skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I expect it's based on the /slap emote in IRC.

Wikipedia [0] has a page on it, from which I swipe the follwing:

`When someone does something inadvisable that they had the experience and intelligence to avoid, you may likely see the suggestion that they be "trouted"`

Trout slapping originated in 1995 with internet relay chat (IRC). While in an IRC chat room, the IRC client mIRC would allow users to enter the command:

/slap Sam
- Steve slaps Sam around a bit with a large trout

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Whacking_with_a_wet_...
Kinesis is a LOT more like Kafka than Storm.
Except that it's not your body.

Of course it is. Do you feel the pain when I get stuck by a needle?

If you don't get vaccinated, and you get sick, then you infect everyone else.

This is a possibility. Life is risk.

You don't have the right to choose to infect other people.

That is true. They also have the right to decide for themselves if they want to be vaccinated. As I said, I was vaccinated and I had my children vaccinated. I hope that everyone does. I am opposed to using the coercive force of government to make them do it.

Vaccination needs to be mandatory, and if the state has to send agents to burst into people's homes, tie people down, and forcibly administer the vaccinations, then I'm all for it.

Should the state be willing to kill people in order to administer vaccines to keep them from getting sick and dying?
Not to mention that if you want this built for your company you call up the BI provider and tell them to send some consultants over to build it for you. You might train one person or possibly two at the most to be able to make tech calls with the BI provider. Much easier for a company to say "I want a dashboard that reports X, Y, and Z" and then the BI company scurries off, builds it, brings it back to you, and you hand over some cash for their effort.
Their risk taking is relentless and they take failure in their stride.

Their risk taking is also very well managed because they're shipping dog food.

Almost everything that we techies see as innovative is really a byproduct of their primary business of shipping "stuff".

Their risk is reduced because they know what they're pushing has already been outrageously successful for their toughest customer: themselves.

That's a valuable lesson for all would-be startup founders.
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Excel gets a bad rap. You can do a lot in Excel including slicing multidimensional data and pivot tables. You can also pull data externally and connect to external data pipelines.

Excel is point and click and allows for a wide rang of programming skill. There are also a lot of plugins and of course you can work in offline mode. It is also easy to integrate old Excel data etc... And you don't need a full time programmer who knows javascript etc or some other language to produce something.
Honestly, I think the Perl way is clearer than the Python way:

Perl: unary + is "convert to number", binary + is "convert operands to numbers and add". This is clear and consistent. String concatenation uses a different operator completely.

Python: binary + is string concatenation if the left operand is a string, and numeric addition if the left operator is a number. It fails at runtime if the right operator is inconsistent with the operation specified by the combination of the operator and the left operand.
I'd really hate to be in the same space as amazon.
Which all companies would need this service?
Why should those characterizing tests be throwable if you don't want to change its behavior?
I used to work for those sorts of companies.

I fired them because I'm a mature professional who can figure out how best to utilize my time, TYVM.

Find a company that people actually enjoy coming to work and collaborating in. I mean, if you're an engineer, you're already doing the #1 job in the country, why poison the well at a company with a mistrustful IT policy?

Sorry but I have no end of disrespect for that kind of bullshit. If you're at a job and you're jerking around, people will eventually figure it out regardless of stupid content filtering. And in this case, this is a lost learning experience for you, as the article is very interesting.
I presume you mean `scan` not `fold`.
Look at the bottom of the article: Category "Eradicated Diseases" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Eradicated_diseases)
I don't think you understand re:invent. This happens every year.
Russia was also one of the least industrialized countries in Europe in 1900 and had about 27 Million people killed in the Second World War vs about 400 Thousand Americans. This is not a valid comparison.
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Do you know which patch specifically? Because I'm pretty sure I've seen out of order chat delivery in the past few weeks, although I suppose it could have been people being jerks in the pick phase.
Did you actually look at Inline::Perl5[1] and Inline::Perl6? If may not be what you assume, and may change your opinion on whether an upgrade path is required. In short, Inline::Perl5 it's a way to interop cleanly with Perl 5 modules from Perl 6 using native Perl 6 syntax, and supports XS modules as well. I'm not sure I can imagine a more painless transition than what that allows.

1: https://github.com/niner/Inline-Perl5
>No it isn't, it's basically suicidal. We wouldn't evolve to be mostly altruistic if being altruistic was bad for our survival.

Evolving concerns the species (and its survival) not the individual and its survival.

It literally has nothing to do with your individual survival (except depending on you surviving long enough to make offspring).

Heck, awful as it is, if you raped 2000 women and gave progeny to 2000 kids it would be considered great from an evolutionary aspect -- far more than "being altruistic".
This only works when the underlying asset has value (note how many people walked away from their underwater homes during the housing collapse). This is no different.
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There is an exception from SEC registration for stock offerings that are wholly within the state of the company making the offering (i.e., only advertised and available to residents of that state). State stock registration requirements are usually far simpler than SEC registration requirements.

They likely haven't been able to attract major funding since inland desalinization isn't as sexy as coastal desalinization. Moreover, unlike major utility projects, their revenue growth is hampered by their ability to scale up across hundreds or thousands of installations with no built-in mechanism for cost recovery.
This doesn't look as good to me as the Light Phone[1] (which doesn't text) and is way more expensive than the Nokia 106[2] (which does text).

[1] http://www.thelightphone.com/

[2] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HQS2MCS?psc=1&redirect=t...
Negligent homicide is punishable both civilly and criminally in most other situations. Why not in refusing to be vaccinated?

Because it doesn't actually do anything with the problem of there possibly being an outbreak of some disease with the potential for widespread death.

Okay, great, you can hold the one person accountable for not vaccinating their kids liable for the deaths of ten people. Fantastic. Ten people still died.

Our justice system is very much a "If X, then Y" system - but what if your goal is not to deal with X the consequences of X, but to prevent it in the first place?

You could argue the deterrent effect, but if someone is irrational enough to ignore the conclusive logic that vaccines prevent you from getting sick, they're probably not going to be much more convinced by a (low) possibility that they might end up in front of a court and possible face prison. (And that's even if it can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the one person not getting vaccinated was the direct cause of the deaths beyond a reasonable doubt)
Ah, sorry. Despite having used Perl for years, I'd forgotten how much emphasis it puts on concepts that invoke a high cognitive load.
It is terrific that your end users are willing to spend the time and effort on building their own BI solutions. In my experience, at least with C-levels, that is not the case at all. C-levels also tend to want the most stuff.
Your opinion. There are plenty of people who don't think #BlackCatsMatter is idiotic.
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Well, that's an unfortunate name.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=snowball

Reminiscent of when Microsoft called an overlay dialog a "floater" and all the South Africans and Brits in the room started laughing.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=floater
(the 2nd definition)
Just to clarify here:

The license for MySQL remains the same (GPLv2). It has not changed at any point.
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You should reread my comment, where I outlined several ways in which this is different.
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I've played at https://online-go.com and it's a much nicer interface than native clients have.
This is basically what sent Max Vision to prison in 2001, right? I hope there's better opsec with this. Also never talk to the cops...
This is entirely a naming problem. Calling it "Perl 6" implies that it's a linear descendent of Perl 5, which it most certainly is not. Perl 6 is something else entirely. Which would be fine, if the name indicated that. But it doesn't, which is perverse. The name implies something different than what the product actually delivers.

It's the "New Coke" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke) situation all over again. When Coca-Cola rolled out New Coke back in the '80s, lots of people actually preferred the taste of the new formulation to the original, "classic" Coke. But it failed anyway, because it came in a can labeled "Coke" but tasted very different than what people thought the contents of a can labeled "Coke" would taste like. Their brains never made it to the "hey, this tastes better!" part, because they were too busy raging over thinking they were getting one thing when they were actually getting another.

It's been clear for more than a decade now that Perl 6 was going to be a big, discontinuous change instead of an incremental step up from Perl 5, so why they've persisted with calling it "Perl 6" all this time is beyond me. Just call it something other than Perl and 90% of the gripes about it will vanish overnight.
It's terse which is another curse or benefit of Perl. The less terse method name would be string.numchars or string.charcount.
... which is also wildly overpriced.

According to multiple sources, Internet transit in the US now costs less than 1$ for a 1 Mbps line for large deals, which translates to 1$ for 324GB, which translates to 0.003$ / GB.

Amazon charges 15-30 times that.

(it appears that traffic can be much more expensive in places other than the US and presumably Europe)
"Thou shalt not do anything that could cause a huge fire". "Thou shalt not build buildings that could fall down in an earthquake". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_safety#List_of_some_typic... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seismic_code
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I'm an avid LoL player and not having voice chat support built in is the largest downside to LoL. Plenty of players are "side-loading" their voice chat through a variety of applications. This is a huge PITA as I need Skype, TeamSpeak, whatever the rest of my team is using.

Players aren't consistently using voice chat since it's not built in. If you are in a match up where one team is on voice chat and the other is not; the team with voice has a huge advantage as text chat is less visible and has more delay.
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Correct, but I can call it Crossword Game or something like that. The issue is that the word list may or may not be copyrighted (http://www.slate.com/articles/life/gaming/2014/09/major_scra...), and that if I use the exact same tile distribution and board configuration I can still be sued. Hell, Hasbro could still C&D if they wanted to even if I'm not infringing at all. But there is no body that owns chess.
Link is 404.

Initially I was turned off by this, but maybe it makes sense. They need to save advertising for their business and ads cost users a lot of money on mobile bandwith so hopefully that will change. Slow load times and much less content control than on a computer have made mobile painful. If they don't fix it, content blockers will just stop them, and if a site tries to override it, people will stop going to it.
Yes, even parking spaces belonging to a company.

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How was this different from when Apple anncouned new iPhones, iPads and Apple TV's last month?

Or when Google announced the new chrome cast and music streaming device?

Both were at the top on their respective days and discussed ad nauseam in the comments.
> Perl 6 isn't a replacement for Perl 5. It's a whole new language.

...with an exceedingly poorly chosen name.

(Which is not to diminish how good it is as a language.)
Please describe an experiment or a study which supports your opinion. Number of participants, duration, methodology, etc.
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And they can get away with it only because their unions have created precedents where they create avoc in the streets of Paris with the complicity (or thanks to the weakness) of the political leaders of the time.

This is sickening really. I am always dumb-founded when I read people who would like this kind of dystopia for their countries. Don't you see how fucked up this is for everyone?
That's been a "thing" for a while now. It's tricky, has some rough edges, but doable.
Amazon is basically eating away at all the big data startups.
Can you time the copy again, with an index on the timestamp this time? just out of curiosity.

Also, not sure it's wise to build system software (proxy) just to log data instead of using what already exists. Because that proxy you write will not be an old work horse either.
But a decade after Reddit launched, it has blossomed into a platform for racist, anti-Semitic, misogynistic and other hateful conversations.

My eyes just about rolled out of my head. "Blossomed?" By volume, those "conversations" make up a minority of a minority of a minority of what happens on Reddit.
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It's amazing that Amazon has been vertically integrated so many of both its own and external product/services into this appliances:

- Kindle's E-Ink

- AWS IAM / KMS/ SNS

- Amazon Carrier? (perhaps in the future?)

- GPS-powered chain-of-custody tracking (AWS working on it, perhaps Amazon Drone delivery in the future?)
I love Erlang and the concept of multinode programming, but sometimes I wish it could lean back into the multicore/SIMD world. A lot of the time, actors are the right choice; but for things like nodes in a physics engine, you obviously want to take a big pile of them and stream them through a matrix multiplication or something of the sort, if you can.

If there was a language that let me define something in terms of an individual actor-modelled components, but then allowed you to optimize some of them into batched GPGPU passes (and apply strict simulation ticking and so forth in the process), I feel like it would "win" all sorts of domains. Erlang could be that language with a little work.
I bet a thousand years ago, people will look at our era and be nostalgic, like they're nostalgic right now for knights in armor, the Renaissance, the age of exploration, privateers, explorers, and all that.

And just like now, I bet they're nostalgia will be completely misplaced because they fail to realize how much better their own time is, and how damaged their recollection of our time is. ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60BjkUtqxPE
We're trying out Apache Spark with Apache Zeppelin and it's been a pleasure so far. We faced the same problems that everyone else mentioned here -- data is not accessible to people who need it and every datasource requires different tools.

What we like about Apache Spark is that it can take any source and provide the same very fast and programmatic (code reuse!) interface for analysis. Think JSON data dumps from MixPanel, SQL databases, some Excel spreadsheet someone threw together etc.

Apache Zeppelin is a little bit limited in the visualization that comes out of the box, but the benefits of having a shared data language across the company is just such a huge plus. Also, super easy to add data visualization options and hopefully companies will start to contribute these back to the project.
I think a valid question is why these threads aren't being merged like is common practice and happened to a number Microsoft threads during yesterday's event. I'm not sure Hololens has more in common with a Surface Book than Quicksight and Snowball.
You helped answer the questions yourself. The fact that it was built for statistical analysis means that the syntax and overall flow is REALLY easy to understand and manipulate data with. I imagine someone who is familiar with Python would gravitate towards Pandas or another library, but for the BI that I do every day, R is perfect.

People love saying that BI/Data Science is 80% cleaning data (which may or may not be true), but I've found R to be the best for cleaning up 100k+ rows at a time.
> I would have a proxy in front of it that could take in 500,000 data packets per second

Which pretty much exactly what timeriver is :) (That, and it can also do Graphite-like functions, e.g. movingAverage(), etc.)
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All the major tech companies bundle their announcements like this in order to make a bigger splash. It's common on such days for HN to have many announcements from the same company. As long as the stories are significant and it happens rarely, this seems ok.

Edit: we buried the "preview" stories, though. That's too much when there are already several actual launches on the front page.
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."

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The forgot "fat hate." Weren't the anti-Obesity folks the straw that broke the camel's back?
> I assume it'll also support lower Ethernet speeds.

Yeah, ethernet has pretty much always downgraded well. That's why a 10GBASE-T interface is perfect :P

(I should have been more clear with my initialisms)
If you like docking maneuvers and want to play with them on iOS, then I found the Mission Orion app [1] pretty fun, leaning strongly towards the simulator side of the spectrum.

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mission-orion/id879837704?mt...
> If you really believe that regular expressions cannot parse any HTML document in reality (eg given that all web browsers in practice limit the nesting depth of HTML) then please present some evidence.

You can build a regular expression to match any HTML document to any fixed depth. Set that to whatever you think “all web browsers” limit HTML nesting to “in practice” – citation very much needed, I don’t believe they do – and voilà! You have produced something absolutely useless and probably several million characters long.

I don’t know what you’re arguing. I don’t think you know what you’re arguing either. It’s pointless to continue talking.
> Can the state compel everyone to be a vegan unless they can show proof of a medical condition that would make it unworkable?

If not being a vegan had a negative effect on the health and safety of the people around you, then yes, they could and should do exactly that.
Yep, get one or two a week.
Or at least used the battery bit more efficiently. While I have very little trust in vendor-provided numbers, for example Nokia 222 is rated with 696 hours of standby and 20 hours of talk time. That's quite a jump from 500 hours standby and 5ish(!) hours of talk time.

And that 222 costs 40 bucks instead of 300 eur...
I mean, if you read the comments on many of the default subs, there is a clear undertone of those cultures. I don't believe that's an editorial statement, but really a pretty accurate depiction of how many people (both inside and out) perceive the reddit community. It's sad.
My neighbor worked for Apple's real estate (facilities?) organization during this time. His only Steve Jobs story is that one day Steve came into the real-estate office extremely angry. Apparently SJ had received a parking ticket for parking in the handicapped space. He barreled into the office and slammed a stack of tickets on the desk and screamed at them that they needed to fix these tickets and stormed out.
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I think you are speaking from unfamiliarity with the language and possibly bringing baggage from other languages. In Perl 6, chars is the number of characters in a string, and elems, which is inherited from the Any role, exists on many objects and means the number of elements, as that makes sense for that object.

Perl 6 is not softly typed, it's gradually typed. It's as hard as you want to make it.

> If I see string.chars I expect to see a bucket of char

Why? Is that an expectation that comes from some other language? There's only so much you can expect a language to follow the semantics of other languages. Perl 6 will have it's own quirks, expecting it to conform to some malleable standard based on what some percentage of other languages do is not something I think is entirely fair to expect.
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Interesting, I've been hitting the treadmill for about 2 months while also reducing the calories in my diet. I have lost 25lbs.

I will have to try this and log changes.
TL;DR Erlang and distributed Riak using CRDT's (but the article is interesting!)
The "obvious thing" is an assumption of the person's preferences. It is entirely possible for a person's happiness/utility to depend on happiness/utility of other people, and it seems likely for such dependence to be evolutionary advantageous -- in the most trivial example, it is clearly advantageous to be helpful to own children -- plus, as someone said, people are not stupid.

It is of course also possible to rationally emulate such behavior, as well as emulate emotions, but it may not be easy, and might come at a substantial cognitive cost.

In addition, I would imagine that being able to feel certain emotions yourself must be of great help in predicting behavior of people who do feel those emotions. For example, I am still not sure what can or cannot trigger jealousy, having never felt it myself -- there is a learned list of things that can do it, but by construction it is never complete; it would have been nice to have some sort of an intuitive understanding. And it extends much further, e.g. I've seen studies demonstrating how people with good emotional intelligence tend to be better stock traders.
Amazon has been busy, but I still have to go with Satya Nadella. Since he's gotten the job in early 2014, Microsoft has shipped amazing things. Many of his decisions have helped redefine company culture, for the better.

Amazon has shipped a lot, but I think the new Microsoft has a bigger impact. Off the top of my head: open-sourcing .NET, SSH to Windows, Surface product line, Hololens development, Windows 10 (hit a few bumps, but free is HUGE), cross-platform software push, stronger open-source commitment...
> I'm more annoyed by public companies throwing out their original founders than by this.

Apple's board had fairly decent reasons to through Jobs out. Look at his track record at the time. It was good for both parties.
MariaDB 10.1 is not a GA release, yet. When it goes GA, presumably this will also be available on RDS. Currently 5.5 & 10.0 are GA releases.