skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you for real? When a war ravages your country and destroys your cities you can't send the bill for the reconstruction to the aggressor? THAT is somehow immoral or illegitimate debt that deserves to be forgiven?
GitLab PM here, see also https://twitter.com/gitlabceohere (not started by us, but we have a suspicion who did)
Good point. I hadn't considered the social angle because I usually avoid reading comments on sites like that.
Yes, I agree, I actually like the current algorithm. I see some pretty interesting things
> But TAARP was much larger than what the Greek bailout ever needed to be. And the EU's gdp is larger than the US'

TARP paid itself off as the US economy is almost always a sure bet. The chances of the Greeks paying off their debt is pretty much zero. These are very different situations.
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Consider that AWS has always been incredibly expensive. If you can't compete with AWS on price, then sure, it should be disheartening, but then you should take a long hard look at why.

Otherwise let AWS grow the market, and look for opportunities to serve people who don't want to pay the AWS premium and/or to plug feature holes.
All companies want to be like Comcast. Comcast's model is rather profitable. Most companies, however, don't think they would ever be able to get away with the kind of stuff Comcast does.
First, responsible disclosure.

And second, I think (but cannot prove) that people need time to adapt to technological progress, which is also driven by software. For example, we cannot figure out how to integrate Google Glass into our social norms over night. And we needed time to respond to the Snowden revelations. Who knows how we will handle drones and the IoT? Accelerating progress has upsides and downsides.

(I feel this is more about hardware than software, though. More efficient Big Data might be scary?)
If you are a Google Analytics Premium customer, your raw dataset is automatically available in BigQuery, so you can see down to every click and run your own SQL on it.
Yeah this is all pretty wrong.

>> upset that Greece might actually be forced to pay its bills and what that means for the welfare state model the EU has built itself on.

1) Those aren't just Greece's bills. Steve Waldman put it best: "The European financial system was architected to make lending to Greece — and Spain and Portugal and Italy — a money machine for bankers with little career risk over a medium term. Sketchy credits tend to punch above their weight in terms of volume of issuance, so there was a lot of nice paper to buy. The bankers who lent to these states understood perfectly well that there was in fact a long-term risk, an uncertainty, a constructive ambiguity. They lent anyway, and took home very nice salaries and bonuses for doing so." (http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/5965.html)

2) This has nothing to do with implicating the welfare-state model; as you note, there are a ton of Euro welfare states with extremely robust economies. Some Euro welfare states have been chronically mismanaged (Greece, Italy, probably Spain) and now they're in trouble, in part for reasons not of their making.

>> Only the most wealthy, least corrupt, and productive EU states can have a proper welfare state

Oh, so in other words, if you take out Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Norway, Finland, Belgium and Switzerland, the European welfare state is a total disaster, huh?

>> and even some of them have problems with youth unemployment, job growth, low military spending, almost no defense against an expansionist Putin outside of the US Military...

1) You know who else has problems with youth unemployment? The United States. Per the BLS (http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t02.htm), 16-19-year-old unemployment rate among white people was 15.7% in June 2015, and 31.8% among 16-19-year-old black people. THIRTY TWO PERCENT. But yeah, European welfare states are the only ones with a problem here.

2) US military spending is insanely high - we spend as much as the next 7 countries combined (http://pgpf.org/Chart-Archive/0053_defense-comparison). So it makes a certain amount of sense for Europe to throttle back their own spending a bit, though ideally they would spend more and we would spend much, much, much less.
Reading the article, I'm not sure if that's an alternative so much as a prerequisite.

Looking at the monolithic architecture, it just took each feature within the monolith and created it as a microservice. Just because you have a monolith doesn't mean you can't have well thought out features and separations of concern.

Before coding, before deciding on architecture, I like to think in these terms. What features make the most sense together? Far apart? It should be a prerequisite of any project, regardless of architecture. If you're building a monolith, each one just goes in a different module or package rather than having its own service.
It is narrowly true that the libressl devs are not cryptographers, but that's also quite misleading. Lots of bugs, like say... this one, are not crypto related.
It's not a microservice success story, it's a software system success story. microservice is just the way the system evolves.
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I genuinely don't understand all the fuss about this. I could be way off, but how does that content fulfill the "intellectually gratifying" clause of HN?

Please someone explain me, why is this on the front page (read what's interesting about this news and what am I missing).
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This would be great with QR code! Just print link in Emoji on t-shirt, or other surface and write

"Check out my website http://🍕💩.ws/ Got problem typing it? Scan QR code!".
It seems the risk for Europe would be giving control of their agriculture to a non-EU corporation like Monsanto.
There is another mechanism called "Single Event Upset" (SEU) or "Single Event Effects" (SEE) (basically synonymous). This is due to cosmic rays. On the surface of the earth, the effect is mostly abated by the atmosphere - except for neutrons. As you go higher in the atmosphere (say on a mountaintop, or an airplane, or go into space) it becomes worse because of other charged particles that are no longer attenuated by the atmosphere.

The typical issue at sea level is from neutrons hitting silicon atoms. If a neutron hits the neucleus in some area of the microprocessor circuitry, it suddenly recoils, basically causing an ionizing trail of several microns in length. Given transistors are now measured in 10s of nanometers, the ionizing path can cross many nodes in the circuit and create some sort of state change. Best case it happens in a single bit of a memory that has error correction and you never notice it. Worst case it causes latchup (power to ground short) in your processor and your CPU overheats and fries. Generally you would just notice it as a sudden error that causes the system to lock up, you'd reboot and it would come back up and be fine, leaving you with a vague thought of, "That was weird".
This is just an ad for UBiome, hopefully this will get flagged.
This one was written by me. Didn't feel right for a "Show HN" title, but I thought this group might find it interesting.
The sidekiq ruby gem (https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq) is a good example of a small open source project that earns a living for its author, Mike Perham. He sells licenses to a closed-source version with some enhanced features. I'm sure he also gets consulting work from being the author. This seems like a more "approachable" example than e.g. PostgreSQL.
You certainly miss the point of having an API, right?
I have trouble understanding what they're meant to signify, yes. I am a regular human with finite intellect; I admit it.

To actually comprehend this function requires storing those 14 names in short-term memory, reading through the over 300 lines of remaining code, filling in bits of the meaning of those names as they become clear, and only then reading the code again with that mental map. That's the case where none of the 14 have slipped my mind by the time I get back around. That just seems like an awful lot of overhead to net something that could be as easy as reading names if they were better chosen.

Just as a demonstration, why don't you time how long it takes you to figure out what j actually is and then report back?
It's a great question.

GitLab is open source. You can run in on almost anything or use our free cloud offering GitLab.com.

We're almost at feature parity with GitHub, but also offer other things. For instance features such as rebase before merge, merge request approvals, LDAP group integration.

In addition, we build GitLab Continuous Integration, which is a fully featured CI tool that is easy to scale and integrates with GitLab. It's completely free.

See more here: https://about.gitlab.com/better-than-github/
> nothing proved to be more reliable to this moment.

Huh? Of the 22 vulnerabilities OpenSSL has disclosed since March (4 high severity, 14 moderate, 4 low), LibreSSL has been vulnerable to 8 (0 high, 6 moderate, 2 low).

References:

March: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=142677372515025&w=2

June: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-announce&m=143406498020131&w=2

Today: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=143645910727507&w=2
Great, keeping the notebook is awesome.

Your smart to not just jump on an idea, if you don't like it or don't feel totally energized by it then it isn't a good fit for you. Doesn't mean someone can't do it and be successful, but you likely wouldn't if you aren't totally engaged and super energized.

Keep it up and Good luck!
Very welcome. I have some friends and relatives that only get on Facebook once in a great while, but that doesn't mean I want to miss their posts when they do. Quite the contrary.
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I wonder what this would look like controlled for things like average income

great article nonetheless!
It's a new an interesting usage for emoji, could end up being trend setting, and lots of people use Slack so it's relevant there as well. I would not have thought to use emoji in this way, but seeing it in action I grok the value immediately. That is intellectually gratifying for me.
I think part of it has to do with the fact that web development is a very large and diverse field. It's very possible that the types of projects you work on do not require a different approach. For example a web application with a large about of UI elements. Or very specific client requirements. Or a continuous cycle of iterations over time. Or a common structure for a team.

Indeed the old web dev write once, pass it to the client and never see it again has quite a bit of difference in requirements to the large scale robust web application that needs to be able to survive a long period of iteration and maintenance.
They is also http://www.mashery.com/. I've run across a lot of companies using Mashery to manage their API.
Historically, Germany has always been a militaristic country who have repeatedly tried to take over the world (however childish that sounds). Last time around they killed several dozens of millions of people.

Today German industry still makes weapons used to kill people around the world.

While the Greeks haven't really bothered anyone except the Turks and a little bit the Bulgarians. Too busy drinking ouzo I guess.

So the Greeks leave the euro.

And we nuke the Germans to ensure the future of humanity? Or perhaps, instead of bailing them out, the Allies should have made Germany into an agrarian society with the same result.

See how nasty this game becomes?
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Haha, of course they did.

http://www.tomsguide.com/forum/id-2142984/amd-phenom-710-4th...

AMD used to software-disable the 4th core on the Phenoms, but then they switched to disabling them by hardware, so that rendered any software means useless.

AMD only disabled the cores to save on manufacturing - most of the time, these cores were not working properly. But as the process got better, people got 4 or more cores for the price of 2-3 :-D
Thanks for the great post I will do that. My major at school was Business & Marketing, after graduating I worked in the music business for about 5 years doing mostly admin work & product management. That's my background however I want to make a career change and get into the tech space that's why I made this post. I am currently learning UI/UX design and am no pro by any means yet, I just wanted to show potential companies that I am team player willing to learn and create value.
> I always yearn for a 'by date' sort for HN comments

We can't make a big flat list and sort those by date without losing the threadedness of the comments and thus their context. But we could sort siblings by date at each level of the tree, including the top level. Is that what you mean?
As far as I understand, chips are designed with many redundant pathways for exactly this reason. I think its a rather important part of the design process, but someone who knows better should probably say.
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On the contrary -- I'd imagine that it'd make them more likely to use words poetically.
I am familiar with FRP.

I have never seen React described as FRP, and a Google search for "React FRP" confirms that this is a heterodox belief and in fact it is you who might need to learn more.
I seriously doubt they use a gear the size of the base. I doubt the facilities to manufacturer a gear that big exist anywhere. Gear machining is a very specialized operation.+

More likely it's a train of gears of much more moderate ratio...a series of 5:1 or 10:1 reductions, say.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_presidential_election,_...

"[Hitler] was appointed chancellor on 30 January 1933."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_July_...

"They saw great gains by the Nazi Party, which for the first time became the largest party in parliament, though without winning a majority."

That's what democracy is about, the dictatorship of the biggest minority.

The constitution of the Weimar republic was crappy, but that's just how it was.

How did they cheat their way to power?
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That's not surprising, though. Blaming a newly elected socialist government for all the country's faults. It's just a scare tactic. This happened in Quebec recently when the Parti Québécois (quite the varied political party, but at the time center left) was elected, after 9 years of Liberal government. The PQ was blamed by the liberals for everything and anything, but the PQ had just been in power some months in a whole decade.

Turns out the scare tactic worked, even pushed the Premier to hold elections prematurely, and government returned to Liberals.
It's neat but will only benefit the largest companies with the most elite developers. I've learned a lot about hardware development in past year for purposes of imagining clean-slate, subversion-resistant chips. The work it takes to get the 90nm and below chips working, especially inexpensively, is pretty mind boggling with many aspects still dark arts shrouded in trade secrets. Many firms stay at 130-180nm levels with quite a few still selling tech closer to a micron than a 28nm chip. Tools to overcome these challenges cost over a million a seat.

So, seeing another process shrink doesn't excite me given we haven't tapped the potential of what we already have. Lots of technologies help: EDA; FPGA's: S-ASIC's; multi-project wafers; ASIC-proven I.P. And so on. Yet, even 350nm still isn't very accessible to most companies wanting to make a chip because the tools, I.P., and expertise are too expensive (or scarce sometimes). Yet, the benefits are real in so many use-cases (esp security). I'd like to see more companies dramatically bringing the costs down and eliminating other barriers to entry with affordable prices.

Example of the problems and what kind of work we're looking at:
http://eejournal.com/archives/articles/20110104-elephant/

Example direction to go in:
http://fpgacomputing.blogspot.com/2008/08/megahard-corp-open...

I think the best model, though, is to do what the EDA vendors did: invest money into smart people, including in academia, to solve the NP-hard problems of each tool phase with incremental improvements over time. I'm thinking a non-profit with continuous funding by the likes of Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Wall St firms, etc. A membership fee plus licensing tools at cost, which continues to go down, might do it. Start with simpler problems such as place-and-route and ASIC gate-level simulation to deliver fast, easy-to-use, low cost tools. Savings against EDA tools bring in more members and customers whose money can be invested in maintaining those tools plus funding hardest ones (esp high-level synthesis). Also, money goes into good logic libraries for affordable process nodes. Non-commercial use is free but I.P. must be shared with members.

Setup right, this thing could fund the hard stuff with commercial activity and benefit from academic/FOSS style submissions. With right structure, it also won't go away due to an acquisition or someone running out of money. Open source projects don't die: they just become unmaintained, temporarily or permanently. Someone can pick up the ball later.

Thoughts?
When the new Robespierre comes he will have to do a lot of work. But thankfully with global elites concentrated in London and NY we will need only 2 revolutions to get there :)
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Flexibility mostly. Pricing you can just bake into you're business model.

Flexibility however is always something you run into with platforms. And while this is a bit different then what folks typically think of as a platform (Django, Rails, Play, Spring) it looks like it would suffer the same problems. As soon as you need to do something weird, you're stuck fighting the platform or porting out instead of making your project better. This is why I prefer platforms that are more a collection of libraries with a preferred way of doing then as opposed to rigid box box style things.
The popular vote of an election is exactly the same metric as a referendum. They can be compared directly.

There have been many extremely close but critical referendums:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Maastricht_Treaty_refer...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_Maastricht_Treaty_refer...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_referendum,_1995

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_referendum,_1980

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_European_Union_members...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_European_Union_membe...

60% is decisive, and a clear mandate.
> But TAARP was much larger than what the Greek bailout ever needed to be.

TARP was viable because buying up the "troubled assets" itself arrested the decline in their value and thereby interrupted (or at least mitigate) the positive feedback loop of the collapse.

Is the Greek crisis a similar positive feedback collapse with readily identifiable asset classes which could be targeted for a bailout purchase that would interrupt the feedback loop? (Serious question: I've seen a lot of reporting on the surface manifestations of the crisis, but not a lot of readily available information on the underlying fundamentals.)
I'm not OP but my guess is that without the revenue generated by the proprietary algorithm, there wouldn't be enough money or incentive to keep improving it.

With an open source google algorithm there would be possibly 1000's of lesser google's (lesser as in inferior search) the lesser googles might even get eclipsed by Bing or some other proprietary search which has the resources to improve it's search.
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I used to work in the biz. We tried. We found any price > $0 to be nonviable.
Get professional advice. Google is not a professional advisor !

However, some basic searching suggests Italy could be one route provided you have Italian heritage : http://www.italyheritage.com/genealogy/citizenship/

And Malta is generous on the financial front : http://www.ccmalta.com/publications/malta-citizenship-invest... A house purchase looks cheaper than pure capital investment. Malta is a nice place to live too.

You need proper professional advice though. Google will get you started on places to inquire.
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A fine thing to do in that case is just to use React but without the JSX.
I have a hard time seeing this as bad compromise between expediency and process: "If the act is ongoing (such as someone engaging in harassment in #django), or involves a threat to anyone's safety (e.g. threats of violence), any working group member may act immediately (before reaching consensus) to end the situation."

Remember that there is still after the fact accountability, and that the system relies on the people in the WG being trusted community members and reasonable people.

BTW this is not far from how it works in the real world. Bob is not going to be able to litigate his side of the story and face his accusers in most situations where he is removed from premises for harassment or threats of violence. And people generally are fine with this.
Kickstart 1.3? What year is this, 1988?

At least use a Kickstart 3.0.
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uhhh....yeah.....I would say the vast majority of devs in the non-MSFT space use terminal more than 99% of the time...
Sensationalised title

Granted, Deutsche Telekom is already responsible for a lot of crap German users have to endure (like long waits to have an internet connection)

But I guess since most of their customers would be satisfied of using a disk dial phone and usage is kept low by fines to torrent users and half of Youtube being censored by GEMA they have little incentive to change.
Metaphor. (Or Simile?) ==> That's one core competency for writers, and what will save their jobs from the software-eating-our-jobs phenomenon. Auto-generated sports event summaries, etc., can't hunt when it comes to style. I hear tech companies are hiring more editors and writers for their content.

I guess you have a point though in that they're comparing it to a Kurzweil Singularity, not the physics/math singularity.
But what is the valuation?
I like this theory.
Lambda is pretty much there.
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I believe that's what Motif is doing.