skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That wasn't the real reason. They would have offered other teams she could have joined.
This should be interesting. In my opinion, this is the 21st century equivalent of people going into libraries and making photocopies of books and articles. But it has interesting precedents with Craigslist suits. I wonder if there will be a suit that tries to pierce the protections of user contributed content liability by using the fact that the company considers that content their proprietary property. Thus it is no longer UCC and they should be liable for any infringing or malicious use of that data.
Single letters are sometimes more known than their full option equivalents. Quick, without a man page, what's the short alias for `tar --get` ?
I agree with this. Lean Startup got really popular in the last years and it is a great tool but it only works if you are in the ballpark. Peter Thiel said that it is a way to reach a local maximum.

If you are not in the area, you won't get enough feedback to iterate, you'll need to pivot and play again. It's like a game of bocce ball in that sense
Why isn't there a touch-enabled Macintosh?
I have no idea because I memorized 'tar zxvf' a long time ago [1] and I have to google everything else.

[1] https://xkcd.com/1597/
The unpleasantness in 2008 onward was a conscious decision by the Obama administration to not bail out underwater home owners.

Banks were bailed out. Large businesses were bailed out. Ordinary homeowners caught up in a massive housing bubble, reviled and sent down the river.
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Binary query protocol is just a tweak, but it's a tweak that most RDBMSes are missing, and it matters for some workloads.

Switching to a model where you supply your own map-reduce or pipeline is a real shift, I think, from the DB as a framework that manages querying for you to more of a library/toolkit you can use to write your own computations. The indexed tables model is an incredibly effective compromise, but it's still a compromise - if you know specifically what you need to do, you can do it better.

Running a first-class programming language with full support for usual programming language tools is a major difference for developability, testability, libraries and so on. Deployment model depends on the datastore - plenty of non-SQL ones have room for improvement here - but I think the traditional RDBMS still has the worst of it.
I don't particularly disagree with anything you said but even a privacy intruding clock can be right twice a day. The article is merely a pretty conventional discussion of the public interest vs what the public is interested in and what we should expect from journalism. Everything he says is pretty darn standard stuff which has been written a thousand times before, VC or no VC.
My favorite is the ONANDA interview: the first time they ask about cycles in linked list and he tanks completely... then the next year he tries again, they ask the exact same question and he aces it.

So the trick to a good interview is... know the questions in advance so you can google them beforehand?
Dan Savage has written quite regularly about Log Cabin Republicans. Here's a great, recent piece: http://www.thestranger.com/slog/2016/07/18/24357871/the-utte...
Did you mean "vi"? Lots of systems don't install vim by default.
That's reductive. There are many reasons to prefer electronic voting: increased visibility into whether your vote actually counts, a paper trail that is not subject to human error, and (YES, this is important) convenience.

There's really no reason every citizen shouldn't vote, but electronic voting would certainly reduce voter suppression and (IMHO) increase confidence in the process. I'd certainly be happier with a cryptography-oriented process rather than one relying on humans, which can be reliable en masse, but are also easily fooled.
Can you explain what is meant by this comment (I'm ignorant as to what this is referring to)?
> Unfortunately, many people write terrible cold emails that don't get any replies, and then those people assume that VCs never reply to cold emails.

I know this dead horse has been beat plenty, but I'm still curious: what, to you personally, denotes an ideal cold email soliciting an initial chat?
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I am referring to the history of the cultural antecedents of the western world, which have also had a dominant effect on the vast majority of the human race. I am not trying to address the history of Rapa Nui.
> The unpleasantness in 2008 onward was a conscious decision by the Obama administration to not bail out underwater home owners.

You might be able to make an argument that the unpleasantness in 2009 onward (or, more specifically, late January of 2009 onward) was the fault of some conscious decision of the Obama administration, but as popular as it has been with the Trump campaign recently, pretending that the Obama administration is responsible for things which occurred before his inauguration is indefensible without some kind of strong evidence for the extraordinary claim of retrocausality.

(Also, factually, the administration decided to bail homeowners out in a variety of ways, though perhaps not as direct, universal, and significant of a bailout as some advocates -- myself included -- would have preferred.)
Why don't you like Cargo? Do you use pure Rust or have FFIs to C libs?
Yes, politics is a reason one might prefer to avoid consuming some piece of media, including this one.

In fact I think you have, for the first time, identified the entire content of my original comment :)

So where's the part with the cow, again?
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I will say that it can be an advantage, but it's rare. It becomes an advantage when your primary language lacks the tools to do something well. One of my previous companies was a PHP shop and they used Python to chop up audio files, which would have been very cumbersome to do in PHP (few if any existing libraries). My current company implemented complex data pipelines in PHP, which really should have been done in a different language (python or scala would have been natural choices).
"With systems getting more and more distributed, the Paxos algorithm has been gaining popularity."

Has it though? I feel like many of the new distributed systems I read about are Raft based consensus.
Roomba creator responds to reports of ‘poopocalypse’: ‘We see this a lot’
The SEC has temporarily halted trading of Neuromama Ltd.
I've been a developer for 20+ years (traditional CS/EE degree) and i think it's more difficult to be an excellent developer now than it ever has been. The sheer number of DSLs and the rate at which new ones appear and extant ones become less relevant is frightening.

sure the barriers to entry to become a novice programmer are far lower compared to 20 years ago, but the flip side of the low entry barrier is a seductive paradigm that can so easily mislead an aspiring developer into thinking they have reached some baseline competence, because they followed a line-by-line tutorial to create a rails app to store and display photos in a cool slideshow with swirling transitions set to music. Compare that learning coding by typing at a REPL to grok the utility and time complexity of data structures. The immediate sense of accomplishment is so much higher in the former. To someone with no prior cs training, there seems little to recommend the difficult path.
> What part of not liquid investment do you not understand. There is a rate of return on the house, it is just hard to realize.

Well, i'd thought of not-liquid investments as something that's tougher to sell than, say stock. Perhaps a family run business or a matisse or a Toyota 2000. Something purchased with the explicit intention of making money. It might be risky, and ultimately be a loser, but the plan is to sell it for more than you bought it for.

Assets on the other hand are things you want or need without much regard for the rate of return. Sure, that comic book might be worth a lot some day, but people buy them because they want them. My coffee maker has a rate of return, i'm sure i could get a few bucks for it on craigslist or a garage sale, but i'm not going to pretend it was an "investment".

Sure, there exist some people that are pretty serious about their house as an investment. I have a couple of friends that bought houses right after school, paid them down, leveraged the equity to by another, and continue the chain.

Most people, call their house an investment but regard it as an asset. Neglecting basic maintenance can wipe out a decade of gains, a new roof, or minor flooding from a plumbing leak. It's easy to watch people blow $30k on a new kitchen. That's very rarely going to be realized in house value when it's finally sold.

Perhaps we're just talking past each other. I think there's a distinction between asset and investment, but i'm willing to admit that perhaps that distinction is inaccurate or wrong somehow. It just seems like people call assets investments to sort of feel better about how they're planning for the future, without actually planning for the future.

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Is it ok to invest with money you can't afford to lose? People put a sizable chunk of their salary into mortgages, and insure them to limit the risk. That doesn't seem like investor behavior.
Implying that objections to Trump's narcissism and probable sociopathy amount to "culture war" is a staggering re-framing of reality. That combined with the gay-conservative-Christian thing suggest that the amount of cognitive dissonance Thiel can endure must truly be Olympic calibre.
"can we afford not to"

Bubble alert!
>What Gawker did was illegal

I didn't follow the case. What did Gawker do that was illegal?
Maybe the example of the front page is misleading, but fwir ConstraintJS is a JS library adding constraints to JS, the DOM/CSS are use cases but the library is not limited to those use cases
> does not automatically become debt.

It becomes technical debt. Just like financial debt costs you the interest rate times the amount owed, technical debt costs you time and resources spent on refactoring and cleaning up the code, rather than on activities that directly increase revenue, say, adding new features.

One thing that makes technical debt particularly problematic is that you can incur in it without knowing it. Unlike the case with financial debt, where it's impossible to “accidentally” borrow money. But, just because technical debt is hard to measure, it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

> reducing development time and cost can be done without questionable decisions so without incurring any debt.

In principle, yes. In practice, the most common way to reduce development costs, at least in the short term, is to incur in technical debt.

> They should rename their method from "remodeling" to "debt restructuring" or "refinancing". Of course, the middleman always gets paid.

No disagreement here.
That would somewhat explain the rise of prevalence of ADHD.

(My mother didn't take acetaminophen during her pregnancy. Still have adult ADD. Unlucky me.)
I've had problems with hardware players that couldn't handle 320kbps blocks of VBR. Restricting the max bitrate fixed the issue but most encoders don't expose this as an option (lame does).
Indeed, the media focuses almost exclusively on BLM, and that's not entirely thanks to media savvy on the part of BLM.

And while some of the policies BLM advocates will be good for everyone, many responses to structural racism specifically exclude poor whites trapped in structural poverty.

I will continue to advocate non-race-based solutions that benefit all struggling people, and argue against race-based solutions that help some and exclude others.
Sorry, can you clarify from elsewhere-- am I trying to discredit the topic at hand, or do I have no interest in it?

I know it doesn't really make a big difference to your narrative, but you really need to pick one or the other of "political non-sequitur" and "interested well-poisoning". They just don't go together.
True, their hiring process is data driven (like everything else) so it must be rare.

But it's not the first time I hear such story and I'm sure it must leave a pretty bad taste in your mouth. Nothing similar happens in Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple... AFAIK.
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> Has it though?

AFAICT, Yes.

> I feel like many of the new distributed systems I read about are Raft based consensus.

Sure, and Raft has probably been gaining popularity even more than Paxos has. With more and more distributed systems and more attention on guarantees for such systems, its possible for both Paxos and Raft (and perhaps other techniques) to be getting more popular.
Your mortgage is temporarily low because interest rates are low.

http://www.bankrate.com/finance/mortgage-rates-history-0112....

If your interest rate doubled, could you afford to? Do you know how much you'd have to pay?
The admin UX... setting up a redundant sharded cluster with auto-failover in RethinkDB is in the box, straight forward and easy. With PostgreSQL you're stuck choosing between at least a half dozen less than optimal solutions.

That would be the single biggest difference... Neither have particularly great DBAAS offerings, outside of RDS Postgres, though if you're on Amazon, you can use Compose.io's rethinkdb option there too.

RethinkDB has sharding + redundancy similar to ElasticSearch or Cassandra, while having some other features that put it more in line with an SQL rdbms, while having an administrative UI that's second to none.. and I mean none.
Great resource for your young friends who want to learn how to code and are bored of code.org stuff at school.
Ask HN: Opportunity to get training, any recommendations on training courses?
Hi HN,

I am a senior software engineer that hopes to take the leap to management. My manager has offered to pay for a training class for me. Have you attended any training or taken a class that you found helpful for your career? Two areas that I see as valuable/interesting include:

1) Training that would help me land a software manager job
2) Machine Learning/Deep Learning - New interesting area of technology

The training can be anything from an online course (Udacity, Udemy etc...) to a 3-5 day in-person class (must be in Chicago).

Any advice/personal experience would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Every time a VC tries to tell me "what's wrong with the media", I reach for my gun.

--

I'm going to steal this line. Great post.
if we're talking about free speech here. gawker did not do anything illegal to out peter thiel. a shitty thing to do? yes. illegal? no.

so essentially thiel planned revenge because they did something shitty and he did not like it. again pretty shitty of gawker to out him, also pretty shitty of thiel to chill free speech.

not sure there are any real winners to root for here. bringing down gawker did bring down a lot of the satellite sites that were actually doing really good reporting. very few sports websites were talking at all about the sexual assaults going on in colleges, deadspin (a gawker blog) was probably the foremost site posting about it (and other violations by schools).
Privacy-wise Palantir is even scarier than Facebook.
I see nothing wrong with a man who feels remorse for assisting in the stripping of online privacy owning up to his mistakes.

"As an internet entrepreneur myself, I feel partly responsible for a world in which private information can be instantly broadcast to the whole planet."

This article is as much an apology as it is a call to turn things around fix things
This is fun to read, I'm always amazed as the disconnect between public presentations and the engineering reality of what's really going on.

For me, "Larrabee" died during it's first public demo in IDF 2009 [1]. At the time I was working on CUDA libraries at NVIDIA. I remember everyone watching the stream to see how much of a threat it would be. When we saw the actual graphics, everyone started laughing. "Welcome to the 1990s!" At that point it was obvious that Larrabee would not be a graphics threat to NVIDIA, it just had too far to go. It was not a discrete GPU killer.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-FKBMct21g
This sounds very xkcd.
That's kind of what ad hominem is... Discredit the argument by discrediting the arguer. The thing is, that has zero effect on whether the argument is valid or not. The fact that I state 10 wrong facts about bananas does not mean that the next fact I state is wrong, even though I've far and away proven myself to not be a trusted expert on banana facts.
I beg to differ. Observe long threads like this one (which I started) https://esdiscuss.org/topic/what-is-the-status-of-weak-refer...

It was not the only one, it crops back up periodically and the purpose/nuances of weakrefs have to be re-explained each time. To be fair, there are a lot of subtleties involved...
Is there any reason to believe this is a common alignment of views?

Why does it have to be common? I wouldn't consider it to be a valid position, but I would find it plausible that some people would think so.
If they see it a lot, then it sounds like it would be economically worth developing a version for pet owners.

Rough ideas: detect moisture in material. If soemthing 'wet' is detected on the bumper, halt. Just halt. It isn't worth it.

Otherwise, would need to have the ability to shampoo/wetvac, and that's something I don't think would work in a tiny device.
The firewall is a relic of a lucrative business model that imploded. What news desks can and cannot do anymore is a matter of exigency, not the politics of aspiring plutocrats.
Pair programming really only answers the question: "How can I make sure my programmer's death/departure doesn't stall the project?"

Documented code is a less expensive way to answer that question.
You're going to have to tell me how much street food was eaten by the manorial serf of Europe, or the American homesteader, or a native person under the encomienda. Don't be smug, western history is full of food cultures in which the poor prepared their own food.

If your scope is restricted to the food culture of the urban poor, its worth pointing out that the American urban poor today largely do not prepare their own food, for much the same reason as in historical examples, with seriously deleterious health outcomes.
errrrrrrrrk. Extracting raw wiki-markup and trying to use it? Not the greatest of idea. The only true parser of that language is mediawiki. Doing it yourself is a recipe for a massive headache.
Pascal is supposed to have unified memory. I haven't used it yet, but their marketing says one address space.
$500 a month to an organization that tells you all the things that you can't do with your own property? That is absurd.
> Unless adblockers could implement machine vision, they wouldn't be able to distinguish this.

Why not? Surely it would be possible to identify the content itself, instead of ads and hide everything else, including ads and other noise. Think how we distinguish spam e-mails from real e-mails based on their content.
I mean the lawsuit with Hulk Hogan. Gawker published a sex tape of Hulk Hogan.

Now Gawker has been slapped with a penalty by the court in that case. It is not Peter Thiel who is collecting the penalty using a gun. Clearly since the court has decided at this level, the courts think that Gawker's action is against law. Of course courts could be wrong and Gawker could appeal to higher courts. But since I have limited knowledge of law, I definitely think I know less than the current level of court and hence think that Gawker was breaking the law by publishing the private sex tape of Hulk Hogan in order to sell advertising.
I don't have access to KNL so I can not comment on it. Any competition is good for the HPC space.
I mean if we toss around incentived claims then you can't trust literally anyone in a capitalist society. Since they can be incentived to lie to you, and you have to do due diligence to prove they aren't before trusting them. This defense is the home of conspiracy theorists and crazy people.

If you are really concerned with this why are you posting on a forum literally owned by a SV Billionaire?

Buts let's pretend you are rational. How does a master in chemistry grant you knowledge of mechanical, structural, and fluid engineering. If you say they're both Math/STEM fields, then why aren't chemistry professors, and comsologist certified electricians? It's related by the same logic.
Who are you asking? I'm atheist, and I don't think any other posts in this discussion ever reference 'biblical models of marriage".
My recommendation for preparing for tech interviews at the big tech companies is to answer as many questions as you can from here:

http://www.programcreek.com/2012/11/top-10-algorithms-for-co...

Use coderpad.io to write code for practice passing the phone screen.
The one thing Lenovo needs to do to make Moto Mods the killer hardware ecosystem is license the mod hosting side of the equation to other hardware manufactures. I want to be able to use mods with other devices, even if I need to use an adapter plate to do it.
> One thing that makes technical debt particularly problematic is that you can incur in it without knowing it. Unlike the case with financial debt, where it's impossible to “accidentally” borrow money.

Debt doesn't occur only because of agreements to borrow, it can occur because you've incurred a liability by some other means. Which, yes, can occur accidentally.

Indeed, cutting development corners arguably risks incurring technical debt that will manifest concretely later in a process much more like cutting physical construction corners might risk negligence liability down the road and less like deliberate, planned debt financing vs. paying cash upfront for construction.
>the decisions a company makes are influenced by more than just one person, and nothing posted here says anything of Peter Thiel's views on privacy with respect to Facebook.

Again, assuming FB and Gawker have the same privacy issues, what you point doesn't really matter.

FB's decisions might be influenced by more than just Thiel, but if Thiel feels strongly about privacy (and his views aren't heard on FB) he always has the option of selling his stock and leaving FB...
I'd also like to know what you're getting at.
I disagree. I also know someone that works in one of the ML teams and he has just a bachelor's and is not relegated to menial tasks and seems to be pretty happy with his level of responsibility.
How easy would it be to encode and solve "Einstein's Riddle" https://udel.edu/~os/riddle.html in LogicJS? I looked into starting it but there's things like this:

> the Norwegian lives next to the blue house

Which I'm not sure how encode without a huge decision tree, or some sort of dynamic logic encoding.
I consider tax free discharge of defaulted mortgage loans to be a bailout of ordinary homeowners.
let me explain free speech to you...

I am free to speak but not free to incite illegal acts or acts that result in violence..for example I cannot shot fire in a crowed theater..its NOT FREE SPEECH.

The court ruling stated it was not protected free speech..read it
Here's Andreessen on the future of the news business [1]. The part you are specifically pointing out in your comment is thus:

"One start would be to tear down, or at least modify the “Chinese wall” between content and the business side. No other non-monopoly industry lets product creators off the hook on how the business works."

[1] http://a16z.com/2014/02/25/future-of-news-business/