skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This, from your page, is worth highlighting:

> because we wanted a simple, highly available service, not a strongly consistent one.

I absolutely agree with this design choice.

This is the big flaw for me with how a lot of setups use Etcd, Consul, Zookeeper and the like.

A lot of the time they're being used because we need high-availability, not at all for their consistency guarantees, and their consistency guarantees has great potential to reduce the availability.

I've not run Zookeeper in production, but both with Etcd and Consul I've had situations where the clusters have gotten into totally broken states because the cluster membership has changed in bad ways. It makes sense for the guarantees they are providing. It does not make sense if you don't need the consistency guarantees.

The way I see it, lost service registrations are a non-issue as you generally want to continuously renew them combined with a TTL to avoid stale registrations, so the occasionally lost one due to e.g. a part of the service directory cluster failing at a bad time is no big deal. Conversely, if a service stays in the service directory when it shouldn't, the worst that happens is that you run into an unhealthy service when you try to issue requests, but that will happen during normal operation while using services with consistency guarantees anyway, since the service may have failed between health checks anyway, which means you still need to handle retries.

I'd rather use a service-discovery solution with fairly significant consistency issues that keeps replying "no matter what" than one which focuses on consistency but may stop answering.
Probably for the same reason that you clearly feel it's your duty to repeat this same comment on all those threads. I'm guessing it's a shared feeling of someone being wrong on the Internet.

I'm really not sure what's so complicated about this.

I have a hard time thinking of legal support EFF has provided that I don't support. If EFF was just legal support, I'd be a donor.

I think their technical work is mostly good; it would be entirely good but for the egregiously terrible Secure Messaging Scorecard --- but hey, that scorecard won me a $1000 bet against Matt Green, so some good came out of it.

Virtually all of EFF's policy advocacy, I find untrustworthy. I don't even believe they take it seriously. I think they play to the crowds, in the hope that the retweets and upvotes will generate more donations.

Is it really that hard for you to see that as a plausible narrative? I'm not asking you to agree with it.
I'm not advocating for girls playing boy games.

I'm just saying that there's crazy amount of conditioning here, and that people might unconsciously make choices for their daughters that will lead them to a very different life.

I am also saying that there's crazy amount of pressure from kindergarten teachers, and who knows what other environments.

> Do you think she is entitled to have that view? How would she take comments like yours?

My comment was pretty much black&white. I'm not advocating pressure. I'm painting my views this simple to evoke questioning of one's choices regarding raising children.

Realistically, women do not go into tech do to tech looking unattractive to women. Women find this men dominant field unattractive for reasons that are mostly based on early conditioning.
It's not that they are incompetent, they just do not try.
"While this is strictly speaking corruption, it is a very democratic form of corruption."

If the police are for sale, then they are for sale to the highest bidder. If the prices seem reasonable to you, it's only because your aren't being outbid by someone significantly wealthier.

"just look at our crime rates that are well below the region."

Is crime lower, or just the reporting?
Why do keywords have to end in a colon. couldn't the parser use space " " to detect the end of a word, like in C ..
"When it works well, it works well".

in other words:

"60% of the times, it works every time".
I'm not sure who you're arguing with. Are there people advocating for CISA by saying it's only about metadata? I'm not one of those people.
Funky refrigerants...

The following has an evaporator temp of -96C to -73C, and a condensing temp of -29C.

https://www.chemours.com/Refrigerants/en_US/assets/downloads...

If you scroll down in the PDF you can see a comparison with R-503 and R-13, two other low temp refrigerants.

But you can't just put that in a normal refrigerator.
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First of all, NYT has over million paid online subscribers. It's not like NOBODY wants to pay for NYT. Second, I think it's short sighted to say "They should build something people would want to pay for". It's like going back in time when Facebook was just getting started, or Google was getting started, and telling them "You should build a product that users will pay for". Here's what I think: "enhanced tools for journalists", "summarization and synthesis", "adaptive content", all of them will contribute to create value. When there's more value, there will be many ways to translate that into revenue. The reason newspapers are in danger is NOT because they are not monetizing enough. It's because they are not providing as significant value as they used to in their good old days.
C requires explicit = in variable declarations.

CSS presumably uses the colon for clarity.
Hollywood doesn't determine that, though. They're less of an arbiter than a mirror. They're a business, they follow the money, and they'll cast whoever will make them the most.

It sounds nice to say "let's have more asians" but when the box office results suffer from it, why should they? It's unreasonable to expect them to take financial losses, or to forego profit.
This article seems like a traditional car company exec looking at a different car company concept only to say "it will never work because it's just not how car companies operate."

The same thing was said about Apple. Same things said about Uber. Same things said about many successful ventures.

When you are trying to do something different, asking people who want to do the same old thing what to do is a bit foolish. They are playing different strategies or maybe a totally different game.
Absolutely, but to know how much more skeptical to be, you have to know likely this outcome was, given your prior hypothesis. And for that purpose, knowing ways in which this situation differs from textbook, across-the-board deflation is very relevant.

P.S., I found this discussion (http://www.wsj.com/articles/john-cochrane-whos-afraid-of-a-l...) to be pretty convincing. His guess is that sudden, dramatic, Depression-style deflation will have effects that are a lot different from slow, predictable, Swiss-style deflation.
But this industry isn't ageist at all, no...
How about a nice game of golf?

find app/views/foo -depth -type f | while read f; do mkdir -p $(dirname ${f##foo/}); sed <"$f" >"${f##foo/}" -e s'/\([a-z]*\)foo_\([a-z]*\)path/\1\2path/g'; echo rm "$f"; done
Although the Webb telephone will be 100x better than Hubble, you gotta wonder if it wouldn't be useful to keep Hubble around for a few more decades. Surely, there's enough work for both.
> Nothing makes you more attractive to a woman than the double which represents your bank account balance.

Not really on topic but it is a teachable moment; You should always use fixed point math to deal with currency. Floating point math is not consistently accurate and should never be used.
"Deflation death spiral"
"Hoarding"

Any else notice how harsh the language is yet there is not one actual case of it occurring in the wild?

Looks to me like the powerful are doing a good job at keeping inflation above 0%

Even 0.1% (tenth of a percent) is disastrous for a currency over 500 years.

You know why we're told ( and we are told, since there are no actual experiments performed on this matter)... it's because the system of extracting value from the unsuspecting consumer/middle-class/non-investor is based on the assumption that having money means you should automatically get more of it in the form of interest.

People still have to eat, cloth their children and get a roof over their heads. Many people are not in a situation to "hoard": they are struggling to merely stay afloat.

The target should be 0% ( or very close to 0% like 0.01%) inflation. But that would mean investors would actually have to provide greater and greater value to the world.
I don't think anybody is complaining that aesthetic preferences are derived and shaped from pop culture.

Rather, it's important to understand what subconsciously influences people, so one might make sense of the seemingly counterintuitive results one has when it comes to the fairer sex.
Paying for an "experience" vs "content" are very different things. I definitely don't think people will pay for content, and was not trying to saying they would above.

Perhaps my understanding of business models is flawed, but this year my company will pay out millions dollars to journalists. In that regard perhaps my flawed understanding is an asset!
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How come physics can't predict the warmest superconductor?
How long had the one you touched been dead? Also, is it possible they get stinkier as they get older?
seriously. this is like AI 101.
So now that the dust has settled, the whole watch thing has been a dud, right?
I don't own an iWatch and no-one else I know has one.

So that's the end of the whole "watch as the future" thing, right?
"You can't just look for a gap in the market. You also need to verify there's a market in the gap."

I am remembering this. One of those quotes that simplifies but essentially explains a host of unsustainable businesses.
No. IED's aren't terrorism unless they are directed at civilians (or used without regard to civilian casualties). For example, most IED attacks in Iraq were not terrorism because they were aimed at US troops.
I don't think they can put it into production easily. They would have to rework their entire site, their entire workflow, and the way their journalists work. What they are describing also doesn't work well on existing articles, because those articles, which they have some meta data, are not in a format that works well as a database. For example, each article has a lot of repetition with earlier articles. They say that it would require a lot of manpower. We solve this issue by crowdsourcing the events and their meta data.
How does one square "Nicaraguan police are pretty honest" with "they regularly pocket cash bribes to not enforce the laws, because living police salaries are luxuries for rich countries"?

It doesn't seem like a terrible system in practice, but it sure doesn't seem remotely "honest".
A thousand times yes. I love the trackMan. On one now. Just like the Microsoft Explorer before it (which are now $500 if you can find one) it's damn nearly the perfect trackball.
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How much we screw up and hit the wrong target is a totally different question from are we killing civilians without regard for them.

It's a difference between knowingly killing and accidentally killing. Legally, there is a huge difference. I'd argue morally there is too, but you can decide for yourself.

That opens up a whole other debate about whether the US is reckless with the targeting. But I think it's necessary to distinguish between the two types of civilian causalities.
The problem is it doesn't really make sense in 2015.

Or rather, it only makes sense if you accept the technical debt inherited from HTML, which is itself the simplified stepchild of SGML, which was a 1960s idea and firmly rooted in paper publishing.

Separating content and presentation isn't a bad idea. The badness happened because JavaScript - or some other web programming language - didn't appear until HTML was established. So instead of a generic object model, with tagged content containers linked to an updatable library of presentation and layout code that could be standardised and refined continuously, some semi-standard version of a sort-of-working layout library was pre-compiled into browsers and accessed through a not very coherent DSL.

This made it fast enough to be usable - a very good thing, given 1990s processing speeds - but it also made it much harder to develop and fix.

In 2015 CSS shouldn't really be necessary. So much layout and presentation is done with JavaScript anyway that it would make just as much sense to get rid of CSS and extend and standardise on something like jQuery-but-better to create an evolving cacheable layout library that bypasses browser quirks and uses exactly one common versioned codebase.

This might seem ambitious, but writing good code that works across all common browsers now is such a nightmare for everyone that too many devs are either not bothering, or their bosses are telling them not to bother because it's too expensive.

As a user, I keep finding sites that simply don't work in Chrome or Safari or IE or whatever. That's not good, especially when there's a business at the other end trying to sell things.

I don't doubt the web will creak along, and some people will do amazing things. But it's still frustrating when it could be simpler, more standardised, more consistent, and much more reliable.
It doesn't need a special operator for other reason than that by specifying the VM-level behaviour it can be made a lot more efficient.

And at that point naming it after something that are legal method names would be problematic.
Not that Zircalloy won't dissociate, but you're correct, don't discount the water either.

At one point during the Windscale fire they tried to pump down liquid CO2, but the reactor face was so hot it was ripping the O2 off the molecule. They next tried to pump down water - there was a very real risk that it would rip the water apart as well, feeding the fire and potentially forming a hydrogen bubble and exploding. However they were able to deliver it in greater quantity than the CO2, and succeeded in cooling the fire.
The definition in Rust's documentation[0] was this:

let x: Option<&str> = None;
assert_eq!(x.unwrap(), "air"); // fails

The equivalent Haskell if unwrap throws a panic as the docs[0] seem to imply:

λ> fromMaybe (error "panic!") Nothing
*** Exception: panic!

You could also do something like this if you don't mind dealing with the wrapped boolean value:

λ> fmap (== "air") (Just "air")
Just True

and the failure case:

λ> fmap (== "air") (Nothing)
Nothing

0: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/option/enum.Option.html#method...
While I completely recognise the complexities, where there is real risk of killing innocents (or clear ongoing pattern of mistakes), this likely outcome should negate the use of that method in my opinion.

There's no grey area in my mind here. It's disgusting to me that people could think its OK to accept killing civilians including children as collateral damage in occasional strikes, despite surely they are doing their best to avoid/minimise this. Even if stopping these strikes increases the risk to myself and my family I feel this is risk a moral society must accept. To do otherwise makes us terrorists too.
Depending on where you live in the states, you can see many different scenarios play out. California, specifically Silicon Valley, is definitely a melting pot. I was born and raised in the Bay Area and have seen differing scenarios play out.

During high school living in the East Bay, an african american friend (who came from money) was regularly followed and occasionally pulled over because he was in a nice car and driving through nice neighborhoods (where he lived).

Working in a semiconductor startup many moons ago, a lot of the Chinese hardware engineers kept to themselves and didn't interact outside their group.

Living in Santa Cruz, the "minority" population is primarily Hispanic. I can't speak to the schools, but many many keep to their groups and don't make an effort to integrate into the community as a whole.

Maybe it is dual sided racism, but ethnic groups that live in large numbers and don't become part of the overall community and instead build their own island for me is just as problematic as a society that isn't open to others joining and becoming part of the whole. This is not to say that culture and history should not be preserved, practiced, etc. but moving somewhere and excluding yourself from the community as a whole is also problematic.
KEXP, which is a good variety, and not too much talking (no ads, but DJ's with personality, which I like). Otherwise mixes from Radio1 and 1xtra (I favor just slightly odd dance music). And then Rinse.FM and Sub.FM for dance music.
Non-falsifiable argument is non-falsifiable.
Good for them. I'm old enough so that I've been to enough Black Friday sales that I know nothing but shit is offered. I don't even leave the house on Black Friday simply because it's such a pain to go anywhere. I'd rather pay extra and avoid the lines, so good on REI for hopefully starting a trend that rolls back Black Friday a little.
If you assume that we are at the end of the future, yes. Or if you believe that (in this area) what has happened is what will continue to happen, also yes.
Disclaimer: I'm a physicist but have no expertise in solid state physics. I remember when the whole high-Tc thing started. My recollection is that the discovery broke what was at the time considered to be the mainstream understanding of superconductivity. And, a more comprehensive and satisfactory theory has not yet emerged. As a result, we're in a sort of tortoise-and-hare race between theory and experiment, where each one advances a bit when the other one catches up and makes a new discovery.
Yep. But then you've got to ask yourself whether you've really got a business model that supports a big global company, as opposed to a business model that works best when you're one person in an office who has personal relationships with every cleaner in town and a flyer on every lamppost.
"One French guy proposed digging deep enough to eliminate the need for locks, though it was decided this would be too great a task."

I think you have misinterpreted the history. De Lesseps proposed a sea-level canal, and got his way. The French attempt at doing that lost a huge amount of money.

For what it's worth, Godin de Lépinay proposed a lock system instead, but was ignored. Quoting from http://www.firststrikenuts.com/artman/publish/article_28.sht... :

> Eight years, 200 million dollars, and more than ten thousand lost lives later, de Lesseps accepted reality and switched to de Lépinay’s stair-step plan. Lock-works and gates were ordered from Gustave Eiffel. Sadly, the canal enterprise was too far gone and could not be rescued, resulting in the largest financial collapse of the nineteenth century.
I agree that the NYT is in a better position than most papers, but the reality is advertisers would rather put their spend into Facebook or something like Buzzfeed which get have a much larger audience and way more page views than the New York Times. Not only that, the tools are self-serve and the interactions they get are much more clear.

The New York Times is already a large corporation, with lots of employees, and tied to revenue streams from advertisers that are waning. I don't seehow it's like going back to Facebook or Google in that regard, because their head counts were minuscule.
>Would you as a reader pay more for "summarization and synthesis"? Probably not, Wikipedia and Google already do this really well.

Actually they don't. Wikipedia's long article format is very poor at creating a news archive that can be filtered, sorted and searched like a database. OTOH, Google has a lot of tools for searching, sorting and filtering, but they can only do those actions on existing articles, which are part of the problem. Simply curating existing articles doesn't create a news database. You end up with Google news which has 2000 versions of the same news. To make a news database work, the articles themselves have to be in a format that can work in a database (shorter, fact based etc).
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Vox is doing a pretty good job of it. The NYT already has quite a large number of topic pages on a variety of subjects [1], [2]. It's not Wikipedia, but it's not a small number of articles either.

[1] http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/i...

[2]
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects...
I've created myself a blog on Medium, and I thought it would be fun to find like-minded people there.

In my blog I post short sci-fi stories and articles on programming and tech:

https://medium.com/@rayalez
it's a self-fulfilling prophecy - when society is conditioned to only accept clooney/damon/etc-types in leading roles, then of course the focus groups will 'prefer' a white vs minority lead actor. the first step to changing that is understanding the past - so it's kind of moot whether hollywood reflects or decides.

we can, of course, make a converse economic argument. if we "have more asians" then that changes what people think of movies / culture. the industry might make less in the short-term, but in the long-term, having more diverse casts on screen opens up more diverse markets, foreign and domestic.
Usually when people speak of 'permissive' open source licenses they mean noncopyleft ones including the Apache License 2.0. Do you define 'permissive' as meaning 'textually simple noncopyleft licenses'? (I sometimes use 'simple permissive' for this category.)
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Male monkeys like computers and female monkeys like princesses? That's literally literally the most absurd statement I've ever processed.
I guess I should have said "well enough." Would you personally pay for it?
Sounds like a recipe to have most of your cancellations be via chargeback.
There is actually a job title called "Fact checker" at newspapers. That's why people tend to trust high end newspapers like NYT over some random blog that just posts whatever they hear asap to get traffic. I doubt NYT plans on opening up their particles to any randos on the web. They already have great in house employees who can do this job very well.
> Looks to me like the powerful are doing a good job at keeping inflation above 0%

I've seen the opposite argument much more often: the rich and powerful are pressuring central banks to keep inflation too low to help with unemployment, because higher inflation hurts savers and helps borrowers. I don't buy the conspiracy theory in either direction, but the pro-inflation direction especially doesn't make sense to me.
How about "why are we so motivated to go out of our way to make these hard choices in the first place?"

I think that's what got people riled up about drones. More than anything it is a symbol of our foreign policy, and the individual lengths as a nation we will go through to "get what we want."
I always found it interesting that style tags were designed as <style type="text/css">, implying that new style standards could be introduced down the road.

(for a while I thought <script type="text/dart"> might get real… oh sweet naivety)
Polymer dude here. Some points:

- What's wrong with vulcanize (combines all your components into one single html file)?

- Polymer now offers Shared styles, so that you don't have to duplicate your css. And you can use BEM or what ever you like.

- Get ready for HTTP2 in a few years.