skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
who needs warships when you can destroy a country economically electronic payment-systems sanctions?

I think the East India Company comparison is entirely reasonable, if not right now, soon. And it won't need anything so vulgar as actual physical force, but its tools of war will be just as effective.
Two posts down from a missing apostrophe as I write this. Am I being trolled?
i don't think you're pessimist/cynic enough. How are people forgetting

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuck: Just ask.
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don't know why.
Zuck: They "trust me"
Zuck: Dumb fucks.

It's all about information gathering and providing a walled garden intranet for control.
Just a friendly reminder that morality is just a little human social construct associated with the pain-pleasure mechanism that evolved to guide intelligent machines toward evolutionarily advantageous ends. It's not a fundamental "problem" or anything if someone dies or suffers unthinkable agony. It's just that collections of molecules that avoid these things tend to survive. Outside of silly little human opinions, you're not a "bad person" if you stab people with scissors for fun, and you're not a "good person" if you cure cancer. These are both just "happenings" of nature, nothing more than what they are. Please don't waste your time pondering ethical dilemmas because it's as silly as arguing about the location of the garden of Eden or whether the population of leprechauns is greater than the population of unicorns.
Chrome has gone the way of IE. Chrome is memory and energy hungry (and now storage hungry if you believe this article), and Google doesn't care.

If you run Chrome on a laptop, you better plug it in.
"Sweden moving towards cashless economy" - http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sweden-moving-towards-cashless-e...

"Sweden close to being a cashless society" - Four out of five purchases in Sweden are made electronically or by debit card. With the development of cheaper technology, the country is moving towards a cash free society, according to a new report. "Sweden and the rest of Scandinavia leads the world in terms of cashless trading," said Bengt Nilervall at the Swedish Federation of Trade (Svensk Handel). - http://www.thelocal.se/20141012/sweden-close-to-being-cashle...
Berkeley DB was great, but Oracle killed it by changing the license to AGPL. That change meant many projects that use it couldn't update to the latest version without violating the license.

LMDB has taken its place in a lot of projects that used to use Berkeley.
I had this same issue on XP running in a VM that wasn't set to grow on a Mac.
We are bound to our own ignorance and gullibility when we accept bribery as a cost that all free people can bear.
How Much Equity Is a Convertible Note Worth?
> There was one clearly positive indicator in the survey: For the first time, the proportion of women returning to work after having their first child in Japan's once notoriously patriarchal society exceeded 50 percent.

In all seriousness, if the concern is low birthrates, how is the above a "clearly positive indicator"?
> The fall of the Roman Republic is one such historical occurrence where the military became more aligned with the common citizen than their own republic government.

Really? Some references would be good.
On the other hand, in my experience, people who over-specialize tend to have very narrow perspectives on any software problem.

If I had to choose between the guy who's done 10 years C# and the guy whose done 2 years C# and 2 years JavaScript, I'd pick the latter all the time.

As a friend of mine put it, "for most people, a 10-years experience is 10 times a 1-year experience".
cant read the article because my browser thinks its a rss feed. But i want to stress the importance of semantics and clean html. Think alternative output devices like html to speach and future tech like direct to brain io and artificial intelligence. Also if u keep it simple, writing and editing also becoms easier and more available.
dont mangle or minify your html. Also keep style out of it (in css).
I didn't say every advice becomes moot with them. Besides, shouldn't transpilers do the process then wherever possible instead of manually... which would be, not our job.
Posted 10 days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12463942

and

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12463942
> How does mysql unwrite the deposit?

Yes, the database either reverses the changes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_log

If, after a start, the database is found in an
inconsistent state or not been shut down properly, the
database management system reviews the database logs for
uncommitted transactions and rolls back the changes made
by these transactions. Additionally, all transactions that
are already committed but whose changes were not yet
materialized in the database are re-applied. Both are done
to ensure atomicity and durability of transactions.
When I see these demos or hololens demos I always wonder if the resolution is good enough to code. To read text clearly without blurred effects or jaggies. After all the text is being mapped to a texture in 3d. These demos work but are they usable?
"This is Einstein's theory of relativity. It fundamentally takes time for information to travel."

Which is why Google's hack in Spanner and F1 RDBMS of simply using or waiting out the known time delay was so clever. Also relies on a tool that was a test of Einstein's theory. ;)

"That is why our team here at http://gun.js.org/ believe in CRDTs."

Thanks for the link. I'll look into it. Plus the liberal license that gives it a chance of making a dent in commercial sector or in combo with BSD/Apache projects.
When will the recorded versions be up?
You know those tiny lunch places in downtown San Francisco? Closet-sized and to-go only? That's what people should try as their first restaurant. Unfortunately, people usually try that second.
It was (in fact, it's not clear it was ever broken)
That's why if you look at the linked bug report, the only reports are of people who have used third party installers as root that screw up the permissions.

The bug report is basically "when i screw this up, chrome doesn't notice and fix it for me".
that's a very fair point. There are few applications where if the DB goes down, there's any point for the rest of the system to stay up. My use case happens to be distribution of financial tick info without persistence - ie: no cares on temporary data losses. Therefore it's very peer-oriented and doesn't care about lost messages or duplicated messages. All it cares about is throughput of latest data samples (note the world "samples". Not every single data point is needed though it's nice to have 99.999.. and we usually get that).

It's amazing how small use case differences can mean very big differences in the effectiveness of various strategies. The at least once / at most once / no guarantee either way but soft real time, use cases, can mean radically different toolchains. This is the real lesson of distributed streaming.
>In my childhood days, we could walk up to any house on the street in the middle of a cricket game and demand water. Often we would get rose sherbet or lemonade instead of plain water.

Oh how much I miss those days....
So many basic errors! Sharing is not stealing. Disclosure is not loss. Secrecy is not security. Information is not intelligence.
The concern expressed in this sentence is that of a patriarchal society.
Desktop Dungeons is an excellent one. Gameplay is divided into levels which are designed to be short, and there is a puzzle mode which is tricky but very rewarding. The race/class system is also quite good. Different builds are good on different missions. http://www.desktopdungeons.net/
Liberalism is a mental disorder. A crazy DOJ Social Justice Warrior has crossed the line to attack it's own.

I have seen the ADA used as a weapon too many times.
GSB-46:+How+to+Start,+Run+a+Successful+Deli+Business+Inside+your+Gas+Station
What a great business opportunity! Tele-presence for social activism.
I would invite anyone who down-voted that comment to explain how receiving money (millions of USD) for a personal fund, while at the same time providing government services and favours for donors - as a civil servant - is not a very serious conflict of interest.
He means that bug report is about a third party installer screwing up the permissions and nothing changing it?

Can you point me to an official installer with the same problem?

I'm not aware of those installers installing anything as root.
interesting - which mime/type do you use?
You are at KAUST?
The proof is trivial and is left as an exercise for the publisher ;)
The author writes as if he was looking for entertainment, not profit. The journey from investing* to losing half of it over 7 years does sound entertaining, so I guess he got what he wanted.

* he says he invested "a car", so $10-40k?
I think "trill" would actually make a better headline. Reminiscent of little birds...
Only restaurants I've known that did well owned the real estate they were in or were super cheap high margin places that were popular with a good location.

Lots of restaurants are just fronts for money laundering.
It's not a paradox. REEEE
Would that be jade's job? I'd argue jade's job is to make writing html easier. Another tool should take on html optimization.
Line profiling Python – Odoo 9 as example
How to escape an asterisk character on Hacker News?
When writing a comment on HN, if you wrap a word in asterisks, they disappear and the word is italicized. That’s how Markdown-based text works, but usually the user can place a backslash before the first asterisk to escape it (e.g. try on GitHub) in order to prevent this and instead display the asterisks literally. This does not seem to be possible on HN. Is there an alternative?
> sense of camaraderie does seem diminished these days

Why do you think this?
Do you really need global consistency for that? I think you can get by with user-consistent ordering as long as your data model's right.

It sounds like you're saying that the friend-state for a given post are part of the permissions for the post, and therefore part of the post itself. In which case, when a user posts, I'd include the version number of their friend-state in the post's permissions. Then on view attempts, I make sure that the friend-state I'm working with is at least as new as the friend-state referred to by the post.
Because women can be discouraged of having a children in fear of not being return to work afterward.

Implementations of maternity leaves are not very high in Japan -- this is coming from the work that histrically, they were expected to leave the work force when women are married.
They broadcast every 2 seconds. No heartbeat = dead.
You sound like you want to act for the good of the whole human beings but we have priorities over shaving the last bytes off our pages.

You would have a better day to let webmasters know to use gzip if they aren't.
I'm embarassed by how much time I haven't spent playing nethack. I mean, I haven't even gotten below about L5. I need to up my game :-).
> Being in a train without air conditioning...

I can almost guarantee that if you're traveling in a non-AC compartment in India, the windows stay open. People only close them before sleeping at night, because when trains invariably stop at its scheduled stations, the passengers don't want to run the risk of thieves grabbing valuables through windows.

There are some smells of certain cuisines that I absolutely detest (fish curry, garlic, etc.) but I can't recall ever being bothered by the smell of food in these compartments. I can recall being bothered by the smell of diesel fumes if the car happened to be close to the front. What drove me quite mad was this, "all culminating in a boisterous game of cards or round of antakshari". Ear plugs don't help much.
It is somewhat multifaceted.

First, I have yet to see a wave of mainstream technology that lasted more than 2 seasons. Bonus points if it truly solved a problem that businesses have. (Note that this is distinct from solving programmer's problems.)

Looking at my children in the corner playing pbskids, I am struck by how much more productive designers were with Flash and related technologies than they have yet to become with any of the current technologies.

Second, I have yet to be involved with a major "mainstream" technology choice that did not crash and burn terribly. These choices have often ended in public disaster for companies. It has truly become amusing.

Now, does this mean you can't make it work? Of course not. But, with the numbers as they are, realize that even at 1% or less... you actually aren't that unique in the world. But your experience still doesn't scale.

(And I realize this last criticism can relate to me, as well. This is why I won't personally stone wall any choices. I do ask pointed questions about when we will get to focusing on customer's value. So long as we are answering that, I just don't care on the technology anymore.)
Ask HN: How do you monitor server logs
How do you do it ? For example, if you have apache running on Ubuntu, you can go into command line and do a grep or even tail -f /var/log/apache2/access.log

What simple tools/services are out there to monitor stuff like this ? Realtime is an added-bonus.
Which could be a good thing or bad thing depending on its importance to the experience.
application/xhtml+xml as it's supposed to be, though it's not that I have a choice since Github sets all the headers.
> That is, New York City, with all its pastrami-and-pizza-hungry tourists and residents fleeing their pocket-size kitchens and young people too busy taking phone pictures of one another to cook, generates enormous demand for restaurants. There are twenty-four thousand of them in the five boroughs. That demand should (...)

24,000 restaurants is not demand, it's supply. This is the Mr. Market fallacy.
Would you also complain to Einstein about how unlikely it is for a train to be struck by two lightning bolts simultaneously, or that an observer doesn't have a wide enough field of vision to see the two, and that it's more likely that they actually saw a reflection?

Thought-experiments are just that. They are not supposed to be textbook guides on how to act in the real world.
I have none -- I don't claim to know much more than that about Embraer (or any other type). I found it to be ridiculous as well.

My interest was more to the weapons system testing itself.
> Why ? It seems to me that it happens because how interfaces are implemented

Why on Earth should a user of a high-level language have to care about language implementation details?

> What the actual fuck ???

Exactly.
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Really? It's annoying because you are captive. Have you not been on a plane and people near you take out their Kentucky Fried Chicken or McDonalds? You can't exactly open the window. That doesn't bother you in the least? Most people don't find the smell of fast food in close quarters enjoyable.
The Sami people would have been about 100K population.

Norway now is almost 100x that.

+ Roads, airports, farms, domesticated animals etc.

I don't know specifically about the Sami, but the aboriginals in most places did not domesticate animals or have any serious agrarian practices.

That said, I can't understand the logic behind this cull.
To actually do a distributed transaction, I would look into algorithms such as 2PC or 3PC. Although before going there, I would seriously consider consolidating different backends into one scalable option (banking transaction example is a bit contrived, although I gather the author is just trying to make a point).

At the service level integration, we can leverage a reliable message queue middleware to make sure a task is eventually delivered and handled (or be put in a dead letter queue so we can do a batch clean up)

Also as a general principle, I would make each of those sub-transactions to be idempotent, so that retrying multiple times won't hurt, and there would be a natural way of picking the winner if there are conflicting ongoing commit / retry attempts.
Does Mark's motivation matter to this kid? Probably not. He will likely make at least thousands of dollars, and perhaps much more, because of this mention. Internet.org, the service you referred to as "bullshit," was attempting to give hundreds of millions of impoverished people a way to communicate with the world that they don't currently have.

Neither Mark Zuckerberg nor Facebook owe you, the people of Nigeria and India, or anyone else, anything. This kind of reaction to the philanthropic efforts of wealthy people and corporations will only serve to discourage such efforts in the future.
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tried to edit it. but why would they mention it so prominently in the NOTAM?
Try Redis: https://github.com/antirez/redis

Or Lua: https://github.com/LuaDist/lua
Leaving out these details results in a model that won't actually match anything in the real world.

Yes. It's not supposed to.
So you created a carpool forum. That's a great idea but the complexity is vastly less than a real-time platform to dispatch cars and with prices that evolve over time.
Not really liberal - leaving out those tags is perfectly fine according to the specification and all compliant browsers will create the same DOM from it.
I'd much rather you use 21GB on my SSD than 2.1GB of my ram.
How Google’s Blind Lawyer Does His Job
Reads like a fatherly chat with his children about personal finance, it's brilliantly written.
It usually takes a couple of weeks
Layout APIs don’t have to be terrible – lessons from Bokeh
21 GB is about 2% of a 1 TB drive. Not that ridiculous.
How to Generate Quality Sale Leads with a Small Budget
Nuclear bombs and then Hello Kitty? This thread is about as up to date as my grandparents.
I'm not at all sure how this excuses things. If there is a known state that can be reached by the browser, then either a) indicate why it cannot be fixed and give tips for the users or b) put in the code to fix it for the users.
What if a sign or chip gets removed/knocked over . . . or swapped out maliciously . . . sounds more dangerous.
Yeah, essentially the _tag_ is optional, but the element is still there.

An example of a tag that almost everyone omits is <tbody>. A <tr> can't exist directly under <table> (per the DTD), so you're explicitly opening a <tbody> with your first <tr> and closing it with your </table>. If you look at the DOM in the browser, the <tbody> will be there.
Soo.. as an Indian who has traveled a lot in Indian trains, the smell of food never bothered me. There is something to be said about Indian food though - by very nature it smells different compared to say western food.

Spices - oh boy tons of spices. They mask lot of smells that you would otherwise find pungent - like garlic or onion. I have been stuck in Mumbai metro where someone was carrying a sack of peeled garlic - boy was that horrible.

So while I obviously can't speak for everyone - smell of food is last thing that will bother me while travelling in Indian railways. Sweat, dirty toilets etc though... they are something else.
Relationships with family members, but not friends, decrease likelihood of death
We need an industry mechanism for cross-format "upgrades", i.e. upselling of an existing customer. The challenge is that walled gardens don't want to share customer information with content (media,software) creators, in case the upsell/upgrade takes place outside the walled garden. Maybe they would allow it with (a) consumer opt-in, (b) a cut of the upsell revenue, paid by the creator to the first walled garden that introduces the customer to the content.

This would be like advertising attribution, except for, you know, actual purchases vs. possible influence on future purchases.
Hm. On some machines I only have 8x the SSD as RAM. I might take the 2.1GB to 21GB trade in that case :-).
English East India Company, Austrian East India Company, Danish East India Company, Dutch East India Company, French East India Company, Portuguese East India Company, Swedish East India Company, Hudson Bay Company, United Fruit Company, Danish West India Company, Dutch West India Company, French West India Company, Swedish West India Company, Royal African Company, etc.

I'm not judging if they were good or bad, but there were (and still are) far too many.
That is an option of course but then requires further processing by another tool. And Jade is often used real time which means that the need for further processing will be a burden. Is there any reason for the tool to output less than optimized code in the first place? What value is there in producing html that needs to be optimized by another tool?

By the way, Jade is in the process of being renamed to Pug because of a naming conflict with someone who holds the rights to the Jade name in another context.

https://pugjs.org
This is such an important article for people to read, especially people so bent on strong consistency. I've done talks on this for our database (eventually consistent, http://gun.js.org/ ), and people always ask about banking. Yes banks should use strongly consistent approaches, but they don't - user experience trumps perfect academics. And having Eric Brewer say this is fantastic evidence.
Everything is just happenings of nature, so by itself that tells us nothing on how we should use our time. If you consider that particular action a waste, you're implicitly making a judgment using that silly social construct.
>I think most Californians think that way. Snow is fun to visit, but we wouldn't want to live there...

We northeasterners think the same way about heat, I suppose.
To code, I would say not yet. We'll get there eventually, but in the meantime I can think of other uses, like modifying the VR server's settings or browsing and importing from a web catalog of 3D models without having to take off the HMD.
Why do you mention the heatwaves? Do you have evidence they are related to climate change? I think it only changes temperatures by a few Celsius.
The weird thing is not that working at big-name companies is impressive, it's that it's essentially a pre-requisite for some employers. The promise of higher education is that it will prepare you to take the best jobs in the industry. It's supposed to be the primary credential. That something is becoming the critical factor in employment means that universities are losing and/or have lost their status as the baseline qualification.

Maybe it shows how little I know, but I think Valve and other companies who do this are doing themselves a disservice by basically using Google's recruiting department as a passthrough (and, as an autodidact programmer, I feel essentially the same about people who put it all on educational pedigree -- this isn't an endorsement of the baseline credential, just an acknowledgement that what constitutes it is shifting). It feels like an admission that they don't know how to hire, so they're effectively offloading that responsibility onto companies whom they believe have thorough vetting processes.
Of course not! Because you have password authentication disabled and never type your login password in to SSH, right? You use ssh keys and ssh-agent, right? :-)
I've wondered the same thing. For avionics, you have PhDs in control theory doing most of the algorithm development with Kalman filters and such.
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How can something be "too good for the sport" is beyond me. I get that it makes comparing the past to the present, but it literally based on the description in the story made it seem like the changes were improving the "sport" on the competition.
I recently found a new personal finance app named Geltbox Money that eliminates the need for third party aggregation services.

the user can aggregate his own data without exposing private data to any third parties /web site.

This new technology enables the user to download his financial information from any financial institution.