skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great stuff!

You're right about the data quality, it's a huge job and we have a fantastic team of people who work to keep the data up to date.

Another big challenge is trying to provide useful results in areas (especially remote areas) where we're either missing good data, or where there simply aren't any nearby services. Australia is a huge country and population density tends to be concentrated in a few places, but with a lot of smaller towns and cities scattered about, which can make finding geographically relevant results really difficult.

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there can't be a class action for each accident. If a company makes a self-driving car that keeps getting into a particular kind of accident, then sure - class action city. Same as if they create a non-self-driving car that keeps getting in a particular kind of accident. What's different?
I'm glad there are other Wisconsinites who don't give a shit about football. HELLO FRIEND

That said, those of us in Brown County still got stuck with a 0.5% tax hike to pay for the stadium on sales tax, which I wouldn't mind so much except it stuck around about 4 years longer than it was supposed to.

Being a resident close by I can attest to what the evidence says: The argument that stadiums augment the local economy is hoo-hah. The area around the stadium is more built up, sure, and plenty of businesses do well there but the vast majority of the money goes right into the Stadium and of course the NFL, the only exceptions being the local motels (which can't be doing that well, they all look like slum housing).

Honestly I'd pay the 0.5% tax hike forever if we got rid of the stupid thing and stopped locking up the Green Bay metro area every Sunday.

Edit: For the record, it's not the amount of the tax hike, I realize I'm bitching over pennies. It's the principle that I'm subsidizing an industry that makes so much fucking money they have no business getting tax breaks on toilet paper, let alone facilities like Lambeau Field.
Unions only come into existence because of capitalism. In a cooperative, the employees are the owners, so there's no such thing as a union.

The NFL is certainly not maximally-regulated, in that more regulations are possible.

But the key here is that corrupt corporate wealthy powerful people are always happy to claim that whatever they are doing to stay wealthy and powerful is actually based on some ideal whether that's socialism or capitalism or whatever. It's basically never true, of course.
So it's just like Wall Street, tax payers take the losses while the team owners take all the profits.

Brilliant, when will the so called "fans" comprehend this?
Here's an answer I found: Vidom (https://github.com/dfilatov/vidom)

It's faster than React or Angular 2 in one benchmark methodology: http://www.stefankrause.net/wp/?p=218
I think they sold the display ad business to AOL but kept the search ad business.
Thats why I am awesome, because I don't ever make smug comments. You should upvote me for it.
online consumer storage businesses are dead-ends; consumers will own data appliances in their homes that are as easy to use as a fridge, with massive symmetric piping, port control, redundancy, etc.
I've been here a long time, and I frequently think the same thing.
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Start with baseball. Season starts April 3. Football season ends this Sunday with the Super Bowl. You can pick up football in August.
That seems extremely anti-competitive. I wonder if that rule could be challenged.
Now hold the phone. Obama and a Democratic congress avoided that issue because it would have had ZERO traction with some huge campaign donors. That's still a mark against the administration, but it's also the reality of a government ruled first and foremost by capitalist lobbies and greed.

Second, left-wing price controls did not start the current healthcare model, empty hospitals beds, profit-based medicine, the great depression and WWII created employer-based healthcare [0].

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1140451...
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TL;DR: "We don’t believe it is possible to fully prevent the events that resulted in a large part of our infrastructure losing power, ..."

This doesn't sound very good.
No, not cocaine. That implies the end users are actually doing something socially undesirable.

A better analogy would be the government enforcing an import ban by adding sugar to the petrol imported from specific countries.
Always be willing to move on. Never, ever take your job for granted!
While I don't condone the 'personal attack', revoking his order because of it seems pretty childish.
The mountain view city council is largely controlled by homeowners. As a result, they are against anything that would impact home prices negatively, even if it would be a greater good. And they've also been trying to reduce the influence of google employees on the city, since they fear that too many google employees living in town could change the power structure of the city council itself and cause it to make decisions that don't optimize for home prices.

That means they actively fight projects that might actually be good for the city, like building high density housing on the eastern side of 101.
> In a fully autonomous car a driver is not making any decisions at all, so how can they be liable?

In a fully autonomous car, the owner is making decisions about maintenance, and in almost any case of claimed manufacturer's defect, distinguishing whether the cause is, in fact, a manufacturer's defect rather than a failure of maintenance will be important.

> The balance would certainly shift toward more suits against manufacturers.

Sure, because exactly the things that drivers-as-operators (rather than owners-as-maintainers) are now liable for would usually be the responsibility of the manufacturer. The amount of liability that represents is, to a close approximation, the cost of insurance coverage for the vehicle, so its essentially transferring the cost of drivers insurance to the manufacturer (who will roll it into the purchase price.)
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My favorite non-informative release notes are for MonkeyParking. An example: https://twitter.com/noahstewart/status/563539364177645568
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They have a vast number of human operated vehicles with extensive telemetry data: Street view cars.
> If you use Hiawatha you get A+ with out of the box settings.

Which means they set long HSTS by default, which will bite you quite badly if you're not ready yet for an irreversible HTTPS rollout. But yeah, A+ looks awesome on comparison tables, doesn't it?
The problem with basketball as a spectator sport is that the marginal importance of any particular small piece of the game is small, and predictable. There may be awesome feats of athleticism and skill, but they really don't count for a lot, and by the end of the game, you could remove any one (or more) of them and the result of the game would have been the same.

When you think about what makes, say, movies exciting, it's plot twists. And a basketball game has a very high change of having none -- the better team plays a bit better than the lesser team, and at the end of the game, they have a few more points.

For football, baseball, hockey, and soccer, there are far more plot twists.
No, it's not uncommon in the US. Almost everyone who owns a house has a $1mm+ umbrella policy as part of the standard homeowner's policy.

Edit: And I rent, so I bought an explicit $2mm umbrella policy, it's $267/year. That's a lot less than my car insurance, and a bit more than my renter's insurance.
@jfoutz - once your off employment insurance benefits, .gov doesnt 'count' you as 'unemployed'. You can look for work 24x7x365 and you are not officially 'unemployed', according to the gov.
The problem with git is that it's decentralized but has no model for automatic consistency. Which means we've basically ignored the issue in tooling.

That said we probably don't need to solve it - we just need a way to keep read remotes online that's separate from any one server. The DHT git project was a good move in the right direction.
Is there a significant difference between running a 1000-employee business vs. a 50 people company going after the same opportunity?

I like a lifestyle business, however if you can clearly go for a $10B instead of $30M while spending the same 10 hours at work and surrounding yourself with 10 times the amount of smart people, then why not.
> I don't think it's "ego-belief that you know better" if a business says "we want to ship things faster, let's try doing X" and you see that X actually slows things down to then say, "hey let's not do X, it actually slows things down."

No, it's not. What is is when they say no and you persist in your belief. They said no for a reason, not grasping that reason or willfully ignoring it is a function of ego.
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The difference is that in a fully autononomous car, every type of accident creates liability for the manufacturer.

In cars today only certain problems rise to the level of class action suits. Let's say a driver thinks there's a cat in the road and swerves and hits a tree. No lawyer is going to sue a manufacturer on contingency for that accident.

Now let's say a self-driving car does the same thing. Yes, a lawyer will take that case.
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The trouble with this is that it assumes very particular kinds of projects. For example, I once worked on a user-facing mobile and web application that did forecasting and prediction to dynamically steer students through online college course materials.

The portions of the app that were very "customer facing" were exactly as you describe -- things like the user interface, APIs for educators who made use of the tool, etc.

But the statistical modeling and "science" code at the core of it was completely different. You could not propose a series of step-wise changes that could be pre-planned over short-term horizons. You might propose something and after 12 days of working you might discover it was mathematically not going to work, regardless of engineering effort, and you could not have foreseen this (or at least our experienced team of stats people could not).

If you say something like "solve this hard cryptography problem" or "find a way to forecast X with Y% accuracy" or "determine an architecture that will boost performance by Z%" -- these questions are hilariously ill-suited to someone just pre-specifying a set of steps for a 2-week period. There's nothing magical about 2-weeks that implies you can always make meaningful progress on every problem in that time frame. Sometimes you can't, and the extra constraints of trying to pretend like you can and structure work like you can act as significant hindrances to the real processes of discovery underneath.

I agree this is somewhat rarer than the types of work that do fit neatly into 2-week chunks. But a lot of Agile evangelists want to politically recast the engineering efforts as if it's always that way, and that any request for more of a research approach to a problem must just be coming from whiny engineers who don't want to deal with real-world deadlines. And, predictably, this leads people to try to solve totally non-Agile-suited problems in rigid Agile-only ways, which ends up bad for everyone.
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But, see, chavismo got soundly thumped in the latest elections precisely because it didn't deliver. It delivered some relief of poverty for a time. But it didn't deliver nearly as much as people expected, as measured by the latest election response.
It's been great having you (and the team at REA) involved, thank you so much!
Absolutely! They do not mean big GUI based IDE when they say tooling. Infact this is why Go will remain unviable option to .net developers. Go is likely to be much more popular among dynamic languages users and even some Java developers who are tired of enterprisey bloat.
Or you can be like WhatsApp, write once in Erlang, and scale to a billion users just with OS-level tweaks.
Just echoing your platform difference comment.

I've noticed that the editor, with my load of plugins, comes up relatively quick on OSX (~4 seconds from launching, equally as long to open a new window), and roughly twice as slow on Windows (~8 seconds from click, ~3 seconds to open a window)

But, when I'm using it, I'm basically living in the app, so the startup time is really a moot point IMO.
Power outage brought 25% of servers down.

Firmware issue meant that a large fraction of their servers could not detect the disks on reboot.

This prevented the redis cluster from starting.

They inadvertently have a hard-dependency on redis being up for the majority of their infrastructure to start.
That's an interesting study. I'd be cautious at trying to create a one-line conclusion from it. It is, however, a fascinating full read, and not very long and not very technical, so I'd encourage people to read the whole thing.

Note the narrow demographic data and geographic data.
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Jeez, give me a break. I mean, honestly.
Anyone have a link to a description of the firmware bug that caused the disk-mounting failure after power was restored?
Had a tough time finding the statistic, maybe it has changed a bit since 2009 [1]. It seems like those uses are a tiny fraction of what we use oil for. Transportation is like 70% of the usage. 1 cent worth of lubricant turning into 10 cents worth of lubricant doesn't seem like a big deal when you buy a $10 electric motor.

Oil got expensive. People and industry got more efficient at using oil. Oil is cheap. who cares? we're much more efficient at using oil. The painful part is switching to 30mpg cars.

To put it another way, pre-boom you budget $100/month. gas gets expensive, and turns out to be $200/month. People carpool, or turn down the thermostat, or get a more efficient car, to get back to the $100/month budget. Gas prices, fall so under the new system it's only $50/month.[2]

That $50 is nice, but not as nice as that $100 was painful.

[1] http://alternativeenergy.procon.org/view.resource.php?resour...
[2] https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=E...
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Guessing it's 3 miles total. So roughly 1.5 hours each way.
> If you actually take the time to read the article, there's a section discussing the Java/Scala angle.

They claim this isn't about the length of code, yet they select the most verbose way to use Spark and proudly display how long it is.

I mean sure, lack of event-time based processing is known limitation of Spark (and a pretty annoying one - though it is supposed to be worked on) but there are ways to write about it without code made to look bad on purpose.

EDIT: come to think of it, this whole article is "spark streaming can't do event time" written in thousands of words with contrived examples attached.
The Saskatchewan roughriders do this as well. Its CFL though.
Maybe it's just me, but I first read the name as "ass-kissing" - intentional?

edit: to downvoters, I'm not trying to be funny here, surely that's potentially useful feedback?
Downcast has the best release notes I've ever seen. They tell you exactly what bugs are fixed where and specifically what new features were added. As long as people do the minimum, I have no problem with cute extras in the comments.
> Usually its just cheaper to be down for an hour or two, versus architect for the end of times

The opposite of this philosophy was the motivation behind creation of the internet in the first place.
If your plan to avoid downtime is to prevent power outages, you're going to have downtime. All their sentence says is they can't prevent power outages. That's fine, because the other 1/nth of your servers are on a different power grid in a different state.
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That is exactly why child labor laws were enacted. See e.g.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/citizenship/stru...

>We must remember that depriving families of income doesn't help them

I believe similar arguments were made in favour of slavery. That didn't work out so well either.

The best way to not deprive families of income is to... not deprive families of income.

It's an unusual world view that suggests that not working their children to death somehow gets in the way of this.
A team's fans could form a corporation which would be a single owner, but I'm sure the NFL would find a way around that pronto.
What are you talking about? .Net is compiled to native code on load. (Or earlier)
> Houston’s iconic Astrodome, once dubbed the Eighth Wonder of the World, sits empty a decade after the facility housed 25,000 evacuees of Hurricane Katrina and nearly 20 years after the Oilers left.

It's worth noting that the Astrodome sits in the NRG complex, next door to the NRG Stadium where the Texans play, and in the same parking lot as the NRG Center, where events like the Houston Livestock and Rodeo take place. Just this week they were planting grass outside of the Astrodome to beautify it for the upcoming Rodeo. (NRG Arena is in the same complex) In other words, it's not the isolated abandoned property that other properties in the article describe. (it's not finalized, but it will likely become a park to bridge NRG Center and Stadium)
At one point, ignoring the significant maintenance costs, you could buy a huge stadium in Detroit for less than my house is worth. A friend and I would joke about living in the corporate suites and raising livestock and crops on the interior field.
> I imagine these laws eventually will be overturned by the Supreme Court as contrary to the First Amendment.

Probably, and a case that may do that is already in the system; Idaho's ag-gag law has already been struck down by a Federal District Court, and a notice of appeal has been filed by the state with the Ninth Circuit. [0]

[0] http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2015/12/idaho-appeals-federal-...
Google allows pretty much anything, but no ad blockers? It's interesting reversal to have something available in the iOS App Store that's banned on Google Play.
I'm not familiar enough with Redis's clustering features to speak to the exact issues with what you're proposing, but generally speaking, HA is almost a completely different problem than disaster recovery (DR). Sure, the protocol is the protocol, but you wouldn't want to cluster local and remote nodes together for several reasons, primarily latency, security, and resiliency. Performance will suffer if they're clustered together and a single issue could take down nodes in both data centers, which kind of defeats the purpose.

What you really want is a completely separate cluster running in a different data center (site). It should be isolated on its own network and ideally it should have different admin rights/credentials and a different software maintenance (patching) schedule. A completely empty site isn't much use so you'll need some kind of replication scheme. Naturally, these isolating steps make site replication difficult. You might patch one site and now the replication stream is incompatible with the other site. (You can't patch both sites at the same time because the patch might take down the cluster.) Or whatever you're using to replicate the sites, which has credentials to both sites, breaks and blows everything up. You need a way to demote and promote sites and a constraint on only one site being the "master" at a time. What happens if network connectivity is lost between sites? What happens if one site is down for an extended period of time? Maybe you need a third, tie-breaking site?

Once you work through these issues, you are still exposed to user error. Your replication scheme might be perfect... perfect enough that that an inadvertently dropped table (or whatever) is instantly replicated to the other site and is now unrecoverable without going to tape. Maybe you introduce a delay in the replication to catch these oopsies, but now your RPO is affected. Anyway, it's a bit of a shell game of compromises and margins of error.

Source: 10 years designing and building HA/DR solutions for Discover Card.
Either they have a huge growth in number of fires, tickets, or features. None of those fit your image.
Football. But only if you like sports. If not, just forget it and tell people you don't watch.
The billionaire owners in the NFL socialize the costs of building stadiums, not paying cheerleaders, etc. but keep the profits for themselves. I wonder how little in taxes they pay.
I'm not a lawyer but can point to 1960's court rulings invalidating real estate covenants that banned homeowners from selling to Blacks, Jews, and Mexicans. The supreme court invalidated the convents by flatly refusing to enforce them. In short the court said 'not your personal army.' Meaning the courts weren't going to accept lawsuits attempting to enforce racially based covenants.

tl;dr: Courts don't actually overturn laws or contracts instead they refuse to enforce them.
Private company, go start yer own football league if you don't like it, etc.
If your accelerometer measures what Wikipedia calls "coordinate acceleration" it's something observer relative so I expect (waves hands) "problems" will arise with measuring in relation to your chosen reference frame at relativistic speeds.
I'm on your side of this one, but I think crdoconnor has a bit of a point.

I saw somewhere (the original article or a comment, I forget which) that people are limited to buying one chicken a week. That's not good... unless you couldn't buy any before, in which case it's a massive step up. Would getting that much protein in your diet (that you never could get before) be worth being unable to get toilet paper (that you also probably couldn't afford before)?

But I'm on your side of this one, because it turned out that chauvismo didn't deliver enough gain to enough people. It promised utopia, but delivered much less, even to the poor, at the price of destroying the economy. But don't minimize the value of what it delivered to the poorest of the poor.
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And yet, we have services who still don't waste the cost on having geographically disperse datacenters.
For those unfamiliar with how easy it is to get kerning wrong, I suggest this fantastic sub-reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/keming

I remember old terminal style fonts where pom would read like porn, and vice versa. Fun days.
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It's a League. The entire reason for its existence is to be anticompetitive (in business).
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On the bright side, you're in a better place now! I'm looking forward to seeing what you're doing at Hound.
>as Go offers basically no GC tunables.

This isn't actually true, Go has a single tunable: "GOGC"
https://golang.org/pkg/runtime/
The NFL got Congress to write them a specific exemption in the anti-trust laws, so it's very, very doubtful.