skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand why people need such ridiculously fast systems when we are using RabbitMQ and crappy Apache flume and we generate more than 5k with spikes of 50k messages/second. Please author of the article tell me your metrics.

And our log messages are ridiculously big at times (15k to as big as 50k).

Our pipe never has problems. What fails for us is Elastic Search. In fact at one point in the past we did 100k messages/s when embarrassingly had debug turned on in production and RabbitMQ did not fail but Elastic Search and sadly Flume did as well (I tried to get rid of flume with a custom Rust AMQP to Elastic Search client but at the time had some bugs with the libraries.. Maybe I will recheck out Mozilla Heka someday).

There is this sort of beating of the developer chest with a lot of tech companies.. that hey listen we are ultra important and we are dealing with ridiculously traffic and we need ultra high performance. Please tell/show me these numbers....
Or maybe stop logging crap you don't need to log.

Or maybe I'm wrong and we should log absolutely everything and Auth0 made the right choice given their needs (lets assume they have millions of messages a second), I still think I could make a sharded RabbitMQ go pretty far.

This goes with other technology as well. You don't need to pick hot glamorous NoSQL when Postgresql or MySQL and a tiny bit of engineering will get the job done just fine particularly when mature solutions give you such many things free out of the box (RabbitMQ gives you a ton of stuff like a cool admin UI and routing that you would have to build in ZeroMQ).
What San Fransisco Says about America
Do we know who canceled Glass–Steagall?

And after it was removed, how much tax payers paid to GS and such in '08, what was the rough figure?
Arm on desktop (win or Mac OS) has to happen now that the chips are this quick. I don't really need a phone with desktop perf, but I'd love a laptop with phone class battery life.
Just had a look, it seems very fresh/undocumented and not up to regular Github standards. I couldn't even find a way to delete the test project I made. I would give it awhile to mature. Right now we just use issues, but we have a small team.
It might make sense to force employer's to retain insurance that guarantees compensation to its employees/contractors. Executive compensation should be doled out last but is too often doled out first.
If a company in the US puts something on their website about me that’s libel under German law, I still can’t get it pulled.

Yet, if I put up something that’s legal under German law but illegal under US law onto my website, my entire hoster is threatened by the US govt. unless they remove my presence.

The right to be forgotten only gives the EU citizen the power that US citizen already have: to apply their laws globally (despite only in very limited amounts and with careful interpretation – which can’t be said of the US laws)
Follow the money.

http://www.wendel.com/knowledge-center/publications/older/no...
> Wow. Talk about harming hundreds of people for no reason at all.

To be fair, the whole point of the ADA is to harm millions of people for the benefit of very few people.
While I understand your sentiment and agree with it to some extent, the other side of the argument is that by releasing a free course, you disadvantage someone who would create this content, for a fee, and use that money to make it accessible to all. In effect, they are giving a free advantage to those without disabilities, making it even harder for those with disabilities to compete. Is that fair?

An analogy appropriate to this site is a free app that does an adequate, but not great job for a given need, that prevents others from creating (or maintaining) a polished app for money. That is, we might get 80% of a great app with the last 20%, the hard part, never being achieved. It is what it is in a free market, but the government has a bit of a mandate to try to take the larger perspective and create pathways to cover that last 20%, at least in the case of accessibility.

Having said that, I feel a better approach would be to provide grants or services to support making such content accessible. There is something odd about having to tell people that not only do they need to be an expert in a subject but also in how to convey that in a way that is useful and good to the people who are blind, deaf, or manually impaired.

By this I mean, for example, why is it clear that a simple transcript on a video is suitable? Surely it would be better to design courses to take advantage of the abilities of those using it and compensating for the lack of certain abilities. It is not clear to me that simply captioning a video is the best outcome for providing materials to deaf people. It would be far better to encourage and fund people expert in teaching deaf people or blind people to create materials directly, perhaps based on these other free materials.

As a creator of an online math course, one in which heavy use is made of graphs, it is not clear to me how I could even begin teaching graphing to blind people. I simply do not have the knowledge or experience to do so.
Not the AI Lab, but Sussman and company's group that sort of stood between the AI Lab and the Lab for Computing Science (LCS), which did more classical types of CS.

E.g. artifacts that came from the AI Lab included the Lisp Machine and it's Ethernet style Chaosnet, while LCS was working on a token ring network and aside from their Nu machines and the NuBus, adopted by Apple, never made their own workstations. Or Maclisp (I think at some point) and Scheme, vs. CLU. Other things that came from LCS include RSA and the X window system (the latter due to a weird VAX 11/750 config that DEC created so it could donate them to MIT without suffering (much) from the GSA "Most Favored Customer" requirement to give the Federal government the best price you gave anyone else).

After some point Sussman and company created their own informal? unit which stood apart, getting their money from the NSF and using Scheme, and doing their own things, "Switzerland, Armed but Neutral", staying above/aside from the fighting between LCS and the AI Lab. Which as I recall hearing, was only resolved when the head of LCS died (but not before unduly influencing the architecture of their new and highly dysfunctional building), and the head of the AI Lab, who'd saved it when other AI Labs like Stanford's legendary one died, became the head of a combined Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory AKA CSAIL.

All the above is 2nd hand but from reliable sources, and remotely after mid-1991.
lol, if they succeeded it would be revolutionary. We can put that formula in a fitness function for AI and don't need artists anymore.

Seriously: Who comes up with that? We finance culture because it needs to avoid the markets not to become a dull product. At best they will aim at some mainstream, not at all supporting any advances in art.
Why isn't the password hashed before it is sent to the server? Is it because the client cannot know how the passwords are hashed on the server side? If so, couldn't the password hashing method be sent to the client?
This is exactly right, although with solo 401k, you can hit the cap of $53k contributions with net profit of only ~$185k, not $275k, if you max both employee and employer contributions.

Additionally, with a solo 401k plan, the $18k employee contributions can be Roth.
The Clinton Foundation is supposed to be a charity but they spend almost nothing on charity - their expenses are 'conferences', trips, meetings - basically Bill and Hillary's personal expense account for things they cannot bill to the government or some other sponsor. Also, they can make ads that promote 'narrative' and the 'personal brand' of Hillary.
I wish there was more information on how much work it takes to maintain a DC/OS setup. All the marketing makes it out to be the easiest thing in the world.
Venture Capital Is a Hell of a Drug
including perhaps thermal docking
You've spent over 88% of your income[1] on charity? That's awesome, keep up the good work!

[1] https://www.charitywatch.org/ratings-and-metrics/bill-hillar...
> Local governments, under pressure from annoyed citizens, are beginning to act. Elections are being won on promises to invest money to protect against flooding.

Interesting. I do recall that in 2012, North Carolina's House Bill 819 prohibited the state's Coastal Resources Commission from calculating sea-level changes using recent data.
Twitter’s First NFL Broadcast Draws Average Audience of 243,000
Not specifically the part of ONLY waiting 1-2 years outside the US, but the whole thing. I'm just highlighting that doing H1B, trying to get GC, then citizenship alone is a pretty bad process already, adding 1-2 years on top of that is more of a straw the broke the camel's back. Not to mention that there is no certainty the company can actually bring you over to the US after that 1-2 years period, they certainly WILL try, but the immigration situation in the US currently just seems to be more and more hostile every year.

Realistically, getting H1B should pretty much be discounted from your current plan (the odd is somewhere around 30%), so it leaves you with an L1 visa. That would leave you even more locked to your employer than H1B would.

To make it short, if I've already got an H1B, and currently in the US, I'd stay while nagging the employer to make sure my EB process is going. In your situation (which I am right now), I'd try to get to the US through either O1 or the startup visa parole, assuming the latter comes to fruition.

And just to make sure we're clear, for me working for a big 4 corp is something nice (I don't think I'd hate myself for doing it), but absolutely not my current goal.
I didn't submit this link, so I didn't know about this until today, sorry for the late response.

You are opening yourself up for a world of hurt:

1 - No Privacy Policy (http://www.disclaimertemplate.com/privacy-statement-template...)

2 - No terms (This document is to protect you)

3 - No SSL (legislation going through multiple bodies now for any website that collects PII to require SSL)

When dealing with information that may be used to identify someone and their identifying habits and traits, you need to have a privacy policy and SSL.

The lack of a terms of service telling us what we are legally allowed to do makes running a bot to collect all these coins, not only simple, but legal.

Your fake testimonial (don't argue, because you know it is true) is also 100% illegal and fraudulent. http://www.disclaimertemplate.com/illegal-use-fake-testimoni...

I would say all in all this website is a walking law suit waiting to happen.

I felt my history in the SEO industry was REALLY shady, but everything we did was at least above the board and legal, so far everything I have seen on your website(s -- yes I found the rest of them) would suggest otherwise.

If you want to create a survey/lead generation system to reward takers with virtual currency and sell their information, up your security, get some legal in place and for the love of God, run it all passed a lawyer. These steps are to protect YOU.
>That population would be below the level necessary to maintain genetic diversity. At least in NZ, the Kiwis have the decency to say that they want a species eliminated outright.
The Norwegian wolf population is a common population with the Swedish population. The total is something like 400 wolfs. (For the record I support a robust wolf population.)
What you wrote is logical, but applicable to any instance of accommodation to those with impairments. The Americans with Disabilities Act and related actions/legislation/policies explicitly bind society to inefficient resource allocation.

The actual letter from the Department of Justice (linked at the bottom of Berkeley's response) goes into more detail. The DoJ is not demanding current materials be removed, nor are they expecting changes to happen overnight. But the ADA isn't new, nor is its mandate that "no qualified individual with a disability shall, by reason of such disability, be excluded from participation in or be denied the benefits of services, programs, or activities of a public entity, or be subjected to discrimination by a public entity," nor are the web standards for ensuring that content is accessible.

Importantly, this is NOT a lawsuit. It's a DoJ investigation under the ADA focused on enforcing existing laws and regulations. It's not about "formalizing it into the nastiness of a lawsuit" or certain private parties trying to take grievances to the court system for a pay day. Individuals brought a complaint to the DoJ, and now it's doing its job by investigating.

Berkeley and other public institutions have been complying with the ADA since it was passed in 1990. Compliance tends to be expensive and unintuitive - that's the entire point! Applying the ADA to online course content really shouldn't be much more of a burden than it already was to comply with it in other respects.
We totally can! We'll just ask the output be at least 8 out of 10. The output being...uh, the average of grades from our ten resident artists. ;)
I think it depends on your copilot, and your own programming style.

For example, I find that, when fleshing out an idea, I blackbox a lot. I end up with five or six stubs, as I work on a core idea, knowing where to go back to. Then from there, go down over the new code, adding safety once what I have is a working "template".

When I'm driving, the passenger either a) continually interrupts, breaking my flow and interrupting the memory-model of the code I have, or b) doesn't say anything at all, till the end, and it's a major refactor to add in the great ideas they've had. People have trouble with timing, though that might be because a lot of my team find me intimidating.

When I'm a copilot, I do struggle to know when to change the direction, but the biggest issue is that people... Like to "own" their code. Its a personal insult to point out flaws, or to suggest a new way to do something.

In other words, a lot of what the article talks about has been my experience, and some people can't adapt to it.
How come Font-Awesome repositories has 10,654 contributors, but only 9,617 as a company?
"China Lake is the United States Navy's largest single landholding, representing 85 percent of the Navy’s land for weapons and armaments research, development, acquisition, testing and evaluation (RDAT&E) use and 38 percent of the Navy’s land holdings worldwide. In total, its two ranges and main site cover more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2), an area larger than the state of Rhode Island."
Try designing a specific means to do this and you'll find that it's not easy.

E.g. your first idea might be "ok, so the client just sends a SHA-256 hash of the password, simple." But... if you do that, then the SHA-256 hash _is_ the password. A rogue server can capture that SHA-256 hash to log in elsewhere.

So you might try and improve that scheme by having the server supply something to hash together with the password. But that means you can't use /etc/passwd anymore, since that
doesn't store the password, it just stores a hash with one particular salt.
I completely agree. It seems like the only way to currently get this information is through the robo advisors.
This article is based on a very poor translation of an announcement put out by owners of the robot on social media site.

As per the russian news site that covered this:

- robot was hired by the campaign to "agitate" (e.g. play loud political messages) for the candidate to passers by as they exited a subway stop in moscow.

- police arrived on scene and asked the organizers to move the robot farther away from the path of the people.

Based on above, the owners put out a press release claiming the robot was "almost arrested" and announced that between the original "escape from proving grounds" 2 weeks ago and this, the robot "must now be destroyed ... because it got too smart".

Pretty good marketing campaign, but definitely not an AI breakthrough :)

edit: format
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12504694
Guantanamo prisoner says Saudi 'royal' involved in terrorism
Can someone explain why he says that 90% of people should expect to have a higher marginal rate of tax at retirement and so are better saving to a Roth pension with post tax money now?

I'm UK based but the principles seem the same, and I'm fairly sure I'm paying more tax now than I will be after I retire.
As I wrote in HN's dialog about a New York Magazine article on global warming https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12471815:

As usual, nothing about prevention.

Global temperatures and the sea level are rising because of human behavior. If we want different results, we have to behave differently. Engineers and scientists know engineering and science but not so much leading people to change their behavior.

It's easy to blame others: "Listen to me! If you don't you'll be sorry!" isn't effective. Also, what fraction of engineers and scientists have, say, flown in a plane or something similarly polluting in the past twelve months?

If you want to change behavior, you need to learn and practice leadership skills and apply them to yourself as well as others. The science is clear. More is nice and I agree we should keep pursuing it, but the best way to decrease the effects of global warming is to change our behavior. (This is why I moved from science to leadership.)

This article's writing about flood-proof architecture and other rearranging-deck-chairs-on-the-Titanic behavior is necessary since it's too late to stop a lot of change, but it's not too late to stop the change that we -- you and I -- are contributing to now. As much as I wish past generations had changed their behaviors so we wouldn't see these problems today, future generations will wish we had changed our behavior today. Even if you don't have kids or grandkids, I would think caring about human society in general and empathy and compassion for future generations would be enough to focus on changing our behavior proactively, not just reactively fixing problems others bequeathed to us.
Brazilian politicians have recently "discovered" the "benefits" of paid speeches too. A famous ex-president used to charge north of $200k USD saying that's what international speakers like Clinton charge, so he ought to be allowed to do the same. Evidence is mounting this was a venue for converting bribes into legal money, or to buy influence from the Brazilian state machine.

Funny anecdote: he was once paid such amount to speak to a audience of workers from a beer factory. After arriving, he basically drank a pint of beer in front of everyone, said some funny jokes and disappeared into the offices to discuss "business". That was a speech and he damn well charges what he wants for that, that was the explanation.

It amazes me that these people, having reached their peak in social influence and often in their bank accounts, can pretend to justify speeches as a revenue source. If they are so concerned with making the world a better place, they could charge just their expenses and maybe a modest fee to pay their bills. Hell, I'm sure most famous decent people would do it for free if it's really a good cause.

Completely agree, it feels bad, it smells bad... If you have any ethics, you know it's bad and you don't engage in such shenanigans.
I watched a documentary called Clinton Cash[1] that provided some correlations to explore, pertaining the Clintons' speaking fees.

1. https://youtu.be/7LYRUOd_QoM
Berkeley DB.

I use it in production for a game that supports over 100,000 concurrent users and it's been around for a very long time.

It's fully ACID by default but you get the ability to drop elements of ACID in exchange for greater performance in a per table or transaction level. It also supports two different isolation approaches on a per table level. Locking or MVCC (like postgres).

It's a really great NoSQL database from the days before the term NoSQL existed.
Before I read this article, the following question popped into my mind and it miiiiiight be tangentially related -- yea probably not, blame the title ;) When taking the concept of consistency, does consistency have an effect that is akin to compound interest?

For example, imagine someone doing the same thing year after year diligently. (S)he'd increase his or her skill say 10% a year (have no clue what realistic numbers are). Would that mean that the compound interest effect would occur?

I phrased it really naievely, because while the answer is "yes" in those circumstances (1.1 ^ n). I'm overlooking a lot and have no clue what I overlook.

I know it's off-topic, it's what I thought when I read the title and I never thought about it before, so I'm a bit too curious at the moment ;)
First thread is asking for a simple fix ("change font size" feature), that would really improve the usability of the editor. It has not been done for 7 years, which suggests that it's not an easy fix at all. It should be.

Second threads ask for support for high DPI. It's a simple scale issue, but somehow hard to do it on Windows.

Stuff that should be easy but isn't is a strong indicator of technical debt.
http://www.marklogic.com/what-is-marklogic/features/

ACID transactions
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I might be missing something (after reading the article twice) but the author says nothing about why he doesn't use React Router...

The only mention I can find is "But the API smelled funny to me, and had not settled, so I continued to wait" that hints that the API is changing and looks weird. But other than that, there is no constructive criticism here.

I'm all for being able to write freely about software we find bad, but without any concrete examples or even pointers to what is bad, I don't think this article have any merit (except that it's good to make sure you understand the dependencies you have).
A Novel Implementation for UML StateMachine (2004)
Josh Ge will be speaking at this event. I have been closely following the devlog of his modern RL game Cogmind since the start and I can highly recommend it, as well as the game itself:

http://www.gridsagegames.com/cogmind/

http://www.gridsagegames.com/blog/
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Scary, using laws to prohibit people doing math. It's the equivalent of putting your fingers in your ears and humming loudly.
Right, but what do artists want? Grants, funding, cold hard cash in other words.

It's unreasonable to ask people to put their hands in their pockets and give you their hard-earned money if you can't explain exactly what you're going to do with it. That way lies Tracy Emin putting her unmade bed on display, or whatshisname and his pickled sheep - laughing all the way to the bank.
Unless it has changed recently, RMS asks for all his fees to be paid, and does not ask for a fee but makes it clear that one is appreciated and that if no speaking fee is paid, he's essentially given the speech for free. My experience is that organisations and people inviting him to speak do pay him, but in the thousands of dollars, similarly to what you'd pay a high end consultant to spend a day or two to travel and work ; not high tens of thousand and certainly not hundreds of thousands dollars!