skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The example given in TFA is poor, as is (IMHO) the entire thesis. The actors change their behavior on an evolutionary timescale, whereas the environment sees periodic rapid events ("punctuated equilibrium"); to which any individual, specialized actor cannot react quickly enough.

Whereas we, as SWEs or ops or devops or business managers, can react to a changing environment. When you are in a highly competitive environment, it pays to be more efficient. Unlike the bird, however, whose beak (eg) may be specialized to reach a specific berry on a specific bush, and is immutable, we can change our beak as the needs demand.

The article isn't even very good for specialized industry, say making metal coils. Your machinery has to be specialized for it. You don't have a machine that can make both coils and tubes. Because you're able to make very, very specialized coil winding machines, you corner the market on coils. Then the coil market collapses (thanks for nothing, disruptors!). OK, your business fails. SO WHAT! You move on to make specialized tube flatteners or some such.

A better thesis would have been along the lines of not being static. Specialization is good.
The biggest advantage would be the preset level buttons. I have a hand crank and it's a pain to get the desk to the level I think I want, only to sit down, get comfortable and realize I need to go up a few inches. So then I have to get up again and there is just a lot of fastidiousness sometimes.
To generalize, learning C is easy, but doing anything with it is not.

To be clear, this is not meant as a critique on C, on the contrary. Put simply, it is just that making computers do stuff is hard. This is especially true if you want it to do it in a very particular way such as in high-performance code. If you cannot already leverage the work of other experts, you need to know about modern optimizing compilers, language runtimes, modern processor architectures, OS/system, ...)

To continue your Numpy example, that framework entombs the know-how and man-years of work of specialist in a certain area. If you need to do simple dense algebra, you will a hard time beating Numpy/Julia/Eigen/MKL etc.
If your problem goes slightly off-track (e.g. sparse problems) where you cannot easily leverage the hard work and expertise of others, you better start rolling up your sleeves and open that main.c
Who says the struct has no other value? An ADT is the only place this approach makes any sense and these are not typically comprised of two values/references alone.

A interface devised just to unwind information from
a two member struct is beyond 'cumbersome'.
But did they go back and fix the flaw on the desks people had already bought? That seems like a crucial point to calibrate how much I'm going to trust this company with my money.
This article is well reasoned. I have heard VC's lament that they are constrained by the business model, and one of the world's foremost academics studying PE/VC believes the model is broken. Limited partners (LP's) have a required rate of return based on actuarial statistics that pension funds must meet, spending goals for foundations or building plans of endowments. All problems stem from having to hit their investors' goals while investing in uncertainty (different than risk, which is what private equity does).

There is one more point I would add to the list. VC's seek high volatility experiments because the power law approach to investing means their wins have to be massive rather than just double or triple their money. VC's themselves use a portfolio to dampen volatility. Peter Thiel is on record that most VC's think about it all wrong and should just admit to making huge bets.

Rob Hayes, of First Round Capital, once said that VC's sell a product (money) to customers (entrepreneurs). This would make LPs their suppliers. If so, then having a family office, or other patient capital, back your fund would be a huge advantage.
What are the hypothetical options to stop/slow/reverse global warming? Assuming we could overcome any setback, what would we as a species have to accomplish and when?
Another 'sneaky' thing that LM did is to provide an automated, simple, customizable backup system that 'just works'.

Most distros have nothing like it, and their forums are constantly asking 'oops, how do I fix...' questions. Much of the time, people just give up and reinstall, losing all of their customizations, if not data.

One more reason why the 'year of the Linux desktop' hasn't appeared.
For professional jobs, 10 days + a separate pool of sick days was pretty much the norm in the US as I understood it. For experienced people, more like 3 weeks (and possibly longer as you get to the 10 year or so mark).

These days with pooled sick and vacation/personal, my personal experience suggests 20 or so days as a starting point for large-ish tech companies. I'm sure there are some/many that give less but I know what I've personally seen that wasn't considered extraordinarily generous.
The reason I disable Windows updates is because it eats up A LOT of computing power. When you notice that few minutes after turning on your laptop fans are working like crazy for 30, 40 minutes, you know there is something wrong. It's better to just remember to update your system once a month and manually turn on and off the update option. But now you can't even do that. The moment I hear fans are working like crazy I know that Windows somehow overwrought my setting and the 'updates' are running in the background.
Cheers!
Just replying to your first sentence: I'm actually curious how many NEW OS projects are being written in C. I would suspect your comment is more geared towards entrenched operating systems where C was already the groundwork.
Mostly how does new tech integrate with existing tooling for the target platform.

Having less IDE features available, lack of graphical debugger, additional build systems, having to manually write FFI wrappers, not exposing all the features available in the platform languages, impedance mismatch to create libraries to be consumed by the platform languages are all issues that I might consider negative when evaluating new tech.
> If they can be so callous when others get laid off maybe its good they get a dose of their own medicine given they seem to be speaking from a place of entitlement

Care to cite some examples of BuzzFeed employees displaying such callousness?
I've had Rust hinder my ability to pass around array slices more than help.
So if you are saying that the N.S.A. or The CIA are coming to kill me, tell them to stand on the line, because the Chinese Intelligence is already on tis job of eliminating me...Ok...Xi Jin Pin is sending His own personal best killers to hunt me and kill me, If you did not read all my history of comments, then you should know it already, PLUS, Russians are already Hate me too, if you read my comments, you will see I have , Hate , the Sputnik News and Other Bullshit from Nazi name Putin. I am brave guy right????? Nothing to fear when you are already Dead, right, and the chinese, the russian and the american , want you dead...So shut up and survive, right? NO , my friend, I am already dead...you are blackmailing the wrong person, cannot blackmail a Dead Person(body)...so...I am waiting for some argument from you that prove that you are smarter then that, my friend, and don't need fucking B;lackmail to make a point.................

SO if someone(from beijing, moscow or washington) Have all the access to my unedited file, and they have it, my friend, believe me....

They know I am , just a old crazy Marijuana smoker who is Jobless recently and is bored and has nothing better to do then write fucking stupid and insane comments on hacker news....

Old people withou a job is the worst thing for this old people Mental health....

I should find a job as soon as possible, even if is cleaning the streets or taking care of public gardens...anything to do but stupid internet comments...

well and I am for hire, and now , the most important, If is for the good of humanity, I will do it, no matter who is for, ok, i said for the good of humanity...

so... I would do it even for free...but i am broke , no money even to buy my marijuana now...so...

Anyway, I care more for the Good-Faith then the money...

I did't go to the obligatory (law obligation) military service because they decided I was physically useless for them, and I didn't had a high-school degree, so i was intellectually useless for them too....But I didn't want to go....

Because they pay you 0 bucks and I was in age of having girlfriends and smoke pot...But also because I believe in Peace. I am a pacifist...

But I fucking admire people who has fucking Balls and people who has fucking Honor, like the guys in the Navy.
> These people loved telling factory workers and especially coal miners to "learn to code".

The focus "coal miners" is comical. There are some 69,460 coal mining jobs in the US[1], 15,900 of them "blue-collar". That's less than the number of people who work at Google[2]. I get that this is usually shorthand for blue-collar workers. But at the same time very real energy policy decisions are being made ostensibly to keep this small group of people in their jobs. Investing in better access to retraining is probably a better move.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/03/20/t...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/273744/number-of-full-ti...
> The other fuels consumerism, depression, and relegates women to either damsels in distress, objects of conquest, or abuse victims.

I wonder in what ways, and what are the effects of such depictions. If only there was some group of people interested in researching such a thesis...
Hey, it's in development !
It doesn't appear to be a traffic issue. It looks like it's breaking when it encounters things like "!important" in a site's CSS.

I was able to pull other sites (though maybe they're cached?) like CNN and Ycombinator
>The TransferWise program in the United States is sponsored by Community Federal Savings Bank, to which TransferWise is a service provider, except in certain states in which TransferWise Inc. is a licensed money transmitter.

What is the difference between states using an intermediary bank and ones with TransferWise Inc?
Yeah, OP did the thing with zero legal costs and headaches.
Typically you know a ballpark right?

Without interviews and evaluations of the company and candidate, how would either decide on the worth of the other.

Or are you saying that you typically do not even know the ballpark range?
I'm surprised people think it brutalist. I took those tiled ceilings to be a classical reference -- the pantheon in tube shape.
Forced bundling is a common sign of monopolies-gone-awry. Most consumers want a-la-carte selection of shows, services, and sites; but are forced into bundled deals because the big providers make a-la-care far too expensive.
I don't disagree with your sentiment, but I've flagged this comment because it's the sort of drama bait I'd expect to see on other sites.
L.A. Times and Sacramento Bee sue for records of law enforcement discipline
This was my very first comment on HN. You made my day :)
I'm not quite sure I buy this founders' "myth" of experiencing a transformational mistake - why can't we just be satisfied with them looking for an opportunity and executing well?

It's getting really tiring to read the same PR tropes, to be honest, and we need to start calling them out. The BBC, particularly, loves peddling them.
From what I'm hearing, the people producing listacles are keeping their jobs, because they can just shovel out content at low cost and sell ads. Meanwhile, real journalism takes time and doesn't always pay off, so its high cost.

It's also very important to delineate between Buzzfeed the site (which is effectively a trash tabloid the likes of what you are likely to find near the grocery store checkout), and their news org, Buzzfeed News, which is probably at least decent (except for their recent reporting on the Mueller investigation with no evidence) and where the layoffs seem to be happening.

In either case, these are venture capital firms without a working profit model, I think the main Buzzfeed site has resorted to selling cooking ware to capitalize off the popularity of their recipe sections.
It's dramatically better than what I receive as an American (I get the 6 major American holidays, any time off beyond that is unpaid). Europeans rightly view that as crazy.
75% of the US will suffer below-freezing temps this week
I'm standing at an Ikea Bekant sit/stand desk right now and have no issues with wobbling. I also only have an laptop, external monitor, two bookshelf speakers and a small lamp on it, I can see how a monitor arm might cause wobbling. I've had it for ~3 years, moved it a few times and never had any issues with it. At the time it was far cheaper ($500) than any other sit/stand desk on the market, not sure if that has changed.
It's very much not-cheap, but I really like my https://www.humanscale.com/products/product.cfm?group=float

Rather than being motorized or cranked, the desk's weight is counterbalanced with springs/pneumatics, similar to a garage door. Adjusting the desk is faster and easier than either a motorized or hand-cranked solution, and is completely non-electronic.

The particular desk I linked is quite expensive, there may exist cheaper knockoffs that I'm unaware of. I'm surprised I don't see more counterbalance type sit-stand desks, they're significantly more convenient.
I definitely understand the reasoning behind automatic updates, especially when it comes to keeping up with security patches.

Some rare times, some of us need finer grained control over these things, though, and it probably shouldn't be called "disable" if the OS will re-enable it at will, without notification.

It's one thing to protect the user from themselves, and another thing altogether to lie to them. It's (generally) the latter that will get people upset.
For those who can afford it, the Uplift Desk[0] is the best desk I've ever used -- very sturdy and there's even a reclaimed wood option. Huge sizes available (if you're into lots of table space) and the resale value is pretty decent (to other nerds/people who want lots of nice looking desk space). Also never had a problem with the motor/setup.

You can often order them through local office supply mom & pops IIRC -- was one of my favorite purchases.

[0]: https://www.upliftdesk.com/
Hedge funds are also exempt from money laundering requirements: https://www.propublica.org/article/why-arent-hedge-funds-req...

The billionaire class has captured our government. This is just one more consequence of their control.
I don't think our exposure or lack thereof has affected our appetite for capital punishment - now that we don't see it I'd say there's much less of an appetite for it than a hundred years previous.

Also, the modern human is much more aware of the the ravages of war - we see it on our screens all the time. If you weren't overseas, you wouldn't see any details during the world wars. I don't think that warfare is changing in any way to become more isolated from our actions - if it was more effective to tie a hundred blades to ourselves and hug others I'm sure that we'd be using that now if we could.
It doesn't: "Data is stored reliably but can also be voluntarily purged if the user designedly clears cookies and application storage".
Google bans ad blockers, but is fine with ad-blocking browsers
I think the authors were up-front that some of the issues they encounters (for example table optimization) could have been done in Redshift.

What I found intriguing about the cost savings was that it was achieved on Amazon as opposed to going on-prem where you can push costs down further especially if the workload is reasonably stable. It's therefore likely that there are still substantial savings that can be squeezed out. That gap gets bigger if you scale to large cluster sizes.

In thinking about costs it's also important to remember you can run a data warehouse perfectly well without a cloud management plane. It really depends on the data warehouse complexity, how many other things the team has to manage, and their comfort level with the technology. Redshift--to its credit--has so changed the conversation about data warehouse operation that we tend to forget this.

Disclaimer: I work for Altinity and the article came from our blog. We did not write it and the authors are not customers.
Been using a Jarvis desk for a few years, have one at work and the exact same model at home. Can definitely recommend them. They aren't wobbly at standing either. My friend had the ikea one and it was such a pain getting warranty stuff since they wanted him to haul the thing back to the store over an hour away.
Can anyone explain why there's a leading semi-colon in the inline script example? AFAICT it doesn't do anything.
Do you mean you want like C#?

public class 그뤼고
{
private 이 이 {get;set;}

public 그뤼고()
{
var 문좌열은 = 이.문좌열은;
var 기ㅖ버역을 = Enumerable.Range(0, 10);
var 오타비문이 = 기ㅖ버역을.Select(요 => 요);
}
}

public class 이
{
public int 문좌열은 {get;set;}
}
I just wondered why there is only support for IndexDB and not for WebSQL. Turns out all modern browsers support IndexDB by now :)
Examples. Documentation is great, but without practical examples, it's useless to me. I learn from example, not trying to decipher man pages.
They have a 10 year warranty, and the problem was publicly identified as a manufacturing defect. So, yeah.
App Store developers have earned $120B since 2008
Please don't take HN threads on trollish tangents. With all respect to the forces of 4chan, it's off topic here.
Re: It's because those scenarios were just as outlandish and uninformed as those against net neutrality.

Both "sides" often exaggerate their points; that's politics 101. That doesn't mean that all of their predictions will be entirely wrong.

Re: blocking Netflix unless you pay extra wasn't going to be a thing

How do you know they wouldn't eventually do that? If they have competing content, it would be profitable for them to charge more for competitor content. Do I need to make a spreadsheet for you to show you why? Why would they otherwise skip profits?
It all factors in but realistically with SaaS there is little in terms of fixed assets.

Most likely a lot of the additional factors for the valuation multiple calculation are going to be around efficient customer acquisition, sales cycle payback periods, and different income percentages (operating, net). X factor would be if other competitors of the acquirer are also bidding on the acquiree.
I don't know if this point gets brought up much, but I wholeheartedly agree. The data generated from situational A/B testing is scary. Just imagine what you could learn by looking at one viewer's choices across a range of situations that you control... While I doubt the mass-analytics is there yet, it made me shudder at the privacy implications for the future.
I have two jarvis desks. The extended reach ones. So far they have been excellent. Used for over a year now.
I'm curious about something closely related, which is: what are the practical things that need to be done to put brakes on the process? It feels like we've failed to articulate a concrete plan that we put to governments.
You should be just fine with a cheap lm1117 and no heatsink, that's what most people use with esp's. Also that's peak current from the radio, which for IOT things is generally very short.

EDIT: Wait I meant from 5v, nevermind!
One thing I do in all my term sheets that might be a useful addition is to include a summary cap table showing the founders how much they own and our fund owns post-funding. That pre-empts any confusion over the impact of an option pool increase on each party.
I send only about 1 [domestic] wire transfer per year, but I don't recall ever paying a fee (USAA, Vanguard, or ETrade). It could be that I just ignored it, but I am generally pretty fee-sensitive and feel like they were all either $0 published or courtesy waived.
Love seeing so much Patrick Collison content (should I say PC content?) lately. His Tim Ferriss podcast was thought provoking. I think that's what's important - he has new ideas and he's talking about them.
"I haven't killed nearly as many people as Hitler."
The Oracle Linux SAG is a reasonable place to start for documentation on it:

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E52668_01/E54669/html/ol7-about-b...

However, I often end up at the Arch Linux wiki, too:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/btrfs
nice.

I assume, still, it should not be used to store JTW refresh tokens, or anything where secure storage is required.
Then that’s inconsistent with the beginning of their readme:

> For example, clearing cookies is a common user action, even for non-technical users. And browsers will unceremoniously delete IndexedDB, LocalStorage, and/or SessionStorage without warning under storage pressure.

> ImmortalDB is resilient in the face of such events.

I guess that’s a good thing. I was worried about the next browser supercookie being made with a library like this.
Too few cybersecurity professionals is a gigantic problem for 2019
the code written as is, is broken, as in yes i couldn't get DifferntialEquations to install, because somewhere in the dependency graph some package pins/pulls SymEngine v0.4.3 which has a deprecated use of is_windows, which is fixed in the PR that i linked to

https://github.com/symengine/SymEngine.jl/pull/150/files

the obvious fix was to update to the latest version of SymEngine using the #master modifier with Pkg.add() but it didn't work - it kept ignoring #master and adding v0.4.3 nonetheless. i then tried #5dfc78a, the hash of master, and neither did that work.
Arguably PhDs in those subjects aren't that useful either and they just seem respectable because they've been around a long time. Many things would seem ridiculous if they were brand new but become respectable and accepted through age (see: new religions vs old religions).

But in the case being referred to here, it's not just that the subject being studied is ridiculous, it's the reasons she studied it in the first place:

https://thoughtcatalog.com/chloe-angyal/2013/10/why-im-getti...

Several issues here:

1) She knows nobody cares and studies it anyway. Not a smart move. At least you can argue some people might care about a PhD thesis on the works of Shakespeare.

2) She directly tackles the question you raise and the answer deserves ridicule:

"Why study romantic comedies? They’re formulaic and predictable and light and fluffy. Everyone knows how they’re going to end. They don’t mean anything. Why devote years of my life to them when I could be studying The Odyssey"

Hmm, good question. Because:

"Well, for one thing, I’m interested in stories about women. And all those abovementioned stories, those stories we take so seriously, those 'real' texts, are about dudes."

To recap - she admits that she did a PhD in a subject nobody cares about, studying texts that "don't mean anything", for no better reason than because more useful or meaningful texts involve men. In other words - it's gender studies. The stereotype that people with gender studies degrees find it hard to stay employed is being proven true right here.