skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just a sales problem though - you don't sell a "static website" you sell the development, management and hosting of their site and that's where you build your margin.
Perhaps a dead unicorn would have been even more noteworthy.

The original shark fell apart and had to be replaced, which added an amusing patina of involuntary performance art to that famously iconic work.

It's not known if the piece now includes an ongoing shark-replacement maintenance contract.
You can go a long way with read-only replication, as long as you have a good failover strategy for writes before you need sharding... The only time you really need sharding is once either your reads or writes require more than a single system in you cluster could keep up with in terms of requests.

That said, using something like RethinkDB (not sql) from the start isn't a bad thing... And depending on your needs Cassandra, ElasticSearch and others are viable options... beyond that there's no need to stick with a single database for different types of data. It should be a case by case basis.

As to the comments about Postgres replciation/failover, it's a pretty sad state imho for an otherwise very respectible database.
This problem has been solved many times before.

Not on the Web, it hasn't. Deprecating experimental features and even just fixing bugs has been difficult to impossible for a long time; "pay the contractor once to set it up, then leave it unchanged for a decade" is a depressingly common approach to setting up a site, and leads to angry site owners and even larger numbers of angry users when suddenly a behavior the site shouldn't have relied on is changed or removed.
How would you program mind if you were writing a simulation?
Meet the White Team, Makers of the Linux.Wifatch Viligante Malware
I didn't get a reply last time I asked this in the same circumstances, but...

Will you also be flag-protecting articles which take different viewpoints? I ask because I've never seen a thread on any other topic or expressing any substantially different view on this topic have flags turned off, but perhaps that's just observation bias on my part.
Antenna arrays are immensely powerful. The described design is a special case of a general phased array where the phase difference between elements is 0 degrees. With electronically controlled delays between elements, it is possible to make an electronically steerable antenna. The are lots of possibilities for using beam steering antennas, especially for power optimization.
It's both - there's a feedback loop.
Do you think that in a fair world, it is necessarily the case that every profession is a microcosm of the population as a whole?

Let me ask a different way: in a world where no unjustice exists, is it possible for programming to be 80% men?
I imagine that to someone of your political persuasion, this is self evident. But humor someone who doesn't share your views and actually demonstrate (empirically for example) that you are right.

I personally don't care whether the geeks who work at a given tech firm are of particular gender or race, as long as they produce quality stuff.

I would care if someone couldn't get into the industry because they are X - but if these individuals don't want to - it's not something I consider a problem.
>. We can't evaluate the "hardness" of the problem

Yes we can. Cure polio, attempt to follow the the same steps to cure HIV, if it doesn't work it is a harder problem. It is easy to determine the minimum hardness of a problem by attempting the solutions we already know. What you are confusing is the maximum potential hardness of a problem.
The research promoting a growth mindset hasn't proven to be nearly as robust as many had hoped. It's starting to look like there's a very real possibility it's spread so far merely because it's something people want to be true.

Psychology research has had a pretty dismal track record in terms of reproducibility (http://www.vox.com/2015/8/27/9216383/irreproducibility-resea...) and the growth mindset dogma in particular has been facing more and more robust criticism. Carol Dweck's work is far from the final word on the matter that this blog post portrays it to be.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/08/no-clarity-around-growt...
http://www.amren.com/news/2014/04/yes-iq-really-matters/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Intelligence-That-Matters-Stuart-Rit...

Ironically, focus on a growth mindset may actually distract people from doing things that actually do have reproducible research showing they lead to more mental horsepower (e.g. regular aerobic exercise).
Edward Snowden Releases Chilling New Revelations on Smartphones
hahaha I don't think I am insane, I think it was just a temporary episode and am resolving to try and be less stressed, sleep more, and take less adderall and caffeine. That being said, as someone who is/was insane, I was able to checkle a bit when I clicked on the video and it said "this video does not exist".

The CO one scared me, especially because a few fir alarms went off in my house a few days ago, but my father and I looked around and confirmed there was no fire despite them going off for ~1 hour. Myabe lighting the stove for the first time? Anyway, I think I just need to get more sleep and my parents have been cool about it. I think they are a bit worried, but seem to be resolved to just monitor me, which is good.
Business lessons from an entrepreneur who went from $500/month to $5M/year
> If you could choose to live your life and never see another advertisement, would you?

I don't particularly value advertising, I can take it or leave it, and mostly ignore it altogether.

>If the answer is yes, then we agree.

Not necessarily. The premise that no one should be allowed to advertise anything smacks a bit of thoughtcrime. How "general" does "advertisement in general" have to be? Only for-profit products and services, or would advertising by non-profit organizations be banned as well? Would no one running for office be allowed to communicate their platform with the public? Would stores have to remove the signs from their storefronts?

>When was the last time you saw an ad for anything and it changed your life more than marginally?

Who said the purpose of advertising was to change your life? If that's your margin for what should be allowed and what not, then most forms of human expression and art have only marginally changed most people's lives. We could dispense almost everything besides popular culture.
Our society has agreed that if any specific subset of the population is being biased against its wishes to pursue a path, then this is an injustice that shall be remedied. Distinctions include but are not limited to race, gender, socioeconomic background or current status, geographic origin, sexual orientation, and preexisting medical conditions.

It is an implied social contract that forms the foundation of our modern American society, irrespective of functional necessities or efficiencies. Efficiencies are not the point here.
Thank you for the great explanation of an instance where stating a negative is not useful.

However, in this case, I don't think one can say there is there's no scientific data or even a reasonable theory to suggest that "the mind" has any affect on the healing abilities of our bodies given that the placebo effect is our rule of measure for whether a drug works or not.
I was born into a world with a certain number of people (4.5 billion) and now there are a whole lot more. (7 billion.) I didn't want any more people. Those people are violating my rights. /s
There's already https://houndci.com/.

How's your product different?
> against its wishes

That's the bone of contention here. Nobody is keeping women out of computer science; they're largely just preferring not to enter the field. The point of the article, echoed by many commentators over the past few years, is that it's a "problem" that women are largely staying out of computer science.

If you believe in the blank slate theory of human nature, of course it's a problem, because under this worldview, women's default preferences are the same as that of men, so some external factor must be pushing them away from computer science. The teach for this factor has become increasingly desperate the past few years: now we're down to Star Wars posters.

I believe it's more parsimonious to reject the blank slate theory and understand the world through the lens of innate differences in life preferences between genders, and that it's this innate difference that leads to different gender balances in various fields.
> That diminished stock price undoes rather nicely the golden handcuffs that are vesting stock grants, [when VCs are] circling Twitter looking to poach the employees most capable of turning Twitter around

There are widespread well publicized rumors from the press that Twitter will be announcing layoffs[0]. That can't help with keeping people around that they'll need. I actually was scheduled to interview at Twitter a few years ago and cancelled when I got another job instead. I'm kind of glad now. :O

[0] http://www.forbes.com/sites/hershshefrin/2015/10/11/twitters...
> I'm certainly not saying that a "no rent control" situation would be ideal, but I'm wondering if it's just made the rent situation in SF much worse than it would have been otherwise.

I feel that a good proxy for a world without rent stabilization is the condo market. Figure out how much the monthly payment for the low-end and the average condo is, and I suspect that that's where a city full of unstablized rental units would be.
> Now I'm just praying that their new "while you have been away" crap doesn't get default (or if it does, make it opt out).

This is actually the first thing they've added that really bothers me. Not the feature itself (I'm sure this is incredibly useful for many people), but that there's no way to disable it for people (like you and me) that don't find it the least bit helpful.

Most people (I think) follow very many accounts (many of which are quite "noisy") and probably miss most of the tweets of those they follow - but I don't follow many accounts (and only a handful that tweet more than say a few times a day) so whenever I open Twitter (several times a day) I scroll down to where I left off and read up.
> expect we will eventually find that human intelligence and consciousness depends heavily on quantum effects. Thus it will always be impossible to scan and upload a human brain in a way that captures the essence of a person's mind

And you have a strong reason to believe that emulating or implementing those quantum effects in a structure other than the human brain is impossible?

As a secondary argument - if an reacts to all stimuli and behaves in all ways exactly as the corresponding human would, claiming that it "lacks the essence of a person's mind" prompts a pretty obvious (and well-considered) question.. how do I know you're not just an essence-less entity that acts exactly like a Real Human would act?

Or are you claiming that correct emulation of a human's behavior is impossible, because 'quantum'?
If like many Washingtonians you never leave NW

At 7th and H NW there are three giant electronic billboards that play sound, not to mention the array of billboards plastered all over the Verizon center.
> Wow, I didn't realize there was a 1979 cutoff.

Frankly, it seems that that most folks who speak in public forums (landlords and developers included) don't understand this. It drives me batshit. (No offence intended. :) )

> Glad to know there's a perk to this oven/icebox victorian.

From what I've seen and heard about those things, I bet it's just about the only perk, eh? :(
This is absurd to the point I almost want to click the flag button. I'll bite, however, and share some of my feedback.

> Tesla leveraged itself to the hilt on batteries in a prediction of rising gas costs forcing a switch to electric vehicles, but fracking and shale oil drove crude prices from $146 from their peak in June of 2008 to pretty consistently under $50 these days. Oil might drop even further.

If cars were just about gasoline pump prices, there would be no SUVs. Tesla's model X is the first car I've ever wanted in life. I've owned cars, and I currently own a car, but this is the first one I've wanted, wanted. Similarly, I have other more-technology-able friends that are simply waiting for Tesla's first truck to buy one. BMW announced they're building more and more electric vehicles despite despite crude oil prices. That tipping point is done for. You can get it down to $10 a gallon and I'm not sure it would matter. You're changing the prices on the cigarettes, not the fact they cause cancer.

>why I believe that Musk got so defensive in a German newspaper when confronted with rumors of Apple’s self-driving car project and began to so aggressively attack them: “Important engineers? They have hired people we’ve fired.

This might be a bit of fear about competition, yes, but it is not all about Tesla. He was similarly pissed off when Blue Origin starting attracting workers away from him. I believe they even set up email alerts to monitor for Blue Origin email addresses, but I don't know that part for sure.

>and the government is the customer on a third of SpaceX’s launches and probably well over half its revenue.

True, but that's a good thing, not a bad thing. It shows that they're winning contracts away from organizations like United Launch Alliance, which is a Lockheed Martin Space Systems and Boeing Defense partnership. Shouldn't ULA be able to utterly push them out of contracts if they were just full of bullshit?

>tirelessly for him for years and were tossed to the curb like a piece of litter without a second thought.

This is fairly true from everything I know. The biggest example comes from the firing of his long-time assistant as talked about https://www.quora.com/What-is-known-about-Elon-Musks-long-ti... and other places.

>His latest Hyperloop project reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Marge narrowly saves Springfield from being cheated out of all its money in a monorail-building scam.

The Hyperloop could eventually take some dollars from cities, but those cities are the type of cities already involved in plans for decade-long, billion-dollar rail projects. Elon isn't so much the Mono rail guy in that sense, but the guy that comes in after and says, "Holy crap, I can give you a monorail in less time and money than those current people" Actually, I'm one to believe the rumors that he started it just to poke those companies, and then when people started taking it more seriously and giving it traction it was sort of a "Oh? Really Okay let's go with this" situation. In other words, I think the hyperloop got more traction than Elon and his associates thought it would and so now they're running with it.
I believe that it likely begins at middle school or high school instead because this is the age an individual can more easily comprehend what computer engineering is actually all about. What I suspect is that generally speaking both men and women start out on equal footing in terms of having access to a computer to learn on and the capability to learn the craft. I suspect they are also on equal footing in terms of both feeling the same intellectual stimulation, challenge, rush, and sense of self-empowerment that comes after they've built their first program.

Unfortunately from that point on more male than female students go on to more fully grok programming. I believe this is because the hidden costs associated with pursuing the craft are unequal between the two genders. For either gender it can represent a 'ding' on their popularity scorecard so to speak, but the ding is felt far more profoundly for women. One can certainly debate why this is and of course it's possible to trace this phenomena historically back into the days of ancient greek culture and before.

My feeling on the matter personally though is that the cultural norms of highschoolers have simply not had time to adapt to the idea that "geek is sheik" because the sentiment has only existed (outside of hacker culture) for the last decade (and perhaps it's still only a thing in California). In addition to that there has never been a "female astronaut moment" for computer science, so to speak in terms of it breaking into the consciousness of the average teen. This may be a chicken/egg type problem.

I think this is shifting now, but my opinion is that the biases which effected how highschoolers were feeling 15 or 20 years ago about computer science are still skewing the hiring statistics today because there are far fewer women job applicants who have been doing this kind of programming work for 15 or 20+ years...

How many were programming BBS systems in ANSI C back before AOL was a thing, or how many were following along with the early web as the standards (things like CSS) were being flushed out and it's possibilities were being explored (intro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_B31nF3sU0&t=2m10s)

According to the statistics there are a lot more men who have been engaged in "Internet engineering" in one form or another for most of their life and this kind of multidisciplinary computer-science background can skew a hiring decision in their favor assuming both candidates are equally well versed with the most current technologies. Young programmers find ways to make up for the often times narrower scope of their experience (lack of a lisp beard) by being really good at the things that they specialize in, and by tracking more closely the cutting edge. I feel there are more women who are joining this cohort every day, but there are still not as many and it's a shame.
How is the world's first solar powered airport faring?
I can think of only two explanations for what brains manage to do in such small volume and on such meager power:

1) P = NP or something almost equally amazing is possible algorithmically, and nature found it.

2) quantum computing

So I definitely concur.
Are you so confident that this is true for others because you have lots of evidence, or are you just talking about your personal experience?
Actually the job scheduler is one aspect, complimentary to the object-oriented resource management which I made quite clear was the main point.

Regarding file ownership, not necessarily. If you run it as a session-based init, they'd be owned by the user it serves as an agent to. (see dirs: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.unit...)

Upstart and launchd do not have the same issues. Upstart doesn't have dependencies, but named preconditions and postconditions. launchd has neither that nor dependencies. They have many problems of their own, but different ones.

My point regarding laziness v eagerness is the way systemd implements multi-paradigm introduces undesirable externalities from both approaches, as I said: "In systemd, one must endure both the non-determinism from aggressive parallelism via dependency information, the object network needing the transaction and job metaphors, all while having its lazy features be thoroughly restricted to its internal Manager and not a flexible toolkit such as UCSPI."

I'd assume the limited use of C/R to simply cut down initialization times is feasible: http://criu.org/Usage_scenarios#Slow-boot_services_speed_up

Running shell scripts doesn't mean much when the underlying system has a large surface and ill-defined module boundaries. A plugin system most certainly does not have to be complicated: look at finit and initng for examples.

What about journald did you not understand? You lose control over the separate stages of collection, rotation and processing. Particularly having custom postprocessing is important for interoperability with foreign services that might expect certain format constraints. Having the logs be per-service instead of globally snarfed is also saner.

Yes, I did go overboard on the reservations. It's a flame war topic, so I felt it necessary as a precautionary measure.
> I fully agree with this, and I think the problem is schools too easily trap people into fixed mindsets. There are so many exams in school that if you constantly get medium to low scores it's easy to think you just aren't smart.

Heh. Not related to there being too many exams, but the second part. Almost changed majors from EE/CmpE to something... softer after the first Calc test in my first semester. Got a 60% on it because I didn't know how to study from highschool. (Freaked me out enough that I studied well enough for a 100% on the next test.)

For continuing education, I attempted doing an online program offered through my alma mater for an EE masters. The course format didn't really fit me or the online format well, but I've found the textbooks themselves incredibly useful for self paced study.

Does anyone have any Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering textbook recommendations? I'm working through Microelectronics by Sedra/Smith right now, to be followed by Art of Electronics 3e, but I don't know what I don't know. Any textbooks that will change my fundamental view on electronics and/or programming?
Yes, and they do. That includes the First Amendment. :-)
Your prison example just shows poor incentives and not the dangers of privatization. The Prison Union in various states lobbies heavily for more prison time for offenders of all sorts. More prisoners equals more guards equals more money and power.

Change the private contract to pay based on a set capacity and former prisoners getting employed after their sentence and see how it turns out.
If you click the X in the top right and say no to "did you find this helpful" it disappears forever.
Yes ... if it wasn't clear from context my question to the OP should have been read with snark. This is a good time to apply Bayes's theorem.
sunset blvd is sort of like the west coast equivalent of times square, which would also be pretty boring without the ads.
Just to clarify:

If you look at the statements for a VC fund, you'll see at most 2-3 winners that provide huge returns, and another 42 zombies (returned between 0x and 3x), which have little impact on the fund overall.

That's 42 tedious board seats, and 3 enjoyable board seats.

Ask a VC, they'll say the problem is that limited investors tend to call portfolio CEOs at random, and ask for a reference. That's pretty much the only reason that they need to pay attention to the zombie companies. And that's why a company that shuts down is better than a zombie that just keeps living without growth. One less board seat to deal with. One less set of arguing founders. One less VP they need to help recruit.
I don't understand the connection between beer and nerd culture --- or masculine culture, actually, since plenty of women I know love beer.
I'm not sure sports are more of a time sink than a lot of kids would otherwise spend doing something mindless like watching TV or gaming. It's a couple of hours a day after school for practice and half a day on the weekend for a game (yes I have three kids in sports).

There are kids (and parents) who get totally invested in a sport with often unrealistic expectations of college scholarships or professional careers, but there are a lot who are also remain very academically focused and balanced. I know that many of the kids on my oldest son's high school teams went on to college in STEM fields so it's not an either/or.
Ask HN: Best way to learn to code?
I am 24 and finished college with a ME degree. My first job out of school was designing trash cans and I am really just not happy with my options in ME. I want to switch into tech.

What do you think is the best way to pick up programming? I did some coding in college, but I feel like I am not good enough to dive straight into a full time job. I am trying to decide between:

* Code school in my city (Atlanta) so like Iron Yard or Tech Talent South. But I have very mixed reviews.

* Code school in Silicon Valley, like Hack Reactor where I can really be in the roots of it all.

* More immersive program like Camp Code Away or Ruby on the Beach.

Thanks for your help!
A blank wall is not the only alternative, that space could be used for public art which is much preferable to a visual designed specifically for corporate promulgation.