skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Facebook does a great job of giving me a quick summary of everything going on in my friends' lives

The only way you can actually know that is to compare the summary with the raw data. The only way to remain sure of it is to keep doing that.
That was a pretty humble and good read. I don't think I'd have seen the autovacuuming issue coming. Actually, this quote is a perfect example of how subtle and ridiculous these issues can be:

"During the event, one of the shard databases had all queries on our primary table blocked by a three-way interaction between the data path queries that wanted shared locks, a "transaction wraparound" autovacuum that held a shared lock and ran for several hours, and an errant query that wanted an exclusive table lock."

That's with well-documented, well-debugged components doing the kinds of things they're expected to do. Still downed by a series of just three interactions creating a corner case. Three out of a probably ridiculous number over a large amount of time. Any system redoing and debugging components plus dealing with these interaction issues will fare far worse. Hence, both of our recommendations to avoid that risk.

Note: Amazon's TLA+ reports said they model-checkers for finding bugs that didn't show up until 30+ steps in the protocols. An unlikely set of steps that actually was likely in production per logs. Reading such things, I have no hope that code review or unit tests will save my ass or my stack if I try to clean-slate Google or Amazon infrastructure. Not even gonna try haha.
I keep hearing that, but it has not jibed with my first-hand experiences and observations. When I had a car and a corporate job, I lived in an apartment complex where everyone drove to the mail box, drove their trash to the dumpster, drove their kids to the pool in the complex. I gave up my car there and began walking everywhere. Over time, other residents began walking to their mail box, walking the trash to the dumpster, etc.

You don't have to replace your commute to work with walking in order to walk more as part of your day-to-day life. Everywhere I go, if I stay there a few months, people begin walking more.
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A community is defined by the people and views it accepts. I'm currently reading up on Curtis as much as I can and withholding judgment in his case. But I wouldn't want to be part of a community that lets racist views go unchallenged, no.
That would be very expensive, requires a huge amount of work and maintenance, and at the end of the day it's unlikely to change anything.
Would have taken less time if we hadn't torn out what was already built.
I believe the academics' comments in the Elselvier threads show how it would work. Hint: it wouldn't. ;)
Well that's a pretty disappointing post: "Hey, we use our deep learning tools on text. Look at this 12 month old paper".

Everyone in the field has read that paper. It was good work! But there are lots of intriguing things mentioned in the post which deserve further details.

The most interesting thing to me is "more than 20 languages"!! That's pretty nice - the paper had some early results for Chinese, but if it can perform similarly to the English results across 19 other languages that is probably the state-of-the-art for many of them.
In the case of the trial DTLA Broadway road diet, auto lanes were removed for a bike lane, yes, but also to allow for wider sidewalks. This space is being used (e.g.) for sidewalk tables outside of the Grand Central Market.

> I get that everyone having a car in LA is not a way to allow greater density, but, it's reality for now and making everyone in that reality suffer isn't a great way to get re-elected.

Got any great advice for changing the status quo? ;)
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11814512 this has been submitted 25+ times today...
> …which may adversely affect the performance and content…
a decent percentage can't. trying to talk to some of my friends about political topics or history or anything else is frustrating because of their lack of knowledge. They know their major and they know about the video games they play but that is it. "who is joe Biden?" is a real question I've heard. many perform abysmally on critical reading portions of tests and can't form persuasive arguments effectively.
Ok, any guesses on so how would this affect their open source projects? i.e. OpenCV's license is 3-clause BSD, and of course as Intel started the project is a copyright holder, so things as usual?
The comments that I have seen from him on that topic (and it should be noted that I have only read a small part of his comments so this may not be representative of his thoughts on these matters) implied that those groups were better slaves because they were more resilient or stronger, so were able to better survive slavery than less resilient or weaker groups.

I don't see why that would make people from those groups feel unwelcome. If anything I would expect people from the groups that he says were genetically not as good as slaves to be the ones who would feel unwelcome. The implication is that they are weaker or less resilient.
Sure, but did you hear the one about the physicist modelling a spherical cow?
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I guess it could be some honor system "pay when you leave". Or maybe let you review the article "Was this worth 8 cents to you?" and display the votes before you pay so you can decide if it's worth the money. Or maybe you can flag an article as clickbait and get your money back.
> remember that executive behavior is a by-product of the company culture and environment.

Conversely, company culture and environment is a by-product of the executive behavior.

The latter probably is a stronger influence in younger, smaller companies, the former stronger in older and larger firms.
My job is f*cking stressful
sounds interesting, I'll have to give it a shot!
Looks interesting. As for the password hashing, have you tried the one built in to Werkzeug? http://flask.pocoo.org/snippets/54/

Btw., I have a similar project (with a much smaller scope) at https://github.com/codenhagen/startflaskproject.
Re CEPH vs Lustre: what's performance like? I've seen anecdotes quoting 3 GBps over Infiniband for Lustre.

(I'm curious because I run an HPC installation with Lustre and NFS over XFS, and trying to think of the future. MBTF doesn't matter as much as raw speed while it actually runs.)
not denying there are issues... just saying that C isn't the only widespread language with issues. at least C's problems are widely known.
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It's the New Yorker. They write for their audience, which is people who read a magazine which famously had "View of the World from 9th Avenue" on their front cover in 1976. Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_of_the_World_from_9th_Ave...

> "The work is sometimes referred to as A Parochial New Yorker's View of the World or A New Yorker's View of the World because it depicts a map of the world as seen by self-absorbed New Yorkers."

They have a market of potentially millions of potential readers who are interested in the parochial New York world view. Why produce articles for a more general national or international market where there is more competition and less ability to distinguish oneself?
Not all discussions require you have a fully formed opinion about a topic. Arguments do (or at least should), but I'm not trying to argue, I'm trying to discuss. Not everything has to be an argument or debate, but a discussion may contain one or more of those.

More succinctly, I'm not sure what the best way to handle the questions I posed is, but I do think those are questions worth asking. Should I have just stated that not all online advertising is bad? Maybe it is all bad, and someone can make a cogent case for that. If it's not all bad, I think it's important to consider how much bad behavior each company is responsible for, either in total or relative to other behavior. There are a lot of unknowns, but I think one extremely important point is that each of these unknowns weakens the absolutist and unsubstantiated statements the parent of that comment was putting forth. You don't have to show evidence to weaken an unsubstantiated statement, you can just show how it wasn't supported through data or critical thinking.
I've been in CS curricula where, were you to ask the students what they wanted, they would casually dismiss any liberal-arts subject as a waste of time. I've been in liberal arts curricula where the students themselves either think it is a waste of time (but that STEM is too hard) or that STEM is a waste of time because it doesn't appeal to their desire to "never be wrong" about anything.

I have met very few people who look at either situation and see the breadth of information that exists and how valuable it can be to analyze and model.
> The market is the problem.

That sounds like another way of saying they don't have a product that people value.

And for the record they haven't tried nearly all the models possible. This is discussed every time the subject comes up.
we will have to agree to disagree on that one.
interesting that the survey didn't have the option "to protect myself". malware is a thing. ad blockers wouldn't be as pervasive if the ad industry was less user-hostile and more discerning of it's clientele.
I agree. just saying that you can't assume the second-order effects will result in a net negative outcome on the whole system
Yep. Uber Eats is a joke, horrible experiences with that, it just seems like a joke they're running almost.
UB is unfortunately inherent in the mission statement of 'C'/C++.
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Yet we see that, thanks to adblockers, 3rd party advertising, tracking and data milking won't work for much longer.

I give the ad industry, especially the fraudsters, not much longer than two years, given the rising trend of adblockers.

Native ads are the only way that's left, and turns out that the big media houses usually already have an ad acquisition and disposition department for print ads.
I had checked the statistics on the Play Framework service that it ran under. There was abnormally high CPU usage, high battery usage, and it was running all the time.
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The "raw data" in this case is my friends' lives. Based on my (off-Facebook) interactions with them I remain confident that Facebook does a good job of keeping me up to date on their lives when I use it.
Plenty of people code on tablets with keyboards, especially in environments where the computation is offloaded (eg ssh, Cloud-based IDEs, Jupyter, etc).
The opposite of that, addressing current concerns, is what created the mess of LA to begin with. Here's some examples:

In the 1920s, to alleviate traffic on a specific downtown to miracle mile commute, macarthur park was split in half and wilshire was cut through the middle of the park. The park remains split in 2016 due to this 1920s era problem.

In the 1950s, due to a lack of downtown parking, pershing square was gutted to be a multi-level underground parking structure with a poorly accessible park on top. Now in 2016, when we want a walkable city, many lament that our one central park is really just a multi-level parking lot.

The central problem here is that when city policy crafts a solution with 80 years of consequences to alleviate a 3 year problem, the urban landscape becomes disjointed and short-sighted.

Instead, this concept, which includes things like bike lanes, high density dwellings, and trains, are people trying to come up with 80 year solutions that are forward thinking.

There's been a problem getting all the right funding and public support on board but it's far easier today then what it took to get that first train to long beach open in 1990. The newer high density housing is still not pedestrian accessible, but that is changing in the buildings that are being planned right now and will be complete in a few years.

I think LA is attracting the right people and fostering the right attitude for a workable city that will blossom with sustainability, creativity, and livability in the upcoming generation.
Netflix and iTunes are outliers. There were tons of attempts in those sectors. You haven't heard of most because they went bankrupt. The others barely make money and/or acquired little content. Try these:

- Market for paid search of general content vs Google, Yahoo, and Bing.

- Market for paid downloading of arbitrary, user-generated video vs YouTube and Vimeo.

- Market for paid blogging vs Wordpress etc.

- Number of people paying for news vs reading ad-supported news.

- Number of new companies using LAMP or cloud stacks vs Microsoft Server stacks.

And so on. Paid markets kept getting tinier and tinier with less and less money.
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Do you have a reference for the doubling? How much does the boost from AVX affect the score?

I'm asking because I recently "upgraded" my desktop to a cheap westmere 6 core xeon [1] as in most benchmarks it is competitive with recent i7s.

[1] x5670 @3ghz, but should easily overclock well into the 4ghz range.

Edit: autocorrect
It sounds like these people did put their money where their mouth was. They owned the stock.

If you think the market is over-valuing a stock you hold, you sell it. If you think it's worth more, then you keep it, and refuse any offers to purchase it for less than you think it's worth.

These people tried to refuse the offer. As mentioned in the footnotes, only those who voted against the deal were entitled to sue for compensation.
You're assuming they mean "speed-of-rendering performance" when in fact they mean "revenue-generating performance" /s
except this isn't open source.
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That's interesting. When I was looking at it, it seemed overwhelming. Do you have some pointers for the basics?
The Berkeley extension classes you link to seem to be separate, not identical versions of the Berkeley courses, so I think there's a question mark with respect to whether they are quality courses.
> Urbit is not PGP. It's designed to feel more like the early Internet, ie, a wide-area world of nontrivial default trust. At present, it would be foolish to go full cypherpunk, because we're a long way from being worth attacking.

It's not as much that. If I am going to be owning a service that I want to use among my peers generally someone has to run the thing and generally I am that person. If I am relying on urbit.org then the goal described in this overview of "Your urbit presents your whole digital life as a single web service. And since it's yours, open source and patent-free, it never shows you ads. Or loses your data. Or updates without your consent." is not met. If urbit.org is so entrenched and the galaxy lookup so well defined how do I use this when you are gone? The galaxy lookup is clearly one of the most critical pieces of the design yet seems the most weak. In the world of online games the lookup service is what has a community live or die, and I did not see a better answer after writing the comment.

It seems that the only way is to recompile and distribute an alternate version of the software.

> Hoon is unusual, but I wouldn't call it "esoteric" -- that term is reserved for languages which genuinely don't care about usability.

I would class it as such because there doesn't seem to be a description (going by the whitepaper) of modularity/code layout/best practice sort of thing. There is also the complexity of symbol management from bash/perl/php land that seems to be in Hoon too. I work with grammars all day and I guess I was just looking for a more formal description of the language.
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this seems nonsequitur. i doubt they were suggesting that google was literally incapable of hiring mercenaries or whatever.
Was looking them earlier - really like what they're doing (back to basics - airflow + HEPA Filter) but prohibitive shipping costs to UK/Europe from China
I read a paper on this recently in class and I think their findings were that most google results are the same other than geographically specific ones like you mentioned. For instance, if we both type "trump", most of the results will be the same unless there is a trump tower near you, in which case it'll direct you to it. Ordering of results however can change.
urbit.org[0] has new Hoon tutorial docs, and it's really helpful to ask questions in :talk if you get stuck. The people there are friendly and will try to answer any questions you have.

You don't need an invite to be able to play around with it, you'll just have to use a comet (which is the functionally same, but you have an uglier name). If you ask in :talk they'd probably send you a planet ticket, too.

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And in some cases it really doesn't make that much sense. I think there is definitely some urban vanity at play with the huge investment in train spending. Would personally love to see more bus rapid transit lines.

Here's a peak at what Metro might be up to the next 40 years:
http://la.curbed.com/2016/3/18/11265444/metro-los-angeles-ba...