skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an argument that if you can train a 17 year old in a couple of weeks to do the job of somebody who's been there 20 years, perhaps the experience shouldn't earn them more money.

Just existing for a long time doesn't add value. You have to do more or do it better.

I'm not for a minute suggesting that these lifers aren't performing their roles better, but when you can pay 4× 17 year olds on zero-hours contracts for the price of one long-term manager, the sums become hard to ignore.

I don't think it has very much to do with Lidl and Aldi at all. Supermarkets have sucked every corner of their supply chain and workforce dry to get the most profit and biggest market share. That level of competition is going to take its toll.

It's a shame W is the one you mention though. I always thought they were more expensive because they were better to their staff.
Google has a similar offering for apps running on App Engine, called Cloud Endpoints[1].

[1] https://cloud.google.com/endpoints/
> Am not aware of any redundancy units in current microprocessor offerings

Sure there are. That's why Intel sells chips with a thousand different cache sizes, for example. Bad bit in the cache? Just turn that block off. Likewise for whole cores in some of the bigger chips, I believe.
Netflix has long had bits of horrid UX. They just finally replaced the agggggggonizingly slow scroll left/right as you're browsing through the suggested content carousels.

An internal tool like Asgard doesn't have the same need a customer-facing tool like the AWS Console does to be user-friendly, either.
How well does this work when you don't have a binary (+/-) rating system, but a multi-valued one (1 - 5 stars) ?
Lets be real here. Average fatass wont be craving no olive oil tea spoons, but he will get up at 2 in the morning to snort a gallon of blueberries.
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Criticker does this well. But as you say, I try not to waste time watching movies I don't think I will like, so there is a good reason my ratings are biased towards the high end.
Why can't we instead just talk about how bad this article is? Is it necessary to hide everything that is disagreeable?
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Greece can't afford the debt so the only possible solution is to default. But Europe is using all it's available power to threaten Greece to prevent it from defaulting. Expecting a population to put up with a generation of depression is ridiculous and it's not going to happen. When Detroit defaulted it wasn't kicked out of the dollar and people were still allowed to move to other parts of the country.
As far as I am aware, Greece and several other of the periphery Eurozone countries with similar debt crisis, accumulated their debt over time through a system of credit swaps developed as financial instruments by companies including J P Morgan and Goldman Sachs, to enable perifery EU countries to hide their borrowing to make it easier to appear to be inline with the rest of the Eurozone, which was fine until the crash and the tide went out.

If you were in a cynical and slightly paranoid frame of mind, it could even look like an economic attack on the Euro by US financial institutions.
If your second last sentence is true, then you can't have monetary union. Break up the Euro.
> in that case, adding predictable, low latency arenas to GC languages is much easier than using hazard pointers (which are really a form of GC) to non-GC languages.

I disagree with that. I haven't seen "opt-out GC" work that well in practice. People use memory pools in GC'd environments to work around slow GCs, sure, but they're limited and have poor safety/ergonomics, as nobody wants to have to explicitly free data. They also don't really provide one of the greatest advantages of manual memory management, which is the ability to use stack allocation aggressively. (By "aggressively" I mean "in ways that an intraprocedural analysis with no knowledge of data lifetimes—i.e. an escape analysis—could not prove safe".)

Hazard pointers are a small feature, localized to exactly where you need them (concurrent data structures). Those who need concurrent data structures have to pay for the feature; those who don't don't have to. A pervasive GC, however, imposes its costs and benefits on the entire language ecosystem.
This is a naive question, but what's the difference between GitLab and Github?
Yes, major debt forgiveness and enough money to stimulate the economy would work, and in the long-term, a real fiscal union in the EU that automatically handles these kinds of issues.

Monetary policy in the Eurozone that put inflation above the present 0.2% would be helpful.

A Grexit would work and is probably the only realistic option, because the above two things are not going to happen.

Some of these options would also be painful, but at least there would be an end in sight. There is no end in sight with the loan request -> austerity demands -> worsening economy -> loan request cycle. Almost anything Greece does will be better than continuing in the same self-destructive cycle.
What do you mean? This:

var createItem = function(itemText) {
return (
<li>{itemText}</li>
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...is clearly so much more logical than:

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Does this still require its own crashy kernel driver on Linux?
Maybe in some (northern) parts that still remember the Nokia brand. Otherwise, Android and iOS are the really big players, with Android being number one in Europe followed by a strong iOS. WinPhone, Blackberry, FirefoxOS, JellyOS, etc. are of little interest for the average joe buyer.
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The major tech cos bundle their big announcements on their annual conference day. Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft all do this, and all have had multiple stories on HN's front page at the same time. As long as the announcements are significant and HN-worthy and they do it rarely, it seems ok. A story doesn't become spam just because it's coeval with others.

If one or two of the stories are noticeably weaker than the others, or especially if they've appeared on HN before, we'd appreciate users pointing that out, since we can penalize those.
60/40 from 60% of eligible voters is far, far from a strong mandate. This is a very contentious issue within Greece as well. Its a majority win of course, but its certainly not 90/10 or even 80/20.
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I thought this headline was pure pun-bait, I just didn't think that something so straightforward would work. Thanks for proving me wrong! :)
Nah - I happen to be at the AWS summit in NYC today and submitted a few things as I saw them announced. I use AWS heavily, but don't work for AWS or anything. I'm sure there's plenty of upvotes coming from other folks at the conference like myself.
New posts frequently start with a disadvantage though in existing systems. Temporarily biasing them favourably increases odds of any moderation. Alternatively you could present them only to a subset of readership. I've suggested this as a solution to HN's new submissions queue problem.

Increase the presentation as ratings increase.
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I think you're talking about a topic different from what the article is about. Nobody is disputing the right of the Greek people to default. What's discussed is whether Greeks have a moral claim to demand debt repudiation.

On a related topic - the journalist who wrote this article is usually someone I vehemently disagree with (he's like me a former USSRian living in the West but takes a more pro-Russia / anti-Ukraine position on that confict). So my take is that he's definitely not part of 'they' - sometimes people can just disagree.
See the discussion elsewhere in this thread for confidence intervals in multinomial distributions. https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=9856607&goto=item%3Fid...
The entry for the image can be different in the database, but there is no need to actually store the file twice, isn't it?
>> Only the most wealthy, least corrupt, and productive EU states can have a proper welfare state and even some of them have problems with youth unemployment, job growth, etc.

That's so true! While Romanian women (the etc. in your list of countries with problems) work 12 hours/day for $10, so cool, polite, wealthy, less corrupt teenagers in developed countries can have cool and cheap Che t-shirts.
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yes but not totally joking, I've definitely seen that happen with G a few times in the last few yearsq
Amongst others, amazon doesn't provide iOS testing. With http://www.testmunk.com you will be able to run the same testcases on both iOS and Android. You will also get a QA Engineer for some hours per month that quickly assists you in getting the needed test coverage.
Please don't quote South Park.
You could replace p/n in the formula with the average star rating and still get a reasonable ranking order.
Having a few mega bombs probably help. I don't think it works out for some smaller countries
I think the problem with "forgiving" the debt is that 1. someone is going to pay for that debt, the debt that is owed to someone is on their balance sheet as (rapidly declining) value they possess. That is the debt doesn't magically disappear, someone has to pay for it one way or the other. 2. Those in position to pay that debt fear Greece is just a bottomless pit that they'll be "forgiving" debt for a long while to come since Greece's social programs aren't sustainable and there aren't any indicators that Greece's economy will grow fast enough to support them. The problem isn't just debt that's owed now, but the money Greece will owe in the future (and can't pay) given Greece's situation.

People that are going to have to pay for Greece's problems don't just want an end to Greece's current problem just to fall into the same trap soon here after, lurching from one crisis to another. I think that's a pretty fair concern to have.
I thought the upvotes define what is "suitable" for HN.
It still treats the whole stack as a blackbox. Necessarily the effort to cover important boundary cases throughout the TCP stack can get overwhelming.
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There is one by Arthur Ganson in the MIT museum[1]. It's part of a great exhibit of fun/quirky machines and there's an interesting video about it on youtube[2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q-BH-tvxEg
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rov_Lriqvk
Sure you can be productive as a single developer. The problem is when you're handed a project from another single developer-project, and the project is a hot mess of spaghetti jQuery where business logic is intertwined with DOM manipulation.
It's basically impossible to work with unless you've created the code yourself.
Second Greek bailout included a €100bn haircut.

From Wikipedia: "EU Member States would also pass on to Greece all profits which their central banks made by buying Greek bonds at a debased rate until 2020. Private investors accepted a slightly bigger haircut of 53.5% of the face value of Greek governmental bonds,[10] the equivalent to an overall loss of around 75%."

From the article: "The Federal Republic of Germany's creditors -- 20 countries including Greece -- indeed agreed at a London conference to write off 55 percent of the country's 32.3 billion Deutsche marks of foreign debt."
Same thing here. At work my host OS has nearly nothing installed on it, with an unusual toolbar and background color to remind me I'm not on the "right" machine.

I do all of my work in a VM, and as my org gets new machines, I xcopy the VHD over with minimal downtime. Full screen remote desktop is fine. My work is generous with hardware dollars, so I'm not really in any need of more memory or disk space.

That said, my work doesn't really involve anything involving lots of screen drawing. Video sucks through remote desktop (audio/video de-sync or rdp connection drops), so if I need to watch a video (presentation or youtube), I either suffer through it or do that on the host machine.
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Can you really call anything running on node lightweight?
Gitlab runs on your server. They are very similar, though there are still plenty of features Github has that Gitlab does not.
Nope:

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This is basically 'politics' as can be seen from the flamey comments already being posted.
Well, harmonic drives are cycloid drives that use elasticity rather than eccentricity to do the same task, so let's focus on cycloid drives.

It's not quite the same your typical cycloid drive, but it has a strong relationship. Cycloid gears are about having an inner circle of radius A rotating within an outer circle of radius B by putting the center of A's circle on its own circle of radius C = B - A.

If C is small, then a fast rotation of C produces a slow off-center rotation of B relative to A. Since it's off-center, usually a bunch of holes (theoretically also of radius C, I think?) are drilled in B and filled with "output rollers" which connect to one single shaft which is on-center relative to C. Thus C connects on-center to this asymmetric B, which connects to an on-center output shaft that otherwise rotates as B does.

In his case, these holes don't exist and the rotation is never on-center. But you can use the same mechanism to convert his amateur cycloidal drive to one that has an on-center rotation of the input shaft.

Now normally in a cycloidal drive, A is regarded as fixed, while C is rotating, and B is still. In this case his C is totally implicit, his B is rotating, and he is at two different A's which rotate relative to each other. There are therefore presumably two different Cs, too.

It's hard to really isolate the exact mechanism in terms of connected cycloid drives. It is not as simple as fixing C and watching a single cycloidal drive's A rotate as a response to a rotating B, because that would have the reverse mechanical advantage. It's also not obviously "two cycloidal drives connected together by C", which would have a mechanical advantage near 1.

So I'm not sure what it is, but I don't think you can just say "oh, it's a harmonic drive."
You seriously have trouble reading "i", "j", "param" and "num"? Hell, "ok", "depth" and "retry" are already in your English-language dictionary!

I'll grant that having variables named with "tmp" is confusing out of context, I guess. But if you're trying to start a Java-style war over this stuff, just recognize that most of the world has moved on and views names like those as perfectly fine when used within standard idioms.
> Manual memory management never works, because there is always someone that does the wrong thing that leads either to blow ups or security exploits, that take experts days to weeks to track down.

This only applies to unsafe manual memory management. Not all manual memory management is unsafe.

> Lifecyle of resources is very deterministic in GC languages, provided one uses the proper language constructs, such as using/with/try/scope/defer or high order functions.

Only for objects that have lexically scoped lifetimes. It doesn't help with prompt reclamation of objects with dynamic lifetimes (e.g. a file that two threads are holding onto, which you want to close when both threads shut down).
1. The welfare system in Europe is entirely sustainable in the long term. It's just a matter of national priorities. Conservatives consistently attack the social safety net: in their view the government is always "too big", taxes "too high", and the welfare system "too expensive". A welfare system can also be large and balanced. Just raise the taxes necessary to pay for it.

2. Greece CANNOT pay the money back, because they don't have it. The question that remains is whether we punish the Greek people for something they had no say in and did not benefit from. I say punishment here is counterproductive and immoral.

When banks or institutional investors make dumb investments they have to lose their money. The responsibility for due diligence lies primarily with the lender. The amount of interest they charge is compensation for the riskiness of the loan. The banks decided to lend money to Greece and Germany at the same interest rate. That's plain insanity. You can't expect financial mastery from regular people, but you can --and should-- demand it from billion dollar pension funds.
You don't pay attention to many elections do you? 60/40 is a blowout for the popular vote, and 60% turnout is large.

Also, 60 is 50% more than 40.
I'm currently playing my first game of Diplomacy. Anyone with the slightest interest in world politics should play it once. It's teaching me more about how the world works than 2 years of reading The Economist (sadly canceled due to lack of time).

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Does Syriza actually want debt relief? Judging from Varoufakis' interviews, he wants to implement policies that would foster economic growth, which would allow Greece to slowly pay back its debts. He claims the EU's proposals would further cripple the economy which would mean they will never be able to pay back its debt.

So it's not necessarily about debt relief, it's about which policies are most suitable for Greece.
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On the other hand, that asset on their balance sheet was returning a higher rate due to risk that Greece might someday have to default...
I mean, OpenSSH is such a piece of buggy garbage... /s
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"got everyone involved"

Heh, that's putting it lightly. They attacked everyone.
The Xbox360 had four cores (IBM Power) but only three cores were enabled. And older AMD CPUs were released with 6 enabled cores out of 8 cores.
I agree, but my main worry is that Netflix isn't currently a premium product. It's a value product. They get subscribers based on the huge amount of content.

They'll have to transition into HBO. But that isn't easy. You are right HBO transitioned from third party content to original, but HBO always hit the same market segment. HBO was always a premium entertainment service.

Netflix has already suffered customer revolts on relatively minor price increases.

Will the Netflix subscriber base pay for a netflix that mostly does original content? I'm not so sure that they will.
> Is it necessary to hide everything that is disagreeable?

It's disingenuous for you to imply that we want Divisive Political news hidden for it's disagreeableness.

Why cannot we disagree with it based on its relevancy to "Hackers" and "News" regarding hacking?

This isn't the forum to discuss Global Finance. It's not GloFi News, it's Hacker News.

What's so wrong with staying on topic?

Better yet: someone (me!) should write a Hacker News for politics and global finance, just as design-related topics have moved to other link aggregators.
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Maybe that's how you do it, but I guarantee that there are loads of production webservers out there grabbing stuff from all over the web and building it in situ.
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Internally at Amazon, Pipelines (which inspired this service) was a lifesaver. Apollo (which is the inspiration for CodeDeploy) was also helpful, but should probably just be replaced by Docker or OSv at this point.

But if they ever release a tool that is inspired by the Brazil build system, pack up and run for the hills. When it takes a team of devs over two years to get Python to build and run on your servers, you know your frankenstein build system is broken. It could be replaced by shell scripts and still be orders of magnitude better. Nobody deserves the horror of working with that barf sandwich.
Ask HN: Can you help me collect great stories that are regularly reposted here?
Hi! Sometimes people post awesome stories here, both fiction and nonfiction. They become the sort of thing that many people in this community already know about, yet many new members are not aware of. So they get passed around from person to person, rediscovered and reposted here from time to time.

These stories are often about programming/technology/science/AI/transhumanism/etc, but not always. Mostly they are just about the kinds of things people here really like.

Here's a few examples so you would know what I'm talking about:

- The case of the 500-mile email

http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

- The Fastest Guys Out There

http://wesclark.com/burbank/sr_71.html

- Unix Koans

http://catb.org/esr/writings/unix-koans/

- A Bluer Shade of White

http://rationalfiction.io/story/a-bluer-shade-of-white/chapter-1

- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/

I want to make a collection of such stories. Can you share some great links that you know about?
Same reason here, our IT department only supports windows and I've been mostly using VBox to work in linux at work for the past 3 years without any incident whatsoever. The clipboard, mouse and keyboard sharing are really fantastic. It really makes you forget this is a guest OS.
This is also my opinion as well. A shared currency is just a bad idea and that's something the English realized early on, or at least the Thatcher administration did. Her 1995 book "Path to Power" pretty much predicted this situation.
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