skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great perspective. I didn't start work until I was 16, and the dishwashing jobs (with both good and bad bosses) I had really set me up to appreciate what a great gig programming can be.
Sure, please shoot me an email (it's on my profile).
There is nothing irony, you are saying people living in totalitarianism country can't fight for democracy.

We are not just using the system, we use the system here to improve the system itself that's why people call it constructive community.
Why would you mix a money stealing operation with a money counterfitting one? It doesn't make sense. And we are talking huge sums here, the fake money would quickly show up everywhere in that area.
I can't comment on that directly, except to say that both are very interesting and that I enjoyed the blog post more.

One is a beautiful demonstration of metaballs, and the other is a technical description of how to get a similar result without the same cost.

I guess ideally they would have separate threads, but that horse has probably bolted. HN doesn't really have the capability to have a post that says: here are a collection of interesting posts by different people about this interesting subject, beyond the comments like we have here or a self-post with some discussion. That's probably ok.
Because there will probably be bugs that make it possible to break out of the sandbox and run arbitrary code on the target machine. Just like Java applets.
In this case it's more about where you get the knowledge. To parallel the motherhood example FTA:

> She does what she does not because she is going to be paid for her services and not because she is the most highly skilled, but because she wants to do it. And she does “the things worth doing,” which are the things closest and most sacred to all of humanity – nurturing a baby, teaching a child the first things, and, in fact, all things.

You're not doing the exercises that are being chosen by the expert who is telling you what to do because you're paying them, you're doing the exercises you want to do purely out of self-interest.
>I can't blame them for following orders

Stew on that for a bit. If I get a job, where someone lays me to rob you, would you blame me for following orders?
Try using your browser's reader mode. You should be able to pinch/zoom from there.
You know, "+1" usually has only one meaning:

Nonsense.

- Agreement: "I agree with whatever you're saying"
- Contributory : "I don't agree with what you're saying, but you elaborated your point *very* well and contributed to the discussion"
- Mercy: "I don't agree with what you're saying, but the hivemind punished you for no good reason, have an upvote"
- Popularity: "I like you and will +1 anything you write"
- Thanks: "I like what you did even if this post isn't relevant"

The second and third one are very common on sites like HN, certain places on Reddit, and Stack*

Downvotes have:

- Disagreement: "I disagree with what you're saying"
- Anger: "Fuck you, have a downvote"
- Doesn't contribute: "I might agree, but you're not helping the discussion"
- Incorrect: "This isn't about agreement, your advice is wrong and/or harmful"
It would be accompanied with democratic process of the people who currently use that land. If the community of land users decided it would not hurt them for whatever progress somebody else proposes, they would democratically decide among themselves whether or not to do that.

Nobody would vote to gentrify and therefore forcibly remove themselves from their homes.

Again, you just attached value to the very loaded term progress. What is progress for one person might not be progress for the people who use that land for their own sustenance, whether that be a house or a farm or an enterprise.
I implemented a table for Nodes, one for Edges. The Nodes table has an entry for JSON for that Nodes.

If I need more info for particular "Edge type", I just add new Node entry type "Edge_info" that link the Edge type to a JSON that content such info. I found that very flexible, but I have not used any real graph database.
That's a really great explanation, thank you. You are right, everyone has to Calculus 101 :-)
A hundred times this. I don't think perspective can be taught by explanation alone. You know else comes with perspective? Often humility, empathy, and emotional stability.
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I think there is a delay before the "reply" button appears, for posts past a certain nesting level.

I like this feature because it impedes the rapid nesting of conversations, and also allows the author time to edit his reply before anyone can address it.
Also, I will look up Danielle Morrill's stuff more. I've definitely enjoyed following Mattermark in general.
> whatever Russia or China does, especially militarily, is great and shows good leadership.

I submit the 'China' category page as a counter-argument: http://www.zerohedge.com/taxonomy/term/139

If you just want one recent story, here: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-10/world-economy-wreck...
Ok, thank you for the clarification.
Here's one of his graphs from 1900 to 1995 starting with census counting technology in 1900. If you allow GPUs as info tech then we are about in line with his most optimistic projection.

graph
http://globedia.com/imagenes/noticias/2011/10/17/singularida...

7 TFlops for $1000
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2898093/nvidia-fully-reveals-...
It doesn't have to be common. You can move to whatever school district you want to (if you have the money for housing there) and get that same level of education. No one's forcing you to send your kids to sub-par public schools.
The reaction here is indicative of why I'm starting to consider whether maybe it's best that Java stays Java. Sure, I'd personally be really annoyed typing super redundant type declarations everywhere. But then again, I wouldn't have to, because I'd simply use Scala, because it's more expressive. But a lot of people clearly love good old verbose Java.

Java has been super slow to adopt things that are more or less the norm in other popular languages. Why bother at this point? Isn't Kotlin a pretty good sugared-up Java, anyway?

Lightbend (caretakers of Scala, Play Framework, Akka, Spark, Slick, SBT, and others) wisely announced their dedication to both Scala and Java. It's caused a big stir in the community, but it kind of seems like that should make everybody happy. They're two ecosystems geared to serious software, built on a solid platform, but with very different constituencies. Lightbend realized there's no point in pressuring people to adopt Scala. People will do it on their own, if they want to. But with strong support of both languages, they can address a very broad swath of the development world.
But I don't understand something.

You showed up with lets say $50k at the casino, you departed with the same $50k. If you'll be investigated, you still can't justify the money you walked in with.
Haha, yes. One issue I do notice though is that the articles lag behind reality by some months at least. So by the time the news hits, it's already a much progressed state.
These sorts of comments about IBM have been appearing for years if not decades. The existence of previous comments didn't stop Buffett from buying IBM stock and the existence of the current comments won't influence him either.

Nonetheless, he's probably having second thoughts. In the past he's admitted he didn't invest in technology companies because he couldn't understand them. Foolishly he violated his own guidelines here.

A number of years ago I owned Burlington Northern stock as it was being acquired by Berkshire. The merger terms allowed choosing cash vs Berkshire stock vs some combination. I chose cash, because I was uncomfortable with owning the giant conglomerate which Berkshire now is.
For tech IPOs, profits don't matter in the short term
I scheduled mine over the holidays, and it worked out very nicely. Additionally, it meant I was around my family for any necessary support during recovery. All in all, it was very smooth.
A doctor can't keep you out of dangerous situations that are hazardous to your health. They can't exercise or watch your weight or quit smoking or take your medicine for you. They aren't there to notice the first symptoms of a disease. And you'll get worse results if you don't describe your symptoms accurately.

Of course they'll still do the best they can for people who don't do any of these things, but people who take care of themselves (or have other people - amateurs - to advocate for them) are going to get better use out of the medical system.
It's not exactly about trusting the game. You'd be extending trust to... everything inside the VM you expose the graphics card to.

And graphics cards are messy. Many of them are frankly a lot like accessing main memory without an MMU. It's extremely easy to get scrapes of other application's video RAM that hasn't been zeroed.

I'm not trying to tell you you shouldn't do it of course. Just... be aware. "hijack the GPU" doesn't even require a whole lot of malice. I've had video memory of my firefox tabs from last shutdown draped across my screen while the lightdm login windows do their first paint, for example. This is just the world we live in :(
Given the option tho, I know which one I'm taking.
Prior to reading these arguments I would have agreed. But I suppose I have to admit that I would prefer that someone said "This feature isn't necessary - feature Y is a perfectly good substitute" or even "this feature is inappropriate according to the goals of this project" and upvote those comments, rather than downvoting the original feature/pull request without giving a reason.

I'm not nearly as adamantly opposed to a downvote button, but I can understand the argument.
"Thoughts on Flash" is almost 6 years old.

http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/

Adobe is a business. They need to move on too. When companies like Microsoft or Adobe, for example, let users hang on for too long to legacy software, it hurts everyone.
I believe the implied meaning is:

+0 -> support from the sidelines (like for a change that doesn't directly affect you)/something that's not urgent but would be nice

-0 -> disagree from the sidelines/disagree with the solution but can't think of a better one
Doesn't state approved home schooling (in the USA) usually include aptitude testing at a local school? My impression was that the curriculum was set by the school, and the teaching was done by the parent.
That was before companies like Google were building datacenter-size computers for fun.
I wonder why you're being downvoted? Perhaps they know something we don't about the terrorist attacks averted and Constitutional protections upheld due to the NSA's virtuous efforts?
Yes, they do criticize China when they "blatantly props up the market" as ZH would say, but only because it would stink too hard to not say anything when the credo of ZH is that "governments manipulate markets and thats a bad thing".

But if you read the articles, you'll see that ZH has a very favorable opinion of China, especially when it provokes the US, like the current situation in the Spratly islands

However Russia, I never ever saw a bad article about them, or especially about Vlad, which is the current ZH hero.
While this isn't about MVPs or programming, this is Hacker News, so it's destined to be interpreted in that light once once posted here. I sympathize with your overall point, but reinterpretation contributes to timelessness.
I won't go into much detail because I would wind up ranting and only be somewhat understandable..

However, as an American citizen who went to public schools as a child/teenager and am now finishing up at a public state university, I'm inclined to say that the education system here is a complete wash.

It works for some people who fit the one-size mold that the system here seems to target, but there are a large number of children/teenagers/college-aged students for whom it does not.

That isn't to say one set of students are anymore gifted than the other. Just that the approach to education is deeply flawed. It works for the type of student it is set up for, and has little to no appreciation for other types, least of which if they even exist. The approach needs a serious revolution in order for our country to have a successful academic system.

source: I am from California and the state university I currently attend and am almost graduated from is in CA as well.
You don't think the soldier on the ground isn't also overworked? And not making significantly more snap judgments than just the one?
I keep waiting for the Qubes release notes that say they've upgraded to KVM.
I'm glad society no longer expects me to loaf about with a smelling-bottle dabbling in Italian. The elegant female can kiss my ass. I'd rather be ferociously competent.
Happened to me on Firefox 45.0 on Windows.

But when I restarted it gave a popup saying there was an unresponsive script and asking if I wanted to stop it.

Script: data:application/x-javascript;…B9XX0se30sWzMxMV0pKDMxMSl9KTs=:40
Honestly, you might even be able to get some grant money or financial support if you commit to helping them include whatever data they have in a user-friendly manner.

It might not be the full-scope of what you are trying to do, but it might be a way to help bootstrap part of your development.
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Before realizing that this was a Chesterton website, I took the word "Quotemeister" to indicate that this was a website called "The Quotemeister", wherein, I guessed, popular quotes were analyzed to get at their true meaning.

Does such a website exist?
Whose judgement do you trust enough that you're willing to outsource this decision to? Would you let esaym teach your children what he thinks is important? What if he was your child's teacher?

At the end of the day you're placing your trust in someone. They are just going to teach your kids what they think is important. Are you not willing to have an opinion on whether they are choosing the right things to teach?
Is there any evidence that Sedol was anywhere close to winning?
I like how at least the BlazeGraph people are talking about billions of edges and not thousands, but I'm not sure that's something I could use. That seems to be a "pre-order" page, so it sounds neither open source nor existent. And I'm trying to figure out what their normal non-GPU non-distributed software is, but it seems to mostly be a pile of Javadocs.

Using distributed computing on mere gigabytes of data is silly.

I think TinkerPop was something else back in 2011, but apologies if I've used the wrong terminology.
>is not accurate.

From wikipedia on eminent domain: "The property may be taken either for government use or by delegation to third parties, who will devote it to public or civic use or, in some cases, to economic development." The government, using eminent domain, literally forces you to sell the land. That is what the law is.

What part of that isn't true? They can take private land for public or "economic" development.

> Why should this be the case?

Private property is theft. Private property is a tool used to expropriate value from producers (workers) and give it to the property owners (capitalists). If you have a mine, a person or a corporation owned by a small group of people, buys the deed for the mine. They pay workers to extract the resources from the land for a wage. The wage is necessarily less than the value the workers create by mining the resources. That surplus goes into the pockets of the capitalist owners, even though they did no work. The miners are likely paid pennies, live in poor conditions, and now their home land is ruined by the ecological effects of the mining operation.

Resource extraction happens to be the easy one to describe, but the exact same principle holds in all manifestations of private property.

If you disagree, please at least read some Karl Marx first. Criticism of capitalism is well examined, and has been done for a long time.
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A few days ago, we had an article about Verizon and their "supercookies" they were injecting into the web pages of others.[1] They didn't do this for "enterprise and government" accounts. Now, Microsoft is pulling the same stunt. Enterprise customers don't get the forced upgrade, the "telemetry" backdoor, or forced ads. Only "consumers" get screwed.

You can't even buy a non-crap Windows as an individual any more.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11239781
Device42 - http://www.device42.com/

CMDB for the cloud era with REST APIs that can be used as a single source of truth for automating your IT infrastructure.

We integrate with ITSM tools like JIRA/servicenow, automation tools like puppet/chef. Integration with monitoring tools is coming soon.
Maybe if you keep trying you'll get it right. :)
And a sniper is far less likely to end up Youtube than a random swarm of little drones.
This is pretty rough, but I created a Chrome extension to help look up the closest parent stacking context: https://github.com/gwwar/z-context
While we're at it, why the hell isn't there all-day, every-day direct service from Millbrae to SFO? Having a massive multi-transit-agency station right by the airport, only to tell people "nope, can't get there from here, you have to go to San Bruno and change trains" is just dumb.
Why can't I help but feel the "our users must never be forced to learn" and "our children must never experience discomfort" mindsets are related, and contribute to the US coming in last place.
Wouldn't it be pretty easy to compare a re-implementation of a special function against a reference boost implementation? For example, there are only 232 floats and for a given function you can check them all very quickly. It's a little trickier for doubles, but one can imagine doing, say, 240 tests and getting a reasonable level of confidence.
Eclipse (Che) is already coming to the browser!

https://eclipse.org/che/
Users are also lazy (I know I am). Give them a two-click way to do something, and they'll use it over a click, emoji-hunt-and-type, and click.
yes, it's scary indeed.
First* Slack, then Facebook, and now GitHub. Looks like reactions are replacing (or expanding on..) the unary like/upvote/heart expression for tech products.

*Or at least the first time I've seen them used as an important feature.
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If the disabled suffer extra costs, I'd rather give them extra money and retain the right incentives.

It's true the rich do get to waste more, but that's already the case. At least then they would pay for it. That's extra money that could go to help the poor.
Well yes, if you're only option is to send them to a sub-par public school then the government is going to force you to send them to that school. If you don't have the means to move to a better neighborhood, if you don't have the means to pay for private school you have to deal with what you get.
Not for long, at $60/hr
As of this moment it's throwing an 'Application error' status page.
Using the no fly list for this is moronic...

However connecting a civilian police wanted fugitives registry / arrest warrant list to the airline booking system actually sounds like a good idea... The kind of good idea that's so obvious I thought it was already done decades ago.
Right, if you're asking every single issue poster ever to remember to post two comments specifically for voting, versus just posting their issue itself.
None of those are mutually exclusive with teaching your kids programming at an early age, or even with pulling them out of school.
That is a pretty big if.
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Surely you don't believe the average American can just up and move to places with great public schools?

I was privileged enough to grow up someplace that allowed me to go to a great public school. It's a great city by many measures, but poor in public transport, affordable housing, and working-class jobs.
I think GitHub wanted an option to express "I don't understand this," and decided :confused: was a better fit. Which makes sense, because :thinking_face: could mean "I'm considering this" or "Interesting point," which is not, I think, what that option is meant to convey.
improper maintenance, contaminated fuel, and similar non-pilot related causes.

Before you ever takeoff, you must check for these things.

> maintenance:

do a full walk-around of the aircraft, checking for any damage. You can't catch everything, but you should be thorough enough so that if anything sudden did happen, ie: your airplane got clipped by the fuel truck, that you would catch it.

> contaminated fuel

Aviation fuel is dyed blue. Before every flight we take a small sample of fuel from the bottom of each tank to ensure water hasn't contaminated our fuel. On highwing aircraft we also draw fuel from the fuel lines leading down into the engine. This is sufficient to almost completely rule out fuel contamination.

I'm not saying that sudden accidents don't occur, merely that they are extremely remote. Even then, it is the responsibility of the pilot to plan accordingly and to further mitigate the consequences of mechanical breakdowns.
Although interesting, nothing here is really surprising... And for most businesses, I would be willing to bet that they don't need the features that Oracle offers over MS-SQL... though there's a lot of bias to go around.

In the end though, a lot of DBA and developer careers have been made and persist around the Oracle ecosystem and have a lot of influence in many companies.
Not OP, but as a paper & digital subscriber of the Washington Post (which I subscribed to for the Volokh Conspiracy, when they migrated), I have decided not to renew my subscription as I find the editorial board too opinionated.

I have zero problems with op-ed pieces being opinionated, but when those opinions seep into the actual news, I have a hard time calling it journalism, and an even harder time giving them my money.

That said, I can think of literally zero unbiased sources, especially as Circa's shut down. It doesn't seem to be a feature that many people are willing to pay for.
I remember a chat I had with a colleague about 6 years ago. He posited that I would be really excited to work at FB since it was such a fast growing company with all these interesting problems. I responded that I couldn't understand what he was talking about, there really wasn't much interesting going on outside of some graph analytics at the time and that problem had a pretty limited life-span given FB's particular use-cases.

There's been very little really truly interesting blue-sky technical work at FB that's I'm aware of other than trying to figure out how to get around pretty prosaic issues through clever hackery rather than just doing it some other already established way and trying to figure out how to exploit their user-base for targeted ads (which by many accounts from folks I know aren't all that great w/r to ROI).

The more interesting stuff seems to be happening in their acquisitions like WhatsApp and Oculus, but the "Facebook stink" feels like it's already starting to get to those teams as well.

I honestly have almost no idea what their 13,000 employees must be doing outside of data center operations and various O&M projects at this point. Building quality mobile client software definitely doesn't seem to be it.

What I find immensely interesting is how they're pulling in around $11/user/year (about $4 in pure profit)! Their economy of scale is pretty good considering it only costs them about $7/user/year to run the service. I'd easily pay $10/year for a service like FB that didn't entirely suck and had all my friends on it.
"He wants to isolate them from other children and teach them one skill instead of letting them learn a range and choose."

He didn't say this anywhere in his post.