skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First paragraph: Five years ago a bright orange blanket of light used to saturate the city and stain the air above. Today it’s a metropolis aglow with tens of thousands of cool silvery pinpoint lights. The grid is clearer. The skies are blacker.

4th “What was once a most common human experience has become most rare,” writes Paul Bogard, author of The End of Night, a book that assails the world’s unchecked light pollution.
Same thing in Vietnam. A family member ended up sick so she went to the brand new, for-profit hospital. Spent 1/2 a day in the ER and the cost was $150USD.

If people can afford it, they would never step into a gov't run hospital in Vietnam.
Probable Cache Poisoning of Mail-Handling Domains
It is true that not everybody can be brought to succeed in every environment, but I think that's exactly what the article tries to convey. That if you feel that you are surrounded by 'B' players that the problem does not lie with the players but with the way the game is played.

And that is fixable. Adapting the game to the players will go a very long way to making 'B' players perform better, in some cases by relocating them to different roles or maybe sending them out to training.

Trying to ram square pegs through round holes will not work, that's the way to create 'B' players. And a very large amount of this is the result of poor hiring practices, hiring people that do not fit their roles or the corporate culture or the level of management they need (vs the degree of independence they crave).

Fitting the company to the people isn't always possible, we usually don't run armies where piles of conscripts ('soldiers') are being run through the mill to see who can be promoted to a role of more responsibility.

So oversimplifying it definitely is not the road, but simply saying person 'x' is a 'B' player and is beyond help is probably not the truth either.
That could have been played up in the article more, to be sure, and I would have liked that, but a well educated reader might recognize the passage below from the article as a reference to that issue.

"Today in the U.S. there are some 60 million of those cobrahead streetlamps blazing pink-peach all night long, heedless of inactivity below and absurdly lighting the sky above. Forty percent of the average city’s electric bill goes to street lighting, and close to half of that is wasted. Excessive outdoor lighting, including exterior fixtures on office and industrial buildings, wastes about $3.5 billion in energy per year, according to the International Dark-Sky Association, a not-for-profit that works to reduce light pollution."

Night sky viewing is sure the first thing I thought of when I read the article, and perhaps it was the first thing you thought of too. Lots of us here on HN are fans of astronomy and space exploration.
Those work great for power cables but not necessarily for USB. If your phone or something gets disconnected in the middle of a data transfer you might end up with disk corruption
Inference is orthogonal, I mean that a records don't have a distinct type in the type system. So structurally the following types are the same in Haskell, except one elaborates out a selector function.

data Foo = Foo { name :: String }
data Foo = Foo String

What row polymorphism does is give use first-class record types that give us a measure of structural typing so that records with the "same" fields can be used in the same type and "larger" records can inhabit "smaller" types if the fields subsume. So we can write down a function like:

foo :: forall r. { a :: Int, b :: Int | r } -> Int
foo x = x.a + x.b

The current proposal doesn't give us this. But we can still simulate it even if it isn't in the language.
Also, Android's layout system is light years ahead of iOS's AutoLayout and Size Classes.
Can't submit from behind NAT. GeoIP library crashes on private IPs:

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'GeoIp2\Exception\AddressNotFoundException' with message 'The address 10.5.160.120 is not in the database.'
It's not just about class here in America, but also about racism. A poor black or Latino person is "way below" in treatment by society than a white person of similar economic means, though they might be in the same economic "class". They're unlikely to mingle and thus form reform movements either. Politicians like it this way and even the few that may not take advantage of these racial divisions to push policies that hurt the poor in general and the non-white in particular. While the US could certainly fare better with more socialist policies for public warfare, they are generally not enacted because politicians and their constituents absolutely hate to see help going to non-whites. Things haven't changed that much in the last half-century.

Also, expecting Americans to read or admit they're wrong or uninformed, while a noble idea, is an idealistic idea that ignores the basic facts that most Americans don't read, prefer ignorance, and hate to admit they're wrong even when provided with incontrovertible evidence.
parent didn't write "they already finished merging the platforms"
Cerebrospinal fluid in this case and most; it's the general purpose volume-filler of the central nervous system.
No you're right. It's bad form. It came across as bad form and I was really just too lazy to look it up and post it.
Science describes the material portion of the world, and ignores the rest, or says: "the rest will be discovered as having a material foundation in the future and by that time we will describe it, we will not bother to describe it now".

This is a quite big assumption, and has none to do with describing "the world as it is".
I know a guy who operates like that. He's in fact quite successful, has exited a company at $25M+, is extremely abrasive to work with and thinks he's the smartest guy on the planet and treats most people around him like shit. If anybody has a god complex it's him.

If he'd been a little bit less arrogant, a little bit less abrasive and a bit more aware of how many people it took to get there then he would have exited at a far higher valuation and would not quite possibly still lose it all due to messing up during the lock-up period.

Why you fire people is extremely important because every time you fire someone you should be telling yourself: I most likely made a mistake at some point in the past, otherwise this firing would not have happened, how can I avoid this.

That way the company culture will improve rather than that you're setting yourself up for a repetition of moves.
Love it. A few q's: all traffic on your servers is plain open? "The phone recieves this stream at 3 messages per second", how about upstream? How much data (kb) fits on each message?
Von Neumann architecture isn't the only form of computation that exists.
That's a useful article. As they point out, "the key innovation of digital currencies is the ‘distributed ledger’ which allows a payment system to operate in an entirely decentralised way, without intermediaries such as banks." That's what made Bitcoin work. There's no need for a central trusted authority.

The problem is who has authority over the validity of the distributed ledger. For Bitcoin, it's the biggest mining pools. The top one or two pools together have over half the hash rate, which gives them control. That wasn't the intent, but it's now the reality. Now we're back to a central trusted authority.

Not quite, though. It's possible for anyone to tell if the central authority is cheating, because everyone can see the ledger.
This would be really awesome as emergency internet access if twitter/facebook/google/etc did or were optimized for it.
I would not have written that in response to the post-edit comment. I realized after editing that I should have put the new comment on top, but at that point it was too late to edit further - my apologies for the confusion. I still don't agree with the current comment - as you can see from my updated response (the bottom half) - but I wouldn't have called it stupid.

Reiterating what I said there, with a slightly different spin - it is not the case that, in general, "impeding the flow of traffic with your travel" is illegal. That is not really changed by the fact that there are some limits on just how extreme some aspects of that impediment can get; there is plenty of room to bicycle in a way that impedes some traffic and does not fall afowl of the law.

Most relevant to the context here, it is not a law that a police officer could use to ticket a cyclist for the mere act of riding slowly relative to cars, even if they are impeding the flow of several cars.
Intro to computer science is now the most popular course at Harvard
I'm not very invested in this field, however, this "processing power" metaphor sound like those ideas "where people only use 10% of their brain". The brain doesn't work like that, it's not a general purpose computer. It's made up of several independent mechanisms, that have little to do with each other, and that have emerged at different points in evolution, driven by different forces. So their creation is rather chaotic.
Once again the freshman class at Harvard proves they're not stupid. There's a shortage of computer scientists, one being to some extent filled by immigrants, and since that represents an opportunity that economics and other majors doesn't offer, people are proactively taking on this opportunity.

The only drawback is that existing computer science courses probably won't train the students in the skills the marketplace needs. Consider how many now-famous captains of tech industry dropped out of college when they realized this -- Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Richard Branson, Larry Ellison, Michael Dell.

Oh well. To save time listing them, I will just say that most tech leaders that come to mind are college dropouts. But not all -- Elon Musk is a counterexample, a college graduate, and a spectacularly successful one.
Jodd v3.6 – java for startups
> What wikipedia and open source have in common is "text-based interaction", and I think that is offputting to some people, in particular women. I don't think it is surprising that female programmers would prefer interaction in a workplace or school to text-based interaction.

Why do women write more books than men? Why do women read more books than men?
> (which was Oracle's ZFS competitor that seems to be largely abandoned although I see commits in the kernel changelog periodically)

Under heavy development, officially supported by most of the major commercial distros, and still designated by Linus as the ext* replacement as the standard Linux filesystem.
I don't see this article actually supporting the assertion that career fairs are declining. In the technical majors at my school (UMass Amherst class of '14), they were the first steps to getting internships and jobs for almost everyone who got them. Nearly every CS junior and senior, and many-to-most sophomores, went at least once, if not twice, per year.
Marketing and Community Intern at Verbling
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That's not even close to an accurate description of how these apps are running, if that's what you were trying to imply there.
In that video, the larger parent substrate glass is still partitioned into smaller segments for lithography and processing.

I was referring more to the concept that the entire substrate is built as a huge 163 dpi display and then it's a matter of customer preference how the glass is cut.
True. If it were, what humans do with their biological CPUs would be impossible. Too bad we don't understand our own brains.
>>JONA MICI, A 27-year-old media trader, sits in front of her screen at Varick Media Management, a real-time advertising company in New York, and explains how she uses superfast algorithms to buy 20m-30m advertising “impressions” a day. Today one of her clients, an American bank, has asked her to find new customers. At first she guides the algorithm to buy as many impressions as possible near bank branches. Then she narrows her targets, choosing criteria that produce a better hit rate. For example, she finds that tablet users sign up more often than iPhone users, and afternoon seems to be a better time than morning.

It sounds so hand-wavy. I'm guessing she (as well as the entire food chain from her keyboard onwards - the DSPs to the SSPs and the publisher websites) would be sleeping under a bridge if she was paid for actual conversions, rather than for just filling a purchase order of impressions with whatever she can get.

Sometimes I wish I could get clients with loose wallets like this...

...and what on earth does getting impressions "near bank branches" mean?
Right now this is a very Parallels sort of solution, where you run the app in a VM. No actual merging of anything is going on, there's just a runtime that lets you run Android apps on ChromeOS, looking like they do on Android.
The CEO of a company that promotes hackathons wants to try to convince the world that all forms of recruiting are old-timey except for hackathons.

Take it with a grain of salt.
"Noting that nearly a third of Y.A. books were purchased by readers ages 30 to 44 (most of them presumably without teenage children of their own), Graham insisted that such grown-ups “should feel embarrassed about reading literature for children.”"

When I was a kid adults read lots of books that were very pulpy, low-brow, "genre" kinds of books - mysteries, westerns, etc. I don't see how Y.A. books are in any way a step back from those books.
Ironically, when you get your phone out to check it, you're doing exactly the same as people did 100 years ago with pocketwatches,

Pocketwatches were replaced by wristwatches the instant it became possible to do so.
There's a good blog post from Nate at Picturelife on how he asks for app reviews: https://medium.com/@innonate/7-ways-to-ask-for-app-store-rev...

Outside of that, I recommend starting with a solid core story and brand experience. Arm your users with the story you want them to share with their world. Plant the seed across your product and marketing so they pick up the language you use and will share that from top of the minds.
why? wouldn't the screen be too small to make any sense of the info? maybe if you can switch between the dev tools and the site super fast, otherwise you have to view the site and the dev tools side by side on a small screen
Not really; riak is composed entirely of nodes that are more or less identical. Losing your cerebellum would be like losing a component on every one of your nodes because you only have one cerebellum.
Thanks for this feedback. I'll make a point to do something about it. :-)
Yeah, there's been some good stuff in these threads, and some less good stuff. Tryin' to nudge everyone in the direction of the former - myself included. Thanks :)
Because those are solitary endeavors, not "interactions"
Is this designed with rural parts of africa in mind?
more like lack of ethics
Ohhh, that makes more sense.
I don't get it. The author rails through the whole essay that there are no A players and B players, but the conclusion concedes that some people are stronger and smarter, and some people are going to fit into your company better, which from the perspective of the employer, is fully equivalent to the A/B thing. The only difference is in what you think they might accomplish elsewhere, and vague notions of their value as a human being.

More interesting is the point that a given person may thrive in one environment and falter in another. This is totally true, and very important to keep in mind when evaluating what to do with people who are faltering, but it's not a dichotomy between that and the "fully general robust innate talent" theory. Both are true. Some people are simply stronger and smarter, but on top of that, environment plays a large role. Act accordingly.
What I want from a welcome email
Citation? It's not obvious to me that either is true.

I am not part of the literary world but apparently it is "male-dominated".

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/29/men-women-vida-coun...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/9977417/Women-write...
Oracle extended ZFS to be able to encrypt specific filesystems, but this method has been heavily scrutinized for being susceptible to watermarking attacks
Now port this to J2ME and make a lot of people happy.
An excellent book to read on this topic is Age of Ambition - Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China[1]

It discusses the topic of banned phrases like "river toad". In many cases what's happening is Chinese citizens find ways around the censors by searching for homonyms and other permutations of censored topics. Some of them are quite hilarious.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Age-Ambition-Chasing-Fortune-Truth-ebo...
> Science describes the material portion of the world, and ignores the rest ...

Let's say that science doesn't try to analyze those parts of the world not accessible to empirical observation. That could be described as modesty or reticence.

> This is a quite big assumption, and has none to do with describing "the world as it is".

Those who do try to describe the non-material world have a pretty terrible record for reliable results.
Generally agree, but a couple quibbles:

> protect doctors from frivolous lawsuits with a bond system

Malpractice suits only make something like 1% of healthcare costs, and malpractice insurance is already everywhere.

> big-data approaches where biologists and chemists can run simulations and avoid human trials

We don't know enough about the human body to be able to accurately do this. Might help for initial tests (and already does, I'd imagine), but you still always need clinical trials.
I don't disagree with your rant, but Obamacare eliminated all the pre-existing conditions clauses.
"If patients had the ability to know expected prices beforehand, market forces would work to bring prices down."

If patients knew to ask. Really. If you are covered by insurance (including medicare/tri-care/etc) you won't get an answer. But if you are paying out of pocket (and most hospitals require credit if you are doing something serious - like open heart)you can negotiate the price.

Let me say again, the hospital will negotiate. The doctors and labs (not done in the hospital) are another matter.

Also, if you see an aspirin on your bill costing $75 you need to call. You'd be surprised how effective this is. Most Americans never question the price of anything. Even cars these days people take at face value.

Of course, if you in the ER with chest pain, I'll admit, the last thing on your mind is the bill. And the hospitals know that.

So what's the lesson here? In America have insurance. Even if you are 20 years old. A simple care wreck can destroy you financially. You think student loans are bad? Try a drug overdose. Or a heart attack. Or a fractured back ( a car wreck). If you young, insurance is cheap. Dirt cheap.
There's something really weird about that website... The language does sound interesting -- though.
You reject phobia as a real illness?

How about anorexia nervosa? Is that real or is it "virtual"?
I'm curious about the same thing. For example, did they stub out the user-space part of the binder? Presumably things like the media player run in the same address space as the application, rather than as separate service processes. I hope they managed this without forking Android.
I'm not familiar with MD law, and of course IANAL, but your summary seems a fair synthesis of the bits you quoted.
Free as it ought to be -- payed for out of yours and everyone's taxes. Parking should have been free, to be honest. Nothing I hate more than seeing basic services turned into money-making opportunities for the shady.
Yeah, I guess you're right, but too bad it can't be figured out somehow. I hate USB; always have to examine the tip to make sure I'm plugging it in right.
> There is little agreement on how to change it.

That's because, generally speaking, the more collectivist proposals rely on evidence from the many, many countries that pay less for healthcare per-capita and get better outcomes, while the side that feels a more lassaiz-faire approach are relying on an essentialy religious position.
Scaling financial transactions requires real sharding, but you can't eliminate ACID from the mix... certain functionality just doesn't work like that.

In the end, one system needs to be responsible for a given account... best case you could have is only some accounts/users are affected. It's a different kind of problem.

Facebook, for example uses Cassandra with a very wide distribution of nodes, with an immediate ack on receive... you can't do that with a bank... transactional payment systems won't tolerate it. You could do a few things to alleviate this issue... read-only replicas, etc... even then it's a matter of failing soft (disabling only those systems/services that are unavailable instead of the whole thing).
Yes lol. I was at MHacks when this was debuted. Were you there as well?
SMS is 140 bytes (160 7-bit characters), but if they're using base64, then they're only getting 120 bytes through.
What I've found is that for the most part only the obsessed edit wikipedia.

Anyone "normal" doesn't have time to sit there and argue back and forth over stupidity.

So all the regular users give up, leaving only the obsessed, and the quality of the articles suffers as a result.

For controversial subjects, the less neutral someone is, the more likely they are to edit. Anyone with a neutral position on the subject just can't afford to waste so much time.