skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i'm a little skeptical this is the right approach...

everytime i've encountered a problem that someone couldn't resolve with apple over the phone, i've managed to resolve it by phoning them.

i wonder how much effort the developer really made, and how he talked to the people he dealt with. my experience of apple, and infact most customer service is that if you are nice and sympathetic and explain thoroughly the nature of the problem, then people will do their best to resolve it.
I totally agree with this. It would also drastically reduce their need for advertising infrastructure. Or: offer an ad-free experience for $, and an ad-based one for free.

I wish more sites would do this. IBM does it through the Weather Underground site and I subscribe.
I still remember the days of C64 and the 640kb limitation in DOS. What we got was first optimization then full on hacks and mostly assembly language.

To use a tool and give up on size really doesn't bother me. I rather have elegant solutions then full on hackery or difficult memory management type solutions.
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orchestrating a long campaign of harassment

It's actually possible for independent people to all hate the new Ghostbusters film. It doesn't require orchestration to have taste.
>I like systemd and it has helped Linux advance. init was a mess and no one still has come with a golden response that shows the world how anything would be better then systemd.

Just boot the system and hand it off to a service manager that handles unit files. That was a nice idea. Everything else that came after with tight coupling to systemd was not.
Try the "Services" section. As far as I know they only offered commercial support and training. I'm not sure whether they also had a "dual licensing" model (i.e. allowing customers to give them money to get a copy of RethinkDB with a proprietary license instead of AGPL) but it's certainly not mentioned on the website.
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Want to see something totally common: google image search for the address:

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=4%20harvard%20road%...
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What's misleading or fraudulent about those ads? Maybe you mean "morally reprehensible," in which case I ask where you draw the line between the morally reprehensible (auctioning off the method of suicide to a depressed person) and the morally questionable (say, auctioning off the final bankrupting car purchase to a financially irresponsible person)?
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Same way as Youtube.
1. Make advertising massively more efficient by using adwords
2. Cut IT costs dramatically by leveraging existing infrastructure and knowledge
3. Make search more effective to increase user engagement
4. Continue to use Twitter's firehose to improve Google search results about new items and therefore drive revenue to Google's flagship product (they have an agreement in place with Twitter to do since 2015 so but if MSFT buys TWTR that's not going to last and suddenly Bing gets an advantage in generating relevant search results on rapidly emerging issues).
Where are you getting that from? I don't see that passage in the original article and if I google for it, the only hit is your Hacker News comment.
Neo Nazis work for the Clintons?
Seems she made a literal black box.
Don't have enought time to click through all. How does it end for Ms. Green? Does she fail the class?
The interface reminded me very strongly of Tweetdeck.
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In Facebook I can open addresses in Google maps.
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Well, even in US there are antitrust laws, right?
Can it run off Power over Ethernet? That would be interesting.
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As I understand it, running a SaaS business is a huge undertaking in itself, so doing that while maintaining an open source database can be daunting and -- like any business -- risky.
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Using the term SJW needs to stop. It's the next spell of mockery of legitimate causes. Before the mockering of social justice there was (and continues to be) a mockery of feminism online.

Sure you can point to the idiotic extremes of "social justice" and feminism but it in my opinion the way it's used is really hurting the perception of the broader and more moderate causes which are really important. I can't help but feel the proponents of these slurs are mainly young white males who are apparently incapable of empathising with problems they can't identify with.

Social Justice and Feminism are both extremely important topics.
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A github like is a star. Or is there something I've misunderstood?
The key point is the admission that a "private blockchain" is not a blockchain at all, it's just a shared ledger with a Merkle tree. The only purpose of the word "blockchain" would be buzzword compliance.
I would argue this is done more as a psychological status symbol. If goods such as furniture and appliances are so cheap that your "average joe" can buy the latest appliance on a whim, the symbolism becomes diluted and your friends will be less inclined to make frequent purchases for these items. They will seek out new status symbols.
Large internet services do not form natural monopoplies. Amazon has New egg, ebay, walmart, plus a million new ones trying to overthrow them. The local cable company only has the local Phone company.
This thread went from 2nd most voted to killed immediately. dang, what can you tell us about this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12651429 (you need showdead=yes in your profile to see it)
Pieter Hintjens is a huge inspiration to me, even though I've never met him in person. I have yet to find a statement of his that I don't agree with. He writes technical documentation in a no-bullshit way that is very easy to read and understand. You really feel smarter after going through his writings.

His life-long accomplishments in building open source community and ZeroMQ legacy is impressive.

It was really painful to read his blogs for last few months, especially the Fighting Cancer piece (http://hintjens.com/blog:123). I'm sad to see him gone.
> This is why the key product should be open-source. Else it's too scary to invest in it: what if the company behind it folds, and you end up in a dead end?

The way this is dealt with for closed-source software is source-code escrow. The support contracts stipulate that the company that built the software set aside the code with some stable third party, and that it be available under specified conditions, such as the builders going out of business.

It's not as good as having the source freely available, but then it's dealing with an extreme contingency, anyway. Very, very few users of a piece of software have the expertise to build it from source and then debug it if they run into problems. So they're probably screwed either way if the builders go belly up.

> Only certain super-behemoths like Microsoft or Apple can afford to have their infrastructure products being closed-source.

The alternative is to buy truly critical software only from companies you trust a lot. XYZ Valley Startup is unlikely to be around in 20 years, but Oracle almost certainly will, as will Microsoft.
How could that be worse than doing business in an environment of dominant platforms that will arbitrarily shut you down whenever the business they lose to a false positive (i.e. none, because the business just moves to the next guy) is cheaper than the investigation that would avoid the false positive?
Not that it cannot be done. Acer is a prime example of an OEM turning into a full blown brand name. HTC seems to be focusing on too many thing and for the last ten years have been feeling like they were missing something to match the line up of other phone manufacturers.
To be honest, I'm really impressed with what Uber has accomplished so far. As a Pittsburgh native, I can attest to the fact that urban planning seems to be total afterthought here. The number of five-way intersections, weird stoplight patterns, irregular turning lanes, and stop signs on onramps (shudder) are enough to make driving here a challenge for the average human, let alone the average robot.

Driving the wrong way down a one way is, admittedly, bad, but the backup driver clearly should have been paying more attention - in fact, Uber may not have info about that incident because the driver may not have wanted to admit s/he messed up. As for the fender-bender, it seemed to be the fault of another driver.
I can only recommend what are the most reputed source in Physics nothing more.
These are as following:

Physical Review (http://journals.aps.org/)

Nature (http://www.nature.com/)

IOP Journal of Physics (http://iopscience.iop.org/)

Physics Today (www.physicstoday.org)

First step should be to read review articles and see the trend by looking at number of citations of linked articles before you go in more depth. Google Scholar can be of great help in this regard. Anyway, if you are in the physics community you will who deserve your attention.

To find the books, you can follow Nature. They review new books every week. For example this week's book recommendation can be found here.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v537/n7618/full/537033a...

I hope it helps.
Frankly, you get most of the claimed benefits of blockchains by just putting the transactions in git, which is very fast and efficient, and there's a ton of tooling relating to copying git repos around and using the hashes in them and so forth. And doesn't use as much power as Ireland.
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While joining Google is probably the last thing I want to do, this is a perfect resource for someone who hasn't had a formal education in computer science.
On Desktop and servers I had to reluctantly use systemd as-is, no time to replace it basically. never enjoyed it really.

On embedded linux I make, I use everything else but systemd.

I still worry that over time systemd will be integrated so deeply into linux that it will be impossible to remove and also leave no chances for alternatives and if its monolithic approach will be wrong then it will be too late.

Or maybe systemd wants to be everything, to make even linux obsolete
Presumably because FB went out of their way to implement that. I wonder if they can detect that G Maps is installed, or if that option is always offered. Either way, I can say that many other apps (eg. Yelp) do not have this option.
So what can we count on?

In a tile based CPU error topology matters. A string of broken cores or a broken core at the edges is likely worse than a broken core with all 4 (or 8?) neighbors working.
The insurance industry is Ripe for reform--political, and business reform.

I've noticed a few start-ups trying to shake up the system, but there's rooms for so much more competition/innovation.

I'm talking about all forms of insurance--car, home, life, business, heirloom, etc. (I have only felt like I wasen't getting reamed with insurance premiums by one company. It's a well know company that insures collectable vechicles.)

Home insurance is for all practical porposes useless, but we still pay huge premiums. Now--they are using the drought in CA to triple insurance rates in parts of this state. Why--not because of risk analysis--just because they can.

Your house practically needs to burn to the ground in order to see any money from these "Good ole boys", and they will fight you at every turn.

They have been ripping us all off for years.

With vehicle insurance, don't fall for the six month premium--Esurance.

Don't just get into the habit of paying that ever increasing bill because you see "good driver discount", or "long term customer discount".

I have never had an insurance premium go down with the same company, and I've been insured since I was 15.5 years old. They go up slightly, even with a good driving record, and no change in risk level.

I am so disgusted with California auto insurance rates; I wouldn't mind seeing mandatory insurance nixed.

The insurance companies lobbied hard for that bill. It made sence at the time, but Insurance industry did what they do best; abuse it for their benefit.
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I think that a characteristic of ruderalis is that it's autoflowering. All other types are dependent on photoperiod to induce flowering of the plant. Ruderalis varieties usually flower after x days from germination.
Java at least should be backward compatible. I have had no problem updating to a new java version (and this is with big codebases)

I have also never had a problem finding a library version (Assuming java has one) that would work with my java version whereas with Python that is one of the main problems all the time.
Personally, I would have been ecstatic to see systemd if it hadn't have been tied directly to GNOME and thereby installed by every distribution that wanted to include GNOME. My main gripe with systemd is that every other system the main author of systemd has written has made my computer inoperable time and time again. I would have liked to have a choice of using systemd or waiting until I saw it become mature enough that I trusted it.

I just didn't want to be forced to use it in case history repeated itself. Opting out of systemd is ridiculously difficult due to that GNOME tie-in. It's one of the most important parts of my system.

I still would prefer not to have systemd, but I will admit that it works reasonably well for my purposes. I'm pretty upset about how it all went down, but that's life in the fast lane I guess. Where are the days when everybody ignored Linux? I should move to BSD ;-)
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I don’t want to get into the whole conspiracy thing here, so I’ll just point out that you’re saying he’s the 5th or 6th famous vocal Trump supporter banned, but you only listed two other people, one of whom (Yiannopoulos) is kind of well known for hate and was explicitly banned for it, not shadowbanned.
And, ironically, the same people _enabling_ these companies by building all their tech are right here on HN!
Sure, this is all fine when things work correctly. So far, I actually agree with you.

But once in a while something in the long chain of dependencies fails and after days of debugging you start thinking you should just have downloaded the *.jar files and copied them to libs/ manually.

I think people (in general and not only limited to software development) should strive to minimize dependencies. Otherwise things like this can happen: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11340510
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I once really wanted to work for Google, but after my in person interviews I realized I would never fit in. I was instantly judged for my soft Midwestern accent and dress shirts, while the guy in skinny jeans and explained to me that Java's HashMap.get() was not 0(1) and asked if I was taught that in my non-Stanford education. (It is btw, feel free to analyze the implementation)

For a place that claims to be culturally diverse, I realized there was a hidden list of acceptable cultures, and mine was not one of them. I politely declined the offer and decided to stay a bit closer to home.
I'm a fan of Epoch[1], though I don't have it on anything in production right now. On my laptop I use GNU Shepherd[2], because it's what comes with GUIX SD.

On my servers I do what I've done for about 2 decades now: I ditch whatever init crap my distribution came with and write a single sh rc script that mounts stuff, starts whatever services I want started, and starts getty.

[1]: http://universe2.us/epoch.html

[2]: https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/
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Hmm.. what you said is more in line with the reviews I have seen. Maybe the other posters confuse 5x with the good old 5?
> I'd say the core skill of politicians is to get elected.

In the US, this could easily be mitigated with shorter campaign cycles.
The system is not the problem. It's the solicitation.
Electron does a bit more than that (full-blown nodejs in background), which of course only increases the footprint. But apart from the final binary size, it's an okay-ish development to work with. Especially for rapid prototyping.

(Disclaimer, shameless self plug: I wrote a blog article on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12651601 )
This is a hot-button topic, which generates much heat. Most men (>80%) will have prostate cancer by the time they reach age 80 (ie, would be detected if their entire prostate was examined histologically (which is, you may surmise, not generally done). About 13% of men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during their lifetime. About 2.9% of men will die because of prostate cancer.

Does anybody see the problem? Most men who will have prostate cancer develop will not die because of prostate cancer, but from something else -- and many of these men (most, actually) will have no idea they have or had prostate cancer ---> unless somebody goes looking for it.

A randomized controlled trial of prostate cancer detection using PSA was done in the US (sponsored by the NIH). It did not find any difference in the survival curves in men who were randomly assigned to PSA screening compared to those who were not so assigned. The trial has been criticised.

Obviously any man who had prostate cancer found through PSA testing and was treated and does not die from prostate cancer will be very happy, and convinced that the screening saved their life. But the actual RCT data is more complex, and PSA screening may simply be generating more "business" for urologists and radiation therapists, without providing real medical benefit.

Note that there are similar questions about another hot-button cancer screening topic, mammograms. But that is another chapter!
NOT CROSS PLATFORM

Linux User Here. (I am actually an OpenSUE and Arch user) when you think providing an Ubuntu solution https://www.typora.io/#linux and have

sudo add-apt-repository 'deb https://typora.io linux/'

this does not make this a Linux platform solution. Currently I think

1) Provide a RPM and a DEB

2) Provide a tar ball of the source so it can be compiled

3) Using a Linux application installer like flatpak, appimage or snap would also make it acceptable to me instead of RPM/DEB

Thank you for your work but being on Linux isn't simple and I don't think it is accurate to say cross compatible on Linux when all we got is a deb. Hope that in the next 3 years it gets easier.

The best solution I believe for providing packages for multiple of distribution is SUSE Build Services https://build.opensuse.org/. It provides the ability to build once and SUSE build solution will make packages for other distros. So it will make a deb, rpm and you could even have a package for Arch.

https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_Tutorial
Further to this, here's a very simple application of a Kalman filter which plots a graph (in Python):

https://github.com/dougszumski/KalmanFilter
Please explain how:

a) systemd violates "the UNIX philosophy".

b) "the UNIX philosophy" applies to long-running processes.

UNIX daemons have existed for a long time, and they have never been as single-purposed as the shell utilities; so arguably "the UNIX philosophy" doesn't have anything to say about daemons. Secondly, systemd's PID1 has basically only as much functionality in it as makes sense. If they move that functionality to another daemon, it'll be worse.
Not really. It implies that the owner no longer has faith in Samsung products and has switched, so I'd say it's relevant. They could have said that he replaced it with "another brand," which would have been more appropriate, but I still think it's relevant.
I simply do not see it. There is no comments link or button in the original article and your link above gets me the same Q&A but there is nothing like the passage you've quoted.

I even looked at the page source. I've turned off all privacy protection in my browser. I'm using Firefox from a desktop. I am not logged into Quora. Are you doing something different? (Mobile version? Logged into Quora?)
Do they have 4k developers or 4k employees?
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The init system itself is more or less the same as it was a couple years ago. They have, however, written other daemons which are maintained in the same repository. All except two of them are optional.

For example, systemd-timesyncd (controlled with timedatectl) is an excellent NTP system, and after it's been stable for a few years I'll use it with public NTP servers. It takes just one command to get up and running and it keeps your clocks synchronized, what's not to like?
I use systemd to manage the (sort-of) microservices for some web app projects I've done. To me, the unit files are simple and even beautiful compared to the big pain that init scripts used to be.

Those old init scripts weren't simple - to do anything useful you had to copy and paste a whole heap of sh boilerplate...
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The University of Toronto owns both the domains toronto.edu and utoronto.ca. Some sub-sites work on both domains, and some don't. Apparently they misconfigured their servers so that they are using the toronto.edu certificate on a utoronto.ca site.
It seems that unfortunately RethinkDB the company was architected in such a way that the success of their product, in terms of performance and developer experience, led to a decrease in revenue.

This shutdown therefore goes a long way to say how talented and ethically correct the team was, something extremely evident in how they put correctness and reliability in front of performance.

In short, RethinkDB is a very solid piece of software that does well where (many) other NoSQLs fall short, that is:

* easy HA and automatic failover
* easy auto sharding
* rational query language
* ease of administration and awareness (webUI)
* realtime capabilities
* perform well on the Jepsen test!

Now, what could have they done differently to stay afloat?
What avenues do we have to fund fund such great projects, whose point is being OSS?
(I mean, one of the selling points of RethinkDB is that one can trust it in this land of NoSQLs that promise but don't deliver, and this is in part thanks to their open development processes)
It totally is, and the computers they use should not have working USB ports on them.
Shorting a stock this volatile is an insane idea imo. You could wake up tomorrow and Microsoft decided to put a bid on Twtr and the stock prices gaps up so hard you lose your shirt.

If you want to short something like this, take a look at put options instead as your liability is explicit.
>I saw a psychic.

I'm so anti quackery I can't follow the rest of the story, sorry.
So? All statements of the form "I want .. " are emotional. It's the only sensible way to reason about what you want. There's no "rational" set of preferences that people are obliged to have.
10 cent query on Mechanical Turk?
That's 2D only, though.
Or they just got their first flagship and went with the most expensive one because the monthly cost didn't seem that large. I don't buy that most phone owners know the phone they own, but I could definitely see non-phone enthusiasts ending up with Note 7s