skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook maintains it's own fork [0] of MySQL. A couple of interesting talks are also available: MySQL at Facebook, Current and Future [1] and Massively Distributed Backup at Facebook Scale [2].

[0] https://github.com/facebook/mysql-5.6

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqwegP9xwVE

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBHcmP2TSvk
Maybe try cutting down on events etc then.

I feel like our current deploy infrastructure doesn't need to be replaced if it means forking over $1500+ a month.
From the post:

> [...] This design difference means that the MySQL replication binary log is significantly more compact than the PostgreSQL WAL stream.

Doesn't sound like what you described at all.
Sorry, but that patients with chronic pain are much more likely to consider suicide is an easily googlable fact. That chronic pain links with depression, which further reduces probability of "would rather keep living" is, too.

Also, the "(most probably)" part of that sentence in my previous comment is there specifically to show that I'm not making absolute statements...
I've torn the ligaments in my ankle and I've been in chronic pain every day for the last 12 years. Honestly, it doesn't bother me. (I mean, it hurts a lot and given the choice to be alive AND have it gone, I would prefer it gone, but, meh)

It bothers people around me that I limp though. Oh well.

I gave the example of acute pain because that was more challenging to me than the chronic.
I don't like change for the sake of change either, as that is just setting trends to help sell more product (e.g. the bi-annual iPhone case redesign). But, the OS changes you highlighted all have real benefits that move the focus from screen widgets to the actual content.

> - buttons are often indistinguishable from non-interactive label, leading to idiotic trial and error clicking to find out which UI elements do something

How come everyone understands hyperlinks on the web, but when the OS follows the same pattern you can't figure it out? I know a few apps have gotten this wrong on occasion, but as long as the text for an action is coloured differently than regular text then it's pretty obvious.

> scroll-bars that are hidden by default, loosing the information how far I am into a document (OSX)

On small screens (remember macbook airs are only 11" screens which I consider small) this saves precious screen space. If you really need to know where you are in a doc, resting your fingers on the trackpad and moving slightly brings the bar back. I thought this was a brilliant design to reduce clutter on the screen, not unlike how our browsers have been reducing their chrome to give the content more room.

I'm all for removing clutter from my screen if it helps me focus on the content.
Yes, MySQL, the shiniest of new toys...
When I was learning Flux I thought this video series[1] was really helpful. That being said, I've switched to Redux now and am much happier for it. If you're into videos I highly recommend Dan's (creator of Redux and on React core team) Egghead series[2].

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd6Ub7Ju2RM

[2] - https://egghead.io/courses/getting-started-with-redux
One of the stories from Chaos Monkeys [0] is how the author was no the receiving end of a potential company-ending lawsuit. He talked to PG, who ultimately was the one to play hardball with the other firm. Angels and VCs are better at this than founders.

[0] https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062458193/chaos-monkeys
How many people can live in New York City? A lot
"Being taller is associated with enhanced longevity, lower risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes and cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, and higher risk of some cancers"

Didn't I read just the opposite in an article on Hacker News just a few hours ago? It claimed that researchers were mistaken in the past, yet the studies cited here are from the past 10 years.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1071721/

More balanced:

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
The article is incoherent because it originally accused Wikileaks of publishing the documents but was then corrected to state that Wikileaks only linked to documents published by third parties.
Anyone who has been paying attention knows that WikiLeaks has always been careless about sharing private information that puts ordinary people at risk. The only time they've been somewhat responsible is when they partnered with newspapers who know better.

The DNC leak for example includes lots of social security numbers and credit card numbers. If they cared at all they could have done a search and replace to get most of them.
now sure MySQL qualifies as "new" or "shiny" or "toy"
"The post doesn't say "don't micromanage""

That is exactly what it says.

"it says that if you provide your 2 cents when shown something and ASKED SPECIFICALLY "What do you think?" (!) that if you answer what you think, it will damage your employee's sense of personal ownership over their work, which is utter bullshit."

It says that if you give petty, subjective, not really constructive criticism, that you will damage your employee's sense of personal ownership of the work, which is true.

"You can give the author credit for all sorts of careful nuanced views while excusing all the lousiness in the actual words they wrote, but I'm not going to do that. If the author can't take the time to think more critically and carefully about how to express their advice, they shouldn't be publishing, even on their own little blog."

I'm sorry, but the article did do that. You just don't want to see it.
Scaling is a very hard problem[0], but it's easier in these sorts of fluid systems where the materials have a simple Newtonian viscosity and the temperatures and other parameters don't change dramatically throughout the model. Contrast this with solid Earth or (I think?) atmospheric modeling, where those changes must be represented correctly by different materials. Nonetheless, for lots of problems in earth science, new computational models are still benchmarked to analog models.

The other problem with analog modeling is that can be pretty hard to measure the full 3D velocity field, stresses and strains, and that sort of thing, which are explicit in computational models. Computer-aided particle tracking has made this far better for analog modelers in the past decade or two, though.

[0]: A great reference for this is M King Hubbert's 1945 paper in which he considers whether it's possible to pick up the great state of Texas with a crane: https://www.depts.ttu.edu/gesc/Fac_pages/Yoshinobu/4361_5361... (Hubbert is most famous among non-geologists for peak oil theory, and most famous for geologists in considering the role of pore fluid pressure during faulting).
That's exactly my point as well, though. It's completely unfalsifiable, and everything gets explained the same way.
Well, this is heresy. Does that mean we are now officially boycotting Uber?

Joke asides, one thing I've been trying to figure out for awhile is the limitation at which certain components/ systems broke down. Basically, something along the line of "given X records, this operations would take Y time, or would cause Z A B C problems". I've actually got developers friends asking me how fast a simple "SELECT * FROM X WHERE index=?" would take on a million row table, since they were surprised that some NoSQL DB could do a query on hundred million rows in a few seconds.

I guess that's part of why you only learned how to scale after having done it once.
https://subscene.com/ are pretty good. Lots of spam and duplicates, but you can find most anything. They probably don't get much trouble since they don't distribute actual movies.
You can still buy many kinds of salt without iodine, it's easy to opt out.

Additionally, when you talk about mental "diseases", things get a lot more iffy. We have a terrible understanding of the brain, our diagnoses for those diseases are literally check lists, without any proper tests, many people would rather have their natural mental performance than a modified version of it, which is what something like this would force you into whether you like it or not.
I'm sure working at Uber is way better.
It's absolutely a joke but that doesn't mean it's not causing a lot of people to trade options
Wait, does Julia really use the syntax `end function` to end a function? I haven't seen that kind of redundancy since I first learned how to program inside QBasic 3 for MS-DOS!
One of the most frustrating things about working in New York is the ample amount of potential stairs to climb with almost every door locked from the stairwell.
Nope, your logic fails on all counts.
It's not an article. It's a daily newsletter.
Wikileaks statement:

"@Sulliview @TheWorldPost Please issue a correction. The story is a fabrication. WikiLeaks did not publish the databases concerned"

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/757940726198042624
My name is Flynn, reading about all of this is endlessly entertaining :)
But Apple is still perceived as a premium brand by many. I am unsure of how many of those belong to the class of people who will buy a premium car but am willing to bet there are just enough to be dangerous.

Apple is also more well-known than Tesla currently. I still think it won't be easy for Apple but I've learned to appreciate the power of market perception.
Posts like this are important.

We too often rely on a buzz-word heuristic and that's how you end up with dozens of random technologies that are harder to maintain and don't necessarily solve any of your problems. This method is good, because it shows that when you understand the problem the right way, you can find the right solution, even if by popularity it looks like a "step backwards"

Massive Kudos.
So, what you're telling me is that I can now build a complete computer into my computer as graphics card?
Have you considered adding kubernetes support?
Like the simplicity of this, also nice work on Marksheet.io!
The fact that given a population of people more of them will consider suicide with chronic pain does not mean ALL people will. Some of us won't.
A quarter century ago we used a well characterized laser at a known power level that given a very precise wavelength and total power results in a very precise number of photons per second, like on the order of somethingE15 photons per second.

From what I remember of filters neutral density transmission is log, so its pretty easy with a laser power meter to prove a ND2.0 outputs 1e-2 of input photons and turns the remainder of photons into heat or reflects them. Show an easily measurable somethingE15/sec photons out of a laser and the meter will read 1% power. Now you can buy neutral density filters of all kinds of measurable density. And filters stack, 1% of 1% is what you'd expect, not something crazy like average or RMS or whatever. So my numbers above might be all messed up but conceptually it boiled down to create a "normal scale human brightness" fountain of a knowable number of photons per second and filter it such that theoretically about one sneaks thru every second or once in awhile or whatever.

Unfortunately we didn't have time to fool around with looking at it. From memory, I think we used it as some kind of quantum proof lab. So part one is diffraction patterns prove photons totally are definitely waves, and part two of the lab was this really sensitive photometer (essentially a geiger counter for photons) shows that each light photon is a distinct and countable bullet. And look, varying the density of the filter stack has no effect on the energy of each photon bullet it merely affects the rate at which they arrive isn't quantum mechanics spooky and wonderful? If that wasn't what we did with it, it probably should have been, or at least from memory I think that's pretty close to what we did.

I suppose in the modern era lasers are a lot more powerful so you would need a better filter and rather than the weird vacuum tube photon sensor you'd just use a COTS solar panel and measure the single electrons produced by the single photons (within solar panel efficiency correction factor etc)

You know whats really fun to do with quantum mechanics, is do a dual slit diffraction graph with a source that's like 1 photon per second so you know the apparatus only has one photon in flight at any given time. Rather than doing the two parts of my undergrad lab separately, do them together. In my infinite spare time that would be fun to build at home. I would imagine it would take a long time to gather the data, perfect for home amateur scientist types. I know what that graph looks like, and it freaks people out every time.
A modest apartment is not a luxury item. It is a modest apartment in a place with expensive land values. Much like a packet of Oscar Mayer ham on dry white toast served at a five star restaurant is still a packet of Oscar Mayer ham on dry white toast.
> Is there any plan to support plugins in a similar way to Dokku? Specifically the volume storage plugin has made deploying some apps that don't play nice with 12f stuff much easier.

Flynn is natively highly available and multi-host, which makes doing volume storage tricky. Our current immediate plan for this is to support NFS mounts for apps so that you can point at an external file server (or service like AWS EFS). Feel free to watch or thumbs-up this issue: https://github.com/flynn/flynn/issues/1521

As far as plugins go, Flynn is entirely API-driven so you should be able to hook in and do whatever you want without modifying Flynn itself. If you run into something that you want to do that makes sense as an integration but isn't currently possible, please open an issue and we can discuss how to make it happen.

> The other thing that has come in very handy is being able to deploy Dockerfile builds directly, is this something that Flynn can do as well, or is support planned?

We support pushing Docker images to a registry built-in to Flynn: https://flynn.io/docs/docker

Building Dockerfiles is currently tricky from a security and modularity perspective as it requires running inside a privileged Docker daemon. There is no way that I'm aware of to do a build without providing root or root-like capabilities. If it was as simple as importing a package and using it in an unprivileged container to perform the build, we'd definitely evaluate adding support carefully.
I like the sample data they have used:

id first last birth_year
1 Blaise Pascal 1623
2 Gottfried Leibniz 1646
3 Emmy Noether 1882
4 Muhammad al-Khwārizmī 780
5 Alan Turing 1912
6 Srinivasa Ramanujan 1887
7 Ada Lovelace 1815
8 Henri Poincaré 1854
Re: safari hiding urls, click on Preference->Advanced-> And, check the box for "Smart Search Field" to see the complete url.
It should be checked by default and I found it annoying too.
Iodine is added to table salt for the same effect. Although I am no fan of too many additives, I do approve this practice. I wonder if it would be feasible to institute today...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodised_salt
Whow, great to see a fellow Techstars company ranking on Hnews :)
I know what you mean. I often feel like the state of things in the 90s (when I really started with computers in earnest) is "how things are" and all the changes since then are recent developments.

Looking more recently, Apple does have their own factory in the US to make the Mac Pro. I wonder if any of that was intended as a testbed for in-house manufacturing in general.
Let's Encrypt now fully supports IPv6
Full Support for IPv6
Why interpretability matters in data analytics
> The real problem (imo) is the lack of meaningful updates to the OS.

> EVERYTHING is an aesthetic change, or some new Siri or iPhone integration. Does anyone actually start an email on their phone and finish it on their desktop? Anyone?

I often use icloud tabs. I'm not sure about e-mails, I don't use them, but I could see myself using it feature, as well, if it works.

> Where's updates like better window management? How is it 2016 and I still don't have window tiling on a 4k (5k?) iMac?

OS X 10.12 has some tiling.

> Apple is busy repainting their bedroom varying shades of grey while Windows puts out integrated linux and bash, improved window snapping, openssh integration, etc.

Well, it's not like OS X misses bash or openssh. It's Windows who's trying to catch up.
New perspective to web pages
Yeah, said friend has long overtaken those and is working with way more professional and safe storage solutions than anything i see browsing over that reddit. :)

Though that's secondary to the focus on quality and value of the material.
Does this mean aliens are coming?
The median salary for all "Computer and Mathematical Occupations" for San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara for 2015 was $128,850, for Software Developers the medians were $147,220 (Applications -- there were 42,650 of these) and $142,950 (Systems Software -- there were 27,260). Of the programming-related occupations, Computer Programmers and Web Developers were lower than the cap, but very small numbers of people (6,510 @ $93,940 and 2,930 @ $107,500, respectively.) From 2015 BLS data, which is more comprehensive and representative than whatever payscale and glassdoor are using. [0]

San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward is a little lower, but both kinds of Software Developers still average over $120K. [1]

[0] http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_41940.htm#15-0000

[1] http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_41860.htm#15-0000
>Theft deprives the owner of something. Making a copy leaves the original intact.

When you create that original you estimate that you have to sell X-number of copies to get back your money that you put into creating the original. If you want to watch/listen to/read that work you at least partially agree with the author that it's worth something. It may be in your opinion worth less then the price, but it's not up to you to set that price, as you have no idea how much work and resources did the author put into creating it. You have only one right - agree or disagree with the author and either pay him for this work or look for something else that was priced in your range.
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I guess the problem comes that especially outside of tech, they don't have independent technical screens, the company reads your paper.

If we stick with AirBnB here is a posting they made with the AEA (https://www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.php?JOE_ID=2015-02_111454...).

All of the interviewing takes place at the AEA meeting and the candidate is expecting to have their Job Market paper (a completed technical project that is used for presenting at all of your interviews).

The American Statistical Association has something similar with their Joint Statistical Meeting (https://www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2016/employerlist.cfm).

Once I finish grad school I wouldn't do any type of homework for a job interview. If you can't read one of my papers then I just wouldn't be interested.
"its own fork"

And yes, MySQL has a lot of problems, but it seems to be better for "seat of the pants" usage (that is, when you don't need too many SQL capabilities and wants to use it mostly as a data store)
but getting to use "Schemaless" and "microservices" so that they could "shard"
Iodised salt is easy to opt out of though, many salts come without it still. Your municipal tap water is much harder to opt out of. Which is why I'd suggest you simply allow people to add this themselves if they'd like.
Engage Commerce, a hyper-personalization tool for every marketer
Hah, same issue in my building in NYC.
There 'aren't enough teaching jobs to go around' because the government has increased class sizes, dumped special needs students in with the general student body, and has closed down a large number of schools.

More work, less pay, worse public outcomes. Neo-liberalism in a nutshell. Mind you, BC is still much better off then many US states in this respect. Mind you, as it is not a petrostate, BC also needs a functioning education system more than some of its neighbours.

I don't expect that teachers will see any of this money, of course. It'll probably go towards worthless crown corporations like ICBC.
Would using the HTML <abbr> element with an appropriate title attribute help here?
In that case, what is it doing here?

I don't know if there's anything HN cares less about than Starbucks Is Now Letting Baristas Wear Fedoras.
> aligning the Ember object model towards the new features coming in ES2016+.

Any examples you can give? Anywhere I can read more about this?
The Kinesis Advantage has really helped me, along with a Kensington Expert Mouse (which is actually a trackball). I used to get pains all the way up my right arm and through both wrists, but now worst case is a slightly tired hand.
To see the difference in action. Hang on to that 1000 dollars for 20 years. Buy 1000 dollars of gold and hold it over the same period of time.

At the end of 20 years go see what you can purchase.

You will see what stores value.
Dokku is a fantastic project. I just wish it worked on a cluster of machines.

I looked at Deis recently as a future migration option once I outgrow Dokku but the database layer is not really documented or talked about. The blog posts are very hand-wavy when discussing persistent storage.
Also check out highscalability.com for more stories that value MySQL and its great InnoDB engine: http://highscalability.com/blog/category/mysql
I was a musician on the road for a year and a half straight with only one week off. After a year into it, I could sleep sitting up anywhere. But it's not the same as sleeping in a bed. 8 hours sleeping sitting up only feels like three or four hours of sleep.

The chronic insomnia led to chronic fatigue syndrome, and the compromised immune system meant I got colds, flu, etc. twice a month on average. It now takes multiple sleep meds plus exercise before bed to sleep, but thankfully, maintaining good sleep reversed the chronic fatigue symptoms.

Being on the road now provides a stark perspective on life. I can always tell when it's time to change jobs. Anytime going on the road with a band starts to sound appealing, it's time to change jobs.
Twilio announces  Sync – real time data API
The attachments have excel files which are effectively databases since they contain the addresses and phone numbers of private citizens (i.e. not members of the Turkish govt).
> I can't speak for the idea that menopause exists because it is useful for old women nurture their grandchildren

Exactly. The most we can say is "it's generally useful so it tends to happen". However, evolutionary biologists tend to paint their explanations with a certainty that just isn't there, and can look at any old random thing and say "well, this is obviously because X!".

"Evolution made spiders eat their mates because it makes sense that they would want to preserve energy". Yes, but it also makes sense that the mates would stick around to feed the offspring, otherwise all species would kill the males after mating. We aren't as sure about why things are the way they are as evobio would have us believe, and not to mention evobio explanations for human psychology, which are usually completely ludicrous.

In general, the process for explaining things using evolutionary biology seems to be:

* Look at behaviour.

* Find one advantage, however small, of said behaviour, regardless of disadvantages.

* Say "well obviously this behaviour evolved like this because of that advantage".

* Publish.
Pattern to adopt in front end architecture
Steam on Windows 10 will get progressively worse in 5 years