skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The title reminded me of my favorite Rich Hickey talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI8tNMsozo0

A lot of problems in software arise from choosing the easy route (i.e. gem install hairball), with no regards for the complexity it could bring into your project. Do this enough times and your project could easily end up like one of the projects described here: a massive mess of complexity that's excruciatingly difficult and risky to change and improve.
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It's really a shame, because that's ultimately a richer and (IMO) better story. But movies need a single protagonist, and switching energy ( from the CIA protagonist to (a) Canadian one(s) ) in the middle of a film like that is risky. The point that America was more constrained than Canada would, I think, have been very entertaining.

Ken Taylor is portrayed as having a great deal of ... courage. You KNEW it was a team effort and that it went all the way up to the Prime Minister, and that Ken Taylor was a proxy for all of the Canadian effort.

Filmmakers who trust the audience are usually rewarded but the process of development leads to teams of risk-averse people who are incented to exaggerate risk. Big movies have the economics of extractive technologies ( mining - you want the big gusher, not a series of modest ones - that in itself is covered by Scorcese's "Personal Journey") and you'd think that would be changing but...

They did make a point of an apology reel during the closing credits - they at least showed Taylor getting the Order of Canada award.
Suppose people are labeled with positive integers, and rooms are labeled with positive integers.

Suppose first the people labeled with even integers show up, and they each go in the room with half their number. Then each room will have a person.

Then the person with number one shows up, and none of the rooms are empty.

If there are א people that exist, not all collections of א people have all people.

I think I don't have an intuitive understanding of how your intuition works.
(Not a biology guy)

It would seem like there should be a difference between an operational brain losing neurons and a suspended brain losing neurons?

I'd assume that if inter-neuron communication speed is anywhere on the same order as the time-between-individual-neuron-loss, then that would alleviate the effect somewhat, no? My understanding was there was a lot of redundancy up there, so it would make sense that the brain would resilver itself in certain scenarios.
Title is false. The credit card company didn't let the charge go through because they thought it was fraud, due to being a large purchase.
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It's a shitty thing and it's a net positive if it goes away. You are free to use your time and energy to pursue those other things that you think are more pressing.
To clarify, this document's argument is actually that poor functioning is associated with higher levels of social networking?
It's only ridiculous if you don't think about it.
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I don't know what these people are on about... Leah Weitz is a very attractive woman and I would hire her as my secretary or assistant in a heartbeat.
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The main advantages of scratchpads (the name for purely software managed memories like the Cell SPEs had) is not only area efficiency, but power efficiency... In the case of the processor I am designing utilizing scratchpads, we can have twice the size scratchpad that is using one fifth of the power compared to if we used a traditional single port L1 cache. Thankfully, we have spent most of our time and energy in developing out our toolchain in order to actually make full use of the scratchpads without having the programmer needing to manually manage their programs memory.
I personally feel that I've been observing the passing of time before his comment.
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The mafia should hire this guy to pump penny stocks.
Going back on my time-machine, I recall when she was first hired.

Silicon Valley was abuzz with excitement, thinking Yahoo would once again become a tech-juggernaut that it once was, competing with Facebook, Google, etc.

Truth be told, the previous CEOs geared up the company to be more like Buzzfeed than like Google, making Yahoo a media company.

Granted, Yahoo would never be in the same circles as the common tech-juggernauts, but this is the natural evolution of companies.

Monsanto once used to make poison, now they force their fake-seeds to feed the world.

Deep down, we all wanted Yahoo to go back to being something, afterall, it was a cool company once upon a long 1990s time ago, but Mayer was probably the worst hire of them all.

In the end, it doesn't matter though. She has a vested interest somewhere north of US200million and her failure at Yahoo will be celebrated when Twitter hires her as "Head of UX" once someone like Carl Icahn buys Yahoo shares to spinoff Alibaba faster and then spinoff: Yahoo Finance (Bloomberg), Flickr(Facebook), etc.
I'm very interested in reading any public information you have on this work.
Well, because the comments being made are laced with gender, so the gender of the comments is surely relevant, no? I mean, I understand where you are coming from - the title can be interpreted to apply to all men, when it only applies to some men. So adding "some" to the title might be a good adjustment. Removing "men" from the title however is not warranted.
Redshift, Druid and Presto are in planning, but in general, we're going to build drivers in the order of community demand. If you have a specific db, open an issue or chime in on one of the open driver issues letting us know it's important.
It seems to me that the only thing that makes this a 'paradox' or is counterintuitive is the idea that a hotel with infinitely many rooms can be full. Is there some math concept that allows this or is it just semantics? It sounds like some sort of "quantum" effect where there's only a room there if you look for it.
Most interesting products of spatiotemporal analysis that might use OSM data as an input are defined as a derivative database under the OSM database license. The mapping data is enriched and blended with multiple orthogonal data sources (like social media, mobile phone telemetry, remote imaging, etc) to provide a more accurate model of physical world dynamics. I think a big part of the problem is OSM's tacit assumption that the data would only ever be used to make maps. The derived analytical data model is not cartographic in nature, and use cases range from emergency management to consumer behavior.OSM's requirement that the derivative database be publicly and freely available is problematic for several reasons:

- OSM may be a minor input to a petabyte scale derived database, a large percentage of which may be modified every day. Many popular derivations would be technically and economically implausible to make publicly available.

- Jurisdictional restrictions on where the derived database can reside because of the type of data that was used to construct it. Making it available publicly without compliance mechanisms would break the law.

- Regulatory restrictions on the public usage of an input it is blended with, such as PII data like raw mobile network telemetry. Proper compliance mechanisms are often post-derivation and outside the derived database. Again, making the underlying database available without the compliance mechanisms would be breaking the law.

- OSM is the tail wagging the dog for many of these applications. Trying to make the licensing and compliance of complex applications revolve around OSM's requirements is unjustifiable effort. It is the same reason no one adds a little bit of useful GPL code to a million LoC code base even when it would make sense in the abstract.

This is a long-term problem for OSM in that applications are increasingly about getting intelligent answers out of spatial data systems, which implies the above analytical data models, rather than a map that a human is still required to interpret. Commercial cartographic database providers are usually more than happy to write you a license that conforms with the legal and practical requirements of your analytics application.
I'm weird but I feel like cash is superior for those applications and doesn't require me to hand my credit card number out to yet another company.
What's really cool is that physicists have recently been able to realize experimentally some of the room changing operations in Hilbert's hotel, using quantum systems:

https://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115...
Sounds like a great warning. Nanoparticles have the potential to be even more carcinogenic than asbestos, they will irreversibly permeate the ecosystem.
I'll start off by stating that I am not a frontend dev, but I've been trying to learn React to connect it to a backend API and I too find it difficult for the same reasons you stated plus some others:

- The FB React docs are a bit scattered in terms of content and not as intuitive / helpful for a beginner as I'd hope they be

- I often resort to referencing other people's code from Github, StackOverflow & Google and the mix of ES5,6 & 7 styling used is hard to wrap my head around, especially when I try to find a source of "truth" on how to adopt the more idiomatic way of doing things seeing how everyone is using a different version from docs to examples

- React-Router's docs & code samples vary widely from what they state in the repo vs what people are actually using, and the whole pre 1.0 / post 1.0 way of using it has bitten me more times than I care to count - this is most likely me jumping in at a transformative time in the project

- Learning tools like webpack, browserify, babel, gulp etc. have been nothing short of a learning curve and these tools are basically required to be useful in React without repeating yourself from running commands over & over again when developing

- I've learned Flux's architecture, understand the concept, have integrated its structure into my code and know that this is the proper decoupling required, but its definitely not been an easy process for me to have to think about how I need to modify the flux pipeline for new functionality and how I can cut down on repetitive code.

- I don't understand how to manage state properly when I navigate to another page - this creates issues for me around the combination of flux + react-router as my lack of experience with them as well as lack of proper examples to utilize make the two difficult to address some of the state management issues I encounter. i.e. If a user logs in & they have a token, do I make use of local storage, do I not, how do I navigate to another page seamlessly with information I want to pre-specify such as the fact that a user is logged in and some of their basic info so I dont have to hit an API etc.

- Lastly, I fear committing to an all-in javascript-dependent solution for a frontend will segment users in terms of it working or not - see http://maketea.co.uk/2014/03/05/building-robust-web-apps-wit... for the tidbit about how SquareSpace's page is completely blank if javascript is disabled - this worries me that I may have a user that can't even interact with my page either because they disabled javascript, or because their browser is outdated/lacks expected functionality.

I know most of these issues stem from my lack of exposure and knowledge in this frontend endeavour. Nevertheless, I have to assume others are getting bit by many of the same issues as well and I constantly question if I'm biting off more than I can chew with React, as well as if I should just go back to the more traditional way of doing things on the server-side which I happen to know & understand already.

/rant
Both sides have their arguments, as outlined by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10425913, so it's really not a black and white 'technical error' issue.
“People like her should kill themselves” - 7 Results on Google, with this being a contributor.

“People like him should kill themselves” - 6 Results on Google

Way to kill the gender equality Leah!
Just move your assets to a country with banking secrecy and you won't have to pay taxes on dividends/only pay very low taxes of that country. You still don't even have to leave the EU for that (Luxembourg, Austria). When that hole is closed just move your money to the channel islands or some other tax havens under the British crown.
Are modern CPUs really going to choke on a few thousand comparisons?

My impression has always been that, for any constant-time operation, you're gonna need to start getting into the 100Ks or even the millions to start noticing, but I don't have the data to back me up here :/
They used it in the same sentence as the emote itself, so I'd imagine it's not meant to be taken too seriously. The Kappa face is not generally used in more reputable sites, but this is a internet subculture piece, so I think it fits.
It is spreading like a virus (in a good way) in corporate as well. We use it to pay each other for lunch. I now use it to pay my cleaning lady.... I'm glad to support something that isn't paypal. Hopefully Venmo stays small and lean.
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It is surprising and comments like this always pop-up in response to comments like mine. The question is how much information do you really need to identify individuals? I can't answer that since I haven't seen the data set they are actually working with. In terms of the information they report, I doubt you could identify anyone.
Well, "fastest" along with painless was specified. The prompt gamma rays from the nuclear blast would kill all tissue within a very small fraction of a second - much faster than the comparatively slow C4 shock wave. :-)

In practical terms though, not much difference. If practicality was the major concern I'd say a 12-gauge discharge using #2 shot or so through the forehead angled down towards the back of the head would work well. Messy cleanup, but quick and painless for the deceased.
What are the 30's people using it for?
$10 poses an interesting decision in comparison to Spotify.

Spotify is a dedicated music app in comparison, and is designed that way. The catalog isn't as big as YouTube's, but YouTube isn't designed for the user to catalog their personal music.

Youtube provides ad-free video, but I don't think the ad's are very intrusive for videos compared to listening to music, where it can definitely be annoying.
How about second-hand social networking? Parents that are constantly glued to their phones instead of interacting with their children?
Yeah. I've had people tell me how heavy the 13" Retina MBP is ~_~
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Who gives a shit. This game blows.
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The instability of libraries is enabled by the bundling culture of the ecosystem.

System libraries are extremely API and ABI stable, including libc, libz, libpng, xlib, gtk+2, glib2, etc.

npm enables bundled libraries to have their own bundled libraries, and also encourages trivially small "libraries", so the explosion of sub-dependencies is entirely unmanageable and the best you can do is let every lib bundle its own copy of every other lib and try to forget about it all.

But long-lived large linux distros, with useful applications like firefox and gimp, and a large number of common supporting libraries, show that it doesn't have to be that way. You can have just one zlib, you can have just one gtk+2, you can install bugfix and security updates for them.
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Results like this make me wonder about the quality of the data.

http://imgur.com/gcXkBj1

This isn't just a rare exception. Search for any improbable condition and Amino will find physicians that are supposedly treating it.
So many people say that but if you can't scale anything stateful what is the point of all of this. Often it is the database that needs to scale the most since business applications spend a lot of time there and much less time actually performing cpu intense calculations. I do work for a very large organization that can afford mongodb as a service but for startups without large sums of money, 1400 dollars per month for amazon to run mongodb or 1000 a month for mongolabs to do it seems high. Plus, I want to colocate my data with my apps to limit latency. It just seems like "running stateful services in containers is a bad idea" is parroted over and over because its such a hard problem few people seem capable of solving. Instead they spin up 1000 stateless containers that print hello world and become impressed with themselves.
Very nice render there. That is one of the few cars which I have to say looks so much better up close than in pictures.
Sure, if every person quoted is a male, the title, "What some men have actually said...", would be accurate. As the title was posted, it did claim to apply to all men (even if that wasn't the intent).

Having said all of that, I still don't see the real value in calling out the gender of the people who made those comments. The comments are bad and they should be exposed for what they are. But, would they really be acceptable if a woman said them? Of what import is the gender of the people making the comments?

`define sexism`:

sex·ism

ˈsekˌsizəm

noun: sexism

prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex.
I've done some minor stuff in MS PowerBI and PowerQuery/PowerPivot that I think meets your need. It's pretty nifty.

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/
http://www.powerpivotpro.com/what-is-power-pivot/
PayPal owns Venmo.
In that future, even an EU company may not be enough if that company does business in the US (or, in the most extreme case, accepts and/or makes a significant amount of USD payments). The US government can coerce them too (and in some cases already does today e.g. sanctions and FATCA).
Some BI tools can connect to multiple databases, however the right solution is to put all your data into a single data warehouse and run the analysis off of that. Query performance is one reason, and here's a blog post I've written with some more:

http://dataducketl.com/blog/every-tech-company-needs-a-data-...
Yeah, I know that they are still looking into integrating with Flocker. Not there yet, though.
There've been other studies to this effect, though, and not just for adolescents. Papers often attribute the effects to a combination of lifestyle comparison, echo chambers, and emotional contagion. Check this one out: http://www.pnas.org/content/111/24/8788.full.pd

Now imagine your entire friend network is nonstop angst. I'd go mad, too.

It could be a just-so story, but I think overuse of SNSs allows our social skills to atrophy. The brain repurposes structures that go underused, and the structures that maintain one's face-to-face social functioning are no different.

Maintaining relationships in realspace is different than maintaining them in the async-y & memetic environment of cyberspace. Of course there is granularity--one can have a healthy analog&digital relationship, but if a SNS connection is a part of an individual's requirement for a friendship, then there is probably some deficit the individual is unaware of.

I'd also argue that this is symptomatic of the growing pains heavy internet users experience in their adolescence-to-young-adult stage. The group self-selects for introverts who have a preexisting difficulty with social interaction. However, we all require some social interaction (analog or digital), to greater and lesser extents, and so it perpetuates.

Books and art end up being a better outlet, but in my experience that's a discovery which people can only make for themselves.
Actually, I wasn't referring to the SPEs, I specifically heard the POWER architecture had some stuff that made it hard to implement and slower than other RISCs.
We occasionally see failures to deploy when things don't spin up fast enough. Does it blow up every time you click on the deploy button?
This is one of the - if you have to ask, you don't have to know the answer. We developed a better execution protocol recently with a friend (she is engineer with no empathy, too). You are on a almost right track.

But the best way to knock the brain out is other.
> It was riding the twitter wave in letting you interact with handles (usernames) over SMS.

I'm curious, were any of these SMS service comparies successful as interactive SMS services?

It seems like most of the services like Twitter, Venmo, etc. "started" as SMS services but quickly moved to apps once the iPhone appeared. And only then did they blow up. But maybe I'm wrong about that. What does Twitter/Venmo non-notification SMS usage look like today?

Are there any big/popular interactive services today that are mainly accessed by SMS?
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They have the same problem on Docker Hub. Opened an issue a few months ago here : https://github.com/docker/hub-feedback/issues/110
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The solution is to use an ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) tool to copy data to a warehouse.

You then point the BI tool at the warehouse.

There are lots of tools for this already, and even more custom solutions and other things. CSV files tend to rule here... scheduled exports that are picked up by the ETL tools.

The transformations that take place are usually normalisation of data from systems of differing schema or different types of data (perhaps changing strings into corresponding numbers, i.e. Risk Level = Orange could be normalised as 50% in the data warehouse).

Businesses have taken this approach for a long long time as the databases that drive applications, services, and now micro-services have always been tuned for the performance of the production use-case and not for ad-hoc reporting.
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Maybe you can provide some technical details?
What's "helper application" it tries to install on first run?
Any source code available?
Personally, I feel that downvotes should only be used for comments that do not add anything constructive to a conversation.

I don't see how a downvote contributes constructively to the thread in this situation.
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I've worked in this space a lot and in my experience, the only true solution is some sort of layer below your reporting tool to aggregate the data. That being said, it's not always a database that physically stores the data. It simply needs to be a semantic layer that models the way in which the data will be queried. Additionally, your OLTP systems are not optimized for reporting and you'll quickly choke yourself out trying to perform complex analysis on data structures attempting to solve a problem for which they weren't designed.
That way is likely painless, but very far from "fastest".
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The Head of State in the UK, (aka The Queen), has quite a few reproductions. Every item of money (coins and notes) and a lot of stamps.

http://www.royalmint.com/discover/uk-coins/circulation-coin-... - more than 50,000,000 coins in circulation. Then add notes and stamps, plus other commonwealth countries, plus tourist items....
It looks like some movies will also be available, as well as new original content[1][2]. This is shaping up to look like a netflix + spotify all in one package.

Certainly this is also an attempt to curb the pervasiveness of adblocking by providing the ad-free option.

[1] https://sites.google.com/site/ytredpress/home/youtube-red-bl...
[2] https://sites.google.com/site/ytredpress/youtube-originals/y...
The real killer app here is the ability to play videos in the background as music for your phone. Most of my favorite music isn't available on Spotify/Apple Music/etc, but quite a bit of it is on Youtube.

It'd be interesting if they UI of this got good enough to employ it as a streaming replacement.
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