skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As you pointed out, Egypt has the border closed and Israel has a restricted open border. People don't seem to realize that the "siege" on Gaza isn't just an Israeli-Palestinian issue, and that Israel no longer controls the Gaza Strip. It's actually controlled by the Hamas, a theocratic terrorist organization. Imagine if the W.B.C took over Kansas, started shooting rockets at your civilians in Colorado for being pot smoking heathens, and then wanted open borders?

Ironically movements like the BDS actually cause Palestinians who work for Israeli companies to loose their jobs.[1]
Liberal minded Israelis make up about half of the population and there are many efforts to bridge the gap through entrepreneurship [2][3]. The left in Israel did fairly well in the last election, and actually gained some seats. [4]

I think if you actually talk to the Israelis and the Palestinians in tech, not the politicians, you'll see that that most of them want to live in peace with their neighbors.
Also, peace is good for (start up / tech) business.

[1]http://www.timesofisrael.com/victory-for-bds-as-sodastreams-...
[2]http://www.inc.com/jill-krasny/palestinian-internship-progra...
[3]http://www.elephant.org.il/events/event-in-haifa-for-creatin...
[4]http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/24/world/middleeast/israel-be...
The paper isn't up yet, but Disney has a paper at SIGGRAPH this year on a DSL and compiler for controlling knitting machines:

http://s2016.siggraph.org/technical-papers/sessions/cloth

Unlike most additive manufacturing, knitting is an area where industrial-standard machine technology used for much of the fabric you already wear is very advanced, but computational technology for driving it in nontrivial ways seems to be the main limiting factor in realizing this potential.
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The various species would appear in both areas though. It's too bad the edibility of Gyromitra esculenta is not clearer (I have no desire to try it), as it appears by the pound in Michigan (when I say by the pound, I mean you could pick as many pounds as you wanted). There are also the half cap and common false morels around, not quite in the same numbers.
This will be highly subjective but you need to get over the "postgresql has the longest feature list so why don't you use it". The last startup I have been involved with tried to use PostgreSQL and needed to move to MySQL (yeah, well) because commercial support was both more expensive and less useful than what we were able to get for MySQL. Perhaps today it's different.

While I no longer use PostgreSQL much, every time I need to touch it seems rather developer unfriendly, just last month I found MySQL, heck even SQLite supports triggers with code inlined into the trigger body but PostgreSQL mandates writing a separate function for the trigger. And, of course, it needs to be in plpgsql because reasons. The most trivial "let's calculate another column" becomes a complicated nightmare.

So then if you don't want to use PostgreSQL what then? The answer now is MySQL, again, because 5.7 has JSON.

And mind you, I have grown to dislike MongoDB slowly over the years as new types of queries have appeared and it's a complete mess by now. There was an excellent article on this posted on Linkedin of all places this March https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mongodb-frankenstein-monster-...

It's really interesting how MySQL is the most usable and most supported database by now...
>> Thank you for pointing out the REAL reason why Uber/Lyft are popular. It has nothing to do with convenience (a lot of taxi companies also have similar apps) and everything to do with the fact that people want to interact with those in the same socioeconomic class as them.

Yeah... thinking it through, you're right. That's spot on. I don't think that's bad, the Taxi drivers don't treat me like a human or like their neighbor, and that's more the issue. There's just a polite way that Americans are to one another, especially Texans. Taxi Drivers are extremely transparent that they are just out to make as much money from me as they can. I don't mean it as racist, but it's very jarring to be treated rudely in Texas; people are on the whole very friendly and sociable here. It's very apparent when someone isn't from here, or hasn't lived here long enough to adapt to the local customs.
Not sure about the rest of humanity but I got a memory for that...never understood why people waste their time on productivity apps and other nonsense
Okay, I looked one up, the HMC5883L-BB, and it seems you're right.

In that case somebody in the phone's hardware design department must just be dumb.
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It could be an issue of imprecise wording.

For instance, perhaps 59% of white parents had kids who moved up, while 43% of white parents had kids who moved down.

This doesn't excuse the reporting, but it might explain it.
How is Inkdrop different from Boostnote - open source notetaking app for programmers with markdown support & available on Windows, Mac & Linux. https://b00st.io/
So look, Austin is a small town, and people are on the whole very friendly. It's very jarring to be treated rudely by someone who doesn't bother hiding the fact that they are trying to milk you for all you're worth to them... however they have to drag the trip out they will. Driving slow, pretending to miss exits, pretending they don't hear you when you ask them to go different routes... it's infuriating.
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I wonder if you could operate one of these at home for a profit.
Slightly relevant - about Oracle and its single-minded pursuit of money over all else:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=33m
This is key and often overlooked - MongoDB is so popular not because it's the best database but because it's so easy to get started with. Download/unzip/run to have a database engine ready. It also helps that you can also immediately store anything without any prior setup steps.

Postgres/mysql/sqlserver/etc are nowhere near as easy to install, as fast to get started with or as portable to move around.
GIF isn't a good video codec. I would recommend VP8 or H264.

Using huffyuv for the initial capture is going to start stuttering at higher FPS (the example uses 15, presumably because anything higher would result in massive file sizes given GIF's terrible compression ratio), because the disk won't be able to write fast enough. x264 with the ultrafast preset is a better option in my experience.

I don't understand the purpose of the ffcast tool - it seems to be as or even more verbose than just use ffmpeg directly.
2,000 cycles sounds great, but at just once per day that's only 5.5 years. Grid storage needs to be really cheap AND last for 20-50 years.

5.5 years is about the lifespan of servers in a datacenter. What's wrong with managing energy storage the way we manage datacenters? We don't expect servers to last 20-50 years. And no doubt, as battery tech improves, the lifespan will improve too. But the infrastructure to get good storage needs to start somewhere. Run them as datacenters for now while waiting for battery tech to get better.
Ever heard of transaction isolation?
Did they make the company a lot more money than they cost? If so they were probably a good idea. Not all code needs to be "pretty" to serve a purpose. I've seen some pretty epic hacks that I know generated hundreds of thousands of dollars of new revenue.
New terminology makes it easier to have new thoughts, even about old things, but especially about new things.

I like the weird.
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My house in Circle C to the Airport via Uber... $20-25. Consistently. 20-25 minutes.

My house to the airport via taxi... $45-65. 30-40 minutes.

I fly 2-3x per week, thinking about putting together some expense reports to back this up... but for now you'll have to take my word. (=
It's like when apple got to 7+ hours with battery life, their laptops started getting drastically smaller instead of continuing to have longer lasting batteries. I'd like to have a 400 mile tesla, but I'd like to have a tesla that doesn't weigh 40 tons first.
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I never felt in danger. But I'm also brown and everyone there told me I look Arab.

It's a mix - I couldn't tell you the proportions off the top of my head. There are hard emigration realities that force Gazans to do the former.
I don't think they necessarily have to deanonymize the data, it could be something like an alert that pops up when the search engine detects you may have a medical condition.
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There is a big difference between "wait a year" and "here are tangible goals, action steps and valuable skills to develop by accepting X, Y and Z responsibilities. At Time A and Time B, let's review and make incremental advancements toward your title and salary goals".

If you aren't willing to stick it out through the latter, you're probably doing the manager a favor in the long term by shopping that CV around.
> The article makes the point that debt is taken on expectations of future growth, and that it is in fact what enables the creation of engines (personal or commercial) to realize that growth. I think that that's a crucial point to make: debt itself is not terrible.

Quite true. Of course, not everyone who receives a good education, even in an in-demand field is guaranteed success. Once you've built up all that nondischargeable debt and real life happens, that rosy outlook may get a bit tarnished for some.

> The author though fails to really explain (beyond a slight waggling of eyebrows and insinuation that it is peoples' own fault) that the future payoffs look worse and worse.

Don't you know that being successful is the highest of virtues, while not succeeding is considered a mortal sin?
5. Allow power-users to reliably disable telemetry and "helpful" web-integration. I want to search my hard drive, not the internet. If I wanted to do that, I'd actually open a web-browser.

The rest of your points are good, but I love this one the best. Because Apple has now done the same thing, Spotlight searches now go to the Internet by default.
Schema on read, as opposed to schema on write, as it says in the excellent "Designing Data Intensive Applications" book ... nightmarish to deal with.
This is searches over a period of time before any diagnosis was actually made. Not "light stool, eyes slightly yellowed, cancer, " etc.
FWIW, I don't think Cassandra is particularly any better today semantically than it used to be. Merge conflicts are still at the cell level than the row level, and wall-clock time is still the way that LWW resolution is determined. It let's you mix strongly consistent and eventually consistent data together, which makes no sense.

But the difference is that Cassandra is reliably "broken" in those ways, and as a result there are ways of using it which don't lean heavily on those weaknesses. Such as writing only immutable data or isolating all data that will be used in paxos transactions into their own column families by convention, etc.

Cassandra more or less behaves exactly as it claims that it does. So you can do a somewhat thorough investigation of its system semantics and know what you can rely on and what you can't. MongoDB doesn't even uphold the system semantics it claims that it has, so it's just broken in weird and esoteric ways that you discover mostly by accident.
> Just getting out that message

How do you suggest getting out the message? Blanket public health advertising would be very expensive and would be ignored by most people.

I think search histories are potentially very useful but privacy is important too. It would be interesting to see if there's a way of using search history information in a way that preserves privacy.
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Select menus are bad, but multiple select menus are a new level of anti-user hostility. With single select at least you can use the keyboard; with multiple select you're in for keyboard-plus-mouse-plus-squinting pain, and a real possibility of screwing it up and having to start again.

I run a site where user input often takes the form of long select menus. I'm typically dead against javascript "helpers", but this is a use case that just screams for ajax and dynamic field munging. I still haven't gotten around to doing it, though...
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In Atlanta a taxi to the airport can be 40 dollars. An uber is less than 30.
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> I suggest that the culture must change to enshrine knowledge and intellect

How do you suggest to do this?
Y'all know other storage engines exist, right?

I searched the comments for "percona" and found nothing...

Figures.

Meanwhile, https://github.com/percona/percona-server-mongodb/pull/17
I wonder how much data they are storing and in what pattern that they actually need a NoSQL database. I'm curious why someone would make that choice.
Wouldn't it be cool if there was street view in Gaza? If you search for Khan Yunis you find lots of pictures of dead bodies and smoking buildings, but absolutely nothing about what the city actually looks like.
It really isn't clear to me whether it is the children moving up or down relative to their parents, or the parents moving up and down within their own lifetime.

Either way, children have two parents, so could be represented in both groups. Likewise, parents can have multiple children, and one sibling could move up while another moved down.
This seems to be a good introduction if you like to learn by reading while building something: http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com

It basically walks you through building a neural net that can make sense of hand written digits.
ConnectorDB has been my side project for the past 2 years. While the link is to the database itself, which requires a linux box to install, this link shows several screenshots of the result: https://dkumor.com/blog/2016/06/07/connectordb/

It basically puts together data from your devices, such as your laptop and phone, into one large dataset, on which machine learning can be done.
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It seems very unlikely that "78% of black kids had parents who grew up in the top [60%] and moved down at least one."

Perhaps it should have been written:

25% of black kids [who] had parents [that] grew up in the bottom two levels [] moved up at least one [but] 59% of [such] white kids moved up.

78% of black kids [who] had parents [that] grew up in the top three levels [] moved down at least one [but] 43% of [such] white kids moved down.

But I agree it's unclear and this is just speculation.
What jobs? Uber insists they don't employ anyone.
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>...according to Hardt and Negri's Empire, the rise of Empire is the end of national conflict, the "enemy" now, whoever he is, can no longer be ideological or national. The enemy now must be understood as a kind of criminal, as someone who represents a threat not to a political system or a nation but to the law. This is the enemy as a terrorist....In the "new order that envelops the entire space of... civilization", where conflict between nations has been made irrelevant, the "enemy" is simultaneously "banalized" (reduced to an object of routine police repression) and absolutized (as the Enemy, an absolute threat to the ethical order"[2]).[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_%28Negri_and_Hardt_book...
Welcome to the new meaning of "hacker": the Macbook packing hipsters churning out web "apps" at your local coffee place.
> Takada has only $520 million on hand and is worth about $340 million

Does this mean they have $520m in cash, but the stock valve is less than their bank account?
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Purely speculating here, but once the gigafactory is operational they'll unveil the massive trick up their sleeve - Musk will announce new custom cells based on high density sodium-ion technology. Tesla will become a world leader as an energy company rather than an automative one.
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All of those things are nonsensical extrapolations of things I didn't say.

Yes, I understand that nationalities are granted by governments. This is completely and utterly irrelevant to the basic grammar which is involved in parsing "Everyone has the right to a nationality" as a declarative statement.

The way you are constantly substituting in things that seem "vaguely relevant" for unrelated grammatical terms ("this is a 'government document' so whenever something is unspecified I guess I just put 'government' in there and hope it parses??") defies basic reading comprehension and standard english.

At this point I don't think there's any point in me continuing.
It's poor reporting. The statements about white children should be qualified the same way the author attempted to qualify the statements about black children.

http://www.pewtrusts.org/~/media/legacy/uploadedfiles/wwwpew...
The proper way to do this is with branches, not with hard-coded logic
Maybe there is something wrong with me, but I prefer normal Erlang syntax to Elixirs Rubyish syntax.
There are even high levels of NIMBYism in downtown Manhattan neighborhoods like the East Village.

My understanding of the problem is some people really dislike change, and those same people disproportionately vote in local elections and attend city planning meetings. Because planning decisions are hyper-local in America, there's no "regional growth" advocate at these meetings, and nobody is going to attend planning meetings to fight for some developer to build their high-rise, so the opposition wins.
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I've presented a pretty terrible solution before and I'll say it again to illustrate a point.

Let's say we make the whole nation into a single constituent district. Now, every voter will cast one vote for one representative and the top N candidates with the most votes win.

This is a terrible solution but even this is better than what we have today which i hope goes far too show how bad the system we have today is...

Systems design should strive to make it resistant to corruption and try to not rely on the goodness of people making correct/impartial choices.

(I am fully aware of my hypocrisy when I claim to support democracy around the world except obviously {{}} can't be in government. I hope that this just shows that I can't even trust myself to be correct/consistent/impartial.)

Bottom line is that every vote within a jurisdiction should be equally equal regardless of geographical location. It might lead to people we don't like getting elected but that shouldn't dissuade us. However, I have to agree with President Obama in this -- the only way to effect any change here is to get people involved in very large numbers. Get people to move to these safe districts. I can't see how we can accomplish change here with the levels of apathy we have...
> You can only normalize a relational schema.

Normalization is just a method of organization to minimize repetition of data. It has nothing to do with efficiency of operation. This is perfectly valid code:

person = {
_id: "person123",
username: "lloyd-christmas"
}

comment = {
_id: "comment123",
person: "person123",
text: "This is how I start",
}

You don't have to do:

person = {
_id: "person123",
username: "lloyd-christmas"
}

comment = {
_id: "comment456",
person: {
_id: "person123",
username: "lloyd-christmas"
},
text: "This is also valid"
};

Sure, a join is faster than the first one where you'll have to hit the DB twice. The point is that you don't have to START with denormalizing everything. I start with normalized data and do more DB reads than I need. I figure out how the application uses my data as I go along, and denormalize the pieces I need only once I need them and am confident I won't bump into consistency issues (my username isn't updating every 5 seconds). Through this process I realize what the actual relationships are in my application and how my app functions request to request. This allows me to better structure my data. This is a quick update in mongo and usually a couple of lines of refactoring in application logic.

Obviously this is just an MCVE. My original point was that I find this to be a drastically more flexible process than starting off relational.
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I hate Oracle with a burning passion. How that company has survived all these years is baffling to me, who is still paying their ridiculous maintenance contracts?

Also, fuck Larry Ellison.
They often had a significant "bus factor" problem as a result of this in the best cases, and in the worst cases these mountains of hacks were a massive impediment to growth and/or evolution to meet changing marketplace demands... despite being a central pillar of data management and revenue as it existed in the status quo.
I don't think we are arguing different points here. Some VC place bets on outliers companies like uBeam and Theranos. The problem that I have is that they didn't do their due diligence. You can bet on outliers no matter how unfeasible it seems, but you still need to do your research. The fact that uBeam is argued by many to be physical impossible, supported by facts rather than opinions, strikes me as surprising.

Expert is not always winning. It means not betting on outliers just for outliers sake. Can these VC firms go back to their shareholders and convince them that they did their due diligence?

Reading from these articles, its painfully obvious they were not being transparent with their investors. These companies have all been around for a few years, and the fact that none of them have seen a reliable working product is another surprise. Mark Cuban has said he has never even seen a working prototype from uBeam.
These parts stood out to me:

"We decided against simple "Keep Out" messages with scary faces. Museums and private collections abound with such guardian figures removed from burial sites. These earlier warning messages did not work because the intruder knew that the burial goods were valuable. We did decide to include faces portraying horror and sickness (see Sections 3.3 and 4.5.1). Such faces would relate to the potential intruder wishing to protect himself or herself, rather than to protect a valued resource from thievery."

"We must inform potential intruders what lies below and the consequences of disturbing the waste. If they decide that the value of the metal component of the waste far outweighs the risks of recovering the metal, the decision is their responsibility, not ours."

Interesting how much stock they put in both the rationality and irrationality of any future individuals. Appeal to their emotional side and appeal to their logical side.
I wouldn't think of alternate port as any kind of layer whatsoever. It defends against the horde of ants that are knocking on any open port 22. It does not defend against the kind of attack that you should worry about--that of a sophisticated, patient well funded attacker.

Moving from port 22 to $RANDOM will only net you annoying log bloat from things that you don't really care about.
On sites like etsy you can find people with the older hand crank circular knitting machines to make socks for you. There are loom and shuttle clubs in most areas that would be a good place to ask. There are a few companies in the US like Chrissy's knee high socks that have industrial machines and take custom orders.
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Excellent. Thanks for clarifying. Hope to see this adopted everywhere.
Technically speaking, HTML was designed for reading and sharing scientific documents, CSS was meant for styling documents in minor ways, and JS was slapped on to compete with web "web applets" made by Microsoft and Sun.