skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The theory in question addresses distributed database systems. A remote client connected to a monolithic database is not a distributed database system. If there is a network partition between the client and the server then you don't get C or A. You get nothing.

The P refers to partitions between nodes of the database system. Not clients.

So that point in the article doesn't seem to make sense.
This is pretty shallow critique.

"With UBI, ever citizen will rely, at least in part, on his or her income being handed out by the state. Rather than there existing pockets of state dependency, all of us will become (albeit to differing degrees) dependent."

Who is enforcing intellectual property law? Who builds roads and subsidizes factories and offices? You get paid by a corporation, and that corporation is profoundly dependent on the exercise of state power. It spends a lot of money to lobby and influence that power. This author supposes that, right now, most of us are independent actors vis-a-vis the state. That's silly.

The UBI question isn't, "should the state be expanded," because the state is already expansive. The question is what nature of relationship is the least worst. As the author acknowledges, right now we intrusively monitor and examine the poor, ask them to fill out a ton of paperwork, and punish them with arbitrary cutoffs. The nature of that relationship is horrible. UBI could improve it.

But hey, if you're well-off and/or feel that the corporate-state fusion is furthering your interests already, then yeah you might feel "free" at present and fear any changes.
> This isn't a Tesla thing, it's an automotive industry thing

No, this is a complete failure of the government in upholding it's responsibility 'thing'.

This is entirely a result of greedy politicians taking corporate money to write laws enabling this, encouraging government agencies to look the other way, and they need to be held responsible.
Antitrust questions become much more stringent than people might realise.

Even if you are 100% "fair game", if you happen to be in a dominant position then you have a responsibility to not use your huge clout to win in other markets. Even advertising Chrome on the Google homepage is a very tricky legal question (and the wording on the page!)

The MS case is interesting too. Even after basically all browsers became "free", MS is still obligated to offer a browser choice screen in European Windows. Despite basically no barriers to entry, the fact that IE is packaged in by default is still too much for some regulators.

It's as if Google has built the only train tracks west of the Mississippi, and nobody else has bothered to build them. Sure, you can get to the bus stop still (or whatever), but the fact is Google is dominant in web access, and must give competitors a fighting chance. Even if it means hobbling their own efforts.
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This raises an interesting question, how do you become a deep worker if you're pair programming? I guess it's because the pair is both working on the same problem and can both get deep focus on that problem. Implies they should have their own office though.
If this article can't be read because of a pop up, just close the tab and open click on the link again.
True.

Microsoft would not beat IBM for being 'the next IBM'

Tesla would not beat Major car industries for being 'the next-gen Toyota way'

and, Google, probably will be replaced by someone in a complete industry. My guess that might be something that comes from VR.
Kinda irrelevant to your point, but I heard that Baidu is really quite bad at search.
Even lots of BASICs, like Applesoft, were technically VMs with bytecode and even garbage collection. Not a retargetable VM, mind you.
... and we have started work on vertical stacking to solidify our lead.
Ellen Pao’s Next Venture Takes Aim at Silicon Valley’s Old Boys’ Club
There are 2 reasons (income stream-wise) to own stock: capital gains and/or dividends.

Capital gains = sale price - purchase price
I think you will run into a bit of a chicken and egg problem.

Insurance companies won't like it because it would be bad for them for something like this to exist at a consumer level. And consumers won't use it because they would need some companies there to participate. So I'd either factor in starting an insurance company as well (to sell on your market) or do P2P insurance, which would be very interesting. Let me know if you go the latter route, I might be able to help out.

Insurance is the most profitable industry out there, selling a mostly commodity product. It's definitely a very ripe industry for disruption.
I've been thinking about that quote from time to time for a while now, and what strikes me is that his generalization does sound very plausible, but we have to remember that his experience is from a very specific context. To me it seems like having an open door at Los Alamos or Bell Labs back then, is akin to hanging around HN, certain IRC/Slack channels, and so on, today. At least for the vast majority of us, who wouldn't be exposed to such bright people otherwise.

Although I wouldn't count myself as successful by any metric, I still think I've picked up a lot of interesting and useful stuff though osmosis, stuff that a lot of people not exposed to the same things only realize a few years later when it hits the mainstream and becomes part of the zeitgeist of Western culture (and so much else that never hits a more general audience but still holds promise within their respective niches if one can connect the dots).
"Somehow greedy"? I don't think this is really debatable: Steve Albini put the case succintly in the 1990s, and things haven't really changed from the musician's point of view. Check out the math here:

http://www.negativland.com/news/?page_id=17

TL;DR: If a record grosses $3 million, making $710,000 in profit, the band makes $12,000 (1.6%), in this case split between three people at that. Including "salary", since this is their sole payment for working their ass off for a full year.
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This is the only career I've ever had, but so much about it is nonsensical to me. We are smart individually, but at a team or organizational level we are real idiots.
Hm.. Thought it had opened up to a more general guard emergency only freq when they added PLBs to it - SAR, coastguard etc.

I'm not current with aviation any more so the off the cuff thought could be very silly. :)
What do the terms inflected and irregular mean?
Weirdness of a language is completely subjective

This isn't true.
Dennis Skinner, member of the British House of Commons, once said in a speech that "half the Tories opposite are crooks!". When asked to withdraw the statement, he said "OK, half the Tories opposite aren't crooks."

So in the presence of 'half', even 'not' can be unpredictable...
Frend – accessible, dependency-free web components
That looks really promising. If it hadn't closed just yesterday I could see myself backing that too.

Definitely one to watch.
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> Trent Reznor probably cares more about the thousands of dollars (VIP tickets via his fan club site) I've paid to see him live over the last decade or so than the ~$150 I've spent on his albums (with the label taking most of that).

Trent Reznor made millions before the collapse of the music industry in the 2000s THANKS to big labels. It's easy for him not to care about your money, at all. He'd be nothing if no major label invested in him in the 90's .
I use mine much more than I expected. The number one thing I love is Pandora integration -- ours is outside the kitchen, so virtually every day I can holler for it to put on an appropriate Pandora station (with both hands dirty / full of dishes) or for it to set a timer.

I also updated a Python script that emulates Belkin Wemo devices so I can control HomeAssistant and various http enabled home automation devices around the house. For anyone interested: https://github.com/n8henrie/Fauxmo
Only a 45% difference - $7.5 vs. €4.56.

And now that I do a lookup, it's actually very similar to the minimum wage in Wyoming and Georgia.
I am sure I am missing many points in understanding this, but it seems like it would almost be a competitive advantage to now release a phone that had "free radio" on it. I would use it all the time, and it appears it would be easy to do if I am not too far off.
Could there be other possibilities?

Europe may want to achieve some things in common but not at the expense of not achieving other things not in common.

Per the article: step outside the European worldview to see how cultural viewpoints elsewhere understand and express the value of multilingualism
If you consider that the product is not search, but rather eyeballs for advertisers (for which they give away the search for free), Facebook has already disrupted the heck out of them.
I can't access the invitation to the church of the subgenius in the README.txt's anymore. What's going on?
I think the accounting term you're looking for is "paid-in capital"
You mean relational as in RDBMS, right? I'm curious, what parts of relational DBs do you think are under-emphasized in a typical CS education that you make sure to ask interview questions about? Things like what does a LEFT JOIN do, etc.?
This has nothing to do with autoencoders.
Possible for Encyclopedia, impossible for technology related to stay relevant in the next few years.
>> He was at MIT as an undergrad "for two years before flunking out, losing his way while pursuing a girl he met on a ferry."

Sound like something I would do.
> But, Gap, like many of its rivals, is also looking to streamline the parts of the business customers don’t see. The company has said it will announce next week plans to “streamline its operating model to be more efficient and flexible.”

And there you go. Everyone knows that the fondest desire of their employer is to get rid of them, and do more with less people. Unless you're rich with years of runway, the only strategy that makes sense is to make do with less, because your employer sure wants to.
I would guess that the reason for this is that most smart phone makers have online music stores or streaming music services they would prefer to steer users to.
Two books I read at about your stage that helped me enormously:

1) Rich Dad, Poor Dad. Look, it's a parable told by the author stretching the truth, and in the 20 years since it was written Kiyosaki has likely done some shady things. But much like Richest Man in Babylon (also told as parables, though more obviously so) it's a good introduction to thinking about money working for you, not the other way around.

2) Money Secrets of the Rich by John Burley (http://www.moneysecretsoftherich.com/). Ignore the link bait title. Unfortunately, it looks like it hasn't been updated in a few years (it pre-dates Obamacare, for example, which if you're in the US possibly negates my next comment).

I found this both practical and relevant - one chapter on tax actually linked me to a form I could submit as a low-income earner (student) which entitled me to a government rebate of $150 - the people at the office I submitted it to hadn't even heard of it, but it paid for the book 5 times over! There are some useful chapters on investing, but most of the value is understanding common traps like car-financing, insurance, spending too much on stuff etc etc with actual website links and so on. I bought a copy for each of my siblings as they started work as well.
6 months ago I bought 6 of these off ebay for ~$300 and a cheap 3x2 monitor stand. It's a pretty awesome, if tenuous, setup.
I think people should just "smarten up" and stop buying locked-down smartphones from telecoms. Almost every smartphone (and probably a lot of the dumb ones) that can be bought online from places like Aliexpress/Dealextreme/etc. has a working FM radio and are unlocked to be usable with any provider.

The reason is that the "FM radio chip" is usually not a separate IC that has to be designed in, but just a (tiny) part of an N-in-1 combo chip that provides WiFi, GPS, and BT, so all it needs is for support to be in the software to work. Here's one which has a FM transmitter too:

http://www.mediatek.com/en/products/connectivity/wifi/consum...

Since many of these relatively brandless smartphones are a direct copy of a reference design from the SoC manufacturer, designed to show off all the features, they automatically inherit those features and the companies who make them wouldn't spend extra effort just to remove functionality. The fact that the market for them is heavily feature-driven also means one less bullet point in the feature list is going to be noticed easily.
As a European there's absolutely no way I would EVER work in a cubicle. It looks horrible to me, like I'm a chicken in a battery cage. Aside from not wanting to work in a horrible environment like that, I communicate a lot (about work) and it's so much harder to do that when you're physically separated.
Klocka – Pi-powered remote doorbell
I'll bite... What is your threat model and proposed "enterprise-grade solution"?
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> Probability theory asks: given a process, what does its data look like? Statistics asks: given data, what process might have generated it?

Excellent summary, thank you.
Hmm, a super talkative programmer, I've never met one.
Usually you get a pretty good feeling for the rules that determine the gender for many nouns (at least for me in Spanish, French and Portuguese), so that for many nouns this will only be a problem at the beginning.

For example (I will use examples from German, since this is my native language) typical rules (probably you will find exceptions) are that nouns that end in "-chen" or "-lein" (endings for diminutive, though this is not always obvious (for example "das Mädchen" is a diminutive of "die Maid")) are neuter. Or nouns that end in "-e" are feminine. Or nouns that end in "-er" are masculine (at least if they mean "a person/object doing something" (counterexample: "das Wunder" (the wonder) - but this is not a person/object doing something) - the same holds for verbs ending in "-erin" being female. Or if you turn a verb into a noun ("das Wandern" from "wandern" - to wander) it will be neuter.

Of course there will be enough nouns for which you simply will have to learn the gender, but I don't believe it is that amount of effort (and most other languages have a much more regular pronounciation than English).
> This is the crux of the argument ", the record labels squeezed to death nearly every upstart that wanted to become a Tower Records" Perhaps if the music industry had embraced digital 15 years ago instead of crushing it, they would be in more control today.

It wouldn't have changed a damn thing. People would still be sharing music for free today, like they did as soon as the medium allowed it (tapes).
Took me about 2-3 weeks to be productive in Vim. First week was pretty painful (though vimtutor helped a lot). If you are going to work your whole life with computers it's definitely worth it (and it's not only about time saved though that's a big one).
Back when I was still living in DC, the big one was Living Social, which is still ongoing. It's sad, because DC doesn't have a huge startup scene, and its biggest one is in the discount daily deals sector and also hemorrhaging.
Btrfs will likely never add support for lz4 or snappy:

https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Compression#Are_ther...

There are links there to mailing list emails explaining the reasoning behind that. The reasoning behind ZFS adopting LZ4 can be found here:

http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/LZ4+Compression

Contrary to what the btrfs developers claimed about LZ4 versus LZJB in ZFS, LZ4's compression performance on incompressible data alone would have been enough to adopt it had ZFS already had LZO support. LZ4 also has the benefit of extremely quick decompression speeds. It also has the peculiar property where running LZ4 repeatedly on low entropy files outperforms "superior" compression algorithms such as gzip. Someone on the LZ4 mailing list discovered this when compressing log files. He compressed a 3.5GB log file into a ~750KB file by running LZ4HC 5 times. Running it twice yielded a 9.5MB file with regular LZ4 compression and a 2MB file with LZ4HC compression. He was able to compress it to ~750KB after running LZ4HC roughly 5 times.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/lz4c/DcN5SgFywwk

As for btrfs being smart with lzo by compressing only the first 128KB as a heuristic, LZ4 uses a hash table for that and is able to give up much faster. I would expect to see LZ4 significantly outperform LZO. The following site has numbers that appear to confirm that:

https://quixdb.github.io/squash-benchmark/

On a JPEG on their Intel® Core i7-2630QM, LZ4 level 1 compression runs at 608.24MB/sec while LZO level3 compression runs at 68.13MB/sec. Also of possible interest is that Snappy compresses at 559MB/s here. There are a couple caveats though. While I picked the correct variant of LZ4 for ZFS (and also the Linux kernel), I assumed that btrfs is using the default compression level on LZO like ZFS does on LZ4 and knew nothing about the different revisions measured, so I took the best reported number for any of them at the default compression level. That happened to be lzo1b. I also assumed that JPEGs are incompressible, which the data strongly supports. There are a several exceptions, but LZO, Snappy and LZ4 all consider the file to be incompressible.

As for the question of whether to compress in hadoop or in the filesystem, the properties of LZ4 mean that you can do both. If your data is incompressible, LZ4 will give up very quickly (both times). If your data is incompressible after 1 round of LZ4 compression, then the LZ4 compression in ZFS will give up quickly. If it is compressible by two rounds of LZ4, then both will run and you will use less storage space because of it.
Re your deleted comment

You suggested I "didn't get it" because trolling stuff that wins a game was the point. Actually, what made me think about impact was on website and the challenge itself:

"Backdoor Insertion Proof-of-Concept Bounty: The first time someone tricks me into inserting the string "BackdoorPoCTwitter" into a release of any of my software projects"

Whole point is assessing ability to backdoor software products. Social attack that succeeds might teach us something. The cheat teaches us nothing but is amusing. So, I certainly get it and read site before I wrote here. ;)

Note: Same page said employer's website was off limits in hacks and pentests. I assumed that meant Defuse. So, never considered website attack as in scope in first place.
The comments in this Quora article on this very subject[0] make a good case that the atomic bombings weren't war crimes. As much as I disagree with the atomic bombings on moral and humanitarian grounds, and have a general knee-jerk bias against American militarism in general, it seems the US didn't violate the rules of war which were understood at the time and that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were legitimate military targets. The atomic bombings were acts of warfare, but not war crimes.

Of course, it's worth mentioning that the #1 answer in that article is "Because the US won," which is also true. Even if the atomic bombings had been war crimes, who's going to put the world's only (at the time) nuclear superpower on trial for them?

[0]https://www.quora.com/Why-didnt-the-US-face-a-human-rights-t...
The employees often prefer open office layouts because they get less done. There is a lot more distraction and a lot more hob-nobbing. Little things that someone would've solved on their own after a few minutes of troubleshooting become a group troubleshooting session, etc. People who are not actually interested in their work but just like to hang out with the people they work with (probably at least 85% of employees) tend to like open plan offices because they make it "more fun". Productivity does decline because any work that requires concentration is substantially more difficult to perform.
On the other hand, the last 150-ish years of US policy in Latin America.
But not good parametric polymorphism. Common Lisp's static types are "too static", and often unsafe.
Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design by Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores. Highly recommended if you're interested in how people interact with computers (and how computers interact with people, and how both interact with the world in general). http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Computers-Cognition-Foun...
> they'd disrupt Google just as easily as the original Larry and Sergey did to whatever was popular before them (I don't even remember.)

Webrings and word-of-mouth? Google didn't dethrone any particular search provider.
AWS instances don't use time from the host by default?!
OP's idiot wasn't fake, it's a real representation of spoiled devs. So many software developers act like divas with no actual tether to legitimate business value. They'd rather chase the latest JavaScript framework, or whatever. Instead of starting their own company where they implement these supposedly superior practices they complain on HN.

Don't you think it does a disservice to the actual underprivileged sweatshop workers of the world to compare cushy software coding jobs to sweatshops? Is your software development gig so bad that it's "slowly poisoning you to death" instead of putting food on your table and cash in your 401k? If so, why are you bothering?
Tips for benchmarking a compressor
I agree that this is the natural answer to "How do I run a good company?" I used to believe there were places where this type of management was possible. I think it's still possible with really small companies, but I don't believe that it will ever be that way with a company of more than 15 employees anymore. People are political creatures and unfortunately, the selfish actions of a few require the rest to act in their own selfish interests if they're not going to get destroyed by someone playing by a less noble set of rules. The net effect is that all but the most naive understand that self-preservation is the name of the game and that the company or team's efficiency is a secondary concern (if it shows up on the radar at all).

The funniest thing about this is that the people who are hired to prevent political ambition and malfeasance from affecting the company's output are often the heaviest polluters.
I wish there was a special keyboard widget on the iPhone for coding. I want the keys in the keyboard to be bigger than what the iPhone currently displays.
Donald Trump and the Twilight of White America
At least some Windows phones have this. It works fine on my Icon - fm radio is a default app. I assumed it was a holdover from the Zune days, where that was a selling point.
The first thing he did with that contraption is go to the airport?! Ballsy.
That's child's play. Here's a much worse true story.

- Spend a couple months researching existing solutions for a complex product
- Pick the "perfect" one
- Ask for a quote
- Recoil in horror at the price (about 1 weeks pay for that decision maker, in a 100+ people company)
- Steal the damn JS library from their demo page
- Use it on the product
- ...
- Profit? Once they can sell this turd
Not officially.

Using aviation channels for frivolous non-aviation uses can result in FAA/FCC/FBI getting involved.

The 121.5 beacon actually interferes with Emergency voice transmissions, so downed pilots sometimes shut them off in order to talk to rescue crews etc. without a beeping noise :)
Yep, I'm using 2FA with a SSH key on my private web server that's virtualized and regularly have time drift issues. still trying to find a way around it.
I agree with you, I would guess some down vote sentiment comes from misunderstanding the sarcasm. Generally I think programmers aren't giving lip service fairly to the things that are actually good about the above. If the tables turn and things go south for developer demand many will be begging to call in to a daily standup because they won't have any job at all.