skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That could be it. I was assuming the case must have been nearer the beginning of the author's tenure in Houston. But it could have been just last year; nothing in the article contradicts that.

This puts a different light on the article. That case involved premeditated murder, rape, assault and strangulation. I find it harder to be empathetic with the defendant.
Because Illuminati
I'd stay away - far away - from sparkpost. We've been a volume user with sendgrid for years and recently started a test with sparkpost (well before the Mandrill thing), thinking it would be a good backup solution over our inhouse alternative. Suddenly this weekend, we're getting 403 rejections thru the sparkpost API. We were thinking it was an issue on our side and spent some time verifying it wasn't us. When we asked Sparkpost customer support to look into it, they eventually came back saying our Sparkpost account was suspended by their compliance team -- this with no indication or warning (and with us sending very low volume to known-good users in this test). fyi, our sendgrid reputation score is >98 and blacklist-free. We know how to maintain a good sender rep. Sparkpost CSE says their Compliance team is overwhelmed and maybe we'll hear back in a couple of days. Are you kidding me? We had high hopes for Sparkpost until this. Now, I can't see how we can possibly trust them, which is ironic to say the least.
I've always enjoyed using SQL Server and I'm really happy about how it's grown over the years in features and performance. I really never thought this day would come.
Actually there are not. Reasonable people have been disagreeing about this all along.
If I understand correctly, this quantum computer came closer to cracking RSA the same way shifting in your chair gets you closer to Jupiter.
Name one (other than RedHat) that is consistently profitable.
Free + Fast + no weird syntax (like Oracle) + Most features (although I think Oracle replication might still be better)
Intellectually, somewhat, perhaps. Sybase was a distinct implementation. When it came on the market, Ingres IIRC was still based on QUEL. Sybase had its new T-SQL language and a novel design that made it feasible to use for OLTP. At that time, Ingres and Oracle were usually devoted to decision support, and OLTP was backed by things like VSAM.
Self control as a static variable is not equally useful across all situations... I find it improbable that humans would have only a single 'algorithm' through which to mediate executive function. Surely the dominant strategy would be greatly affected by the environment?

Psychology is an interesting field, because one really has to wonder just how static human beings actually are over time...It seems almost probable to assume people living today would handle the same experimental setup quite differently than those who lived 50 years ago.
Backbone is a fundamentally different paradigm from React, so as you point out it won't always make sense to borrow ideas from React or other one-way frameworks.* I find its usefulness waning these days for big projects, but it's absolutely my go-to for most small apps (I do a lot of client work). It's just easier to work with and less boilerplate when you don't need the strictness that React enforces / encourages.

As others have pointed out, having a stable API is a wonderful thing for a vast majority of projects. Backbone is stable because its ideas are battle-tested and the concepts are all there. People are seeing less usefulness for Marionette / Chaplin / Aurora, and I don't think that's all that bad.

* Disclosure: I'm a core contributor to Backbone.
GPL FUN
It's most astonishing to me that anyone even still uses LinkedIn.

I deleted my account 5 years ago and my career didn't suddenly grind to a halt. Nobody has ever even asked me once for a LinkedIn profile nor turned me down for a job because I didn't have one. I must live in a different bubble from all the people in this thread insisting that it's a requirement at every turn in their lives.
It was once called America. I guess the next one will be the EMC, Elon's Mars Colony...
Oh god, here we go again.
It participated by being the definition of a participant. It designed a marketplace around appealing to the publishers who were eager to fix prices.

A fact that the publishers decided not to contest.
So we need to implement user restrictions licensing codes software audits etc and ensure that there are no benefits to companies embracing free software ensuring their contributions dry up.

Not precisely a winning strategy
Facebook's AI Enhanced Population Maps
The Seattle market tends to use Microsoft a lot.
That sounds like a factual error, but could you point out more basic errors in the science of what he's claiming?
> I think it is naive to criticize this move in any way - it is giving more choice so should be supported.

It's naive to support it just because of the assumption that more choice must be good.

On the contrary the past few years on Windows have been full of data corruption bugs in SQL 2012 and 2014; and while 2016 looks amazing with new features Microsoft has continued to push ahead instead of just - you know - fixing the fucking bugs we all keep reporting and upvoting on Connect and getting ignored.

More choice is IMHO not a good thing. It's a bad thing. In the same way people who "multi task" are more often than not churning out shit work and running on luck - I'd prefer Microsoft focus on what they know best.
He also ignores that cows were domesticated from Aurochs before the Bronze Age. Aurochs were as wild as American Bison and (depending on the variant) were the same size or larger.
Yes for this case, but that's just because it's a bad example for comparing the performance of optional, because the code is doing things that have very different performance characteristics.

There are plenty of other cases though where it is useful to use optional (e.g. instead of passing/returning a naked pointer which may or may not be null) and in those cases use of optional will have little/no overhead.
As far as I see, Apple just opened their own store and was able to win the publishers to sell there. The publishers did what they wanted to do, including communicating among themselves even before Apple appeared, insisting on higher prices, proposing the agency model and making their new deals with Amazon. I've quoted all the supporting parts from the court decision in my other posts.

I still don't see any argument under which Apple had to insist on the same terms that Amazon had. And Apple didn't have to insist on the same terms, and had the right to open their own store, what it actually did wrong?

Can anybody really say that Apple had to say "no we won't open the store if the prices aren't the same as at Amazon"?

Apple actually made the clause that their prices are allowed to be minimal of all other stores. And Apple didn't have the problem to sell items even for $0.99, that's how they started with the iTunes store years earlier.
oh wow, I had typed that on mobile and completely omitted the domain name. Thank you.
After much exposure in big data processing and running an Ethereum meetup since it wasn't yet cool, I think the main promise of this technology is more conceptual than strictly determined by a dominant protocol. These are:

- Fully user owned identities

- Eradicating information asymmetry in mutually beneficial ways

- Transparent update rules, i.e. an evolving but never deprecated API

Thus different roads will lead to those economic gains. Essentially you take mongodb, encapsulate any write access into UDFs (=smart contracts) with permission to execute based on a public/private key, a second set of keyholders able to read and validate the log and et voila, all promises of blockchain tech fulfilled.
2016 supports JSON.
And yet, isn't it true that MITM attacks still work, as long as the MITM has the same hardware?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19250001

"Sham acupuncture may be as efficacious as true acupuncture: a systematic review of clinical trials"
Yeah, replication, encryption, memory optimized tables, search etc. come to mind.
Making something open source != making something GPL. .Net is licensed under MIT/X11 I think.

If someone is licensing something under GNU GPL, they are also giving away their intellectual property/patent rights (or what ever they call that) to any software developed in GPL, which Microsoft is never ever going to do.

MIT/X11 license is not giving other developers and users such a patent protection from its original developers.
SQL 2016 does JSON
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jocapc/2015/05/16/json-supp...
Nearly 40 years old, we actually have an algorithm that is not known to be vulnerable to quantum attacks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McEliece_cryptosystem Quantum computing is nothing to worry about. (Though I admit it is interesting to think about what sorts of encryption/decryption schemes are only feasible with a quantum computer.)
When you see someone who was sadistically abused until they became a sociopathic abuser, you don't feel any empathy?
I'm pretty sure the internet has done far more for changing peoples' worldview than drugs ever have or could. Actually, I find it completely unrealistic that drug use would change anything at all in the realm of what you're talking about. I mean, none of what you've said requires drugs in any way, and most people are perfectly capable in seeing a billion faults in the status quo without them.
LGPL v2.0/v2.1 do not have the "tivoization" clause, so it should be safe to use in iOS if you are following the rest of the license provisions.

LGPL v3 does, so it is likely not safe or legal to use that software in iOS or other drm scenarios.

You can find a lot of debate about this, I think mostly because people assume the two versions to be the same and do not specify which they are wanting to use.

Again I have no legal background and I recommend getting real legal advice as the issue is quite complex.
+1

Not to mention that often it can takes weeks for new hardware order to be approved / delivered / provisioned.

Cloud? Just dial it up... Well, if you are at Netflix scale, you probably couldn't just dial it up, and would have to work with the vendor to ensure adequate capacity was available for your use.
I agree, it's important to mention this. I've been burned by a few SAAS closures recently, so knowing the project's pedigree makes me feel more comfortable investing time/energy into it.
Yes, certainly. And OP said corporation or inventor.

As long as we're doing capitalism, we ought to have a way for people to make a living off of knowledge work and the arts. Not selling physical artifacts of knowledge work, or making some sort of other derivative income off of it, but profiting directly from the generation and POC of good ideas. It is a system that served us well for one hundred years or more before being hijacked by a pack of ruthless jackals - I probably agree that if we can't fix it it's better to tear it down, but we should still try to fix it.
So what you're saying is that you've read patently false accounts of behavior, discussions, and conduct.

Good talk, man. Glad you sorted that out.
hi Brett,

Damn I'm an idiot for not looking at HackerNews feed everyday. I'll definitely send across my resume.
Here's a recent article that gives a picture of Texas politics. It's too US-centric and political to be submitted here on its own, but I thought it was a rollicking read and may offer insight into some aspects of the criminal justice system in Texas. The thrust is that while Donald Trump is embarrassing to Republicans, current Texas Senator and US presidential candidate Ted Cruz is a lot more dangerous.

The closing paragraph gives a sense of the tone:

An orange-faced, thin-skinned, narcissistic, blow-hard
clown versus a truly scary, malevolent alien from the dark
side. Oh, and before I forget, gee, thanks for the choice.
But I gotta go with the clown. I have examined the clown
pretty closely, too, and I think I can outrun him. The
other guy, I’m not so sure.

http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/letter-from-texas-listen-...
"I tested compiling SATD() with gcc-4.8.2 and gcc-5.2.0 with -O3, and they do not "optimize" SATD() into an infinite loop."

and from this you assume it was specifically changed (much like you assume a lot of bad faith throughout), instead of "just falling by the wayside as the result of some other change", which is infinitely more likely.

I have no desire to know what patch did it, actually, i'm pointing out you are, pretty much everywhere, going off half-cocked with assumptions and accusations.

"The gcc maintainer who justified that change to me is Andrew Haley. He may not be working on SCEV, whatever that is, but, unlike you, he admits to this change that has provably happened."

Andrew pretty much has only ever worked on the java front end, and that's what he maintains. SCEV is the thing that changed here.

I'm not sure why Andrew would have ever said anything about SPEC (since it's not java ;P), but i actually at this point suspect more bad faith on your part, given what you've said so far.
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Absolutely agree. And what is scarier is when reductionist psychology gets armed with a pharmaceutical cudgel in the form of psychiatry. Works for some, sometimes, but one always has the feeling they don't really know why...
wd add proj # add current directory as a warp point
cd ~/
wd proj # jumps to proj
wd list # lists all points
wd rm proj # removes proj
Well if that's your take then I'm surprised your testimony didn't compel the Supreme Court to hear out the appeal and render a verdict to the contrary.
Ask HN: How does D-lang compare?
Have you used D on any side or production projects?

What did you use it for and how does it fair against other languages in terms of functionality and speed of development?

What are some shortcoming you came across? What about advantages?

And to give some context, what language do you enjoy using the most, and what language do you use day to day?
SS is more advanced than PG out of the box. Built in scalability and HA; far more reliable point in time backup/restore; PG even only had a plan cache added recently (the past year or so?)

Then you have full text search, built in columnstore, in memory tables, native procedures.

That's not counting all the non engine stuff. There is no adequate free software equivalent to reporting services or analysis services.

Sorry PG isn't even close. PG is no doubt extremely important and the best of the free software pack. And you will pay your life to MS for adequate licensing. But there really is no comparison.

MySQL on the other hand is a flat out joke.
David Cohen: Hiring developer evangelists
Victims were his girlfriend, age 15, her mother, age 44, and her grandfather, age 77.

The mother had told police that Charles was having sex with the daughter. This upset Charles, so he killed the family.

The grandfather was beaten and strangled to death.

The daughter was choked with an extension cord, beaten with stereo speakers, and hit with a TV.

The mother was thrown into a bathtub filled with water and a plugged-in TV, but that failed to electrocute her, so he dragged her through the house, raped her, and then strangled her.

Previous conviction for burglary, for which he received three years in prison, but was paroled after eight months. Met once with his parole officer and then ignored subsequent required meetings, and so there was a warrant out for his arrest.

Sources:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/12/derrick-charles-exe...

http://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/charles-derrick-dewayne.htm
Why are they avoiding PDO? Seems like that's what people should be moving towards in terms of flexibility and security.
I think that's often true, up until the point in time where it isn't. :-)

I remember that when DHTML/Javascript was young, from 1998-2004, you used the features built into every browser or you'd find yourself painted into a corner with the next release. Java applets, VBScript, ActiveX, Flash, and numerous third-party plugins: all dead. And then suddenly, around 2005, Prototype/JQuery/YUI/Dojo all came out, and you were an idiot if you didn't use a third-party library. The pendulum is starting to swing the other way now that browsers are pretty reliably standards-based, but there are still a number of people who look at you funny when you suggest using vanilla JS.

I was a little young to remember, but IIRC the same thing happened with the PC: through most of the early 80s, if you didn't write in assembly and use the specific features provided by each vendor, your app didn't have a chance. Then 1990 rolled around, decent C/Pascal compilers came out, third-party class libraries took off, and you got left behind if you still coded in assembly. Then by the early 2000s things had centralized under Microsoft .NET again, but by then the web was taking off and nobody cared.

It seems like this is the pattern of most software platforms: for the first 10 years, you better code to proprietary APIs because you won't be able to accomplish anything otherwise, and if you do it'll be obsolete with the next OS release. For the next 10 years, an explosion of third-party frameworks takes off, and you pick the one that makes you the most productive. In the last 10 years, things centralize again under a monopoly vendor, but by then the platform is already getting obsolete. Not sure where we are in the cycle for iOS - we've probably got a couple years to go - but it looks like it may be happening in Android land already, with Dagger 2 and RxJava.
In the glibc world, you can specify a rather fine degree of preferences here for which resolution you prefer for which network space, via /etc/gai.conf. It's not a very nice tool, but I've been able to use it to set good preferences for a dual-stack environment.
This is a great article, but I disagree on one point. Blockchains aren't overhyped. Sure, people promote them for strange use cases sometimes. But I'm pretty confident that we'll look back on blockchains as underhyped. Blockchains will reshape entire industries, and some of the largest corporations on the planet will find themselves competing on a level playing field with a few kids in a garage.

Has disintermediation ever been overhyped? Currency disintermediated trusted community members who you knew would do you a favor in return. The printing press disintermediated the Catholic Church, one of the most powerful entities of its day. The internet disintermediated... lots of people. Blockchains disintermediate everyone else.
Shooting in Zero-G in a Single Take: Behind the Scenes of OK Go's Music Video
Why Donald's Hair Looks Like That
My 2 suggestions for making money:

1. Offer a hosted version where I can log-in with my github login, select a repo with C++ and have it indexed.

Use github model: open-source repos are free (and act as advertising for you) and charge for private repos.

Alternatively, create an index for a current version at the time of importing but charge for re-indexing new checkins. Allow people to sponsor a given repo (i.e. anyone could sponsor indexing a public repo, not only the owner).

2. Put more effort into making self-hosted version easy to use, e.g. provide a docker image.

Independently, there are possible UI improvements, like:

* a keyboard shortcut for going to search field (see how I use '/' or Esc for activating search field in https://quicknotes.io/u/w9Yw/kjk)

* tabs. When e.g. doing a search for all usages of a symbol, I usually don't want to loose focus. This is additional information but currently it replaces what I'm looking at. It should be launched in a separate tab or split into 2 windows and have the results in a side window
Microsoft Announcing SQL Server on Linux
Also, change the name.
I mean, I didn't actually get anything out of this particular article at all or upvote it, but there was at least potential of hearing how they got to the point where they could get that funding and afford those experts, so I clicked it. It had a chance. Can't say the same if I saw "How Coca Cola increased ROI on their $2 billion advertising spend by 3%!"
> a robot that could put the toast in the toaster

This is almost always the wrong way to solve the problem. Trying to automate a human-friendly interface is far more trouble than it's worth, when you can easily use a machine-friendly interface to begin with.

For example, dishwashers aren't robots which stand in front of a sink, squeezing bottles of detergent on to a cloth and rubbing it over a stack of dishes. Instead, they're self-contained beige boxes with a well-defined input/output mechanism (racks to hold the dishes; standard plug for electricity; standard plumbing connections).

It's like screen-scraping your own application. Or writing a CLI's main loop with `expect`. Or when sci-fi films show robots typing on computer keyboards.

Let's take your example. Unless you're living in a backwards universe I'll assume that you want to put bread in the toaster. There are existing solutions to this, e.g. many hotels have toasters with a conveyor belt; rather than having to line anything up, there's a large catchment area to plonk the bread on to. A harder problem would be separating the slices of the loaf; this can be entirely avoided if the user "loads" a whole loaf at once, like a cartridge. E.g. by inserting paddles between the slices, they won't be exposed enough to go bad, but are easily separated as needed.

With everything roughly lined up there's not really anything to control other than turning it on. Plugs with timers are easy to get hold of (I use them for switching on lights in the evening). You could use something smarter like a clapper. Even if you use a "smart plug", there's no need for the toaster itself to be any different.
It's not really on-topic, but why do people name their projects with names that are very difficult to find via search engine? I really don't understand this mindset.
This is pretty rad. Going for the shirt!
What it feels like to get fired from Google
Makes it sound perfect for aquaponics.
React v15.0 Release Candidate
To me, it feels on the face of it, the experiments are really really reductionist and fail to recognise the role of human subjects and social cues in the equation.

For instance, in the first experiment outlined they had one set of subjects eat radishes instead of cookies before trying to solve an impossible puzzle. Now, if you are a subject and the first thing you are asked to do is eat radishes, isn't this a pretty good signal that you are probably being messed with? The logical reaction to that is to conclude that there's a greater chance that the puzzle is also some sort of trickery and you are much less likely to spend a long time trying to solve it.
That's a good idea. That's basically an apple recipe. And pretty easy to deal with the seeds that way.
Portuguese Train Companies Can't Escape Snowballs
VC Backed Unicorns Sometimes Die
"Harder"

The article was carefully written to engender empathy - no mention of the sociopathic tendencies. No mention of victims at all. Stress was on how much he liked sports.

But knowledge of all that he was, recasts that story irreparably. He was clearly sociopathic, lacking empathy. Any appearance of normality could not have been sustained. Even the stories of his supposed attachments were probably misinterpretations.

These are just observations. Please don't read it as an endorsement of Texas capital punishment, or callous disregard for those broken by a warped society.

Also, its not clear that sociopathic abuse was the problem. Empathy is learned before the age of 4(?) or not at all. His mother's mental problems were more likely at the root of it.
Ask HN: I want to learn a low-level, compiled language. What should I chose?
My background is mainly in Python and Java. I am currently considering C, Go or Rust. Which should I go with and why?
Thanks.
All projects start that way, mostly because it very hard to invent a new noun for something. Some projects just get really popular and then get high on search rankings for that noun organically.
Refer to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2298471 (5 years ago)