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> Is there any chance I'll be able to work on OSS and/or "modern" tech (e.g. containers, Go, etc.) without a ton of push-back?

As long as it is the right choice, yes. As far as I know, I built the first service internally that was entirely container based, but did so because it was the right tool for the job. Container based services are getting a ton of traction internally now, especially Fargate-based ones.

You're going to have a hard time making a case for Go though. I have not a single time been convinced that Go was the best tool for the job in 5 years at Amazon.

> It also seems Amazon is obsessed with reinventing wheels and keeping their stuff internal, which is worrying.

I have not found this to be true. But I can see why people might think this. Amazon built some state of the art tooling quite some time ago, and it's starting to show it's age. Rather than drop the internal stuff for new OSS alternatives, they've continued to add modern features to the internal tools, which I think is the right choice overall considering the scale at which they're used and integrated.

Again, it is about the right tool for the job. If you present a compelling case to use an OSS alternative then more than likely you'll be able to use it.
Yeah, I thought it was fine (I was both a reviewer and a user).

I mostly posted to provide some contrast to the folks that are saying things like "there are too many open-source libraries and they need to be approved to make sure there aren't any security problems", which is not what we did. We did not attempt to limit the use of libraries, nor did we vouch for the security-readiness of packages before they were allowed to be checked in to source control. If you think there are too many npm libraries and are looking for an example of a big tech company saying "no more!", this is not it. Use all the libraries!
Soviet books and influence were especially common in the state of Kerala, where we had the first democratically elected communist government. I remember this book called Misha (for kids) and Soviet Woman for well, women. They were very high quality prints, and was a joy to read.

Till the 80s Kerala had strong Soviet influence in politics, lifestyle and even in the architecture of buildings. I remember when I visited Vietnam, I was surprised by how similar their cities looked.
MEPs accidentally vote wrong way on copyright law
Condensed matter physics PhD (2016) now working in the software industry as a data scientist.

Focused on modelling/simulating materials during my thesis and realized that I loved the software aspect of things and did not love working on the same problem for many months at a time.

As others mentioned, transitioning to data science is not that hard if you have a physics background and there are many interesting problems to solve in the area.Most of my graduate student peers are also in data science/ML and related areas (software/finance).

Although money was a contributing factor, the main reasons to leave academia were being able to live in a city that I liked and where my partner could also find a position.

Did not look back on physics at all for the first couple of years post-PhD, but missing it quite a bit nowadays. End up buying a lot of Physics books every year, although don't get through many of them. Latest purchase was Exercises for the Feynman lectures.
Well not really, because the law has no provision for prosecuting porn users, it simply provides a basis for a regulator to instruct ISPs to ban certain sites which decline to implement its porn age check, if the relevant body which usually puts age classifications on films can actually be bothered to keep updating the blacklist for every new pornblog.

The latter isn't exactly without the potential for dubious consequences (the BBFC has theoretical grounds to ask my ISP to block Reddit) but "selective prosecution of undesirables" isn't one of them (and the BBFC is probably no more likely to use its power to make Reddit "adults only" than it is to do the same for Disney films with a bit of gore)
While I was growing up in the 90s in the same state in India as the author of the article, English translations Soviet science and math books were super cheap (I suspect they were heavily subsidized) and have had a profound impact on me. My mum used to read a lot of the English translations of literary works, but I had no interest in them until I was much older.
This doesn't just apply to teens: we as a society suck at creating social spaces outside of the home and work for anyone. Churches failed catastrophically to adapt to changing social values, civil-society type organizations have done nothing but decline for decades, and people in general have less free time to devote to building communities outside of work.
Here's the original source for oracle: http://www.groklaw.net/pdf3/OraclevGoogle-1236.pdf

The original source for Microsoft is Mueller: http://www.fosspatents.com/2011/10/study-on-worldwide-use-of...

I elected to not link the first because most people dislike being linked to court documents, and the second because it contains no context. I did check both existed before I posted this.
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Dr. LeCun is a French native, for what it's worth
Most likely because the Department of Space comes under the Prime Minister.[1] And it was very important to assure the international community that we are not going to use it for attacking another country. PM's direct involvement helps this very much. The Chinese test got a significant negative reaction because of the ignorance from the top leadership.

1. https://www.isro.gov.in/about-isro/organisation-structure
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19500900
I agree with you. In the UK at least, 'U-Turn' is a classic part of the political lexicon.

Sometimes focus groups will indicate that a policy direction might be a non-starter. Or something will be perceived to be so unpalatable to the public that it wouldn't even make the manifesto and be campaigned on. Sometimes, proposed government legislation makes it a bit further and it comes under the scrutiny of the media. Backlashes from the media can amplify blacklashes in the populace, leading to the proposed laws being toned down or abandoned completely. Not always, not even frequently, but enough. In one particular case, the public backlash was enough to depose a PM with a reputation for an iron grip on power (Thatcher and the Poll Tax).

I think this contrasts with legislation proposed by the EU Commission (motivation: unknown, perhaps in a significant part to the 300,000 paid lobbyists in Brussels), which seems at the public level to come out of nowhere and inevitably be approved by an obedient EU Parliament as a formality.

This particular instance might be used as an example of resistance being futile anyway, but I think it's a slightly different case. You're not going to get 500,000 people being photographed marching past Parliament with placards displaying "hands off my filth".
Many things go wrong. Monorepos + bazel is an approach that’s well-suited for some use cases but poorly suited for other use cases. The problems usually happen when some early engineer “knows it all” because they saw these tools in action in a different use case (such as inside Google) and incorrectly assert they will be good solutions in some other use case (e.g. a start-up with very different reality than Google).

If the company is healthy, there will be a give and take, people will acknowledge that e.g. monorepos are not universally always a good or workable choice, and compromises or trade-offs will be analyzed in earnest.

If the company is not healthy, which happens often in start-ups that are forced to adopt a monoculture or extreme philosophy of the founder or early engineers (and enforcing dogma may even be a main reason why those people left other jobs to be early employees in a start-up), then usually by some argument from authority or poorly conducted confirmation bias blog post competition, the dogmatic choices about monorepos or bazel tooling (just as common examples I’ve seem turn out poorly) will just be mandated and all intellectual integrity about it will be shut down.
Five Programming Lessons from a Journalism Major
Land Value Tax
Still recovering from the stress of a 3 year postdoc, working a minimum wage job.
If you look at the attributes of some creatures, weapons etc on the df wiki they are highly unrealistic and counter-intuitive. Moreover, the apparent complexity does not translate into fun gameplay, and actually hurts it in the form of high FPS. And the game play is still simple, almost mundane behind the hardcore veneer of inaccessibility.
Awesome! I appreciate it. It’s nice to hear someone say that have had through the night sleep without tossing a bunch of money at a Snoo.

And congrats!
I'm surprised that in a city as big as Stockholm there's only one fiber operator... in Malmö depending on your building you'll have either Telia, Tele2, ownit, bredband2, etc etc. It's a free market free-for-all.
Speed is one factor but not everything:

- Speeding

- Driving under the influence of alcohol and other psychoactive substances

- Nonuse of motorcycle helmets, seat-belts, and child restraints

- Distracted driving

- Unsafe road infrastructure

- Unsafe vehicles

- Inadequate post-crash care

- Inadequate law enforcement of traffic laws
> For now, however, in hard-core physical science at least, there is little evidence of any major BD-driven breakthrough

> Yet, this is precisely what is advocated in the less theoretically grounded disciplines of biology and medicine, let alone social sciences and economics. The oft-repeated mantra of the life sciences, as the pursuit of ‘hypothesis driven research’, has been cast aside in favour of large data collection activities

The thing is, I've just spent two years working for molecular neurobiologists in the field of Single Cell RNA Sequencing, and large data collection has definitely lead through tons of breakthroughs there.

We can now classify cell types based on gene activation, on top of the previously existing morphology and location the cells are found. That can then be used to discover new subtypes, the origins of cells during embryonic development, and even predict which cells will evolve into others[0][1][2][3]. All of this requires vast amounts of data to ensure there is enough statistical power. In fact, the insistence on using unbiased samples before applying clustering algorithms is a big part of overcoming biases based on pre-existing expectations.

(Also, may I request that you edit your comment and break up that block of text into sub-paragraphs, for the sake of readability?)

[0] http://mousebrain.org/

[1] https://linnarssonlab.org/osmFISH/

[2] http://gioelelamanno.com/post/velocitynature/

[3] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05882-8
High Performance Go Workshop
No mention of the most famous Russian book among Indian high Schoolers: [Problems in General Physics by I E Irodov](https://www.amazon.com/Problems-General-Physics-I-Irodov/dp/...)?
I want to do this to have only One High level declarative language to cover all areas to avoid impedance mismatch across all boundaries involved in full stack programming so that learning curve can also get reduced.

Sticking to one language increases productivity as it encapsulates many underlying lower level details which I must not be aware of to get productive. In order to get more productive, I seek a language which is more about WHAT to get done (declarative) than HOW to get done (imperative).

The parser, interpreter and JIT can hide away all the best practices which otherwise needs careful crafty knowledge, lower-level optimization, concurrency, data persistence and system level interfacing details.

I know to a certain extent it sounds like daydreaming but its awesome abstraction to have. :)

I prefer Datalog over Prolog for a simple reason that Datalog is more declarative and program termination is certain.
Seems like this would all boil down to knowledge and intent. I have no love for salesforce but it seems like a big of a stretch to go after a tools manufacturer.
Both these services require small deposit, automatic withdrawl for verification purpose, transferwise account does not support the automatic withdrawl part.
To my layman's eyes Compressed Sensing looked to me fundamental new tool to look at things, did it really make any difference to the methods of physics? Did it have any effect in electodynamics or optics?
Not really. The announcement of Balakot airstrikes was made by MEA officials.
I spent a lot of time figuring out how to import passwords into Firefox. So far, there doesn't seem to be a way to do this. Importing from Chrome only catches a handful of the passwords (seems to be currently broken). There isn't an option to import from .csv, which is unfortunate. I tried ffpass, which didn't work either. Seems to be a big oversight.
In theory yes. My anecdotes are not data, but I am seeing a bit of this now as I am seeing grandparents pass. The common theme is that the houses haven't so much as a coat of paint in 20 years, they are outdated and not in great condition. This is assuming they stayed in the same neighborhoods where the kids were raised. There is a whole other level of undesirability when they bought a condo in Florida (or wherever).

The kids generally have houses, they don't need/want an extra house. Usually there are multiple kids involved, so unless it is distinctly given to one child, it becomes problematic to do anything other than just turn it into a liquid asset and split the proceeds.

This may vary by region, but at least in the Northeast, property taxes are very expensive. Keeping a house around as a spare is just too big of a burden. In the age of AirBnb, there may be some other options.

In all cases I have seen thus far amongst family/friends, the house gets sold.
> What happens when you stick a 32bit float into a 16bit float type in Ada? CONSTRAINT_ERROR. And this could happen at runtime, not compile time. It was Ada's inability to deal with unknown/incorrect inputs and deal with them in an effective way without crashing. This is not that much different than buffer overflows from unknown inputs in C, btw.

That's immensely different actually ... One is undefined behavior, the other is defined but crash. In the first case the problem can stay unnoticed almost forever until somebody exploits it. In the second case, if you actually test and cover your code, you will catch the problem.

Short for using a proof technology (which Ada enables and makes easy because of the large palette of constraints you can add on types), there is NO language that can statically guarantee that your program won't crash at runtime. Yes, Ada is not special in that regard. What Ada guarantees is that it will crash, so you can actually catch those kind of bugs in testing. Also nowadays you can use SPARK Ada to formally prove your code correct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_(programming_language)

Blaming on the language what is actually bad testing/architecture is pretty unfair.

> It's worth noting that this was one of the primary reasons that Ada got less and less traction in the US government, as Ada was supposed to prevent things like this from ever happening.

Do you have any source for that ? From my sources, Ada got less and less traction because of various reasons, one of them being the price of compilers at the time. I have never seen anybody saying that it was because Ada was "not safe enough", and even today it stays one of the safest languages out there in many aspects.
Ironically Schmidhuber's lab also came up with a more general version of bypassing http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.00387 to train deep networks (with similar performance), of which the popular ResNet is a special case.
Germany is one of the five. I purposefuly left it out to see how many people will talk about Germany, trying to say that it's the same in the whole EU.

Isn't it interesting that any time someone tries to disprove me, it's always Germany, Austria and UK or Scandinavia (these are the five+UK), but never Czech Republic, Poland, Spain, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldavia, Serbia, Croatia, Albania, Belorussia and even Russia...? Isn't it maybe because of the issues I'm talking about?

I'm happy that your system works, meanwhile I'm starting my 5th month of waiting in line for a really needed treatment of my back. I've been skipped several times already (corruption).
Rubik's Cube Cake
I really enjoyed Schultz's "Onward," which talks about his return as CEO in 2008 to turn around Starbucks, which was struggling mightily at the time.

Yes, there was a time when Starbucks was not doing well.
Measuring actual memory consumed by Java code section
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Sadly, not that I'm aware of. Prior to 2013 I would have said groklaw - so if you're ever looking for historical articles (and court documents) I can recommend it.
Code for Comprehension
> There's no reason why people have to be piled on each other like rats in San Francisco and NYC.

Yes there is. It's where all the economic and social momentum is, not to mention the infrastructure - what steps does someone take to encourage people to flock to a new city that has no infrastructure, no businesses, and no population? What branch of government or enterprising individual builds out the infrastructure for such a project?
Often around these kinds of high-density cities, many (most?) people are living some sizeable distance from work anyway so I'm not that rent controls would be massively influential there either way. I agree with the principle that we should attempt to reduce commutes but I think there are other issues at play which are more relevant to commutes specifically such as agglomeration which generates areas which are dense in work and relatively sparse in housing and vice versa.

So there are other dynamics at play, some cultural like being expected to be physically present when your work could be done either at home or from a local desk-space or something to that effect. I'm sure there are other possible answers to this, but quite a straightforward one to me seems that paying your employees for their commuting time would probably be right in terms of incentivising employers to allow more remote work or even set up satellite locations (possibly as a part of a desk sharing arrangement) in areas typically considered commuter belts.
I wonder whom did Salesforce annoy enough to warrant a media smear campaign against them.
We did end up banning China, but there such a delay between the transactions and the chargebacks that it was too late. We also tried preemptively refunding suspicious charges, but you get hit with the chargeback fee regardless.
Wikipedia's software is open source. They literally are Wikipedia without the design customizations.
Per month or per year?
Might end up being more fun. Sounds better than sitting in a bedroom in front of a screen for 12 hours a day.
They just went bankrupt because of outdated ingredients.

https://www.insidescandinavianbusiness.com/article.php?id=34...
> In general, the social stuff around these movements is very masculine, and often socially regressive. This makes it hard for women to care about these movements.

You are describing "techbro" culture, but the FLOSS hacker culture which RMS/ESR subscribe to has always been quite different. Hackers' social beliefs are far from unified, but it would not be wrong to describe them as resolutely anti-authoritarian. And their pioneering use of networked communication channels (sometimes even doing away with easily-visible real names, and preferring pseudonymous handles) has definitely helped foster an attitude of gender-equity. Of course, hackers - like anyone else, really - have had to deal with the fact that very few women are in technical professions in the first place. But it would be quite wrong to place the blame for this underlying social fact on the FLOSS community itself!
It's impossible to evaluate the legitimacy of this without more technical details. "Providing customized database tools" could mean all sorts of things.
Thanks for calling attention to the land value tax concept. Was worth the 20 minute dive on wikipedia [1] and references for me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
There's a term for this kind of thing: deep pocket.

The folks actually responsible for the wrongs these people have suffered are likely imprisoned and are relatively poor compared to Salesforce.
But has spent almost all of his professional career in A&T labs, NYU, FB and Toronto.

That's not true with Schmidhuber.
This is a good idea in large companies but the only time I've ever seen this implemented was when a developer wanted who wanted to become lead dev so started hogging permissions to things and set up an internal packagist that only he could add packages to. It didn't end well for him really.
If the movie makers did this to avoid copyright infringement, why then couldn't they have created their own lighting pattern for the shot? If the very concept of putting any lights on the tower at night is the copyright, that's a copyright deserving neglect at every opportunity -a law begging a thumb to the nose.
This is the closest I could find.
https://www.thetalkingmachines.com/episodes/history-machine-...
How did you decide on the split?
I think the implication is that her having been forced to move at the due economic point would have been less coercive than now being trapped into a single location by economic forces -- leaving her freer to seek happiness in other ways, eg, job mobility. Further, that if all the people of a certain class were forced to move, eg baristas could no longer afford to be in the area, it places a strong economic incentive on fixing the actual political problem, which is semi-masked by her current arrangement.

I'm not sure I agree, but I think there's an argument to be had that she'd have more freedom to leave a job if she were living somewhere that she were also free to relocate, and that at scale, this economic distortion leads to high friction.
Because those typically are newer buildings accessible to cars with drive ins. Those buildings are very valuable.

Contrary to strange beliefs of HN, most of business is really simple: make a little money every day over a long period of time. Invest in real estate. 50 years later it would be a very good very viable business.

Same goes for lawyer offices ( not law firms ). The "rich" lawyers do very well by having a small practice and buying a building that they use for law offices. Upon retirement most of their money comes not from selling the book of business to a different attorney but from selling a building that they have paid off.
I somehow associate Hinton with Terry Sejnowski more than his later collaborators. They are all pioneers and this is well deserved regardless, even late!
Aren't we problem solvers?
It's a progress statement. That we are moving forward with the next phase of innovation. Of course 5G doesn't make any sense.
A new search engine that distributes money to content creators
kicked off the road and segregated into bike lanes while cars get to keep the best lanes, no thanks, that's not my idea of cycling heaven. I'd use a car or a motorcycle if I lived there. For now where I live I can still ride my bike on the roads. (edited: syntax)
Learn SMTP. Use telnet to send an email. That is the basics. It gets more and more nuanced after that. Auth. Deliverability (avoiding looking like spam and doing dkim and spf). Dealing with retries and bounces. Writing valid mimes. If you want to be like an email service provider, you will have to deal with multi tenant issues too. These are the basics for sending mail. For receiving mail, you have spam report handling, delayed bounces, inbox validation, mime parsing, etc. Because of all this, most people just use something like postfix.