skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have mixed feelings about this. While being a good puzzle solver is important, to be really good you need a certain level of creativity in thinking which goes beyond just the ability to solve puzzles. Thinking like a criminal as an example is a necessity in a number of cyber-security fields and can trump the ability to solve puzzles. I see a lot of vulnerabilities get marginalized because people simply can't correlate how it could be used by a criminal to make money. Likely for a reason, it's the ability to think like a criminal which is largely missing & where people do have that ability many times they are treated by their cyber security peers as a bit suspect.
I know that backplanes (like the old S100 from the 1980s) hit certain performance walls, but they are more adaptable than motherboards. You could swap out any component including the CPU and even the various interfaces.
It's nice that single board computers like the Raspberry Pi use so little power, but they are still monolithic and impossible to upgrade.

I wish somebody would make a newer, faster backplane-like form-factor for small computers. The RPi Compute Module is an interesting step in that direction, though it would be better if the RAM was on a separate card.
> brutally challenging assumptions and discovering failure points

Nicely phrased. I'd apply this to engineers in the general too. People can often speak of them (and me) as difficult; when this is really what is needed of people that make things happen. Especially on critical infrastructure. You can't really wing details on the integrity of the bridge you are building.
Drumming wasn't important to me, it was just a fun novelty for a short time. I knew what it would cost (both time and money) to bridge the gap from talent to real expertise and it wasn't personally worth it to me.
The structure of elements/atoms is well understood based on their subatomic constituents. Naively, you might think that can you just keep combining increasingly larger numbers of electrons, protons, and neutrons to create new elements. However, the stability of an atom becomes problematic when the size of the nucleus approaches the interaction length of the strong force (i.e. the nucleus is too large for the strong force to hold it together). These elements are unstable and therefor not relevant as far as organic chemistry is concerned.

Furthermore, the formation of elements in the Universe is also a fairly well understood process. For elements lighter than Fe it generally occurs through nuclear fusion in the center of stars. For elements larger than Fe it generally occurs through the r-process and s-process. With these we can model nucleosynthesis extremely well and it gives us a very good idea of the elemental composition of the Universe. That being said, there could be some crazy unknown element out there but it would contradict almost everything know about atomic physics.
We just switched it over to Route53 and set up some fail-overs there. Took us 5 mins and we're back online.

Looks like DO is still offline so it seems to have been a good call...
Security risks posed by abandoned buildings and factories
This is a fun thought-experiment, but they need to do a lot more footwork in applying our unique population characteristics to theoretically ancient civilizations in highly different contexts. For instance, who knows what the behavior of a self-regulating population is on hitting the carrying capacity of a region—we already have and use birth control, and we regulate our worldwide economy (albeit poorly, look at our use of oil).

> For now we shall stick with the simple model where the average population of a civilisation increases with the planet’s surface area.

This is exactly what keeps it as an amusing thought experiment a la the doomsday argument—it's an unintuitive result from treating our population growth as simple as possible and extrapolating it to a general law.
Off topic from the article, I don't understand the purpose of using profanity and then censoring it. Writing things like F!@K just seems like a weird middle ground that loses the intensity of cursing and the professionalism of not cursing.
It's still entirely your fault. Something like Route53/Cloudflare is dirt cheap and crazy redundant. Don't risk your business on free/side services.
Physics is the reason that other elements likely don't exist. One can only arrange protons, neutrons, and electrons in a fixed number of "stable" ways.

Of course, this is today's understanding. We may be wrong. :-)
I'm trying to collect a similar dataset for freelancer hourly rates on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/freelance/comments/4bsk14/freelance...

Tried it on Hacker News as well, but it didn't get any attention:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11337833
See my edit as well.

Based on what GNU says in the first link it seems kind of reasonable although I will not dare to use it without checking carefully with lawyers as this obviously this isn't what a lot of people think.
> Is there a reason that other (alien) elements can't exist that we've never been exposed to?

Yes, because you form new chemical elements by adding protons (and stabilizing neutrons) to the nucleus, and humans have found or synthesized the first 118 of these. The ones that don't occur in naturally on earth are short-lived an unstable.
For desktop app. You will regret it.
The "really lazy desktop app" choice is Qt, not Visual Basic.

Visual Basic hasn't really existed for decades.
I enjoy gratuitous profanity and PLs, well done.
Postgres just doesn't scale, learnt that one the hard way
Automatable Management
I originally titled the article with the censored version as that was the name on the page. I believe they censor it on the first page as a way around workplace filters, as there's a SFW button at the top. I think once you get into it, the language is uncensored.
Why don't those categories provide information about each other?
You can go to your domain registrar and switch to another DNS provider (GoDaddy has their own DNS service).
When he said "Julie Rubicon" was someone's real name I had my first doubt; "isn't 'Rubicon' some mythical thing, then how can it be someone's last name?"

wasn't yet sure but I started to pay attention, noticed extra "woolly" style of writing (not bad btw, just another marker), the bit where he said it was a neural network that accidentally started preducting the future sealed it.
That might be what some companies have in mind, but those companies are wrong to use the AGPL because that isn't what the license says. I don't really know how one could read the AGPL and think that it requires clients to be AGPLed.

The only difference between the AGPL and GPL, other than the name, is that the AGPL requires you to offer to provide the source of your modified version of the software to all of its users. In short: network interaction equals distribution.

It says nothing about what licenses may apply to any software that interacts with the AGPLed software over a network. Anyone that suggests otherwise is misleading you or are mislead themselves.

Edit:

Note that MongoDB's drivers are MIT-licensed because they are made "part of" the client software. (A)GPL virality would come into play for drivers incorporated into clients.
> it's a direct counterpart to xhyve on OSX, except entirely built into the OS

xhyve on Mac OS X is a very thin wrapper around Hypervisor.framework which itself is "entirely built into the OS".
Reminded me of the shopping spree of the Chinese Insurer Anbang.

Waldorf Astoria in NY was one of their big purchases

They were bidding on Starwood Hotels
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-starwood-hotels-m-a-anbang...

Fidelity Life is also theirs
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-09/anbang-to-...
This assumes alien populations are stuck on there initial planet. We could just as easily find most life living on Dyson spheres, small moons etc.

Of note, if fusion get's cheap enough planets far from stars may be more useful as they get to radiate more energy into space.
Things You Didn't Know About Designing Office Products
The issue isn't just about "choice" etc: it's also about how jobs that women predominantly do are lower in prestige and pay than jobs that men predominantly do.

The change in programming from being a low prestige, low salary job done by women to being a high prestige, high salary job done by men is sometimes cited an example of that. I don't know if there are flaws in that example, but I think the overall idea makes sense. I read an interesting article about this, but I don't recall the link. Sorry.
Does it actually make sense to define an expert as skill relative to others? If I define my own programming language and am the only one that knows it, I'm inherently an expert in it by this definition. I'm better than |world population| - 1 people with this language. However, I may not actually be an expert. I could have created something beyond my ability to truly master (or that I haven't mastered to the level of expert yet).
We've tried Docker for Mac with John Lees-Miller's excellent NodeJS in container development example http://jdlm.info/articles/2016/03/06/lessons-building-node-a... and it works great!
I think it's more that people writing libraries are depending on left-pad. You can write the function in almost the time it takes to add and install the dependency.

Furthermore, left-pad didn't really do one thing well. It did one specific subcase of one specific problem well. That's like a tenth of a thing, for a definition of well that basically means "written by a monkey taking an npm tutorial".

This also feeds into an extreme example of the continuing discussion around the cost/value/risks of extensive, transitive dependencies with the general consensus being that you would've been better off writing your own left-pad function 1,000 times rather than forcing the risk of this dependency onto your downstream.
This analysis is based on many unjustified assumptions. I don't think we can go reliably very far on this route.

However, I do think that we can scientifically study some aliens today, or more precisely what we can see from them, through the UFO phenomenon. Yes, that thing! For me the only paradox in the Fermi paradox is that the UFO phenomenon is boycotted as a manifestation of Aliens on earth.

The following three articles are a product of such study. They present a new electromagnetic propulsion system called PEMP inspired by the data of UFO observations. It also present a totally innovative method to produce the intense EM fields required by this propulsion system. These are currently only theories waiting for an experimental validation. The author is a physic theorist, not an experimentalist.

"Pulsed EM Propulsion of Unconventional Flying Objects":http://www.meessen.net/AMeessen/Propulsion.pdf

"Evidence of Very Strong Low Frequency Magnetic Fields": http://www.meessen.net/AMeessen/Evidence.pdf

"Production of EM Surface Waves by Superconducting Spheres: A New Type of Harmonic Oscillators": http://www.meessen.net/AMeessen/Production.pdf

So there is no need to speculate. Just open your eyes and look at the data we already have for so many years.

Note that this is the product of an inductive research process. The initial working hypothesis was that UFO are real and witnesses report real data on them. Now see if we can derive a valid propulsion system matching the described artifacts using only conventional physics law.

It was initially a test, an experiment on a pure theoretical ground. The test is apparently conclusive. We now have a theory we can test in our lab and we could validate a disruptive discovery.

Objectively, we still don't know if UFOs are real and they are aliens visiting earth. But we now have an opportunity to indirectly test that possibility with pure solid ground science and engineering. Thanks to these theories.
Everything in that image are memes from 4chan's /pol/ there was clearly a raid last night to train the bot.
My hometown of Munich switched much out its IT to Unix/ OpenOffice etc. in the 2000s, with mixed success: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux

As far as I remember, one of the biggest issues is lack of compatibility with MS Office documents.
You could, and that's why it's trivial package manager hygiene to pin versions and always test before upgrading versions.
I think if you don't even know the basics of something, you should go learn them before discussing it.
The Score itself is ridiculous! It shouldn't matter-- but it often does, completely human.

We should all work on cultivating an internal locus of control.

Tim Ferriss and Josh Waitzkin recently spoke about this issue (fwd to 50:00) http://fourhourworkweek.com/2016/03/23/josh-waitzkin-the-pro...
< It does not help that most politicians are from the middle upper class and own large amounts of property. Few will have the courage to devalue their own net worth by double digit percent. >

This is the real reason. As I've mentioned on other threads, California's main business is and always has been real estate.
It's more like he can say what the colors outside the room are PROBABLY like.
The BSDL does not make much economic sense to the company open sourcing their code; a new competitor would fork the code, make closed improvements, and merge any changes from the open source code. That means that the competitor is always gaining by a one-way flow of improvements.

To use open source code, the more permissive the license the better. But to actually open your own code, BSDL is a very tough sell.

That's also why they use the AGPL. With database systems, even if they were under the GPL, some competitors could just modify the system and run it on their own server with improvements, and offer just the service to their clients. Again, the improvements go one way only: since the competitor would not distribute the modified system, as it's running on their servers, they would not need to distribute source changes. With the AGPL, that loophole is closed.
Microsoft's AI chatbot sent incredibly racist tweets
> How does one 'deliberately practice' writing?

See Venkatesh Rao's Quora answer: https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-tips-for-advanced-writer...

“Writing is a skill like any other, and the famous 10,000 hour rule should apply, and it does, but not in the way you might assume. A prolific writer can usually churn out about 1000 reasonably decent words in an hour, so if you count in words, it might seem like 10 million words would be enough. Or at 4 hours a day, 250 days a year, about 10 years.

The problem is everybody writes. And yes, things like emails count. So any idiot can clock that many words in 10 years even if they only do a lot of casual/work email and texting. ...

What matters is not how much you write, but how much you rewrite. ...

The HUGE difference between everyday writing that everybody does and serious writing is the proportion that is re-writing. I'd estimate that for non-writers, rewriting accounts for maybe 10-20% of their writing.

For serious writers, it accounts for anywhere between 50-90% depending on how critical the particular piece is. ...”
As a Java developer, I am a bit jealous. When people joke about us we usually only get a link to the Spring documentation of AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean (or maybe the enterprise hello world), but no one ever wrote that as a service. Maybe someone can do that? https://abstractsingletonproxyfactorybean.io seems to be available!
> It must also be mentioned, sadly, that data shows that shows that police profile racially despite it being illegal, including, sadly, judges, who seem to punish minorities about whom there are negative stereotypes more harshly for similar crimes.

It's more complicated than that. Slate Star Codex has the goods[1]. Basically, studies show that cops stop black people more often than white people, but it's unclear whether those extra stops are justified or not. It's hard to tease out the real data, as many of these studies are terribly designed. For example, some of them trusted criminals to be honest about their previous criminal behavior. Combine that with the media's tendency to misinterpret the results of studies[2], or even outright lie with statistics[3][4], and it can be easy to get a skewed view of things. :(

1. http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/25/race-and-justice-much-m...

2. http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/02/12/before-you-get-too-exci...

3. http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/02/17/lies-damned-lies-and-so...

4. http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/08/29/fake-euthanasia-statist...
Anarchists don't generally strive towards communism because they recognize what history shows: communist states are even less accountable than modern oligarchal democracy.
The Road to AGI. Building a Computer as Smart as Humans
The author needs to lighten up and pay more attention to the avenues of learning he prefers, rather than what he hates. I have never seen Kardashian's ass in a respected scientific journal.

Related: https://xkcd.com/603/
Future Sex Magazine (1993) Archive Project (NSFW)
I read 'intensity' as 'integrity' and I think I much the sentence that way.
MongoDB used to distribute drivers under a more permissive license for this exact reason IIRC.
I guess if you're putting more servers in a rack, it does tend to be a vertically-oriented process. :)
I would say that if one does not have experience with an enterprise stack they should really choose to work with one irrespective of whether they are a startup or no. Your startup will probably fail anyway. The experience you get is the only thing that you'll be left with. And if you chose to work with chicken-scheme and what not, good luck putting that on your CV.
Unfortunately very few of those people have actually read the license. As another commenter said, I don't see how you can read the license and come to the conclusion that a user of an AGPL program over the network would have to AGPL their code. It just doesn't make any rational sense.
derp! Thanks for pointing that out!
Maybe I'm getting old. I love these sorts of technology selector flowchart things in general. However, the trope of throwing in a bunch of random "fucks" and getting a ton of upvotes for it feels played out to me.
100 times on the board
http://bit.ly/1RzOIK2
Yes, there is a reason. We've thoroughly explored the periodic table through our studies of nuclear processes (lots of government funding for anything nuclear weapons related). It turns out you can create a ton of elements we don't see in nature, but almost none of them are stable: you smash atoms together to make a new one, but the new one flys apart after a <second (and that's actually a long lifetime for these atoms, many have lifetimes of nanoseconds). There is a potential "island of stability" around element 120-130, but even there lifetimes are predicted to be less than a minute.

In addition to the stability argument, there are also energy requirements. It turns out fusion (stars) only gives energy up to iron, then it requires energy to make bigger atoms. In other words, you get energy back out when you split big atoms (I.e. nuclear reactors). In nature, all elements past iron are created only in the spectacular energies of supernovas, which occur in less than a second.

Basically, we have a really good grasp on the elements that can exist. We're only missing the details on a few things that occur on nanosecond and less timescales.
When in doubt, consult the dictionary of youth vernacular: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=No+Chill. The way I'd define it personally is that chill is the quality of not being easily fazed and implies a coolness. Zero chill is the lack of that and might mean a person can't take jokes and is quick to anger. (Though of course depending on region and context, the phrase could be used differently)
Nixon was most certainly a bigot. If you doubt that statement, listen to him confirm it for yourself in this great documentary: "Richard Nixon In His Own Words" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbWataLl9k8) which is comprised of secret recordings he ordered on himself.
And those policies ended 50 years ago! Liberals have been in charge of housing policy for literally decades.
Especially when "What the fuck are you building?" is present further in the questionnaire.
Tools for thought: graphical algebra and Fourier analysis
Uber's bug bounty program is a complete sham, specific evidence entailed
It would be nice to be able to back up a question. It was pretty funny, but having to start over every time to check out the whole decision tree was a bit tedious.
I think he's approaching it from the assumption that a sentient being should assume itself to be a random individual out of all the sentient beings in existence, across all sentient species.
Damn...I guess Tay is way smarter than I originally thought.
FUCK is just a high entropy statement with lots of energy.
...and set up by military and paramilitary training to treat any potential threat as an actual, lethal threat. Furthered by the knowledge that the alleged aggressor was likely of an undesirable economic group and race.
> (I'm not sure anyone really wanted to know that...)

I did, thanks!
Very nice! Any plans for integration with http://shoutcloud.io/ ? I would love to have my strings both left padded AND capitalized, but the APIs are incompatible. :(
Pain Points at 7nm
Google bought Bufferbox a long time ago. They recently showed interest in actually having the autonomous vehicle have a bufferbox on it so you have to walk to the vehicle to get your package.
is it correct to compare citusdb with pipelinedb?
It got the wrong language for my example, a digital audio workstation with peer to peer collaboration.

It said use Go, but Go is garbage collected and that is unacceptable for an app that needs to process real time audio with low latency.

Same thing applies to any networked video game.
Does Amazon's Route 53 count as a DNS provider, or do you treat it a hosting provider?
"I may not be Mick Jagger, but I am playing in a band and we did have some gigs (before we had that 50% decline in audience when my mother got bored and stopped showing up)"
- just about every twentysomething before coding became a desirable career
I thought Primack was smarter than this. Seems like he might have been played here. Even at $7/order (apparently its best market), I'd be surprised if that covers variable costs, even in a market denser than Atalanta.
I was raised to think that politics and religion are not appropriate subjects for polite company; and even that raising either topic outside narrow situations is impolite. I have since grown to think the sentiment is wrong and destructive. Assuming others in your cohort feel similarly, It leaves those discussions to only those people who are willing to breach decorum, or you simply don't have them. The results are that we tend to hear more often from zealots than we do more moderate people, we also leave ourselves ill-equipped to discuss contentious subjects and resolve conflict amicably, and worst of all we make important decisions on matters that affect everyone using poor information and without the benefit of the perspectives of our peers.
PHP's composer, for example, writes a "composer.lock" tracking the exact versions/commit-shas as was recursively resolved on "install" or "upgrade" time, so you can commit that after testing a "composer upgrade" and be sure you stay with tested versions, and others can then do a composer install based on the lock-file instead of the composer.json "spec" file (which may contain version wildcards).
Five Days in the Glades with Florida's Wild Python Hunters
Star Wars Fan Nerds Out Thinking Next Movie Is Filming in His City
The Anatomy of a React Redux App (with 6 Types of Components)
No. I'd spend 15 mins at the start of the day, and would take it everywhere except the bathroom.

My intuition is that there should be something similar on a smartphone.
Before this I didn't know that they charged subscription fees. I have toyed with the idea of using Instacart, but I wouldn't pay a subscription. I don't really see the point of a subscription fee for a retail service. I give you the money, you give me the thing, end of transaction, right?