skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The bumiputra probably shouldn't schedule any deployment for Friday. b^) Then again GLBX probably should know that too.
what makes you think it is trivial? how do I generate an accurate prefix list of who should be announcing what, when?
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Creator of the Readlang here. I started this at the very end of 2012, and save for a few months contracting have been working on it full time since, doing everything myself. Growth has been slower than I’d like but just enough to keep me motivated.

It's a freemium webapp, originally designed to reduce the frustration of practicing my Spanish by reading novels, and later adapted to work on any webpage as a browser extension.

I always appreciate it when people share details about their business, so here are some numbers from the first 5 months of 2015 (Jan - May):

Google Analytics - Sessions: 120,000, Unique visitors: 53,489

Signups - 13,658

Revenue - $4768 (average of $953 / month)

Not spectacular, but when I look back, it took 16 months to make the first $1000 (http://steveridout.com/2014/03/22/readlang-my-bootstrapped-l...), and right now it’s making more than that every month! It’s a long road but I’m very excited about it’s future.

Any questions or feedback, please fire away!
You should be creating the index file, it's the solution to the problem. If you were going to edit the test.js it would make it really simple ;)
Commissioning etc. are orthogonal to the system configuration, and we should just agree to agree that a centralized control point is not necessarily necessary. OTOH IMPO, the control system requirements should be specified by a HVAC PE.
Yup, fixed. Thanks
YMMV, but I find the readability of J and K to be far worse precisely because of the ASCII charset instead of the glyphs. The APL glyphs give me a concrete context switching mechanism that I'm operating within its "alphabet" and the semantics thereof. Whereas because I associate ASCII characters with plenty of other meanings already, I find J and K to look like complete line noise in comparison.
ah gotcha :P tbh I'm not quite familiar with writing tests or making solutions to tests, so these exercises will prove to be useful. Thanks!
http://devopsreactions.tumblr.com/post/87284390953/friday-de...
I did live through both of the last bubbles.[1] That's why I'm suggesting this would be different. I didn't say it wouldn't be felt at all, just that it wouldn't be nearly as bad.

are there really a lot of pension funds investing in 0-revenue startups in SV? That seems like a place I really don't want my pension.

EDIT:
[1] I lost a lot of money on my house that I bought in 2008 and sold in 2014. It sucked. I can't imagine my next house losing money because snapchat goes out of business....
Since this blog is a bit dated, here are some things that have changed in the last 10 years from the perspective of someone who works here now. First some background to fill in the time between when he wrote this and now:

When Vista dropped, public opinion of Microsoft started to go out the door. That was right around the same time that Apple released its first iphone (2007), and with a failed OS and a hugely successful device release by Apple, Microsoft fell by the wayside. Public opinion tanked a bit, and it seemed like the only "positive" energy was Steve Ballmer. Whether or not you can call his energy "positive" is debatable, but he was certainly energetic. Few employees actually liked Ballmer though, so when Satya came on it was a breath of fresh air. Satya came in at an absolutely perfect time - hololens and windows 10 were just about to be announced, meaning he'd get immense credit despite only being here for a short period. With a new CEO, Hololens, and Win10 on the horizon, public opinion (and our stock price) of MS has started to go up. The corporate culture in the last year has changed drastically, and support for open source internally has shot up (which as someone with a linux/unix background has really made me happy).

Four or Five years ago, if you'd asked me what tech company I worked for, my answer would have probably been, "Microsoft, I know, it's a bummer. I'm trying to move to google". Now though people actually think MS is cool again. The stuff we're working on is exciting and the corporate culture is starting to get healthy.
>that is morally as reprehensible as if that person held the knife. I think it should be treated as an assault.

Are you guilty for buying a cheaper produce when child labor was used to produce it? Does your knowledge of the abuse going into making it cheaper matter?
FHIR is a bad answer to a stupid situation.

The fact that it supports extensions and embedded resources is a bad idea. Some of the later stuff is okay, like the layout of patient objects.

Honestly, a big part of the problem is that nobody seems to be pushing back and saying "Folks, we've made all of this too damned complicated...let's just identify useful subsets and make that work."

Also, good luck having any meaningful impact on the discussions if you're not with one of the vendors or can spare the time for bureaucratic bullshit.

EDIT:

A further note on the patient stuff--it looks reasonable if you look at this thing's "Show the result of `GET /patients/<whatever>`". However, the actual spec ( http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/fhir/patient-definiti... ) kinda hints at a massive headache.
One comment on something you said--

Where you said "lazy operators have been found..." I'd change it to "scared and underpaid operators under constant pressure to work faster have been found..."
Boxing as a business (even more in US) is rotten to the core. From Don King [1] to Bob Arum [2] and many of the lesser known characters.

The most prominent outspoken person I've seen is the trainer and TV announcer, Teddy Atlas [3] who called the ESPN's "Friday Night Fight" till its end recently.

Unlike HBO announcers who never say anything that might be remotely controversial (in case it alienates powerful promoters like Bob Arum), Teddy calls out bad decision. Not only that he screams it out and has been constantly outspoken about "corrupt" judging [4]. I have watched him go off on this exact topic. How an "up and coming" fighter with a big name promoter seem to always get a favorable decision.

The problem with boxing (especially since PPV or HBO or Showtime is the main revenue stream for boxing) is, it's a bit like movie business. Stars sell tickets and they may not alway be the best actors or boxers in this case.

Just this past Saturday. There was a big ticket fight on HBO between Cotto and Geale. Cotto won with a TKO that was started with a head-butt to the face of Geal. It was very obvious[6]. Yet, not one HBO announcer said one thing about it while they were raving about the punching power of Cotto.

Audience is another problem. Take GGG (Gennady Golovkin) [5] he has to speak Spanish to appeal to the Spanish speaking population in order to get a decent paying fight. And no big name is going to fight him, because there is no upside. The names are ticket sellers and there is a big risk of losing to GGG. So instead they just fight a lesser fighter. Cash in a nice purse, and keep their boxing records high. And everyone is blabbering about "and...still the champion" of this and that title, which is really meaningless. While the viewers pay happily for a make-believe sports world which is only half-entertainment and half-sports.

Even UFC (which is a tad better) needs big finishers. So a fighters can win on points buy winning smartly, but those guys will never get a real shot unless they can knockout (preferably) or submit the opponent.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_King_(boxing_promoter)

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Arum

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Atlas

[4] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmSlMZ5zUbI

[5] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennady_Golovkin

[6] - http://www.boxingnews24.com/2015/06/roach-cottos-big-power-w...
You're very right.

History, Philosophy and Civics are still in their pristine condition.

However, psychology, sociology, economics, anthropology and especially communication have been systematically taken over, and have demanded self-censorship of those fields. When a field self-censors it can no longer be considered to be doing intellectually honest work. So they are dismissed as not Science.
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Why is the company to blame? They mitigated risk enough to convince her to work there, no one was lied to or misled.
Twitter removes 140-character limit for direct messages
You could do with toning down the personal attacks. "no clue", "stupid" - these do nothing to add to the conversation.

Your anecdotal experience doesn't necessarily translate to all corporations.
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I really hope "Fear and Loathing in/with $TOOL" doesn't become the new "How I learned to stop worrying and love $TOOL"
According to the author, you need to know this in order to understand "how Google works," because the PageRank algorithm is described in terms of finding the principal eigenvector of a particular matrix.
I'm interviewing for JS devs and trust me, none of ones I interviewed could write a _.debounce function. Async throttle for promises?! If we find someone who can understand the question she/he will be hired. They don't need to solve it!
I've been traveling over the past year and mostly staying in Airbnb accommodations. They're such a far cry from any hotel. You get to live like a local. You get a friendly local contact. You get to experience so many different living conditions, from tiny rooftop apartments to sprawling 3-story family homes to cool stone rooms in buildings that must have been around since the 12th century. You get to see all the myriad ways different people decorate their homes. You can cook. You can work. You can leave whenever you want. Sometimes you even get to play with the owner's pets!

I've had to stay in hotels a few times over the course of my travels and it's just been a drag in comparison. No matter how tasteful they are, hotel rooms just feel like prison cells with their kischy decor, activity binders, and 1970's televisions. They're cold, clinical spaces that that exist in a sort of diorama dimension outside the jurisdiction and influence of the real world. And they're more expensive, too.
Sometimes I really do miss Valleywag. Such funny reads!
I've never met one of these that I'm truly in love this.

This one looks like you don't use POD types, you use it's special types for the output of columns and rows.

I don't even know how to solve these problems. Perhaps I want something not possible.

You have some struct that represents your table. You want to insert into the table. You try to fill out your struct, but wait, you don't have an "id" yet. And that "created" timestamp field should really be the "DEFAULT" keyword in the insert statement too!

Then you have select queries that don't return all of columns, or that call functions and return extra columns. Do you define a struct for each query by hand?
Also gives you a chance to change your mind, say to cancel a pending bank transaction in the evening.
Something my comp. sci. professor said a lot comes to mind:

"There's a lot to be said for something that works" - Dale Hanchey
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Is it justified to create a market for abuse if the want for what is produced is strong enough?
World's tiniest violin playing for the legal troubles of a site that posted a sex tape without the consent of either of the two people in it. Nothing would rejuvenate my faith in humanity quite so much as a world in which Hulk Hogan ends up owning Gawker.
Animated rotate directive with Angular JS
Summary:

Connectivity (existing) - WiFi, power outlets at every seat

Platform - Android fork in partnership with Panasonic

Storage - SSD

Video - full capacitive touch monitor with 720p resolution

Audio
- "Dysonics is encoding Red’s content in order to create a 3D sound experience over headphones"
Well. I may not have any inside info but I'd wager that 2004 MS and 2015 MS are very different workplaces indeed.
> Do you really believe they're worth more than the entire Taxi industry?

Uber is in 58 countries, and is expanding to more countries. Are you saying the combined value of the taxi industry in those countries is less than 50 billion?
This song seems completely relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oKn3Hz2u_Q
No, but the only vacations I've gone on since have been to visit people I know, so I just stay with them.

Even if I weren't visiting people, I don't think I'd want to stay in a real residential home through airbnb. I think I might lean towards a more business-y bed and breakfast place though, instead of a hotel.
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Mathematics is an essential component of problem solving and critical thinking.
People are more likely to refer to it as a bubble because of the 2000 "Dot Com Bubble." While 2008 was a "housing bubble" most people just refer to it as the 2008 recession. People are just most apt to draw comparisons between the tech industry now and the tech industry in 1998-2000, so referring to it as a bubble happens.
As a society, we've decided that it's the company's responsibility to provide a reasonably safe workplace. This is a lesson that was learned from the blood of thousands who died or were injured before safety standards were created and enforced. This is why in the US, we have OSHA. Standards for what comprises a "safe workplace" will, of course, vary depending on the workplace. An office processing paperwork has different standards than a metal stamping plant.

By making it the employer's reponsibility to follow OSHA standards under force of law, the employer has "skin in the game." They can be sued, or shut down if they don't comply, or face criminal penalties for, e.g., removing machine guarding.

If they have no responsibility, then they have no reason to make things safe: just need to pay enough that there's a steady stream of people to replace the ones who die/are injured. People in bad circumstances will take on risk regardless: the babies have to eat.
That's idealistic, but the logic of raw capitalism suggests otherwise.

If a management philosophy increases worker stress by 500% but increases widget production by 5%, then companies that implement that philosophy will outperform, outcompete, and devour companies that don't. If one of out ten workers suffer a life debilitating injury but you can reduce the cost of that worker's injury to you to effectively zero (at least, to an amount much smaller than the additional profit you make), then you're still running a sound business.

In theory public outrage might punish companies that do mistreat their workers, but, let's be real: the vast bulk of the market prefers unethically produced widgets to ethically produced ones that are 10% pricier. And even a company that sells itself on being ethical is, as likely as not, just using that as a marketing campaign to hike up profits while still treating workers terribly.
> But $41 billion? Now? Maybe in a few years time.

Here's the other thing. If you're investing in a startup you're not putting your money in based on some current metric like 3x booked ARR and saying you expect it to throw off enough to cover your investment. The whole idea is that you think it can grow into the valuation you're putting your money in at, that's where the risk is.

If the market believes that Uber is going to grow into a $41B company then that's what it's going to get priced at right now, even if they're not currently "worth" that much based on some present value formula.

It's the same way that product announcements don't generally move stock values - those products were already priced in.
Looking on working on upping my JS skills in the near future. This will be very helpful, thank you!
Depends. An acquaintance of mine moved his small textile plant from Italy to India in 2009, and ended up not even unpacking a good third of the machinery because it was cheaper to do those tasks by hand, and because having a higher employee count helped with local politics.
This organization can probably help her directly with the prosthetic hands: http://www.ln-4.org/
It would be nice. And at one point, I needed such benefits and was really grateful. But I'm sure you can find many stories of worse circumstances every day. Should The Guardian have a donate link at the bottom of every story about someone unfortunate? Would the money be better spent trying to get things changed?
Do we want to regulate the use of 'can't' to only apply in cases of physical impossibilities?
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This is only possible if you take from those who work the hardest and redistribute among the lazy. Been there. Luckily, Soviet Union is gone now.
> We don't know about social sciences because it is a heavily politically charged subject.

It did not used to be that way. It started to change after WW2 and even stronger after 1967. Social "sciences" were made political because a group of radical influential thinkers were interested in furthering studies that would disprove the role of genetics, biology and darwinism in social studies. Before this shift, social studies were not politicized.
Not to mention the complete lack of journalistic ethics on Kotaku. They frequently post articles about games they have financial or personal ties to, without disclosure.

Edit: I made no mention of movements and have no hidden agenda. My concerns for journalistic ethics are sincere. Kotaku and other games journalist web sites have associated any criticism of these concerns with unrelated harassing activities from typical internet bullies that falsely claim to represent the people that voice those concerns, but are ultimately unrelated.

I stand by my statement. The fact remains that there are journalists that have reported on games without disclosing financial or personal ties to the companies or developers representing those games. I invite you to set aside the politics and evaluate the facts.
They have vectorization in common, but the commonalities really stop there.
There is no safe way to knock someone unconscious. I hope boxing dies a quiet death, and I can do my part by never watching it.
I didn't mean that as a rationalization--it actual makes the exploitation even worse, I think. I feel like the momentum of research around factories is invested in reducing the number of human workers rather than making conditions better for the ones still needed. That's the inevitable direction to head, but it does create a lost generation.

Meanwhile, you are right--we'e had advanced robotics for a long time. But I feel there's recently been an explosion in computer vision; the kind of thing that's only recently made driverless cars a practical reality. Combined with the crash in costs for computational power, I think we're about to witness a moment in history where the march towards automation is going to become really accelerated.
You can make an interesting challenge out any one of the bigger (in LOC) functions of underscore.js or any promise library. You get a profound "a-ha" moment the first time you implement `deepClone` or `Promise.all`
The radio system made sense back in the 80s before cheap, reliable internet access was widely available, but I feel like IP would be a much more practical communications solution today.. especially considering the fact that the 2-way radios used by the maintenance staff interferes with the existing system.

Though your point is still totally valid, I'm just thinking out loud.
> You answered that one yourself :) Deprecation means to publicly notify that some API endpoint has hit end-of-life, and that a better alternative is available.

Thats exactly what the contracts do. The build would fail integration because the client is expecting the older version. This does mean that we don't have multiple incompatible versions of the service in the field, which is a mixed blessing.

> If you completely rewrite a service, it's your responsibility to implement the same interface that you had before on top of it.

Duplicate effort for redundant functionality?

> Then you deprecate it and also publish your new api or data schema. Once you get around to migrating the rest of your application's services away from the deprecated endpoints, the next version of the microservice in question can remove that old code entirely.

Which is exactly what the contracts do, wait until the services have started using the new API before the build is approved. The ONLY difference is that we can remove dead code and apis immediately, rather than doing it in the proverbial "tomorrow".

> Imagine Twitter or AWS completely rewriting their backend -- if they were to announce to the public that at a specific time, their old API URLs would 404 and the new ones would go live, it would be a wreck

None of these services are public facing. The public facing services are exposed via a border-api (which does indeed have a versioned api).
Because the worker, having far less power than the company, is not in a position to give consent to work dangerously for the pay. We, as a society, instead of just banning the ability for the work to be done, instead create a regulation which balances the situation to one which we feel consent can reasonably be given for the work done, as long as the company offers certain concessions.
it is interesting that when such things happen, the society at the time thinks it is ok, while later it comes to understanding that it was evil. Which begs the question - which things happening today will be considered evil tomorrow, and we or our descendants will be appalled at our implicit or explicit approval of those things today.
You're right. People might do that for a variety of reasons. Removed "lazy".
I'm saying Uber is currently but a fraction of the value of the taxi industry it's trying to displace.

You may not realize this, particularly if you don't travel outside the US very much, but Uber's success outside the US is far more restricted than it is in the US (and even within the US it's variable). They're likely to encounter more and more regulatory resistance (good luck getting an UberPop in Belgium, for example), which will significantly curtail growth.

On top of that, the brutal reality is that Uber could be easily replaced, either by an individual international competitor or competitors within individual markets who can better navigate the local regulatory environment. After all, look at how products like Line seem to have sprung out of nowhere to challenge the Facebooks and so forth of the world. And I guarantee you, the taxi industry will adjust while holding the advantage of being an incumbent monopoly. Uber could be displaced overnight given the right conditions.

So, no, I'm entirely unimpressed by that "58 countries" claim and believe Uber is significantly overvalued at this time.
TLDR: No card counting. He negotiated a 20% discount if his losses were to reach $500K, and negotiated small tweaks to the rules (eligible splitting, doubling hands) that brought the house edge down to 0.25%. At that point he was basically playing a 50/50 game with some downside risk protection, and got lucky with the cards. EDIT: He could do this because Atlantic City is a dump and is desperate for customers now that Pennsylvania has casinos all over the place.
I can't find any donate buttons on the last site...
... thanks Monsanto?

In all seriousness, this is really interesting. They solved some of the problems associated with persisting a cluster and we're likely going to use that. Feels weird thanking them for anything though.

Edit: Is anyone using CoreOS in a physical DC? We're using AWS with ~1.5k VMs but have another 5-6k hosts in physical DCs. Trying to move us towards containers but struggling.
How do you know that no one was lied to or misled? The article was scant on details.

Putting a high cost on accidents means that companies will take safety very seriously.