skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Easy. The people at management level aren't the ones being monitored. There's no cost to them. Easy to trade someone else's happiness for your own profits.

"Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make."
Sorry, I'm still confused, you're saying the $360B 'assets' figure is assets under management? Seems an odd way of describing it, so I didn't even think of it at first, but I can't see how else 'assets' would be so much larger than the valuation.
It's weird that exempt employees can be required to clock in and out. My current employer does this but claims it for tracking capital vs operational expenses and has nothing to do with productivity or policy enforcement. I'm rather skeptical. One thing is for sure, the definition of what constitutes an exempt employee has expanded far beyond its original intent.
Can you expound on thoughts and prayers comment? wouldn't debt help equity holders? Or you think any value created by debt is going to be less than the cost of the debt?
Like crop rotation, nitrogen cycling, animal based fertilizers and quality testing?

Animal fertilizers still contain nitrogen and require microbes that make it available for plant use... this is how nature evolved to work. Not flooding used up soil with lab grade chemical soup.
I try to keep everything I have running 24/7 as low power as possible. On the other hand, RPis quickly become overloaded for many tasks and so you end up needing a half dozen of them. On top of this there tend to be thermal management issues especially on the newer models.

Fortunately there are a lot of great options for SBCs now that are more powerful than the RPi. For example, I run an NVR for multiple cameras on the ODroid H2 which has a quad-core celeron, dual GbE, and 2x SATA - for only around three times the cost of the rpi 4 B. x86 isn't the best for power consumption but opens up options as far as OS. Due to video encoding rpi-based camera solutions often get close to requiring one rpi per camera!

I replaced my x86-based file server with the Kobol Helios4, an ARM-based SBC with 4x SATA. They've recently announced the Helios64 which will knock it up to 5x SATA with a faster ARM SOC, and comes with a hot-swappable drive enclosure that at least appears to rival the hardware of e.g. QNAP at a far lower price point.

I'd strongly recommend that people look around a bit on e.g. HackerBoards before assuming that an RPi is the best fit for their application. For example, a lot of people are running various 'single-purpose' network applications (e.g. pihole) on RPis when for not much more there are multiple options with multiple GbE ports and faster processors.
Huh? Are you saying Google and Facebook don't exercise editorial control? They definitely do, and the whole point of Section 230 is to give these companies editorial control without the legal liability that goes with it.
Maybe you can get away with being absent for 3 hours of the workday if you're competent - but according to the OP they are not.

Seems unfair to one's employer and one's colleagues.
individually it’s very hard to do something. Unions or laws would help setting up a framework for acceptable workplace conditions. But neither of them are especially liked in the US.
So don't end the discussion. What I said is still true, the discussion is colored in a bad light because of his behavior.

In that light, it is impossible to think about the issue objectively, without legitimately worrying about what Barr in particular going to do with it. It's not hard to imagine how he can abuse new powers over Facebook and Google to benefit Trump in the 2020 election.

If he's already selectively applying criminal justice against opponents and not allies, do you think he'll apply fair and objective justice against Facebook and Google?
What about programming languages? They're interfaces too. Can Guido sue pypy team if he wanted to. Seems like this precedent says he can.
There's plenty of people in the trades who consider their tools disposable like work gloves but on a longer time line.

In most of the western world labor is so absurdly expensive compared to material goods that it usually makes sense for anyone paid by the job (most people in the trades) to just treat tools as a cost of doing business and treat them whichever way gets the jobs done the fastest.
They don't teach that in MBA classes. They just teach that employees who aren't at their desks aren't being productive right now.
Another benefit is reduced risk of business interruptions. Living in Los Angeles, I have experienced times when the office was physically inaccessible due to wildfires, and this is happening more frequently. With the whole team in one office, annoyances like internet outages, power outages, police activity can shut down the whole business. Having a distributed team protects you against a lot of that risk.
Another reason: IP fights in the geopolitical arena esp with China, who can provide their implementations for any commercial APIs.
>To be honest (guessing from the 'UK' part of your username) I figured that the UK would have better call center protections than the US.... from your post it sounds like it may be just as bad as the US.

Interesting. How will this revelation impact your future comparative thinking?
"Spruill told TechCrunch that DigitalOcean will scale to $1 billion in revenue in the next five years, and it will become free cash flow profitable (something the CEO also referred to, loosely, as profitability) in the next two."

I find this to be incredible. DO is not a speculative e-business ... they are not a social network. They are the proverbial sellers of picks and shovels during the gold rush:

"The way to get rich during the gold rush isn't mining gold - it's selling the picks and shovels."

Here is a pick and shovel seller that can't make a profit and is going into debt ...
If my boss was monitoring me like that, out of work time even more, I would place a GPS tracker on his car as privacy obviously doesn't matter and neither does personal time.
Trump has some glaring flaws, but you simply cannot claim with a straight face that he is unable to use social media to his advantage.

As an influencer, he is practically impossible to ignore. Granted, some of that comes from the status of the president, but it just seem petty to say that he does not use Twitter well.

I would argue he is the only thing keeping Twitter afloat.
If you can't tell the difference between a generalization and a universal claim, that could be your problem right there.

Also, a dictionary is not a book on racism. It's a book collating common usage of words. I suspect you don't name a book by actual experts because you've never read one. Maybe you should try that before trying to discuss the topic further.

That would also explain why you're doing the a classic white-fragility routine here, arguing over trivia and playing word games rather than actually grappling with the ongoing harm.
Thanks - I would never apply with just an idea. I'm a senior software engineer and I've already started building the prototype.

My bigger challenge is whether to try to find 2 people to partner with, and if so who/what roles that would be. I know generally speaking solo founder startups are less likely to be picked up. Debating bringing on a designer or maybe a mobile dev(s) (I do back-end/db/web so I have that covered).
Found the American.
https://xkcd.com/2267/
I did not downvote him, but a cryptocurrency is only tamper proof because the entities that decide the rules are distributed (in Bitcoin it's the miners who extend the blockchain). So to being down the Bitcoin network you need to bring down all the miners, which is basically impossible.

But here there's only a single entity that decides the rules. So if you shut down riksbanken's servers, the servers that are deciding which transactions are valid, you essentially shut down the network.

Sure you can have thousands of servers around the globe sharing the last seen state or new but not yet verified transactions, but that's not a very useful network. They would instantly be discarded once riksbanken's servers come online to sort out the mess.

You can have this problem in Bitcoin too, if you isolate a majority of the miners from the rest of the network, essentially splitting it in too. But that's much harder to do.

Edit: Here I refer to deciding double spends, which the critical problem any digital currency needs to solve. Without it anyone can print money out of thin air.
The Noun Project has a few options that might work (most don't meet your requirements), including a couple showing a lean person with arrows by the midsection instead: https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=body%20fat
I prefer https://www.pexels.com/. Their search seems to find more relevant hits.
Amiga icons really felt like they were miles ahead of the competition and I'm surprised more of their possibilities didn't take off in other OSes.

- could change the icon for individual files/folders

- could have differently-sized icons

- different icons for unclicked + clicked state
In the presence of warmer water the reef will not die, in the presence of the chemicals the reef will die. Ocean warming does allow the chemicals to mix more freely but is not the cause, nor will fixing it stop the process of reef bleaching. The Bikini Atoll reefs where nuked and they are now doing fine even in the warmer temperatures, what the Atolls lack is industrial level farming. Further Cuba, which is in the same thermocline as the Keys has seen no where near the die off as Florida has. This is due to less industrialized farming. If the chemicals are removed the reefs don't die.
SAP India Says Two Employees Tested Positive for H1N1 Virus
Belvo (YC W20) is hiring engineers in Barcelona and Mexico City
> Here’s an example of one of the scripts that generates the attendance report:

echo "<H2>Registrations: <B>" `ls | wc -l` "</B></H2>"
echo "<CODE>"
echo "Authors: <B>" `grep 'Author = Yes' * | wc -l` "</B>"
echo "<BR>"
echo "Non-Authors: <B>" `grep 'Author = No' * | wc -l` "</B>"
echo "<BR><BR>"

> This script is slow and inefficient, particularly as the number of registrations increases, but not least among its virtues is the fact that it works. Were the number of attendees to exceed more than around one hundred, this script would start to perform so badly as to be unusable.

I'm not entirely buying it; I remember what performance was like in 1995, and grepping a hundred or so small files wasn't any sort of big deal, even on consumer-grade equipment like an 80486 running GNU/Linux, even with multiple users hammering on that CGI server to obtain the above output.

In any case, the logic could easily be rearranged so that the output of exactly the same code as above is cached as static HTML, which is regenerated only when the set of registration files is altered.

So if the registration exploded and the machine got bogged down with multiple instances of these slow scripts, there would be no need to change the actual code, just to plug it into the overall solution in a different way.
That seems like the kind of oversight one expects from a junior dev just joining a team, that's where ones job as a senior dev to push them through the process comes in.
And Windows, whose APIs are from OS/2's Presentation Management layer. And Linux/OS X, many of whose APIs are from Unix! I don't know where Oracle thinks the madness should end, and I don't think they care.
Most Linux distributions have a "GeoIP" package you can leverage. Another option is to pull down the country data from firehol's ip-sets [1] and use that in your application. I would suggest asking the people if either of those options is appropriate and get that in writing.

[1] - https://github.com/firehol/blocklist-ipsets
I think the earlier (1970s) and non-pejorative use of this term "big ball of mud" (e.g., as applied to LISP compared APL) is also insightful.

To wit, if what you have is a big ball of mud anything you add to it becomes mud too. At least without heroic effort, this seems to be true. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but it is worth recognizing in systems thinking.
Very cool - congrats on the launch! I like the docker deploy command that you posted on your landing page. Tried that out and it is super easy to get up and running.

Do you have a sample dataset to feed into our local environment or demo environment to test out the UI? Id love to poke around a bit before deploying to Heroku and setting it up on a site.
> It’s sounds so dangerous! What if they lost internet on a bridge? People could really get hurt.

There's actually system to do this, and I'm also amazed that this is legal. In this case though it's not that, it's simply that to unlock the car it go through a data connection. It won't shut itself, you just won't be able to unlock it without a data connection.
In my experience, payment processors (and related services) are somewhat unique in providing test gateways & APIs.

They are also somewhat unique in that they handle real money. You don't need a simulated API if you're sending an email or SMS message to a designated recipient or downloading the local weather forecast or traffic news, because there are no significant and irreversible consequences to these actions anyway.
It's risky for the charity. For instance, if the mattress has bedbugs, it stands a good chance of contaminating everything they've got in storage, requiring them to purge their entire inventory, sanitize, and build up from scratch again.
> EBITA

Have you both typo'd 'EBITDA' the same way, or is `EBITDA - Depreciation` a measure used too? (I searched, couldn't find anything.)
Cardiss Collins Quote
That was part of it. This article is light on details, but there was one part of the codebase that was copied verbatim. It was the RangeCheck function. Google argued that the function in question was not copywritable, and judge Alsup agreed (after learning how to write code). [1]

It’s unclear to me if the administration only sides with Oracle on this count, or also on reimplementation of APIs, which would have sweeping impacts.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/19/16503076/oracle-vs-googl...
Arrows aren't really globally understood it's a cultural thing; depending on how you navigate the world. You might understand the arrows differently when used for indicating direction. It's a fascinating study in Anthropology :)
$450k per year is not a nominal sum by any means. He doesn't need to donate his salary but he does. No previous president has ever done this. If a democrat president had done this, they would be all over the news. But since it's Trump, most people don't even know about it. Also if he was really trying to rich himself, why have his company's net worth dropped by 700 million over 3 years? And how about the previous presidents and Pelosi who are worth hundreds of millions after serving while being life time politicians?

I think people are letting their disdain for him cloud their judgement. Also innocent until proven guilty.
I want to drive around the Moon at such a speed that I can keep ahead of its rotation and be in light the whole way.
If they are censoring, then yes.
> Once you have a singular authority you can just let them decide, and you'll have no need for an inefficient cryptocurrency.

Unfortunately the mass of confused language around blockchainism has made its own miniature political weather system, and consequently there is a growing niche for such Potemkin Decentralization models.

I would even buy the argument that all decentralization models turn out to be mere smokescreens that misdirect the focus of critical attention on to one aspect of a complex system, only to obfuscate de facto centralization accumulating in a different part of that same system.

By the time this concentration of leverage has become too dominant to hide, the new Potemkin Decentralization system has made serious inroads into the incumbent it seeks to displace.
The cost of the super human is irrelevant to the cost of identifying the super human which is the main point of the overall topic.

You are making the divergent point of "is it worth it to hire super human coders?"
"consider cash flow positive a better representation of actual profitability than the actual net profit/loss reported on the P&L"

Wow. What a sad indictment of modern accounting practices that its accepted practice to create 'noise' to prop up a P&L (or avoid paying tax).

I suppose you could do this with household expenses, but if you don't look at P&L in a household you would be ignoring things like credit card debt or car loans.

This kind of debt in either a household or a company represents risk and shouldn't be overlooked, IMHO.
There’s No Homunculus in Our Brain Who Guides Us
> It's not whataboutism. I am demonstrating that two politically opposed administrations came to the same decision.

Except you didn't actually demonstrate that, since they involve different appeals which did not present the exact same questions to the Court.

To demonstrate what you are trying to demonstrate you need to look at the two petitions and the briefs submitted by the two administrations, and see how much the two administrations agreed on whatever questions, if any, were common to the two petitions.
You may care about an expensive tool as long as it works, but you'll throw it away as soon as it breaks. A tool has no rights, and you'll never care about it enjoying working for you. Yes, the analogy still work for me.
His department is recommending a multi year sentence for one of the president’s closest allies, while declining to even prosecute some of the president’s adversaries (Comey, McCabe) for a similar offense. Not sure exactly what you want from Barr here.

Stop crying wolf. It only hurts your case when there are legitimate things to complain about. https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/11/16/you-are-still-crying-w...
Over the past decade the covenant light debt [1] has regained popularity [2] [3].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cov-lite

[2]: https://www.businessinsider.com/leveraged-loan-record-87-per...

[3]: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-02-18/the-co...

It’d be very interesting to learn what covenants are attached to DigitalOcean’s new credit facility. Their press release [4] lists the lenders but does not discuss the terms, which will probably stay confidential until they file to go public.

[4]: https://www.digitalocean.com/press/releases/digitalocean-sec...
Thanks. I am not a financial professional but do run a medium sized business and have a lot of respect for being cash flow positive.

I agree with depreciation and other non cash expenses obfuscating P&Ls, but can we agree that in an article focused on securing debt financing, which will incur real interest expense, the term “free cash flow profitability”, “loosely” meaning “profitability” is a little misleading?
A scaffold at the center of our cellular skeleton
Oh! I have a somewhat inconvenient question. I am ok, if you don't answer it. But... Why not work for Elon Musk or the USA government? There are rumors that Uber are owned by Russians and report directly to Putin, jk ; )
Yes, but IIRC, the project was cancelled or greatly scaled back after Senior Management discovered that Palantir was also reading their emails and just not the drones in Sector 7G.
I've been using Snowflake for a while now and the Data Sharing feature they have is weirdly close to what I'm reading here. Anonymization, masking a column etc. Anyone with similar experience as mine? Or anyone who's knowledgeable enough to compare this product with Snowflake for me?
To raise a material amount of debt, lenders generally require there to be collateralized physical assets against that debt. Compare that to equity financing which firms can use on literally anything (eg. marketing spend, hiring, etc).

So my guess is the $100M is going to go towards expanding their data centers in some way. We might see new regions from DO in the coming years or additional server types/services that run on top of those new servers.
I like companies like Sharetown, they help prevent things from just ending up in a landfill and they make money doing it. There's a computer recycling company near me that does pretty well reselling equipment sent to them for recycling. They destroy drives when instructed to, but will wipe the rest and resell intact running servers and workstations.

It's nice working with them because I know the equipment will most likely find a home.
Usually EBIT or EBITDA, I’ve never seen EBITA
I was one of the original cloudera engineers behind CDP. Happy to give feedback.
Google Is Testing AMP Results in Desktop SERPs
I don't want a github for data, I want a git for data. The one reason that POS Perforce is used in game development is that it can handle binary files, especially large ones. LFS is..OK.

And this company isn't really even aping GitHub given that they are generating the content too.
I envy you: it must be nice to participate in a debate and get to be the one who makes the rules up as you go.
If I'm publishing a newspaper, I decide which articles run and which ones don't. I decide on every article. I decide on every editorial. I decide on every letter to the editor. So, I'm responsible for every word.

Is Facebook responsible for every word of every Facebook post? Have they decided whether to publish it or not? No. (Yes, they do have certain filters that try to exclude certain things, but that's all. A newspaper would be different if it published every letter to the editor it received, so long as it didn't contain the words "child porn", for example.)
Thanks! There's a hidden 'demo' page [0] that you can click around that will create some events. You can also add that URL when you create an action to test out the editor.

[0] https://127.0.0.1:8000/demo
More datcenters / infrastructure I would imagine.

They seem to have some regions running at near capacity already.
DigitalOcean has always had loads of debt, it's how you build such a capex heavy business, you use lease lines and credit.
First define complexity formally before attaching the word "Law" to a fuzzy concept.

A more accurate way to frame this is, complexity tends to be conserved. There is no proof or scientific evidence that states that this is a law.
I meant for "traditional" rental service, where the theft is performed by someone else, not by the person that rented the car.

They somehow either solved it or it doesn't represent an issue.

What you linked to is possibly yet another kind of crime, the whatever app was seemingly hacked.
It just has to modify the links you follow. You could get most of the way with a regex in the URL bar.
I hope no one will. DO is my preferred IaaS-type product. Its beyond simple, its fast, and they don't grow their features faster than I can keep up.
Whoa definitely can't agree. For example, Canadians are much less likely to be rah rah about something they know doesn't work. And they don't have anywhere near the level of 'just world' philosophy. As a foreigner to both, I see massive differences.
There's also Pulumi that covers a wider range of infrastructure than AWS only.
Introduction to Deep Learning for Graphs and Where It May Be Heading
The image animation (with randomized recreations) gives an amazing effect. I've never seen this technique before.

Like cinemagraphs, but unique and alive in a nice way.

http://i.imgur.com/Cb4ecUC.gifv
Ask HN: Eng. Mgrs, what does a successful relationship with a PM look like?
> this article had more detail and substance than I usually find on TC

That's because Alex Wilhelm wrote it. He was previously the editor for Crunchbase (just joined in the last few months). I've known him for years, he does great reporting that makes me incredibly envious. TC is lucky to have gotten him, he deserves Financial Times-quality media exposure.
California High Speed Rail Authority 2020 Business Plan [pdf]
Whether or not Waymo has been sufficiently forthcoming about how their tech works or not is subjective.

Objectively though they have started performing rides with no drivers in AZ.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/9/21000085/waymo-fully-driv...