skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not entirely to sure if I understand your comment, however, what I mean is;

The company behind MongoDB is a database company so they probably have some sort of affinity and appreciation for a product like RethinkDB, and, they are commercially successful (or at least, it appears to be that way).

Just because, hypothetically, MongoDB could be a custodian for RethinkDB don't mean that all of a sudden RethinkDB becomes MongoDB.

As Paul pointed out, both solutions seem to be two different products covering two different use cases and audiences and from what I can imagine, they might actually complement each other.
The documents were edited, to what extent/purpose it is unknown.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36913000

http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/06/guccifer-leak-of-dnc...

The emails released in 2013 also show some signs of tampering, there were incidents of duplicate headers and the times of some of the emails were strange (mostly related to Benghazi ironically) this was a copy paste error but again no one knows to what extent the "content" if and was tampered with.
Here we go again.. Just like the post in Github ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12558053 ) some people are so hatefull on companies because they had some bad press ( github vs gitlab ( github didn't do anything new for a long time and then gitlab came in) and the past of Microsoft vs linux.

For all the haters here below, who "actually" blame one developer, who shares his code ( because he posts a project) and he hasn't got another contribution on his new account...

Let me remind you, Microsoft is the #1 contributer on Github now, topping Google and Facebook together. https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/09/15/2255241/microsoft-h...

Please, now let's go back to IoT and ontopic. Too bad i don't know a lot of IoT on Azure, but i have viewed some projects about IoT of Microsoft on Hackster, their project page: https://www.hackster.io/microsoft/products/microsoft-azure

Thanks dluc for sharing, i hope i have topic worthy stuff to contribute next time ;) - one point of discussion would be to link to the project page instead next time - https://github.com/azure/toketi-iothubreact or https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/developer-s-introduct..., it would probably fuse some less discussion - we like code :p
Of course. A view he is entitled to like any other citizen with political opinions.

As you probably know Peter Thiel is a partner of Ycombinator.

https://blog.ycombinator.com/welcome-peter

In the article link you provided:

> Trump does have the support of one of Silicon Valley's biggest names: Peter Thiel, cofounder of PayPal and Palantir.

And sama says:

> On a personal note, Peter is one of the two people (along with PG) who has taught me the most about how to invest in startups.

So it is possible for people with different politics to work together. In fact I thought that was the whole point of diversity, that it was represented intellectually instead of having just a phenotype of diversity.

Personally I do not believe intellectual diversity is spread equally across all people. Many people look different to each other but exhibit evidence they are the same person because they hold so many views in common with each other. If you meet people who watch television all day you know it is true. Their minds are in sync with that of the hive. They ask the same questions and seek the same answers. That is the essence of tribalism, which is fine in competition or conflict but disadvantageous if you're searching for flaws in something, trying to found a new business model or find an untapped market segment, because that is where it makes more sense to think like a cross-pollinator.

I don't think it is a coincidence that Silicon Valley personalities are drawn to contrarianism. This is probably the biggest reason I don't like social justice people. I don't believe they are capable of being innovators. Their personality mitigates against it. I think they are masquerading as something they are not. I can think of many software projects and I'm sure you can too, in which there is a vocal minority with political opinions that sank the enterprise. The number of lines of code contributed by such people is typically either zero, low or of no real importance.

I think if you look at this upsidedown what I'm saying is obvious. Imagine you had programmers giving each other 'brofist' all the time and breaking into impromptu song 'Onward Christian Soldiers', handing each other leaflets bemoaning the local abortion clinic, maybe trying to get former army buddies onto the board...
(warning, violent imagery)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwQTsCiguHc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%9...

He doesn't move or make a single sound as he's being burned alive. Sure, it's anecdotal, but it certainly seems like there's something to meditation that strengthens conscious control over the body.
Silkworms that eat carbon nanotubes and graphene spin tougher silk
The previous comment was not directed towards the authors of this book.
Experimenting with education is what broke the system in the first place. We can't very well go back to how anything was in the 1960s because times have changed, but that's not to say those methods are completely broken.
Common core is a hideous atrocity that has been proven to hurt young children's minds and cause them to do things in redundant or roundabout ways. I've been experimented on throughout my school career - some of it good most of it bad.
Taking education out of its broken state is important, but breaking it more helps no one. Proceed carefully and think things through before possibly ruining the education and, by extension, their lives. Education is seriously important. It takes a lot of work to rewrite your brain after being taught wrong.
Google is using graph learning for representations of stuff where obtaining a huge, representative, "labeled" corpus is hard.

As many in the field can tell you, "labeling" genomes is hard, too. You can stick labels like "died at 39 of AVCR" or "had 5 primary tumors by age 28" or "insane multi-substance abuser with extra toes" on a person, but that doesn't really encapsulate all their traits. I claim that genome analysis is a great candidate for semi-supervised learning. Looks like Ben Paten already had that thought...

Haussler, Paten, McVean, and the usual suspects are working on a tractable graph representation to replace (say) hg39, i.e. instead of a new "reference genome", there should be thousands. This makes more sense when you look at how common structural variants (say, inversions) are, and then when you do something like ask Haussler at ASHG "how do we represent inversions in this thing?" you realize how fcking hard it really is to get it right.

McVean & co. made it work for the major histocompatibility complex, which immunologists can explain better than I can, but that's perhaps the most diverse bit of genome there is. It's riddled with ancient repeat element insertions and generally fascinating. It's also a source of Little Problems like organ transplant rejections, graft vs. host disease in stem cell transplants, maybe bits of schizophrenia and neurodegenerative disease... in short, if it can be done for the MHC, it's probably doable for the whole enchilada. It's not easy, though. In fact it's so difficult to get right that a sub-field of accurate HLA typing and immunotyping evolved in parallel to large-scale genome analysis, because it's really, really important not to fuck this up. So that's a note of caution from historical precedent.

Nonetheless, it turns out that your pals at Google spearheaded the effort to have a Hadoop-like "data lake" for genomes (sign up for the GA4GH mailing lists if you like to watch professors bikeshed an API, and occasionally produce incredible insights by accident). Maybe this is going to converge in an interesting way. It won't happen overnight, but it will happen, and the mathematicians will be vindicated.

* Seven Bridges is a little genomics company with a funny name. Unless you're familiar with Eulerian paths and the Seven Bridges of Konigsberg, in which case it's sort of obvious why they chose their name. Nice people, other than the patent, which infuriated most everyone else.
I stopped reading when I got to the "white privilege" part.
What metric do you use to call Russia a superpower? Saudi Arabia has larger military budget than Russia. And compared to US, it is not even in the same order of magnitude.
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Reading between the lines here, I suspect there might be language in a buyout/severance agreement some of the employees are party to that might have sensitive terms, like anti-disparagement or other stuff, and they don't want to lose it.

More broadly, it pays to know your rights as an employee.

toomuchtodo and I both spend too much time on HN and I've gotten to know him a bit from his posts; I ascertain he's probably pretty far left of me, politically. I'm more of a stereotypical tech guy, left/center-moderate, but even I agree, employees have rights, and it pays to know yours. Your employer cannot fire you for bargaining collectively. Period. IANAL, but my understanding is that the FLSA specifically protects what you're doing now, and you might even be able to file a wrongful termination suit if they act on it. It also means the language in whatever agreement you have might not be enforceable.

I grew up in Chicago and know union excesses well. But whatever your ideology, it pays to know a bit about the law, and what you can and can't do.

[1] https://www.dol.gov/Olms/regs/compliance/EmployeeRightsPoste...
Why You Should Teach Non-Engineers to Program
Flagging is more than enough to take care of these kinds of posts. That's exactly what the feature is meant to do.

Substantial, well reasoned posts that you simply disagree with deserve an equally substantial response, not a knee-jerk click on a censor button.
I wish Assange would bow out and stop making WikiLeaks about himself.
I haven't seen any comments that I would classify as coaching. Instead they seem to be simple critiques.

"Overall, this image is good, but it could be great." https://keegan.regaind.io/p/whFZsOsRRfG4sRBGCDiA7g

"The blur and the subject together, so good. " https://keegan.regaind.io/p/HopS2XrnSmGhXiMg6AFoLA

"This is a solid image."
https://keegan.regaind.io/p/USKPgJgfRE-h_n7rh2QnHg

"So simple, but so good"
https://keegan.regaind.io/p/xbQHksWyRsOPWhW3hhs6RA

Don't get me wrong, I think this is pretty cool, but there is no real actionable feedback, so there unless you can guess as to what triggers the higher scores, there isn't much coaching, so much as "gaming" the AI.
Do it a few times (or more) and then report back. That's when we'll want to know :)
Actually I currently believe that the downvote should be split into three different votes:

1) Disagree. Just shows disagreement. Doesn't affect comment sort order.

2) Bury. So one can move "Me too" and "Thanks" comments downwards. Ignored if there are any like votes (so people cannot use the Bury vote to censor others).

3) Unwanted. Only available to trusted core members & staff. The Unwanted vote reduces the post author's karma, & moves the post downwards. It is used to shape the contents & nature of the forum: via the Unwanted vote, the staff can create an echo chamber, if they want to. Or an open-ended tolerant forum, if they want to.

(I wrote a bit more about that here, a few days ago: https://www.effectivediscussions.org/-33/the-like-3-down-com... — I've actually implemented these 3 votes (Disagree, Bury, Unwanted) already :- P )
Slack – L2 Edition
Doing a lot of switching between keyboard and mouse will slow you down, IMHO. But that's just me. You're free to have your opinion.

But as I've asked elsewhere, does acme have the ability to send text to an external repl on systems other than plan9 (a continuously running one, not a freshly-spawned one), preferably one running in another terminal window? Does it have indentation for Lisp? does it have syntax highlighting (not necessary, but handy)? does it have colorscheme customization (you'd be surprised how many programs generate illegible text in white-on-black terminals, and I've become quite fond of Solarized)? Can it look up documentation for the functions I'm using (very handy at times)?

I've got the tools I'm used to, and they provide things that Acme never will for me. Maybe I'm not experiencing ultimate Unix Philosophy Zen. Maybe using the mouse is a bit more efficient. But at the end of the day, I'm here to edit text, and Emacs works in my environment, and has some pretty good tools for that.
Hopefully all tools solve real problems, but JS right now has too much 'throw-out-everything-you-know' re-implementations of too many ideas at the same time. As the post suggests, this manifests as incompatible implementations where previous experience with one tool does not translate to familiarity with the problem domain.

There's also not enough genuinely helpful meta-information to go around, as single-tool how-to and quickstart guides dominate, and most discourse about pros and cons doesn't address deep, foundational concerns. Some counter-examples are the Redux Prior Art page [1] and the Mithril comparison page [2] that go into detail about how their architectural decisions and dataflow differs from that of other, similar frameworks.

But what this post doesn't address is why additional new tools proliferate. It seems to both defend tools as legitimate, but yet admit that all of them suck bad enough that new ones are constantly coming out. So what's the way out?

[1] http://redux.js.org/docs/introduction/PriorArt.html

[2] http://mithril.js.org/comparison.html
It's a game about programming simple hardware with a simple assembly language. It's made by the grandfather of Minecraft. All Zachtronics games are amazingly engrossing. Infinifactory is my 2nd favorite game of all time.
Tom Lehrer: New Math https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfCJgC2zezw
I'm trying to address the issue without relying on how well given studies replicated, since that's a bit of a minefield in general. A lot of the principles in the parent are much older than the studies. While it would be really great to have solid studies that would confirm one or the other position, it doesn't seem like they exist, so I'm addressing it on a more philosophical level.
My goodness, so what you are saying is that Burning Man is ruining Burning Man?

Someone really should stop Burning Man from participating. I mean, someone needs to stop Burning Man from being destroyed and what better way of doing this than by stopping Burning Man itself?
I like this idea. Especially if it takes a random sample of what was submitted in the last N minutes.

There could be a little banner saying "Do you think any of the below are better than what's currently on the front page?" or similar.
Paul Erdős: a life that added up to something (1996)
No one seems to understand this. There is a large number of people in a CS college program that don't belong there. They had no interest in anything CS before they got there and they only enrolled because someone told them there was a lot of money in it.

Turns out you still actually have to be good at whatever you do.
ipnon was probably talking about the cal command in the body of the message.
Pure unregulated capitalism (which America is very much not) is Darwinian in how similar to natural selection. In natural selection the top of the food chain sometimes die off, but in general I agree with the GP poster.
https://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/3zu3ls/failures_in_...
I'm not a good representative of public discourse. I've read Richard Stallman's blog for over fifteen years.

What you're talking about with hardware is exactly my point. We're talking about encryption, which I'm sure you support for individuals. Public Key Encryption is great for when you want to send a secret message to someone you trust to keep it secret. But what if you don't trust them? You have to convince them to trust you to have some control over their system, even if in a jail or a restricted VM. DRM is sender-controlled encryption employed by software.

So what happens if you tell the sender you refuse to run software you don't control and they still don't trust you? Their only other option is to convince you to use hardware they control. So rejecting broadcaster-controlled software might just lead to a demand for more broadcaster-controlled hardware. It's been done for years, but now we're moving from a full hardware solution to a more software-based solution, something you can contain and easily run with whatever restrictions you want.

I'm not saying it's good, but I'm not saying it's definitely not progress either.
The problem with that for cable systems is that you don't have a private circuit. You and all your neighbors are sharing a circuit. So I'm not sure how you'd lease that a house by house basis.

Telecoms have individual circuits going to each house that can be leased. The problem is that the majority of those need massive upgrades to go beyond adsl speeds.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
I think you have confused engineering for research. Engineering is not anything like you have described. I went to school for aerospace engineering.
5 Hidden Features You Didn't Know About in iOS 10
I looked into cognitive skills on and off for some time. I started writing something to sythesize my knowledge about it and share it but I didn't as you can see (from the time management chapter, you see where the problem lies):

https://github.com/jhadjar/Notes/blob/master/Cognitive%20Ski...

From problem solving to deliberate practice, meta-cognition. etc. Long-term potentiation is one of the concepts that blew my mind the most. Following the process down to the neural and ion level (as in how sodium, calcium and magnesium ions are involved), I learned amazing things.

Here's a sweet Long-Term Potentiation video describing what happens:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vso9jgfpI_c

I recently put a few things in that repo and add to it from time to time instead of "wanting to do one big thing".
Donald Trump Makes History With Zero Major Newspaper Endorsements

Historical & Groundbreaking Endorsements Compiled:

The Chicago Tribune endorsed a Non-Republican for only the 2nd time in 163-years by supporting Johnson

The Atlantic endorsed a Presidential candidate for only the 3rd time in 159-years by supporting Clinton

The San Diego Union-Tribune endorsed a Democrat for the 1st time in 148-years by supporting Clinton

Detroit News endorsed a Non-Republican for the 1st time in 143-years by supporting Johnson

The Arizona Republic endorsed a Democrat for the 1st time in 126-years by supporting Clinton

Philadelphia endorsed a Presidential candidate for the 1st time in 108-years by supporting Clinton

The New Hampshire Union Leader endorsed a Non-Republican for the 1st time in 100+ years by supporting Johnson

The Cincinnati Enquirer endorsed a Democrat for the 1st time in 100+ years by supporting Clinton

The Desert Sun endorsed a Democrat for the 1st time in 90-years by supporting Clinton

The Dallas Morning News endorsed a Democrat for the 1st time in 76-years by supporting Clinton

The Tulsa World refused to endorse a Republican or Presidential Candidate for the 1st time in 72-years

The Houston Chronicle endorsed a Democrat for only the 3rd time in 70-years by supporting Clinton

The Richmond-Times Dispatch endorsed a Non-Republican for the 1st time in 36-years by supporting Johnson

USA Today gave a endorsement/non-endorsement for the 1st time in 34-years by opposing Trump

The Dallas Voice endorsed a Presidential candidate for the 1st time in 32-years by supporting Clinton

Wired endorsed a Presidential candidate for the 1st time in 25-years by supporting Clinton

http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/the-wrap/article/Donald-...

so everyone is stupid in your opinion?
I loathe Comcast/Xfinity with a passion. My bill went from $129 a month (internet/tv) to $240 a month starting in Sept. This 1TB internet cap is complete nonsense.

I don't understand why they just can't run their business responsibly and not try to screw and scam their customers.
Yeah. I'd like some clarity on what they mean by "digital skills".
It took a 30 minute phone call just for them to flip the switch that starts charging me an extra $50/mo. Followed by another 20 minute call to get my plan price reduced with a promotional rate.

At least the 2nd rep was nice and told me to call back in the 2nd week of Nov for even more discounted special offers.
What about after one has made up one's mind, though? Then it could be interesting to compare what one think oneself, with what others think. Then, when one wants to do that, one could click the show-how-other-people-have-voted button, to find out.
It isn't that you didn't think it completely through, just that there are a lot of variables that go into any hiring or tech decision. Take this for instance (but it generalizes to many others): does the DB reduce your need for developers? does it open new market segments? does it reduce your need for developers? does it open new areas to target?

Startups are hard (Ive failed a couple times and had it work a couple times - definitely not always through my own effort).

My current view on this is that RethikDB didn't rethink enough They solved a probabem without much money involved and too small. They might be great devs, but just diidn't solve a prolblem that needed to be solved.
I suggest reading Thomas Piketty's book "capitalism in the 21st century".

One of Piketty's points is the relationship between the rate of growth of the economy, `g`, and the rate of return on capital, `r`. If the rate of return of capital exceeds the rate of growth of the economy, that is `r > g`, then inequality of wealth increases over time. As they say, "the rich get richer".

These conditions (`r>g`) have been observed from historical data under normal conditions (excluding events like world wars), and we expect them to continue into the future, particularly with projections of declining or stabilising global economic growth rates [1].

The period after the two world wars (with relatively high equality) is unusual in history and over we're seeing inequality of wealth increase, inherited capital becoming an increasingly relevant factor, etc.

[1] let's ignore the other perspective of whether continual economic growth is actually feasible or desirable given the reality of hard environmental limits.
So, except for good expensive movies, good indie budget movies and good middle budget movies all movies are crap?

That's sounding a little bit like Sturgeon's law.
>reasonable default governance framework

Why do you need one?

What will happen if you just build a community around github (especially an Apache-licensed project which doesn't have licencing enforcement issues found in copyleft code)
It recognizes food!
https://keegan.regaind.io/p/An6jvK-mQxOS-z8bIg8bwQ
I'm sure he appreciates your constructive criticism.
StreamFlow
You are the one who is confused. Something doesn't have to be difficult to have meaning.
Overhead is different from human perspective.
Seriously? Every point within 10km of earth's surface? The link I posted maintains that this kind of information will be available in real time--that introduces the key factor of how often you need to revisit this infinite number of vantage points.

I'm almost 40, I guess it's time to leave HN and hang out with old folks with some sense.
The "watch" links let you watch the actual battle simulation results in a really old viewing engine written almost 6+ years ago in Adobe Air. It was amazing at the time since you didn't have to install the full Java client just to view the matches.

The devs probably have their hands full implementing the actual game -- pretty sure no one has had time to port the codebase to something more modern. The competition organizers are primarily MIT students doing this in their spare time, so they have classwork and other things to deal with as well. :)