skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is there any benefit to it?

Well, in theory yes. When determining whether a specific function can be inlined into its call site, V8 looks at the length of the function source code to try and guess whether it's worth it. Functions longer than 600 characters (including comments) cannot be inlined and therefore they will typically be slower.

Whether that makes any meaningful difference to your application performance really depends on the application. In most cases it won't.
So, you mean a valid JSON is not a valid YAML? Good that YAML doesn't know that, otherwise my libraries start to reject JSONs.
What's the second act?
Even in places outside SV e.g. where I currently work, we're trying to move away from these solutions in some case. We have PB of data in DB2 and most core data goes through Oracle RAC along with SQL Server and Teradata.

But we still have use cases where we don't use these DB - partly for cost reasons and partly because we want different functionality. Berkeley DB ldap for accounts, ETL and analytics moving into Hadoop, some apps use Mongo and even other smaller apps use MySQL, and those are just the projects I know about from my view. We still pay for support contracts on all these projects but obviously costs are significantly lower.

Even in a company that doesn't mind paying large amounts for enterprise database, I don't think that that reaching for one of these major commerical DB is always the right solution. Not all projects need the support you're paying for from them, and beyond that for some useage patterns I don't think they're even the right solution to reach for, regardless the cost.
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The forgotten problems of 64-bit programs development
According to Wikipedia:
"Extraversion and introversion are typically viewed as a single continuum."
During my undergrad in the UK, all the doctors and members of the NHS that I interacted with were always kind, helpful and professional. Admittedly, they were sometime a bit brash because they had a lot of patients to see.

Of course, different people, different experiences :)
That might be for the best.
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Would you really prefer to be asked to write a cache-friendly hash map on a whiteboard?
So many people here are pretty quick at jumping on the author and defending Google's behaviour but I don't think those people actually understand what the issues are here.

There's nothing wrong with Google's updates except when they very rarely end up breaking something, but that's not the issue. It's that when someone has decided to block auto-updates from Google, it will still sometimes work around that to update itself.

99% of the people will likely want or not care if it auto-updates, but it shouldn't try and fuck over people that don't want that and expect that.
then again that's only relevant if you insist in using an absurdly sub optimal traction configuration.

longitudinal weight distribution is completely irrelevant for 4wd cars, where none of the listed advantages matter and all the disadvantages with handling do

yes, 4wd system absorb some additional power but that's largely irrelevant because:
- they can be active and only engage when needed
- they absorb some fixed amount of power that become marginal for a very high powered engine
- you're at wheel traction limit most of the time anyway at low speed, so absorbing power doesn't really matter
- at high speed power absorbed by a 4wd system is largely dwarfed by drag
Who cares, no one... why launch something like this without first curating some starter profiles?

You may want to look at posting on some nursing forums and paramedic forums to get some content before pushing this.
There are no caches nor DRAMs on most of the microcontrollers anyway, just plain, stupid, small SRAM blocks.

> having it managed at compile time

Uhm, been there, managing scratch memory statically can only work for very high level (and very domain specific) languages. Hardly possible for C.
We should stop studying them before they get brighter than us and overthrow humanity.
Gold!
Toyota GT86/Subaru BRZ are fantastic cars that can be bought with a manual transmission, for those with shallower pockets. Still, would really recommend.
Stop. Most of my life savings are still in yuan. I really need to convert the rest. We converted a bit when the first devaluation happened (my wife can do that since she is a citizen), but to do the rest, I have to wait a month for tax receipts from work....the joy of earning money in an inconvertible currency!
The way you played wasn't much different than how I played growing up in the US less than 30 years ago. After school we'd be outside riding bikes or playing games with friends, often until dusk. We mostly stayed on the block, but our parents were fine with us wandering as long as we stayed in the neighborhood and didn't cross any of the busy streets.

I still don't understand the fear that's gripped much of the western world about not letting kids go play outside by themselves.
There are still many developers and dev-shops working with flash on a daily basis. It seems important they get an official EOL from Adobe with an upgrade path (most likely to html5).
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speaking of fwd
http://www.topgearbox.com/2004/episode-guides/series-4/serie...

jump to 7:15 and see a fwd beating the heck of a 4wd impreza
I'm in two minds about her approach. One the one hand I feel it cheapens the image of female hackers. But on the other hand I want to congratulate her for exploiting a stereotype to her advantage.

It's just a pity that the tech industry as a bias to begin with. :(
Show HN: AWS monitoring SaaS (application centric; automatic baselining)
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Hmm maybe not like a king then, but certainly better than your US-based colleagues (esp. if the company is located in for example NYC or SF, where they need to spend a lot on taxes and housing).
It is a heavily gamed market where only the inside traders usually win. It really is a reflection of how corruption is bad for china.
Currently overloaded. Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20150623195101/http://bar.com/
Meanwhile, the more dolphins study man, the dumber we turn out to be.
Since February we use chromebooks for taking exams at Utrecht University. The tests are just kiosk apps and the chromebooks are easily managed using Googles administrator tools. Works like a charm. Was cheap too. The whole project cost less than 200,000 euros to set up. Chromebooks are dirt cheap so when one breaks we simply replace it.
I think we've got like 400-500 of them and are planning to get more because students are pretty happy with them.

http://pers.uu.nl/studenten-digitaal-tentamen-toetsvoorzieni...

(Disclosure: I'm one of the students who helped set up all the chromebooks)
That's probably derived from his great book "How to Cook Everything", http://www.amazon.com/Everything-Completely-Revised-Annivers....

Often, when I see some complicated recipe in a magazine, I turn to this book for the basic essentials of the recipe (and a great list of recipe variations and ingredient tips).
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Remember there are special domain names you can use to enter fake email addresses like example.com[1]

I also entered addresses I thought were fake. But there are so many registered domain names you can't make sure they are really fake.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example.com
"It was (financially) terrifying -- but at least it cut back on the douchebaggery in the city!"

Don't get it? Personally, I can't find anything positive about spending so much of one's income on rent? If it's crime, my car is still broken into like its 1999?
I don't see why this is attracting so much skepticism when "crash-only programming" and the "chaos monkey" are popular ideas on HN. There really are only two ways to do software reliability:

- "failure is not an option": you don't get to reboot your rocket controller when it has a floating point error, or your Therac when you're doing an X-ray. This involves investing a lot of time, effort, review, and formal validation into getting it right. It's completely incompatible with Agile and RERO.

- "s--- happens": the cost of failure is small and you can just accept it, issue refunds/apologies and move on. Or show the fail whale. This is much easier and cheaper. This environment moves towards powercycling and redeploying software/EC2 instances/Docker containers whenever something happens. You monitor observed reliability and make a commercial decision as to whether it's unacceptable and you need to fix some bugs.

Almost all of HN works in the second area.
Btw, debris of MH370 was recently located https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370
Looks like a wonderful React-based alternative to the likes of Semantic UI, and a great start! A couple quick questions:

1. I see a lot of "inspired by bootstrap" comments in the grid/scaffold... just wondering, are you porting their grid system in a reproducible way -- or are you finding these components don't change frequently enough that it's easier to just pull in pieces of the base code manually, as needed? As per the commenter below, there doesn't seem to be any indication of a dependency in your `package.json`

2. Bootstrap 4 is finally moving to SCSS... any plans to follow suit?
It never saves money to move to Oracle, but it sometimes gives you functionality that PG/MySQL can't (e.g. high availability clusters).

> It says a lot when a Big Company dumps a Big Database vendor and moves to Oracle to save money.

I do not know which Big Company you are referring to? But also, never trust a headline which says "Big Company does X" to tell the whole story. It's very often part of a larger deal, a big discount given to them specifically for that headline, or some soft "nice business you have here, wouldn't it be awful if some patent litigation ruined it? That can be avoided if you buy our products" talk.
Came here to post this as well. Essentially, he's using the Nassi–Shneiderman diagrams for food recipes (instead of software recipes).
> MongoDB Inc. (the joke of a company)

I don't know; selling support contracts for a product that requires a lot of support is a pretty solid business model. SAP comes to mind.
No it isn't.

And even if it was, it still adds up. Rent in Manhattan is ridiculous. But you still find abandoned houses all over Detroit.
Beware of Bitcoin-multiplier it's a scam
I think it's part of Myers Briggs.
Right, so it seems to me that a ~20% loss is acceptable in order to weather the occasional drought. So I don't think the droughts and their interference with the hydro power storage are super important.
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It's anything but "capitalism at work" if "capitalism" has anything to with "free markets". The Chinese Government has been graying out, if not altogether fudging, their economic indicators and propping up domestic investors. Now it has moved to outright rigging of the market through selective bans and directives (no short selling, no selling if you hold >5%, no trading at all on certain stocks, and so on).

This current rout is simply a continuation of the previous one in July when similar curbs were placed to halt the plunge.

Once again, even if their tactics work they'll only help bring about yet another plunge.

All in all, the western demand is dying out since most countries are trying to in-source materials and goods (instead of importing from China) and domestic asset bubble has nowhere to pop and the lies invested in that bubble have nowhere to hide.
> legal restrictions on broadcasting political events have dubious morality.

Well I do not doubt this. However voluntarily documenting that you were there could hit back decades later. It's hard to predict the political situation in the far future even if you have a pretty good democratic setting in the present.
Hmmmmmm. Semantic UI is honestly an amazing and under-looked alternative to Bootstrap/Foundation and the likes -- definitely more focussed on building web apps than just pretty web sites. It's good to see something similar coming together for React -- the controls are well worth it.
> Who cares, no one... why launch something like this without first curating some starter profiles?

Kinda harsh. This is clearly a project rather than a product launch. If you ever post a project of yours on HN I hope you get a better reception than this.
If you follow an index, that doesn't cause an issue. You are also forgetting stocks also pay dividends, so it doesn't have go up either.
I understand why Google is doing this as I have had to trouble shoot a few virus laden pcs where the auto update was blocked by the virus by using the registry workaround written about in the post.
I had to nuke the whole install and start from scratch. Just to be able to install the latest version of chrome
"On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to 0."
It's just a really small amount of cream to whip, the whipping isn't really necessary (we didn't whip, turned out great).
Hmm.. How is it different than the "Plastic" from air / "Oil" from air projects?
http://newlight.com/

None of this is practically new, and all of these methods require quite a huge input of energy so none of them are not really either cost or "carbon" effective...
This is a question from someone rather ignorant, so please don't hit me: Why didn't the Bulldozer affect the programmers? It (or Piledriver) seems to be doing quite well in applications with good threading.
Our focus has been on floating point performance. Originally we were targeting high performance computing, but have since expanded to high end DSP applications (Think mobile base station processing for LTE-Advanced and "5G").

For memory protection, the most traditional way would be leaving it up to a RTOS or microkernel. Something very small and verifiably secure like seL4 is something we want to port.

We have not made it a huge priority to start of with as our customers have a small number of applications that are being ported and are isolated on the system. As each application needs to be recompiled for our architecture, we think that memory segmentation done at compile time is good enough to start with (in these limited cases).
I'd go with a combination of 1. and 3.

Obviously, you'd need quite some budget to pay an analytics team to find a plane out in the ocean. You can't just conjure the money out of thin air.

And if you go to your superiors and ask them for the money and have to admit it will disclose a lot of your capabilities to foreign powers, you'll likely simply get a resounding "NO". After all, it was never the question of rescuing living people with MH370.

Did you notice how the US kept sat images and phone recordings extremely close to their chest in the case of MH17? I am pretty sure they have a lot more intelligence on that thing than they are willing to admit - they not having constant surveillance over a battle field in Europe would be extremely negligent.
Speaking of on-demand apps, http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/08/19/2137749/china-uber-but... (especially the snarky table of comparisons)
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Not quite right. Interest rates play a larger role all this, which compared to 2000 are at historical lows. The fed might even cut, now. Negative real rates will spur speculative investments.
Yes the old strategy of picking up pennies from in front of the steam roller. All goes well until you get attacked by a black swan :)
That was not my point. I am being critical of China for staunchly supporting Communism (and hence to some extent being anti-capitalism and anti-democracy) and at the same time reaping benefits from democracies and capitalist states. I guess HN didn't like my earlier comment, but I do believe that. China has several times castigated India (where I belong) for being a shoddy nation of scared people due to its democracy. I find it a double standard.
Haha. Ok. And sorry.
US, UK, AU....

The only hope is for oil to just run out.
You had it: Center of mass. Think about the forces on the front and rear tire patches as you navigate a turn with subtle throttle modulation.

I am not talking about gross control, only fine control.

It's like sailing without using the rudder to make fine course corrections. Not a perfect analogy but it is about balancing forces.

Another thinking tool: Imagine a dumbell where the weight of each disk isn't the same. One is 5lbs and the other 10lbs. It's a 15lbs dumbell but it is unevenly balanced.

Attach a cable to each disk. Now start spinning it with the heavier disk in front. Then do the same with the heavier disk in back. Think of acceleration and deceleration and the resultant torque about the cernter of mass.
> They don't desire totalitarianism or anything.

I'm starting to believe this less and less.
This is not really a trading strategy. The dividend yield for most stocks is so low that you won't make money off holding stocks for dividends alone.
Thanks - have updated.

We're still adding to and refining the data, but wanted to get the project out there for feedback while we work away in the background.
I'm not talking about microcontrollers in that case... Our chip has scratchpad for each core (128KB times 256 cores) with single cycle latency, along with attached DRAM. We have a whole lot more on chip memory that is 4x faster while using 1/5th of the power (on memory operations alone). Overall, we are aiming for a 10 to 25x energy efficiency improvement over CPU and GPUs for floating point heavy applications.

>managing scratch memory statically can only work for very high level (and very domain specific) languages. Hardly possible for C.

Well, we've solved that. Looking forward to sharing that in the near future.
But me, and many others, aren't requesting full redesign so as we can interact with this site like in a native app. I don't request the perfect UX. I would simply like a mobile-friendly website with:

(1) Bigger font size;
(2) Proper line wrapping;
(3) Offset for nested comments. Something like 5%, no more than 10%;
(4) Bigger buttons|links for the upvote / downvote / comment actions.

...and I think that's all.

As a programmer myself I know the terrible, almost like drug|alcohol addiction, need to make everything perfect on the first go, but at 35, with total of 23 years doing programming, of which 14 as a professional experience, I am perfectly aware that this is not possible.

Iterative changes, one by one.

People will complain even if you clean a pile of fresh shit which gets in their way every day. That's hardly an argument against cleaning it up anyway. Whoever wants to be stuck in 90s and craves poisonous USENET romantic dreams -- I sincerely wish they would finally move on.

(That's one of my possible explanations on why would people be unhappy with a mobile UI readability improvements)

In the end, I'll simply install one HN Android app and then cripple its permissions with AppOps for Lollipop and be done with it. Or move to another website / Twitter feed. <shrugs>
Most people don't understand exactly what is happening or even that bills like these might be passed.

Imagine trying to educate the average, non-IT field citizen about the technology used in the NSA/GCHQ programs we learned of during the Snowden leaks.

It's an insurmountable task.
You're right. Startups are overvalued. But they're still making money. The Indian 'unicorns' - Flipkart, Snapdeal, Ola, etc. have real revenues and customers.

Do they deserve their $1Bn valuations? Probably not. But do they have enough customers to give them $100M-$1B revenues? Yes.

If these startups were public companies, they'd still be valued at at least half of what their last Crunchbase entry says
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what framework is it using?
Except for Uber and a handful of other services, I really don't think the other 'on-demand' businesses are scaleable.
Patient Opinion has been looking at care experiences for a few years now and does it well: https://www.patientopinion.org.uk/

Who Cares is more focussed on clear and simple explanations of care systems that patients can quickly and easily understand.
I was going to say "Wouldn't it be too resource heavy?" - meaning the whole Windows baggage as opposed to the leaner ChromeOS.

But then I considered that the resource usage of Chrome (or Edge for that matter) itself might be the single biggest factor.
And small, self-funded, nimble startups outside the valley eat the lunch of overstaffed and overfunded startups with high leverage and a gun to their head.

I don't think we're due another cycle yet, but every cycle just decreases the amount of money you actually need to make a go of it. Sometime over the next 5-10 years another bust would probably be an overall good thing.
It's this kind of 'fixing' the issue that is the cause why we still have this kind of problems.
I'm the kind of guy that debugs things for 3 days to find the issue. Yup even if "it isn't worth it".
I should warn you, I hit people in the face with a shovel if something isn't right. And frankly if you are a IT professional you should to.
I was in Romania, now back in NL. I was there for a job.
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I don't think OP meant it would be an exception. I think OP meant that he was going in for one more trade before the entire market goes down.
If you limit your speech based on a speculative Orwellian autocracy, you are already living in your own personal one.
India's Sensex and Nifty is also 6% down wiping almost $120B from the market.
I believe it has its places, just as SQL does. From what i have seen, NoSQL fits in where i was doing FS operations before, as a cache, or "blob" store. Somewhere to dump stuff for a while before its processed into SQL or whatever other format is needed. Something that can be easily replicated and queried instead of having to deal with the underlying FS and clustering that.

It also fits in as Key/Value stores for temporary session data, and where you need very high performance in memory access that can be shared between several servers or processes.
It had a ton of hydraulics but I never noticed anything like that. Even so the DS was way ahead of its time and in many ways still is.
The great thing about chromebooks is less forced obsolescence, so fewer hw upgrades required.
Man, if my favourite extensions no longer work properly then I don't know what I'll do.

I think I might have to go full Stallman and wget + email html-only web pages to myself.
Nitpick : It's not Lemons, it is Le Mans, named after the place where the circuit is.

Or was it an intentional word play ? Then woosh.
Tablets, generally speaking, are for consuming content. Laptops are better devices for creating content...
You're right about the parking bit but I have a hard time believing you about the rent or the building quality. I lived in Kanagawa for 5 years in a very old (for Japanese standards) apartment building, and it was rock solid. Don't forget that these buildings are designed to withstand earthquakes, whereas London buildings are just slowly rotting away. Regarding rent: http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?coun...

Nowadays I'm living in London and have seen housing for way higher prices and way, way worse condition than the apartments I've seen in Tokyo. London build quality is utterly terrible. Japanese build quality is quality.
Agree, harsh. However, it wouldn't hurt to drop in some roles. E.g. searching for GP doesn't yield any results. Accepting that GPs are private employees, I suspect this will be the face of the NHS to many.
I don't see it; the Wiki says introverts are more concerned, and derive more pleasure from reflective activities. None of that contradicts that they can have good social skills - it's just tiring to use them.
What was really interesting in this story was seeing how big of a role Weibo and other Chinese tech played.