skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish I'd saved a link to this, but the last time around when centralization was the big push, someone pointed out that the uptime numbers we care about in a professional setting relate to all of our tools, not just individual ones.

Which is to say that if I can get 75% of my work done without one of my tools then the impact to the business of an hours long outage is relatively small. Even if the outages are frequent, we can learn to adapt (real example: oversubscribed Atlassian products crashing on Friday afternoon due to resource exhaustion - move work to Thursdays or Mondays).

But if the entire system goes down due to shared hardware or simultaneous software upgrades, then you can end up with an office full of people who can't get a lick of work done. Heterogeneity wins out in this case, and 9's can be measured in a way that doesn't reflect the actual business impacts accurately.
You know, I'm not sure why people get so snooty about self-diagnosed ASD. (Speaking as some who was formally diagnosed as a child.) Our definition of autism is based on symptoms. This isn't like someone with a rash deciding it's caused by imbalanced humors. It's more like someone noting that their skin is red, itchy, and has little bumps on it, and deciding that they have a rash.

Also, the study specifically dealt with people who had formal diagnoses already, so I'm really not sure how your comment is even relevant.
I dont have cable at home, so the only time I watch broadcast TV is when i'm watching it on the TV at the gym while running.
If you like this I highly recommend reading Feynman's autobiography "Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman". It's written just like this, in a conversational and accessible voice. I just finished listening to the audio book last month and I loved it. It's insane how good he was at communicating, and it really gives insight into how his mind works. Helps that he's led a pretty interesting life.
When it's connecting to a wifi access point your phone or device doesn't know what resource you'll actually request so instead it pings the most resilient thing a Google engineer could think of at the time without risking DDoSing someone which is Google.
Hmmm. I still don't see it in this article at least but good on ya for knowing and pointing out that difference.
The music industry refuses to let go of its analog roots
I tried Windows once as my main dev environment but was forced back to MacOS / Linux.
>I emphatically sympathize with the journalist who have been recently let go.

I don't, hopefully they all get fired.
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Who knows? Maybe all tech companies came to an agreement one day, a little secret we don't know about. Why do they all require that type of interviews? Employee retention... If interviews for software engineers were focusing on real work experience only, everyone would be able to switch jobs very easily. Think about it. It would be so easy to get in without even putting extra work because you'd be evaluated on your day to day tasks, rather than something that requires months of intensive practice. It's a way to scare engineers and to keep them away from switching jobs.

Now let's say you don't have any experience and you're fresh out of college. What happens with today's setup? Well, you're perfectly able to tackle these interviews since all you know are algorithms, data structures, etc. There's no retention involved since it would be your first gig ever. It's a perfectly well designed process for Tech companies, but it's awful for us I agree.
That next feature will not save your business
My Nexus 4's fragile cover (glass back and bits of plastic on the side) doesn't seem to have been designed for repeated wear-and-tear battery replacements. A 10 minute procedure does a little more damage each time.

So yes, the procedure should be "idiot proof".
> Declare it and you're certainly going to jail for longer than tax evasion.

The lines you include it in are general income lines, no explanation of the income is expected or required. It's not like there is a separate line item for illegal activities. So, no, you aren't certainly going to jail if you report it.
Play music is already announced to be killed off.
And it's actually bears name of it's creator - Mendeleev.
Without knowing anything about the particulars, I'd say $80/hour, so about $150K
Excellent work ! Any examples with urban landscapes ?
Establishing the culture of dishonesty among the entire Chinese population isn't even remotely my job or prerogative, but if I have stories of systemic cheating within some of the Chinese culture at my University, then that seems reasonably apropos. I suppose you think I should just pretend like my experiences didn't happen, and not mention it to anyone? I never said the Chinese people as a whole are one way or another, and I'm taking offense to these unwarranted accusations.
Wow, I hadn't heard of the 4chan thing and it's super interesting!

Here's the wiki article with the improved lower bound for the 25 year old permutation problem: http://mathsci.wikia.com/wiki/The_Haruhi_Problem

And a news article: https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/24/18019464/4chan-anon-anim...

Here's the original thread where you can see people confused about what the actual problem is, I think it's a fun read: http://4watch.org/superstring/
Using chemistry to save chemistry's history!!
6 more years is a really long time on the web. You may want to base it instead on usage metrics — IE, once usage drops below what % are you willing to stop testing against a browser?

Win7 support is ending Jan 2020 also, at which point IE11 will only be supported on Win10 (and it's not default there). So that may be a good date to start considering ending IE11 support as well, especially with Chromium-Edge coming out later this year.
Shannon may be well known in the HN community, but definitely not outside of here.
This should be the top comment. Pretty much all endurance sports are individual sports and vice versa. They also don't require a lot of technique and are straightforward to learn. Picking up a team sport or sport with more technique involved (e.g. badminton, skateboarding, etc.) is definitely not as straightforward when you are middle aged.
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I was self-diagnosed for years, was tested for autism as a child (age 5), was borderline and back then there was no spectrum, you was either full on autistic or not. Few years later things changed, though it wasn't until I was in my early 40's that I got a formal diagnoses for aspergers.

This was mainly brought on due to numerous employment experiences and mostly the last one in which the company I worked for sent me to America to work for 3 weeks. Simple enough, though fiscally they utterly destroyed me. Chap from Canada (company base) was also over there. For me to cover expenses over there they sorted me out a pittance expense advance. Chap from Canada, had 5x that advanced! Equally my boss messed up the form, did it as salary advance and upshot was first week there I realised I was going to be paid nothing end of the month, be owed a bucket load of expenses and my rent and all my bills would bounce.
Short version, boss failed to sort it out, complained to HR about me chassing him about it and my subsequent breakdown, lossed the job, home, everything. Still not recovered from that.

More to the story, things like started low salary, told would get big pay rise after few month, never happened. Promoted without pay rise, did most of the work (including peers stealing credit for my work.

But then, get many things that upset you in work. Recall in another company, having time off for family funeral, arraged return date and come back to work to find somebody sitting at my desk!

I will say one issue that I wished I'd identified early was never to mix work with pashions. As I literally burned myself out so many time that the toll has been horrendous. Made lots of people very rich, but got taken advantage off something rotten.

Had I had an earlier diagnoses, life would of been easier for sure. That I have no doubts and I'd of been in better shape today mentally.

So anybody self-diagnosing - just get formally diagnosed, just to protect yourself from being abused.

That said, I have found that in some area's of life, your better of not even saying you have mental health quirks. AS you end up getting patronised and somewhat ignored. I've had personal experience with the UK Police and frankly it's shocking how bad you can be treated.

Still, encouraging that some companies being properly mindful about such people and with that, not just giving lip-service. Just a bit late for me alas, I'm a spent force in mid 50's now.
> particular subset of powerusers perfectly capable of working around the issue

What is the actual workaround? Is there a patch that unbreaks nohup by passing cwd and env to systemd-run --user or something?
Why "learn to code" though? Why not "learn to write quizes"? Why not "learn to plant potatoes". What exactly qualifies miners are prospective coders ? (this is where the actual joke began)
"that kind of thing" -- you are making it sound way worse then it actually is. Most of them were targeted at the editorial department and not persons.
Would the campaign be less opressive if people suggested that the laid off "learn to cook" ?
That is exaclty the point, nobody looks down on coal miners and nobody looks down on coal mining. Coders on the other hand have been taken as a joke long before the twitter thing happened. look no further than Mr. Trump
Candy Japan at the bottom shows $1.1k/mo, but the first link shows $8,200 revenue/month.
The logic is fine, it's just not an analogous example.
Sure, but what does that actually mean?
> ping an IP controlled by their manufacturer

Who is the manufacturer? For many smart home devices, Google either is the manufacturer or at least the creator of the software, so it sounds like they might already be doing what you're proposing.
How do they know when a cert is issued for your domain?

Edit: I never knew about this! https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6962
The Facebook one is weird. There are some strange thought processes going though her head, which she kinda acknowledges. Stuff like:

> I have to admit that the enjoyment of a holiday dedicated to dressing up is somewhat degraded when not using Facebook’s apps.
Sounds about right to me too, and the particulars certainly matter -- like, are you assigned to the company paying for your hours full-time and without a specific end date? If not, then of course part of that hourly rate is compensating for downtime or uncertainty in the billed hours.
It's weird that the version of Windows that finally added tools that might make it possible, if not pleasant, for me to do real work on it without truly doing all my work in a VM, also went so far into crazy-town that I don't even use it for gaming anymore.
>we have to ask why it hasn't taken off in a more mainstream way.

I also ask why has javascript taken off to be the most popular language in the world?

The answer is because javascript is the best programming language that was ever invented by mankind.

Same with visual programming. Why hasn't it taken off? It must be because it's bad.

Maybe whether something takes off or not has more to do with external factors than to do with how good something is.
> Well, this boils down to: in a modern operating system, is it good design that an unprivileged user who logs in once can consume arbitrary runtime resources uncontrolled, unbounded forever, even after logout just because they decided to mask SIGHUP? I think not, I think the system should default to behaviour where unprivileged processes are clearly lifecycle bound

If there were some way to design this so that nohup would give a permission denied error on start and tmux would give one on detach, rather than die on logout when it's too late to display a warning, that would be a lot better. There may not be a feasible way to do this, but it would solve a key part of this problem, which is that people don't find out about this behavior until something has already gone wrong, and don't find out that systemd is responsible for the behavior until after they've gotten frustrated enough to be mad about it.
What do you mean by the manual step for nativeinstall? It is risky if you don't trust us, which is why Mozilla won't let us do it automatically, so it has to be manual.

What do you mean by imap and nmap? We already have separate binds for normal and insert mode (which is why you can type into text boxes ;) ). I think Ctrl-Z was bound to ignore mode in Pentadactyl. Now I think about it, I don't know why it isn't bound to ignore mode; I should probably do that. Anyway, `stop` is just fundamentally broken at the moment because we can't access the page until it loads a bit. It is bound to `x` by default.

We actually have most of the readline binds. They're hidden away on the help page - if you look at the third paragraph "text areas that can be found here" - but we left them unbound by default because I don't use them and we can't rebind ctrl-w. I don't want to train people that we have readline binds and make them close tabs that they're editing text in :)

As for your editor - I don't know why it isn't working without more information. Feel free to file an issue on GitHub. (For the avoidance of doubt - you need to have a text box focused to use it - I know it sounds silly but it has come up before).

You don't sound ungrateful - Tridactyl is complicated, has weird defaults, and is badly documented.
The ones I know who are both capable of and interested in it do not usually have the time to do so, and if they do, it is because they became teachers who sell their output to students.
curious to know who the "20 people who are already at the top of their fields" are.

...wondering why they wouldn't publish that so that folks who apply have a better idea who they'll be spending time with.
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> Flexbox is a layout system for 1D content.

An individual flexbox container is one dimensional. To get a 2D layout, you nest rows and columns.

> ...doing a responsive layout in explicitly 2D terms is a very weird thing to be doing and usually isn't what you actually want.

I have no idea how you would come to that conclusion. To me, a "responsive" layout is one that adapts to the viewport size. The viewport is 2D. This is a 2D layouting problem.

A subset of that problem is concerned with fitting content of a fixed viewport width to a variable height, i.e. your classic web site. That's what you may call "1D content". Once you're trying to get a layout that adapts to both viewport width and height (i.e. an ordinary application), CSS can get quite ugly.
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It seems like it's mostly used by large corporations for intranets. Ebay, EasyJet and maybe Samsung are most likely to be the ones internet users would encounter.

[0]: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/case-studies

[1]: https://www.quora.com/What-are-publicly-known-biggest-custom...
I've been bad with endurance my whole life until I did the Couch-to-5k training program. Doing a 1-mile run in school was always a nightmare for me. It's a fantastic 8 week training program that alternates between run days and rest days. It starts off with run 1min, walk 2min, run 1min, walk 2min until 30min. Then it progressively gets to longer running components. I was blown away by the human body's ability adapt to stresses of running. The first week I was dying just from running 1min, walk 2min. Then mid way through, running 10min, walking 1min became a piece of cake. I heartily recommend it if you're trying to get into cardio.
Seriously that's crazy.

Its why I've never been a fan of the GPL. Its restrictive instead of permissive.
The article doesn't say the GCP results were incorrect. What's your source?
> Our definition of autism is based on symptoms. This isn't like someone with a rash deciding it's caused by imbalanced humors. It's more like someone noting that their skin is red, itchy, and has little bumps on it, and deciding that they have a rash.

No, it's not. A rash is a symptom, not a disorder diagnosed from a complex combination of symptoms; it's more like self-diagnosis of AIDS prior to the discovery of the role of HIV, and the use of HIV testing.
Their blog posts claimed they are planning for a Windows 7+ version of Chromium-based Edge, and may explore cross-platform beyond Windows.
From my understanding, Actual does not maintain any servers that hold user data. I believe this is referencing the fact that currently, data is stored unencrypted on the device itself, but that in the future there are plans to encrypt it at rest on your devices. More details here: https://actualbudget.com/syncing-devices/
I think you misunderstood what I said. The comment I replied to expressed the myopic view that stealing trade secrets and corporate espionage is a one-way street.

I'm fully aware that pretty much every nation uses it's capabilities to get an advantage, through any feasible means - that includes corporate espionage. I highlighted the Snowden leaks because they exposed the NSA's activity in that space, in response to a comment that painted the picture of "only the Chinese do this" and "it's a one-way street".
Based on my extensive arguing on the internet experience, I can 100% say that you caused this outage. That caused mayhem and made a lot of people less happy, well done.
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The certificate authorities proactively tell public logs, which these services monitor.

https://www.certificate-transparency.org/

https://crt.sh/monitored-logs
> One hypothesis is that endurance sports offer something that most modern-day knowledge economy jobs do not: the chance to pursue a clear and measurable goal with a direct line back to the work they have put in.

I can buy that. I love working in the yard, because when I'm done, I can see the fruits of my labor physically manifested in front of me. I can even see partial results when I'm 1/2 done.
Great news on the status! I use both Chez and Racket and I look forward to having the merged Chez backend being the default. I am going to try Racket CS soon, and hopefully I can immediately switch.
I suppose there is no way to make it work with Firefox on Windows and iOS? That would be awesome!
For everyone who's being cynical about this opportunity: This seems like a great way to practice pitching what you do and why it matters. Personally, this seems like an interesting exercise, regardless of whether you get in or not.

For anyone else who is interested, it might be fun to have an organized "Show HN" where we exchange and critique pitches.

Edit: Since this is getting some upvotes, here is what I propose: I'll post a "Show HN" here at around 10am PST on February 15th. People can reply to that with links to their pitches, and then everyone else can respond/critique in the replies. (This should leave enough time for people to edit their pitches based on the feedback they get.)
indeed, these people need to travel more, or at least read Confucius / Sun Tzu. They all forget that they're thinking long term and not like in the West where today's short-term profit trumps all that might make sense in the long-run (not just companies but already starting from the way families work).

I'm convinced that this complacency, ignorance and attitude of superiority is also the kernel to their downfall and demise. The aging US/EU as a viable market simply is a joke when compared to the potential of the Asian markets.

I asked an Italian double Michelin star chef once where he had the best dish of authentic pasta ever. He said in Tokyo (but that it was closely followed by his mothers recipe).

Not saying that the Chinese are as quality obsessed as the Japanese, but there are countless similar points where the West just misses things because of ignorance and the Emperial feelings of superiority.
works fine on desktop, but it's unusable on android constant crashes, jumpy cursor or repeated words in text field, jittery scrolling, slow loading of pages and don't get me started on pull down to refresh ignored for years, because apparently giving users options it's against Firefox philosophy
Yeah, I gave a Surface Pro 4 with Windows 10 a go for like 9? months.

Some things I remember that drove me crazy:

- high DPI support was terrible

- typed "git status" into a Linux subsystem terminal and it took so long to finish I gave up

- there were ads in my Start menu (WTF)
Scrolling in Firefox on Android is smoother, ie. more consistent 60fps, than Chrome for me for a few months now. It used to be very bad but suddenly improved dramatically.
The nature of journalism is that outlets report on things that are happening in the world. If these stories were just long opinion pieces about why former coal miners should code, that would be one thing and the criticism would be valid. But each of these pieces linked is literally a reported out piece about actual people and groups teaching people to code.

You could probably go back and forth on whether the idea condescends to blue-collar workers. But the fact is, there wouldn't be these stories if the trend didn't exist and there wasn't a legitimate effort to make it happen before a reporter gave someone a call.
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Reflexivity is a bit of an overburdened term in sociology, but in this case I think "depth of self-reflection" would be a reasonable stand-in definition.

Essentially, the relatively shallow externality of "pain, suffering" becomes a sort of pornography of self-improvement. In other words, it has all of the outward signs of self-improvement activity with none of the critical inward-turning, truly reflective contextualization.

In my own practice this is frequently seen in prioritization of e.g. income and careerism and socially-prioritized-labeled-experiences. The people who say, "I have circumnavigated the globe, I've climbed the tallest peak on every continent, I drank the mythical Peruvian tea, I am a triathlete, I was at the top of our sales floor so long that they did away with the award." When there's no real "me" and "who I am," in there, just a bunch of externalities that "all of us can honor and appreciate and sit in awe of," in a list.
I feel like I'm seeing Prometheus arriving with fire stolen from the hands of the gods.

(But the year is 2019, and we've had fire for thousands of years.)
As APIs (at least those the court ruled on) are code, it appears they are licensed along with the rest of the code. Java's APIs would, therefore, be dually licensed under either a commercial license or an open-source license (Android originally complied with neither; I believe it now complies with the open-source license).
> Are the services really very hard to automate?

Absolutely yes. Patients may be frail and suffering cognitive decline that demands compassionate expertise if one is to provide humane care.
That tweet I linked is in the article... but cheers...