skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's fine. Well, "validity" is contextually sensitive of course. For example, if I want to test addresses against a regex I'm developing then, yes, they are valid but if I want to test my mapping application that geocodes addresses then made up addresses are "invalid".

Since the whole point of an address is that it resolves to a particular geographical location then I would have expected a "Random Valid US Address" to be able to be geocoded.
>The sooner we shift
from labor to education as our
source of social dignity the better.

Twin studies suggest educational achievement is highly (over 50%) heritable. If you succeeded at replacing labor with education as a source of human dignity it would be surprising if the relative amount of dignity with which one was imparted did not depend on one's educational achievement. Combined with the first point it would lead to the formation of a kind of hereditary estates of the realm; you'd have the clergy (the academics), the nobles (the highly educated) and the commoners (everybody else). Would you find such an outcome acceptable? (Just to be clear, I mean this as a genuine, not rhetorical, question.)
All machines I have access right now have /dev/tcp support. But only my main machine has nc installed.

To make it more portable a wrapper function which uses whatever is available would be appropriate.
Cant tell how common additional days above the minimum leave are in NL (you'd need to know these numbers). But even if you consider the usual five to eight days it would come as a surprise to me if it really was common to take off an entire month in one go as even then one would be barely left with any remaining days (as compared to none before).

Some people will certainly do it, but not everybody.
I have not yet published the code publicly but I plan on doing it soon.

With Mootools I like the classical inheritance style. Something else that looks interesting is TypeScript, when you reach ~10k lines of codes pure javascript gets really tricky to debug/refactor.

Yes I am worried about company reaction, I wouldnt publish game assets on a public repo. What I am considering is publishing my game engine along with the scripts I use to process the game resources into suitable web formats.
He's not from the US so what exactly is he risking here apart from the repo being taken down?
Can they sue him if he's not in the US though? How is that legally possible?
Sadly that did not happen. My country could have been free of russian/ soviets and their mentality.
Like Apple. IF it would be that easy people would do that.
Software is expensive. Programmers are expensive.
Spitting out HW and putting it in a shiny box is cheap.
Wow. Work-life-balance reallys sucks in the US and A.

Get your shit together // Sweden.
That's my reasoning behind deleting tweets as well. They just aren't worth preserving. I only tweet about the things I'm passionate about, which are human rights, privacy and politics so I can and do tweet impulsively to vent from time to time. I almost always regret those tweets and I don't want them be on my timeline permanently.

Data mining is a concern, though not a big one because I'm pretty sure twitter keeps my deleted tweets anyway. If I don't want to say something I don't want to be found on the internet, I just don't say it.

I don't tweet a lot, so I've been deleting them manually. Which isn't a big hassle for me. I wanted to use scripts to automate the process but they all require API tokens and twitter doesn't let you have them without giving them your phone number, so I decided not to use them. I try to keep my account as anonymous as possible. If I had been tweeting a lot more, I would've definitely used them but currently they're not for me. Thanks for sharing it though. I'll bookmark it just in case I need it in the future.
I think it would be nice if YC would make their exclusion criteria explicit. I understand why they don't, but the pain it is causing young people who don't know any better is sad.

Stop worrying about YC. Work hard (for someone else), learn everything you can, save your money, and think a lot. When you have the resources then start a bootstrapped business and never look back.
It's a "tealight", not a "teatlight".
"Indiscriminate dumping of toxic solid waste along the road, discharge of sewage, and construction of buildings, railway stations and a new road to connect Old Mahabhalipuram Road and Pallavaram have shrunk the wetland to a great extent."
I wonder if in a while the world will move to something like cryonics for people about to die a slow and unpleasant death. I'm not sure it could be any worse than the current situation.
Ubuntu Phones now available at India's largest online retailer snapdeal
This is great work and you should feel good about it.

I've never seen Blizzard pursue a massive lawsuit on an individual without giving them a chance / warning first to take things down.
I don't know exactly what you mean by plaintext notation but Avogadro is pretty good. Nanoengineer is also pretty cool if you are willing to dig for it.
even by saying the volume of request at peak time doesn't tell the whole story, we still don't know how heavy are such requests.
Index Ventures backs initiative to get more UK students into startups
Would couldn't they? They do business across most of the world already. Think about how many countries have people with WoW subscriptions.

Heck, just take a look at their list of offices: http://www.activisionblizzard.com/locations
But you're also a country with mostly "at will" employment laws - any one of those employees can quit with no notice. If you can't cope for a week without any of those individuals then you have some serious business risks.

Except "coping" isn't what everyone thinks about, there's some bizarre expectation of 100% efficiency for short notice things. If the DBA needs a week off then plan around it. I can see a case in a small firm for some people to be contactable in case of dire emergencies - but with significant costs like holiday day reimbursement and cash if activated. Not an expectation of any contact, view that as a significant failing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Computational_chemist... lists quite a few, and some of them are links to additional software lists, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_molecular_graphics_sys... .

There is so much software because there are many different needs, each with specialist requirements. Most likely you want to look at PyMol. However, even though that's one of the more approachable packages it will require some domain knowledge.
Likely they'll just send you legal threat and DMCA take down notice to both github and your hosting provider (if you don't use github pages of course).
Oooooooh, I missed that one. It would have been better if it wasn't an option, but default behaviour, but I guess we can't win every time...
Of course the singularity will just create better and better computers - that is exactly what the singularity is.

What we have most to fear from the singularity is indifference. We occupy some very valuable real estate and if the singularity is indifferent to us we won't last long.
Standards Hub
Famous last words.

As if Blizzard had no way to hire lawyers elsewhere. And maybe he wants to travel to the United States someday?
Is it really a good business decision if loosing one of your employees could send ripples through your products and negatively affect it for months to come?
One of TiDB authors here. Our design is more similar to Google F1, currently we're focusing on building an independent SQL layer above any transactional KV storage.
In my opinion Google is only doing better and better. Their new material design is easy to work with, though they aren't using it yet on all of their services.
I'm also pretty excited about their domain name hosting.
It doesn't have to be 1:1 personal redundancy -- it's more like, several of the 20 devs being able to assume lightweight PM/DS/DBA responsibilities for a few weeks while that person is away (I've personally as a dev covered for pretty much that set of roles -- and always had a renewed appreciation for the skills of that person when they returned). In other words, don't silo your roles too rigidly, especially when you're small and can't afford 1:1 redundancies.

And if your company absolutely 100% relies on having a full-blown PM/DS/DBA around at all times, well, then you DO need (at least) two of each, otherwise your company tanks if your one DBA gets sick or leaves for a company where they don't have to suffer the permanent stress of being a SPOF.

And if you CAN survive for a few weeks while you hire and train a new DBA in that situation, then you can survive for a few weeks while your DBA is on holiday.
Exceptional visualisations! At least for me, seeing things like the camera zooming so it's placed between the perfect-vector world and rasterised world just makes it so clear. A picture is worth a thousand words, but a visualisation like that may be worth ten thousand.
Seems like AWS Aurora just got an open source competitor.

I'm just a little sad that it's all MySQL again, now that we're betting on PostgreSQL and don't really look back.

On the performance side I'm just a litte worried however. While Go is an excellent choice for performant and concurrent app-level code, I'm not too bullish on the language on the database level. InfluxDB sucked hard when we put it under some more load, but let's see what comes out there.
Impressive and really efficient presentation (not surprising from Steven Wittens).
I've been shouting this since the rise of Joomla, Wordpress, and other sort a like stuff. And it really give an initial bad feeling about a product to see the number X clone of a particular site layout etc.
Or easy to create a phishing version.
Data Science with R – An interactive tutorial
You should implement energy minimization or rather use openbabel's energy minimization functions. Doing SteepestDescentTakeNSteps every couple of frames and updating atom positions should give you some neat behavior. Pretty cool to see openbabel running in the browser.
PostgreSQL support is on our roadmap.https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/blob/master/ROADMAP.md
I was hesitant to post the question, but s/he has reaffirmed my belief in the good of humanity.
V8 is large and not actually that easy to embed. There is a pure Go implementation of Lua for scripting already [1]

[1] https://github.com/Shopify/go-lua
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Surprisingly consistent and hilarious for a first ever screen play!
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Great job, Steven. I don't think I have ever seen anything like this before on the web. This was extremely fun to watch/read. I'll be taking a look at MathBox.js and see if I can build something fun with it as well.
These are all general techniques, spotting a lie in someone you know is a different matter.
You live in Copenhagen and work in Malmo or something? Is that common?
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So, how do you handle this in a country, in which you're legally obliged to provide vacation to your employees?

Just flout the law?
Depends a bit on where the foreign internship is.

You have to weigh it out. Is this experience and the nice addition to your CV worth it? Is the internship abroad good enough to learn something from?
These are two different issues. What you have a problem with isn't the "unlimited", it's the "no minimum". Would you have a problem with "unlimited vacation days, four weeks a year mandatory minimum?".

As in, if you haven't taken any vacation when December rolls in, see you after new year's.
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To replace sprite images and sounds in my game will easily change it to another RTS like Red Alert, but i'm nervous about the copyright now, I just want to produce my own game for fun so if I make RedAlert, will not upload to github again
There could also be a diagnostic factor. It's only since the 90's or so, when effective treatments for Alzheimer's started to show up, that doctors started to really differentiate between Alzheimer's and 'normal' senility and age-related dementia.
Without knowing the experiment details (number of trials, ratio of people laying vs telling the truth) we don't know if 50 is actually significant. What's the curve of success for participants assuming random guessing (in line with the proportion of liars)? Is 50 to be expected?

My first thought is that with 20,000 participants, sheer chance will give you a handful of outliers, and 50 at 80% accuracy doesn't sound very high unless there were a very large number of trials per participant.
I love those antique ads.

"You See What You Are Doing All The Time".

If you have to write copy for any kind of ad, make sure to use the words "you" and "your" a lot. It worked for Underwood and it will work for you.

Even with a miraculous product like the Underwood 1, the customer cares most about THEIR work, THEIR speed, and THEIR efficiency. Underwood wisely focuses the ads around that.
Some colleagues of mine build a similar tool, http://molcalc.org/

It gives you access to a lot more properties of the molecule you build than just the energy: Thermodynamics, solvation energies, vibrational frequencies etc.
They have to care in some circumstances unfortunately, if they are aware of an IP infringement and don't action it, it can be used as evidence further down the line for bigger infringement cases.
CockroachDB is closer to Spanner. The globally distributed primitives that power their SQL layer which is F1.
I guess that TiDB is on layer above Cockroach.
I used to buy premium android phones until a few months ago and switched to an Iphone exactly because of this... The upgrades go through carriers in the UK and EE couldn't be bothered to follow security patches, so I figured it's better to go somewhere that I can at least download updates as soon as they come out.
You do realise that those links are to your private inbox which we can't see?

Also, I honestly don' t think the website you mentioned is well designed.
OCRing the card data is a common practice for executives and sales people. There are even dedicated scanners you can buy.
Evaluation of Splittable Pseudo-Random Generators [pdf]
you probably didn't even think of it, but I fear it needs to be spelled out explicitly here: those paid days of sick leave don't count against your vacation either.
Does there exist any distributed transactional KV storage engine (open source) ?
I was expecting to read about some sort of dairy equipment, which would have been an interesting change of pace for HN
Me neither, probably because it's rarely useful to me in day to day life.
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Hi,

I applied a software developer position at Germany. Someone from HR send little development assignment and asked for my github profile. I coded answer and send with my github profile same day. This was 2 weeks ago. Should I ask what is status of process ? Is this an improper behavior for Germany ?
So, what's the rate of false positives, given that only 1 in 1000 is a true positive?
> I'd generally put higher odds on you being wrong, than of an entire field being so completely off base, at least a field as large and well researched as this.

I generally would too. But we know now that it is indeed possible for a very large and "well researched" field to be wrong - just look at the state of soft sciences. A lot of evidence came up recently show that 90% of research in those fields is bullshit (often intentional). It's not beyond realm of possibility that a big part of advertising industry forms a self-contained system of moving money around with zero relation to the real world.
The Louvre is great. It's just the Mona Lisa which gets a disproportionate amount of attention. Luckily, it distracts the crowds.
Testing Web Applications with State Objects
Yes, currently TiDB works well with HBase. Coming soon.
There are alse some distribute transaction layer on HBase.Ex:https://github.com/XiaoMi/themis
Before someone freaks out over peanut butter, note that according to Wikipedia an attempt to duplicate these results has failed.
Why all this downvoting of this comment? You may disagree, he may be an outlier, but it's respectfully stated, and does not imply this is a universal truth. There is more information in a viewpoint out of the ordinary.
After a bit of searching it's probably this study:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizards_Project#Synopsis

Granhag, Pär; Strömwall, Leid (2004). The Detection of Deception in Forensic Contexts.
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> How is it possible that academic research remains so awful at disseminating knowledge - presenting results in an open, accessible manner isn't exactly difficult?

Read to me less like academic research and more like a before/after show by the training consultant. But I only read if very fast.
Yeah, this was how I found out about the weird "blue dress" thing.
>It's like a song fading to static...

Nicely put. These songs always sadden me. :(
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The Overview effect
You will find the techniques described in the article used when you are traveling into Israel. I've gone through this many many times, and am still often taken aback by the weird questions I sometimes get asked by their officers. Still, the whole process is rather smooth and I've never been detained or even treated unfairly.
We choose MySQL protocol first because it's widely used and we are more similar with the tool chain and protocol in comparison with PostgresSQL.
About the performance, Golang is design for building distributed system in Google, and the development productivity is perfect, InfluxDB's performance problem is partly caused by other reason.
You can check John Baez's Azimuth blog (math oriented) at

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com.
> A year back, in the second quarter of 2014, the combination of Samsung, HTC, LG, Sony, Motorola and Lenovo together shipped a total of 129.4m smartphones. (...)

> In the second quarter of 2015, the combination of that same group shipped a total of 114.7 devices.

This is drastic indeed.
Could one of the authors provide some more information about the goals and architecture? Do I understand it correctly that the goal is to implement a relational database on top of one of a couple of different key value stores and aiming, among other things, for drop in compatibility with MySQL? What are expected benefits?

EDIT: The architecture diagram wasn't visible to me before, now that it suddenly appeared things are way more clear.
You haven't noticed the global reach of US copyright law yet? If it doesn't reach there yet, they keep trying to extend it (see free trade treaties).
I don't think BART goes to Silicon Valley - is there something to connect the two?

Yes, Lua is very much a niche. I tried applying at Cloudflare because they use the Lua module for nginx - that is definitely in my field as I use them both already. I'm haven't heard back but they've had that position (Lua Engineer) posted for months now. I think my resume might be sitting in a stack.

I had hoped my community college AS in Computer Science would account for something, but when you compare it to those who went to uni I'm sure it's greatly devalued. I like to learn on my own as needed, but I can't show that on paper (can I?). I do feel that I know algorithms fairly well - I spent last week learning the Paxos algorithm so I could apply it to database (mirroring?). I have fun doing things like that, it's just not something I can say I'm accredited for by a university.

I hadn't been getting interviews for a few months but I managed to get 4 all last week (when it rains, it hails?). I was nervous for the first interview but because it was for a friends' company I think I still gave a good impression with him vetting me. I had an easier time admitting my limited frontend experience in the subsequent interviews with other companies. I actually think the way I said this made me appear stronger, like I expected to have no trouble picking it up quickly.

Anyway, I've been trying to decide if I should throw myself into a project to show my ability through Github. I'm torn thinking I should be devoting all my time to the job hunt, but many of my friends have done this to get noticed..

I appreciate your feedback, thank you sir <3
These test aren't really about just getting the answer right or wrong, but also about how you react when you can't remember the answer. There's a big difference between going "oh I can never remember that", "...wait...I used to know that" and confidently getting the answer wrong.
It looks great, but I prefer open source software.
I know that. What I say is that it seems to me AGPL stifles code reuse more than it powers it.

The alternative to AGPL software isn't necessarily no software or only non-free software but often code with much simpler licenses.
It has lots of exemption. Eg consuming your own rental property is free.
Mindless hustle will kill your startup
LHC spots a consistent oddity in decays with leptons
Do we have statistics on this? Or are you just amalgamating a bunch of different anecdotes you've heard, and your personal experiences? Rather than some tangible evidence that indicates that it is prevalent for companies to request "loyalty" while simultaneously not reciprocating?

Note, I don't quite think a company should "be loyal" when it's in dire financial problems. The only loyalty they can provide at that point is to the few employees it can keep.
I think part of the time I'm frustrated looking at QA positions that are largely dealing with customers vs QA testers who work more with developers. Still, a paycheck is a paycheck and I could probably use the experience either way.

Thanks for your input :-))
A function of age and number of children, perhaps.
My mother sometimes manages to cycle through all my siblings' names before she gets to me. One time she even threw in the dog's name.. a sad reflection on my position in the family pecking order, perhaps!
How can this in any way succeed in the first place? Does anyone here have legal knowledge of how HP might win this?
So TiDB is similar to the (unfortunately) abandoned FoundationDB SQL Layer, but written in a proper language? Nice :)
> The minuet you think Central planning can override natural market forces you run into much bigger problems that usually end in catastrophe for the people you were trying to 'help'.

Corporations are central planning. Just on a smaller scale. (Though, companies like the old IBM were bigger then some small countries.)
No one I know associates Android with a premium experience, thanks to the fragmentation and the abysmal levels of support from the vendors or carriers.

Case in point, I was trying to download a local news app on my Nexus 7 running stock Android 5.1, but it wouldn't, because "this version of Android is not supported", so even the Nexus line is apparently not premium enough for some.
The paper itself: http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/xge-0000030.pdf
This is somewhat misleading: It's not exempt statewide for all employees in those locales, only for certain employees like teachers and firefighters who are paying into alternate pension systems.

The headline number is 6MM people aren't paying in, but the combined population of those states is almost 112MM and the total population is 319MM. It's a substantial number, I suppose, but not like 30% of the workforce.
Pretty sure contacting Blizzard legal team would be dumbest thing ever because you'll never get an answer or just get youself in trouble. Best solution is to remove current repository (or make it private) and then create new repo without copyrighted stuff.
I see no problem with asking it in a polite way.