skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, that might be a different order of magnitude when it comes to speed -- maybe if we have evidence of life within the first ~10,000 years instead of hundreds of millions. We've only been trying to replicate the origin of life for couple hundred years, tops, at an extremely small percentage of locations on earth where we'd notice if it happened. It might be extremely likely to happen when you try everywhere on earth for hundreds of thousands of years, and that's a rounding error compared to dates we are looking at.

A much better source for what you are talking about would be e.g. finding tardigrades or similar in the asteroid belt. That would show that life was part of the mix that went into the forming of the planets.
The GP is slightly incorrect. The buffers are on disk; the benefit comes because the buffers are laid out in transaction order, so they can be written sequentially under any workload; whereas a standard B-tree is laid out in sorted order, so can only be written sequentially under sequential workloads. The benefit is similar to that of log-structured databases.
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Yeah, it's a fair question. Most are unused to weight optimization. It's why everything in a commercial jet down to the forks served with meals is purpose designed for aviation.
It is unfortunate, but it compliments cognitive decision making well; ingest information from multiple sources, identify outliers and inconsistencies, the truth will present itself.
Provided it is done in equitable (no exploitation) and safe manner I would be in favour of prostitution being legalized, especially as the world becomes ever more individualized.

For the worker (mostly women) this is easy work, easy money. For the clients (mostly men), this provides a cheap and simple way for releasing their, umm, tensions.

It would be far more productive, however, for societies as a whole to question their fixation on sex itself (Mr. Maslow treated sex as a physiological need). Having lived in both traditional and individualistic societies for a number of years I have some thoughts around this subject matter if anyone is interested in knowing more.
Also, about the proposed registration, they fully acknowledged during the press conference that the trouble is tracking down the owners. You aren't going to be able to read the markings on a Phantom at any useful distance when you're trying to track down a violator.

I'd propose instead a requirement for ADS-B for the mid and large classes below... Micro ~100g transponders exist, fully integrate with the existing aviation infrastructure, etc. [1] ... and most importantly would enable identification of the UAV, which is apparently the most pressing concern at the moment.

Do the pilots here see any problems with this?

[1] http://www.sagetechcorp.com/unmanned-solutions/unmanned-solu...
This is an attitude I see more and more of today, and I think it's unfortunate. The slides in question aren't "a pile of acronym data;" they're made of lingo that would be recognizable to anyone who works in the field of networking - even if they don't understand the specifics of the protocols in question.

At any rate, the author's complaint isn't that "kids these days" haven't heard of all these acronyms, it's that they haven't learned any of the technical details behind those acronyms, and that those details are still relevant.

Finally, I have a bone to pick with the "it's the older generations' responsibility to educate the younger generation" idea that I hear so often. At the end of the day, it's everyone's own responsibility to educate themselves, and we all know there's plenty of materials available for that.
All I see is a full page pop-up ads for their email list, with no escape control in view.
As far as I understand, the idea is that friendly conditions to life could turn into life in the geological blink of an eye, so there isn't such a point.
Microsoft are pushing the command line to the point that:

a) Many operations in newer bits of Windows have simple-mode available in the GUI, but more sophisticated options must be scripted. StorageSpaces has a few examples of this, where some of the options around tiered storage, SSD caching, and the layout of pools can only be accessed via posh.

b) Microsoft are pushing completely headless versions of Windows Server for 2016.
Thank you for being the only person to actually write up what the hell the author was alluding to!
I'll give you that. Someone called me on this in a security discussion by recommending people get a glossary. The terms were all recent and modern in this case but mainstream crowd apparently wasn't aware of any of them. So, I went back and explained each one so the reader would have context in the previous post. The vote count indicated that worked better.

That's happened enough that I sent out a recommendation to a bunch of people in high security industry to straight up drop our terminology when addressing a wide audience, look up what they call everything we talk about, and go through a major revision process on each post to translate it to their language. Might be able to get adoption of some of the techniques that already solved so many problems but just have no awareness or willingness to understand how they're normally presented. Not sure how many are going to do that rather than say "it's not our fault they didn't Google (topic) 101 to get the basic terminology and foundations."

I feel revision and avoiding acronyms particularly will help us but transferring the wisdom will still be an uphill battle. Especially with the Silicon Valley startups...
See also http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/10/inmate-calling-compa...

Apparently a large amount of those fees are paid back to the prisons via "commissions", so it's basically governments auctioning off the right to take advantage of prisoners and their families.
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Pretty clickbaity.

It's just '5 things wrong with the private prison industry'

All of them are pretty well known possible issues.

I certainly don't know anyone who thinks the 'myth' is true, some people at best might be 'I don't know' or 'I'm pretty sure it's complicated.'
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10407682
See a Let's Encrypt cert in action:

https://helloworld.letsencrypt.org/

Nice work team!
> you're no longer getting the 2% of the engineering population that are the best speakers regardless of their identity.

That's not what you're getting now, either.

And note that you've shifted the goalposts. He was not claiming that the talks would no longer be the world's best possible speakers. His concern was that the "probability of bad talks would be too high".

> Those conferences are better based on your criteria of better, but may be subjectively worse for the OP based on their criteria of better.

All sorts of things could be true. Unless you're claiming that they actually are and that this difference is material, it seems irrelevant.
Totally agree with everything you're saying, but I would point out the the article is not about addressing a lay audience, it's about addressing network engineers who are supposedly lacking some historical/technical knowledge of their own field of work.
That may be true for the person who interviewed you, but that isn't any sort of official standard
Agree with the first part, but not with the last paragraphs. Neither Cats nor toxoplasma are known to change the behaviour of adult humans. Every human brain in the world is strongly wired to react in the same way to an animal with short face, round head, big eyes and high pitched voice. Round face (still developping bones), means "cub" and "do not harm. Protect". Most humans react in the same way to seals or cub dogs for example, and simians and all mammals do the same also. Is just that cats are like babies in many aspects; they like to drink milk, cry like human babies, have warm bodies... having similar weight and size thanhuman babies, can be carried around also, and they remember you, can communicate with you and want to stay next your body to warm himselves, so is easy to create a bound.

Toxoplasma can damage permanently the brain in human foetus, but normally is not a major concern in healty adults unless you have a defective inmune system. Lots of people with antibodies do not even remember to be ill or know when caught it. Inmunization is for life normally.
Great pics, and an impressive lighting system. Here's a more detailed look at the lighting: http://www.archlighting.com/projects/lighting-the-lowline_o
Cool. Are you looking at the captions/subtitles and in many cases the automatically generated ones from youtube's speech recognition?
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"Finally, I have a bone to pick with the "it's the older generations' responsibility to educate the younger generation" idea that I hear so often. At the end of the day, it's everyone's own responsibility to educate themselves, and we all know there's plenty of materials available for that."

I'm on your side of the discussion overall but that's unrealistic. It took me a decade to get so much of this knowledge and wisdom out of papers on programming, OS design, networking, security, etc. I just found some more foundational work in past months that should've been in every classroom for its relevance but nobody's heard of it.

The problem is that the stuff is scattered all over the place and not in pure form at all. There's books, papers, brochures, lectures, etc. These might have good details, fluff, or a varying mixture of each. Many great works can only be found behind paywalls (IEEE, ACM). Others are on academic sites, specific blogs, or places like CiteseerX where you have to know what you're looking for ahead of time.

Our field is anything but a clean, integrated presentation of what really mattered, matters, and might matter. It's a huge, scattered mess that we expect new crowd to just automagically sort through and discover necessary stuff. Prior generations certainly have some responsibility to make that easier rather than harder. I do my part with posts here and elsewhere directing people to specific techs that solved (or nearly so) the problems they are talking about. Need a more thorough solution, though, for the various sub-fields of I.T. before I'll blame the newcomers for prior generation's mess.
Well, that's what you get with age discrimination. There are probably all manner of worthwhile problems that older people understand better due to experience in long-haul, delayed gratification efforts (raising kids to adulthood, financing a house, chronic illnesses) rather than scrambling for the latest gastropub or gallery opening.
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Look like either bad communications or some sort of discrimination about your in person appearance, or they filled the open headcount with someone they liked better.
It's hilarious that you think this is paranoia. I almost wish I could live in your rose-tinted world, where no one lied ever, references were a good way to judge coding ability, and apparently all new grads magically have relevant references.

People can memorize the key features of OOP, but still not be able to use it. So do you not hire new grads? Do you never hire someone with an extensive background in C, because you dare not quiz anyone and you don't want to risk hiring someone who can't really ever get a handle on OOP? Are you going to pay the total cost of all these people, who probably won't last 3 months?

What's even sillier is that I bet most people, given the option, would prefer to try solving some small problems for a short period of time if they knew it could help their chances of getting the job. Why wouldn't you if you knew you were competent?
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It doesn't seem to be a problem for Linode to give me the virtual hardware at a reasonable price. Why would Heroku's software on top of that virtual hardware cost so much more? Is their deployment/management software using that much extra resources?
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The same goes for "EQ" and other vague non-quantities that aren't good for much other than insults.

A large portion of the variance in so-called "social skills" in the non-autistic population is probably explained by physical attractiveness.
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> If you only had a hobbyist offering, you'd go out of business

This just isn't true. To mention WP Engine again, they were hobbyist-only at first. You had to contact them specifically to require an enterprise-grade plan.
Took me a minute to get that the first one was a keyword, and the second one actually got me an audio clip of someone saying something.

If the problem you are trying to solve is easing someone finding someone saying a word, then I fell it might be easier for the user to just have someone use the "second box" (transcript search) to do all of the searching, and then narrow based on either suggested keywords or some other offering.

Also I noticed a fairly minimal amount of videos when doing pretty big searches (car), any reason to limit it to 5ish videos?

It would also be interesting if you could chain together sentences somehow.

I like it!
Not that simple. Usually leads to a local maxima that might not even be the maxima it appears to be. Really digging into all the sources of wisdom in our field takes a lot of time. Most only have a subset of that.

So, expecting those with the wisdom to present it in an approachable and efficient-to-learn way is reasonable. Only then should we critique those that didn't make the effort to learn.
Do you allow linear space?
You could certainly do all of those things during a coding test, as much as was appropriate for such small problems. I'm sure that would impress people if you did it competently.

> So coding exams are almost a litmus test for "inexperienced programmer" in my view.

You certainly could call them that when they weed out people with 20 years of experience who can't merge 2 sorted lists.
DayOne integrates with the excellent jrnl project.

https://maebert.github.io/jrnl/
And yet a lot of people do just that.
My favorite anecdote about how structurally behind the US banking system is is the Check 21 act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_21_Act

9/11 caused severe problems for the US banking industry because $6Bn worth of paper checks were still being flown around the country daily on jet planes. The grounding of all planes on the week after 9/11 severely gummed up the workings of the financial system because bits of paper weren't getting to where they needed to be. It took until 2004 for congress to finally force banks to end this archaic practice.

Business Insider has a good article about the entire process: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-death-of-the-paper-check-...
and I'm just here still using UnxUtils :D
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1. people like to point out when others are wrong on the internet. It much harder to do so for in-depth writings.
Relevant: https://xkcd.com/386/

2. my newsfeed is never ending. Am I going to spend 5-10 min reading an in-depth article? and I know nobody else on Facebook will like/comment/discuss the long article with me.
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In some countries, the children learn from the parents. The children never try to teach the parents.

The TV show, "Modern Family", the daughter of the owner of a closet manufacturing company tries to show she can contribute by offering her new design ideas only to hear from her father that her designs are great cause they did the same thing decades ago.
This is offtopic, but can anyone with design chops explain Bloomberg's thinking with their page's design? It's not traditional, but I think I like it.
IMO CPanel hides too much. You can git commit && git push an index.html to GitHub and be up and running very quickly. That way when you get your first real job you're already going to have some basic Git skills.
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I expect network engineers to understand what they do day to day. Do they really need to understand the whole history of the field to do that? Mostly not: just specific things necessary for their jobs. Our economy and resources are sort of rigged in that direction. So, we might need to use a preemptive solution where we present various principles, tactics, pro's, and con's to them rather than a full history lesson they'll think is useless.

Ideally, they'll learn it all. I've learned the world is rarely ideal. Need a practical alternative to ideal...
You can't compare a giant pipe bomb with passengers on one end to an airplane either, but I'm the one who opened that door without a suitable qualifier, so that's on me.

What I meant to convey is that I expect someone to do to commercial aviation what Musk is trying to do to rocketry, and what I expect that to look like is for more effort to be placed into reducing single points of failure by designing complementary systems instead of just putting three of everything on the vehicle and then adding two more layers of stuff to manage it. And also for them to act like progress in software development processes actually applies to them now instead of in thirty years. We got no end of grief for refusing to do pure waterfall, and they were conspicuously silent when we're were able to fix fundamental up front design flaws in 3-8 weeks, and without doing a reenactment of Macbeth starring William Shatner, set in a rehab clinic.

Then again, I expect something to happen to improve the caliber of software developers out there as well, so we'll see how that goes. Often when I expound on the qualities of my profession I am intentionally and consciously imagining that the 30% of my peers that are responsible for 70% of our problems either don't exist, or are off doing something that's not important.
The problem is that state-funded prisons have the same potential for corruption. The unions that represent the correctional officers play the same role and lobby for the same laws as the private prions do.

The CCOA even lists marijuana legalization as a potential risk factor that could impact their future financial targets:

> Our ability to secure new contracts to develop and manage correctional and detention facilities depends on many factors outside our control. Our growth is generally dependent upon our ability to obtain new contracts to develop and manage new correctional and detention facilities. This possible growth depends on a number of factors we cannot control, including crime rates and sentencing patterns in various jurisdictions and acceptance of privatization. The demand for our facilities and services could be adversely affected by the relaxation of enforcement efforts, leniency in conviction and sentencing practices or through the decriminalization of certain activities that are currently proscribed by our criminal laws. For instance, any changes with respect to drugs and controlled substances or illegal immigration could affect the number of persons arrested, convicted, and sentenced, thereby potentially reducing demand for correctional facilities to house them. Legislation has been proposed in numerous jurisdictions that could lower minimum sentences for some non-violent crimes and make more inmates eligible for early release based on good behavior. Also, sentencing alternatives under consideration could put some offenders on probation with electronic monitoring who would otherwise be incarcerated. Similarly, reductions in crime rates could lead to reductions in arrests, convictions and sentences requiring incarceration at correctional facilities.

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1070985/0000950144060...
Some background and related discussion of this amazingly awesome demo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9338944
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Congratulations LE team!

Final Star Wars VII trailer and LE gets cross-signed. Best. Day. Ever.
Yeah, I suppose once we've identified an actual mechanism or two of abiogenesis, we'll be in a better position to estimate expected wait times in likely environments. And if the wait times are as fast as you suggest, it simply may not be possible to date rocks/minerals accurately enough for the necessary comparison.
I'm a guy. I feel perfectly comfortable saying that guys can be absolute pigs.
So I get to go back and look at the struct to see the order every time I initialize an instance? Or watch everything break when the noob on the team alphabetizes the struct fields? Yeah, that's a great solution.
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> does anybody know what are the advantages

it's MySQL but not from Oracle.

> over PG

if you are already running MySQL then you don't have to migrate to a new completely new platform.
Yes, insofar as the likelihood of introducing an exploitable catastrophic flaw in either scenario is essentially 1.

If you think you can just slap AES on something and call it a day, you're going to have a bad time.
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Also, visual studio community edition is free[1] can debug nodejs with an extension[2]. And the capability is integrated into VS Code[3] which works cross-platform.

Those and webstorm/intellij are the ones I have experience with. But most of the time, I just use the CLI debugger -- it's not hard.

[1] https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-co...

[2] https://github.com/Microsoft/nodejstools

[3] https://code.visualstudio.com/
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thanks for the explanation, it's a rare skillset to be able to explain technical stuff on sort-of layman term :)
Hm, I agree that there's a lot scattered out there, but I hope that there's some room for exploration (and maybe specialization) somewhere in the noise.

I actually have an interesting perspective on this, being completely self-taught, before returning to university as an adult to get a computer science degree.

There are pros and cons to both sides of the self-taught vs. teacher-taught thing, though I'll make my bias clear up front: I spent a lot of years reading books and messing around with stuff; now, when I hear college students complain that a teacher "isn't a clear lecturer" or "didn't answer my question well," my tendency is to say "there's a book and an Internet out there, suck it up and get to studying, buddy," though I realize that attitude isn't perfect for everyone.
A good text editor! Make macro to open a text file named with the date of the current week. Make another macro to insert the current day and time and a new line.
You can format minified js code by clicking the pair of curly braces in the bottom left corner of the source window. This has saved me a lot of headaches.
Won't this happen naturally as millennials get older? More people are studying CS and going into tech these days.
OK, but that code (cp.go) uploads base64 chunks of 8K and echo's them to a file and decodes when done. That surely isn't the real WinRM file copy implementation right?

Well... I just went looking for how it's implemented and holy shit I don't think they considered this case. Top results say "use a file share". Wow. I feel less inadequate.
> I came to Go for the static typing

Well, you came to the wrong place...
Timely is alright, though free tier only supports a low number of 'projects'. Depends how you want to use it I guess.
It just had to be right after I renewed my SSL cert, didn't it? :P
You're frustrated and depressed that people aren't well versed in technologies that died out while they were in diapers?
Allow me to highlight what I wrote:

either mostly finished / slowly changing, or on their way out

Most of those old systems support a part of the business that is dying and are maintenance only, but occasionally they do need some extra duct tape. We minimize any investment at this point. At this point it's a day or two of work a month spread across a team, but everyone takes a turn.