skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to show yourself, and this increases the chance of people reporting a strange man taking photos of a house.

Yes, it's not cryptographic-level security, but it raises the costs of an attack. In the real world, that matters.

Also consider that not all attacks are spy-vs-spy. This could be a case of 'keeping honest people honest', i.e.: making it sufficiently difficult to dissuade the majority of political activists and/or protesters. This is the same reason why padlocks are a thing.
MongoDB is very popular in the Big Data and IOT spaces.

In most enterprises around 2/3 of the data in the lake is unstructured and comes from multiple systems we don't control or have visibility into. So it just gets dumped into HDFS until someone creates the relevant HCatalog schemas. Having a database like MongoDB at least allows you to extract and access some of the data in an automated fashion e.g. JSON reflection. It's especially useful for adhoc and lightweight model scoring and feature engineering.
> Do you see any big advantage of using a lot of buffers/tabs/splits over running multiple vims inside tmux?

One advantage would be the ability to use vim registers to copy text from one buffer to another instead of having to go through tmux or screen. Another would be word or line completion in a given buffer using contents in another buffer. In general, by running multiple vim instances instead of a single vim instance, you lose the opportunity to leverage vim to manage multiple buffers by using information in a given buffer.
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But GPS is broadcast, and Twitter is ultimately packed-switched. I.e. the "GPS providers" don't have to pay more money just because there are more users - the satellite signals are already in the air, free and open for use by anyone who knows how.
The thesis, if you want to call it that as it is never clearly stated in the article, is that there is some sort of intention in nature and/or the universe that guides the results of interactions. The claim is not falsifiable in the strictest sense, because there's no way to interrogate the universe to get it to state its "intentions".

More than that, the example of Fermat's Principle is not really supportive of anything that the author seems to be saying about the nature of the universe. Fermat's Principle is basically saying that light takes the path of least resistance through the medium instead of having its path be determined strictly by it's velocity and and direction. The underlying reasons why light moves this way may have seemed very strange at the time, but make a great deal of sense when viewed through the lens of quantum physics which accounts for the dual nature of light as both a particle and a wave. In this case, treating light strictly as a particle moving through space would cause issues as there would be no way for such a particle to "know" the correct path to take before it gets there in order to minimize the amount of time it takes to pass through the medium. However, if you treat light in this case as a wave that propagates through all potential unobstructed paths until it collapses in the "right" path the result from Fermat's principle makes sense. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_principle

So basically, this is no proof of any underlying "intention" in the universe, but rather a demonstration that classical physics is not always adequate at describing what is going on and then you will likely have to reach for other (equally mechanistic) tools if you want a more complete explanation.
They already use IRC for that, so maybe they could at least support it more...
Trying to sell opensource software with great documentation.
I don't know, I feel like lots of people donate to universities to spend their times solving problems that almost nobody has. Or maybe they don't, but somehow that money still exists. How does that work?

Why are we assuming that everything has to be done by companies? What if we establish a National Science Foundation for fundamental CS research?
There is no one else to blame. Website owners are just people, most will never be able to understand the service and all of the implications of the configurations it provides. Cloudflare is the only one here able to do something about it, not their customers or users.

I don't even know why this is a discussion. Not blaming customers and users for anything is a common sense.
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NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/kewlr

GitHub: https://github.com/zubuzon/kewlr
Kewlr is a module which you can use to determine if two values are equal to each others. It offers two modes - loose and strict, and it aim to be the fastest deepEqual algorithm, and support everything that is possible to support.

It should be safe to use this module in production, and it works both for node and the browser.

https://github.com/zubuzon/kewlr
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While it doesn't seem like that much of a revolution, things have changed significantly.

For centuries, people have navigated using stars and maps, yet now you have turn by turn navigation in your pocket with real time traffic and crowd sourced traffic incidents. You can reach most of the world population instantly by dialing a few numbers or even sending them a text message or mms, no matter where they are.

In the context of the article, a couple of years ago, Google Now told me I had to leave for a meetup in my calendar that I completely forgot about, gave me transit directions for a part of a city I've never been at and got me in exactly at the meetup start time.

While that all seems like modern conveniences nowadays, even thirty years ago if you'd have told people that you couldn't get lost anywhere in the world and could get ahold of just about anyone at anytime instantly, they'd think you'd be talking about science fiction, not today's reality.
When a parasite is damaging the host, both will say that the other party is hurting them.
As a user and supporter of RethinkDB I hope (and expect!) that the engineering team joining Stripe is a sign that Stripe will be able to take part in further development of the product.

On a sidenote, for people unfamiliar with RethinkDB, this episode of The Changelog with Slava explains some of the history and choices behind RethinkDB ; I found it really interesting. https://changelog.com/114/
Hi Dhruv,thanks for taking time and answer my question, I weren't keep track the application, so I didn't realize the changes. One more question, so is this nanodegree also has the same guarantees that helping someone to land on a related job within 6 months after graduated?
> Humans generally seem to have a desire to alter their states of mind

We're not the only animal to do so for that reason, either, from what I've read.
I think they are trying to pivot from a dumpster fire. The original "product" was blood tests with microliter volumes. That is essentially a farce. Now they are trying to sell lab automation in a box.
>Surely they are more competent than the code/architecture I'm imagining it would take.

Try dealing with Apple's joke of a bug tracker. Their backend systems don't exactly get the same smooth experience their consumer products get.
Working at SAC Capital is only a black mark on your name to those outside of finance. Within the world of hedge funds SAC alumni are doing extremely well:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-23/sac-alumni...
In the future you will be able to run a multitude of blood tests on a single drop of blood. Just the future is not here just yet. Just like DNA. You amplify. And amplify. And a very cool guy got a Nobel prize for that.
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This is very sad to hear this looked like a real product.

Quite off-topic but has anyone managed to implement something similar to Changefeeds in MongoDB? RethinkDB sends both old data and new data and watching the oplog sounds like a bad idea.
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SAC Capital is a much bigger stain for former employees than the others, in my opinion. SAC allegedly had a deeply ingrained culture of finding and exploiting insider knowledge that permeated multiple levels. Basically, Cohen had employees do his dirty work, while he maintained plausible deniability.

At Theranos, by contrast, Holmes intentionally kept employees in the dark. If I were interviewing an ex-employee, especially one at a lab outside of California, I would certainly press the candidate on the issue, but I would be willing to believe that they were honestly trying to build and deploy a novel technology that never ended up working. It is not the case that the entire endeavor was a scam. They thought that they could develop this technology, and then the leadership covered it up as they were failing to do so.

Also, do you have any sources that document employment at Lehman Brothers as being a stain on the majority of their employees? Thousands of the employees immediately moved to Barclays and Nomura when they bought parts of Lehman Brothers. That doesn't sound like a horrible stain to me.
Mongo also got there "first". I mean, Mongo isn't much compared to Rethink, but they're both in the "not a traditional SQL database" camp and Mongo came before and had all the hype first.

I wouldn't be surprised if people a) didn't use Rethink because they're happy with Mongo and its popularity b) hated Mongo and saw Rethink as too similar/didn't research it enough.
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I only just got this the second time around. Well done sir!
Also not the point.
If RethinkDB is really better than Mongo then where is the blog post about it?

Where are all the scaffolding tools? The examples?

I have only heard of Rethink because I read HN every day. But no one knows about it. That is obviously the reason it failed - bad marketing.
I seem to recall that unemployment pays better than minimum wage in many cases. If you qualify for unemployment or disability, why would you give up that benefit and at the same time lower your income?
Actually, this argument has some merit, as cabinet level officials probably have a security detail, and hence much less likely to be infiltrated than a random contractor (at least physically; electronically is another matter)
Please be nice or at least civil.
I understand curiosity of sensitive data. I think everyone wants to know more.

I also understand that some people think that no one should have this power and want to stop it. I wish that, if you feel this way, you renounce your citizenship and find another country that acts as you believe they should and just leave the other country alone, unless you feel they are threatening you or those you love and you must do something about it, and even then only if can do something to help in a way that won't hurt anyone now or in the future. Yes, I know it's not always that easy.

But, if you live in a country, through your taxes and your citizenship, you pay for and are recipient of the work of people whose job it is to protect us and all other citizens of your country. And if you didn't know how they defended you, you do now. It isn't always pretty, to say it lightly.

I don't want people to do bad things in the name of good or defense. It'd be better if every country had a large number of grown up boy scouts to protect that country in the most honorable way possible. But, we have what we have. Sure go ahead- expose it if you want, but the more you harm it, the more you'll end up with a group of people that are even more secretive and do things even worse to try to ensure that security. I really don't want that to happen. Things need to get better instead!

Many in the US say that we need to protect people from themselves, and then criticize or harm those trying to protect us. Why?

I used to be much more paranoid and just group people into the "trying to hurt me" bracket. But I grew up. I realized that almost everyone in the world I meet wants to do good or at least has a motivation to try to accomplish something they believe is right.
The problem is consumers like the ability to reset their password while keeping all their data. If you encrypt using a key derived from the password, resetting the password renders all your data useless.
It's not at all clear that that is the case. On of the problems, as I understand it, is that there's just not enough material in a drop of blood to run many tests.

I'm not an expert, but while improvement may be possible, miraculous improvement may not be.
They should be proud of that for sure, but they just go up really high, vs. putting a payload into orbit. It's got to be an order if magnitude easier for BO. Look at how long the booster hovers and corrects it way down so gently. SpaceX just can't carry that much extra fuel to land like that.
You might enjoy Zero K, a Don DeLillo book that is more or less about cryogenic suspension.
Well, I guess you found out when getting vaccinated; that you're alive and here to tell the tale suggests that the system handled this rare exception pretty well.
I used to live in Decatur and now live in the burbs. Atlanta is diverse and has everything for everyone. Why bicker about it? You want to live in an expensive high rise? We got it. Want to live by a train station and commute to work? We got it. Want a McMansion? We got it. Want to live cheaply? We got it.

People need to stop judging others on how they want to live and pretend theirs is better.

Know why people move to the burbs? It's because most of the schools ITP are shitty, I can buy a bigger and newer house for my family to live comfortably. My small, 1974 home in Decatur is worth almost as much as my new home and the schools are not as good.

I work in Alpharetta, and probably will always work there so my commute is reasonable.
Fair to guess, but I doubt that's it. The store I work for has been selling on there for almost a decade (it was selling since before I was hired), steadily, with very high customer feedback.
Ive not yet had a chance to run this. Does this include Semi-dense mapping, or is it hobbled with sparse only?

ORB-SLAM was claimed to have included in their github repo the semi-dense, and then faked everyone out with "too bad, not in there". In other words, worthless.
I believe the RethinkDB team will be a great fit for Stripe. RethinkDB was literally a pleasure to work with. As someone who has had to endure the pain of setting up a production mongo environment, I was thrilled to see how easy RethinkDB was to provision and then configure (all in their beautiful dashboard).

I see a lot of similarities between Stripe's offering and RethinkDB, making a once painful process into one that is actually looked forward to when building a new product. I'm glad Stripe will have even more engineering firepower as they continue to succeed.

Sad that RethinkDB(.com) is no more, but happy they found a great company to join!
> needless to say, there's a great variation of interpretation between the group labelled "Christian".

Yes, there certainly is. But the question is, are they following Christ? Just because they say they are or think they are doesn't necessarily mean that they are. One must look to what Christ said and taught. He said, among many things, that a tree is known by its fruit, and a good tree does not bear bad fruit; and that, in the judgment, many will say, "Lord, didn't we do great things in your name?" and he will say to some of them, "Away from me, I never knew you."

Not everyone who claims to be a Christian is one, and not everyone who believes in Christ is following him. It's up to each person to study the scriptures and follow Christ to the best of their understanding.
No, there is not correct keyboard
After a long search and testing a lot from some considered as the best and much more, the point is here, no, nowadays, there is not correct keyboard.
Simple, correct design, correct keystroke, silent and backlight that just not exist.
Not sales. Marketing.
In today's world having someone push a new database for a hefty price is not going to work. I would need to be able to test it against mongo and decide myself that it is better... but how would I know it's even an option?
If Google is going to develop a crappy product, they will do it in-house thank-you-very-much.
Those aren't tricks. Rust does not choose the same defaults as C, and, among other things, statically links to the stdlib and jemalloc.

The tricks you describe are just changing the compile options to those that C uses by default.

on top of that you can apply the same tricks as C; e.g. by running strip, truncating the binary, writing a linker script, etc.
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But that's not fraud right? Just an app store guideline violation. Or a copyright violation.
I'm sure they'd rather you lose your car than their entire data center
To expand on this point, if you look at Linux development, multiple companies are contributing to the project! The product exists outside any single organisation.

Of course closed source products can also be collaborations, but open source + open development practices can make this a smooth and natural result.
This is like saying "the widget sells for $15 and the price is $2".

I assume you mean they have $2bn in annual revenue?
That's not how that system works
Why is there no "Pricing" section on their website? how were they making money? (if any)
Slava @ Rethink here.

The team at Stripe has been absolutely phenomenal throughout this process, they've gone above and beyond in finding high-impact projects for our team. We're brainstorming together how to transition RethinkDB to a self-sustaining open-source project, and Stripe is super-supportive of that too. If there is a way for RethinkDB to live on, we'll find it!
One of the big differences that RethinkDB has going for it is that its connections are based on coroutines, so it's really efficient to have thousands of open connections. Postgres uses one process per connection, so it's much harder to scale.
They're not, but the demographic they need to appeal to is, and it's not clear how to sell people on capitalism in an age of diminishing labor requirements. Capitalism as we know it is almost over; there is no rational reason for people to starve while a tiny minority accumulates all the capital. History tells us that once enough people figure out that they've got no prospects they'll gang up on the elite, kill them, and attempt to redistribute the spoils.

I'm not being hyperbolic, I expect western-style democracy to collapse within the next 10-20 years.
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Hah, me too. Also yank-then-undo instead of finding out how to actually select and copy text.

Meh whatever, it works, and the amount of time I spend in vim these days is so minimal that I doubt it's worth it to retrain.
Yes. Enterprise companies are paying for it many you would know e.g. eBay, LinkedIn, Adobe etc.

In Big Data specifically when we are spending tens of millions on Hadoop/Spark/NVidia clusters buying a few extra licenses for MongoDB is nothing. And what makes Big Data even more compelling for database vendors is that often by law or for privacy reasons we are forced to run everything inhouse i.e. strictly no cloud.
Key pairs are not like passwords. Nevertheless it is possible to migrate encryption keys.
> As the value of employment declines, it is unsurprising that fewer people choose to work

That doesn't follow at all. The value of employment was dramatically lower in 1880 or 1910 than it is today. The value proposition was much worse for the worker, in regards to the harshness of the work, the compensation, and the worker protection laws (near complete lack thereof). You can now purchase a far greater standard of living with far easier work and far fewer hours worked. The difference is that there was zero social safety net a century ago. If you didn't work back then, the suffering was dramatically greater and it would increase your mortality rate astronomically. Today if I choose not to work, I can get free food, free healthcare, free or near-free shelter, and numerous other benefits. A debate can certainly be had about the extent of those benefits. However having grown up in one of the poorest regions in the US, I knew plenty of families that existed solely based on welfare programs and never worked, they were masters at gaming the welfare state. Today millions of people are faking disability to leech off of SS disability. Such things simply did not exist previously, you either worked or else suffered immensely.
Right. My point was more that being open source in its own isn't always enough. Having a company behind it makes a difference to many people - more than the distinction between open vs closed.

I was able to sell our company on Cassandra because there is a Datastax there to support it when the shit hits the fan.
> I could not possibly disagree with this quote more. Ctrl+[ is WAY more uncomfortable than using the Escape key.

Did you try it with one hand or two. I do it by using my left pinky on the ctrl key and my right pinky on the [ key. In general, I've always tried to stick with the touch typing convention where you use the modifier key on the opposite side of the keyboard relative to the key you press.

For example, I will always press the left shift key for capitalizing I and the right shift key to capitalize A (and similarly with the alt or ctrl keys). It's more ergonomic, IMO (and also the reason I dislike keyboards that are missing modifier keys on one side of the keyboard).
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Is there a firm line between sales and marketing these days? Is sales just the high-touch end of the marketing continuum?
The work is still fiction and the characters described in the work become less and less helpful over time as it becomes difficult to try to fit them into the context of today's society. This becomes more true the further you get from the time the novel was written and it is this lens of time passed which allows us, as a society, to filter out many of the mediocre ideas that are no longer helpful and hold onto the works that are more fundamental.

So yes, time matters as does the context in which the works were written. The world itself has become more integrated and capital much more mobile and the role of government is also less clearcut than it was in the middle of the 20th century. Many of the dangers of overreach in government that the writer was worried about have been reduced but at the same time new dangers, including those of global corporations overreaching into our daily lives, have increased.

TL;DR: Snowcrash is probably more helpful to understanding this story than Atlas Shrugged.