skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Change "job" to "role." Roles define us, whether official or volunteer. They might be unpaid caretaker roles, relationships, mother, father, sibling, husband.

The mind adapts readily to roles, perhaps explaining why we so easily incorporate ourselves into dreams, adopting even alien identities without conflict.

Another great quote in this vein from Vonnegut: "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
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Stop switching around between hardware cost and yearly cost, jesus... (pa means per annum)

0.7PB on Amazon S3 costs $810k for 3 years (as per their cost calculator).

Renting 1.4PB raw from Hetzner costs about $270k for 3 years.

Running 1.4PB raw on your own hardware costs about $150k for 3 years (on Supermicro JBODs).

It's not that hard really, and my point merely was that the difference is much bigger than you made it sound.
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Well: their own infrastructure over data transport rather than SMS/MMS
If the risk of getting fired after a couple of weeks is high, I think the balance of risk is such that the employee should get a bonus or big severance for risking all his income. The company takes a much smaller risk comparatively.
This seems like a bit of a smell. The desire for no-reboot patching stems from the fact that reboots are painful. But since hardware and software failure is an inevitable fact of life, it seems like it would be better to make reboots less painful, rather than try to make them less frequent.

This is the idea underlying crash-only software:

http://lwn.net/Articles/191059/
I didn't realize there was an official definition. Interestingly, at the time Sam Adams and other brews that were a step up from the mass market lagers in the US, as I recall a distinction started being draw between craft beers (Sam Adams, Harpoon, Anchor Steam, etc.) and microbrews--where microbrews were the very small local brews with limited distribution.

As I remember things, this first microbrew movement (as well as something of a homebrewing fad) sort of declined but it's more recently really roared back in force. On trend I've noticed recently is the big "craft" brewers like Sam Adams and Sierra Nevada have really expanded their lineups and come out with all sorts of limited time as well as higher-end products like barleywines.
When will I receive my invite for Inbox by Gmail with Google Apps email account?
see e.g.

In the FAQ on https://support.google.com/a/answer/6082718?hl=en ... it says:

"Q: I don’t see the option for Inbox by Gmail in Google Apps > Settings for Gmail > Advanced settings.
Why not?"

A: Inbox for Work is only available to Google Apps for Work domains that have received an invite.
To request an invite, send an email to inboxforwork@google.com."

I did this weeks ago. Still no answer.
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+1 primarily for mention of forecast.io; I'd never heard of it, and it makes me quite excited!

All the best,
If the system used SMS proxied by TextSecure, that would have at least avoided net-of-endpoint pen trace. You'd know who TextSecure's customers were, and could probably use time-based analysis to see who is likely to be talking to whom (a steady stream of non-content messages would otherwise have to be used to mask significant messages).

The context analysis sideband leakage is the big win here for a data-based approach.
Quoting from Clarke's "Imperial Earth" (1976) (to show how old this topic is):

"And I've run into something that complicates business on Earth to an incredible extent. I knew about it, but hadn't realized its full implications. It's the problem of Time Zones.

"There are some advantages in belonging to a corridor culture. We're not slaves of the sun, and can set all our clocks to the same time, all over Titan. But on Earth!

"There are four time zones -- America, Africa, Asia, Oceania -- six hours apart. So when you want to speak to anyone, or make an appointment, you have to know what zone he's in. And when you move from one zone to another, you have to put your watch ahead -- or back -- six hours.

"It's very awkward and confusing, but it was even worse a couple of centuries ago; then there were twenty-four zones, one for every hour of the day! The development of global telecommunications made that situation impossible -- not that it's very satisfactory even now. There's talk of going over to a single World Time -- probably Absolute Ephemeris Time -- and ignoring the day-night cycle, just as we do. But the arguments on both sides are nicely balance, and no one expects a decision in a hurry. After all, it took several hundred years to get the World Calendar adopted, and that was because the Martian and Lunar administrations simply wouldn't put up with Earth's ridiculous months any longer ..."

I hadn't remember the "slaves of the sun" part. Upon rereading that, it looks like Clarke is suggesting that it is better to slaves of international business instead of the sun. This essay, which says "And so starts weeks of international business chaos", also emphasizes the needs of international business over local solar conditions.
There are possible ways to mask that, though they'd likely still draw attention.

Assuming that any given endpoint was already a surveillance target, the advantage here is that the traffic cannot be used (or is less readily used) to determine contacts -- who's talking to whom.
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I wouldn't bet on that. I would expect C++ programs to have been written ages ago and not having been rewritten because of a combination of "it works"/"I can't read it"/"It's not my code". The most famous C++ to Go port must be dl.google.com (http://talks.golang.org/2013/oscon-dl.slide#1), which arguably never needed to be written in C++ in the first place, except it was probably the only reasonable choice at the time.

In other words: legacy.
Despite your absurd lead in and desperate moderation, I'll repeat that you are simply wrong, and seem to be trying really, really hard to justify something. Something fairly obvious.

Firstly, to repeat, in most cases in this industry it is performance based. Arbitrary or oddball examples are irrelevant.

When you are laid off, even if it was because the project you were on got axed, take a look around -- did you notice the superstars on the team all got pulled to other parts of the company? Strange, isn't it? Did you notice, in fact, that as things started to look ugly that dregs got transferred to the project?

That's the reality of layoffs. That's how performance based layoffs work. I mean, you're arguing with me despite every single tech example absolutely confirming what I'm saying. People who are valuable to a company will be placed internally, and those who aren't will be jettisoned like unnecessary cargo.

You're trying desperately hard to try to load the word fired and laid off, but the majority of people who are laid off (in this industry) were evaluated and considered not worth keeping.

But talk about steel workers or something.
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I don't think this is true. Programmers' values vary. One person may value the number of features implemented over the maintainability of the code, while another may not. One may value finding creative uses for existing components over integrating new components, while another may not. As a result, programmers' evaluations of their own and each other's performance may not be consistent.

I once worked somewhere where there was a guy who went round the company getting involved in projects, pushing radical new approaches, not thinking things through properly, writing mediocre code, then moving on to something else. I thought he was a hazard [1]. I recently learned that he's been promoted to 'principal engineer'.

[1] Exaggerating somewhat. I like the guy, i think most of his ideas are great, and i respect him a lot. I just worried about the complexity and speed of change exceeding our ability to execute successfully.
Really fascinating find.

“Fisher emphasised that archaeologists know extraordinarily little about the region’s ancient societies relative to the Maya civilisation.” I appreciate the candor. Archeology is a science ahead of its time. The past is extremely difficult to parse accurately—not to mention biases and political correction. It's always nice when archeologists are careful to not draw conclusions on limited data.
Strictly: that's not "most websites", it's "many services".

Facebook "likes", Google analytics, New Relic monitoring, and any of numerous other tools can do this.

Which is why I'm loaded for bear with noscript, adblock, Privacy Badger, Ghostery, and numerous entries in my /etc/hosts file for particularly noxious / ubiquitous sites.
> and obviously (because he is no longer in the picture) decided to sell or give away enough equity in the company to the point that he no longer held a controlling interest.

Not completely obvious: It is possible that his shares were diluted into oblivion.
So what was the paper? De Mulder et al. 2013[1]? (Sorry not my field; just a guess!)

[1] http://mhutter.org/papers/Mulder2014UsingBleichenbachersSolu...
Most people disable their mobile data when roaming, because fees are set to bleed the unfortunate few who forget to dry. If you live in a country that is only a few hours drive to neighboring ones, that's something you do quite often. So SMS is not only more likely to work, it is absolutely required.
Not really my style (I'm a vim guy), but for power-user browsers, there's conkeror. Webkit rendering, emacs commandline.

http://conkeror.org/

(I mostly use it as a frequently-wiped-configs-and-cache bare rendering test.)
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Actually it is part of the argument. I watched the video linked to the post. The speaker says that symbols and strings are converging. Frozen strings are symbol like and symbol GC made symbols string like. Symbols were a performance optimization and we are close not to need it anymore.

I'm not sure there isn't more about symbols than that but I'll think about it the next time I'll write some Ruby. I'll pretend I have only strings and see what happens. One thing for sure: we'd need a syntactical shortcut because having to type "string".freeze everytime is unbearable. If the right shortcut is :string or the lispy 'string, I don't know but if we need it symbols are fine even if symbol.class could end up being String.
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Wow, 400-500ms pauses? Is that the case in newer Go versions as well? Seems like that would wipe out viability for a whole load of applications.
It is not just regular. It is dull.

Go is a miser. It gives you very few features to play with, forcing you to think hard about how you can solve real problems with these features in the most economic way. The result is much less fun, and the code you write is dull. But it is still useful, often as useful as what you write with a more fun language. And the probability that you will change your code because "feature X is the new hype" is considerably lower.

Go is not perfect in any sense of the word; every now and then its feature set turns out to be genuinely limited, and you have to apply hacks. But sometimes when you are forced to think hard, it turns out that you can combine two or more dull features in a creative way to do something you thought were only possible with new, interesting features. This offers a perspective of looking at language features: what are really necessary, and what are there just because programmers want to have fun?

Parsimony is a virtue appreciated everywhere in science and technology, except programming, where languages are rated by the number of features they include, and complexities get added to systems until they explode. The go perspective is a very, very valuable one in such a world.
Does it work with a database of dogs? :)
I never want to have time limits in these tests. Generally I prefer to tell the candidate "This isn't timed and we don't care how long it takes you. It tends to take x hours (where x better be less than 4) and most candidates get back to us in a week or so. If you can't do that, its completely fine, let us know when you anticipate having it done. This is just so we can judge where you are in the pipeline."
Is it considered "ok" now to refresh a page after a few minutes just to get fresh ads? I was in the middle of a sentence and the entire page reloaded and scrolled to the top. I lost my place.
The language/alphabet barrier, as well as the censorship barrier, prevent us from knowing China's Clarke, China's Feynman, China's Tesla maybe.

And we've come to reflexively discount anything coming out of China as derivative.

Don't forget - China is almost 25% of the human race!

What might we in the West be missing out on?
You don't have it here -> https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup.html. There is no mention of 30 days. I am so what pissed about since I bought the service just to backup my external drive.
[edit] This seemed inappropriate so I changed it

The only reason I ever designed a hiring pipeline is because I was asked to be one of the people in the interview pool. Me (and others in the pool) decided we were doing a bad job and started iterating on the problem (much like we would for software). Management was thrilled with both the initiative and the results.

That was years ago and working on hiring pipelines has become something I just do. I've never had an employer push back or make that hard. Quite the opposite, they are usually happy to have help.

Try fixing the problem in your current job and see. You might be surprised.
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And I guess there's a school of thought that from this perspective Australia and the UK are different countries in name only and are following US policy as dictated? True or not it's reasonable rhetoric I guess.
The laser guide star adaptive optics are fascinating: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_guide_star
Agreed. I'd be way more outraged if a founder who left after 12 days had retained 10% of the company and sold it for billions.
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Why go Hyper Local in 2015?
Some will react in horror, but my use case for my ancient iPad 1 is, as I'm doing right now, reading in the bath. My phone is both too valuable and too small to fulfil this 'need' safely, and the iPad hardly handles anything other than basic web browsing anymore. Still, since it probably qualifies as a collector's item nowadays, I might stop doing this...
More reason to use it and encourage your friends to use it while you still don't really need to.
Seeing that a trend can't go on forever is not difficult: Almost no trend, ever, can go on forever. The trick is knowing what will happen to disrupt the trend, and when it happens.

It's easy to say that there will be a recession in the future of the US and be correct. It's almost as easy to be correct if we say we'll see one before 2025. But when, exactly? How big? If it was actually easy to predict those things in detail, they'd be priced into market prices already.

Just look at property all over the country. In some cases, the bubble deflated, and prices are still pretty low. In others, there was no real popping of a bubble: A minor dip due to global economic conditions, but prices are higher than they were 7 years ago. The difficulty comes from predicting which ones will recover and which ones will not.

If anyone could do this, we'd see them get insanely rich in the financial markets, but when we compare mutual fund behavior over time, the number of people that beat the market in any period is no different than random chance. We ignore the efficient market hypothesis at our own peril.
thx for replying @eru, I don't envy the task evaluating candidates. By work samples do you mean real code you've created to solve problems?

“bring the same level of rigor to people-decisions
that we do to engineering decisions.” [0]

The weakness at google is understanding people. So I can understand the allure of HRA (HR Analytics) but feel google is missing something not intuitively understanding people and behaviour. [1]

[0] http://www.tlnt.com/2013/02/26/how-google-is-using-people-an...
[1] Adam Bryant: 'In Head-Hunting, Big Data May Not Be Such a Big Deal' http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-hunting-b...
Because not all developers are power users - but this browser is supposedly aimed at those of us who are.
I think you are seeing what it means to those in power- and those are the folks who would draw it up. It would be quite a remarkable revolution to put normal citizens in the legislature to rewrite the laws. I'm not sure my country can handle that. Too much funny laugh-track stuff on TV.
Back when I used Mercury Interactive's test products I often referred to them as "untested testing tools" and HP buying Mercury did little to improve that. I now test web applications with a battery of OSS tools, and couldn't be happier.
All I could think of:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_History

Larry David is working for an energy-efficient car startup as chief of marketing, gets fired days before it goes huge for objecting to the name of first model of the car, Howard, and well, loses out in a huge payout and goes dark and flees to reinvent himself.
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And what do you think about eww, the new browser embedded in Emacs 24? I personally like it.
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Yeah, until the next release of Chrome and Firefox, where GMail and Facebook together will start to happily eat 16GB of your 32. The amount of memory browsers now eat up is insane.
Lick Observatory is cool, but the ugly orange low-pressure sodium streetlights all over San Jose are kind of depressing (and sometimes distressingly hard to tell apart from yellow stoplights). Alas. Too bad we can't have dark-sky efforts across the whole spectrum (and the whole Bay).
I used to think about this: Would it be possible to find a configuration of galaxies with enough mass to bend light from one point on earth back to another point on earth? If we could do that, we actually look at an older timestamp of earth.

Yes, we'd need a reeeeally powerful telescope, but maybe we could find that in another configuration of galaxies as well.
The Google results start with things like VirusTotal, which has several scannners which declares the gif as being a malicious site.

The gif itself is almost certainly not malicious. There's probably two things happening here. Firstly, the hosting domain of the gif scanned could be known to be malicious. And secondly and more generally, Cloudflare is heavily used by the criminal scene, so to play safe a number of scanners may flag any cloudflare element as malicious.
Yes, layoffs are often when "deadwood" is let go.

However, it is import to realize that just being excellent at your job will not protect you from being laid off. Just because you want to believe that it will, doesn't make it true.
I get that, but I don't get how that applies to the corruption we are seeing. We aren't having power fail issues.
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This is really on-point. You echo a lot of how I think about interviewing: always tell the truth, but highlight pieces of the truth to craft the narrative you want. Be fallible. Don't speculate, and pay close attention to whether a line of discussion is fact-based or speculative. Don't disparage your previous (or current) employer.

Your comment is the sort of nuanced experience that makes reading through this thread worth the time.
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And yet, MailChimp, AWeber and all the big names constantly end in my spam folder first. I don't use Gmail, so maybe that's why.

The delivery rates of the big ones could be overrated.
This. It's not really about tracking. Most of the websites embed tons of JS for no good reason, just because developers are lazy fashionistas and designers wouldn't be able to justify their pay if they didn't add tons of unneccessary bells and whistles.

There are web applications that need JavaScript, and I'm fine with that. There's lot of cool stuff JS could be used for, and it's not used - check out Bret Victor's explorable explanations. But instead doing something useful with this power, web designers and developers just use JS to make "shitty skeuomorphic bastardizations of what should be text communicating a fucking message" - as the quote from a very insightful article goes[0].

[0] - http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
At the same time Pine tree genomes are 20 times the size of our own, but have a similar number of coding genes. Do we really think all of the extra DNA is needed?
I think it's fair to assume that people buy it because they like the taste

I drink Blue Moon. I like the taste but I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb enough to fall for marketing campaigns. In this case, Coors expertly marketed the product to my demographic and it provoked a strong reaction in me to buy it. Personally I'm fine with all this.
Not without wasting a lot of space depending on the difference between average size of string vs maximum size of string.
I believe it's also possible to use variable-size arrays in C or C++ (and end up with a variable-size struct).

Go does allow fixed size arrays in structs, and they're inline in the struct, so `struct { foo [8]uint }` is 32 bytes, whereas `struct { foo []uint }` is 12 bytes and `struct { foo string }` is 8.
Polygraphs are not just ineffective, the practitioners are frauds and quacks. It is widespread public knowledge that polygraphs simply don't work any better than reading tea leaves or entrails. They are perpetrating this fraud on the public and on the law, and ought to be harshly punished for doing so.
Those of you who have english as your first language, do you clearly understand everything they say? Goddammit, I was barely able to understand the number 1999 for the first flight mentioned in the article...
Sensible projects have a community code of conduct, and are prepared to enforce it. We're not all infantile and rude :)

(edit: but to be clear, yes, toxic communities do exist and are a terrible blight on the wider universe of open source)
> Parsimony is a virtue appreciated everywhere in science and technology, except programming, where languages are rated by the number of features they include, and complexities get added to systems until they explode.

You're laughably wrong.

There is an important school of thought in programming language design that emphasizes and heralds "language features" that are orthogonal, internally consistent and lean. In this school of thought, it is a plus (sometimes imposed as a necessity) when something can be expressed in the language by simply combining the primitive built-in "language features" in a certain way - as opposed to creating another "feature" altogether. And it is a plus when the list and specification of language features is short. And no - people who belong to this school of thought won't pine for more "features" so that they can make the whole thing more complicated for minor conveniences.

Ask yourself. Which of these two languages are more likely to be complemented by language nerds/snobs - C++, or Scheme...

And some people who apparently belong to this school of thought are criticizing Go for not being orthogonal enough. I wouldn't know about that - you would have to ask them about that. But if history is any indication, when something in Go is pointed out as not being orthogonal or simple, the goal post will change to nebulous claims of "pragmatism".
Why then do pine trees with a similar number of genes to our own, have nearly 20 times larger genome? Are you assuming they are more regulated?
When I try to modify a frozen hash it raises an exception "Can't modify a frozen hash" in ruby 2.2.

I generally agree with the rest of your comment though, however I think some ruby code (per the original post) can be improved by introducing some of these paradigms.
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Well you could use this:

https://github.com/hamstergem/hamster