skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an excellent hack, but it also just feels so wrong, at least in some cases. Most users (of a URL) won't care about the tags, so why send them? Maybe User-Agent differentiation is an answer? Define a string which indicates the type of response that rkt is looking for?

Are there any examples of publicly standardized User-Agents?

At least it would allow one to take meta tags to specialized binaries out of their webpage markup. Well known URLs is a decent compromise, but potentially breaks existing applications and extends across all applications.
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US and European rules are different there, because Americans emigrated before European elites had settled on a standard.

Yours seems to be the American standard.

Oh, and in parts of Asia they eat with fork and spoon.

Martin Luther famously complained about the then-new forks, since God had given every man hands after all, hadn't he?
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Can I get an honest explanation of why what they did was "bad"? They set the price of products they sell in conjunction with the publishers?

Isn't that what every major seller of goods does? I watched a documentary on Wal-Mart a while back where they were working with Chinese DVD player mfgs to get the price Wal-Mart wanted.

I genuinely don't understand the harm of their actions, and would be thrilled if someone could explain?
Yeah, feel free - consider it under MIT.

Those themes (and more) are included under the 'Template Factory' project over on Github: https://github.com/tomhodgins/template-factory

That package contains more than just basic.css, but also includes three additional styles, and a bunch of simply written responsive CSS + JS plugins as well.
Myself likewise. I don't wish to revisit the pit and wallow through the cognitive fog. An interesting aside: why do users of antidepressants feel the need to reduce their dose? It's a benign addiction, like moderate caffeine dependency. One reason is that there _is_ a trade-off; these drugs make us a little dull and less interesting to ourselves.
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C is my primary language of coding. I work in networking industry. So, my suggestions could be specific to this field.

I should have learnt more of following (a) memory management, (b) process memory layout, (c) good coding practices (d) read up code from other projects. There are really brilliant programmers out there churning out awesome code and that itself is a great teacher. (e) Teaching whatever I learn. Teaching (especially writing it down on paper/webpage) brought clarity to me.

Not doing all of the above early in my career is a regret I have now.
sure, and I've never used mssql for any project of mine b/c it is so expensive. I've only used it when someone else (a client) pays for it. That still doesn't make it functionally worse though.

I find mysql to be very immature: transaction isolation is a joke, stored procedures are a joke... etc.
I have been evaluating it vs react for some UI's I am working on and have come away very impressed. Coupled with underscore or lodash and you get most of the niceties of es6+react with a much smaller size.
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OT: Anyone know why all browser vendors implemented this CSS columns aberration so hurridly..? I have never seen a good use for them, so painful to read. It's always some designer trying to show off their "epic" CSS skillz.
Nice to know, they query syntax is, unfortunately only slightly nicer than the XML options... at least at first glance.
The thing is I wasn't trying to convince anyone though :) I doubt anyone here will be willing to shell out the money for a license. Although, Azure might make it affordable but I hated the limitations they put on the mssql instances (can't remember them rn).

My biggest problem with myssql is that it is very immature. Biggest problems I have with it are (right now, b/c that's what I'm facing atm): transaction isolation and stored procedures. I'm pretty sure pg has the same lame transaction isolation issues as well.
Definiton I am using is common sense. OSI one is overly complex for example it has point "5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups".

> It seems you've created your own definitions for both "open source" and "free software" in order to exclude copyleft from both categories

Copyleft is not a requirement for open source or OSI Open Source. It is for FSF Free Software though.

I am aware of how "free software" can be misinterpreted. Thats why I havnt used it. But allow me to explain whats wrong with FSF definition. The word free implies unrestricted freedom like MIT/Public Domain which is true for users but not devs (proprietary devs to be specific). Nothing wrong with intention of this perticular definiton. But choice of the word is misleading. "republic software" may be ? Also note both are lawyers definitons.

Just curious what would you label something whose source you can view and/or modify for personal use ? Google says open source.

All this definition debate aside, last 5 posts have been about dev unfriendly restrictions of GPL/copyleft/share-alike. Free software was not mentioned at all. Only once[1] I mention open source which is to illustrate the point that proprietary does not necessarily mean you cannot view the source and cannot modify for personal use. Proprietary certainly does not come with same big restrictions as GPL. For a dev,

MIT/BSD > Proprietary with source > Proprietary >>> GPL.

> Both of these terms have definitions going back decades by now which contradict yours; in the open source case, one of the reasons for starting to using the term in the first place was to avoid possible misconceptions or misunderstandings of what "free software" referred to!

Yes both have been standardized but I doubt the actual adoption.

[1] Okay I have used it more than once. But every other usage works with either definitons.
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Unfortunately, you cannot cite clinical trials as the sole means to determine individual patient relapse potential.

Many doctors, especially psychiatrists, use clinically-proven if-then-else type criteria tools created by professional psychiatrist bodies.

As your therapy progresses, depending on how you score with the criteria, the doctor will opt to:

- Taper down and cease medication

- Reduce medication dose and supplement with behavioral therapy

- Stay on the current dose

- Increase dose if your symptoms worsen
Looks like basically everything will be on Linux at SE now. ;-)
This could reduce the cost of using SQL Server on AWS if Amazon supports this flavor.
I can't honestly imagine any circumstances when this would be better than using tools that can manage my Python packages as part of deploying or just using solid Python environment management practices. Why would I want to add the encumbrance of needing to work with system package toolchains to create packages when I want to avoid platform specific mechanisms to minimise my exposure to unexpected issues and retain visibility into failure causes since system package tools can be extremely opaque as to the cause of install failure causes.

For example I use PyEnv instead of virtalenv/venv because PyEnv is written in bash and has a much better level of isolation than virtalenv or venv. It's simple bash scripting and the only system dependencies it has are based on features you choose to use. If you want to build Python from sources you'll need compilers and Libs, etc, but other than that sort of thing, it's zero dependencies.

Edit: PyEnv also has the ability for me to compress an entire Python environment and reuse it somewhere else provided I'm using the same OS and system libraries, so I can pre-build compilation steps and cut down on system package dependencies in production environments.
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After reading "a quantum computer that could someday factor any number, and thereby crack the security of traditional encryption schemes." I understood, that author has no idea what he's talking about.
Thanks for this well thought out response. [4] is the killer clearly. My naive response as I read yours was: "Well, just have two rates, the medicare one and the regular one". But if laws prevent that...well then that's played straight into the insurance companies hand.
> Previously exposed populations may be more tolerant to future stress events, but they may sometimes even be more sensitive than populations with no previous exposure

The last caveat undoes the whole research paper; it's not really memory, but a timing issue. All they did was exploit the synced the cell division cycles: they might have chosen the 2-hour mark (or got really lucky) as that was when the cell-division cycle was most (or somewhat) resilient.

This is similar to saying "batching all network writes to only happen in the first 30 seconds of every minute may make your network more resilient to random 5-second disconnections between data centers, or it make make it more sensitive". This is obviously dependent on which part of the cycle the disconnection happens! Maybe I should write that paper...
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I'm looking for service that could provide analytics to IAP and app sales.

iTunes Connect and Play Store Console are extremely slow.

I've looked into 5rocks.io however it seems that they haven't updated their twitter for over a year.

Please advice. Thanks!
So where does the 80 go?
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Agreed, but the data doesn't support the position that unions are inherently bad - they just don't suit the US or UK.
Why Microsoft needs SQL Server on Linux http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-microsoft-needs-sql-server-...
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By clicking links on spam emails? No, thanks.
The chapter text, for context:

http://www.rednovels.net/book/The_Terminal_Man/index_10.html

"Saint George had no background for eggplants. But he disliked cucumbers and bananas..."
I don't understand how system package managers are considered an "encumberance" by so many developers. It takes all of 10 minutes to write an rpmspec file unless you have a super-hairy build/install process (in which case you should look at fixing that) - I have one in the git repository for all of my python projects along with a Makefile with a sources target that just calls `setup.py sdist` to create a source tarball for rpmbuild.

Pushing out a new release is as simple as running `koji build f23 git+ssh://my.git.server/my/project.git` and within 15 minutes it's been published to my internal yum repository and puppet is installing the newest version on all my servers. How is managing pyenv and dealing with fabric or whatever other tool of choosing any easier than this?
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not really.

he built index funds just like before. he was just the first one to afford enough lawyers to launch a product that would be shut down by regulators because of 800 page conflicting regulations
With this trend, I will not be surprised if Microsoft releases its own Linux distro which will be optimized for MS software (e.g. sql server)
Worked for me just now.
I'm not as familiar with later versions of MS-SQL, but it's replication story is well in the box... Postgres is a bolted on, hard to setup/maintain hodge podge... I really hope the out of the box, via a gui admin and all story for replication on postgres gets to where MS-SQL was in the box in 2005.

NOTE: this is not a bash or nag on postgres, I really like it's JSON integration, and plv8 is awesome. That said, even simple replication stories in pgsql have me pulling my hair out, mainly because I don't WANT to know every intricate detail about my dbms, I just want to build applications on top of it, and ms-sql is pretty nice in that regard.
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It still works if you use some plugins to set the user agent to Googlebot and other things to trick the WSJ into thinking you are from Google.

Sometimes searching the title in Google works, sometimes it does not.

I'm really against paywalls because it is discrimination against the poor. It is like having a pay bathroom.
Sorry. Yes, of course you are right. They would have to distribute it. It's strange how one can carry incorrect notions in one's head for a long time... Thanks for correcting me!
For most research areas I'd agree, "20 years" = "who knows". But for cryptography people using it should keep looking carefully at how long something they encrypted will remain safe. People may be betting a lot on the assumption that something stays secret for at least 50 years. Therefore any significant shift in those probabilities is newsworthy, in my opinion.
It's somewhat of a departure from say, 50 years ago in the United States of America. Options are a substitute for salary. Options were invented when executive salaries were deemed too high.

Now a detail in compensation practice will get you three-plus months in jail.
The first thing that comes to mind with this announcement is about SQLServer drivers for non-Windows platforms. Years ago, it was all but impossible to talk to "DataCenter" SQLServer from anything but Windows. Apparently, the connection URI was a configuration endpoint and the driver was responsible for switching between active masters. This meant that a simple ODBC driver wouldn't work as there was no real endpoint to connect to. A real Linux driver would be great; an open source one would be outstanding!

NOTE: This type of thing is what made me hate Microsoft for so long, and even today I find it difficult to recommend them as a solution provider for anything, on any platform. So, while I'm trying to give them the benefit of the doubt, I'll continue working to move everything I can, including databases, to another platform.
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I suspect you need not go that slow. I am NOT a Dr., but have talked at length with mine about this. I won't go into specifics or detail as people need to talk to their Dr.s about these methods.

All meds have a half life, your taper rate will be based on that and your personal metabolism rate, which can and almost always is altered by the meds themselves.

Further confused that a huge percentage of people who suffer depression need no meds and instead need a thyroid test, and not just a "give blood and see where you were at that moment" test, but a real, pain in the butt, complicated test, which I suspect is why they don't give them as a first line test. I was blown away I was never offered one.

As you get down to the lower doses, it gets harder, some you will have to take to a compounding pharmacy, others you can crush and get a good scale and weigh out what milligram or microgram you need; others, if you feel safe doing so can be taken intranasaly via a Flonase sprayer depending on if the med is water soluble and what the mixed shelf life is, which can be hard data to get at times.

I can say there is no worse kick than Effexor, that is for damn sure, and that was only 2-3 weeks in. That had a permanent change on me for life, instilling a bit of timidness in me regarding certain things that happened as I was detoxing.

Good Luck, hope you get off them and manage to learn how to manage your life without them, that is exactly where I am as well. They work, but I don't like the fake happy feeling. They try to tell me that is what my normal is, and I am just not remembering my true normal, that I don't buy, I remember my youth before this all started.
A close family member was on antidepressants for almost two years after being misdiagnosed with depression (that's a whole different story though).

The tapering process was _very_ rough. At first the doctor recommended tapering by 1/4 each week for four weeks, but with the first reduction she had headaches, vertigo and nausea for nearly two days.

After that the doctor changed the recommendation to tapering by 1/8 of a dose over the following 6 weeks. The first day of each reduction was more bearable, but still similar to a nasty hangover,

SSRIs may be a lifesaver for many people, but starting them is not something to be taken lightly.
I wonder if there is some Sussman's Propagator model like biochemical process going on underneath, resulting in the collective memory.
Anyone who tells you anti-depressants are not habit forming is a rep for a pharma co. that has not been sued to change their stance on that statement yet.
Okay... now setup a cluster of three pgsql servers with automatic failover... your options are to become very intimate with your dbms, and now pick from half a dozen poorly implemented solutions, or pay licensing costs to EnterpriseDB close to the same costs of MS-SQL, where you get to click a few buttons and your db is clustered.

It is a very big deal... and an area Posgres is sorely lacking, but progress is made, and in another 2 releases may catch up to MS-SQL 2005.

I love what pg offers for dev, but it really isn't enough from the operations side. That said, I'd be more inclined to reach for RethinkDB for most situations these days, if it were up to me.
Great read! Now I so badly want to be apart of a secret society
Worse, keep in mind that pill, broke perfect in half, will not have equal amounts of the active or inactive ingredients in each side. Further, if it is a generic, it doesn't even have to have the same mg amount of the active ingredient, only within a margin of something like 90%, which is huge when dealing with these types of meds.
They still do consultancy as well as certify developers and IT professionals, don't forget the books they publish, and other things. I think Microsoft is aiming more towards developers than anything, if you can get developers on Azure even better, it wont matter if they use all available FOSS from you, you're making good income as a result!
> salt stress causes a delay in cell division, leading to synchronization of cell cycles; secondly, survival probability depends on the individual bacterial cell's position in the cell cycle at the time of the second exposure.

So basically you thwack all the cells with something that pushes their lifecycles towards a similar schedule, and then later-on they tend to all still be on the same cycle?

Isn't that like saying two pendulums in the same house have a "collective memory" of an earthquake?
You mean except for the screen of the user who has weak eyesight (e.g. due to being over the age of 40) and has set a 16px minimal font size in their browser?

I set a 13px minimum font size in my browser (the smallest size I can read comfortably on my screen) and I constantly run into web applications that try to go for the level of control you describe and totally fail because they think 10ps fonts are a good idea. Of course my usual response is to close that tab and never use that web application again if I can help it.
If I were hosting something on azure (have a smallest windows vm running for some old personal stuff), I would consider it... SQL Express is pretty functional, and the Azure SQL option is nice enough...

I've been leaning towards nosql options for a while though... imho RethinkDB is one of the nicer options out there for most use cases... ElasticSearch and Cassandra are also great options depending on your needs.
I could only write about pub/sub in this article because that's the only service we have a full enough set of numbers for. I hope Spotify will be releasing more stats in their future blog posts about the other GCP services they'll be using.
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I am familiar with PEG.js, which is basically the same thing, but exists for 6 years now. Does Chevrotain have any other advantages, than being about 2 times faster?
Decades? Linux was a bit of a blip in 1996.. FreeBSD on the other hand was clear competition at the time.
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11228607 and marked it off-topic.
Can't speak for others... but I'd definitely be inclined to reach for MS-SQL server before any other commercial SQL option (including EnterpriseDB).

That said, SQL is rarely the first tool I look for regarding my DB needs.
I'd say that was unproven either way.
> Because unless an unknown method of privilege elevation was used

You seem to think that is unlikely. Why? New privesc bugs are found on a monthly basis in Linux and Windows. Does Grandma stay on top of kernel patches?

Nobody who does sandbox security (hint: I do sandbox security) thinks UID separation is sufficient to cordon malware anymore.
Thank you for your work on Peewee. The code is nicely written and is easily read start to finish.
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Just have to say, it is great to see Microsoft turning again into a software company! Even after all the hate, they do great products and good stable software. A great example of a successful software company.
You could reduce your accuracy by doing three tests of the same blood sample (of course, exposing yourself to the risk that the blood was taken incorrectly, was stored in an incorrect vessel, was transported incorrectly, etc...).

In terms of practicality/Insurance - this would mostly be a function of how absolutely certain we are that the tests are accurate, and how damaging incorrect results would be. If we are 99.99% certain the values are correct, and incorrectly results wouldn't result in irreparable harm - then yes, not worth the investment in redundant lab tests.

But, if there is, say, a 5% chance I might die on an incorrect test result that has a 1% chance of happening - and that test is performed 12 times/year - then you can pretty quickly calculate the net-present-value of my life versus cost of test. (I.E. If I think my Life is worth $10mm, and the test normally costs $500 each time, or $6000/year, and I need to have this test done for the next 10 years, (assuming the value of my life doesn't drop over time, to make this simpler) - then each time I get the test there is a 1% chance of failure * 5% chance of death = 0.05% chance of dying as a result of each test.

The odds of me dying then, in the next 120 test = 100%-(chance-of-not-dying-120-times-in-a-row) = 1-.9995 ^ 120) = 5.825% chance of dying in this scenario using tests that cost $60,000. If I could reduce that to 1% (4.825% reduction) chance by spending an extra $120,000 (perform the test in two extra labs) - then my my investment of $120k would return 4.825%*10mm = $482,500.

You can work the numbers, assumptions, etc.. however appropriate - but for some combination of test costs, frequency, potential harm, and value assigned to life - there is quantifiable value that justifies performing the test multiple times (and, likewise, clearly circumstances in which, even if the test results are more likely to be inaccurate, not worth performing thee test).

Not having access to multiple labs is a real problem though.
So you're saying a cup of coffee is much more harmful proportionally than invading the privacy of millions?

Let's say it was only 1 million, so not even $1.50 each. Cup of coffee for same one person, nearly 200x more.
I'd say it will stay as long as commercially viable, which it very much is... I'd imagine a lot of this effort was to get SQL services on azure closer to the metal than running on top of Windows.

I don't think it's going anywhere for a while... and I rarely trust MS with anything cross platform.