skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am frankly surprised that she's the first one who's tried taking Microsoft to court. I kind of anticipated that there would be a class action lawsuit after Microsoft made Windows 10 a "recommended" update--meaning anyone who had their Win 7 or 8 machines set to install recommended updated automatically would get updated without being made aware of it.
I think we're in agreement writing applications in the database isn't a good idea.

By "empirical proof", I mean that I have never seen anyone conclusively prove that switching data access from stored procedures to ad hoc SQL through an application was the cause of performance improvement. I've seen proof that removing complex application logic from the database fixed a problem, or that better indexing improved performance, but I've never seen anyone prove that removing stored procedures alone fixed the problem.

Further, there's nothing in your proposed solution of scaling out with readable replicas that precludes the use of stored procedures for data access. As a huge fan of both databases and separation of concerns, stored procedures make tremendous sense. They let a domain expert tune the database as needed. Even going so far as allowing that expert to re-write queries, provide optimizer hints, or even change the physical data model for better performance without ever changing application code.

Although I may or may not be competent, I have scaled "stuff" in a database. But I do appreciate you getting a vague ad hominem into the first sentence. Bravo.

The typical bottlenecks that I found were almost always IO - either through crappy storage, crappy indexing, or some combination of the two. Modern databases typically aren't bottlenecked by the lock manager.

I'd also agree that moving work out to a NoSQL database is particularly tricky. For three years I maintained the .NET Riak client and helped developers make better decisions when they were considering moving away from an RDMBS.
not really that surprised; despite the razor thin margin I think most people (myself included) thought a Leave majority was just incomprehensible. I've just returned from a month in London - this has been a good learning experience for me in terms of how my personal biases help rationalize expected outcomes. And also why I just throw money at passive index funds - I'm not experienced enough yet to gamble on these sorts of things.
“Now the catastrophic scenario that many feared has materialized, making the disintegration of the EU practically irreversible” is I think something that people aren't considering enough regarding the recent Brexit vote.
I used to live in the US. Now I live in a country ruled by a military dictatorship. This year they started with an immigration form that asks for social media accounts, currently optional same as the US. When I left the US I never thought I would be watching the US steadily implement many of the steps of a military dictatorship. The thing is, the US gov is so much more powerful and skilled at surveillance and dirty work than the tin pot dictators I live under, which has led to the weird realization that living under a military dictatorship can actually be better than US-style "democracy".
> it happened in the past with previous Typescript module syntax and the language had to break compatibility

Hmm. I thought that they just deprecated the old syntax while maintaining backwards compatibility.
All the short sighted articles are surprising. It is uncertain whether the "brexit" is better long term solution for the UK. Taking a look at the stock market a day after the vote is not going to show the true impact.

Mr Soros's comment reflects my current opinion...

“Britain eventually may or may not be relatively better off than other countries by leaving the EU, but its economy and people stand to suffer significantly in the short to medium term,”
> Gallium-Arsenide

I have read somewhere that this actually integrates fairly well into CMOS.
Announcing Netbox (from Digital Ocean)
Realistically you could also just limit it to the first 10 characters.
Source: https://github.com/digitalocean/netbox
I've always wondered how much of the money YC seeds to its founders eventually ends up in a landlord's pocket? $3000/month on a studio apartment. That's crazy burnout for a startup.
It's not the true believers who should be happiest about the effects of ergodic writing. Instead, it's the ones who disagree, but for serious reasons. If someone would only be converted if the writer makes it super easy, then I think e.g. Stallman feels like why should he waste his time on someone like that?
I downloaded the Crunchbase database (startups, acquisitions, exits, investments, ipos, etc) as a CSV file, then calculated the importance of each city based on exits vs. failure. The left column is the standard deviation of the value of that city relative to all other cities considered. That is, Mountain View, for example, is 8.4678 standard deviations above the norm.
thanks for the feedback. I'll certainly look into it. I should do some more user testing.
If you're doing anything related to telecom, then Richardson, TX hands down.

Actually, Richardson is a pretty good place for other industries, too, but our specialty is telecom.
The worst part about EU is how they make people assume that everyone who isn't in EU is not a true European. This is something you'd expect of Americans (from USA), but EU member states hardly have anything to be proud about, so where's the arrogance coming from?
Yeah, the proper way to be doing that is via a middleware api that can be maintained and versioned by it's own team, rather than coupling all these applications to a very specific database. If you have 4 apps talking to the same oracle database, and you decide to ditch the license, that's going to be way harder to deal with than if you just had one api being maintained by a team who's job is to know databases.
> "If Neoliberals were in power"

Neoliberals are in power.
I watched this NASA "tweetup" a few years back. It's a bit long, but has some very interesting discussions about the science and engineering of the project.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iWgZ_TmL0M
The folks who disagree seem to be aligning with the reasoning that it's easier to raise capital and be closer to investors in SF.

But raising money != starting a company. Sure, it's important at some point, but this is the growing problem with the industry as a whole, no? People show up with just a pitch deck and want a million bucks.

Most responsible (and technically-capable) founders are trying to save as much money as possible and get on the investing boat as late as possible.
Considering how many people listen on headphones as opposed to past decades, would it not be a valid choice to do more headphone mixing?
High value words like "Catastrophic", "feared", "disintegration", "irreversible" are all markers that indicates propaganda, not analysis.

Cooler heads will prevail.
I love reading these. I always wonder if the original hardware/software/firmware engineer reads this and goes:

A. Well, Duh!
B. Well played reverse engineering Sir!
C. Oh no, I need to do better next time!
"It does not have to be", but in practice it usually is (although he accepts BSD, even though it doesn't guarantee users' access to modifications). RMS advocates "liberated" software, or software that is itself free from being locked into a proprietary fork. That's the whole point of the GPL family of licenses. If you read the corpus of his works - I have - he very consistently talks about the importance of software freedom and how that Open Source can refer to many very non-Free things.

> Do people even read this whenever they quote it?

Did you? He writes:

"Yet some open source supporters have proposed “open source DRM” software. Their idea is that, by publishing the source code of programs designed to restrict your access to encrypted media and by allowing others to change it, they will produce more powerful and reliable software for restricting users like you. The software would then be delivered to you in devices that do not allow you to change it.

"This software might be open source and use the open source development model, but it won't be free software since it won't respect the freedom of the users that actually run it. If the open source development model succeeds in making this software more powerful and reliable for restricting you, that will make it even worse."
I use uBlock Origin and it did auto play.
It was logistic regression, with the cities as features and exits vs. failures/floundering (1 vs. 0) as labels.
In my experience you're both right.

The enterprise wants everyone to be a jack of all trades and to understand everything. Part of the reason for the massive layering that takes place is so that things are compartmentalized and easier for an individual to pickup and put down as they're shuffled around from project to project. Standardization, documentation, consistency, and discipline are essential for enterprise developers to be able to quickly grok a project and make the necessary changes.

Automation also plays an important role because it allows less skilled and knowledgeable individuals of lower pay grades monitor the blinky lights and only call on the big boys when things fail.
For those with Spotify, you can listen to the cast album here. The title track is arguably the most famous, but Yorktown (Track 20) is another excellent example of how the musical blends rap and musical theater tropes into an unforgettable combo.

https://open.spotify.com/album/1kCHru7uhxBUdzkm4gzRQc

Re: your point about the leftist crowd, the Clinton campaign giving away tickets is notable because tickets now sell on the secondary market starting at $1000+. (And 100% worth it.) The show itself does make you sympathize for a character who consistently advocates for a strong central government (see Cabinet Battle #1, Disc 2 Track 2), but that's an afterthought in the context of how groundbreaking the rest of the show is.
The idea of "let's put a popup on everyone's computer telling them they can download the next version of Windows for free" simply reeks of malware shit. Even worse is when they decided to force it on everyone else who doesn't automatically click "OK" on every dialog box they see.
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If you're a founder, not a VC, you would probably want another metric for the rate of return on your sweat from founding to exit.

There's a TVM calculation in there, to normalize the dollars you got paid on exit to the years that you did the work. And there's an opportunity cost for not being a salaried employee of an existing business while your were building your new business.

In the end, you probably want to reduce it to $X/week, run the calculation for all founders, and then aggregate by metropolitan area to see which city is best.

If your business becomes self-sustaining without a buyout, merger, or IPO, you can probably run the calculation using a TVM for a presumed perpetuity after the day you finally start paying regular dividends, along with your equity value as a lump sum. And if it goes bankrupt, you could end up with a negative value if you chose to pay yourself a salary lower than you could have earned elsewhere.
My gut is that the investment expresses calculated risk. London and the UK constitute significant European financial center and financial services firms are likely to become more important if and when the common market actually splits.
AlphaGo taught itself to win, but without humans it would have run out of time
You'll get to fill out a boring customs declaration forum. No carrying food into the country or smuggling in plants/animals/pets, no carrying over $5K of cash or equivalent, etc. If you have nothing to declare sometimes you didn't need to fill out the form. I never understood that in the past, perhaps it had something to do with no checked luggage (or no luggage at all) equals no declaration form.

In the old days they were lazy and handed out Visa Waiver forms to everyone on the plane. Perhaps they've stopped doing that. The Visa Waiver form is the famous "are you a terrorist?" Q+A forum. You don't have to fill that out if you're a citizen because entering the USA as a citizen never requires a visa. Theoretically if you have a visa (are a citizen of a non-visa waiver country) someone already signed for you and investigated such that you're not a terrorist and filling out a visa waiver would be pretty pointless if you require and have a visa.

Immigration officials seem to delight in pulling peoples chains, and you have nothing more interesting to do while waiting in line, so local variation and variation over time is highly likely.
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Nokia, Intel collaborate on open source hardware
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>>> If you see somebody selling a box that’s “fully loaded” or comes with the phrase “Free movies and TV with Kodi,” please, ask them to stop. And let us know.

This reminds me of when Lady GaGa called on her fans to report piracy of her album. Copyright law isn't simple. Those fans who submitted false takedowns thinking they had permission to do so were not helpful. Trademark law is even more complex. If I were Kodi's legal team I would not ask anyone to enforce my trademark. Reporting to Kodi is one thing, but "ask them to stop" will result in false trademark infringement notices by people with no association with Kodi. You cannot split legal hairs when asking the public for favors. They will take your words and run with them.
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Just done it from the office.
I'm definitely "not" in the ocean.
http://i64.tinypic.com/28ujms7.png
More features...where do I start? Certainly more service integrations (there is already ready-to-use integration with several APIs, including Stripe, Google auth/drive/sheets, Active Directory for corporate users, etc, but there's always more to do). There's also a nifty DB upgrade on its way, as well as a beta of push/pull Git access to each app's source (that one's live today - there's a Git Access button in the IDE). Ultimately, though, it's all being driven by user feedback now.

We deliberately chose Python because Javascript (language and ecosystem) is a dumpster fire whose weaknesses keep getting papered over with a new framework-of-the-week. (Fun fact: The median modern web app is written with five programming languages and three frameworks. Take a moment to soak in how nuts that is).

Python lets us implement simple, idiomatic APIs for things that would require multiple frameworks, nested lambdas and async hell in JS. (We translate into async hell in the compiler :D)

Expect an HN post or two before long...
A five-man startup that competes with Google can be very simply mitigated by Google, though.

There is an advantage for a billionaire to help startups get better - someday they can acquire the talent, product, etc. Remember that acquisition is a form of recruitment, too.
> How does a kid share? This type of thing is important. Everyone can see the athlete play, hear the singer singing, but how does a young coder get notices if no code can be shared?

For the very specific case of apps that download executable code off the network. So it's more like, athletes that play a specific sport, or a singer that sings very specific class of music.

> if no code can be shared

Now that's just either fud or a lie.
Lee Sedol will let his daughter learn from AlphaGo
To the extent that this is true in the modern era of cloud services, it's irresponsibly abetted by so many programs silently ignoring errors rather than reporting them.

In Apple's case, they have complete control over iCloud and could offer this easily for any file which is stored there. They could also add some sort of metadata API so services like CrashPlan, Backblaze, etc. could register the presence of other copies in a generic manner. Third party services could also integrate background scrubs into their existing application.

In each case, the first time that dialog appeared you'd likely have a customer for life from anyone who's gone through the hassle of losing a personal memory, important document, etc. or make a panicked search for other/older copies.
Right, that goes along with "20% of credit reports have errors." (which was found in an FTC study). Example errors are misspellings and number transposing and both versions end up in the database. The correct report can be pulled up 99.9999% of the time even if it has errors because usually a bunch of data is used to pull up the report (name, address, birthday, social), not just a single number.

I know someone with misspellings of their name on one bureau's credit report and its never caused a problem (he's too lazy to ask them to fix it). The misspelling is listed as his name and the right spelling is listed as "other name" (or something like that).
Didn't autoplay with Firefox + NoScript.
Microsoft are trying to following Apple's approach in dealing with users.

But I think there is a bit of a difference here. Apple users opted in. They knew how Apple operates before they bought Apple products. The same cannot be said for long time Microsoft customers.
I am very sorry for the negativity, but that post is just a list of links to Deep Learning and Machine Learning classes compiled by a student. The fact that it made it to the front page of HN proves that there's a massive hip about Neural Network among programmers, but that it sounds like black magic for most people interested in learning them.
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Some of them are.

https://twitter.com/sima_kotecha/status/747404962242633728

UKIPer in that thread calls Sima Kotecha a liar, manufacturing fake outrage, when she describes someone calling her a paki.
These broad generalizations about psychoacoustics are simply not accurate. It sounds like what every novice engineer experiences before honing his or her craft. If you're surprised by what you hear after recording something, either you weren't listening properly while recording it, you haven't learned how to record it properly yet, or your recording/listening environment itself is flawed.

Of course we notice different things about an object after taking a picture of it. But you've got to be very careful about cause/effect/bias.
I can tell you're a fellow Pennsylvanian. haha Philly has a huge talent pool as well. Access to students from UPenn, Temple, Drexel, etc.
I read that RoTJ parody in MAD magazine probably 30 times. Nice to see somebody else obsessed over MAD in that era.

I still occasionally remember one of my favorite little side comics (the ones in the margins) where a person was holding a sign that said "LAWN ORDER" (a pun on LAW AND ORDER).
and by "rf" I mean this stuff:
https://www.tau.ac.il/~tromer/radioexp/
It's sad that Cycle.js isn't getting more attention here on HN. It's truly a novel paradigm - the idea that your app is part of this loop which is entirely reactive, and that's how you communicate with the outside world.

I'm not sure this paradigm has been used elsewhere. For sure reactive programming ideas have been used in Elm and other frameworks outside the JS world, but the idea of a "reactive loop" is really game-changing to me.
How landlords get kickbacks to lock tenants into big Internet providers
The term "terrorist" doesn't have a single fixed meaning. It's context-dependent. Pretending it's not context-dependent willfully misinterprets the speaker.

A lot of words function like this. E.g., "believer".

When a christian asks me if I'm a believer I might say yes.

But then I'd probably say no if a wiccan asked me the same question.

Obviously, that doesn't mean that everyone (or no one) is a believer once you fix some additional context.

So in summary, according to the sense in which the USFG is using the term, you're simply not a terrorist.

Everything else about your post is just a slippery slope argument, which may or may not be valid, but certainly isn't well-substantiated.
All depends on if you use any third party Angular 1 libraries. If you do, it can be trickier, as one will have to rewrite the functionality in Angular 2.

For example, my current company screwed itself by using a fork of UI Grid, and thus probably cannot upgrade the current app to Angular 2 easily.
I've personally had a great experience with the Magewell USB3 HDMI capture device, which I believe is also UVC - requires no drivers on Windows/Mac and claims to be Linux compatible. Slightly cheaper than the u-tap.

https://www.amazon.com/Magewell-HDMI-USB-Capture-Dongle/dp/B...

Can do lossless capture with extremely low latency, which is pretty nice - it's good enough that I've been able to play console video games on it directly instead of plugging into a TV.
No shit.
The future of 3D-printed prosthetics
Here's a legitimate question, have index funds ever "crashed?" If you look at the last ten years, they didn't do well during the recession years, but over the entire period either matched or exceeded most managed funds but without nearly as high of a fee.

People act like index funds are a "risky investment" compared to bonds. But is that actually true? Seems like countries getting into trouble is so common now that bonds aren't as rock solid as they used to be, and over tens of years index funds have shown to be extremely stable.
Cooler heads have completely failed to prevail so far.

I'm not sure why you think that comment is propaganda. Catastrophic things do happen sometimes.
If you're a nonresident, the CBP officer has full discretion whether to let you in or not, and you have no right of appeal. So when the officer asks you a question, answering it is not really optional.
Well, that shows I know more about scientific glass than recreational and medical.

Still, lightlyused referred to "several glass blowers in that community" who lightlyused personally knew. My comment was in response to that. I seriously doubt that those are the ones who make high end pieces.

Bong making is not hard. It's one of the things that chemistry undergrads often do if they take a glass blowing class and the staff lets them get away with it. (Sometimes the lab teacher will even anneal your 'project'.)

I can be good enough at carpentry to make bookshelves for me and my friends. That doesn't mean I can build a good staircase.

Similarly, it would be hard to lure me away to, say, a job developing cloud computing infrastructure.
Right, but I'm having so much fun.
This would be interesting if the source could be trusted. But because it's just one guy with new throwaway writing in Reddit, it's useless.
Was London at any point the startup capital of Europe?

Maybe it was the banking capital of Europe, but that time is over now.
Ostensibly facial ticks or whatever.

Actually country of origin and maybe skin color / attire.

That's the function of pseudo-science bullshit -- you can ignore civil liberties and pretend you're not.
Assuming Brexit actually occurs at all, which is uncertain given Scotland's potential veto.
Huh, never thought about it, but that's a pretty good argument against random security questions.
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Here's an example of Open Source software that the FSF doesn't consider to be Free Software: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Open_Source_Agreement

There is a big overlap in the Free/Open Source Venn diagram but they are not the same thing.
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To understand Soros you need to be aware of his childhood in WWII Hungary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros#Early_life

His attachment to the EU is partly based on his belief that we are too sanguine about Europe's recent past being exceptional and non-repeatable. I don't think this is entirely unreasonable. Some commentators in the 1910's possessed a similar optimism.