skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting you say this. I thought this was happening in my apartment after being up for a couple days. SSL connections would keep getting broken with resources loading over HTTP, I thought that I was getting MITM'd by property management and injecting advertisements. It would be a pretty good idea.
One of the richest people in Silicon Valley is John Arrillaga.[1] He bought farmland in Silicon Valley and began converting it to office space. About a square kilometer of building floor space.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Arrillaga
S&P is more like the "Gartner Research" for finance. I'll just leave this here: http://venturebeat.com/2011/04/07/windows-phone-beat-iphon/
Boston Dynamics Introduces a New Robot
Ok so I went with "flexible", I'm not 100% sure yet, but that will do the job for now
Yes; your shares vest earlier (starting at your cliff), but if you leave before your minimum service period, you don't get the benefit of the 3-10 year exercise period. You're subject to the 'regular' exercise period, typically 30 to 90 days after termination.
The thing you're missing is that unless your validation logic is really complicated or you have a really fast network (think Infiniband, which is still not commodity), it will take less time and fewer resources to perform the validation logic (once the locks are taken, which has to happen regardless) than it does to marshall the data over the network to your application for processing, often by orders of magnitude. That is why more or less everyone trying to win benchmarks at transaction processing uses stored procedures.

FWIW, there's lots of concrete evidence of this beyond the fact that benchmarks almost always use stored procedures. If you look at the very best-performing storage systems, like MICA or FaRM, which achieve 100 million tps or more, you'll see that a huge amount of their optimization comes from circumventing the OS networking stack, taking advantage of built-in queueing mechanisms in NICs, and offloading work to avoid taking up cache lines and cores from the processing CPUs. Many extremely recent database designs also take this approach (separating the transaction processors from the executors) for similar reasons, like Bohm, Deuteronomy, and the SAP HANA Scale-out Extension, as well as deterministic database systems like Calvin. Given that these are literally the best-performing database systems out there, I have a hard time accepting that reducing network latency and doing as much processing work as possible in the database isn't the correct way to achieve high performance.

Using stored procedures also allows for (in theory) analysis of the allowed transactions and conflicts between them, which can boost performance further (e.g., if you can guarantee that they can't conflict with each other ahead of time, or if you can reuse cached data because nothing could have changed, or you might be able to order data in epochs and guarantee that there are no deadlocks, or you might be able to periodically check to see if a record was particularly highly contended and rebalance or split, if commutativity is possible--all of these options and more have been explored in recent database research). It's often difficult for an application to guarantee this because several web servers may be contacting the database at once, and they don't all know what the other web servers are doing, and this is doubly true if you allow ad-hoc queries. Not knowing whether a transaction will finish quickly (as is the case if an application is allowed to hold locks) also greatly increases chances of contention and/or disconnection, which can lead to further issues.

To be doubly clear--I think stored procedures are a massive pain in the ass and there are lots of good reasons to do exactly what you're proposing above. But performance is not one of them.
From the HN FAQ [0]:

Can I post a job ad?

Please do not post job ads as story submissions to HN.

A regular "Who Is Hiring?" thread appears on the first weekday of each month. Most job ads are welcome there. (But only an account called whoishiring is allowed to submit the thread itself. This prevents a race to post it first.)

The other kind of job ad is reserved for YC-funded startups. These appear on the front page, but are not stories: they have no vote arrows, points, or comments. They begin part-way down, then fall steadily, and only one should be on the front page at a time.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Thanks, tronc
Finnish is not a Nordic language, while Estonian is a Finnic language.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnic_languages
Ethically Finland is a Baltic nation rather than a Nordic one, It's also was never a part of the 3 monarchies of Scandinavia until the more modern use of Scandinavia for tourism.

Hence my reply to "Does Estonia count as a Nordic state" question :)
I read the article and made from plants and natural ingredients still requires a lab to get everything in the right state to get laboratory meat. Can you make this your kitchen with easily purchasable appliances? No. Lab produced meat. I can put a cow on my land and have meat pretty easily in a few months.

Personally, I buy a half of cow from a local farmer every year. The cow is raised in open fields that I have visited and feed an all grass diet. It comes out to $6.99 per pound.

Honestly, I don't do this to better then environment, that doesn't cross my mind in the least and probably never well, I do this because it provides better tasting meat and a better quality of life for the cow until the day of the slaughter house.

Meat is necessary to live a strong healthy life. Meat comes from an animal. Killing is necessary to eat meat. You can keep this processed food.
It doesn't help that broadcast ads scrape the absolute bottom of the barrel, and go on FOREVER.
What would you respond to my other comment downthread?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11985863
The biggest problem is making the place sustainable AFTER it's constructed and preventing the sheer emptiness that's plagued China's planned and constructed cities.
Data Centers Not Such Energy Hogs After All, Government Says
Monster Group [video](2014)
Did you skip mailing the FCC/CPUC because you didn't want to piss off the landlord? I mean, you may have gotten on their naughty list either way, and it's important for the FCC to get more such complaints to take action.
Brings Paul Graham's fantastic essay strongly to mind: http://paulgraham.com/cities.html
Firefox has gotten a lot more usable in the last few versions, and Chrome-style tab isolation should be here a few versions from now. If they're still screwing up in any major way, it's in the ever-closer approximation of the terrible Chrome UI, but there's an extension [1] which solves that quite handily.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/classicthemer...
Sounds a lot like sending engineers to potato fields to collect potatoes and get to know the country side. I don't know a single instance of where compulsory "mixing" of wealthy and less wealthy yielded a decrease in the wealth gap.
What is the licensing like if you're a vendor and you want to ship software based on .NET Core on your own hardware appliances? Can you redistribute the runtime, or do you have to pay?
> Look, taking on one or the other of Conway or Knuth on a topic like this would be a sobering prospect, but both of them at once? Maybe you should be phrasing your "objections" in the form of questions.

By the way, after having noticed that the conversation in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11952290 tended to involve frequent (what seemed to me to be) appeals to authority, which I think do not belong in mathematical discussion, I wanted to thank you for your measured tone: not "don't question these lofty personalities", but rather explicitly "do question them" (rather than assuming out of hand that an apparent objection is an actual one).
Cities need to be optimized for serendipitous social, intellectual, and cultural encounters between people. Maximize these, and you will have the best of cities.

This means public squares and pedestrian-friendly landscapes, as everyone well knows. This also means housing the homeless. The smell of urine and the general feeling of squalor comprises the bulk of the burden of negative feeling for me in SF.
It doesn't matter what your reasons are for putting someone in power. You or others may support anti-immigration laws to protect job markets, housing, medical care, etc. Those are valid concerns, but it doesn't matter. Trump is not the change that these people are looking for. Votes are fuel; at the end of the day, anyone who votes for him is complicit in the rhetoric he uses, and bears responsibility for the further spread of hatred and bigotry towards marginalized groups in our society. You might say that those voting for him have nobody else to turn to, that the current political system has disenfranchised them to the point where they have no choice. You'd be correct. There is always a choice to defend those who cannot defend themselves; it usually requires personal sacrifice, and it always reflects on the character of those who make it.
That is laughably bad. I hope there is some backstop where the system will lock the account hard after a handful of bad answers?
Based on research and sourcing methods I'm 99.99% confident.

Which is better than most saas aps SLAs ;)
I seem to recall similar issues for OSX users wrt wifi, and also smb/cifs support. Nothing is seamless for everyone, as it's impossible to test every system... The fact that Apple doesn't get it right on their very limited range of internal hardware is a testament to that fact.
Why good documentation can get you more love than $1000
Getting Started with C#
The states in the US used to be far different than they are now. Free trade and free movement of people within the US has been a homogenizing influence as well as making the US an economic powerhouse (taking full advantage of the principle of comparative advantage).

Recall that the southern states used to be so different from the northern ones they were willing to start a war over it.
> complex numbers do not possess a total ordering

The set of complex numbers does not possess a total ordering that respects the algebraic operations. The set of complex numbers is in bijection (in many, meaningless, ways) with the set of real numbers, and so certainly admits a (indeed many, meaningless) total ordering.
If you can do this, it seems weird you would ever need to contact support for help. If you can keep the security answers safe why can't you keep the original password safe in the same place?

Or is this for when the account is locked for some random reason?
So from their perspective, the amount of repression one gets in a Soviet Russia or China is acceptable, and scaling it up to be worldwide could be considered libertarian? Or do they believe there is some way of stopping the worst people rising to the top in a worldwide government that doesn't exist at the Russia/China scale?
> Thank you, this was a wonderfully thought-provoking response (also, the first season of Connections is probably my favourite documentary of all time!).

Thank you. I hope to meet or communicate with Mr Burke at some point soon, I know Dan Carlin had a podcast with him a little while back if you're interested in his new take on the world. Connections remains the high water mark for documentary making and it is worth reading the books. If you want to watch a documentary in a similar style I suggest The Ascent of Man.

> In a sense, I think that although television itself isn't interactive, you could say that our family was 'interactive about' television. So we got the benefits of being able to use television in a positive way.

I believe you, I am mainly thinking of the average 5 hours per day the average American (or European) spends in front of the television. The dose makes the poison!

> This really resonated with me at the time, given that I was really getting into the Space Quest & other 'Quest games

Yes, it is clear that videogaming can provide for a shared community and culture, most obviously the MMORPGS. This is not something television achieves, or if it does, it is rare, like fans of Mythbusters or Connections. In the present we are concerned with developing the foundations of the Net, like commerce or the law. But ultimately I think a Net culture will be the most valued feature we ascribe to the Net.
Anyone running coreOS in production want to comment on their stack? We tried using it around a year+ ago, but etcd/fleet were too unstable and stuff like btrfs and other major features were being changed too often to get the supposed benefits.

It looks significantly more mature now, but I'm still not sure about the buy-in on all their various products.
Can you make a mafia with only three people?
Yes, except the sale price will probably have a good portion of expected future rent increases "priced in". (I'm not saying you won't make any money at all)
While you have a point, you're assuming that everybody is at liberty to live where they want to while making a living the best way they can. I too wish it was the case, but not everybody can work remotely (or even has the desire to), or otherwise can take the most appropriate job while not compromising on their housing situation.
> I had really hoped that bleak dystopian 80's futurism

Are there any other bodies of literature that you could suggest regarding the 80's dystopian futurism?

I've been trying to build a reading list for the rest of summer.
> Depends how pedantic you're being, but ripping DVDs for personal use doesn't count as "piracy" in my book.

Exactly this. I got tired of lugging around my gigantic DVD collection and having them scratch or break with time. I've since ripped all of them, and Kodi makes for a fantastic frontend for my HTPC.
> I wonder how many people do that just to lie to people

Ooh, lots, I'm sure. It's a brilliant way to lie, because it makes catching you out look like a lot of hard work.
Ah you're right, I forgot about the numeric enums. I was thinking strictly string based.

I honestly think "protected" is not worth fussing over. Not to mention JS becomes more classically oriented every day. I predict ES2018 adds "protected" :)

Anyway I honestly don't have much opinion on how they are marketing TS. The language itself is well done and that's all I really care about.
Burnout and Mental Health
Mesa and Smalltalk for the Alto are around [1], so I hope to get them running at some point. The files need to be copied into a disk image that the simulator can read, so I may need to write an Alto file system emulator.

Lisp for the Alto, on the other hand, seems to be entirely gone - I asked around and nobody seems to have a copy. From what I hear, it never worked very well because there wasn't enough memory.

[1] http://xeroxalto.computerhistory.org/Indigo/XMesa/.index.htm... and http://xeroxalto.computerhistory.org/Filene/Smalltalk-76/.in...
Exactly - when looking for an apartment, unfortunately the ISP is pretty far down the list. Location, amenities, safety, layout, all end up being more important.
tariffs were the largest source of federal revenue from the 1790s to the eve of World War I, until it was surpassed by income taxes.

source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_history_of_the_United...
Poetry that scans correctly should be fairly easy to write for a machine - just find words with the right rhythm patterns and rhymes. Poetry that connects on an emotional level must be a lot harder.
I mean, Stockton St. or Clement? Or the Sunset?
I had the same experience in SF. AT&T tried to sell me 28Mbit for $75/month in SoMa and the building didn't allow me to bring Monkeybrains. They just said no and told me they had an exclusivity agreement with AT&T. Called Comcast, they told me they can't because the address looks like a business address despite being residential.

I called the AT&T representative they got me in touch with. I told them about how what they are doing is illegal and they can't limit me to use this etc.

They backed down. Gave me free cable, 50% off, waived the installation fee and came and installed it in a day. Their previous estimate for an installation was two to three weeks.
"easiest clustered DBs to administrate"

easy + clustered should never be in the same sentence.
In Python nose can do that for you: http://nose.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

In D there is even a keyword for that. It allows to embed the tests into the documentation as examples. This has the nice side effect that your examples are actually tested. https://dlang.org/spec/unittest.html
Because it's a problem that should have been fixed 15 years ago.
Britain's exit could make Europe less friendly to US tech
Ubuntu does it right. It only nags me when I log in, and I can dismiss it with a click, and I don't get nagged again until I log in again.

Edit: On Windows I often run jobs overnight that take 6-7 hours to complete. It's annoying to discover in the morning that Windows aborted my job to install some update, and I have to restart the thing for the next night. This never happens on Ubuntu.
Well this was near the Yellow Journalism era, so it's fun to read some of the papers from the time to see what life was like. Really we should find Hearst's "New York Journal" or Pulitzer's "New York World", but they do not seem to be on line.

But you can find some: Here is Pulitzer's the "The Evening World" http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/issues/191...

And a bit from Hearst's "New York Evening Journal" https://archive.org/stream/newyorkeveningjo1219hear#page/n0/...
Yes, you can take a bus into your city center faster at rush hour. That's exactly what public transit is really good at: getting people to a common destination at a common time.

Now, how fast can you get from an arbitrary point in the city to an arbitrary point in the city at an arbitrary time of day?
Longer exercise window would be very valuable, especially for employees not having big cash pile laying around somewhere. That would raise the value of options a lot. The other suggestion though - longer vesting period - would have the reverse effect.

4 years vesting options in startup are "extremely risky investment that with much luck and hard work may pay off". 8 years vesting options in a startup means "I guess Las Vegas gambling is too boring and way to little risk for you? How would you like to gamble with 10 years of your life?"

4 years vesting options in an established company is "we'll pay you if you agree to suffer us and drag yourself to work long after it stopped being fun for you". 8 years vesting options in an established company is "for how much would you agree to sell us your immortal soul?"

In short, long period vesting for options may make total sense for company issuing it. It would have very low value for employee, and even long exercise period would not compensate for that.
I have probably a couple of hours into that game, before I got bored and gave up. In those few hours I have not seen a single alien. It's as if the game studio forgot the title of the game.
and at this point, who isn't using a mobile device to enter passwords where potential shoulder surfers (human and camera) lurk? Without copy and paste, you have to what? Go into a bunker to type in passwords safely?
Markets figure these things out. Not sure why people feel the need to convince markets / market participants, unless they somehow don't like the decisions that those have made.
Open-source it, and maybe we'll get better answers.
Thank you. I wasn't suggesting it is necessarily bad. It looks like the openness and ease of disabling is being handled much better here than with Win10.

However, the option to disable on install (checkbox prompt for preference) would be much better. This is an improvement over the Win10 approach.
The absolute best place to grow up in America
TypeScript – is it worth using?
I did that demo 2-3 times per week for over two years. It was fun.

The best time ever was when I presented to Bob Metcalfe's class and he heckled me:
https://twitter.com/CaseySoftware/status/170301958727536640

I got him back in my closing though:
https://twitter.com/CaseySoftware/status/170304358905425920
I should not be so judgemental. I noticed they interview what appears to be close friends they have in the Angular community, especially since one of the popular devs/evangelists of Angular, John Papa[0], is a friend of theirs they interviewed.

More elaborate front-end was inevitable. That being said, I love their content and only really interact with their work through an Android podcatcher/audio client.

[0] https://github.com/johnpapa/angular-styleguide/blob/master/a...
I was tricked by "A thousand pictures on the kitchen floor,
Talked about a hundred years or more."
But like most art, whether it connects on an emotional level is mostly dependent on the consumer. Once an artist gains fame, then it becomes a matter of fashion signalling to agree with others about how good that artist is or to deride that artist for making something that doesn't live up to previous works.

I found a lot of the lines from The Policeman's Beard is Half-Constructed by the program Racter to connect with me on an emotional level, despite knowing that (a) it was likely heavily edited by the program creator and (b) much of it just mimicked the unusual word choices and rhythmic qualities of poetry, not the intentional conveyance of a message or theme.
Could do quick delivery of dry goods, and only go to the store for fresh produce that you really want to inspect.

I'd love Amazon to drop off a bag of rice by drone.
Sorry about that! Link should be fixed up shortly.

Lee [.NET PM]
Yes, it is necessary to accept EULA.

However, consider it also from the user's POV. The update will download gigabytes of data, will do everything possible to get anything from the user that can pass as "agreement" and then update the software. Then it will reboot machine and present the new EULA.

If the user disagrees with the EULA, it will restore the original system - but not right now. It will take tens of minutes (not everyone has SSD) and during this time, the users is practically locked out of using the computer. If you are small entrepreneur, this is basically time when you cannot work and it's not your fault. Some of these folks cannot afford to wait a hour or so for the system to restore.

And this will be not final - who guaranteed that the windows update will not try again in a few weeks, once Microsoft steps up the campaign again?
FWIW, yes, there is "Delphi for .NET" (but it's actually much more than that - it can also target JVM and Cocoa):

http://www.elementscompiler.com/elements/oxygene/language.as...
Have any companies implemented a sliding scale for the duration of the exercise period? 10 years makes sense for a super early stage startup, and 90 days is reasonable for public companies. I would think that some shorter windows can be implemented for companies at different growth stages -- perhaps by financing schedule, revenue size, expected time until exit, etc.
Competition.
Have you ever managed your own non-trivial Elasticsearch cluster personally? Elasticsearch is filled with so many subtle gotchas that aren't present in other non-distributed databases.

I personally feel once you've managed your own ES cluster for awhile, you tell yourself there's no freaking way any cloud system can abstract all these ugly (but important) configuration settings and corner cases into a neat, nice cloud product. No freaking way. I'm gonna manage this myself.
That's really unworkable. There are some services you could replace with 'volunteer' community services but you still need money for roads, water/sewer/ police, fire services, and most of what a city generally provides that can't just be staffed with people working their community service stints.