skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is way too much acceptance and compensation in the way people approach problems relating to old age. It just doesn't exist in other fields in the same way. So much is done atop the axiom that whatever is wrong with the old - in a biological, physical sense - is set in stone and cannot be changed, and thus, collectively, vast resources are addressed to coping or compensating rather than addressing. Problems should be solved, not papered over.
One of the few projects that prompt me to stop my current task to tinker with it. Great job! :)
Closest thing Cassandra has to behaving like a search engine is the new SASI indexes. Good deep dive here: http://www.doanduyhai.com/blog/?p=2058 which describes how its different from elastic search in "SASI vs Search Engines" section.

- SASI requires 2 passes on disk to fetch data: 1 pass to read the index files and 1 pass for the normal
Cassandra read path whereas search engines retrieves the result in a single pass (DSE Search has a singlePass option too).
By laws of physics, SASI will always be slower, even if we improve the sequential read path in Cassandra

- Although SASI allows full text search with tokenization and CONTAINS mode, there is no scoring applied
to matched terms SASI returns result in token range order, which can be considered as random order from the
user point of view. It is not possible to ask for total ordering of the result, even when LIMIT clause is used.
Search engines don't have this limitation

- last but not least, it is not possible to perform aggregation (or faceting) with SASI.
The GROUP BY clause may be introduced into CQL in a near future but it is done on Cassandra side,
there is no pre-aggregation possible on SASI terms that can help speeding up aggregation queries
The thing with the dream of fusion power is how truly far out it still is, and how thousands of engineering challenges will have to be tackled.

The neutron challenge: Fusion creates A LOT of neutrons bombarding the vessel - that is also why modern nuclear bombs use fission to ignite fusion so that those neutrons in turn boost fission even further. Bombarding any material with lots of neutrons puts a lot of stress on the kit, so it needs to be replaced on a fairly regular basis. Given how difficult it is to assemble the Stellarator design, an industrial replacement process driven by robots (because of the radiation induced by the free roaming neutrons) is decades out.

The impurity/inadvertent cooling challenge: The fusion process is extremely sensitive to any impurities in the fuel, and the slightest inaccuracies in the magnetic field. Once the plasma touches something, it cools of at once, and fusion is over.

There are countless other challenges. I for one am all for still pumping billions into fusion research, cause the next time a meteor hits earth and darkens our atmosphere, our fancy photovoltaic power future will look ... cloudy. What are billions for the world economy as an insurance contract on long term clean energy security.
> ITT: People who understand why the War on Drugs is ineffective but can't fathom why pushing all ivory trade into the black market could have similar results.

With all due respect, "ITT:" (In This Thread) is hardly constructive. First off you cannot generalise all of the replies already made, and secondly you cannot know the direction of future replies or how the conversation will evolve.

If you want to make a point comparing the ivory trade to the war on drugs, that's great, it might generate some thoughtful discussion. But this "ITT" nonsense from Reddit is just that, nonsense.
Field tests aren't admissible in court already.
Perhaps malware vendors will soon begin content-marketing to increase engagement with their target markets!
It's all about the size of the market. An illegal market will be smaller than a legal market.

Also it's impossible to setup a legal market because there is no way of distinguishing 'legal' ivory from 'illegal' ivory.
Since "owning" and "directing" are there, and Holmes is not only CEO but also majority shareholder (and owning stock that gives her disproportionate control for her stock ownership), wouldn't she have to not only step down but also divest at least enough to no longer be either majority owner or have majority voting power?
That is why they tried to allow some legal trade. This has so far spelled disaster for the elephants and it is right now very urgent to ban all trade again. Apparently there isn't enough ivory out there. If there was the price would go down and no one would hunt elephants.
Unfortunately despite being in a big city, it's one of the worst big cities for tech jobs in the country (hence low salary). And moving isn't an option for another 4 years. I apply mostly to remote jobs because of this and I am sure those are more competitive.

Do you have any examples of other tools that would be valuable? I honestly think I'd be pretty unhappy with iOS/Android development due to the nature of most companies that focus in that area, and I assume that'd probably be an option you'd recommend. I have an interest in security and penetration testing, but it's such a horrendously complicated and difficult expertise to attain and I have no realistic expectations I would ever get a good job doing that.

Working with C/C++ or other less-web focused technology is an option obviously, but agains no CS background and it just seems like such an uphill battle to learn what I need and then convince someone to hire me for it.
> I doubt that any civilian technology would withstand a hardware attack e.g. by the NSA.

You'd probably be wrong. There are several consumer accessible chips (i.e. from Atmel that you can order on digikey) that use tamper-proof silicon where the very act of opening up the package to inspect the die destroys the private key data. Even civilian tamper-proof tech is extremely robust, using physical phenomena to protect the data instead of obfuscation.

That doesn't preclude someone with the resources of the NSA from figuring it out or backdooring the design but the resources needed to defeat tamper proof devices is orders of magnitude greater than those needed to use them and that gap is constantly growing.
the article links to http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regdoc/rep/1/2016/EN/1-2016...
which says on page 7

Clarification needs to be made as to
the scope of the proposal
-
the call
for a general closure of domestic
ivory markets does not seem
justified but the EU could show
openness to initiatives aiming to
restrict domestic ivory trade,
provided that the measures are
proportionate (for example call for
closure of domestic market except
for pre-Convention ivory
or in cases where there have been
evidences that domestic legal
markets have been used as a cover
for illegal ivory trade).

and on page 13

Oppose the transfer to Appendix I
of the populations of BW, NA, ZA,
ZW. These four national
populations have an increasing
population trend (tbc for Zimbabwe)
and do not meet the
criteria for transfer to Appendix I.
Recognizing the efforts made by
Southern African countries to
sustainably manage their elephant
population and combat poaching,
those countries should better be
encouraged to pursue their efforts.
The Doc is called "For all Mankind"

Its on YT in several parts.

Part 1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otvtMfEI_9w
https://github.com/whispersystems/libsignal-protocol-c#licen...
The point is to let them make the decision that there is a poor fit. Be confident in your abilities and your capabilities.
SQL Server 2016 release notes:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn876712.aspx
No change to the X86, instead user-mode TLB handler from RedHat allows ptr-swizzeling, that plus some careful planning and the read barrier fell to 2 X86 ops - with acceptable runtime costs.
Cliff
How is the possibility of XSS worse than the status quo (plaintext)? Thats like saying SSL is useless on desktop because root kits and keyloggers exist on desktop.
Some of the walks took place in June, whereas others took place in January; most people didn’t particularly enjoy trudging through the harsh Michigan winter, but their scores jumped just as much as in the summer trials.

I found this the most interesting point in the article. I would have assumed that any psychological effect of viewing trees would be largely due to their greenness, since that is their dominant visual aspect. But, assuming a largely deciduous environment, naked trees in winter would seem to have the same effect. So the effect must be stimulated by something deeper than just raw color.
Uber drivers fined in Denmark
A while ago (4ish years) Jake Luciani implemented Lucandra (Cassandra as the store for Lucene indices) and Solandra (extension of Lucandra - solr on top of Cassandra). I used both of those at one point.

It was really interesting work.

OP - was elassandra influenced by either of those in anyway?

[1] https://github.com/tjake/Lucandra
[2] https://github.com/tjake/Solandra
Are you talking about the "store" discussion? Michael seems to have brought some of that upon himself. He entered that discussion in a fairly abrasive way [1], and based on his replies, he didn't seem very motivated to foster a more positive discussion (or to just walk away from the trolls).

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/4l3y9f/store_a_new...
On Kinder eggs:

https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20110425/upper-east-side/fe...
Yeah, you're totally right. Edited.
Oooor, even simpler... Tech hiring is down 40%... C'mon, guys... Ockham's razor. Hell, a couple of friends of mine were laid off, and are having a hard time finding employment...
This is best handled on a per-project or per-organization basis. I would have such a project concentrate on the tooling for maintaining and developing such databases.
ConvertKit raises $1.8m from 6,500 angel investors
Interesting, also interesting that this is a 9 year old article.

I'm surprised that the elderly are noted as not getting enough sulfur, because I believe eggs are a good source and (barring incidents like the avian disease outbreak last year) are a generally inexpensive source of protein as well.
My last corporate job used JIRA. I'm convinced that smaller teams will be much more productive with a looser issue/task tracking mechanism, like a Google doc or Trello board.

One of the smaller teams used this, and it seemed to be more helpful than harmful:

https://kanbanflow.com/
Or with some context if you put the usa population under test you'd get 3 MILLION innocent convicts.

small percentages adds up scary fast over continents
Bitbucket engineer here. Not to derail, but since Bitbucket has been brought up a few times in this thread and we're talking differentiating features this seems relevant: Bitbucket also has native Docker-based CI/CD in the form of Bitbucket Pipelines[0].

[0]: https://bitbucket.org/product/features/pipelines
Here you go. It didn't like my stdio.h. Apparently enums and unions aren't supported, but:

extern int printf(char *, ...);

int main(int argc, char argv[]) {
printf("Hello, world!\n");
return 0;
}

Was turned into:

extern {
fn printf(arg1 : *mut u8, ...) -> i32;
}
#[no_mangle]
pub unsafe fn main(mut argc : i32, mut argv : *mut u8) -> i32 {
printf(b"Hello, world!\n\0".as_ptr() as (*mut u8));
0i32
}

edit: Also worth noting, it removes all comments. I believe this to be a limitation of language-c [1]

[1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/language-c
>> Honest question, do you have a proposed solution that doesn't remove plea bargains entirely?

> There are a number of solutions...Plea bargains are illegal in countries like Denmark and severely restricted elsewhere like the UK and Estonia.

That sounds an awful lot like saying "No, you remove them entirely, or almost entirely" Since I was asking someone that said they wanted to keep plea bargains how they pictured that, I'm not sure what point you were trying to make. Can you elaborate?
When I was 12, my dad asked what I wanted for Christmas. I told him I really wanted a pet dog. I had no friends and was lonely all the time, so I thought a dog might make me feel less lonely. So he got me Dogz for Windows 95 on CD-ROM. It had the opposite effect.
He was still shooting at police officers and their attempts at non-lethal measures such as flashbangs were not working.
Startups aren't about "fake it til you make it". At its core a startup (and its founders and investors) are typically making a contrarian bet that must be right. Theranos bet that it could use a small amount of blood could be used to the same effect of much larger blood draws. It has turned out that this was not right at this point in time. If its technology worked we would not be reading this news story.

Of course while every company wants to paint itself in the best light it is probably best not to engage in outright deception. If discovered that can be fatal.
As moxie has stated elsehwere in the comments here, they have confirmed that Messenger is using their open-source libs and I am sure that other people will do a bit of disassembly on the on-device binaries to confirm this fact.
> ironic

I don't even know what is and what isn't a pun anymore.
Can't you use a phone-only google account which you otherwise don't use for anything else? I haven't used Android, but would you be able to use your real email account in K9, while using a dummy account for the device itself?
> Yes, I'm afraid it's true.

The idea that every black person has lived in fear of the police their entire lives is not true at all. I have friends who disagree with this vehemently, and even you point out counterexamples.

> if you wanted to you could invalidate everything I said because you can falsify it with one observation. Then you could believe that everything is okay and that it will be fixed soon.

This is a non sequitur. Just because there are counter examples doesn't mean I think everything is okay or will be fixed soon, it simply means I don't think the blanket 100% statement is true or useful to assert in this discussion (or any discussion). Why do you think me disagreeing with 100% means I think it is 0% (or close to it)? Maybe I think it's 99%. Maybe I think it's 1%. Maybe I'm in the middle. I don't think it's 100% though.

> I am honestly surprised you aren't aware of how widespread this problem is.

Why do you think I'm unaware of problems? I didn't say or imply I was...

> Why would it be logical to not fear the police ?

Who said otherwise?

Who are you arguing with?
Azul hardware had a very large core count of low-performing cores. If you had enough parallelism then it was hard to beat - but most applications didn't have enough parallel work, so the market wasn't big enough
Erm, internal sanctions don't seem to work - that's the state of affairs we currently have.

For actual justice, cops need to be subject to the exact same law as everyone else. The mens rea of premeditation usually increases the severity of a crime, but presently for cops it's seen as excusing it.
A better `npm publish`
My experience is that older people fear eggs because of the bad campaign against them in the 80s (70s?).
This was common in central Canada in the 90s, where I worked for a beekeeper. I don't know if cyanide use is still common, but the majority of the dozen or so beekeepers I knew back then all did this and I understood it was common practice in our region.

If you don't winter your bees, you have to kill them somehow. And most beekeepers with any kind of scale do not have a way to overwinter.

Overwintering has since become more popular because of diseases and queen availability, but judging by the existence of the queen industry I'd guess many are still killing their bees.
Interesting finding, but the article at least leaves one with more questions than answers (I haven't looked up the original research).

My own personal experience tends to confirm the main point put forth. Indeed, when we moved to the US Southwest several years ago, I thought I would miss oceans the most (having always lived on a coast). But no, I really miss seeing green -- my first time back east after moving here, the impact of seeing all those trees was really tremendous (& positive).

Having said that, the effect mentioned in the study can also be due to the amount of attention that a city street demands, and a lot of other factors. (Walking down Broadway in NYC in the middle of day just isn't the same as strolling through West Village on a Sunday morning!) Not to mention what other commenters have pointed out, e.g., correlation != causality. Quite likely the researchers have thought about this; I would be interested in what they found.
The new subreddit is not for general haskell discussion, it's only for the discussion of things related to the haskell-lang.org site.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/4ghznv/improved_hp...

Note that the community page on haskell-lang.org still links to /r/haskell: https://haskell-lang.org/community

I understand why this is confusing though, since the HN link goes to an annoucements page which mentions the new subreddit prominently), but the homepage for haskell-lang.org does not.
indexes are together with the data. the partition key becomes the _routing key, so you can always search 1, x, or all nodes depending on your _routing value

lightweight transactions are only used on schema-changes (which are/should-be rare)
OK, but I think major cities in the US had much larger GDP per capita than the nation as a whole too, both in 1940 and 1990. It's also not clear to me that PPP is the relevant metric here; low cost of consumer prices does not necessarily translate into cheap factory cleaning tech even if it does mean folks will be willing to pay more for clean air. Furthermore, it's not surprising that factory technology may lag economic growth more in China since China is growing faster than the US.
I'd argue that link user experience starts before you actually click a link. Maybe when you're deciding whether or not to click?

Same reason that URL shorteners are bad UX. Source (creator of Delicious): http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/04/on-url-shorteners
Legalizing drugs would not reduce the amount of drug plants killed (=harvested). Which is the goal of ivory market control.

If it is easy to legally create as much material as is needed, legal trade works. If you can't meet demand legally, there will be a black market.
There is serious academic research that disagrees with your anecdote.
Why is the price of the test relevant?
On the one hand, I agree that aging and the problems associated with it are often treated as unavoidable to the future detriment of us all, but on the other hand, it's also definitely investing our time and effort where we get the most return (given that we're pretty sure we'll get a return, which isn't necessarily true of trying to eliminate the ills of old age).
It does not support interception, and LEOs are going to have to learn to live with just metadata or use targetted attacks to compromise endpoints.
Is there inherent value in playing devils advocate?
The arguments being characterized as "flamewars" almost exclusively involve Snoyman, and often include others of the FP complete "take over haskell" task force listed.
How Marissa Mayer Can Fix Yahoo
Sorta kinda all of the above.
C4 the algo has no pauses, but individual threads stop to crawl their own stacks. i.e., threads stop doing mutator work, but only 1-by-1, and only for a very short partial self-stack crawl.
C4 the impl I believe now has no pauses also.
HotSpot the JVM has pauses, and yes much Zing was on forcing these pause times down.
Cliff
What is the advantage of me buying leaded vs unleaded gasoline? Is there a suitable alternative for Ivory? (I know basically nothing about it).
Sure, but PSF is not the equivalent of Oracle. If someone wanted a big enterprise to provide support they would use a language from a big enterprise. The difference between the PSF and another small company stepping up to provide support is negligible.
In theory they are the same, but with this recent release there is now a class of messages that are send device-to-device and cannot be viewed via the web interface.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12056641
Most of us reading this thread will die in VR. If I'm laying there in a hospital bed 50 years from now, I'm certainly going to be reliving memories/visiting with friends/experiencing therapy in VR, rather than taking in the bleak room around me...
> ideally out of band using a hardware pinpad

Not "ideally". Critically. Without an out-of-band PIN the card is easy to compromise. And most cards don't have input devices.

And even with a secure PIN entry, without a display you can't actually know what transaction you are authorizing. So yes, the malware would have to "horn in" on a legitimate request. But if your machine is pwned that's not hard.
I have seen those massive J2EE tutorials and blueprints. They came directly from Sun and used to be(still are?) taken very seriously.

Java/EE slogan is 'RAM is so cheap nowadays!' for anyone questioning why applications seems so bloated. If you had temerity to probe further they would drown you in blizzard of serious sounding technical/business buzzwords.
There is no limit to the number of devices that can be paired to each other in the BT standard, any more than there is a limit to the number of remote host keys you can keep track of in the SSH standard.

In practice, the number of devices headphones can be paired to varies by model. The limit is simply the amount of storage the device allocates to keeping device hardware addresses and link keys.

What I can tell you is that both my headphones -- Jaybird BlueBud X and Turtle Beach Elite 800X -- are paired with two MacBooks, my iMac, my iPhone, and two iPads. They do not require any re-pairing.

The Turtle Beach cans even support connecting to two devices simultaneously (see section 3.2.6 "Point-to-multipoint configuration" of the latest Bluetooth spec). Whichever one starts emitting audio first claims the channel and keeps it until it's done.
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