skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CockroachDB is optimistically concurrent, so there is not locking. However, your use case is definitely possible.

The transaction would:
1. Read the current document (i'm assuming this needs to be done to compute the translog).
2. Read the latest ID in the translog table
3. Write a new entry to translog with ID+1
4. Write the document.

If any other transaction interleaves with this process (by either reading or writing one of the same keys in a way that would violate isolation), one of the two transactions will be aborted.
Maybe incendiary, but very little charisma . More than all the other candidates, incl. hillary , but still vanishingly little of it. But we dont live in a world of charismatic leaders. Obama is probably the most charismatic of all, and that's telling.
So in response to excessive spending people want to spend more?
> I wonder if Trump is considered to have charisma.

I think PG is onto something, but mislabeled it. Brands win elections and Charisma is a great way to build a stronger presence in peoples minds.

Trump is winning because he owns a place in every single voters mind, he is familiar and therefore relevant.

All consumers and voters make emotional decisions and than support them with logic afterwards. Politics is no different, people emotionally (subconsciously) decide who they like the most and than find the logical positions to convince themselves.

This is human nature, logic follows will.

Trump is winning because he has a more memorable brand than any other candidate. Clinton is winning because she also has a very memorable brand.

My gut tells me that Clintons brand beats trump in a political context, but I am not sure.
And to make this really annoying, you still need to know low-level algorithms and data structures to make it through most interview processes. What they should really do is give you a crappy API doc and have you make it do something useful.
So ... "Nice but there's more important things"
You didn't miss anything, I misspoke. I didn't mean to imply he held that that specific belief.
> As for the theory being obvious, as far as I know, no one has proposed it before. Election forecasters are proud when they can achieve the same results with much more complicated models.

People have been saying for ages that the politician that wins is the one who you can envision yourself having a beer with. Sounds to me like the exact theory he presents.
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You have QuakeWorld and almost a terabyte in the same story. It seriously managed to write 800 gigs!? How did they have that much storage?
I voted for Pinboard as a member of this community, even when I likely would not have voted normally, because Maciej is a smart, charismatic founder who I knew would do something brilliant with the opportunity. I'm sure there are many HN members who voted similarly, which very well might look like a comparatively odd pattern.

I'm sad that the community choice was not allowed to be made by the community, and doubly sad that the majority of us who voted for Pinboard, in good faith and within the spirit of the event, will not be able to enjoy what Maciej would have done.

Congratulations to the winners, nonetheless; this wasn't their fault.
I think that is true to some extent, but Knuth's approach (which I'm more drawn to) is also theoretically inclined, albeit of a different approach than SICP. Knuth (and myself) see programming as fundamentally being about computers, and Knuth starts with what a computer can do and builds from there. Ableson and Sussman see programming as more about computation, so they start with a model of computation (based on scheme, lambda calculus, etc.). These two approaches are quite different and I don't think you can reconcile them easily. Not that either one is all that much better than the other, though Knuth's is certainly more efficient. It seems to me that a large part of which you favor comes down to how you're wired.
Well he only won the Republican Nomination so we will see what happens in November.
That's the absolute additional deaths, not the change ratio.

> Planned out-of-hospital birth was associated with a higher rate of perinatal death than was planned in-hospital birth (3.9 vs. 1.8 deaths per 1000 deliveries, P=0.003; odds ratio after adjustment for maternal characteristics and medical conditions, 2.43; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.37 to 4.30; adjusted risk difference, 1.52 deaths
per 1000 births; 95% CI, 0.51 to 2.54). The odds for neonatal seizure were higher and the odds for admission to a neonatal intensive care unit lower with planned out-of-hospital births than with planned in-hospital birth. Planned out-of-hospital birth was also strongly associated with unassisted vaginal delivery (93.8%, vs. 71.9%
with planned in-hospital births; P<0.001) and with decreased odds for obstetrical procedures
Sure there's a prior for that, as 0 and 1 are not probabilities.
What are effective methods for stopping ticket scalpers? Heavily penalizing resale is kind of a crappy route but for a show like Hamilton I wonder what the legitimate person resale case is. Has any artist fended off the scalpers successfully?
The article itself says cancer and heart disease are #1 and 2.
I would be much more interested in contrasting the applications of teams accepted and teams rejected from YC.
Game Maker is what got me started after MSIE 5 let me down - only like ten years later I discovered MSIE did in fact have an error console to show you what you did wrong, making it not completely trial and error!

So did creating games pull me into programming? Hmm, kind of, after another avenue failed. But I certainly recognize what you mean, I also know many people who'd love to make games full time (and some do! Just not all, not enough demand).
Yeah, I used to be much more excited because Android was playing catch-up on quality for a while. Remember the jump from 2.3 to 4? Just a much smoother experience overall. What a fun time.

Now it's mostly backend stuff as Play Services regroups much more of the user visible stuff. Boring is good too though, just not as exciting
"Occam's razor says we should prefer the simpler of two explanations."

Theory: In US presidential elections, the candidate who wins Ohio wins the elections.

"Oddly enough, the most recent true counterexample is probably 1960."

http://i1.wp.com/metrocosm.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/pr...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/22/us/22iht-letter22.html?_r=...
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Party like its 1999!
Interesting to see that only half of bootcamp attendees actually found a job. That's not the kind of stats these camps like to advertise.
You know, it is ironic that the 1 industry funding innovation (venture capital) is the 1 sorely lacking any innovation at all. It's always just the case of former-founders pooling their cash into a fund, then asking for more money from pension-funds, etc. and they then become "X fund" or "Y Capital" or "Z Ventures", etc. The game always follows this type of rotational pattern but...

Based on that, I'd like to tell you guys at Y Combinator that even though you are very entrenched in the happenings of the Valley, you are also probably the only VC-like company doing innovative and risky things like this.

I don't think I've ever heard of a VC or other-type organization funding companies based purely on a pseudonymous-community of "up" votes.

With that being said, at least we will see someone attempt to commercialize small-scale aquaponics, so something good/interesting did come out of this experiment. And not to be biased, I hope the other 2 do just as well.
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Technical solutions are unnecessary. Just make the tickets non-transferrable, and have the ticket holder produce ID confirming the name on the ticket matches the person. Plenty of music festivals, Vegas nightclubs and other places already employ this strategy very effectively.
I'll just consider myself happy I don't work with a manager like you, then.

The company doesn't exist for me to hack on cool new things. Of course not. But what you fail to understand is that I'm a very intelligent person who is not planning on spending the rest of my life doing shitty simple e-commerce UIs, or whatever it is that you do. It's easy to think nothing but the goals of the company matter, especially if you're an awful founder, but the world just doesn't work that way. We all need to move on when the company likely dies, and I don't want four years of "I had no choice but to work with crap" on my resume when this happens, just because I had an asshole boss who hated other people who did smart things around him.
Thanks for clarifying! Please post a list of books you will recommend for professional programmers.
Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch Nails) would reserve a block of tickets at each show for his fan club; the tickets were tied to your name, and you had to show your ID to get in with them. No transfers were possible.
Raise the price. Scalpers are taking advantage of a market where price is not equal to what people are willing to pay. Be more dynamic with ticket prices, and scalpers have no margin to keep.
In the hacker news Android app browser your page looks fine but the tests has no line height.

Proof: https://www.dropbox.com/s/cdn5agc7plbr8g3/Screenshot_2016-05...
I mean, he used Russian VPNs.
Yeah, /r/all needs to die. The problem is finding and showing great stuff while not flooding niche communities with new members. If you send tons of people to /r/gaming, /r/gaming will stop being good, people will migrate to /r/games, and the cycle will repeat. Any replacement for /r/all will have to address this issue somehow.
> I'm sure the mention of "Slack for X" is a golden flag for some VCs

It's crazy how many people in the industry believe that Slack is already more popular than email, is close to overtaking email, or is growing faster than email.

The stupidity in tech has reached the level of being a moral hazard, where it really just incentivizes everyone else to be bad at their jobs.
After which it will go on tour and ticket prices will become more reasonable.
I call shenanigans.

The way this experiment was presented, the Hacker News community would be allowed to select two YC Fellowship recipients. According to the announcement, "all the interviewing and evaluating will be done in regular HN threads."

But that's not what happened here. I won the voting by a yuuuge margin, and then the vote was nullified in a vape-filled room after it became clear that Hacker News might have its own agenda, separate from YC.

Accusations of soliciting votes by tweeting the HN threads would carry weight with me if there had been any published guidelines about what kind of publicity was allowed. But rules about "vote brigading" on HN are intentionally kept secret.

People have repeatedly accused me of trolling, but I don't think it's me who just trolled you all.

I want my twenty grand.
Really? Do you really mean _Universal_ Basic Income, which I understand to be everyone in a country? I admit I don't know the numbers but it's hard to believe the current system has enough for 330 million of us in the US.
No, of course not.
I believe you were looking for this? https://xkcd.com/1122/
As a sibling post mentioned already, your base salary is not pure profit either. Most goes to mortage payments, car payments, taxes etc. It is still a worthwhile comparison I think.
"building things on top of the underlying blockchain is on the rise"

You'd still be using Bitcoin if your building things on top of the blockchain.
I do not want to be snarky, but are these languages actually used and what do they bring to the table?

I have to admit, if I hear the term "workflow" I get very suspicious as there does not seem to be a consensus on what exactly a "workflow" is. The only thing people seem to agree on is the idea that "a workflow describes some kind of data flow" which is pretty broad as this includes all programs.

So a "workflow engine" is then ... an interpreter for a (mostly domain-specific) language?
There's a larger statistical significance issue here. Check the different scales + the degree of certainly is even worse when the you're talking about minute changes to a fraction of a percentage, year-over-year.

Made a quick file to illustrate: https://www.dropbox.com/s/uq0apjt69zadiii/YC%20Blog%20Resize...
I think Sanders has more charisma than both. Why is he getting such a blank out in the media and social media? Are people seriously considering Clinton, just because the establishment just pretends like she's the only real democratic candidate? Disclaimer I don't live in the US, that's just the impression I get. But I certainly notice discussions in lots of places simply pretending Sanders doesn't exist, which considering what I see when I actively pay attention to stuff around him, does surprise me, to say the least.
My favourite part is that I clicked it and got a 404. That seems really appropriate.
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No, but there is no evidence that biological neural networks exhibit quantum effects.

Classical (Newtonian) mechanics seem sufficient enough to explain how neurons work.
I think postgres' docs work quite well as a reference documentation. But in my opinion they're quite bad at introducing users to postgres/SQL/databases, including important operational tasks like backups.
So, they sell tickets below market value, then they are surprised when people re-sell them at market value and are feeling ripped off?

Why not auction all tickets, and if you want to give people the chance to see it for cheap, have lottery tickets which require ID?
I disagree with that. There are many reasons artists want to keep prices low. In this case maybe you don't want to reserve your ticket a full year in advance. An artist might also want their work to be accessible to more people than those that can afford a $1000 ticket. Raising the price is too simplistic an option.
I remember that it was a long time before RWT's forums could be indexed by Google.
Great tool - we used gor on our team recently to test a rewritten legacy API with captures of real production data. It was invaluable for exposing edge cases in the requests that we hadn't considered.
You can water pump uphill, or, as they're experimenting with here, you can pump air underwater: https://www.torontohydro.com/sites/electricsystem/GridInvest...

I'm sure compressed air in other forms would be a good store. You could also raise and lower weights into a mine, it doesn't matter so long as you can convert between electric energy and kinetic potential of some kind.
According to the announcement, "all the interviewing and evaluating will be done in regular HN threads."

According to the same announcement, "We can talk about this in the comments, but to answer one question I know will come up: Upvotes are an important factor but they're too brittle to rely on exclusively; doing so would encourage the wrong kind of trying to game the system."

They said from the start that votes alone would not decide the results.
It's a variation of a famous John McCarthy quote: "“As soon as it works, no one calls it AI any more.”

http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/138907-john-mccarthy/ful...

It's not meant to be a serious definition but IMO the phenomena is very real.
Worth mentioning, for any who don't know: "Make America Great Again" was lifted wholesale from the Reagan campaign. I haven't verified it, but I read that he trademarked it soon after Romney lost in 2012.
If solar becomes 3x cheaper than coal, a 40% loss isn't going to matter.
This. Such a simple solution and only the performers and companies that really care do this.
Funny thing was this place did espouse "test everything" except it came in the form of our Product leads "test only the things I don't agree with." Which of course meant we were using all of our testing budget on dumb things.
Both Dan and Maciej are personal friends of mine, and it's uncomfortable to see them at odds.

But Maciej is right.
Companies will eventually learn they'll need to accept Ruby/JS/Python in their stack to get this new swathe of cheap labor, and you'll see these devs slowly transition towards enterprise.
It's not hard to imagine a future writer looking back and saying, "Of course Trump lost the election, he was no Kennedy or Obama and widely hated - a clear example of the rule!"
That's a major source of anxiety for me. A random event completely outside of my control and I'm wiped off the map without a recourse. Every update has unintended consequences for someone...
He didn't pay the entrance fee. Most media is owned by a few corporations who are closely tied with Hillary. Don't worry though, I'm sure that won't affect her policy decisions..
ASRS doesn't grant immunity to certificate actions or fines when an accident is involved. (Most deviations do not involve accidents, of course.)

GP was (presumably) comparing the situation of legal liability or discipline to the case of a medical practitioner self-reporting a mistake.
I'm surprised a domestic solar installer hasn't grabbed market share. South Africa should be an ideal market, like Hawaii.
Seems like a lot of work to setup. Also, spent several minutes on the docs, and did not one line of code; examples?
The overwhelming sentiment in the HN comments was that Pinboard deserved a slot.
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Interesting Planet Money episode about ticket scalping -
http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/06/25/195641030/episo...
Any process with people is going to have mistakes.

At the end of the day we have to accept that the errors will be there, no matter what you or doctors do, period.

And as in all other industries where errors have a high impact, you have to design your process / systems / procedures so that you get an acceptable result even if people make mistakes, and it takes a combination of multiple errors (or an error combined also with negligence) to kill someone.
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Perfect. And since charisma is in the eye of the beholder, or defined by popular opinion, this can never be wrong. E.g., see how no one in these comments can agree on which candidate is more charismatic.

Addendum: In elections, the most popular candidate wins.
They do do a lottery, but it's a day-of thing.
Actually, if you look at how Color has specifically called out most of the risks in their material, they very carefully focus on life-time risks, instead of 'rates'. So, unless they are completely lying with their numbers, you can actually look at their 'risk' rates in the naive way.

For example, the BRCA mutations actually result in a 2-3 fold increase in life time risk in breast cancer (in women), resulting in a 50 to 80% (depending on what study you trust) life time risk in breast cancer. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1247/)

It's kind of weird, but also kind of obvious. Color is choosing to focus on only the highest correlation/impact mutations. They also require physician buy in on every test they sell. Because of that, they're really just going to focus on the blockbluster genes, the ones which we actually have evidence of high life-time risk.

I mean seriously, their BRCA tests by themselves should sell this test - $250 USD is very affordable as far as genetic tests go.

Oh, and hilariously, Color chose to spend some time/space to focus on BRCA (rightfully so, it's one of the great validating cases of the power of genomics and the potential for personalized medicine) without talking about one of the reasons why BRCA tests were kind of stagnant for 20 years was cause BRCA1 and BRCA2 (the genes) were patented, along with any diagnostics involving the those genes.
A mention of what a "wheel" is would be nice somewhere. I associate it with the "wheel bit", which appears to be entirely unrelated.
No transparency here. How disappointing.
I see a lot of posts on this thread blaming overworked, tired, well-meaning professionals that just can't do right, but I think you hit the nail on the head. In my experience, arrogant pricks are just attracted to becoming medical doctors.

I haven't gone to the hospital or doctors too much in my life, but every time, I come away astonished at their attitude, and wondering how is it that people can call a doctor a hero. When I went to the hospital to get my gall bladder taken out, I was in the worst pain of my life. I needed pain killers, and could hardly talk, and they spent 10 minutes getting my billing information before a doctor would even see me. When the doctor finally game in, I wasn't screaming or anything, even though I wanted to, just curled up in a ball, and the doctor rolled his eyes at me like a teenage girl - I instantly became more scared of being cut opened by one of these assholes than of the pain I was in.

Before this, I had been misdiagnosed several times - I had to figure out it was my gall bladder from Google, and work hard to convince my doctor to even explore the possibility it was my gall bladder. I had to TELL HIM that not all gall stones are visible on an ultrasound. Before that, I had minor bladder issues, which the doctors turned in to a major issue by constantly putting catheters up me, and prescribing me several medicines to "see if they work" even though they all said to not take if I was experiencing the exact same symptoms that I had told them about.

I almost had a surgery for the problem - my doctor would always tell me that the surgeon would discuss possible side effects before the surgery - I was trying to get info at least days before the surgery, so I could sleep on it and make an informed decision, but I wasn't able to talk to him until right before they were going to put me under. When I continued to press him for questions, he was huffing and puffing, like a teenage girl, any other grown man would have been embarrassed to act like that. After pressing him, I finally found out that a very likely side effect of the surgery would have put me in a much worse situation that the problem they were going to fix - it would have turned minor but annoying irritation into me needing to wear adult diapers for the rest of my life! And he was visibly angry for having to tell me that! Of course, I canceled the surgery.

I could go on and on, like how I was lied to about my bill, telling me it would be around $250, but was really $2000, for tests that i didn't want, and knew would come up negative, or how my daughter was born early but healthy, and simply in the NICU for observation for 2 weeks, at $5000 a DAY, sitting in an OLD incubator, with one nurse watching a few kids. I, for one, can't WAIT until WATSON takes all their jobs.
Although I usually hate non transferable tickets this would definitely solve the scalping problem. I'd much rather this than have people throw their money at middlemen who add no additional value.
I don't think it has much to do with virtualization, if I'm understanding correctly. You can think of it as the inverse of what your replay tool does. If you think of a service that does transformations on data:

Req --> Service --> Rep

Your replay service is a synthetic Req. I think the parent is proposing synthetic Rep. This can be useful in many scenarios where you effectively want to mock a downstream service.