skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's all about finding the right tool for the job. For most, this audience especially, open source relational databases are the way to go. For a lot of big business and government jobs, Oracle and Microsoft are the way to go and having your preferred ops environment makes a big difference. At my first job we had to maintain an Oracle DB connection to pull data directly from the City of Los Angeles. At the end of the day we were out of business without that so we didn't really debate the merits of using it. That job happened to be a Windows shop anyway (most of the company were CAD artists using Architecture software) so it didn't phase the IT ops team.

On the other hand, at my current job I've been in charge of some search tech that's Windows only and being the lone Windows user has been a bit painful. We liked the results it gave us but recently developed our own algorithms on top of ElasticSearch so we didn't have to deal with Windows anymore. The Dev work to switch was more than the cost saved on the license for the old software, so this wasn't a case of open source saving is money on the solution implementation. We really just didn't want to focus on Windows Dev ops. I think this is the concern the SQL Server team had and why they're supporting Linux, especially in Microsoft's increasingly Azure focused world.
No I am not joking.

I don't get any spam from them. I get info on messages, people viewing my profile and things like that. This is actually stuff I want.

Besides that I don't get any spam from them.
I too am excited, as I was faced with the challenge of building a rails app with a SQL server database backend. Sure there is a solid adapter, but it wasn't perfect, and we couldn't effectively run tests on it.
> The door is already open - nVidia's graphics driver is closed source.

The situation with the nvidia driver relies on the part of the API that the Linux devs have claimed is not GPL. When nvidia wants more API, the Linux devs have pushed back against that:

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/10/11/1918251/alan-cox-to...

I don't know how this compares to ZFS. But regardless, there's another thing at play here, the method of distribution. Nvidia doesn't ship Linux together with its blob. I think that if nvidia did that, we would have a situation more analogous to ZFS + Ubuntu.
Same ... I genuinely looked at the calendar, while thinking to myself "It's still March isn't it??"
When was the last time you were in the office of a medium or large company that did NOT have an AD domain?
Which is clearly nonsense. Multiple values have been extremely useful and there are several code bases in Common Lisp which make extensive use of it.
Right. Deterrence. Set an example. All that :)
Skype on Linux seems to have different experiences for different people. For example it is rock solid for me, and always works well. I don't remember any crashes. But it also essentially never gets updated.

I have colleagues on Windows, Mac and iOS where skype is getting updated, but it mostly seems to frustrate them by having an unpleasant user experience. Just today I was sharing my screen but they couldn't actually find it in the skype user interface!

This is Microsoft's business to lose. But network effects mean you have to keep more of the audience satisfied because excluding people means they take themselves and those they interact with away to an alternative.
0.001%.

Is there any reason why Verizon would even bother to comply??

Just wait and see what happens if you get another suit that penalize you 0.01%, then comply.

I'm being sarcastic of course.
not gonna happen, office is pure client technology
For actual spammers yes. Linkedin isn't a spammer in that category.
Thanks. I should have just read the wikipedia article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy

> Quinn's former boyfriend, published the "Zoe Post", [...] The post was linked on 4chan,
Behind the Scenes: The Secret of Drafting Stephen Curry
I think you're better off setting up a page on meetup.com

This is not how HN works.
By the time you win, you've lost.

Nicely put. I'll note that phrase down for future use.
Oooh, I can't wait to ignore Microsoft products on Linux as well!

PostgreSQL for me thanks.
It will never happen. Somebody needs to pay those engineers who build SQL Server. Maybe when relational databases are a commodity and everything is NoSQL?
Where's South Park?

edit: oh, next to South Beach, never mind.
There is deep brain stimulation that plants electrodes deep into the brain to create a field there. The results are pretty reproducible: Turn on stimulation, Parkinson patient can walk, turn it off, he can't walk. That at least is evidence that the brain responds to electrical fields.
I wish we could create a "Galt's Gulch" and quarantine all the toxic individuals/entities who believe that the rules don't apply to them. They would be free to "cut corners" and "win" to their hearts content only amongst themselves.
Hey, great write-up. Do you have the collection of stories posted somewhere? It'd be interesting to have a look.
They've known Linux was an important enterprise platform for decades - they just didn't want to admit it openly or contribute to its success.
Sad then that fines like this could totally be calculated into the cost of business
"Authentic" psychology is definitely not just an "observational writing exercise." There's this weird…meme…that psychology is just sitting around nattering about feelings.

Some psychology experiments are undoubtedly crap, but there are also a lot of carefully-designed and well-analyzed experiments, many of which actually are casual.

Consider the vast amount of work that has gone into characterizing the visual or auditory system. In a typical experiment, subjects are shown a set of stimuli and asked to make judgements about them (e.g., "Is A brighter than B?" or "Have you seen C before?"). These results are then used to investigate the factors that affect these judgements. These experiments are definitely casual (the experimenter controls the stimulus). Empirically, these results do generalize across subjects and subpopulations and, in many cases, can be tied back to physical properties of the brain. For example, we knew that there were three color sensitive photoreceptors from behavioral data, long before the S, M, and L cones were actually identified.

tl;dr: It hasn't been 1920 for a long time.
Nolo books are really good in my opinion.

I got a degree in Finance so I'd know what to do if I ever made money :-)

Looking back it seemed overkill, but maybe it wasn't. S-Corp has it's disadvantages as well (essentially requiring a salary, etc) and can't do things a C-Corp can (plus you have to wait for it to get accepted, which depending on when you start and file, can screw a year's returns up). I've had all 3. LLC is by far the easiest and probably the right choice 95% of the time IMO.
Linkedin is sending bulk email to people who have not opted in and who have not confirmed the opt in.

That's pretty much the definition of spam. It's unsolicited, it's bulk, it's email.
"Ignore pedants who would deride your pragmatic use of technology as heretical or immoral."

That sounds like bad advice.
That is exactly how I got my current job and how I continue to use linkedin too. It's extremely effective. 3+ recruiters a week, just let em know that now is not a good time but in the future. Network grows and more recruiters hit me up per week. Offers quite a bit of mental security knowing I have an army of recruiter contacts waiting to do my bidding so I can say fuck you to my current job if I wanted.
I think it was more about a certain bone/bald headed CEO being stubborn.
First and foremost, congratulation and good luck.

You sorely need a free tier, with limited emails or less features (say for example, no referrals).

This is the second try of this kind I see on HN and I think there definitely is a market space to fill for this kind of service. But for something so simple (many people just use the free tier of mailchimp to set up a basic subscription form) you probably need to invest massively into a free tier to get the word of mouth out.

Also: a live demo would be nice.
Yep. But when something goes wrong and you're 80 feet underwater, panic is not far away, and is really risky, since the panic response is unlikely to be the safe thing to do when deep underwater. So anything I can do to become acclimatized to problems is a win.
There's several features that make Arvados unique.

* The content addressed storage system references hashes all data so you can unambiguously reference an immutable data set, similar to git but capable of handling huge invidual files (hundreds of gigabytes) and scaling to petabytes.

* Every compute job is recorded in a database with hashes identifying the inputs, Docker image, and outputs, so re-running past jobs is easy.

* Designed to federate multiple instances, to support both "hybrid cloud" setups within an organization, and allowing different organizations to share data.

These are all features that are particularly important to the bioinformatics community, but solve problems that are common to lots of informatics big data problems.
I'm probably jumping into shark filled waters considering the point of the article is that defining p-values intelligibly is incredibly difficult even for experts, but here goes....

> Is the p-value really not the probability of your results being due to chance?

No, it is not. It is the probability that the statistical attributes of the data would be equal or more extreme than observed assuming the Null Hypothesis is true.

In your definition, there is no assumption of what model the data should conform to...so what does "by random" mean in that context? Also, by random doesn't mean 'not predictable' or useless. If I roll a 100 sided die an infinite number of times, I'd expect the number of observances of '5' to approach .01 of the total distribution. So, the probability of rolling a 5 by random chance is 1 in 100. However, I would not reject my Null Hypothesis since my model predicts exactly this random behavior.

Now, if I rolled a die 1000 times and rolled a 5 every time the mean of that distribution (5) would be very, very far from the expected mean of my model if the Null is assumed to be true. And I may be tempted (very) to reject the Null that I am rolling a 100 sided fair die.

I will now sit back and wait for my definition and analogy to be torn to shreds. :)
IIRC Exchange depends on Active Directory. I would've thought porting AD to Linux would be a huge undertaking, but then again I would've thought the same about MSSQL, so like you say maybe it's not so insane.
MS has been making apps for android for sometime
Step-By-Step Async JavaScript with RxJS
In the spirit of this site: make something similar for JavaScript and Ruby, get bought by GitHub or Atlassian, continue working on it on their payroll. (I am only half-joking)
I don't know if I'm the only one who have noticed that, but on 64 bit machines you have to change "%08X\n" to "%016X\n". Although using %08X sounds interesting, the result is not a major scale and probably not the original intent of the code.
calling psychology a soft science is like calling water a soft solid. Science is based on isolating causality in a reliable, repeatable manner. Human behavior is extremely, deeply context dependant, and in a complex multi layered chaotic way.
There is a free (but not open source) edition and it's been available for some time. SQL Server Express. It has very severe limitations though, which make it difficult to recommend.
The Case for Bad Coffee
I'm sure it took much longer, but the "core" work here (in other words, what you'd need to do if this were just your project and you weren't too concerned about uptime) probably didn't take weeks.
If past Microsoft is any reference, most of the software is cross platform. It is designed from the start to be cross platform. It's just that they never bothered to actually port it to anything other than Windows.

Of course, bits and pieces might be tied to a platform and the dependency chain might drag other parts down, but overall Windows, Office, etc. generally have some sort of abstraction at the lower level that could theoretically allow porting to any platform.
179 is the best thing in the history of tax law IMO. :-)
If you read the blog carefully, you notice that the topic is about usability for upcoming command line tools.

An hypothetical apt something follows the pattern found on curl, ping, unzip, ... Correcting user input when badly typed is something git already serves as example. So, labeling as dumb one of the parties at a discussion about intuitive command line switches as if they are immutable should be done with more substance.

btw, when reading your reply this was the first thing coming to my mind: http://dilbert.com/strip/2007-11-16

Have fun. :-)
His mention of the open floor plan thing resonated with me a LOT. I have 2 coworkers who have a tendency to get into discussions who work in the same circle as me in our open floor plan. It makes it really hard to concentrate when they're constantly yelling back and forth behind me. I usually just put on some headphones and zone out but the obsession with open floor plans as somehow innovative is crazy. It's backward. "I want these people to think effectively and clearly and not have distractions. I know! Let's try an open floor plan!" I'm sure that's not the thought process but I can't imagine, other than control or cost, what the other one would be that would cause an open floor plan to be chosen.

All of the above said, it's not just them that are distracting. It's literally just the effect of the open floor plan. Someone is talking 4-5 desks down and your brain has to make the constant decision not to listen to them.
Shiva is a dick if ever there was one...I overlapped with him at MIT and never met a more vain publicity seeking a$$hole. He was almost universally despised at MIT.
You and I have every different definitions of 'disaster'. There's a load of shit and a few hazard zones, but a number of great discussion arise from people discussing the merit of an idea instead of the merit of an individual.

The most I've ever learned about reverse engineering software I learned from a guy on /g/ who's dayjob was reverse engineering malware. I even made a "callsign" (a Reversi game board). If he was around, he'd post in the thread and answer questions. This kept up for several months until public interest in a weekly RE thread died out.

It's very similar to Reddit in that regard - but without certain individuals becoming "popular/unpopular" based on their username and history.

The anonymity becomes more important when an individual holds a minority opinion. As continually evidenced by the increasing number of people losing their jobs for wrongthinking or making politically incorrect jokes like "dongle forking".
The Mystery of When to Stop Antidepressants
Yes, of course. Telling me what I can and can't put into my own body (not even considering how subjective and arbitrary drug laws are) is a violation of my rights. As long as I don't hurt or harm anyone else, I should be free to use drugs even if I can't pick it up at Walgreens.
> I'm not aware of anything that turns radioactive waste into non-radioactive waste.

You use a breeder reactor. Some of the designs for thorium breeders, for example, can be used to process existing waste from other reactors.

> guaranteed to be a problem for thousands of years?

Note that it gets safer over time as it decays, and in general the radiation danger of an isotope goes down the longer the half-life. Once you get into the particularly long lived isotopes, the radiation danger becomes very small. Also, the amount of waste is trivial; nuclear power only makes a millionth the waste as traditional power, because of the vast difference in usable energy density.

Even if you consider the waste that stays around for "thousands of years", that's a short time compared to some types of chemical waste that doesn't decay. How many Superfund sites already exist?[1] There are quite a few in Silicon Valley[2].

[1] http://toxmap-classic.nlm.nih.gov/toxmap/combo/mapControls.d...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Superfund_sites_in_Cal...
How “The Angel” helped 15,000 people steal broadband (2012)
Teens react to Windows 95
People did not get my sarcasm. That was my whole point.
How does my use of drugs infringe upon someone else's rights?
I am skeptical about these 1 million dollar paychecks. Take LinkedIn for example. With the recent reduction in their share price, is a mid-level engineer really making 300K to a million? I doubt this.
Yes but the question was whether you had opted out.

I haven't seen anyone claiming Linkedin keeps sending after that but I might be wrong.
I'd say that it is unlikely, but I wouldn't call it impossible. Most of the recent moves out of Microsoft seem to point at a large strategic shift, away from Windows. In the past the Windows division had an iron grip on Microsoft, it seems to be loosening (see .Net port, VSCode, etc.).
aplay is part of ALSA, which is old enough that I wouldn't expect any differences between it on Ubuntu & on other Linuxes.

FWIW, I really dig the demo: it's cool.
> There's this weird…meme…that psychology is just sitting around nattering about feelings.

Look at the overwhelmingly rubbish depiction of psychology in movies.

It's all people lying on couches; or tenacious psychologists breaking through with unwilling clients; or catharsis.

And it's odd, because when programmers see programming in movies they see how bad that depiction is, so I'm not sure why the meme of "psychology is just sitting around nattering about feelings" is so strong.
Tim Sweeney is missing the point; the PC platform needs fixing
Red Hat have $billions more to lose.
As far as I know they're still in effect, those publishers have seen their ebook sales go down substantially, which is blamed on the enforced price increases due to agency pricing.

And you'd otherwise see Amazon's return to its old scheme where normal ebooks never cost the consumer more than $9.99, whereas, to take a random example I just looked up, Jim Butcher's latest novel published half a year ago goes for $13.99, ~$1.50 more than the paperback and only ~$2.50 less than the hardback: http://www.amazon.com/Cinder-Spires-Aeronauts-Windlass/dp/04...
Makes sens since SQL Server granpa is "Sybase for OS/2". There are probably very few lines of code left from those days (-94:ish), but the way of thinking is probably still there and what enabled this.
And since running those Linux servers in Azure results in revenue flowing to Microsoft by the hour, it seems that MS also winning here. The cloud market share of Azure vs. AWS is however a different dogfight.
Don't tell me that vaccines don't have a significant (or discernible) effect on autism. Tell me that, with 99.9% confidence, you have ruled out the possibility that vaccines have caused more than ten autism cases in the entire history of vaccines, and that, most likely, they've caused no cases whatsoever (or whatever the right numbers are).

Whoa. Are you making a statement of what you think it would take to convince a hard-line anti-vaccination activist (the most charitable interpretation I can think of for your statement), or are you making that statement on your own behalf? I am chagrined to see this statement in the top comment in this thread. Reading the fine article submitted for discussion is strongly encouraged here on Hacker News, not just reading the headline, and I think you may have missed the part of the article that says, "Indeed, many of the ASA committee’s members argue in their commentaries that the problem isn’t p-values, just the way they’re used — 'failing to adjust them for cherry picking, multiple testing, post-data subgroups and other biasing selection effects,' as Deborah Mayo, a philosopher of statistics at Virginia Tech, puts it. When p-values are treated as a way to sort results into bins labeled significant or not significant, the vast efforts to collect and analyze data are degraded into mere labels, said Kenneth Rothman, an epidemiologist at Boston University."

Discernibility of effects versus lack of discernibility of effects is not the main issue here. The main issue is what effects are even possible, plausible, or likely in the first place. One way in which the law of evidence as it has developed in legal procedure over centuries is stronger than the statistical processes used in scientific publications is that the law of evidence remembers that human beings can have biases. I am surprised to see a participant here on Hacker News holding to the strong prior that we must assume that vaccines have caused some cases of autism. Nope. There has never, ever, ever, been any evidence that suggests a causal mechanism such that vaccines could cause even one case of autism. Moreover, there is abundant evidence that the first persons who promoted such claims were trying to abuse the tort law system in England to shake down vaccine manufacturers for payments for imaginary harms.[1] The kind of thinking brought into the discussion here in the comment quoted above doesn't take into account the difference between "evidence-based medicine" and "science-based medicine,"[2] in which clinical trials and other statistical data are supplemented with information from basic science about what priors are plausible and which are plainly implausible. There is no effect discernible from vaccines in increasing rates of autism because there is, on the basis of multiple lines of evidence, no effect that is the tiniest bit plausible for such a claimed harm, and a very plausible line of evidence showing greed and desire for publicity on the part of the corrupt lawyers and doctors who introduced the claim.

[1] http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c5347

[2] https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/about-science-based-med...
Well, it wouldn't surprise me, because look at the work they're doing to support Android.
Checks calendar , hurmm it's not April 1st ... ?

Wait I remember sun one asp server .

Please tell me this isn't sql server written in c# using mono !
Usually someone points out that I complain about JavaScript too much and yet I have chosen to use JS as the scripting language. First the front end is completely written in ClojureScript. Second JS was chosen as the scritpting environment just to validate the product. I want to support more languages soon.
Plenty of successful businesses are built around providing support, services or premium features for an otherwise open-source project.
I want to start a blog with them sometime, but I've been pretty focused on my next venture, so it's taken a back seat. Maybe once I'm not in the "building a product is so much damn work and I'm not sure I've got all the details ironed out" phase.

I did do a blog for my first startup, which is a little dated now (2007-2008), but may still be of interest, and better yet, has already been written down:

http://diffle-history.blogspot.com/
Nice! I made this:

http://billyfowks.com/spotify/

which pretty much contains the full day's playlist
> Not to be confused with psychiatry, which I find to be a worthwhile medical, scientific pursuit (adding subtances/drugs does change the equation quite a bit)

You'd be disturbed to find out just how weak some of that evidence is, especially since it's used to deprive people of their liberty and force them to take treatment against their will. There's a slew of medicine that has pretty weak evidence base. (eg knee arthroscopy)
Even faster: not using any.
Well part of the reason we have brains is so you can think about something before you do it.
I wish you wrote a blog post about this, I'd like to see what perspective you would bring to the table.

A lot of this makes little sense to someone from the "outside" like me, but you are able to explain it in a good way.

Thanks for the help!
Realistically I'd say double or triple your expense estimate. You are low-balling yourself. Everything takes much longer and costs more than you expect.