not every Amazon warehouse worker has to live in Manhattan or Brooklyn Heights. There are actually plenty of affordable housings in many lesser-known neighborhoods -- eg, Sheepshead Bay is known for a large community of retirees; Brighton Beach for Russian immigrants, etc. Amazon's warehouse is in Staten Island where the cost of living is generally even lower.

Sure, you need a lot of money to enjoy life in NYC and $18/hr isn't exactly a lot of money. Even then, for folks without any other marketable skills, this isn't the slave wage as you falsely depict here.
I'm surprised Bezos doesn't empathize more with the working class, especially given his own humble origins. In fact, I find it hard to discern his personality.
Great advice. And it's true for a lot of other things apart from writing too, i.e. coding, website design, your MVP.
Still doesn't do AD and DNS etc. So I'm still RDPing from my Mac to get access to RSAT.
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That is not what i'm saying.

But your motivation to spend that extra time in the company should NOT influence any salary negotiation.

Otherwise it brings pressure on all others while redefining what the 'social avg norm' is.
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Sure; they did; they evolved to Hooded Pitohui, Little Shrikethrush, Spur-Winged Goose, and Common Quail.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/51743/4-poisonous-birds
This is more or less a discrete version of a 2D low discrepancy sequence, which is often used for choosing different colours.

The best known solution is plastic numbers. I expect you could use something like that here rather than brute force.

http://extremelearning.com.au/unreasonable-effectiveness-of-...
Question: I use past tense instead of present tense because I explain what changed. But I see a lot of commits written in present tense. Is one better than the other? Which one?
"free of patents" is like atomic hydrogen; a very short lived state in practice.
We've used LDAP for authentication by binding as the user and checking if they belong to certain groups. Those groups are then used to give the user certain abilities.

https://github.com/debolk/bolklogin

User management was done through gosa / fusiondirectory.
Some people PMed me about it. I think we are going to tag our posts with #publicbook and those will be drafts that will probably be integrated into our books.
This makes the mistake that all split keyboards make of not duplicating the keys near the split line. Not everybody touch-types in the perfectly ordained "you will use this finger for this key" way and it is pretty annoying when your right hand goes for a "b" and it isn't there.
When i Opensource project, i hire freelancers to beautify my commit messages.

It makes all commit messages sound like a story where one innovation leads to another.
I want to comment on Alan Carr's Easy Way book. This book is the reason I managed to stick to quitting. I haven't smoked in 3.5 years because of that book, after nearly 15 years.

The argument he makes is better than the common ones you hear (it's bad for your health, it costs money, it smells bad), which is nice. As he mentions, smokers know all those things, and that information isn't helpful. Instead he points out clearly that it is just an addiction, and one that you don't need.

10/10 - I have Alan Carr to thank for being smoke free.
I can confirm AWS Lambda still has this problem. A dirty solution could be to time-trigger your function every x seconds to keep the container alive. For example, doing that every 10 seconds would produce 259200 request per 30-days month, so 0,05 USD per month for this in AWS.
My 10 year old Dell XPS M1330 with Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 and 4 GB RAM with original HDD still running strong, had 11.2 installed on it. I just finished updating it to 12.0 release without any issues. I have only good things to say. I use Xfce. The filesystem is ZFS.

A while back, I took a snapshot of /root and installed Gnome 3. It was too big for my laptop. I rolled back. The snapshot and rollback were amazingly fast.

I find FreeBSD more cohesive. I have not tried it on modern devices, but my experience with it on my decade old laptop and VMs is extremely positive.

A similar cohesiveness is achieved only when I handcraft my Arch. Maybe, it is just the feeling.
I came to the opposite conclusion. Working on a dynamically typed project feels slippery... whenever you make a change it is difficult to know what will end up broken. I agree that deserialization can be a pain up front, but for the long term stability and assurances it is worth it.
Immutability is highly useful in a browser environment for efficient rendering of UI.
LOL this is such a typical HN reply. "Just get room mates". Come on, the solution is to pay people so they can live a decent life and have a family if they want to.
I always recommend this article: https://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/

The recommendations are the same, it's longer and provides more rationale at some points.
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"Seeing like a State", perhaps?

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/16/book-review-seeing-like...
> snapshotting ... entire state of the python process, all objects, etc.

Someone else in this thread mentioned Smalltalk: this is exactly what a Smalltalk image gives you.

The image is everything, all your objects, code, temporary, everything. And at any time you can do "save" or even "save as" to persist a copy.

And there are variants that can work with Python code as well.

http://squeak.org/
The content of commits should be like Medium articles. I give up when I see it in the command line.
This person has not worked at Starwood in 12 years. Their qualifications for making any kind of insightful analysis are basically nil at this point. As if this weren't weren't absurd enough he goes on to make the following laughable statements:

>"It is almost impossible to imagine a scenario in which an external hacker is able to gain access to the primary encryption keys."

>"The fact is, if we accept Marriott’s statement that the breach began in 2014, the system would already have been operating securely for five years."

>"Israel del Rio is executive technology consultant and CTO at Quilmach."

As someone who has family affected by this breach it's upsetting to see to see this individual using this incident for their own self-promotion. However at least his new company Quilmach now knows he is completely clueless about technology. So I guess he did everyone a favor here. Israel del Rio - Executive Idiot.
Whilst I prefer Linux Distros as OSs to Windows, I genuinely believe the NT kernel has a lot of good stuff, and is definitely better on a lot of stuff (e.g. security)
I would recommend to also look at this guideline + tooling to create an automatic changelog based on your commits: https://www.conventionalcommits.org/
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I wonder if splitting the responsibility for education and awarding credentials would be a better idea. It would open up some real competition in education and weaken the stranglehold the elite establishments have.
By your description of the problem it matches better the "Tragedy of the commons" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons) than a self-fulfilling prophecy.

A self-fulfilling prophecy would be if the belief that unions fail to help workers made them fail to help workers (which also happens).
This description fascinates me because of the iterative development analogy. Way up in my reading list, thanks again!
They tried to do a hackathon at my company but after initial interest a lot of people dropped out so in the end it was cancelled.

I think hackathons could be fun but they should either be done independently from a company or do something that's not of any direct value to the company but something fun.
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Git itself uses the present tense (Merge/Revert)
Firstly, they are not prizes, they are microscopic chances at prizes. The company is cutting down on cost by playing prospect theory-based games with their employees' salary.

Secondly, it is not a reward for working efficiently, it is a reward for working the most efficiently. There is only one winner and the other participants get nothing. The company gets the added value either way of course. This is a great if you want to break up employee solidarity too.

Thirdly, the term 'efficiency' implies there is some sort of process optimization going on; the same energy goes in, more value comes out. I doubt workers are suddenly provided with better tooling during 'power hour', so 'efficiency' probably just means 'run faster, exhaust yourself'.

Finally, you can bet 'power hour' metrics are used to adjust regular productivity targets related to other 'incentives', overall making the jobs more demanding and less rewarding over time.

The whole system reeks of commoditization of labor, treating workers as mere goods that can be bought and systematically manipulated, and thinking about living, feeling humans in this way is disgusting to me.
IT/software development is not a "profession". Real professionals have autonomy and higher obligations than to their employer. They subscribe to a code of professional ethics, and they have personal liability at stake in their conduct at work. Good lawyers or accountants will not commit professional malpractice just because a client tells them to. In contrast, software flunkies will build whatever unethical features they're paid to.

Software devs are hired hands who are play-acting as professionals because of their status anxiety.
I thought I was the only one! The Magicians is by far the worst and least enjoyable book I’ve ever read, and I read ~ 100 books per year.
Not going to list all fo them, but the one that will have the most immediate impact on not just my life is:
"Unconditional Parenting" by Alfie Kohn.
If I've read it correctly the article is saying the percentage of instances per age group have decreased over time, but to your point if there are more people reaching those age groups the total number of cases may increase.
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Personal summaries and opinions on some books I’ve read this year:

The First Man - Camus: A semi-autobiographical novel about his childhood growing up in Algeria in a poor family, his friendships, his educational successes and becoming a man.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Kundera: A realistic, unromantic look at the ideals involved in love, sexual and romantic relationships.

Laughable Loves - Kundera: More of the same in the form of a collection of short stories. Thoroughly enjoyed.

The Only Way to Stop Smoking Permanently - Alan Carr: I’m not particularly into self-help books, but this has actually worked so far. It focusses on removing the desire to smoke, rather than increasing willpower not to smoke.

Metamorphosis - Kafka: Looks at duty to family, social alienation and the equation of a man’s worth with his career and earning ability.

What we cannot Know - du Sautoy: A not too poppy pop-science look into the limits of human knowledge and consciousness. Delves into maths, astronomy, philosophy, existence of a god, quantum physics. Still interesting as a graduate of mathematics, and answers a few questions I had about quantum physics.
i wish i could prioritize the search suggestions in the search/addressbar: tabs first, then bookmarks, and only then history. or make three groups, and give me the top 3 tabs, top 3 bookmarks and top 3 history matches.
wow…
how you decided to use old buildings?
There was Veertu Desktop, which used Hypervisor.framework, but they have pivoted into CI for iOS. At some point it was open sourced, but it seems to have disappeared from their GitHub account. At least someone seems to have made a copy before:

https://github.com/tithomas1/vdhh
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It's true though, I've seen this all over the place.
this.

Issue trackers like JIRA can be configured to search for commit-Ids in the messages, which will give you all commits associated with a ticket.

Adding ticket IDs to commits has fallen a bit out of fashion since feature-branches and pull request workflows have become popular. But adding the ticket ID to the commit messages allows for trunk-based development style, while not losing the ability to make a code review over the commits referencing a ticket.

Most of the time I write the ticket ID in the text below, which keeps the `git log --oneline` pretty, the tools can still pick it up.
Anyone know if this is what CloudWatch Insights uses? If so, it doesn't even come close to competing with Elasticsearch performance (with a tiny cluster), it seemed quite slow.
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Atleast u c paycheck
I've extensive use with LDAP over the last 20+ years or so.
It's great for various authenticating various Linux/UNIX system bits and applications - in the past I've supported everything from Tacacs and Radius, Apache with LDAP auth, storing SSH public keys (both hosts and user keys), password expiration policies and even sudo rules stored in LDAP.

There is a pretty steep learning curve though and there are many, many applications out there (particularly commercial ones) that claim to support LDAP but when you take a closer look their support is pretty broken and it can take a lot of effort to get everything working.

LDAP also has some legacy warts, and competing/incompatible bits - for example LDAP-TLS vs the deprecated LDAPS, RFC2307 vs RFC2307bis schemas etc. Working with LDIF can be an utter pain sometimes (esp. with trailing whitespace) and the management tools outside of Active Directory leave a lot to be desired.

It still beats the heck out of trying to synchronize tens/hundreds/thousands of user accounts with something like Puppet, which I've seen so many devops orgs do badly.
Past tense doesn't describe what the commit does, it describes what the developer did.
The Word documents (presumably the originals) are not free, but the PDFs are --- that link is to X.680, the general overview of ASN.1 as a whole. DER itself is in X.690 which is here:

https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-X.690-201508-I/en
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if only i could open a container without automatically loading all tabs inside it, but lazy loaded like when you restart the browser and only the active tab is loaded.
Present tense -- it's (almost?) always a little shorter, so you can fit more information into the "subject" line.
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If I understand correctly, AIS is only a transponder like system, so self-reported positions?

If you compare to any commercial airliner you have transponder for communicating some things, but you also have collision alarms such as the one screaming "TERRAIN" or "PULL UP" if you are about to smack into the ground. That system is a ground radar of some kind.

On a car the navigation system is also separate from the front collision avoidance radar thing that will scream at you if you are about to hit a slower car in your lane.

So from a lay persons perspective it seems absolutely insane that a warship wouldn't have several radar and sonar based collision avoidance systems in addition to (or perhaps working together with) any transponder/GPS (AIS) systems.
As a Linux SysAdmin I love coming across a tutorial from DigitalOcean when Im searching for a howto because I can always be sure that they will be updated, well written and very complete. A big thank you to you and the rest of the team!
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> counts as breaking the rules if you do it at the same point that you're originally explaining the rules

It’s not that it’s a rule it’s that it’s an undefined rule. If they had said nothing then you don’t know, perhaps they are taking photos and uploading avatars off camera, or perhaps the Matrix keeps track of this stuff, or perhaps the Matrix downloads the data from your mind. Residual self immage does not answer the question.

Characters are not omnipotent. Character X explaining the rule does not mean Rule X actually applies. For example character says you need to use a plug to jack into the Matrix and need a hardline to get out. Later on you break those rules and that’s fine the character does not know what they are talking about.

But, the Sci-fi fantasy devide is not the lack of technology, as cellphones work just fine in Dresden Files and other Urban Fantasy. It’s the type of rules that exist and how they can be broken without destroying the suspension of disbelief. The cold equations is a good low budget film based around some very hard rules. The Matrix fails this, you can come up for explanations for anything that happen, but doing so is not bound by any rule in the world.

Further, it frames things in non technical terms perhaps the character just noticed he has a modem up his bumb. Perhaps he can wirelessly hack an alarm clock rather than setting the snooze button. Or maybe he has psy powers and can cause EMP’s. Undefined major plot elements under the control of the protagonist or antagonist is the hallmark of Fantasy. What can and can’t Gandalf do?
I tend to use present tense as I'm describing the change that is to be applied to the code by the commit. It often also is terser than past tense by a few chars, sometimes just enough to fit in the commit title (Add vs Added).
> A main criticism of all this is that the usual tools didn't work remotely

I can't think of any that I use regularly that don't work remotely. Which snap-ins are you referring to? Most of them you just right-click on the top level object and select "connect to another computer".
Humble origins? Didn't he famously start Amazon with a $300,000 loan from his parents?

I don't know what you consider humble, but my family does not have a spare 300 grand to gamble on risky investments.
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Yes - it was truly atrocious. It was nominated in our book club, but I wouldn't have finished it otherwise.

I wonder how it managed to get published in the first place. Also, I love this review from George RR Martin, where he manages to discuss the book without complimenting it:

“The Magicians is to Harry Potter as a shot of Irish whiskey is to a glass of weak tea. Solidly rooted in the traditions of both fantasy and mainstream literary fiction, the novel tips its hat to Oz and Narnia as well to Harry, but don’t mistake this for a children's book. Grossman’s sensibilities are thoroughly adult, his narrative dark and dangerous and full of twists. Hogwarts was never like this.”
The sometimes suggested guideline is: make commit message so that it would make sense if added to the phrase "If applied this commit will…".
It can be 'good' in a very perverse sense, i.e. good enough to undermine and destroy other companies that DO choose to pay their employees enough to live.

This is unhelpful, but that's the way things work at the moment, and it's very well understood by aggregate investment capital.

So then you get a second sense: good enough to sustain huge amounts of investment capital from people who correctly perceive that it will destroy other companies that choose to pay their employees enough to live.

Still pretty unhelpful, if you're a human…
> means other than pay increases

Hence the saying: "they pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work."
Uber exec wrote about self-driving program just days before fatal collision
Thanks for your recommendation of Thomas Sowell. I've been looking for a good beginners guide to economics.
A warehouse worker doesn't add a lot of value. To be specific, the average profit extracted from one of Amazon's 500,000 workers is 6000$ and that includes all the far more profitable business segments.

You also should be properly reading that balance sheet. Those $22 billion in cash stand against $36 billion in short term liabilities, for example. Long term debt is over $37 billion.
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Many of the words are probably old German in origin, the modern German word "Steuerbord" means the same, "steuern" = to steer (see "styrboard", could also have become "steerboard" in English, instead of starboard). The nautic right side was called that way because on those old viking boats, the rudder was a big paddle on the right side.
From your wikipedia link:

> The ferrocyanides are less toxic than many salts of cyanide, because they tend not to release free cyanide. However, like all ferrocyanide salt solutions, addition of an acid can result in the production of hydrogen cyanide gas, which is toxic.

Doesn't stomach acid qualify as an acid here?
And by “reworking” they mean “undermining”?
Technological innovation can also arise as a consequence of the minimum wage being high. By increasing the cost of human labor, automation becomes relatively cheaper / more cost effective.

Here in Norway this has led to the near complete elimination of classes of jobs. As a very visible example, we have no toll booth operators or garage attendants, these have been universally replaced by automatic license plate recognition.

Thankfully we have a (relatively) good social safety net to take care of those who lose their jobs to such things.
In the UK at least, a lot of lawyers (particularly partners of small firms) make a lot less money than people might think.
I always tell people that working in a big Corp feels like walking around in Eastern Germany while the wall was still up. Same kind of posters, 5 year plans, top down propaganda that has little resemblance with reality, "rewards" like T-shirts with motivational messages.