skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hm... Aren't SATs widely used for college admissions (not exclusively, of course, but if they were, I'd say the system is totally meritocratic)? I'm not saying it's the best indication of the kind of merit required to excel at the university, but it's probably one of the best we have (and definitely a better one than race or disadvantage - remember, we're favoring the disadvantaged so that they can improve despite them being worse, not because we believe SATs wrongly assess them as being worse (although there is some research that claims SATs systematically underscore women)). Also, in which way (relevant to university admissions or completion) are blacks better than whites/Asians?
Both the price of the final pre-IPO tender and the sale price I privately arranged were higher than the current public market price.
Excluding youtube spotlight and vevo channels, here are the most recent videos from the top five most subscribed youtube channels:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbRV-5NzL1I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D62HGy72HC0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUlu-TRFBlk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQHw0bSRBWc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WffxX74u48

Now, they're not bad or anything - but it looks to me like most of them are still one-person shows.
VR in 10 years, and AR 10 years after that.
Absolutely. The concept is known as disparate impact. A test which results in members protected classes being less likely to be selected is not allowed unless you can demonstrate that the test is connected to job performance. There is a famous case from the 70's where the company wasn't even allowed to require a high-school diploma: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co.
I see your point, but Two Sigma has been hiring aggressively...for years, it seems.
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In the medium to long run, I suspect criticism of Rust will be more along the lines of criticism of C++ – too ambitious, too many features, too hard to do simple things, too easy to do unsafe low level things – rather than along the lines of "lacks these features".
Douglas Tompkins built North Face with tents, poofy jackets and counterculture
I can add a little more to this. Before founding Two Sigma, Siegel co-founded an online bookmarking company - blink.com (http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising/iq-news-cool-tool-thi...). It was pretty good for its time, but ultimately died soon after the 2001 bust. He could probably have gone back to Shaw (or a similar fund) after that - which would have been the safe move - but, luckily for him, didn't.
+1 for "do not use joins"
"No, people choose my software over the others, over the free, yet they steal access to it ... because they can."

I think if you really took the time to analysis this situation an honest conclusion would be different than this. Personally I think the future model is going to be FOSS with upfront cost and you get source when you pay, or FOSS and service and support when you pay. FOSS is the future either way. I would like to emphasize since you seem to misunderstand some fundamental principles, that the F in FOSS stands for free as in speech, not as in beer. Of course us Americans value free speech more than most so it could also be a cultural difference.
You forgot the period in the title. ;-)
It could also be possible that most of the time violence is avoided, it is also due to moral sentiments.
Oh indeed. In fact I was thinking of Drake's defeat of the Spanish Armada as the thing that secured the preeminent position of naval power in English military strategy - and I think even most English people would cheerfully acknowledge that Drake was a pirate.
Do you have any citations to say that Quakers were particularly disposed to capitol punishment during the colonial era? While people of their time what I've been able to find indicates the opposite: [Who Should Die?: The Evolution of Capital Punishment in Pennsylvania, 1681-1794](http://preserve.lehigh.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2390&...)

The above seems to show that Quakers resisted the use of capitol punishment and its use increased as Quaker control of the colony waned.
This is right and wrong in the same time. Not sure which more.

Storing JSON as TEXT is great, but you really only query the data based on the mySQL index.

What if you need to query based on the site_data?

This is really not NoSQL this is just a key value store with a JSON object that is not even native type to the database, you will still need to parse back/forth.

What about updating the data? You need to get the object and then you need to parse it, change it and send it back marshalled to TEXT that MySQL can understand.

Even as a KV store, using MySQL simplifies a lot of things but there are MUCH better solutions out there.

[EDIT]
One other thing that this fails to mention is that TEXT in MySQL will in most cases go to disk to get the "document" which will be slower.

In Wix case, getting a website and having all the data available this is most likely not relevant, but if you want to get multiple rows at a time, this will become a consideration for you.
> I'm still not really sure if the latter isn't just a prank, or at least mostly post-recording CG.

The first video had a text disclaimer at the bottom of the entire video insisting that there was no post processing or CGI.

The second video did not.

I rest my case ;)
Nice work, chromatic!
Despite complaining about the Quakers below, I'd have to disagree here, too. It's possible to be too peaceful, but it's also possible -- and very easy and common -- to be too violent.

Being warlike enough to defend your society is one thing; being warlike enough to conquer neighbors who hate you, or to throw away lives and wealth in pursuit of glory, is something else. Sparta, Assyria, and the Aztec Empire didn't turn out so well, after all...
Has there been research into this? That's a really cool concept. It's something I'd like to look into, if anyone knows any references.
On the off-hand chance that anyone here is super obsessed with tea, I'm the founder and director emeritus of The Tea Institute at Penn State[1], and blog here: [2].

I now run a flavor profiling and quality intelligence company based off my research in the Institute.

[1] http://sites.psu.edu/teainstitute/

[2] http://cultofquality.com/
Yes, I noticed this several months ago when I switched to T-Mobile. Hoping this gains traction...
Adults occasionally grow a third set of teeth. Maybe it will someday be possible to trigger a person to grow a new set of teeth.
I don't know if they used capital punishment or not, and it sounds like they didn't; but _Albion's Seed_ talks of the Quakers using flogging, stocks, and the like in early Pennsylvania.
If this turns out to be the successor to smartphones, then these comments will look like people laughing at the Instagram acquisition.
The JSON datatype is only useful if you want to query on the blob, which is not the case in Wix's case.
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Why don't we listen to Occam's Razor when it comes to programming languages?
Repeatedly through the history of humanity, huge advancements came from the conception of simple systems that replaced complex systems. An example is the decimal system itself. It does essentially the same that roman numbers do, except much better, for being simpler. And that very fact opened doors for science to progress much faster, because we weren't busy spending evenings multiplying numbers. This is one of countless examples that show there is a great benefit in pursuing the simplest alternative.

When it comes to programming languages, we didn't learn that lesson. Each other day someone develops a new fancy programming language with X more features, not realizing that all those features are already present on the simplest languages. The λ-calculus - a 70 year old system - already does everything that all those do, simpler and faster (compiling to Haskell, it already runs an order of magnitude faster than the average Python program). We treat PLs like products, but in reality they're just mathematical objects. Imagine if each other day someone created a new fancy numeric system? Why, instead of designing hundreds of fancy, complex programming languages, aren't we focusing in studying how those features manifest on the simplest languages, and implementing faster evaluators for them?

Here is Euler's 1st problem solved on the Caramel syntax for the λ-calculus:

euler1 = (sum (filter (either (mod 3) (mod 5)) (range 1000)))
I'm excited about Swift but is there any reason someone who is not making money as an iOS dev but knows objective C well should drop everything in learn it (serious question)?

My initial opinion was swift does a lot of things much better, (no header files, new operators, etc.) but learning a new language takes a long time + it appears a majority of code is still in objC
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Multi-grid methods are of limited applicability. Out of the box, they work on linear systems with special structures. Conceivably you can extend it to all linear systems, but sparsity of matrix is a necessary condition.
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I believe that MySQL 5.7 comes with JSON data types too.

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/json.html
Probably could have made the same argument with Google and other large companies before Google IPO'd?
Issuers pay for fraud so I don't care about security. I don't need to have access to multiple cards. The phone is worth hundreds of dollars and if I have to futz with it at checkout there's a risk I will drop it. That risk is not worth it when I can pull a plastic card out of my pocket.

If I had the watch at least I wouldn't have to fish the phone or a card out of my pocket.
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Localization is all about edge cases, though. If you ignore edge cases, you'll ignore most world languages, after all.

By all means, make a guess at what language to use, but always allow the user to choose in case you guess wrong.
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Thanks for the thoughtful reply! Appreciate the work on performance, its essential and the main motivator to use Influx instead of Postgres.

I'll certainly revisit Influx once tsm1 is the default and backups are in :)

Re 0.8: As the other poster noted, I think it was related to histograms and/or derivatives - would have to go back to look.
Use the last version of MySQL 5.7 that supports JSON natively:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/json.html
I actually saw that post right after I wrote the one you just responded to. While it's definitely true, what makes it more awkward in Go is the necessity to translate back and forth between the "traditionally typed" and "unityped" dialects of the language. I'm not (only) referring to performance here, but ergonomics. Because javascript is unityped everywhere, a unityped implementation of those sorts of functions is natural, but because Go is mostly type-based, it is less natural and more boilerplate-y to pass and return `interface{}` everywhere. Nonetheless, it's a good point.
I'm not sure that I understand your point. It seems very reasonable to me to consider a raw HDFS as a type of NoSQL data storage mechanism, with other components of the Hadoop framework acting on top of it as query languages and other utilities.

Of course we can bikeshed all day and split hairs about the precise definitions, but in the spirit of pragmatism, I would absolutely put "Hadoop" as a form of NoSQL storage solution. In fact, I'd say the most distinct of the items mentioned is Redis, and Redis is the tool from this list that has use cases that tend to differ the most significantly from traditional RDBMSs (I'm thinking specifically cases where Redis is used as a buffering layer to help relieve congestion for a highly visited base data store). But even so, I still don't think it represents any sort of taxonomic error to put them all in the NoSQL category, at least for practical purposes.
The reason is probably that the market for blog editors disappeared when WYSIWYG editors became good enough for most people and wifi became common. The level of hassle "fat clients" in the space end up being (with crappy caches, blocking interfaces etc) is not offset by the tangible benefits of offline editing and marginally-better media support.

I'm not a great fan of the Blogger editor, but I've not found any modern alternative that can beat it so much to consider paying for it.
Good point. The Yazidis have done much the same in the Middle East; and I imagine the Jains must do something similar. Christianity before Constantine is probably also an example.
When we started with this use case, at 2008, PostgreSQL did not look so good. Today, to be honest, I'd probably try it for new projects, except for the vast experience with MySQL that we have at Wix
I guess this makes me a pedant, but it bothers me to see big O notation used as a shortcut for "within an order of magnitude." It would probably be fine if everyone on HN had taken an algorithms class and knew the formal definition. In reality, a lot of people here are still learning what that capital O thing means, and if they see it used as "within an order of magnitude" we're doing them a disservice. (As someone who wormed their way into the field without a CS degree, I had to learn it on the job, so maybe it matters more to me than it should.)

The point you were making, however, is well taken. There's just no way for us to know what patent-related assets are involved in a deal like this.
Even assuming a perfect, fair algorithm with perfect input (not like fake reviews you can find on Amazon/Yelp posted by your PR team or your concurrents).

The fact venturebeat only shows Tech company makes it a bit better than the original ranking since it's at least comparing Apples to Apples: On the original ranking the fast food chain In-N-Out, or grocery store HEB is a better place to work at than Apple, or Microsoft (not even in the top 50 in that list)

But even, a startup and a tech giant shouldn't be on the same list.

The ranking can be found here:
https://www.glassdoor.com/Best-Places-to-Work-LST_KQ0,19.htm

EDIT: Also presenting best companies to work on 1 dimension is somewhat useless. Glassdoor probably weighted Salary, Flexibility of hours, career opportunities, etc. their own way. A better ranking would let you weight the different options yourself, or at least give you the option of a few presets weights: Best place for 'workaholics', best place for family people, best place for career growth, etc.
That MSIE image shows exactly what's wrong with this approach. The message is far too general. It should say something like

the browser attempted to make a secure connection to ...
but the browser and the website were unable to agree
on the protocol ...

Saying "click the refresh button" doesn't help in this situation, and the browser knows it.

I'm not a UI expert. Someone smarter than me would doubtlessly phrase it much better than I did. The point is, the error message should be much more specific than it is.
_Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America_. The book has a whole chapter on "Quaker Order Ways," complete with stocks and flogging.
From experience this is a direct result of the long term campaign to "cut healthcare costs" so it pays to deny care and it pays to kill people off in middle age then the government walks off with the social security tryst fund one victim at a time.
Does anyone have a real, globally accepted NoSQL definition yet?
Don't take the bait. He's just trolling.
I did an extensive survey of NoSQL databases recently and for my particular requirements Postgres ended up being the best choice. I examined MySQL too in this particular survey. Can't remember why but its JSON handling didn't meet my needs.

Every time I consider alternative databases -and I've done so several times in the past ten years - I do a thorough examination and the answer always seems to come back to Postgres. I'm not a particular Postgres fanboy but the answer just ends up at the same place.
The real irony of that example is that game consoles would be one of the secure methods of communication that would persist if encryption somehow disappeared. Messages can be sent by in game actions which are very difficult to monitor, even if unencrypted.
Python 3 support please
I've experienced this time and time again. Postgres is an outstanding database for most use cases. I also love all the enhancements it has been getting over the last twenty four months.

If you haven't considered Postgres before, definitely check the project out.
I was wondering, what would happen if the algorithm create an existing riff and use it in a composition? Gotye use a riff from "Luiz Bonfá - Seville" in "Somebody I Used to Know" and it costs him 1M$
I have to wonder whether morality is the motivation for violence, or just the rationalization of an act that was actually motivated by something else. This would probably be really hard to distinguish, since all we have to go on is why people said they did things, which could just as easily be their true motivation or their post-hoc rationalization.

If two people are stranded on a desert island with only enough food for one person, one of them is going to die one way or another, and they're probably not going to wait and see who starves first. But when the lone survivor is finally rescued, there's a pretty good chance they'll have convinced themselves that the other one deserved what they got. That doesn't make it an act of morally justified violence. (Yes, this is an obviously idealized and unrealistic scenario, but you get the point.)
It is also the scientists who are right...
Indeed. The whole page seems surprisingly... reasonable.
Outlawing encryption in impractical for a whole number of reasons. But what the government wants is a situation where encryption is only available to sophisticated users. That means no default encryption on phones or apps, for example.
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Self-interest is not a well defined concept. The notion of self is not somehow objective or immutable. Describing someone's self-interest is just another framework for describing the same underlying system that morality and all that is trying to describe. There is a bit of circularity when one tries to make self-interest an essential feature of brains:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_egoism#Circulari...

In cases like extreme nationalism, the zealot has essentialized the nation-state into their identity and is thus acting in their 'self-interest'. If one defines self-interest as interest in the health and reproduction of the body, then humans are emphatically not drive solely by self-interest.
sometime in the future, Apple will begin releasing swift-only APIs. it's unclear that one should "drop everything", but swift usage will only increase in the future. in addition, as a company, it will become difficult to hire new people if you don't try to move to swift at some point.

ymmv, of course. i'm new to iOS land and i write objective-c exclusively during my day job. that being said, the difficulty in iOS development (in my experience) is not in the language, but the APIs, abstractions, and patterns - and they are the same regardless of whether you're using swift or objective-c
I'm going to question your knowledge of the domain immediately when your solution to a problem is to take away all of the advantages of SQL without any of the benefits that Cassandra or Redis provide.

To me this is akin to saying we don't need Haskell because Java now has lambda expressions.
The route to revert language must be clear though, even when the UI is in a foreign language.

This can be trickier than it sounds. For instance, selecting English from a Japanese UI should be "English" not 英語. Conversely, from English to select Japanese has to be 日本語　not "Japanese".
I'm sorry but you're disagreeing with a point different than the one I made. Of course it's bad science to have your idea reviewed by an echo chamber that all agree with you. I was saying that I think it is not uncommon.
Guernsey and Jersey are independent countries that have an agreement with the crown of England that has been in place for hundreds of years. They are under no obligation to placate your current government or adhere to their wishes. They have their own elected governments that suits them better.

Yes they get some benefits from that agreement such as military protection which didn't help them much during WWII where they became occupied by Germans.
I worked at a company with ~200 people in HQ. We were often encouraged to vote in "Best place to work" contests.
Python 3.3+ support via changes to python codebase and ability to specify python version via ./configure.
Now that the cold war is over its basically open season on all working people around the world. But for the ruling class its a double win save on healthcare via denial of treatment while confiscating the majority of people's life long social security.
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Where "sin" means essentially not being Christian enough, I am skeptical that the correct diagnosis for violence is "sin" when people who identify as Christian do not seem especially less likely to commit violence than people who identify as adhering to some other worldview with moral entailments. Frankly, if you want everyone else to believe that Christians are less violent than people of other religions, you have to bring data rather than just saying that "sin" (non-Christianness) is the cause.
That is an appeal to tradition, and it a fallacy. It isn't moral for advertisers to do harmful things to users just because most advertisers do it.

Most scientist do not do harmful things to their subjects. Modern science requires consent. So your fallacious argument, even if it weren't, fails to argue correctly in the first place, because scientists aren't advertisers.

Facebook study was done without consent. It was harmful to their users (subjects) because it interfered with their emotions. It is immoral.

The outrage might seem ridiculous, from the perspective of an advertiser, because, as you said, they do worst things all the time, so this study is hardly appalling for them. But from the perspective of other people, it is.

I hope this gave you an insight into (our) reaction to the study.