skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Faster to load, but expensive to support. Using the same font everywhere cuts down on a lot of cross-browser layout bugs which stem from different fonts on different systems.

I use web fonts everywhere and can't imagine trying to build any kind of layout relying on system fonts alone. When doing CSS I have to use a giant wishlist like this to try to target a 'nice' font on each system:

font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Open Sans", Roboto, "HelveticaNeue-Light", "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", "Myriad Pro", "Segoe UI", Myriad, Helvetica, "Lucida Grande", "DejaVu Sans Condensed", "Liberation Sans", "Nimbus Sans L", Tahoma, Geneva, Arial, sans-serif;

Or I could supply the font via @fontface and know it looks identical everywhere :)
I read it as saying Postgres is better than commercial databases.
Because a lot of software vendors use SQL Server for their backend, so now you can have a choice to run on Linux. It is major league annoying to have to use Windows Server if your backend is mostly Linux, etc.

I dearly hope the SmartOS and FreeBSD folks can make it work on their respective platforms.
The user needs to learn more than in Java:

1) Learn to deal with a language which has an infinite number of syntactic abstractions.

2) Learn the typical patterns of syntactic abstractions (WITH- , BIND-, DEF- ...).

3) Learn how to write your own abstractions.

Then groups will settle on common (!) Lisp patterns. See for example:

https://common-lisp.net/project/alexandria/

There are lots of libraries which provide language extensions, which are used by many people.

The extremes in Lisp are then:

* no syntactic abstractions -> the power of Lisp wasted

* using those syntactic abstractions which are approved by user groups, due to inclusion into libraries

Above choices are relatively conservative.

As another extreme, it is fully possible to change the language - but then Common Lisp provides more than macros to do so. See for example reader macros, CLOS MOP, customs evaluators/compilers, code walkers, ...
Anti-drug laws plainly violate human rights. And so they breed general disrespect for the law.
> If I'm in a physical community where the loudest, and most controversial members are making it a terrible experience for people inside and outside that community, and the leaders refuse to deal with it, I think a fair assessment is that the community is toxic.

While I disagree that 4chan is "toxic" in many ways it is representative of society in the way that twitter represents a fleeting incomplete thought.

What you have said maps near perfectly to the state of America. While politicians have totally fucked up the country, it is somewhat bleeakly obvious that these same dynamics are at play here.

So if you are American consider that you are in a physical community where the loudest, and most controversial members are making it a terrible experience for people and that they have chosen leaders that mirror their own desire to * refuse to deal with it, which unfortunately leaves us with the unpleasant assessment is that the community is toxic
May not have been as hard to port as you all think. SQL Server was a port of Sybase, which was *NIX based anyway
Thanks, I feel dumb and I feel it is dumb design. I should've known, and did figure it out eventually, but that won't pass the grandma test, and yes, it is a CLI tool, but so what. If a wanna be developer can't figure it out, the cli tool may have just as many different conventions from other cli tools as well.
There is SQL Server Express though it has a 10GB limit
Ah, alright, thanks!
I disagree. As one example, Apple ships Time Machine with their OS. With ZFS you could theoretically implement the same thing only better. Automatic snapshots enabled by default, with optional replication to an external hard drive for backup, could easily be a headline feature for a new version of Ubuntu. Not to mention ZFS compression enabled by default to get more use out of tiny laptop SSDs.

Certainly not everyone needs it, but I think there's a definite use case for ZFS (or btrfs, or any similar filesystem) on an ordinary desktop system, even if the user doesn't know what ZFS is.
Devil's advocate: If your drug use results in you losing your job and becoming dependent on welfare, you will be a burden on society and the rest of us will have to pay more taxes to provide you with health care and treatment.
Does the server have access to the linked server's statistics?

http://www.benjaminnevarez.com/2011/05/optimizer-statistics-...

> To create the best query plans when you are using a table on a linked server, the query processor must have data distribution statistics from the linked server. Users that have limited permissions on any columns of the table might not have sufficient permissions to obtain all the useful statistics, and might receive a less efficient query plan and experience poor performance
it's not "just wrong". On the contrary, it is asymptotically true. In a world of abundant data, that matters.
The link is to a "Wagbee Ideas" workspace in wagbee. There is no demo version, so using this discussion workspace as an example of shared spaces.
Oracle runs on Linux. Oracle is a member of BSA. If you use oracle on Linux you are still subject to audits. Why would this be any different for Microsoft.
Definitely agency model pricing, it even says on the page "This price was set by the publisher".
Yeah, I'm talking 10k+, so this is only specific types of applications. In basic benchmarks, ZFS seemed to perform fine well into with 10s of thousands of snapshots. This is still far more snapshots than basic containers will create, so it's really only a problem for situations where you're doing tons of checkpointing.
Well presumably SQL server is written in C++ talking to Windows APIs. The Windows APIs aren't present on Linux except through projects like Wine and presumably that is not the basis of this code.
So would it be correct to say there's an emphasis on immutability and idempotency and a capability for heterogenatity across cloud computing platforms?
KairosDB: Fast Time Series Database on Cassandra
I think it's just a criticism that health often are made with corporate interests in mind (see: the tobacco industry), which don't care about people's wellbeing, but rather about stock valuation.
The site has a list of sponsors:

http://tyler4tech.com/sponsors.html
Should we throw the addict in jail then? How about the mentally ill? They have as little control over themselves as the addict does. Shall we throw them in jail too?
spoiler alert: they end up only using them in one place. And switched to Gooogle fonts.
I agree with what you've said, though I tend more toward the liberal side. I'd point out though that "not exceeding OTC drug toxicity" is a very low threshold: just a few more acetominophen tablets or asprins than recommended can induce acute liver failure. This is exacerbated if you also drink alcohol. It's one of the most common forms of poisoning and the top cause of acute liver failure in the US.

It's not easy to accidentally overdose on a drug when it's sold in standard doses, especially if dosage information is presented honestly. The government's position on drugs only serves to increase the rate of overdose among the population using them.
Human Rights are arbitrary. So, the only question is what people agree that it means; making this a rather circular justification for anything.

EX: Is breathing air free from pollution a human right?
They certainly realized it many years ago, but they also sold the major competing OS. I'm sure it was a huge battle with the Windows Server team to get this done.
Does it cost a billion dollars to bring a new flavor of Linux to market?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cost-to-develop-ne...
They don't need to know anything about it, all they see is the shiny FB Connect -> new account button.
Python: `with` Context Managers
It's not difficult to mimic overlapped IO using a thread pool, and not that much less efficient either, assuming the pending request count is quite low
I think so too, but if even providing a script is too far then just provide an easy mechanism to preload kernel modules before the installer runs.

It seems like literally something as simple as defining an extra directory on the installation medium for which all files will be loaded into the kernel at startup. Or allowing the installer to be started from a live environment, so you could download/build sources and load the module and then start installation.

Perhaps it can't be Canonical who actually writes and maintains the script, but it seems like a problem you could hack around fairly easily while maintaining plausible deniability.
"It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission." - Grace Hopper
Great interview for a great PLOS ONE article! Many thanks!

My take away is that this is what the so-called Systems Biology / in silico Biology ppl have been talking about for the past 10 years or so. Unfortunately the drug discovery industry has its own systematic problems as A) most major biopharma are run by MBA/lawyers/D. Pharm, (this is why M&A / tax inversion / outsourcing have higher priority than basic R&D); B) from A the basic R&D (left along Systems Biology) are on the chopping block for cost cutting; C) and it's hard for Bio Data Hacking companies to survive in the past 10 years or so. Most bioinformatic companies are either out of business or being absorbed. The Entelos the authors mentioned actually went through IPO, relisting, chapter 11 and recapitalization.

So my question would be how these road blocks could be overcome before in silico biology could contribute more to the drug discovery process for a better "compass"?
I don't see the problem here. No one lost their jobs because of this. If anything something that worries Trump, money flowing out of the US to China, came back and was invested in the US to generate jobs.
Why is it sad? Doesn't that mean that the company's ability to circumvent regulations is proportional to the consumer's lack of value for those regulations + willingness to purchase the product at the cost and rate necessary?

Otherwise, the underlying assumption is that regulations on industries are always in the best interest of the market, even when the industry changes OR that regulations change fast enough to adapt to the market. Both of these, I think, are demonstrably false.
Touching piece, but there's no inherent reason why you can't have social bonding experiences over good coffee as opposed to shitty coffee. I've had my fair share of long/deep chats at "hipster third-wave coffee shops." The author is feeling a nice pang of nostalgia, and that's totally OK, but it doesn't constitute a "case" for bad coffee.

Sometimes, convenience (how late is the store open?) and ambiance (is it a nice place to sit and chat/read?) (and price) matter more than the quality of the coffee. But if you can have convenience and ambiance, why not also have a high quality drink?
seems like an encryption escrow service could meet 90% of use cases for a lot less costs. I digitally sign and timestamp then encrypt data upload it to web service and make it available to others.
Show HN: Skizze – High-throughput probabilistic data structure service
How long ago does land have to be stolen for it to be recognized as belonging to the new owner? If you show that I have your family heirloom (but in no way show I was the one who took it, that question is still open), how long must I have held onto it for it to be mine?
Here it is the DOJ ruling [0]. The link comes from this blog [1]

> The iBook store didn't exist before, so Jobs had to win the publishers somehow, that means that all had to agree to some model that would be favorable to them and certainly more favorable than Amazon's.

They forced the model TO ALL the stores

[0] http://dearauthor.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Cote-Decisi...

[1] http://dearauthor.com/features/industry-news/thursday-news-j...
"Why do I need a wife when the man next door has one?" -Furry Lewis, blues singer.
"Why do I need to code social functions when TapGlue has it already." -app developer
Absolutely, and bravo to the officer. If you are ever unsure, pull the plug. The safest computer is one turned off.
Big launch: Foster.report.
In the early 1900s, the Ford Motor Company did home visits with workers' wives. They offered nutritional advice, and coached women to discourage their husbands from drinking. Why? Higher productivity, of course. Ford and other corporations supported Prohibition, for the same reason. Unions were generally against Prohibition, as a human rights issue (not in those words, of course).
"Lawyerly cosplay" ROFLMAO
Marijuana is demonstrably less harmful than alcohol. It being illegal is flat out insane and can have no explanation other than ignorance, stupidity, or malice.

Or regulatory inertia, or differing priorities, or effects you don't recognize / didn't account for, or...
I am incredibly excited. This is the first step towards a docker version of SQL Server which for our company would enable us so many options to improve developers lives. Even if we stay with Windows for production SQL deployments, this will make development awesome.
I was at a linux and open source focussed conference once and a speaker started talking about the future for their FOSS office software. I think it was going to be some multimedia or video something or other but I turned off. It was already bloated enough and it still was missing functionality demanded by people coming from other platforms. At the time my wife couldn't get it to do some basic job the market leading product could do and a feature request had been outstanding for several years to implement that feature.

Firefox needs to keep up with Chrome. Then when they have done they need to get better than Chrome. Then when they have done that they can provide a development environment better than Chrome. Then they can try and take market share back from IE and Chrome. Then they can make a purely Rust based next gen browser that is more secure than any other browser. And perhaps they can produce a ChromeOS competitor which has a decent IMAP mail client (I would buy that).
The biggest reason to buy an Model S is to project an image, which is, I'm rich and into technology.
That's what a blockchain is, but without you.
Scroll down on this page for more information on client drivers: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/sql-server-on-l...
> It will never happen.

Some people probably said that about the .NET framework. Now almost all of it (the new stuff anyway, and minus Visual Studio) is fully open source.
How Steam key reselling is killing the little guys
Alcohol is just as much an outlier in terms of social problems as those you listed.
Ah, nice... Is this the compiled, "All KCRW" music list (outside of MBE?). Mine is meant just to cover MBE, not "all the stuff", trying to understand where your tracklists are built from -- are you building them on the fly/programmatically based off historical/most played data? For instance, your Fri 3/4/16 playlist doesn't seem to have the MBE playlist in there, but maybe I'm missing something? Cool stuff either way, actually found yours via Google while researching my own ;)
Does MS-SQL have anything like PostGres' Bidirectional replication?

Also, Postgres is missing multiple result sets, which Sql Server seems to have, right?
I always associate them with creating latency and slowness. Maybe your reason is why I associate them that way.
I wonder what you'd say about Gnu software. It's free, it's good, it comes with an agenda. Yet it doesn't seem to have prevented competitors or innovation in the slightest.
I ask if it is useful to others: the answer is probably no. In a group of 100 people at random, I am not the best one at breaking down complex subjects, nor the most likely to be a cultural pioneer, so the utility to others would be low. I ask if it would be useful to myself: the answer is no. I write for myself, in a way that is useful to myself, but not to others. I think the blogging provides a lot of leverage to superior writers, and is probably a wasteful distraction to the other 99%.
Maybe it really is true that upholding our current economic structure is a violation of human rights? As Proudhon said, "Property is theft!"[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_is_theft!
I think it's mostly to discourage theft.
In some way, yes, the state belongs to the component itself, because in the end the component is an object and objects encapsulate that state as long as they are alive.

The beauty of "stateless" components is that you can see them as functions, and should aim to create them as pure functions[1] where the only thing that can change the output (HTML) of your component/function is its input.

Another way to see it is as syntactic sugar for pure functions where instead of:

MyMenu.render({name: 'Something', open: false});

MyMenu.render({name: 'Something', open: true});

You have

var menu = new MyMenu({name: 'Something', open: false});

menu.render();

// Then change the state:

menu.setOpen(true);

menu.render();

// Or maybe

menu.open(); // which calls setOpen and render

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_function
I doubt it, but since Mercola didn't link me to their meta-study I can't find the reference directly. It's not the JAMA link that was in the OP.
> The individual shouldn’t be required to prove that these substances are risk-free, because few things in life are—rather it should be up to the state to prove, with scientific evidence, that the risks justify the damage to our civil liberties. In the absence of that, it is impossible that say that this is truly a free society.

It's fascinating that the European Convention on Human Rights has a section on freedom of thought. That is such a radical idea, especially in the face of the strength of tradition in Western countries.

Looking at this problem from the 6-dimensional moral foundation theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_foundations_theory#The_s...), I see the main factors holding these drugs hostage to be the particularly conservative values of deference to authority (they're bad because they're illegal) and the desire for group purity (only criminals and bums use drugs, not us good people). A good place to start is what Walsh outlines, scrutinizing the implications for liberty that these prohibitions have. I think wider public discourse would move us closer toward more rational laws. If people see that normal, well-adjusted, successful people (Silicon Valley kids, how's that microdosing going?) use drugs without problems, and also hear from people in authority that they are safer than believed to be in the past, we might make leeway. We have to figure out how to hit as many of those six dimensions as possible to move things forward.
There's a famous 1410 lawsuit about that: http://www2.samford.edu/%7Emedebow/Schoolmasters.html
One possible advantage the "harder" sciences have is that another study that builds on the previous one can in some ways act as a replication.

If I publish something claiming bacteria has a gene X that produces phenotype Y, then a subsequent study that transfers gene X into a different bacteria must also observe Y. Otherwise something is fishy, and often the second set of researchers will go back and reexamine the original result.

It's rare that work in science is directly, point for point replicated, it's unsexy, expensive work. The fact that the harder sciences have somewhat of a built in control mitigates but by no means eliminates the risk of bad science surviving.

I can't think of an analogous process in the softer sciences. Seeing if a phenomenon is replicated in a different context does not implicitly re-test the original work in the same way.
Ask HN: Are you looking for a co-founder?
Do you have an idea and want to make a new startup or maybe any kind of business, looking for specific profile for co-founder or just exchange of idea, mention that in a comment, (It could be cool if this would run on regular basis).
I honestly never hear anything about Adobe. MS seems strikingly average and Twitter seems like a place I wouldn't want to work.
A lesson in bad UX, or perhaps just bad editing: Nowhere in the article is the abbreviation MBTA expanded. I shouldn't have to guess at or Google for your article's main actor.
As far as I've heard from Netflix's end the bottom line cost was not as big a factor in their infrastructure decisions as their content contracts were a much larger % of their budget. I suspect Google wants to highlight more the fact that it works and works well rather than highlight cost competitiveness at the moment.

thanks for the post @dmytton.

not sure if it's accurate It'd be lovely for Spotify or Google to chime in.
drugs do not necessarily cause addiction. I would be ok making drugs illegal to addicts (including alcohol).
It won't be generally available until mid-2017.

I've built a Rails app atop a large legacy SQL Server, and I really haven't run into anything that wouldn't run. (aside from `rails db`)
It's heart breaking watching the UK walk further and further away from liberalism.
In short, this paper calls for "Do more math on the front-end of the pipeline."

The core issue is that CEOs of biopharmas aren't compensated as such, so if you were to go to one with mathematical techniques that would take 3 to 6 months to run, (Combining research, bioinformatics, and diff EQ) they would look at you like you're crazy because the timeline and their incentivization is skewed toward not failing a trial.

Trials exceed CEO lifetime, and that's one core issue as to why pharma development isn't done this way today.
FWIW, I would take the strong stance that it damn well should be.
My favorite part is when people endorse me for stuff I am sure they have never seen me do. Most of my endorsements are waaay outside of my core skills which just makes the whole skill thing look really silly.
One important point that people tend to ignore/forget: every dime of income after salaries and expenses counts as a distribution for tax purposes, even if the money stays in the company bank account. Shareholder/member distributions are not taxable events.
Cited as "silum" in capitulare de Villis (8th century).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitulare_de_villis
Yeah I am the same. If I force myself to write on a topic I will reread it after a week or two and then disagree/dislike it.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1011382-responsive-d...

That evidence is widely available. If you want more, just search for it. This training manual should get you started.
See earlier comment by me.
I know a $300k paycheck at Netflix wouldn't be very unusual for highly skilled cloud engineers.
I hope it continues. I've been caught in a bind twice in my career when Microsoft offered their product on a non-Windows platform and once it started to develop critical mass, the platform was dropped in favor of Windows only. (FoxPro being one example.)

I obviously have no idea what went into the decision, but it felt like it was an attempt to get people committed to the product then strong arm them to Windows.

Even today, for mainstream products like Excel, they still hold back key features from a major platform like OS X. (E.g., https://support.office.com/en-GB/article/Compare-Excel-2016-...)
I can certainly entertain the suggestion of an antipropertarian society. I don't actually think it would work, but at least it's an intellectually consistent political philosophy, unlike most modern takes on democratic socialism.
Hmm...except that I would guess search should do one thing well -- searching. Which, incidentally, using --name-only and/or regex, it does.