skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At one point, I worked in a computer lab that was mostly Ultrix machines. The shutdown grace period was specified in minutes ( http://www.polarhome.com/service/man/generic.php?qf=shutdown... )

Then we got a hp-ux machine in the lab. For some reason, the grace period on that system was in seconds ( http://www.polarhome.com/service/man/generic.php?qf=shutdown... )

System dax shutting down in 5 seconds.
Wow. Did this gold-plated B-2 bomber still fly after the coffee incident?
"how to make the hiring process faster and easier by keeping a pool of willing and able candidates at the ready."

Meaning, people who will take a job for less money because they are lured by intangibles.

"the standard hiring process is too "transactional," said Michael Bailen, who heads talent acquisition for the company"

Translation: candidates actually expect to negotiate a fair salary, sensible working conditions, fringe benefits, and maybe even relo costs, while the company would rather bring in starry-eyed naifs willing to take the company's "fun creation" instead of real compensation.
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> There's no OS X app for this yet, is there? I'd use it for personal stuff if there was.

I haven't fully committed to Vesper b/c it lacks a desktop client. I'm glad it is on the horizon. Now I'm hoping this client will somewhat resemble NVAlt (Notational Velocity).
I have nightmares about such things.
A lot of "news" consists of swallowing an official position whole. It's nicely packaged. The journalists are dependent on access. Why rock the boat?
I need pygraphviz in 3 and it's not.

:(

I guess I have to roll up my sleeves on that one.

It's a dependency for networkx, to draw diagrams...
Last I tried HipChat, it was a terrible experience simply because I wanted to not run yet another application and instead use Adium. They do support XMPP but to get it working you have to do magic. After I did the magic, I had chat up and running but lo and behold: file transfers did not work. Thankfully, this is when our team decided the experiment was over. We went back to using IRC. What fundamental problem do these new chat protocols solve that are not already addressed by IRC and XMPP?
Yup! This would even put Skype to shame as you can separate personal from business. It also works for people who work on different projects part time, so, you don't have to remember to log out to log in. :)
He might be referring to The daily WTF (worse than failure):

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/I-Didnt-Do-Anything.aspx

Unintentional Mishap while Contractor Unplugs X to fix/maintain Y is a relatively common theme on their list of horror stories.

edit: I think he might actually have meant this one:
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/I-Told-You-So.aspx
Well, where do you plan to go at that age?
You have carpets in your server room??
You know you could build five space shuttles with ten zeros, right? Are we talking dollars or Yen?
I like this idea a lot, but it won't work in practice without killing off serendipitous contributions from people associated with stories here that happen to find out about HN and join just to answer questions. That happens a lot, and it'd be a shame if we killed it off.
I own hire.hn and hirehn.com -- More than willing to collaborate with OP or someone else on a project with them!
I can't answer authoritatively, but I do know they're not really good at updating the downloads page for anything other than AMD64 Linux and the source tarball (and of course the Git repo). Usually I just build from source.

The catch, of course, is that building from source requires a pre-existing SBCL to bootstrap.

My guess is the only way to get it running on ARM right now is to get it for a non-ARM platform they have for download, bootstrap to 1.2.0, and then cross compile to ARM.
Sure there is, ActiveX
Seems like not allowing food or drink near a device worth over 10 zeroes would be a no-brainer, but hindsight is tricky like that.
Yeah, bayesian search theory is an interesting topic. A while back I wrote a program to search for intermittent bugs using it (a sort of bayesian version of 'git bisect') It hasn't seen real use (Intermittent bugs tend to involve real hardware, so you can't just try it out on any bug database) . But if anyone wants to try it out, it is at https://github.com/Ealdwulf/bbchop
Your second paragraph hits the nail on the head. It's the Feynman Technique for learning.

See: http://www.scotthyoung.com/learnonsteroids/grab/TranscriptFe...
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The Half-Baked Security Of Our 'Internet of Things'
If this is the same AF Holdings/Prenda Law that we've been reading about on Popehat for a year, it might be tough to extrapolate this ruling into any kind of "crushing blow" against the concept of trolling; it would be understating it significantly to say that Prenda was already "on the ropes".

http://www.popehat.com/tag/prenda-law/

(Popehat's coverage of Prenda is golden; a highly recommended and amusing read.)

Later

Having read the opinion, it's a little of both. (I'm not a lawyer and expect to be corrected here).

First, the Appeals court ruled that Prenda/AF's attempt to compel service providers to cough up records created an undue burden on the providers. That burden was undue because in attempting to do that, Prenda/AF needed to demonstrate a good-faith belief that the records they were speaking were discoverable.

The DC circuit points out that it would have been possible to file such a suit and make such a demonstration, but, of course, Prenda/AF did not do that.

Second, the court ruled that Prenda/AF's attempt at joining all their 1000+ suits into a single case was invalid, because Prenda/AF didn't demonstrate in a meaningful way that the cases were related. Again, the court explained that there was a reasonable way Prenda/AF could have legitimately filed such a case (albeit with fewer defendants), but the slapdash way they actually filed the case made it easy to reject their joinder request.

To the extent that the details of this ruling pertain to the specifics of the Prenda/AF case, they are less useful, because you'd have to imagine after reading more about Prenda/AF that any copyright troll in the world would have to be smarter than them.
I know they're trying to continue, but neither HP nor Palm when they owned the brand did anything amazing with it. Palm pre was really cool and WebOS on Touchpad was great to use... it just really missed useful apps. I get a feeling that if they invested in getting even a 100 of good apps either written for or ported to WebOS at the time of the first tablet, it could turn out completely differently...
What I'm saying is that trolls can easily work around these "crushing blows" and continue their trolling. What happens when Malibu has perfected their trolling technique? Will they actually start winning lawsuits?
It's a combined fault. Clearly the operator made a mistake, but the system shouldn't have let such a calamitous operation take place without at least three levels of "Are you sure" (or something smarter like "Confirm how many servers would you like to reboot:") before it lets you take down thousands of servers.
That's exactly what it means. Most courts tend to make the narrowest possible ruling rather than setting broad precedent: if they can throw out a case on a technicality, they'll do that rather than rule on the merits of the case itself. When that doesn't happen, people start throwing around phrases like "activist judges".

So, in the areas of copyright and patent trolls, it's nice to see victories, but it's nicer to see victories on the merits of the case rather than on the details a particular troll got wrong.
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From the github page it looks like external folks are submitting pull requests. It looks like they require external people to sign the CLA, but it doesn't look like it's a case of "good luck making any changes that help you but don't help FB" per your comment.
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if something worth over 10 zeroes can be destroyed with a coffee spill, i would say it had it coming
The fundamental problem they "solve" is to be more hip and cool than the last, since no regular human being has heard of IRC, let alone many "hardcore programmers" that I know.

I wish IRC was overhauled SOMEHOW and made more accessible to the common person.
>I believe (not an expert) it is more important to minimize losses that to maximize wins in game theory (cold war roots).

That sounds meaningless. Aren't they the same thing? Isn't minimizing losses effectively mean maximizing wins? Give me an example where minimizing losses is not the same as maximizing wins. The only cases where it is not is if you haven't vetted out (or could not vet ) the complete outcome of all possible moves that you can make next, for example chess, where the game tree could be of infinite (or deep enough to process in reasonable time) depth.

But chess programs are coded to try all possible tree paths to a reasonable depth given the time constraints and pick a move that has the best weight/score/winning chances. Not a move that has least losses. From that perspective it is all about maximizing the chances of winning. Although I am sure they are also coded to recognize draw conditions and play for draw if that is more effective. So it is not so dry and cut.

So when you are not sure of the certainty of the outcome of the several possible moves you could make next in a game, the best strategy is to pick the one with maximum winning chances not minimal losses. Especially if you think the opposite party is also going to play to win. Next, if your chances of losing are increasing, then play for draw first and lastly mutual destruction (to force the opposite player to draw)

Even in the 'cold war roots' that you mention, the goal is not just to occupy/conquer the opposite country. The goal is also to do so at minimal loss to ourselves. So "winning" in the game of war "is to conquer enemy country at minimal losses or maintain status quo if the losses would be substantial/irrecoverable". So you are always playing to 'win'.
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There are more slaves today than any other time in human history!
I think it was a bit of a leap to full on this is the reason. I think it is certainly part of it. I think the bullying itself has more to do with it. Treat people how you were treated sort of thing.

Anyway really do not like these sort of articles that try to aggrevate people with angry titles - on the flip side it was a seriously good exception to that rule very thought provoking. I think lacking the attitude it could have delved deeper but that's just me.

BTW while the above point was sort of the conclusion I think the article had much better points along the way.
... And be utterly destroyed by a single cup of coffee?
"date" and service status don't typically require root.
Systems engineers, software engineers, architects, whatever. We're all in the same gang.

My point is that the problem in this case is likely the system's design, not one engineer's typing abilities.
I read it as Zappos not wanting to pay market rates for good talent, so they introduce a wildcard game element to the process that "rewards" loyal people with job offers. Offers that happen to be what the company wants to pay, not what the market rate would demand.
Sure, but this precedent against Prenda will make it much harder for other trolls to adopt the same strategy.
Can you give any detail on what the end result is? What kind of data do you end up with in redshift, and what kind of queries? What kind of data do you extract from mixpanel?

Is all this running continuously, or different schedules for each worker? Any of these event based rather than schedule based?
Many open source projects hire in exactly the same way: they look at their pool of enthusiastic community members and hire them when positions become available. DuckDuckGo[0] comes to mind.

[0] https://duck.co/help/company/hiring

Then there are companies like Automattic[1] (the parent of Wordpress.com) and Matasano[2] that hire based on work samples.

[1] http://automattic.com/work-with-us/

[2] http://matasano.com/careers/

Zappos is not that far off when you consider that all they are looking for is a little prior interaction with their potential hires.
But in this case, the procedural stuff is what makes AF is a troll, isn't it? What useful precedent would come out of getting to the merits?
XCOM: Enemy Unknown coming to Linux this summer
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you're logged into an Apps for Your Domain account, and that service isn't enabled.
Http://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/33540/does-a-head-of-lettuce-really-need-to-be-refrigerated gives a table showing that leaf lettuce at 10 degrees C evaporates only about 30% faster than leaf lettuce at 5 degrees C. That difference isn't that large.

It also gives head lettuce at best two weeks at five degrees centigrade. So, two weeks at 10 degrees seems a good result.

On the other hand, the article says _about_ two weeks; they might mean 'ten days plus', and 'freshness' may be highly subjective (I bet there is a standard for measuring lettuce freshness)
Disa-pp-pp-pp-ointed by the lack of Max Headroom references on the linked site.
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"elijahwright" shall henceforth be used in place of "scapegoat"
Effective Copywriting (with TechCrunch Editor Josh Constine)
supposedly 0.0000000001 billions of $

shit happens, design for the worst.
Back in the day we used to say there are 2 types of network engineers, those that have dropped a backbone and those that will drop a backbone.
That part of Visual Studio impresses me a lot, though it’s not obvious to a user. I haven’t (say) closed the brace yet, so the code is invalid and therefore a correct AST can’t be parsed.

It has to be heuristic? Or a given (say) line falls back to last known good state?
The new app was submitted under Spotify's account though.
The Verge has a great article on the decay of Palm once HP bought it.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/5/3062611/palm-webos-hp-insid...

So, coming back to the point of contrast with Firefox OS, one has to acknowledge that Mozilla is pushing Firefox OS very hard. There is a dedicated app store which has more than a thousand apps now. Mozilla also has a passionate community behind it.
I'm sorry to hear about your experience contributing to HHVM. Which commit(s) were you talking about? I'd rather stop doing whatever got in your way so others don't have the same experience.
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Exactly!

Sysinternals gave lectures about windows internals to Microsoft employees.
You're probably better if using Cephfs or Lustre then NFS. Linearly scalable, no SPOF (single point of failure).
The Eclipse equivalent of this is Xtext:
https://www.eclipse.org/Xtext/
Thanks for this. It's a useful reminder that I need to post some job openings in the next thread.
How many non-zero integers were in the price of the device, though? My computer is also worth more than 10 zeros.
Technical issue: clicking randomly in the text areas scrolls the page up to the post heading. Highly annoying.
Persistence. It's nice to be able to see what conversations you missed while offline or overnight, especially if you have teammates distributed across the globe.

Persistence also allows you to search through or link people to old conversations.
I half disagree with the third point - the documentation is certainly lacking (I recently used Redis on an HHVM site, and the adaptor had no documentation that it even existed; just read the source to figure it out), but it's a new-ish, fast-moving project, so that's not too surprising.

The code quality, however, isn't 'bad' by any stretch of the imagination. The FB team managing it is very knowledgeable about PHP internals, and are appropriately strict about determining what zend-compatibility fixes to commit. Their code's overall quite well-written, which makes me care a whole lot less about how poorly it's documented.
Well, the examples were the content of the talk. He didn't need the examples at all, but they demonstrate a severity of the problem. And to that point the talk needed to be slow so that one can try and answer the question, if the answer was just given it is harder to see the difficulty presented.

I also must confess, I didn't watch the video. I was there, so there is a good chance the presentation doesn't translate well to video in terms of speed of content.
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As we're all very likely reading this in Helvetica font.
The 'devops' automation I made at my last company (and am building at my current company) had monitoring fully integrated into the system automation.

That is, 'write' style automation changes (as opposed to most 'remediation' style changes) would only proceed, on a box by box basis, if the affected cluster didn't have any critical alerts coming in.

So, if I issued a parallel, rolling 'shutdown the system' command to all boxes, it would only take down a portion of all of the boxes before automatically aborting because of critical monitoring alerts.

Parallel was calculated based on historical but manually approved load levels for each cluster, compared to current load levels. So parallel runs faster if there's very low load on a cluster, or very slowly if there's a high load on a cluster.

One way or another, most automation should automatically stop 'doing things' if there's critical alerts coming in. Or, put another way, most automation should not be able to move forward unless it can verify that it has current alert data, and that none of that data indicates critical problems.
I assume I'll still be working, but when I look around and see how few people at these large, established companies are in their 50s/60s, I get a little nervous to be honest...
Filing fees are far from there only cost and 7k assums a 100% win rate at say 50% thats only 3.5k per win and they might not hit 50%.
Can we run multiple organizations from the same client of Slack? That and an ability to refer to a specific comment/message (like Flowdock's threaded messages) are two things that can make me switch from Hipchat.
A quantum computer.
Joyent's marketing is not the most transparent. They haven't updated AWS prices in their pricing page since AWS lowered their prices two months ago.
I've found the same as you - people are getting their PRs when needed. In the earlier days of the project, it may have been true that they were less accepting of any non-critical changes (as they were still getting the core together), but in my experience they're open and eager to get feedback from the public.
Yeah it seems like it was a great platform, and was just held back by the companies that owned it. I'd still like to see it be picked up again, even if it's not by Mozilla for the reasons that fabrice_d pointed out. I remember it looking really slick, and running incredibly smooth, even on the hardware that was available 5 years ago.
> But in this case, the procedural stuff is what makes AF is a troll, isn't it?

Only in part. Sure, procedural stuff like hostile choices of venue and settlement-seeking behavior seems common to trolls, but there's also the more general environment that makes trolling possible: the general expectation that going to court is an expensive gamble and you might not even get your costs back.

That's leaving aside the fundamental IP issues supporting patent trolling to begin with, but I don't expect to see a precedent on those anytime soon.

> What useful precedent would come out of getting to the merits?

Precdents that would completely change the expected outcome of taking a troll to court: universal expectation of covering attorney fees, criminal penalties for broad-scale carpet-bombing with just-less-than-court-cost settlements ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barratry_%28common_law%29 ), and piercing the corporate veil on troll shell companies to stop them at the source.
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Is there a difference between Chrome and Chromium that will enable Chromium to keep using NPAPI?

Is Chrome actually a Chromium with Google customizations, in the sense that Chromium can keep NPAPI whilst Google removes it for its own distribution?
Thanks for this story - always great to hear about a real experience. This is very disturbing. What the heck does "fresh face" mean? Did he have any idea what they meant, or were they just looking to cut costs and hire a more junior guy?
I doubt Google wrote special code especially for you. It has _always_ been opt in.
At my $DAYJOB, we are always careful to figure out exactly what happened, including by whom. It's not to assign personal blame, but I believe it's critical that everyone agrees on the facts (who, what, when, where, and [if possible] why).

Response and conversation is always focused on "how do we prevent this in the future?", not on punishing whoever was involved in the past.

IOW, I agree with I believe is your intent, but differ on the implementation. Blameless transparency is the term we use (and we probably stole that from somewhere else).

It's a very powerful signal to the whole team when you first see individuals "admitting" to exactly what they did, how it caused or contributed to the outage, and to hear them thanked for their contribution of understanding in the post-mortem.

Senior leadership (including myself, who originally instituted the entire process a decade ago) is very clear that we want to know the facts and that in seeking and using those facts, we're only focused on the future, no matter how boneheaded the individual actions appear with the benefit of hindsight and knowledge that they'd lead (in)directly to an outage. I run operations and also participate in the promotion discussions for all technologists, and in 11 years, I've never heard a negative shadow cast onto a sysadmin/sysengineer from their actions during or leading to a production outage. And we've (collectively) made our fair share of mistakes over the years. That doesn't stop good employees from feeling bad about it, but that's a personal feeling they have, not from the fear of it being a professional black mark.
Awesome! It's what I've always wanted!!!
"It's not realistic to expect Mr. Piketty to set aside months (years) of his time to master C++/Python/Scala/Fortran/etc to avoid using Excel."

I tend to disagree. Mr Piketty graduated in Mathematics (from a highly selective institution). It is realistic to expect him to be able to use those tools if needed.
> Google still collect this data so far.

Citation please. Or at least you meant to say Google still _anonymously_ collects this data?
Does Avocado play nicely with Origami? Am I correct in saying both act as QC plugins, adding patches and new default behaviors?
> “Consumers can’t manage this process by themselves,” Brill said. “It’s too big. It’s too complex. There are too many moving parts.”

As someone who works in ad-tech, for a company that uses some (anonymized) data from brokers: I'm constantly astonished by the complexity of the industry. It's certainly too complex for a consumer to figure out. I often have a hard time remembering who talks to who and which companies go where. Just take a look at this notorious (in ad-tech) infographic produced in 2010:

http://www.adexchanger.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/LUMA-D...

That's probably missing half the players and data flows, and it's also 4 years out of date. Things haven't got simpler in that time.
I wouldn't call the OS X client "native". Sure, it's an app, but it's just a wrapper around the web page.
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God exists. That pretty-much reverses bad and good. The FBI is evil against God. I am good with God. Simple as that.