skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What schools? I don't know of any such degree at MIT, CMU, Berkeley, UIUC or any other top school. At best it will be a single course or some added certification to your degree, and even then they will teach you software engineering processes, not Node.js and React.
In Europe computing university degrees tend to be mix of CS and Software Engineering.

If you want a pure CS, usually it is a maths degree with major in computing.
Brand names for soap and flour go back well over 100 years. And before they had names, they would have been associated with a store - “Jim’s mill has crappy flour”.
I can see a response from 10 hours before this one about sea based mass produced nuclear. It doesn't appear flagged to me (though I'm not sure what that looks like).

I didn't respond as I have no real issue with people that understand rolling out nuclear involves challenges just like rolling out renewables.

It's when it veers into conspiracy land and people act like we're collectively choosing renewables over nuclear in a fit of green luddism that I object. Doubly so if it seems like cover for climate change denial.

For people that believe in climate change and don't think renewables are a scam then they're entitled to their opinions on nuclear even if I think they're wrong. They're not being maliciously stupid or stupidly malicious like a subset of noisy nuclear fans.

Personally, I still maintain that renewables on their current trajectory and a carbon tax are the only tech we need to solve climate change and turn a profit compared with the status quo. All that remains is the hard part, collective global action when some people can profit from screwing everyone else.
I'm biased because my team and I created Vector [0], but I'd highly recommend investing in a vendor-agnostic data collector to start. You can use this to collect your data and send it wherever you please. This will afford you the flexibility to make changes as you learn more, which will be inevitable.

[0]: https://github.com/timberio/vector
So after abusing this bullshit for more than a decade to bully companies. How gracious and generous of them. Oh btw, Satya is the CEO for 5 years.
They popularized tags instead of folders. Tags I get - I can toss emails into "todo" + "personal" + etc and remove it from other views, without deleting it, and without using up more space. Many local apps still struggle to support this smoothly, though it's gradually improving. Same goes for server-side support, e.g. on Fastmail a duplicate in another folder costs duplicated storage.

Other than that, dunno. Desktop email clients have basically always been faster to use IMO, and setup has been borderline trivial ever since imap/smtp discovery strategies became common.
This is hardly news, they're just letting them sell phones online.
> Most major schools offer degrees called Software Engineering.

name three.
Some of the media pogroms against China in recent years might qualify. Huawei, Hong Kong, the South China Sea, Uighurs, the Yulin Dog Festival, the list goes on, but coverage of the country has been almost universally negative.
> Rolex may be overkill but different watches serve different roles

A Casio is going to tell the time better than a Rolex. Quartz watches are much more precise, and they’re powered by batteries, so last much longer without any maintenance. Rolex is simply in the segment of high quality, hand made mechanical watches. A segment people like for reasons other than its precision in keeping time.
> For me this week: Paid for a city license, paid the cat sitter, paid for a small magazine subscription, made a charitable donation, and paid the rent.

Even ten years ago in Australia all of that was done through internet banking, and if I wanted to I could set it up to pay those automatically when the next bill came in (or not, it's up to me).

I've never written a check in my life (I'm 37), and whenever I get one I laugh and am shocked people still use them.
Engagement rings are status symbols, and many women, perhaps even most, will care about it for the rest of her life. Many women I know upgraded their stones after the family's economic situation improved over time.
India is not perfect, its democracy is full of cacophony with racial and tribal undertones. But once the results are out the transfer of power is clean and peaceful.

It is not Norway or Sweden, but its not an autocracy. India built its version of Democracy that is worth it.

Modi and Hindu Nationalism are the present - they were not there in power 7 years ago and 7 years from now, a new PM and Party will come.

India is no Turkey and farther away from China.
AFAIK, gcc still circles around clang.
Margins being high isn't just caused lack of competition, it can also be caused by unwarranted prestige e.g. De Beers diamonds. You could go to an affordable community college with professors who attend because they enjoy teaching, but then you wouldn't have a sexy expensive degree from MIT/Berkely/Stanford college where the world's most esteemed professors send their TA's to teach you so they can focus on more cutting-edge research.
They don’t fly to london? I live in London and I fly Ryanair from london Stansted all the time
> Brand names for soap and flour go back well over 100 years.

I mean, that's the point, right? Each one's history stretches back at least 5-10k years.
> "there is no 'other' informatics ecosystem" on which security, privacy, or surveillance practices and principles apply

SIPRNet?

(I would argue that the fact that governments try to have their own air-gapped packet-switched networks for secure communications, is a large part of the reason that governments don't invest too much into making the regular Internet secure.)
Men Can Have Better Friendships
Only up to a point. This bug is a misfiring attempt at detecting undefined behavior to allow for optimizations.
If we did not attempt to remove null pointer checks, that would have prevented this bug in GCC.

Hence, the practice of optimizing based on UB is relevant here, even if this was a compiler bug, rather than a compiler optimizing based on UB.
We're in the middle of a cloud migration, but in our dockerized environment we're sending logs directly from stdout to cloudwatch using Docker's cloudwatch plugin.

In our legacy environment we're writing to files and sending them up to cloudwatch using awslogs.

Cloudwatch is kind of ass for logging, but they added insights somewhat recently; it upgraded cloudwatch logs from being unusable to just being a pain in the ass to use.

This works for us so far because it's super simple and we don't have a major need for log analytics, just the occasional production debugging session.

I did a PoC for fluentd + logdna/logz/etc and that also seemed to work pretty well.
I work at a far larger company that scaled from a smaller company.

Most people do not show up to interviews late and the process is a 1hr phone screen + 1 day onsite + 30m decision meeting. From start to end, if the candidate was available, took about 1 week. That part is not a scaling issue, but a cultural issue where it's OK to be late or flake on interviews.
Sure sure, They had been extorting countless companies for decades including Satya's 5 years. Give me a break. They are neither benevolent nor better than Google.
I have a pet theory about this.

Your whole life has goal posts laid out for you. You go to elementary school, get good grades so you can get into honors classes in middle/high school. And you do this again for college. Everything is quantitatively measured. How many questions did you get right? How many days did you attend school? How many extracurricular activities did you participate in? How many hours did you volunteer? All check boxes that other people hate laid out for you so that you can be measured in the funnel. And, artually, for some people this process can continue in their career. You get good grades in college, then you get an internship at BigCo. Then you get a job at BigCo. On and on until you die.

The problem is, you never had to figure anything out. So if you ever decide to do something non-standard or if randomness hits you too hard, or if someone along the way deems you "not good enough", now you're off the track. And you have never had to set your own goal posts. If you have to be constantly told what to do, employers are not going to want to hire you.

I think the lack of critical thinking goes hand in hand with an inability to function without rulebooks and structure.
Considering all the "good" the Dulles brothers did for the world, maybe this is for the best.
They've definitely gotten things very wrong, e.g. in 1989 Howard Schaffer, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia, testified to Congress "“We’re confident that [the Pakistani supported Afghan Government] will be neither communist nor messianic Islamic” [1]. Then Pakistan helped the Taliban seize power in the ensuing civil war.

[1] U.S. Congress. House Committee on Foreign Affairs. (1989). Developments In Afghanistan And Their Implications For U.S. Policy. Congressional Hearing, Feb. 21, June 14, 1989.
Ownership is linear types. It's part of the type system.
I'm not sure Mason is the best example here. It had an O'Reilly book http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596002251.do and was used by the RT bugtracker, as well as non-Amazon businesses, including the largest Usenet provider in the world.
Sorry if I'm out-of-date, but how do checks work online?
> previous president has accomplished

I think "accomplished" comes with positive connotations. To successfully achieve a task, you need a task with a defined goal. And unless the goal was global chaos, there are no accomplishments here.
Lol wtf? Only one airport is “in” london and that’s London City. Which is an expensive thing mostly made for bankers to go to Frankfurt etc. I assure you all those airports serve London. I live here
Or simply that maybe there wasn't such a big distinction between being very close to a same-sex friend without any sexual relationship and being close and experimenting/enjoying each other bodies whenever people partied/had some good time. That is, if people back then didn't really see anything wrong with beautiful/healthy (same sex or not) friends enjoying what their bodies had to offer then the strong distinction that we draw today between those 2 cases was much more blurry back then and not something to be talking about much.

Do you have any evidence to the contrary or are you just saying that it's equally possible either was happening?

Even if there's strong support to say Alexander never pursued any homosexual relationships there's such a thing as artistic license and historically based movies are riddled with inaccuracies for whatever reason, and that's perfectly fine, they aren't advertising themselves as documentaries.
> Costume jewellery, designer clothes, some kinds of art, all derive their value from the story the creators tell.

As a young lady my GF used to sell her handmade costume Jewelry on the street in New York. She said the key to selling was a card with a story. That was the difference between selling a brooch made of glass, brass and random bits held together with glue for $10-20 and not selling at all.

Things are different with utility items. I remember a retailer (my brain won't cough up the name, but every man over 40 would recognize them). He said his brand was, well made spiffy but not too spiffy men's clothes. His profit margin depended an a working age man being able to go in, buy a couple of shirts, pants, and a coat knowing he wouldn't look like a dork when he wore them to work.

I feel like that's Apple products too.
“the truth is like poetry and people hate poetry” -steve carell as mark baum
I don't believe this for a second. You done been duped son
Within the constraints of the technology (e.g. >2GB files) isn't FAT32 already this? I can plug it into my Apple, Windows, and Linux devices and it will just work.
This is a good read. The difficulty of transporting large wind components over land is one reason that onshore wind turbines have lower maximum capacities vs. offshore turbines. The largest onshore turbine is 5.3 megawatts [1] while the largest offshore turbine is 9.5 megawatts [2]. Transporting super-large components by sea is easier -- no tunnels, bridges, or winding roads to worry about.

Very tall turbines tend to improve capacity factor and project economics by tapping steadier winds found further away from the ground. For onshore projects, at least, that benefit is in tension with the more difficult transport and assembly logistics noted in this article.

Solar has the logistics edge in that all of the components for a solar farm are much smaller and weigh less. Even the largest individual solar modules are under 40 kilograms each. Racking systems are also assembled out of smaller pieces. No oversized loads need to be transported to the solar farm site. There are more truckloads of components for a 400 megawatt solar farm vs. a 400 kilowatt farm, but the individual components and trucks need be no larger.

[1] https://www.genewsroom.com/press-releases/ges-largest-onshor...

[2] https://en.wind-turbine-models.com/turbines/1605-mhi-vestas-...
>I have had to find minimum cost paths in a tree, though.

Umm... every path is a minimum cost path in a tree, because there’s exactly one path between any two vertices.
You have no idea what you’re talking about and you’re embarrassing yourself. Going to those airports is piss easy and they are 2 of the 4 airports that serve this city.
For the better since ACH is woefully insecure.
Do you have an XML job feed?

We are aggregating jobs from ATS-es.

https://www.postjobfree.com/include-job-feed
That is not it.
Disclaimer: I work for both Papertrail and Loggly's parent company: SolarWinds.

For general purpose logging - we deploy Papertrail's remote_syslog2 https://github.com/papertrail/remote_syslog2 - which is more or less set it and forget it setup. e.g. specify which text files I want to aggregate, and then watch them flow into the live tail viewer.

For logging in more limited environments (can't sudo or apt-get install), we use Loggly's http API (https://www.loggly.com/docs/http-endpoint/). Also, Loggly's JSON support allows us to answer questions like: "how many signup events failed since the last deployment". Or "What is the most common signup error".

Bonus! If you're looking for trace-level reporting and integrating that with your logs, check out the AppOptics and Loggly integration: https://www.loggly.com/blog/announcing-appoptics-loggly-inte...
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They’re certainly well paid enough for their land lord to live comfortably.
Kudos to the guy for bouncing back though !!

“After losing everything, he toiled in misery for years — but he eventually made an improbable comeback. In 1997, he took out a £155k (US$203k) loan on his house, built up a health club business, and sold it for £3.9m (US$5.1m). He then used the profits to start an online jewelry company. (The Ratners Group rebranded as Signet in 1993; today, it is the largest diamond retailer in the world.)”
Thank you for this. The Western supremacist attitude of GP's comment really bothered me too.
It's just good risk management to ask the "why will it fail" question to find out the failure boundary of a system. Know where and when the breaking points are give everyone more confident in the system.
They already know the deal when they buy.
Dungeons and Deceptions: The First D&D Players Push Back on the Legend of Gygax
You’re having a laugh. Living in east london I can get to Stansted far faster than Heathrow or Gatwick.
Russia collusion
The top 15 countries with the largest oil reserves together have over 1.5 trillion barrels of oil remaining. There's more in the remaining countries. [1]

Edit: Annual world consumption of oil is about 100 million, so we have about 15000 years of reserves left. [2] That seems to me to be a glut.

1. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/map-countries-most-oil-rese...

2. https://ycharts.com/indicators/world_oil_consumption
The thing about all of those skills is they are all soft skills, that can be taught quickly on the job to the right candidates. Whereas a deep ability to solve a technical problem cannot be taught in a reasonable amount of time to most people.

Asking someone to find the matching subtrees in a binary tree might not be the best interview question, and to some extent it is kind of trivia for "did you grok your CS education well" - but the point of algorithms questions overall is to see if the candidate, when confronted with a tricky problem, will solve it.

And no, these tricky problems don't come up all that often, and you're often just doing basic coding plumbing work. But the candidates who can solve these problems can do all the plumbing work too, and when confronted with a tricky problem, they can get past it. And they also may innovate in an algorithmic way where a less deeply technical developer will either get blocked or come up with a worse solution.
Pretty much. They don’t even disguise it - their whole marketing is “if you want to fly cheap fly Ryanair” that’s it.
With a staff level under a few hundred, it isn't that strange. People only tend to complain more about negative experiences vs. positive and the internet lurker rule (%99 lurk, %1 write content) explains the rest of the numbers.
Make science PhDs more than just a training path for academia
The article touches on that:

* Marketing to discourage such sales ("a diamond is forever" "a diamond is a family heirloom")

* Few people would be willing to sell something for 1/3 - 1/5 of what they paid for it if said item in no way degraded. It just sucks psychologically
I think the "golden age" of Alexandria occurred during Ptolemy II's reign.
A hospital stay and MLB blackouts led me to RTL-SDR radio
Why would Ryanair ever have a crash? Their airplanes are usually quite new. The EU hasn’t had an accidental plane crash in ages. Have you ever flown Ryanair?
> due to 1 child policy (10 years left or so)

If I understood this comment correctly, after another 10 years the 1 child policy will no longer be in effect? What are the chances it'll be extended? What are they doing to prepare for the population boom?
At the risk of being glib, I don’t think much can be done about the crime at this point.
Add "super foods" to that list, which vary in actual health value but are all heavily supported by their associated agricultural consortium.
You have to be kidding right.. swindling is never a successful long term strategy.
Trump extracted transactional Trade treaties with Canada, Mexico, South Korea and Japan.

Name another president who re-shaped American trade with that many treaties - I cannot think of any one in the past 50 years.

An over-extended america wants vacation - stylistically it make look a bit different but substantively "american retrenchment" is baked in 2016 no matter who the president is.
The difference is Microsoft sells and licenses products to help customers with real needs. Google's customers are all about dark marketing.
and maybe it's true that some styles of clothing are "not for everyone"
It's a lot easier (not to mention cheaper) to get a working Apple II. Lots of folks out there want the chance to meet around with an Apple I for less than $100k.
That is quite high on my "I shall never marry anyone who ..." list
I guess I didn't qualify for financial aid then. I had a small scholarship, but I otherwise worked hard and lived frugally and earned my first degree with only $7K in debt. My peers came out with $40-90K in debt, but they often didn't work or only worked 8 hours/week (compared with my 20 hours/week) and they would spend money lavishly (partying, luxury clothes, daily starbucks lattes, 2-4 years in dorms, etc). I'm not sure if my experience was typical, but making one's children pay for their own education is hardly a cruelty (mind you, education in the US is still far too expensive).
> an important part of this analysis is that student loan amounts have gotten significantly larger in the last 2 decades. Another easily-made observation is that student loans stopped being dischargeable because of widespread ruthless default, even with tuition rates less than 1/3rd what they are now.

Four decades ago student loans started becoming undischargeable (1) and the price of college has gone up over 6x, and I have never seen evidence that prior to that there was "widespread ruthless default", as you stated. Not to mention, times have changed and with the Internet and it would be much harder today than back then to hide a previous bankruptcy.

1.https://info.legalzoom.com/did-laws-effect-preventing-bankru...

College should cost 10x less, easily. If I graduated with $5K in debt instead of $50K (or to take the national current average of $2,400 instead of $24,000), there would be no need to even consider bankruptcy.
"Silently incorrectly compiles code in a very bad way" is a fairly unusual bug, particularly for a well known platform (also a credit to gcc).
ThoughtSpot hauls in $248M Series E on $1.95B valuation
There may be some confusion in my mind between companies that are only recently embarked upon a new business venture, and those who are already bringing in sufficient revenue to bootstrap further growth, but are adopting a generic "startup" branding strategy in order to shape their work culture and attract further investments.

That is, after being an indisputably young startup, the business declines to transition its identity into being a growing small business, and remains a self-described "startup" because it is secretly a huge business that is still in its second or third instar, ready to moult, and to also seem like a cooler place to work than it actually is, now that the HR department has multiple permanent employees.

The emergency all-hands pivot brainstorming meeting just doesn't seem like it can even take place in the same building as all those design discussions and code reviews.

Does anyone else think that "startup" has become a branding strategy rather than a descriptive term?
Please don't do the programming language flamewar thing on HN. It's tedious and dumbs down discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Lol, well you must never have run into me either between 1990-93 or again 1999-2002
First of all there is no debtor's prison in the USA. Even if he unequivocally had and owed 500k btc, he could just say no and go about his business. But even if this was a criminal case, the only way the government can get his coins would be:

This is simply wrong. It's not an issue of "debtor's prison" it's an issue of being in contempt of court by failing to comply with a court order.

If this was a criminal case, the government would need to pursue a separate action to seize the coins because criminal cases can't result in the seizure of property, only fines and imprisonment. (When police seize property, that's a separate but related civil case to the criminal case.)

They can put you in jail, but they can't take your btc.

This is true, but they can keep you in jail for as long as you are in contempt of court, i.e., the rest of your life.
Very funny!

"When you join a startup, there’s a lot of emphasis on the design of the application, reusability and clean code, and the ability to conduct and undergo code reviews, as well as the ability to think of and build systems that can scale based on users and geography"?

I don't know which startup he worked for that was doing all this and still managing to stay afloat! Startups want you to crank out features and get clients in, everything else is a failed strategy!
Not maybe, definitely. Just one of those things that for some reason isn't acceptable to say despite being obviously accurate.