skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of that may be true, but to affect the world, you nonetheless need to do things. And to do those things, you need to take something for granted, assume something, to complete the task.

That set of things you're willing to take for granted is actually your relevant set of beliefs, because they inform your actions. That's where the important decisions are made, and this is the constant crisis of trying to figure out the right solution with nowhere near enough information.

We can all, in theory, believe that we're wrong about most things, and this is most likely true. But, ultimately, there are things one is willing to do even if they could be wrong about them, because not doing anything is often worse. Sitting in constant doubt is effectively deciding not to participate.
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I've found "what'd you get up to this weekend" to be a great conversation starter because most people have done at least one fun thing over the weekend.
Whatever it takes to make money for customers. That's it.

No, I'm not being snarky, so hear me out...

I've met and worked with many developers over the years and lots of them have become very good with technology and user domains, but still have struggled to "crack the digital ceiling". These are brilliant people who have achieved serious things, but are still not recognized by the big decision makers as "senior", whatever that means.

Then there are a select few who always get the big gigs, big money, and big reputations. Why? Because they make money for their customers. There are lots of non-technical skills that help them, but I think the biggest is their ability to separate the signal from the noise and zero in of the most important things to work on and to get them done. It's almost like they have "profitability radar". And this rarely requires any special technical or people skills. All they really have to learn is a good grasp of the technology, a deep understanding of the customer's domain and business, and the ability to get things done through others. And how did they develop them? By good old fashioned grunt work, whether digging into the bowels of the system or getting up off their butts and relentlessly going around finding out whatever they needed to know.

Once you've figured out the best thing(s) to work on to make money, got them onto the decision makers' radar, and found a way to get them done one way or the other, you are no longer a dev or even a senior dev. You're now a digital rainmaker, the most senior dev of all.
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I stand corrected!

Edit: However, the reference states "At this time (May 2016), there aren't any available open-source and free systems that have all the features listed above".
Greenplum does actually implement all of these features, and is open source.
I guess I just take issue with all the hyperbole in use.
My colleague Elaine gave this interview on "what it means to be a senior engineer":

https://blog.codeship.com/elaine-uy-tapjoy-interview/
In my experience the kdb community does exactly the opposite, showing a real world use case (high frequency trading for example) using real world data and shows that their platform is significantly faster than the competitors. Is it worth the price? Not so sure, but it certain use cases it certainly is.
Another summary with examples: http://bit.ly/1Uc5uqb
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Thats okay, the majority of the video would be stolen from youtube anyway
This is pure marketing-driven engineering. Not a bad thing per-se but they should start considering also a more pragmatic approach. They should pick a form-factor that can be future-proofed and avoid changing their mind every iteration. Current NUC form factor is too small for high TDP cpu, because of cooling, and instead of adjusting the current form-factor (e.g. expanding its width) they created another (maybe pointless) design. Advice to management start considering also the medium-term landscape. I will be more than happy to replace my NUCs is you give me consistency. If in doubt ask Apple.
But devs are perfect and special snowflakes who should be deferred to in every context. The users should just do what we put in the nonexistent documentation or figure it out on their own because the software is perfect amirite?
Misdirection.
Wow, if I try to order a Pandora from North America is more than $300. I mean with these money you can buy a decent Chromebook, install Linux on it and any old console simulator you need.

PocketChip on the other hand looks more interesting.
I get it, they are disposable pics. I'm in the camp that anything I take time to snap a picture of, isn't just some disposable moment that I want a super compressed version of. Far too much junk, overly compressed, and overly filtered pics as it is.
Careful that a stock C.H.I.P need to be reflashed in order to work with the PocketChip.
You don't know. That's why it's a terrible solution.

No-one inspects their binaries after every recompilation or compiler (flag) change.
You probably shouldn't even entertain the notion of RSA or finite field Diffie Hellman anymore. In general...

Public key encryption: Use X25519 (RFC 7748) then 256-bit symmetric-key encryption in an AEAD mode. (When in doubt, ChaCha20-Poly1305 is a great choice with ephemeral keys.)

Public key signatures: Use Ed25519 (RFC 7748) or deterministic ECDSA (RFC 6979) over a 256-bit curve.

And obviously, the key sizes on that page have no applicability to post-quantum cryptography key sizes.
Thank you. You've given me some hope that the EU can be reformed from the inside. I'll still be voting to leave, but at least I'll know where to direct my attention if we stay in.
Thanks so much for that. It definitely looks like the documentation might be out of sync as there are also some references to ODBC support in the code:

https://github.com/yandex/ClickHouse/blob/32057cf2afa965033c...

Going to look into building a Spark data source for this so we can see how it well it compares to databases like Cassandra.
I suspect you're wildly overestimating how much direct involvement the CEO of a medium or large company has on product development. Obviously this can depend strongly on each company's culture (Apple is one of the most extreme examples of CEO involvement) but very often CEOs are glorified managers, involved mostly in dealing with the strategic side of things, and that kind of decisions only reach the head of R&D or CTO at most.

This has been my experience from working in medium and large companies for the past decade at least.
Faster, cheaper, better.
Vertica is a pretty large commercial column store with a lot of customers. Although I'm not sure if the Yandex folks got permission to publish benchmarks about it...

(MonetDB is a classic research columnar database, and I believe MemSQL has a columnar mode. Greenplum is missing, for some reason.)
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I'm not sure I agree. Functional Reactive Programming is a declarative way of doing user interaction, but it's still a computer science research topic (Elm used to claim to be FRP, but has now decided to move away from its old allegedly FRP-like style). I need to play around with the latest FRP research libraries some time!

In addition there is also machines/pipes/conduits, which all mix imperative I/O with declarative style code in an interesting and new way.
But you can operate Harriers from converted merchantmen at a pinch.
You can. There are some ROMs available that do this.
Maru for example: http://maruos.com/
A link to The_Donald has reached HN... The trolling has gone too far!
Impressive. By chance have you looked at jsPlumb? If so what, if any, pain points did you encounter?
http://jsplumbtoolkit.com
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[do not use lookup tables, they unnecessarily fill the cache...]

Good point. A major misconception that a lot of people have is that lookup tables are always faster than actually calculating a value, but cache locality is usually not given as much attention.
Handling publication errors in meteor.js
Given tourism rates and where those tourists are from, I think it's super-common to like visiting pedestrian-friendly, compact old cities but prefer to live in modern car-friendly ones. I'm such a person myself: visiting those places is fun, sort of like visiting a Humanity & Crowds theme park, but where I live I want to relax and have some separation.
Well that's what I said:

> Developer Preview of Sierra should be available today.

Which you disagreed with. So, you were factually wrong.
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"Not to mention that you can also do individual analysis as well."

This is the key point to argue against in the context of people, privacy and mass surveillance.

It is the touchstone of privacy, anonymity and crowd protection.

Regarding noise suppression: yes, the more queries (available data whether raw or extracted) the more you can filter (ask a Kalman student) to reduce your error bars and margins. This is a reason why DP is overhyped. Also, if there are no differences between queries, then data is redundant. See deduplication (database) or scaling (measurement).

About the analysis pipeline: this is why the mantra "know your detector". Coincidentally, this is why releasing only recorded datasets is next to useless for people outside the given research group. You would need to capture detailed knowledge of your data taking operations and instruments, which happens rarely, if ever. Please cite a thing such as "the NASA pipeline", perhaps you mean a given mission/experiment? In any case, detector recalibration is a usual, almost daily activity...
Mine kept crashing on Mac when viewing table information, turns out it was some old subversion plugin that integrated into the OS shell.
Very nice! A bit of flickering as you type, though.
Actually not all column store databases do work on the ingestion path. Cassandra, HBase etc being notable exceptions. But then again not quite the same use case as the others you mentioned.

This really is begging for a better benchmark.
There are microbes that eat and poo nothing but electricity
Let's see if the guy proves his working at Google first[1]. Sounds like a bunch of BS to me.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/4o54ud/i_work_a...
Agreed. Please make this go away.
They might not have noticed, but I would have noticed waiting in line. There wasn't room to scoot by the people and their carts, and, as I said, every other route was blocked.
>So you're telling me you can only tell if it isn't a bubble if the market steadily declines eventually?

No, that's just its defining characteristic. You can "tell" by other signs too -- but they could be misleading.

>Whatever "bubble" means, it should probably only be used as a description of an abrupt crash in retrospect, otherwise we're always in a non-falsifiable bubble state.

That's the case with every phenomenon that depends in the final result for its definition. E.g. is an act X "beneficial"? We might have some heuristics, but we can only certainly know from its effects after it is completed.
I think you are conflating New York with livable places. Which is understandable; New York is virtually the only walkable place in the US. But the same design principles work on any scale. Tiny villages of 20 people can be made walkable.
I am certainly not suggesting that you be forced to live close to other people. But I would like to have the option. The other half of that is that since we all live a half-mile from all our neighbors, we don't know how to behave with consideration for each other. Without a culture of reciprocal consideration, there are bound to be conflicts. It is not obvious how we get from here to there.
Do they have reasonable clients by now? Last time I checked they were horrible, especially the Linux client.
There is a continuum, but it's primarily over time. Everything seems separate because you're not looking at the dimension over which it connects. If you only looked at the horizontal cross-section of a tree above the trunk, you might similarly ask "how can this be one plant when none of the parts are connected?". Well, they are. You just aren't going to see the connection in that slice.
Age.

Grow old.
Do we, though? I agree encouraging density in the places people want to live densely is a Good Idea - think SF, NYC, etc. People and entrenched interests working to prevent density where appropriate are worth defeating.

That said, some people want to live in sprawling suburbs, and taxing them unnecessarily for the inconvenience seems like a Bad Idea.
Mathematically yes -- but for the valuation to have any meaning it should refer to a significant enough percentage.
Google's response: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/10/google-denie...
Seeing that Google came as close to denying it as they can with this post: https://search.googleblog.com/2016/06/google-search-autocomp...

Troll is troll.
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There's a lot of great specific examples in this thread but I think it all boils down to this one quality; being able to put your own ego aside.

I think what lets a developer graduate from one level to the next is realizing that your own knowledge, vision, etc. is limited and not always the right way to go. Being able to put your own desires aside and execute someone else's vision while still providing the benefit of your experience and knowledge when appropriate.

Despite being a senior dev for a while now it's something I sometimes still struggle with finding the balance on.
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Transparency: Better, Easier, Fairer
For the users it would be so great to have Google by Dropbox. I use Drive all day long, but only for Google documents. Everything on the computers is either hosted in Dropbox or in ownCloud. But I think Microsoft is much more likely to buy them than Google. What a pity.
Here's a video of Senator Feinstein talking about confiscating weapons from legal owners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCRKv-szJlo

How many times has President Obama -- whom I voted for, mind you -- suggested following either the Australian or British examples? E.g., where Australia and Britain confiscated weapons from legal owners.

In both NYC and CA, several small-scale confiscations have occurred.

Here's a new law, passed by the Senate in California, that will require legal owners of standard-capacity magazines to surrender, sell, or destroy their legally-owned property: http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?...

That list goes on. And outside of outright confiscation, the gun-control crowd pushes nothing but more limits, more bans, and more asinine rules, all of which only serve to harass gun owners in exchange for zero measurable improvements in public safety (see the final report on the last Federal Assault Weapons Ban for more details on how utterly ineffective it was).

Like the State of California requiring a technology that is impossible under our current understanding of materials engineering in every new model of pistol sold. The result? No new models of pistols can be sold in California, and if a manufacturer updates an older model (say, to correct a safety flaw), then that pistol becomes banned, too.

If you want to know why gun owners -- and the NRA -- aren't budging an inch, the reason is simple:

Gun owners do not trust gun-control advocates, because gun-control advocates have repeatedly acted in bad faith.
That definitely made the short list! I picked up ocaml for a side project and enjoyed the language quite a bit. However, ocamljava is either dead or dormant at this point (last commit to master in June of last year) and it seemed to only have had one major contributor -- it would seem irresponsible to adopt such a solution in light of that.
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Remind me again of the number of successful ship launched cruise missile strikes against capital units

The only successful recent use (and that was an AA picket) is Air lanched Argentinians vs the Royal navy and that required some very ballsy pilots and good luck that the target ship was uplinking and did not have its radar on when she was engaged.

And if the RN had had a full CAV in the south atlantic the Super Etendards would have not got to firing range
Something I've never understood regarding the "Bittorrent DHT" ... is it a singular hash table that's utilized for all BT activity, or are there many Bittorrent DHT's, and when somebody says "Bittorrent DHT" they're just referring to the concept?
Well, I just bought the elusive pi zero, as a kit...because that's the only way I can get it, from adafruit a few days ago...around $36 with shipping. The actual shipping was $8.50 and I am just 5 miles from their office.
I think this Bloomberg poll may be some concrete indicator: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-06-14/bloomb...
Don't you feel claustrophobic when spending most of your time inside of a car when commuting?

I love Mediterranean cities like Florence or Barcelona. They are great places to live and to raise your kids/family.
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Losing their position is meaningless - they'll just go private and make even more money while being recklessly incompetent. They'd just hire a clean agent as their intermediary for government contracts.

No, I'd slap prison sentences on everyone involved, not just loss of government employment.
You are right it's marketing for a large part. The term Machine Learning somehow implies that the algorithms are more intelligent (or even sentient) then they actually are.

That said, Machine Learning is different from statistics. Statistics are mostly concerned with modeling real world phenomena. Machine Learning is trying to build models that can take a training set and generalize to unseen data without building a specific model for that dataset.
I think the problem is that it's so cheap it undercuts all the other more expensive models that have higher margins. When you look at adafruit's website for example, they still have plenty of zeros packaged in kits that sell for 30+ dollars but bare zeros have been out of stock for months.
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The idea behind both would be to introduce it incrementally, carving out parts of the codebase to be rewritten one section at a time.

You're right, though; pure4j offers an immediate and easily obtainable win, so it'd definitely be an easier pill to swallow. Thanks :)
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This is my favourite kind of post to read: a tool I don't know well, and someone using it enthusiastically to solve a real-world problem.
I don't really believe there are neutral economists. Not many in any case. Almost all economists are involved with government's, policy decisions, and financial institutions and interests.

And they comingle with people in power and others with large interests all the time.

It's like having a computer science professor in "databases" that's also a stakeholder in MongoDB.

>which sell off everytime the risk of Brexit rises, and rally when the risk of Brexit falls. So people put their money where their mouth is.

That's only short term assets they play with -- to make a quick buck on the uncertainty before and after a Brexit--, it doesn't show anything with regards to the medium- and long-term prospects of a Brexit.
It's refreshing and uncommon to see someone who sees value in PHP, Java and Haskell at the same time.

Nice to see open mindedness about languages for a change.
Reference is way more better than the actual page.
Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11858962
There are ways to be creative about funneling money around. http://nypost.com/2015/04/26/charity-watchdog-clinton-founda...

An excerpt: "The Clinton family’s mega-charity took in more than $140 million in grants and pledges in 2013 but spent just $9 million on direct aid. The group spent the bulk of its windfall on administration, travel, and salaries and bonuses, with the fattest payouts going to family friends."
> The dream of car culture is that we as individuals can live in a huge area, with vast potential for interaction. But the truth of what we have built is that we are cut off from one another.

No, the dream of car culture is that regular people can afford to live in their own detached house on a nice-sized plot of land. Which is what we have.

You can build dense cities in the US all you want, but there will always be a sizable portion of the population that says "I can pay $X to live in a small apartment in the city or a big house with a yard in the suburbs. Hmm..." It's an obvious choice for many people.
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The existence of all that greenspace in a dense area implies a degree of city planning that is sadly lacking in many parts of America.
It was called Java and it never lived up to the promise. The browser may not be the app deployment system we want, but it is certainly the one we deserve
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Thanks! I'm using MathJax for LaTeX support. This is how it processes LaTeX (with flickering). I have no idea how to improve this. Any clues?

I would probably try to prerender Markdown+Latex and update with a small throttling. But I haven't found a way to do this with MathJax.
Fair point, but it might almost be worth it just to suggest it just to see what the opposition is like -- if there isn't much, or any, go with Frege; otherwise, fall back to pure4j. I'd imagine framing the decision as picking from two choices would improve the odds of at least one being selected.
I would say one-to-one "snaps" are relatively rare. People are usually blasting it off to at least a few people. Through text that's a lot more taps. If it's a group text, now you've probably annoyed a few people.
There are two rules of success, one is soft, one is not:

1. Do good work.
2. Don't be an asshole.
Actually, I don't think that's spaghetti junction (Tom Moreland interchange) at 285/85. I think it's the 285/75 interchange at Cumberland.
I would say a solid understanding of the fields that development most commonly intersects with. Typically business (including politics), product, networking, operations, and security. You don't need to be an expert but you do need to be able to carry on intelligent conversations at the intersection points.

You don't need to be an expert but you do need to have a firm grasp of the basics.
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Well, you don't get to decide what people find natural, they do.

And deep below, computers work under a model that's anything but functional (assembly language is basically a big mutable state machine).

There is value in understanding both imperative and functional programming and applying each of them wherever they are the best fit and there are some real world situations where sticking to immutability is a terrible choice (e.g. neural networks).
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Why was this flagged?
I think the words you are looking for are "lab technician".
Maybe something like this? ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justo_Gallego_Mart%C3%ADnez
Hm, if commuting, I prefer to live somewhere else entirely, the outskirts of London seem to have none of the advantages (places to go, things to do), but all the disadvantages.
Is economics a house divided?
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Not sure, that it is a problem. If you consider to use such scalable system, you certanly will build a completely separate cluster for it. For such case, there is no real difference what distro to use, even if your ops team are redhat/whatever fans