skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Showing someone that spouting that junk isn't socially acceptable anywhere is how you'll end those attitudes.

I disagree. Attacking people for their views (for example, calling them a racist or down voting them to hell) is how you reinforce existing negative attitudes, not end them.

If you'll indulge me, I'd like to present some anecdata. I remember entering into a comment thread on HN using a throwaway in which hacker culture was being attacked as being inherently misogynistic. The statements being espoused seemed extremely overblown based on my experience. It also seemed ridiculous to throw an entire culture under the bus because specific elements of it may be bad. When I voiced these opinions I was immediately attacked by someone who didn't even know me, who implied that I was a misogynist by not agreeing with their position. This shifted the discussion away from being about ideas to being about my personal character, so my internal reaction was something along the lines of "well fuck you and your stupid ideas then" and I left the thread. Any chance for productive dialogue was immediately over, and I left with a highly negative view of feminism and a bias against feminists which I didn't have when I entered the thread.

Fast forward a few months and I was hanging out with a good friend of mine who is a female developer. Sexism in the workplace somehow came up in conversation, and I again stated that the opinions being voiced by some of these women seemed like bullshit (using stronger terms than my first statement). She calmly said she could see how I would think so given my experience, but that it was indeed as bad as it sounded. We continued the conversation, and I came away with my mind changed. This would never have happened had she not engaged me in dialogue, and I would likely still harbor a subtle or overt bias against feminists to this day.
Creating a time-series table is easy. However, you will quickly experience several challenges:

(1) Table scans to extract just a few columns will be extremely inefficient. It's better to create one table per column, each being a pair [time, value].

(2) B-tree indexes will be inefficient you for large extracts. For example, aggregating by month for one year will basically not use the indexes. The index will only mostly useful for looking up individual metrics, which is not useful. The new BRIN indexes in 9.5 should help, however.

(3) You'll end up reaching for something like Postgres' partitioned tables, which allows you to create child tables that are visible from the top-level table. Each table needs to be sharded by something like the current day, or week, or month.

(4) You say you need a proxy to batch data packets. So it's queuing, and needs persistence because you don't want to lose data if Postgres is lagging behind — your proxy is now a time series database! However, if Postgres is lagging behind, you have a problem. If you're writing at 600k/s and Postgres can only handle 500k/s, you have a never-ending queue.

(5) PostgreSQL can only have one master, and its write capability has a fixed ceiling (for HDDs you can calculate the max possible tps from the rotational speed, not sure about SSDs). At some point you'll end up sharding (by column, probably) the master into multiple concurrent masters.

Much of the point of something like InfluxDB is that there's no single bottleneck. You scale linearly by adding more nodes, each of which can write data at top speed. You don't need a "proxy" because it's designed to perform that very same function.
Nuage Networks releases Monolithe
fame in the mid-2000s for research on yeast and mice that suggested the red wine ingredient resveratrol mimics anti-aging effects of calorie restriction.

Far be it from me to preach to anyone else about their health maintenance strategies, but I can't help noticing that you can enjoy all the apparent benefits of caloric restriction by simple expedient of limiting your food intake and engaging in periodic fasting. People seem obsessed with the ability to have their cake and eat it, rather than put up with feeling hungry some of the time.
Co-founder and CTO of Mode here. I'm not too concerned that visual exploration is going to replace SQL for ad-hoc data analysis or data modeling for business intelligence. I think proprietary viz platforms are strictly inferior to open sourced ecosystems like Vega in any case. Open ecosystems win over closed ecosystems in the long-run.

We're more interested in integrating the tools and ecosystems people are already using in novel ways than we are in being yet another dashboard or visualization tool. Dashboards and visualizations are incredibly valuable but they're just one of the many ways that analytics teams deliver value to the organization. There are a lot of "jobs to be done" for an analytics team and the list isn't getting any shorter.
Why Canada is failing at tech (2013)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10349115

That article is questionable at best.
>You replied with an anecdote that illustrates how you got someone else's race wrong

Yes true. However his race didn't ultimately affect how I viewed our friendship or how I interact with him. It's an example that anonymity can break the stereotypes that we put on activities and people by removing identity. If I was wrong in my assumption about him then I may be wrong in my assumption about smtddr after learning things about his life.

>I don't think you meant it to sound like "you're wrong about how you've learned to deal with bigots"--which would be a pretty awful thing to tell him!--but it did sound that way.

You're correct here. I did not intend that. I'm going to read over both posts again and see why you think that and how I can better phrase my arguments in the future.

>That doesn't sit right with me.

Well thank you for expressing it without resorting to personal attacks and anger.
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Think of it like this: Someone in Sacramento can get to Milwaukee in 3 days (driving). Someone in Chicago can get to Milwaukee in 3 hours (or less). That's a 24x factor.

When any old randomly chosen person Sacramento gets to Chicago, they do not gain a 24x efficiency in traveling. Rather, they've covered most of the distance to Milwaukee already.
> Try set up a lab in Cambridge at some point down the road

MA or UK, though? Both would be awesome, I think, but I don't believe YC has any offices outside the US at the moment...?
Are there any alternatives for the service that are cheaper, with the same reliability?
Depending on the topic of conversation, this would often be considered incredibly sexist or racist. (Which has never made sense to me, but that seems to be the case with a lot of people.)
That's not weak typing. That's type coercion.

You're thinking of JavaScript in this particular issue.
If So Many People Support Mass Transit, Why Do So Few Ride? (2014)
The OP is strongly worded, but I don't think he's starting a flamewar. it's true that this kind of behavior on the part of pharma damages their credibility and feeds some people's paranoia. Just like the mishandling of the Katrina disaster feed a lot of people's paranoia about "big government". It might not make strictly logical sense, but the damage is still done.
> Scripts without an async attribute will cause the browser to stop where it's at in the DOM and wait

Sort of. The browser will keep looking for things to speculatively download that are past the point where the DOM construction got blocked by the script. In Gecko, this actually speculatively tokenizes the HTML; in WebKit and Blink there's a separate preload scanner that doesn't do a full tokenization pass. In both, the script shouldn't block the sheet downloads starting. I'm fairly certain IE has a similar setup, but I haven't looked at their code, so can't guarantee it.

If Chrome Timeline is showing you that the script load blocks the stylesheet load, then it's either a bug in Chrome Timeline or a bug in Chrome's preload scanner; either way you should report it to them, because their intent is that it not block. Or possibly a case of running out of HTTP connections, of course, though I thought their connection limit was higher than that at this point.

> I'm curious as to what browser engine you work

Gecko. But I've spent a fair amount of time looking through WebKit and Blink sources over the years I've been doing this.
Sure, but most things we take for granted today started as abstract math. We wouldn't be communicating with each other right now if it wasn't for the abstract math developed by many others.

I guess now that you were being sarcastic in your first post. There may be an argument that the reaction may be sensible in relation to the institutions that exist, but those are not the only possible institutions.
I've seen a couple of them and I can thoroughly recommend it if you get the chance. It's not just pronunciation; the OP is noticeably brisker and more natural-sounding, and extremely accessible.
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I generally try to do everything in render(). It almost always works out better. Sometimes I end up needing a lifecycle event. Timers (e.g., for manual animations) end up being hard to model without mount/unmount.
Websites don't need javascript in general[1], webapps often need javascript.

[1] For example HN, doesn't need javascript, but for the vote-buttons, js is nice. With a pure html-page, the difference between a get with a vote-parameter and an ajax request shouldn't be terrible, with gzip compression etc. Maybe it's even possible to abuse something like status 304 to avoid a reload for a "/thisPage?upvote=someid" from "/thisPage" (with CSRF delegated to a document cookie?).

Granted HN might not be the pinnacle of graphic design, or UI -- but there's lots of room for improvement that doesn't have to involve js.
alright, well you had your chance, but if you can't do something as simple as describe the culture in which they translate as such, then I'm going with my initial reaction.

You're unreasonable and not to be trusted on this issue.
> Isn't proving a major conjecture enough?

Not necessarily. And not because of a lack of tangible rewards, but because of a lack of mathematical ones.

Mathematicians are not just after true statements, or proof, but understanding, and new theories that open up new areas of study. For that reason, a new proof of an old theorem is often quite interesting.

I seem to recall reading that Wiles' proof of Fermat's last theorem was sensational, but ultimately less exciting than it could be--the proof did not create a new way of viewing or systematizing things so much as apply very specialized machinery to a specific problem. Take that with a grain of salt--I don't have a hundredth of the mathematical background to judge it myself.
Hi, I'm the dev. I've been thinking about it. I would consider it a success if we got a call from Volkswagen, so I'm willing to take that risk. That being said, I think they are way to busy at the moment ;)
If you're going to benchmark (especially on a variety of network connections), that trumps everything else, of course. Measurement of the actual workload is pretty much always better than general discussion about how workloads should be structured.
I suspect that paying more will help keep some of those people in Canada instead of the Bay Area. Follow the money.
What Angular2 tutorial (book/screencast) should I purchase now?
I prefer structured learning. I'm considering ng-book-2 (book + screencast). I'm ready to dive into TypeScript with ng-book-2. What is your thought?

My goals for learning Angular2 are mainly for (1) personal development: I'm a fan of Angular, and (2) I want to get started with Ionic 2 in the near future. I'm new to Ionic.

Is now the time to invest in Angular2 learning materials?
The sad reality is that without a good presentation, genius will take a long time to be discovered, if indeed it is genius.

There are many examples, but doubtlessly the most dramatic ones are Ramanujan and Galois. Ramanujan had no training and at first glance his work looked indistinguishable from the flood of crank mathematics that most professional mathematicians are familiar with. Were it not for Hardy's work in giving form to Ramanujan's ideas, they may have been lost forever.

In Galois's case, he was terrible at explaining his ideas, brilliant as they were. The anecdote of him throwing the eraser at his examiners is an example of his frustrations in trying to communicate to others. He himself was aware of his bad presentation, as he even called his work "gâchis" (mess).

Even now, with the hindsight of knowing what he's talking about, it's extremely hard to read his original papers. For example, he doesn't write down formulas and he doesn't fix notation. He just describes them in very ambiguous terms, talking about "this" or "that" where it's difficult to always determine what "this" or "that" refers to. This is why it took over 30 years after his death for Liouville to notice that Galois was a genius.
If the Opulent Minority has to be sacrificed in order for the country to move forward, and the Opulent Minority is the lamb, then I guess the populous is going to have lamb for lunch. This is why king Luis XIV was "Shortened a little bit". (Apologies to Alan Sherman).
We definitely need more and better low level key-value stores, especially write-optimized ones. It sounds like InfluxDB has correctly identified the pain points with LevelDB and LMDB, but it's yet to be seen whether they've succeeded in addressing them. The article kind of petered out without a proper conclusion.

The people who are talking about Postgres in this thread are thoroughly confused. This isn't a competitor to Postgres, this is a platform for building a competitor to Postgres (or, hypothetically, something Postgres itself could use). I guess maybe they mean InfluxDB rather than the subject of the article.
Fan Asks Taylor Swift to Birthday via Song
Hmmm. I tried "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo."

Didn't get it right.

(See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal... )

Did better on "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously."
Dell in talks to merge with EMC for $50bn
never forget /r/whalewatching.
Have you used spacy.io for comparison? The author seems to enjoy trolling about the faults of CoreNLP, but the license is very agreeable and the results seem on par.
>as demonstrated by the Pao blackouts.

The Pao blackouts were orchestrated by the moderators, a group whose influence I did fail to consider. They're essentially Reddit's paying users, insofar as they pay with their time. Advertisers pay the server cost, though, so I imagine that in an all out battle between the two, Reddit would switch to being completely closed. I understand the community aspect has a wide appeal, but I wonder how much of the revenue-generating userbase exploits that aspect. Are most users subscribed to communities they choose, or are most users subscribed only to the default subreddits?

>Don't be so eager to defend a corporation's right to be profitable.

I neither condemn nor defend. I'm only interested in getting a realistic view of how Reddit plans to proceed as a company and website. Part of that is analyzing who is making decisions and who is influencing those who make decisions.
I've registered with SAM (System of Award Management) so I can get grants directly. I still collaborate sometimes with academics, writing papers and grants, and minor consulting for them. I'm also still an affiliate of my post-doc school so I have an email address and journal access, but I think you can basically buy library access from a school for a decent price.

I spend about half my time or a little less on consulting, but it's been very research-oriented consulting so far, with few restrictions on publishing results. There are and will be ups and downs (most of my consulting is in energy) but I bill a lot more than I pay myself so that smooths it out a bit.

So far most of the non-consulting research has been unpaid but I try as much as is practical to get funding for it at some point--make a minimum viable product to write a grant upon and if it doesn't work out then make it publishable and iterate or move on. I like strategy, it combines well with dreaming. I have some moonshot ideas too, but most things can be broken down into units digestible for peer /grant review.

I'm finding that there are a lot of theoretical problems that are also practical problems. I also feel like I am doing research all the time, but a lot of time is spent building tools and skills to do new things, and less of my time is spent actually learning new things about the earth than I would like. But I guess that's research...
> I just wish Fastmail didn't have servers in the US

tl;dr - We are Australian, so PATRIOT Act doesn't apply.

http://blog.fastmail.com/2013/10/07/fastmails-servers-are-in...

"It has been pointed out to us that since we have our servers in the US, we are under US jurisdiction. We do not believe this to be the case. We do not have a legal presence in the US, no company incorporated in the US, no staff in the US, and no one in the US with login access to any servers located in the US. Even if a US court were to serve us with a court order, subpoena or other instruction to hand over user data, Australian communications and privacy law explicitly forbids us from doing so."

"Australia does not have any equivalent to the US National Security Letter, so we cannot be forced to do something without being allowed to disclose it."
Just to be clear, I'm not saying selfishness doesn't exist, or that cheating the system doesn't work for some people. My point is that altruism is not "illogical", and it doesn't require "a faith in some God or man-given morality, ethics, or emotions like love, mercy etc" to make sense as the parent content suggested.
One can read between the lines quite easily that they likely didn't think they could get people to sign up for the monthly fee so their original projections must have been way off. Obviously they are trying to spin it a different way in the press. For such a huge bet to totally change its business plan at the last second is quite worrisome for the future of the company, especially since the CEO was boasting just a few months ago that this was a brilliant plan and the only way they would make money.

Now they basically are just trying to go head to head with Amazon, but without the revenue stream Amazon has via Prime. I fail to see how that's not just doomed to be an incredibly expensive bust.
Yes, we're an Australian company.

https://www.fastmail.com/about/company.html
Imagine an app that allows you to buy a 3D toy painted as the child's drawing. Based on parents I know, it would sell well.
The thing is, the venues get part of that fee. So they're not going to be interested in working with anybody who would get rid of that fee.
From the article, the new translations should be 'putting the “same kind of pressure on the language”—rhyme, rhythm, metaphor, rhetoric—“as Shakespeare put on his.”'

Obviously somebody else's existing translation isn't the same or they wouldn't be doing it again.
Yes. TM has exclusives with all of the venues you've heard of, so you'll at least have to break into those negotiations, which are for contracts lasting around 5 years.
Just being in Switzerland won't make a company safe. I know of a case where a European sys admin, at a medium size ISP, was blackmailed into installing monitoring/fiddling devices by an US agency.
AIs are dynamic systems though. You can prod pieces and see what happens.

There's no interactive debugger for proofs written in prose.
Yet you still have to pay $20+ for it in a restaurant. https://econfix.wordpress.com/2013/08/25/a-glut-of-lobsters-...
It wouldn't be anywhere as convenient as something like the online ticket vendors.
Prisoner's dilemma may be an exaggerated example, but it's a strawman argument to conclude that game theory isn't applicable to real life.
If Mochizuki were able to write a machine-checkable proof, he would also be able to write a human-checkable proof, which is far easier to write.
So its a marketing decision? That's depressing.
> This can just as easily be turned around. Why do people who spout racism get to impose that standard of behavior and decorum on those who want to discuss video? Why does racist or sexist discussion trump relevant content in a content-specific forum?

It can be easily turned around, but it can't be reasonably turned around.

It's reasonable to expect someone to simply not participate in a community whose culture they don't agree with.

It is NOT reasonable to expect that community to be forced into the behavior that an individual, or a small number of individuals, disagrees with.

I can tell you right now I'm a huge fan of vim, but I stopped posting on /r/vim several years ago due to the behavior I saw from some posters there.

I don't post much oh /r/programming for much the same reason. Or /r/politics.

Your problem is in not understanding that reddit gives you the TOOLS to curate your own experience. It sounds like you haven't been putting much effort into it, and you've, understandably, been inundated with shit. Which is why so many of us DO curate our own experience.
Exactly.

Personally, I love the idea of neighborhood-level collection and distribution. If everyone is collecting throughout the high-output times, when the high demand times come, less has to come from the overall grid. Also, when power is cut/damaged for an area, systems could be smart enough to prioritize across the neighborhood.

Imagine a system that keeps the refrigerators and freezers running - to protect food - but doesn't run the AC or dishwasher or lights. Not perfect but way better than losing food.
This is a great article, now if only someone would make an in depth comparison to the situation in Massachusetts where they procrastinated when enacting catch limitations while fishing themselves into oblivion and now want the state to help them out...
I agree and am trying to solve that problem. Interested in collaborating? Send me an email (address in user profile).
It's not clear what debate you're referring to.

Was not the point of the quoted paragraph that, in the past, collaborators on Shakespeare's works were restricted to white men but that's no longer the case? Is there a debate there or is that uncontroversial?
If we could get in-house/building DC power (not to replace but to complement AC power) and get industries to make digital products work with this we could get another substantial savings in energy efficiency. Plus digital products would cost less b/c they wouldn't all need AC to DC adapters.
No mention of how the new work will be licensed. If it's not going into the public domain then that'll automatically make it worth less than the original.
Aside from the aos/soa I feel like Rust hits a lot of the same points.

Nice to see #run similar to elixir macros.
Isn't that exactly what TM1 does?
I imagine researchers in YCR will have way fewer administrative obligations than a researcher at a University. No classes to teach, no committees to sit on, no students to act as an amateur psychologist to, no grants to apply for (although this could be a disadvantage - the process of writing a grant often forces ideas to crystalize).
The bitcoin protocol is nowhere nearly as complicated as Mochizuki's proof. The Bitcoin whitepaper can be understood without difficulty by most "laymen", i.e. common programmers of modest ability such as myself. And Satoshi's original code was decidedly amateurish. Satoshi was clever in solving the consensus problem, but he's not some master cryptographer.
I think maybe you're confused? The doctype keeps the browser in standards mode and isn't modified in the amp pages. It only changes the rendering mode in the sense that adding it to any html page changes the rendering mode.