skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know this sounds a bit Ayn Rand, but almost all scientists, engineers, and computer scientists know that global warming is real and is happening. Can we not just all go on strike until the dumb or greedy people get shoved aside? Like, granted, there was some pretty effective misinformation back in 2008, but the science is completely settled now. The public benefits from our medicines and software and infrastructure and from our higher than normal taxes, but they don't trust us when it comes to changing their behaviour. Like I'm at my wits end when I talk to climate change deniers these days.
For a more geologic view:

http://curry.eas.gatech.edu/Courses/6140/ency/Chapter10/Ency...
How much oscillation? On a scale from "bumpy ride" to "holy shit my wing's off".
I didn't mean to imply a particular position on the spectrum, was trying to be a clever tongue in cheek reference to the idea that the boundaries between "having" the condition or not are murky, not trying to share my personal life story, at least not this time :)
Actually air is bought / sold. In cities like NYC the real estate above land is just as valuable as real estate connected to land. What ends up happening is someone can own the air above your building preventing you from building up.
I've always wondered what Bachelor Chow tastes like.

Probably chicken.

And disappointment.
I think you vastly overestimate how much average consumers and businesses know or care about any of those issues. Apple could release a chip that was 500% faster than the equivalent Intel chip while only consuming 75% of the power and it wouldn't move the needle on the distribution of Mac vs. Windows purchases. The vast majority of people and businesses who buy Windows buy in for the ecosystem and nothing else.
I can claim it because that's what my first-hand experience told me -- which is more experience than most. Even if I were in all meetings, you could say I wasn't inside the CEO's head.
While interesting, this is not satisfying as a general argument for non-ACID databases. Incrementing and decrementing are about the simplest possible operations, and even the article admitted that these are commutative, so the order doesn't matter. It is indeed much easier to work with operations that can be ordered arbitrarily, but I think that most real-world problems are sequential.
I did some work for a startup who is applying algorithm to picking up and coming artists.

http://tondoart.net/

I think the headline is mis-representative of what it's about.

It's does not sound like a measure of arts quality, but about creating a consistent set of metrics to judge with as a baseline.

Nothing wrong with that and everyone who don't believe in it don't have to use the sytem.
This is a slur. Almost all accessibility cases seek only correction of the problem and reimbursement for the costs of the lawsuit.
Is anyone able to speak to the compute and memory overhead this requires, in comparison with the loss-based algorithm? I ask on behalf of firewalls and layer 4 routers everywhere.

Can this really just be patched in, with no changes to specalized hardware?
The fovea, the area of high-resolution vision in the middle of the field of view, is surprisingly small, just a few degrees across. The resolution falls rapidly outside the fovea [1]. A lot of the detail we perceive in the periphery is actually the brain filling in blanks based on "cached" data.

The resolution drop could in principle be taken advantage of in computer graphics, especially in VR applications with robust enough eye tracking [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fovea_centralis

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foveated_imaging
The bank example really needs to die, its not reflective of what people often use databases for.

1. Bank transactions are easy to express as a join-semilattice[1], which means its intrinsically easy to build a convergent system of bank accounts in a distributed environment. Many problems are not easily expressible as these and usually trade off an unacceptable amount of space to formulate as a join-semilattice and still work with complicated types of transactions.

2. A bank transaction has a small upper bound on the types of inconsistency that can occur: at worst you can make a couple overdrafts.

3. A bank transaction has a trivial method for detecting and handling an inconsistency. Detection is easy because its just a check that the transaction you're applying doesn't leave the account with a negative balance. Handling is easy, because the bank can just levy an overdraft charge on an account holder (and since they have the ability to collect debts on overdrawn accounts, this easily works for them). Complicated transactions often don't have a trivial method of detecting inconsistency and handling inconsistency is rarely as simple as being able to punish the user. In fact corrective action (and likewise, inconsistency) is often non-intuitive to users because we expect causality in our interaction with the world.

> The real world rarely involves having a consistent view of anything

I strongly disagree with this. Most of our interaction with the world is perceived consistently. When I touch an object, the sensation of the object and the force I exert upon the object is immediate and clearly corresponds to my actions. There is no perception of reordering my intentions in the real world.

We expect most applications to behave the same way, because the distributed nature of them is often hidden from us. They present themselves as a singular facade, and thus we typically expect our actions to be reflected immediately and in the order we issue them.

Furthermore, this availability vs consistency dichotomy is an overstatement of Brewer's theorem. For instance, linearizable algorithms like Raft and Multi-Paxos DO provide high availability (they'll remain available so long as a majority of nodes in the system operate correctly). In fact, Google's most recent database was developed to be highly available and strongly consistent [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semilattice

[2]: http://research.google.com/archive/spanner.html
their tutorial is still based on systemjs instead of webpack, not sure which loader ng2 is preferring, I hope it's the latter.
Anectdote, but all Android developers (and WP devs forcwhat it's worth) are uding Macbooks Pro as their work machines. That's in Europe, and not even in Western.
Probably more to do with company size.
FDE is also apparently not entirely impossible to bypass, which leaves you in the same situation of an attacker knowing that those SSH keyfiles exist on your machine.

You may think it's all over at that point, but there's different levels of secrecy, and it'd be better that the attacker cannot even know that a further level exists beyond.
Check out lmdb for a better alternative to it.
Actually I would count the skills you describe as "smarter." The fact that we don't all assume this is a sign something is wrong. Maybe it lies in that I don't remember too much emphasis in CS education on legibility and maintainability, beyond some token "practicum" classes that focused just as much on the many other "practical" topics like version control, working together, unit testing, etc.

The best programmer I ever worked with had an incredible ability to produce straightforward, simple code, that could have been written by "any fool" ... if "any fool" had gotten incredibly lucky. His code looked so obvious in retrospect, like anybody could do it. He made the difficult look easy. I call that very smart, and you desperately want brilliant people like that.

The programmers I've worked with that were traditionally "brilliant" in the sense of quickly coming up with "clever" but hard to maintain solutions only count in the middle of the pack, and I dreaded working with their code. Their code was more likely to not last as long and be thrown away in a refactor.

So I learned to aspire to be more like the first than the latter. And in doing so I saw just how damned hard it is to create simple looking "any fool could do it" solutions to hard or even medium problems. So many times I thought something was clear, but it was not to others. So many times I only finally thought of the architecture that would make it possible to write it simply and legibly after many iterations through other designs that generated much more complex "clever" code. It made me gain incredible respect for the amount of smarts and experience it takes to generate simple, easy, boring code that anyone can easily read and pick up.
I vote personal project. Its meritocratic. It involves approximately similar skills to being successful in a technical role. It contributes something new and novel to society. Its probably a better predictor than fizzbuzz, or knowing some technology buzzwords...
Researchers discovered security flaws in the Android version of Signal app
How does an aircraft gets certified with out an INS for stability control?
I checked out remote job boards, found a couple of listings and applied. Did the interview (most of them took up to a month) and got the offer. You have to know that I have about 4 years experience coding, started while in college and have worked for a firm in my country that contracts out software devs to work as remote devs for startups abroad. So I have a lot of experience working remotely.
If you wait 2 years the 9.7" and 12.7" iPad Pros will have that much battery as standard without betting an ARM laptop will revive dwindling PC sales.
Hiring a speaker for prestige and for influence are not mutually exclusive.
Push Marketing Has Been Replaced by Pull Marketing
Agreed, a minor injury turning into a major sickness from visiting a hospital when it's not needed, is not necessarily an unwarranted paranoia, e.g. MRSA.

And I have witnessed in my own life mental health professionals both helping situations and making them worse.

For me, it's not as simple as "never seek help from professionals" or "always seek help from professionals".
>I don't think I have run across any accident which militates as strongly in favor of Airbus's design as AF 447 seems to militate against it.

The references I've seen to advantages tend to be more subtle than the AF447 tragedy. Things like the Hudson river landing where in that strange situation where you have no power the workload was diminished by having the computer keep the airplane flying most efficiently and thus be able to reach the river instead of crashing by losing airspeed.

It also makes sense the advantages are less obvious as the flight envelope protection actively prohibits dangerous situations and you can't report on non-events. The stats also show Boeing and Airbus airplanes pretty evenly matched on safety.
Probably Elixir
> Between '99 and '09 you would actually lose money

You would have made a profit (albeit a small one) if you invested every year from 99 to 09, using the yearly figures on wikipedia.

> From the peak of the '99 bubble till around today we have about 2% yearly return on the S&P 500 (excluding dividends)

Using March 99 as the peak, it's 2.5% ignoring dividends and ~4.5% if you include them.

Source: https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/

> Over long periods, dollar cost averaging, you'll do OK. Don't rush in at a top and obviously don't sell at a bottom, something a lot of people end up doing.

This is a very important point (though lump sum investing tends to outperform DCA), there's a big difference between how you might feel now while stuff is going up quickly and how you might feel when everything is falling apart. Selling low is a historically bad move. Far worse than buying high (http://awealthofcommonsense.com/2014/02/worlds-worst-market-...).
I'm embarrassed to say that at the present moment we currently don't use ES clustering but rather a monstrous powerful bare metal machine as we had issues with the cluster failing with some network issues we had with Rackspace.

BTW I didn't mean to denigrate Elastic Search (I assume that is why I'm getting downvoted.... a comment would help). We just haven't had the chance to upgrade it and properly configure it.

In fact Elastic has been pretty darn speedy as of lately particularly since we purge some of the data after 6 months (we still have permanent filesystem storage of logs of course).
Is your hourly rate set to a certain price by a central body?

Why should mine be?
No. It would not be safe to have 200kph highways. Humans are fallible, especially at high speeds.
Whenever i see a bunch of code written in a language different fron whatever the rest of tge team are using, that language is often: go :)
I found that once I zoomed in to have only 6 dots on the screen and zoomed out, the illusion disappeared and I was able to see the 12 dots simultaneously.

I tested it on a friend and same thing but he had to stay zoomed in longer than me, for me it was instant, he had to stay focused 5 or 10 seconds.

And now I can't not see the 12 dots even 48 hours later without being exposed to the image.
From the DoJ letter:

"Faculty developing UC BerkeleyX courses can, but are not required to, develop courses in collaboration with the Berkeley Resource Center for Online Education (BRCOE). BRCOE follows best practices in design for accessibility and also has a quality assurance process that includes deploying various accessibility evaluators; remediating layout, page structure, downloadable or styling accessibility barriers; and obtaining transcripts of all audio and video files associated with a course."

They follow that with a checklist which all faculty which opted out of using those resources since July 2015 was required to sign.

To me, this looks like a system which is trying to comply, but the people within the system have failed to take the requirements seriously.
If we're talking about user created event, I think you should have a permanent log anyway. Otherwise if there is any kind of bug or any kind of weirdness in your data, how are you supposed to figure out what the heck happened? You can try to outwit chaos by prevent all inconsistency and bad data, but that'd a game you will eventually lose.

From a more religious perspective, every action a user takes is sacred data that you should not lose, unless you deliberately want to lose it for privacy reasons. You can rely on your software to have no bugs and never confuse your user, but again that's a game you eventually use. I would rather keep that action log so I have a place to rebuild from when things are lost. Otherwise your only choice is to reverse engineer your data. Data which, if not technically corrupt, is corrupted from a human standpoint.

And if you want undo you need a log and playback anyway.

To me data consistency at the database level is not a real solution to the problem. It is a good tool, but it only solves a very narrow slice of predictable bugs. It doesn't help at all with the inevitable bugs you can't predict. A log based approach gives you a powerful tool in all kinds of tough situations.
It absolutely does in the U.S., if you are born in any U.S. territory you are automatically a U.S. citizen and do not have to do anything to further establish it beyond that point.
There are plenty of other areas where this same law has similar effects but is tolerated. One niche area is the provision of legal services to the deaf. The lawyer must not charge extra, despite the need to hire a translator. That means taking a case involving a deaf defendant/plaintiff might be unprofitable. But you have to do it all the same. We do such things, foot the bill, because the law is the law. The government created the law to promote equality. The appropriate means of redress is to lobby for its repeal ... which will happen right after they pull the benefits of wounded veterans.
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> Tory majority government elected by 22.5% of the electorate - the lowest figure ever.

I don't know how you came up with that number.

Labour won a majority in 2005 with 35.2 % of votes, in an election with 61.4 % turnout. That's 21.6 % of the electorate.

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

In 2015, Conservatives got 36.9 % of a 66.4 % turnout. That's 24.5 % of electorate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_general_electio...
Why would they pay a near-nobody to advertise? That's not how this works. The money goes to Medium to host content as a native advertisement, or the money is spent on ads and promotion elsewhere to get more clicks on this article. Neither of which has to be disclosed.

Also - what a surprise. The article writer owns a marketing and advertising consulting company! With a specialty in social referral campaigns and native advertising! Which is coincidentally exactly what GiveDirectly is focusing on right now.

The lack of money directly exchanging hands between the person who wrote it and the beneficiary doesn't mean it isn't advertising.

It's interesting how this disclaimer says that Andrew isn't being compensated by GiveDirectly and its affiliates etc. It doesn't say anything about whether any of the affiliates of Andrew (such as his business) received compensation from GiveDirectly, which is the much more likely scenario. Regardless, it's easy enough for anyone to claim they're writing something as an individual and not as a service to their own company.
fair enough! I'll check this thread and see if you update it, if you do have time to look more :)

Also if you'd like you can email me at the address in my profile, this thread is getting nested very deep.
4% also sounds like a reference to the Trinity Study: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_study
That's a great trick, and the RC car part is hilarious.
It's a very strange post ... I guess it will be flagged soon.

Most engineer are at least 20 years old. The 13 years old are still students in the school.

I think you are not a native English speaker. Can your post your question in your language so someone can make a better translation?
Why not allow people to buy these wolves to be kept in private forests ?
Honest question, if not Sprint, then who? Verizon is the worst. So, TMobile?
Results of the book's sells aren't that shocking if the sells per new book from her past books are accounted for:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/09/15/us/politics/clinton-boo...

Is shocking she got 14-million, which seems really fishy to me.
Clojure? Nim? Julia? Kotlin? Swift? There are no shortage of new, good languages these days.
Well, I am yet to work in any client that uses Mac for any kind of development besides iOS, and even when they do, they timeshare an iMac across teams.
Make the work meaningful, impactful, and rewarding, so the kid will want to do it.
Thank you.

I actually have 6 years of experience working remotely, but I guess I've been doing something wrong recently when applying.
Why scientists must share their research code
+1 I'm seeing OCaml at a number of HFT FinTech plays.

MirageOS sounds cool. What are people using it for?
what about federal contracts that we have all been hearing about[1].

> What's more, the investigation revealed that many of the groups had federal contracts or lobbied the Clinton State Department. Some even had direct contact with Clinton or her top aides while she was secretary of state.

1. http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-04-22/heres-who-pai...
Scientists create 'sewer to brewer' machine that turns pee into beverage
You know, people get on the US for our dangerously-lax gun culture, but our concealed wolf crime rates are significantly below Northern Europe.
After using react-router more than a year, I have to say it's a helpful lib, but the doc and the authors are not ready for serious business.
Five zookeepers? Seems like a lot. Why five? Is it hard to keep them active?

Thanks for the tips.
Apple sales are less than 1% of Intel's revenue. It will mean literally nothing.

You can paint me a GIANT skeptic of chromebooks in any setting outside of education. My step-mom got one as a present (as in for FREE) from her daughters. She's BUYING a Windows laptop because of how frustrated she is that it works with exactly nothing. Can't use her fitbit. Can't update her GPS. No way to sync her iPhone. etc. etc. etc.

It's a niche product for nerds. Any standard consumer will purchase one and never buy a second once they figure out all the limitations of their "cheap" Chromebook. That's ignoring the fact that I've seen more Intel based Chromebooks in the wild than ARM. I completely disagree with your "mostly running ARM" assessment and the only facts I can find on it do as well:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromebook

A tiny FRACTION of chromebooks run ARM.
Great to see partisan political commentary on HN.

There is no proof of quid pro quo in that Russia uranium deal:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jun/...

Also, Clinton sold a lot more than 3000 copies that first week; more like 85000 (still not as good as her prior best sellers):

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/18/what-do-hil...
The point of a keynote speaker is to raise the stature of the event. That, in turn, helps fill seats with potential customers.

The clients, not the speaker, are the ones organisers are trying to influence. It stands, however, that said raising of stature comes from the implicit connection the audience is encouraged to make between the keynote speaker (in this case, a politician) and the organisers.
Hopefully bill != law?
But who then should curate the curators :)

There is nothing to the concept of "knowing what you are talking about" when selecting who to fund and who not IMO.

You might be lucky you have someone with great intuition and bi-partisan approach to what they select but you might as well be unlucky that they don't. "knowing what you are talking about" does not help you select what piece of art should be promoted over another because there really isn't any piece of art that should be promoted over another. I.e. there are no objective criteria.

So applying quantitive measures is as perfectly useful as relying on individuals and it applies transparency to the process especially when combined which I believe is is the aim of it.

There is another discussion all together about whether the public should be funding art but thats a whole other issue IMO.
It's in decline because it's based on an absolutist philosophy, rather than being another tool in the toolbox.

And it's an invaluable tool. For the indie dev that can't hire a team of lawyers copyleft can be a powerful legal strategy as relates to their IP. It has built entire communities.
My first thought was that someone didn't tell Priceonomics about how attempting to be a policitical influencer runs counter to the goal of being seen as an intelligent source of independent thought... I had thought that was their brand. They really come off as dumb and naive here.

But then I thought, maybe they're interested in getting into the Think Tank game. This might be a sort of tryout.
Depends on your POV. Startups undervalue it and corporations overvalue it. At the end of the day, it's just risk management.
The media startups that raise tons of money get lots of press. Some of the ones that raise little or no money but bootstrap are doing very well, you just don't hear much about it.

We're profitable, our economics are great, and we're hiring to expand into new verticals.
I second Elixir, though if trends continue you're going to get a bunch of long time Ruby/Rails people (not bad or good, but something to be aware of).
Don't unpaid wages get paid first?
The thread is deep (as you say in this comment's sibling), so I will email the longer commentary...

Briefly, most of the published analysis is top-down and less is bottom-up. People seem to bundle Seed+Series-A in most places. There's a lot of talk about medians without a deal-count. There are counts for numbers of deals with a size exceeding some threshold, but that doesn't give us what we're looking for.

Here's a chart - US only:
- https://files.pitchbook.com/images/Angel.Seed%20Activity.png

At about a thousand deals at about a million bucks, that's bumping the $1B mark, but doesn't break $2B.