skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read this and was immediately reminded of David Sedaris' short story about working as a Macy's Elf:

>I spend all day lying to people, saying, "You look so pretty," and "Santa can't wait to visit with you. You're all he talks about. It's just not Christmas without you. You're Santa's favorite person in the entire tri-state area."

>

>Sometimes I lay it on really thick. "Aren't you the princess of Rongovia? Santa said that a beautiful princess was coming to visit him. He said she would be wearing a red dress and that she was very pretty, but not stuck up or two-faced. That's you isn't it?" I lay it on and the parents mouth the words, "Thank you," and "Good job."

Source: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/47/transcript
Oh, I'm not bashing you at all. You're absolutely correct. You bring up extremely important things to realize when discussing space travel. Especially long term missions. Political will being the reason why these missions haven't happened, as someone else mentioned, is total crap. It's just an easy excuse to not think of ACTUAL consequences and live in a scifi fantasy.
https://www.wired.com/story/theres-no-good-reason-to-trust-b... (Bruce Schneier: There Is No Good Reason To Trust Blockchain Technology)

https://www.dailycal.org/2018/03/09/father-internet-vint-cer... (Vint Cerf: "In addition to discussing the history and advancement of internet technology, Cerf talked about cryptocurrency. When asked about bitcoin, Cerf said his first response was to “run the other way.” On the topic of blockchain, he struck a more moderate tone but cautioned about its applications.")

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/25/bank-of-america-skeptical-on... (Bank of America tech chief is skeptical on blockchain even though BofA has the most patents for it)

https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/breaking-the-blockchain-ma... (Breaking the blockchain: Major projects shelved as hype fades)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-29/blockchai... (Bundesbank: Blockchain Settlement Was Slow, Costly in Trial, Weidmann Says: “The blockchain solutions did not fare better in every way: the process took a bit longer and resulted in relatively high computational costs,” Weidmann said in Frankfurt on Wednesday. “Similar experiences have been made elsewhere in the financial sector. Despite numerous tests of blockchain-based prototypes, a real breakthrough in application is missing so far.”)

Distributed ledgers, blockchain, and cryptocurrency are solutions looking for a problem, overly complicated and underperformant infrastructure. They attempt to solve for trust with technology solutions in a world governed by human regulation and legal frameworks (which always take precedence). A database will work just fine. Everything else is snake oil.
This sounds kinda nice. Certainly better than a sandwich, or a lunch. You have to give it points for originality at least.
FWIW, the elevators at work have been spammed pretty regularly now. It's about once a week that someone gets through to it when I'm on an elevator.

It's not just hospitals, it's any phone at all. I've deleted my voicemail and that seems to have helped a small bit. I'm on the job hunt and as such I get a lot more spam than when I was not in the market. Yes, some recruiters and HR people may fall through the gaps and I may not call them back, but generally anyone that wants to talk to me will send an email as well. I'm kinda using a crummy 2FA for the job hunt.
This stuff adds up fast. $10/mo for YT Premium, $15/mo for Spotify, $15+/mo for Netflix. You are looking at almost $500 per year in subscription services alone, not even counting your phone bill.
This outage is a great example. I can ping Google Calendar servers and I get an HTTP response. SSL also works like a charm.

And yet everybody agrees it's down.
If I really stretched my imagination, maybe 'She's worked so hard and did so well for our company, maybe she deserves to take a nice vacation, here's the most popular book for women to symbolize that'.
Don't forget about Symbolics stuff: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/symbolics/
Exactly. The output is indeed pure Lisp, but it isn't very human readable when transpiling anything more gumptious than Hello World.
Are you looking at applications outside of sales demos? Might be useful for customer success, etc.
Diluted with what?
I'm 56, and my first job out of college was at General Dynamics Fort Worth Division, which is now part of Lockheed Martin. I did not work on the F-22, aka Advanced Tactical Fighter, but I did work on avionics software for the A-12, aka Advanced Tactical Aircraft, which got cancelled by Dick Cheney in January 1990. I had some contact with ATF engineers because at that time (I can't speak for later), ATF and ATA both used IBM's Common Module computing hardware and the Ada '83 language. We used MicroVAX workstations for our Ada compiler as well as our CASE (Computer-Aided Software Engineering) and documentation software. I was not on the program when the software tools decisions were made. I do know that other programs at General Dynamics used Apollo and Sun workstations, which were Unix based. I can only assume that either someone thought the VAX environment was better, or DEC made them an offer they could not refuse. I was a Unix fan at the time and would have preferred Sun, but the VAX was not a bad system.
Seems like for the next 50 years, politics will be about passing the buck to the next guy in the office.
They probably didn’t read it. “Don’t attribute to malice what can be explained by ignorance “.
Do you have any suggestions for the best practices for implementing SAML? or any other blogs that you recommend which would cover this area in depth?
Checker Plus caches calendar entries offline.
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> trade school [] are optimized to make corporate drones

I mean, I'm not a native English speaker but it seems pretty clear to me I was NOT talking about college output, quite the opposite actually.
To be honest, I've never really understood how a Dyson sphere would be superior to many nuclear fusion reactors that you can move around / turn off and on / build more of / etc
How Facebook is going to change crypto forever
> So it's built on nothing, it does nothing and underpins nothing, it wastes huge amounts of otherwise useful energy and that makes it a good investment?

Just an armchair hypothesis, but perhaps given it's lack of underlying utility (vs gold for example) Bitcoins "value" is mostly just a measurement of the level of distrust in fiat currencies and the institutions and governments that back them.

There are a subset of people who by nature will never trust fiat currencies, or govts and institutions that back them, and the "floor" of Bitcoin is defined by their participation, as well as those with a vested interest (i.e. a large early stake) in Bitcoin. As the distrusting population expands and contracts, Bitcoin will vary in value.

I do wonder whether rising energy costs will take a bite out of the value proposition for it, though.
>Anyways this was a good reminder to look after myself and not be a “team player”.

Well you can do both, just don't expect anyone to do the first part for you. Especially if that means moving on.
try candles. natural light for me gives me least issues. most electric lights are exhausting...
Specifically, at question was whether or not a private non-profit, appointed by the state to operate in place of a public org, was bound by the same 1st amendment requirements.

It does bring up some interesting questions. Could a governor outsource specific depts and free them from 1st amendment concerns?
Stronger: I can't put being a parent on hold to write my book. Not if I already have kids. I can't put it on hold to build my career, or launch my startup. They need you today, not when your "north star" is done.
You have solutions like Akka, Vertx, and Reactor/RxJava on the JVM. Not to mention that the JVM is getting a green thread (fiber) implementation by means of project Loom.
Thanks for making this. I just signed up and the first email looks great. I think you should link the channels page on the landing page of your website.

https://ketchup.today/channels/
A 50% increase in people means a 50% decrease in wildlife. (at least it has in the past).
If it rains less, you dig more wells. Why do you think drought and pumping are independent?
Hey.. we're open to hearing about other applications for the product but right now we are focused on making sales demo's more engaging. If you and your team are using it for a different purpose, please let us know at hello@correly.com!
Image search "mems microphone" to get an idea of how it looks. There is a hole in the microphone body – fill it with glue. Or just remove the microphone.
You are connecting the wrong dots my friend.

Just because you haven't wrapped your head around complexity or how good outcomes are produced, doesn't mean only bad things can happen.

The internet does a great job of keeping people feed with problems way above their pay grade for no good reason.

If Paul Graham had taken a course in Education or Pedagogy, his article would have an elaborate note on who should really be reading them. The conclusions you reach are very different once you have experience and done the prereqs.

It's like dropping off your second grader, in a tenth grade classroom for a month. What conclusions about the world is the second grader going to draw at the end of it?
Interesting name choice, as you might mistake it for something freedom related. But the etymology of "libra" doesn't have that connotation.
Yeah, I got something similar to that. Make 6 figures and got a 200$ yearly bonus. I'd rather have no bonus. haha
running applications in docker is safer than not running in docker. if you want to run multiple applications, you can use lxc (linux containers) instead.
I got an XXL Berkshire Hathaway shirt. I'm a medium. Thanks
I wish I had your friends and family’s comfort with using GPG keys.
I would echo what Verdverm mentioned. If you have never done any data analytics before, this would be a 2-phase project.

First is figuring out what data matters, how you'll collect it, and have someone set up the systems to collect the data. You'll want to ask yourself "what questions do I need answers to", and then work backwards to figure out what data you need and how to go about getting it all in one place.

Second is having someone that can do something useful with that data.

You might be able to find someone who is both willing and capable enough to complete the project from start to finish and then continue with analytics.

More likely, you would set up the data stuff with someone on a contract, then hire an analyst once the data is usable.

It might be beneficial to have some overlap in timing to be able to have your analyst and whoever is setting up the back-end stuff collaborate.
I see!!! This is the kind of eyes wide shut you folks use to justify working there!

It's so gross.
Actually, in the talk where Munger said that, he listed most of the 80 or 90. He didn't go into depth on any of them, but he listed them.
The Rust compiler won't let you do that either!
No, this is just a fancy tautological development argument. This is how we got into the Java trap (yes, it's a trap) to begin with. Everyone knows Java, you can hire Java devs easily, etc. etc. There's really no reason for this other than: "We don't want to let people grow beyond the cogs we hired them to be". That may or may not be "good" but at least call it what it is: Broken internal human factors processes, instead of couching it in pseudo-technical tomfoolery.

There is literally NO reason (other than time, mentoring and desire) that the jr. Java developers couldn't pick up Elixir in a short amount of time and be fully productive.
Kevin Kelly talked about this issue a while ago. He points to the Amish as a counter example to general population decline.

https://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_kelly_on_how_technology_evol...
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Are you serious?

If I put "Go fishing" into my calendar for next Monday, Google knows:

1) This person fishes.

2) This person probably buys fishing related products.

3) We know this person lives in X and fishes there, and business Y has a website selling similar products.

4) This person is going fishing on a Monday afternoon (for example) so they are probably off work on Mondays or afternoons.

Let's say, I also put in meetings. "Meet with Joe about building a website for his company."

1) This person builds websites

2) Uses hosting services

3) Buys domains

4) Probably codes

5) Must need project management software

6) And all other things typically related to people in this field...

Knowing someone's life this intimately is incredibly valuable.
Facebook’s Libra pitches to be the future of money
Companies have different rules and expectations. I was paid for every overtime hour I worked. Early in my career I was still learning and it was worthwhile, both financially and technically, right out of school. It can simply be a 9 to 5 job which is different than the commercial world I work in now where I don't get paid for extra time.
WTF. I’m sorry I’m flabbergasted.
It's not that these projects shouldn't exist, it is that THIS project shouldn't exist. Facebook and co have already proved they can damage society in devastating ways - continuing on this line of thought with currency and expecting it to go any other way is naive thinking. I say this as someone who would happily work at FB (just not on this).
Shushhhhh, I've still got my fingers crossed they don't notice us.
I'll just leave this here: http://gorm.io/docs/many_to_many.html, http://gorm.io/docs/has_one.html#Association-ForeignKey
So ten years ago it would have been “the sisterhood of the traveling pants.”
"The menace to our people of vehicles of this type hurtling through our streets and along our roads and poisoning the atmosphere would call for prompt legislative action. "

Well, to be fair, they weren't wrong about this.
So facebook (and partners) can mint their own money. Are we supposed to be OK with that? Wasn't this issue one of the primary reasons for crypto currency existing in the first place.

This shouldn't be allowed to exist.
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Due to YT constantly changing video decryption functionality, ~4-5 times a year it breaks for multiple days. I fully expect it to be suddenly broken in a year or two.
Or when a team works 6 weekends in a row, give them 3 days extra off and make it sound generous.
Certainly bizarre, but pretty harmless I think. I could certainly think of worse.
Eh, if you mean "shorter" in number of links in the chain, sure, but obviously the overall amount of materials that go into the escalator isn't appreciably affected, and an escalator with larger, chunkier steps must necessarily take up more space due to the thickness. You could argue that reducing the number of moving parts is desirable, and I'm sure that's true to a point, but I'd be surprised if the operational burden and cost of an escalator with 51 7 inch steps is significantly different than one with 45 8 inch steps.

Then again, there's some reason they do it, and I'd guess cost is part of the equation. I just don't think it's quite as simple as you're stating it.

Edit: I'd actually bet that a large part of the calculation is cost of retooling and changing the standard, which would involve having a whole line of incompatible parts to manage.
Only if it's exposed to vacuum (or an atmosphere). It might be enclosed by ice or other (preferably but not nessesarily transparent) material.

Even if the ocean is exposed, we now have the time it takes for 1. the planet to become tidally locked due to tidal forces, 2. the atmosphere to be stripped away, 3. the ocean to evaporate. That might be plenty of time for higher lifeforms to develop.
I worked at one of those companies that earned ridiculous money refinancing peoples homes during the run-up to the financial crisis. (Yes, I now know it was quite unethical)

They had a boiler room team of salespeople who made an insane amount of money. We are talking six figures a month. They were not at all highly skilled or had any financial background or degree.

Their bonuses could be a luxury car. (or once a horse).

I worked on the IT side. We made the software that basically did all the work.
It included instructions of a spiel to sell loans, how to get around various excuses and such. And it did all the work with filing the required paperwork
ensuring all the required information was there, sending out information to the people who refinanced all that crap. You could, in practice, take someone from the street, set them up with this software and they could sell loans. (this is not as far fetched as it may sound).

I have so many stories about my time there but anyways, the IT team was not at all
highly paid, nor very appreciated. One Christmas we knew we were getting a bonus,
and given what we knew about bonuses being handed out we were kinda excited.

Wanna guess what it was?

A $50 gift card for a ham.
I assume you are joking, but your statement highlights the problem with a "moral" system rooted in maximizing shareholder value. I think free enterprise markets have many advantages, but there has to be a better grounding for ethical decisions.
Oh for crying out loud. If it bothers you that much, delete Facebook and all apps related to the FB ecosystem from your phone and install a tracking blocker. If enough people do this, then Facebook ceases to be relevant just as much as Myspace did.

If that won't work because everyone else is on Facebook, then obviously most people don't share your opinion that Zuck is that big of a threat that needs to be ousted right? So you either have to accept that the majority of people are ok with it or convince them to ditch Facebook also.
The metropolitan areas around certain cities, such as DC, are in a much different situation than those that experienced a structural loss in value. Around DC, there might have been a temporary loss in value due to reduced economic activity, but overall, the value trends upwards.

But if you look at places from the Northeast (excluding BOS/NYC/PHL) towns, all the way to Midwest to the South that had factories close and not come back, those are still cratered and going down. There simply isn't enough economic activity to support populations, so reduced demand, plus whatever demand there is can't afford to pay much.
If our military-industrial complex is so concerned with protecting operational capabilities, then why have they facilitated the offshoring of industries to China, especially industries concerned with the manufacture of some of the world’s highest technology? Shenzhen literally has skyscrapers of high electronics logistical heaven; in America we spend billions of dollars on fuck-all software and can’t repair broken consumer electronics circuitboards.
Great name that's not going to create any confusion in those Spanish speaking countries that call the Pound "Libra" (hence the £ as the sign, by the way).
I never heard of Coda before so went to their landing page (https://coda.io) to see if it could really be as bad as you say it is.

The copy on the website is generally marketing heavy with things like "Coda is a new doc that grows with your ideas" but things like "Coda is a new canvas that blends tables and text together" makes sense to me, imagining that it's like a document that also have tables, that you can do computations on (so like Excel). The example videos/GIFs seems to show the functionality and when I reached the end, I feel like at least have a slight idea what it's about.

Wouldn't be enough to compare it with other services, but I definitely have "some idea" of what Coda is.

Am I alone in understanding this from looking at the website, without any prior experience?

I do know some other examples that could fit into the "Classic startup landing page design where they forget to explain what their product is to potential users/clients" ending of your comment, but I don't think Coda missed the mark on explaining what they do.
I think a lot of people are missing the point:

All they need to do is to have 1%+ cheaper fee than cards.

And no matter people's ideals, all businesses will add it.
Java is getting a fiber (green thread) implementation by means of project Loom. I recommend you check it out. In the mean time, you have other solutions like Vertx, Akka, and Reactor/RxJava.
I also can use it for buying a coffee or sending payments across border directly and I appreciate already the developers and managers behind it but people die and suffer for the sake of "low volatile assets" for years. Speed or functionality may be problematic previously but we have much deeper and important problems which can only be solved by contributions of companies like Facebook. That's why I'm uttering this here.
FWIW, coming from Chrome, the Firefox mobile UI was very frustrating to me also for about two weeks 'til I got used to it. Now it feels familiar and seamless.
Microsoft Outlook for Android shows zero appointments, at least once a week, and nobody posts about it. Shouldn't broken features make headlines regardless of whether the root cause occurs on the client or the server?
What I meant is a civilization where only the powerful have a say, and regular people become serfs to powerful, warring organizations. Which, yeah, I guess isn't very well articulated by the word "feudal".
art world seems prone to emperor's new clothes
If you are a bank, you issue loans only on things that are likely to have a positive ROI. With a mortgage, you know what the property is worth and can foreclose on it if the borrower isn't able to make the payments.

No such equivalent with a college student. 18-year olds for the most part aren't going to know for sure what they want to major in, so "a useful degree" at the time the loan is signed, might change 2 years in, when they actually have to declare a major.
> what problems people solve that they need to call IO in the middle of Dijkstra’s algorithm.

I worked on several problems of this nature at Twitter in 2012. Hopefully there’s a better way to solve them in 2019...prolly not, but maybe.

say you want to find the median of the number of followers a person on twitter has. so that should be easy - make 1 dataframe with follower count of each bloke and call median() - well, there’s some 300,000,000 blokes, so not that easy :) You have to make a dataframe via ETL - reading & writing to disk 100s of times, loading a few thousand users each time, distributed median computation. so a silly sub-second median query took 2 months to code up & debug & ran for a few hours due to so much IO.

another much harder problem - you want to find the median number of hops between one user & another. so now you have 300m x 300m tuples as your result - where & how to store them is in itself a monstrous challenge. but how the heck do you even compute the result ? you read in one tweet from john to steve, so that’s 1 hop from john to steve & viceversa. you then read a second tweet from steve to mary, so that’s 1 hop from steve to mary & viceversa, 2 hops from john to mary & viceversa. in this manner you read 100s of billions of tweets & keep updating hopcount. somewhere in there john sends mary a tweet - oh fuck now the hopcount is 1, not 2. this will then change lots of other hopcounts. in theory there are nice graph algos for this sort of thing. but in reality, your data is billions of tweets constantly increasing, stored in distributed compute clusters across the planet & just getting a handle on all this can be a 6 month project for some lucky scientist who got to work on this.
I wonder if they can use this approach to convert and generate tons of tools for this OS. Build a POSIX layer, convert tons of useful unix tools using LLVM.
A minor correction: librae, solidi, denarii. Solidi were so called, according to wikipedia, because (at first) they were solid gold.

Solidus would also be a decent name for a stablecoin!
De-icing Charon seems like an appropriate peace-time use of the world's nuclear arsenal :)