skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"benefit confers economic value on that parking space"

Another way to look at it, is it increases demand for land in the burbs, where there's free parking.

There's no obvious inherent benefit to shopping downtown where I work or in the burbs where I live. Theoretically centralization would benefit everyone. However no one shops downtown if they can avoid it, the parking situation is horrendous and high rents mean higher prices. So all my retail shopping is done in the burbs. Which means higher land demand in the burbs (both for the stores, and the free parking).

There are ancillary cultural effects. If you partition an area into "you only go there because you have to go there because there's no free parking and no retail" vs "you go there because you want to, and there's free parking" the coincidence sets up inappropriate beliefs, like free parking is a universal good or paying to park is a universal bad. Reality is its more like a circus ride where if your land prices exceed $X/sq foot then both free parking and retail are inherently economically inappropriate in those areas, if at all avoidable. Stick a super expensive office building on that land instead, etc. Shoppers and their freely parked cars don't belong in areas that cost $2000/sq foot, especially if $20/sq ft is a ten minute drive out of the city.
If we could have slapped electronic countermeasures and upgradable radars, etc on them I don't really see why we couldn't have flown the old WWII style flying fortresses today. I mean the job essentially hasn't changed since then, and even back then they would still need fighter escorts.
>Well, what did you geek about then?

Parsers, grammars, computability and complexity, source-tree optimizations, intermediate representations, intuitionistic logic, type theory, PL design, microkernels, macrokernels, message-passing, locking and semaphores, scheduling algorithms, the x86 kernel-level instruction set, interactive theorem proving, functional programming, game-type vector graphics and raster graphics. Now working on gaining a better understanding of Bayesian statistics and probability theory, machine learning, probabilistic programming, computational cognitive science, and the foundations of logic.

You know: actual domains in which one can solve real problems, rather than the kind of "algorithms and data structures" that are used for quiz-interviews.
Also great retelling by Andy Hertzfeld on the 3.5" Sony floppy disk drive:

"Quick, Hide In This Closet!"

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...
https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/www.gmo.com shows two different IPs: 216.57.159.45 and 69.147.188.37, and Mountain View (Google) is giving NXDOMAIN. But if I query 8.8.8.8 from my computer on the east coast I get 69.147.188.37, so maybe some of Google's servers are giving conflicting responses?
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It's unlikely the single-threaded version was improved noticeably. Futexes are nearly zero-cost when not contended.
Thanks. This is definitely on the business side and an area where I think I can still improve. I don't quite agree with the labels idea but I understand why you're suggesting it. I'll keep this in mind.
That capacitor memory array is very neat!
The poor are more likely to make bad economic decisions
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Maintainer of Capistrano here, I've been close to FOSS burnout a couple of times, and more often than I would like people catch the sharp end of my tongue. I can count on one hand how many issues have been opened with a corresponding PR, and from those, barely any ever come with tests, or acknowledge the stuff in the CONTRIBUTING file (Github includes a "Before opening this issue, check this project's guidelines). Fortunately there are couple of people who consistently tackle issues that the lazy people have opened, and submit super high quality PRs with unit and functional tests, documentation and entries in the CHANGELOG. These people are the main reason that I still work on FOSS.

My solution was to make heavy use of labels at GH, the "needs more info" and "feature request" ones are obnoxious colours. Second to that, I bought a TextExpander licence, and setup a bunch of macros `notanissue` which expands to:

> Closing because I’m not sure this is an issue, if you are convinced that this is really a bug, please feel free to re-open the issue and add more information (your versions (Ruby, Cap, etc), your Capfile, your logs, and relevant sections out of your Gemfile)
> Otherwise support is done via the mailing list (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/capistrano) or at StackOverflow (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/capistrano) with questions tagged `capistrano`.

And a number of others 'contrib' for contribution guidelines when a PR is in conflict with them, etc.

It's helped lighten the load a lot, and now tend to invest heavily in grooming the issue list, and keeping things neat and tidy at GH. I dare guess, when I'm awake 90% of the issues are classified, or closed within 5 minutes of being opened, this has helped a lot with the feeling of pressure and constant nagging with which I've previously suffered.

Of course, maintaining a large project is a burden, but it comes with career and profile benefits.
And the Air Force for air superiority (F-15) and CAS (e.g. F-16 and of course A-10). Pretty much only deep interdiction for Air Force, out of a total of 5 planned roles including 2 for the Navy, survived. F-111s were also used by the SAC in a likely one way trip to deliver nukes from Pease Air Force Base in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and perhaps elsewhere (I lived near it right as the Cold War was ending).

While it developed some useful things, and pioneered variable geometry (swing) wings, it was almost entirely a debacle. Forced the Air Force to use designed for the Navy F-4s for a long time, which I'm sure they hated (and of course it was obsolescent, required two crewmen, the engines smoked (makes it much easier to spot in ACM), etc. etc.).

I wouldn't be surprised if the Air Force will be forced to use F-18 Super Hornets to replace falling apart F-15s. A nasty failure in the process of going from the design drawing to what was built in the factory resulted in all of our air superiority variants having a nasty weakness in the attachment of the cockpit to the air frame: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F-15_Eagle#S... (living back in Missouri at that time it was pretty big news that one simply fell apart around its pilot while doing pretty much normal stuff).
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It doesn't have to be a weaker stack per se. It is also a lot about knowledge. WhatsApp vested much time into understanding FreeBSD. It may be if you vested the equal amount of time on Linux with knowledgable people, then you would see roughly the same performance.

If I should take a guess, the advantage of the FreeBSD stack is that it is simpler and easier to understand. Hence, it is easier to tune for performance.
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Yet he mocked the existence of a open source project not that long ago

https://harthur.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/771/
> First comment on NH ever for me

Welcome to HN! I lurked for years before I posted. Even though I am less 'active' now because of various projects, I still use HN as a filter for what might be of interest.
The Decline of the West

OSWALD SPENGLER BELIEVED that he stood at the cusp of a new wave of historical thinking. Whereas in the past, historians had been content to gather facts, chart broad cultural movements, and take the flow of time as consisting of events that were causally related, Spengler had a vision that made these circumstances not merely existent, but necessary. The "morphology of culture" that Spengler conceived made history not merely a past, but a destiny, for each culture contained within it an essence that inevitably must reveal itself. As he states in his introduction,

Each Culture has its own possibilities of self-expression which arise, ripen, decay, and never return. There is not one sculpture, one painting, one mathematics, but many. Each is in its deepest essence different from the others, each limited in duration and self-contained....

Spengler felt that this insight must force historians to approach their work in an entirely different light. For he did not believe that a developing culture borrowed or integrated values or systems from past ones, at least not in their true nature. Each is working out its own unique being, and if, for example, the Greeks borrowed certain mathematical concepts from the Egyptians, it was with an entirely different understanding of what they meant and what they were for. To Spengler, each culture in the world's history had it's own unique "soil" in which to develop and grow. The physical terrain, proximity of neighbors, natural resources, and other factors influence the manner in which the "seed" of the inhabiting people unfolds not only geographically but also socially and economically. This, coupled with the unique temporal period and particular population of each great culture, serves to produce a social organism that is distinct from all others, just as one variety of plant is distinct from the rest.

However, Spengler maintained that the underlying pattern that each followed could be revealed through analysis, especially through studying the art, music, and architecture of each and discovering analogues.

I hope to show that without exception all great creations and forms in religion, art, politics, social life, economy and science appear, fulfill themselves, and die down contemporaneously in all the cultures; that the inner structure of one corresponds strictly with that of all others; that there is not a single phenomenon of deep physiognomic importance in the record of one for which we could not find a counterpart in the record of every other; and that this counterpart is to be found under a characteristic form and in a perfectly definite chronological position.

http://www.bayarea.net/~kins/AboutMe/Spengler/SpenglerDoc.ht...
If by "like we have of Mars" a complete map of the surface that we can all download in Google Earth, then no. New Horizons is a flyby mission like the Mariner and Pioneer probes.
Right, but that is different than paid experience, which is what the OP was talking about.
He has used his real name and posted his personal website on his github profile. What's the problem?
Sony's IT deficit notwithstanding, somebody somewhere had to have pointed out 1Password or Lastpass.....

On another note, is anybody surprised? Take out Sony and insert Company X, I'm sure this is a common practice in many companies.
Since Whatsapp doesn't have client facing web page, but only api's used by the client apps, are their scalability requirements different from those that have a web interface as well?
The Internet is less free than last year. Thanks a bunch, Snowden
Ignoring pull requests discourages open-source contributions
That quote is useful only for helping the obviously guilty avoid punishment.
Quite true.

Although on this theory, I should really have learned some Haskell by now. And yet. Every trip to the xmonadrc is a fresh glimpse at the depths of my own ignorance.
Its the company social media accounts. Managing those is always going to be a trick, but it's actually not that big of a deal that they're lost - a tedious job for a marketing intern to reset them all and a risk of Sony making some embarrassing tweets or fb posts. Nothing compared to losing customer data or credit card numbers or crypto keys or something.

Title is a bit sensationalized, really. I mean "leaked passwords" sounds severe, but corporate social media accounts aren't exactly what the reader expects.
It will and if Junos or ios stop working so will the internet to a large extent. It speaks to reliability and scalability aspects.

You could say the same about erlang for example, it used by WhatsApp and in many internet-cell network gateways.
The problem of comparing ATM's with web services is that banks are liable for the machine to work correctly. For software, users are commonly the one liable if something goes wrong and thus in need of liberty to balance responsibility with freedom.

If a bank websites JS software goes wrong and causes damages, whose fault is it? Is it the customer fault, maybe because his machine had broken hardware? Is it the bank, because its their service and they are responsible that all transactions are done correctly? Is it the JS developers who maybe introduced a bug?

When we can define whose responsibility it is, we can define if the user of the software/service need access to change, modify and distribute the code.
Maybe there's a possibility to totally turn parts of the core on and off on instruction-by instruction basis - to the point where for each instruction ,you'll only have the logic responsible for it turned on ?
If someone getting into your network is your threat model then, well, you have already been owned. If you want to have resilient services where you can swap them out if there are security issues, a monoculture is not a win.
I remember this controversy. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5106767

Edit: See also: steveklabnik's apology. http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2013-01-23-node
I'm curious what happens if someone holds a trademark for an unrelated business and then they pivot into a new market. What if she decides she wants to begin to offer rides.. Just curious around trademark law here, any ideas?
Isn't it kinda racist to say "people from Bangalore and Hyderabad"? As I'm sure many people from Hyderabad and Bangalore are very competent people who are willing to pay for support. How would you feel if people replaced Bangalore and Hyderabad with London and Liverpool? Even if there are people like what you describe that live there?
3 out of 30 is still a lot better than... 1 out of 200:

http://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/

Having heard of some rather... dubious grading practices in universities, I'm not surprised at all that a lot of people who claim to have the knowledge actually don't.
Why can they simply be ignored?

I run a support department (for a closed source product) and we do this all the time.
Thanks for your hard work on the project! You have improved the lives of many working programmers. What are you looking for for the future of Capistrano?

The problem and major benefit to github is how easy it is to contribute. Sometimes it's like a high maintenance low paying customer vs. a high paying customer that treats you like a professional and gets out of your way I guess.
I don't relate to your blog post. I am definitely not second guessing my use of GPL. That is another topic than the one here as far as I am concerned.
Pertinent follow-up. Jake was naive about open source norms.

See twitter conversations:
https://twitter.com/jonathanwallace/status/53368051800961433...
https://twitter.com/jonathanwallace/status/53367933259062886...
Any source for this? Intuitively I can see why working with 2k languages is harder than working with 1. But if you read e.g. a report like this: http://www.doingbusiness.org/reports

which is very relevant to SMEs, the driving force for about 98%+ of economic activity, jobs, tax revenues etc and the economic progress to increase the standard of life, you don't really see language as a variable. (and it's a pretty comprehensive report).

I mean, how bad is it, really? Most countries have multiple languages, but also a single official language. I've been to Africa many times and due to its colonial history French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, they get you pretty far in most places. In my own city we have over 175 nationalities, but communication is never a problem. It would be a mistake for an outsider who never visited to look at that number and then claim it's the origin of any particular problem in the city without any extra information. So I'm genuinely interested if you know of any studies that show the language diversity is a stifling issue.
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You may take issue with Mr. Lodwick's tone, but he's not wrong. This gem is incomplete, and for a gem occupying the namespace "emoji", I think it's reasonable to expect the full, standard set of emoji. Passing the buck to another open source library is irresponsible and, frankly, lazy.

Perhaps the maintainer should burn out, and let someone take over the gem who'll commit to feature-completeness.
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That's the big thing for me. It's not the lack of a witty response or a canned reply. It's knowing you did something for free, out of love, and there's an endless stream out people going "more! more!" and getting angry when you won't accommodate their edge case.

I had my phone number on one of my personal sites so friends could get in touch with me. Took it down after a week because people would call me in the middle of the day for plugin support, even though there's a forum for support. There's nothing inherently wrong with that, it just wears you down. Makes you afraid to check email or answer the phone.

Edit: Without getting too deep into personal territory, I'm coming to terms with the fact certain aspects of my childhood trained me to always put other people's needs above my own. Saying "no" has a psychological cost for me because I reflexively beat myself up for being a selfish person.
Looks like an advanced version of "spintax"[0], which is popular amongst seo blackhatters. I could certainly see this as a replacement.

[0] http://umstrategies.com/what-is-spintax/
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That's not really idiomatic. You should be adding context to the error you return, or a new error.
Well, the B-52 has in fact reverted to limited role, I gather for delivering nukes it's limited to delivering stand off missiles outside the range of SAMs etc.

The fly really high concept, going back to e.g. the WWII B-25 Superfortress, ended, and the B-1 went in the direction of low level penetration (below radar, and hard to pick up from ground clutter by fighters above it, something the B-52 tried for a while, but it wasn't designed for that), and the B-2 back to flying (fairly) high, but essentially invisible to radar (it can be detected in a general sense by certain types of radar, but not such that you can shoot it down).

We had to transition from piston engines if for no other reason than reliability and maintenance, plus, commonality and safety in fuel, etc. etc. The B-37 was our last in the strategic bomber role, also see the piston powered CAS A-1 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_A-1_Skyraider), heavily used in Vietnam, which the A-10 replaced.
The truth is never racist, it's just a fact. I'm not saying parent's description is accurate, but distorting facts to conform to somebody's desire for political correctness is on a similar level of despicableness as racism itself, imo.
> Inviting in all kinds of hackers, ended up bringing in the worst of the worst segment of the demographic

If you think the current HN crowd is the "worst of the worst" of the demographic, you need to get way, way out of your microbubble.

... and with an elitist attitude like that, don't think you're exempt of that demographic either.
I have searched, but found nothing which verifies your statement that they were looking for positions as senior managers. Or as software engineers, for that matter. Only that Koum was turned down by Facebook, and Acton by Twitter and Facebook.

For what it's worth, FB had 200 engineers at the time, says http://algeri-wong.com/yishan/engineering-management.html . According to the FB IPO prospectus, they had a 81% growth in 2010 and 57% growth 2011, in engineering headcount. That's about 600-800 engineers at IPO.

Isn't what you're suggesting still a subtle aspect of ageism? If the only positions are for low-level engineers, with little in the way of management advancement, then there's a preference for those with little experience or those with little desire to take on more management roles.
can anyone teach me how to add erlang-elixir layer to dotspacemacs-configuration-layers list in ~/.spacemacs
I ran with GOMAXPROCS=2 on the command line. The post showed the actual commands that I used in each case.
Offering incomplete software as open source doesn't make it any less incomplete. Are we giving out blue ribbons for participation now?
Given that every single error check there is just passing up the error, is it really that different from having exceptions that propagate along with RAII style resource cleanup? The vast vast vast majority of Go code simply propagates errors.
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What's the alternative? We all know (don't we?) that security through obscurity is no security at all. Giving the folder a different name would only affect usability, not security. The problem is not the folder name but the fact that the data itself (including paths) was unencrypted, and that perimeter security was lacking. Poking fun at the folder name seems to be missing the point.
Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollable. He felt goose pimples clacking all over him as he gazed down despondently at the grim secret Snowden had spilled all over the messy floor. It was easy to read the message in his entrails. Man was matter, that was Snowden’s secret. Drop him out a window and he’ll fall. Set fire to him and he’ll burn. Bury him and he’ll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden’s secret. Ripeness was all.

"I’m cold," Snowden said. "I’m cold."

"There, there," said Yossarian. "There, there," He pulled the rip cord of Snowden’s parachute and covered his body with the white nylon sheets.

"I’m cold."

"There, there."

Joseph Heller, "catch-22"