skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Typing is not a solved problem, because if it was, there wouldn't be a static vs dynamic type debate that lingers ad nauseum." Could you clarify? Surely even if typing was completely solved, we would still have debates of that kind, because there are benefits to both approaches and there will always be people preferring one or another.
Why is it that we've gone about grossly abusing terms that imply harm to the point that their real meaning is almost entirely lost?

The other day there was a big thing about how, "Twitter is Fucked" because the platform only allows for "violent" speech. The trivial falsifiability of the claim aside, it was a gross overstatement of the term "violent". The correct term, based on the content of that article, would have been more like "insipid", "vapid", or "derogatory".

Here we have the same thing with the term "neglect", the well-defined construct "child neglect", and the concept of "promotes" with respect to either of those things, and the application of all of them to content that is mundane and innocuous at worst, and can only even border on a depiction of "neglect", let alone the promotion of it, with the most perverse and intentionally inflammatory interpretation of the video.

Are we so distanced from what real "harm", "neglect", and "violence" actually look like that as denizens of tech-culture we must redefine them to instead represent "minor annoyance", "occasionally tended to", and "somewhat offensive"? It just seems like such an unnecessary expression of effete privilege and insularity.
I don't care much about Gawker, for reasons others have expressed already, but if I were looking for investors, Thiel's support of Donald Trump would give me serious pause. Would I want to spend the next N years of my life making someone like this wealthier?

I don't think I would feel this way about a McCain or Romney supporter -- those I could put down to "reasonable people may differ". But Trump -- yikes! I'd have to think about it, hard.
Seems to be just an advertisement...
hey emil, I will forward this to the right team.
I considered that. I may do it yet.
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Ask HN: Any way to read a 9-track 1/2“ tape in Silicon Valley?
I'd like to read two old 9-track, 1600BPI open reel computer tapes from the 1980s. Unix TAR format. They contain source code for 30 year old software, one of the earliest proof of correctness systems. I'd like to upload it to Github for historical purposes.

Anyone still have that capability?
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They? Atom is a collaborative effort, you can fix that yourself.
You can turn it off, but it removes the zero rating. Up to you either way.
Remember those "download accelerator" programs? Even when we had dial-up (no weather interference over the air), we had corrupted downloads quite often.
Why Did Two Girls Want to Kill for Slender Man?
> It's impossible to balance because on the one hand we want these fortresses to protect us from prying eyes (see apple vs fbi), but manufacturers are also using these fortresses to keep out owners who just want to hack on their own things.

I think it's very easy to balance: it's my fortress, because I bought it; I should therefor be allowed and enabled to make it do anything I like. The recent changes which Google have announced — which mean that apps will no longer respect the keys I have installed on my devices — are a move in exactly the wrong direction.
San Francisco Landmark Tower Is Sinking and Tilting
You youths! I had a similar introduction to Logo, on an Apple ][ at a computer day camp in the summer of 198x. We programmers tend to love learning the shiny new languages, but it's thanks to the enduring idea behind this language that many of us acquired the love. I strive to build something as lasting.

Papert on the turtle, children and the physical version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTd3N5Oj2jk
You may be thinking of GraphFrames: https://databricks.com/blog/2016/03/03/introducing-graphfram... (apparently it is not ready for 2.0)

There is no native support otherwise.
Sorry, to be clear, I couldn't tell a difference between the 3 Compact SUVs I drove. :)

I drove a Tesla and it was like a dream.
Remember reading years ago somewhere that it was Oracle ERP, but can't find a reference. That might have changed as they got closer to completing their cloud migration.
While I'm inclined to believe Musk went into these industries (at least initially) because of fairly altruistic desires, it's important to note that this is is a narrative that originates and is promoted by him. That is, it would be foolish to make decisions based on that being true and also reflective of his current motivation without very good current evidence to back it up.

Now, I have the luxury of being able to take him at face value because I have no vested interest in any of these companies, as you may not. That said, a fair many people here do in some way or another (as a customer, an investor, or in some related market or field). It behooves them to be very critical.
Workday.
Umm... Wow, mongo. Boy, am I glad I didn't decide to pick you.

Let's get some statistics. MySQL and Postgres both have and undefined max DB size, and max table sizes upwards of 16 and 32 TB, respectively.

SQLite has no max table size I could find, but had a max DB size of 140 TB. 140TB. And this is from a database that reccomends not using it if your data grows too large.
No doubt they've learned a damn good lesson that they'll probably only need to learn once.
Eh? Even cheap home routers these days allow you to set QoS rules per device. Have I misunderstood something?
Yup just to be clear, I couldn't tell a difference between the 3 Compact SUVs I drove. :)

I drove a Tesla and it was like a dream.
JPMorgan is championing their own blockchain as well.
It's an hilarious parody of SV
I think you meant "flout".
Yes it is, but automatic indentation is awful. I switched back to Atom just because of that.
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In addition, the ability to design robust systems that anticipate failures and prior experience in building durable systems is going to be a key to success here.

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FWIW, every time (about 6 times in 3 years I think) I've complained about slow connections to my ISP, with documentation from speedtest.net that I'm getting less bandwidth than promised, they've given me that month free of charge.
It's not Google Docs, its " a living document platform that combines docs, spreadsheets, and communication all in one to help teams get work done faster and smarter."
There is a middle ground between inadequate taxes and taxing into "oblivion".
Setting the Body’s ‘Serial Killers’ Loose on Cancer
Yes, debit card payments is who you'd buy everyday goods and services (e.g. the normal grocery shopping) in most of Europe. In Germany many people don't even own a credit card because debit cards fulfill that role already in everyday life.
Don't know if they have the capability, but an interesting place to start might be the Computer History museum in Mtn View. http://www.computerhistory.org/
My guess is that Papert believed that IIT curriculum (or similar) should be taught everywhere, not limited to the few seats in IIT.
Why I decided not to launch a brand for my consulting work
What the ISP is doing isn't any different than what any private network could do. If YouTube can not handle that, Youtube is not playing well with standard network practices and is broken at a technical level.

Your ISP doing traffic shaping is a question of if they should, not a technical question.
But you can connect a debit card to Apple Pay as well. I do that.
Hamvention finds new home
> Computing has shown dramatic improvements in the past decade but outside of having an app for everything in my phone, nothing has really changed in the past two decades.

I suspect this says more about your ignorance of other industries, than anything else. Modern pharmaceutical research or medical imaging would be impossible without powerful computing. CRISPR is impossible without powerful computing. Self-driving cars are impossible without powerful computing.

Heck, GE has an entire series of ads about the impact of computing on their industrial technologies like turbines, locomotives, etc., which mocks the "technology is just apps" mindset.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvfU1NpCJQQ
* How is it possible to construct all the previous "search tokens" on the server side?

* The client stores does a lot of work (storing a map of all keys, for one). Could the client get away with ONLY generating a new search token when a document is updated/inserted? That is, could the client only be responsible for creating "UTc+1 ← H1(Kw, STc+1)" and "e ← ind ⊕ H2(Kw, STc+1)" (in the update portion of "Algorithm 1")? In other words, could the map W be stored on the server, as well?

Hope these questions make sense!
How Millennials in the Workplace Are Turning Peer Mentoring on Its Head
Not OP but I feel like it's because JavaScript has evolved enough that some of the niceties they offered before doesn't make sense. I like using Ember.js and doing client-side validations is pretty darn easy without complicated JS. Additionally, having inherited a legacy Rails project that uses `remote: true` in it's forms, it is causing more of a headache to fix these legacy issues.
The built-in migration code is even the continuation of South.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andrewgodwin/schema-mig...
So does that mean we should pick a new language/framework that is "hot" now and write a bunch of libraries for it? Basically, reinventing the wheel over and over and over again?
Yeah, but generally only when you're actually correct. If you're not, you look like an idiot. Apparently the parent hasn't heard of column-store relational databases (which are kinda great for time series).

(I'm most familiar with SQL Server; DB2 and Oracle apparently have similar functionality.)

Apparently their 3-5TB time series table chokes ‘dinosaur’ relational databases. For a time series table you should almost certain be using a column-store index with CREATE CLUSTERED COLUMNSTORE INDEX. Depending on how much they're querying vs inserting, that alone could prevent SQL Server from choking. If it's more insertion-heavy, but they still need to run a lot of ad-hoc queries, SQL Server 2016 supports using a nonclustered column-store index alongside a row-store. You can insert with the row-store and query with the column-store. If it's still choking with that, it might be time to check out the database structure and see what's up. One of the more common killers is putting a lot of data in the time series table. Generally it's more efficient to have a clustered column-store index table that contains the timestamp and ids to metadata, and keep the metadata itself in row-store tables with appropriate indexes.
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Yep, like I said, it's absolutely an old problem, even when it comes to statistical techniques.

I understand that the particular models in the article are on the simpler side. I was speaking more generally. As to whether the models in question here need to be more complicated, well, that is an interesting question.

Humans are absolutely terrible at doing basic statistics in their head. Algorithm aversion is probably a thing, no doubt motivated by similar anthrocentric biases to luddism. My point was there are other ways of measuring how 'good' a system is. In the space of a well-defined problem with well-defined parameters, sure, maybe accuracy is king. This is strikes me as akin to trying to build a bridge while assuming that the world is a frictionless vacuum. If everyone has agreed that the problem is correctly framed, then yes, a statistical system can be trusted, the mathematics are inevitable. But a statistical model (the current iterations of them, at least) is never going to ask whether or not it -should- only be considering the inputs its given, or whether more is needed. The world that these systems understand consists of the subset of the world provided to them by a set of sample data The patterns they learn can only ever be as good as that.

That's what I mean by 'dumb'. Not that they aren't good at what they do. That they aren't good at knowing about what they can't do.
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For me it definitely doesn't. It became part of the release cycle, analyze each and every change made to make sure it was safe and have a whole bunch of code that was tested to the max but never ever changed that would shut down the machine if it ever got outside of it's expected envelope.

This is actually quite a tricky thing to do right because to be able to jog the machine out of a shut-down like that you have to re-enable it in a potentially un-safe situation. For each and every little challenge like that we found a good solution but some of those were real head-scratchers.

A really nasty one that I recall was that when you power up a bunch of latches they can come up in an undefined state, so the decision was made to include a detector for that undefined state which first would have to be cleared before the output of the latches was allowed to influence the motors.

This worked well in practice but given the restrictions of the machine this was all done on it took a bit of thinking, the solution we settled on was a magic sequence output on the parallel port indicating the system had successfully reset after which the relay powering the motor drivers would engage. So until that relay triggered everything else was ignored.

This was already important enough with stepper drivers, but once we switched to servos for some of the more demanding applications it became crucial to safe operation that the drivers would never ever be energized with faulty inputs. A servo driving a ball-screw will happily wreck itself, the machine it is bolted on to and anything standing in-between (including the operator) if it suddenly gets driven to -10 or +10 V and naturally, you'd always get one of those two, never the safe '0'.
Regarding Salesforce - they have really trouble with notes and things like that. Quip make sense: if nothing to replace crappy Salesforce notes section with Quip and people using Salesforce will be a little happier.

The price tag of $750M is a little too much for me but I'm anyway not verse in these kind of deals (and I was under impression that Quip is in trouble since I haven't see a lot of people using it).
> So your logic is, "because politicians have passed Patriot Act and govt spies through NSA, give up your gun rights"??

No, my logic is that it's a problem to give up your other rights but throw a fit about any mention of gun control because "MAH GUNS"!

My argument is also that it's incredible paranoia to talk about how your guns are going to keep you safe from your government.

Again, do you really think Australians are having trouble sleeping at night because they are afraid they might wake up and "Oh, military rule. Guess we'll just go with that then".
Yahoo 'Aware' Hacker Is Advertising 200M Supposed Accounts on Dark Web
I am from India. The a part of transgender community often known as Hijras come to public places and demand money. Often they touch you while demanding money else they will simply lift their clothes to expose their genitals. Often to avoid that touch you end up giving them money.

The technique was further refined by beggar community who will deliberately be filthy and to avoid their touch you will end up paying the money.

I think assholes benefit from the fear of rest of the people to be civil.
The most interesting piece of information I could take out of this is that some ISPs actually degrade the quality of http video streaming. They do it on purpose?
Yeah my PC is not fast enough to run atom without lag, but it runs sublime perfectly. Maybe when I get the latest i7 I will try out Atom again.
DNC Staffer got pop-up messages alerting of “state-sponsored actors”
If you have to ask "is this legal?" you should find someone who is able to answer questions like that, to wit, a lawyer.
Whoa, that looks quite slick. Thanks for your work!
Why do people use C* in addition to ES? It seems like in this case most of the data could directly be piped into ES?

I understand that ES can lose data, or have some data storage problems, but one could just as well store all the incoming data on Hadoop or so, without having to bother with C*, no?
My university limits my bandwidth to 20mbps for HTTP/HTTPS and lower for SSH. Are they in a different position to normal ISPs?
Direct debit may be free, but they pay me when I use a credit card, with cashback, so it's even better than free. (Of course I know I pay for processing fees in the overall price, but if I'm paying that anyway I should use the credit card).
I agree, but 10TPS is actually about 4x as many as Bitcoin can handle. It's more like 2.7TPS with actual usage:

https://www.quora.com/How-many-transactions-per-second-shoul...
No, it was other people who I had to help after they were doxxed, but he was also seriously harmed by Gawker.
What a sad indictment it would be if this were actually real! It is a joke, right?
A comment from one of my Facebook friends: "No offense to the guy or his partners, but his whole story is like an advertisement not to invest with his next venture. Maybe the next one down the line."

I agree.
And it goes with the grain in Montessori schools. I was introduced to Mindstorms by my mother, a Montessori educator with barely an interest in computers.
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