skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why shouldn't the US begin very aggressively promoting its own domestic corporations, directly, at the expense of foreign companies as well then? Using all means available to the US Government to do so.

Nobody here that is saying it's great for China to protect its local ecosystem, will think it's ok for the US Government to do likewise and doing everything in its means to leverage its particular advantages in favor of companies.

How about the Fed set up a US manufacturing fund. Instantly create a trillion dollar sovereign fund out of thin air, to decimate or buy-up foreign manufacturing competition. Of course the Fed wouldn't be so obvious about it, you'd want other nations to be the frog getting boiled in the pot, you want them to go to sleep with assurances that it's nothing sinister. Next thing you know, Tesla is getting $100 billion in free capital to go after BMW and Mercedes with subsidized vehicles. Or maybe the US should start a state owned lithium enterprise and buy up all the lithium supply, and use the leverage in the Western Hemisphere, to block out all foreign access to lithium in South America. And leverage all of that into a huge benefit to domestic electric car production. China did the same thing with rare earth metals. Or how about Uber get a 0% loan from the Fed for $50 billion, to go after the rest of the world (examples intentionally exaggerated). Those are the sort of policies that China has in place right now across numerous major industries.
If you have three replicas, who cares if one fails? Just wait for it to fail and rereplicate from the survivors.
I can just speculate just as a user playing with RethinkDB (and having programing database SW from Tandem NonStop days) - for me, it seems like RethinkDB did not solve problem companies using databases and having money needs to be solved.

I think they needed to develop just one feature which cannot be done by Oracle and that is that.

The other problem could be that NoSQL hype just died out :(
You might be confusing sexuality and sexism.
saw this on producthunt, once it will be able to export as a GIF, I'll definitely use it more :)
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I grew up on a ranch.

Watched my dad slaughter cows, chickens, rabbits, goats... watched him put down old / injured horses, dogs, and cats. When I got old enough I helped.

Hardest time was killing and butchering a steer I had trained, and showed in 4H. I think I was like 12 at the time, but you work with an animal all summer... get it trained to follow you around and not pull on the halter... and then the reward is someone buys it to kill it. I ended up being vegetarian for a few years in high school after that.

Anyway my only point here was... nobody, and I mean nobody including the PETA activists, cares more about the animals than the ranchers who raised them. One time we were slaughtering a steer and the guy shooting the animal was a dumbass who shot the animal 3 times in the wrong places. Animal was angry, scared, hurt. Dad saw what was going on, jumped the fence as fast as he could, grabbed the gun from the guy, smacked him hard in the face with the gun handle, and then put the animal down as quickly as he could.

Dad then yelled at the hired man, using the harshest words I had ever heard at the time, and told him to get lost and never come back. Dad pulled out his wallet and threw some money on the ground to settled up with the man, then just turned his back on him. I'm pretty sure Dad broke the guy's nose, the amount of blood coming off his face was a pretty good indicator of how mad Dad was that he wouldn't show respect to the animal.

Similar time, we had been invited over to help a neighbor, and the neighbor's grown son was trying to put a steer down and mistakenly put bird shot in the shotgun instead of a slug -- Dad took the shotgun away from the man. Put the animal down quickly, and then Dad yelled at his neighbor (a man he had known for 20+ years) about what a dipshit his son was. We left and never talked to that neighbor again -- pretty harsh considering we only had about 5 neighbors within 20 miles of us.

Factory slaughter houses are different, but if you can buy meat from a local rancher who slaughtered the animal himself you can be fairly sure he did the job humanely.
Yeah but no. The problem is that absence of smart counters does in no way indicate good health of the device.
Agreed. Possibly a consequence of the ageism in our industry too.
Please keep petty patronizing comments, which literally add nothing to the conversation except the writer getting some obnoxious fake sense of helpfulness, about not talking about politics out of the reply section of comments which are making a joke.
It looks very cool. That said, When I looked a couple of weeks ago SearchKit was not yet compatiable with React v15. It also manages its own state making it slightly more challenging to integrate with anything like Redux.

https://github.com/searchkit/searchkit/issues/188
I'm an American Southerner, but unlike you I read and comprehend both English and history.

I love that you regurgitate trivialities such as "blacks sold other blacks as slaves". Tell us more! What else have you read in Remembering Better Times Quarterly? Perhaps next you'll suggest that some former slaves had some difficulties as sharecroppers?
I disagree on a wholesale "ban". There are some excellent Bloomberg pieces that dive into details correctly (particularly items by Matt Levine and Megan McArdle over at Bloomberg view).

But these shiny, infographic-like Bloomberg Businessweek features tend to be light and fluffy. Ugh.
when did the versioning for mysql change? After 5.7?
You are using high school math incorrectly which is what results in the many obvious contractions I have listed above.

In the unlikely event you are actually interested in the correct formulation, you start to find the answer here [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_utility#Quantified_ma...
Ah, cassette tapes. I remember learning the hard way that leaving one on top of the microwave could make it unreadable to the TRS80...
Well, I definitely won't be writing that article. I'm rather stubborn like that. :)
Project MINERVA.
"You have to pay money for the privilege of being an iOS developer. It’s not enough that Apple forces you to compile on an actual overpriced Apple computer or that you have to endure all these problems."

You don't have to pay money to use Xcode or the iOS SDK. This is whining. You are not forced to do anything. You can live a happy life not doing iOS development. One could say that you have to pay money to learn/do programming, period.
There are lot of similar type formulas. For larger deals you'd have some form of vender (seller) financing which is what the above really is. It's a type of loan from the seller. For smaller deals that are reasonably competitive you're going to probably have to do an all cash offer.

If you think you're in a good negotiating position or if you've got concerns about the business then a vender take back or an earn out or both should definitely be on the table. It never hurts to ask ;).
The technical issues were discussed months ago when they surfaced, they're not something that happened last week or even last month. I'm 100% certain that the trigger for this article's publication is political disagreement.
Ask HN: What is Go really good for?
I want to learn Go but I need to visualize a real-world use case. Why should I use it instead of X, Y or Z. What do you use it for? Please supply examples.
She mentions to make an effort towards diversity at the end.

As a latino, diversity for diversity sake never made sense to me. What am I a lego piece or something? Meritocracy.
> The percent of female CS graduates is ~20-30%.

In the US?

If you're hiring from the whole planet, that's not the valid measure.
Fines and vulnerability to class actions make the costs far more visible (and increase it besides). If non-specialists routinely make bad decisions because they don't understand how cost works, then the solution is to make the cost of bad software dead obvious.
Modern dev practices (CI/CD, scripting) come to Salesforce with DX
Sounds like I need to stock up now on LED bulbs for life, before the whole market is flooded with planned-obsolescent pieces-o-shit (if it isn't already).
I was really confused at his example here, so I drew this:

http://i.imgur.com/NBVPiCE.png

then I realized that his example was meant to be interpreted as a single disconnected graph, rather than two separate examples.
>But the laws of physics are not only symmetrical in space but also in time.

Can someone explain what this means? It makes sense that physical laws are symmetrical in space. But in time? I thought that would not be the case because of entropy/irreversible processes etc. What am I missing? The whole article rests on this premise.
I'll make an assumption here that is, the oil fires if extinguished would leave something of immense value behind for resources companies to extract? That might be why effort and money was spent on extinguishing them. Why else would the Iraqis set them on fire, so people couldn't have them?

I'm not saying the engineers did a bad job, at all. It sounds like they worked miracles, but the issue with climate change is that the global money distributers and politicians want engineers to stop people from solving this problem. they just don't seem to care. There is no consent given for the right people to fix it.

Solving the problem in this case using common sense and reasoning, just means you're stepping on self-interested, highly deluded people's toes.

The real problem that needs solving first is the baking and political systems. People problems.

Common folk seem to want the issue resolved but have taken the failed stance of being a single entity who can't make a difference, without realising they're everything, the way they vote, travel, eat and consume all are part of the solution. We're all feeding the machine.

The consumption levels in the world are just out of control, I wonder how we have gotten this far. Even today in Rome I was looking at the millions of cigarette butts on he ground, a storm was forecast and I just felt sorry for Mother Earth, she needs rain to provide for us but when it happens, she is rewarded with toxic rubbish ending up in the oceans. She has provided us with everything and that's what we give back.

By the way I think you're right, if the problem was one of pure engineering, science and reasoning, we wouldn't have a problem. In that sense there is a positive side.

What is wrong with us?
That's weird. The package seems to include the ttf files only... https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/noto-fonts/
Any sufficiently dominant monopoly is indistinguishable from a government.

So, choose your poison. We can govern them, or they can govern us.
Yes, if you take them as just mere facts. But if you are not aware of CAP theorem and its implications then how do you know that you should google it?
Yes. We wanted to be able to drop the leading 5. For context:

6.0 was a canceled release. 7.x. is used by Cluster. 8.0 makes it easy to follow as "it just drops the 5".
> There’s another side to the equation too, which is being a female interviewer meeting with male candidates... it will subtly or overtly turn into a situation where the candidate is speaking and addressing questions or answers to my coworker. This happens even when I am leading the interview...

I wonder if this goes both ways. If a male was leading the interview, and they were interviewing a female, would the interviewee tend to talk to the female interviewer?
I have always been in (1) or (2), but can think of (3) I'd love to be at this job (because of company mission, etc) . Maybe it is a subcase of (2)?
If it was violent, creepy, and reminiscent of a mass-murderer comment directed towards women, I would think it a good thing that people would suspect you were the one to stick up for women, seeing as you had the most to fear from such a hateful person. It's a good thing that at least one person reported them, since the unfortunate human norm is for a bystander to ignore those in need of help / defense / solidarity.

If "everyone assumed it was you" and then gave you "the side-eye" for the consequences of this nasty person's comment's getting reported, fired, then this seems like clear signal that that workplace was no good in that way and it's time to find friendlier waters.

How do you think this would have gone differently had there been two more female employees? The hateful one would have kept a tighter lid on their true personality? The side-eye would have been more them vs us, or again, left thought but not expressed?

Anyways, lack of diversity sucks.
Yes, it was a joke.
I have a C64 with many bells and whistles (modern interface adapters), an Apple II, and a Briel Computers Altair clone kit (blinken lights). Also have a C64-SX portable, and Tandy 100.

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A thought that occurred to me recently, is that the main purpose of China's "Great Firewall" isn't so much silencing dissent[0], as it is protectionism.

By making it effectively impossible for foreign (i.e. American) internet companies to operate in China, they've ensured that the spaces occupied by Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Uber, and even to some extent Microsoft have been filled by Chinese-owned and China-based companies.

[0] Although that too, of course.
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2FA seems a modest improvement at best, especially when it boils down to a TOTP secret you can use anywhere. (I have a greasemonkey script that enters my required '2fa' token for me.) With a yubikey form factor it's much better... It's also relatively useless if you already have a strong password and don't re-use it, i.e. a password manager. Sure it may stop someone from logging in as you if they just have your (unique) password, but if you consider the ways they can just have your (unique) password that doesn't really matter.
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Small nitpicking here, but the moment it popup a modal dialog asking me to enter my email for some kind of subscription I simply close the tab. I do this since three months ago for any unknown website I visit.

Such nuisance for what might be a good read.
Thanks! That was a super helpful response!
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That section of the Jewish Encyclopaedia is itself unsourced and, to the best of my knowledge in Jewish cosmology, was not actually Jewish view of the cosmos.
I think Asimov might have disagreed. In 1989 he said:

> I thought the most interesting scientific event of 1988 was the way everyone started speaking about the greenhouse effect just because there was a hot summer and a drought, when I had been talking about the greenhouse effect for twenty years, at least. - http://www.ubcome.com/AsimovSaveCivilization.html

He also talks about the rainforest in '89:

> I said therefore, when Brazil begins to cut down the rainforest of the Amazon, not only is it destroying a habitat for vast numbers of plant and animal life which could be of great use to us, there are perhaps pharmacological products we know nothing about that are produced by these forms of life that if we knew about could advance the art of pharmacology and the practice of medicine, enormously. And we'll never find out, we're going to drive them to extinction. We're going to destroy the ground, because the soil of a rainforest isn't very good, and when you chop it down it doesn't make for good farming, what it makes is for good deserts. And finally, we're going to cut down on absorbing the carbon dioxide and on producing oxygen, so that we are actually tampering with the climate of the Earth and with the very atmosphere that we breathe, so that under those circumstances it is useless for Brazil to say that she can do what she wants with her own, that the rainforest belongs to her and if she wants to cut them down, she can. The rainforest doesn't belong to her, it belongs to humanity, she is merely the custodian of the rainforests.
I used that quote just yesterday >_>
Your eyes still saccade when you turn your head. If your headset is causing your eyes to stop saccading properly, I'd expect that means it's not rendering fast enough. I also don't see how adding jitter to the turning would fix this. That seems like it would just cause major disorientation. Maybe I'm totally off though.
Patiently waiting for any news on IPv6 for VPC-based ELBs.

I guess one could put a CloudFront distribution in front of an ELB with TTL=0 and that would sort of work for HTTP and HTTPS.
Observation: counting teeth. This was before modern dentistry.
Not everyone was there for the comment and HR did not say what the comment was or who said it.

For 90% of my co workers, it was just "we all have sensitivity training for sexist comment reported to HR and only one woman, soooo..."
MooCash
:) I'm also co founder of aris' product.
Thermodynamics (from where you get entropy) are a statistical description of physical laws taking process over many particles.

When you look at each particle in the thermodynamic system, you can easily see there is indeed simmetry in time.
Cool, thanks for the info.
Noethers' theorem:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noether%27s_theorem

Groundbreaking stuff. But it is not something you would want to go over in a weekend.
Looks useful
I haven't done any sort of profiling, but yeah that's a bit much. Unless Pandoc really needs that much memory to do the conversion, I can probably cut it down by quite a lot. I will look into it.
Protectionism is bad in general - it works until everyone starts doing it, then everyone is worse off. But the benefits of protectionism in the short term is not equally distributed and China definitely has greater incentive.

It worked for their manufacturing ecosystem, maybe it'll work for tech too.
I would argue that Snapchat's ephemeral nature is quite a bit different than Facebook/Twitter/Instagram (it also makes it easier and cheaper to scale). Snapchat is similar to TV in a lot of ways and is going down a similar brand based advertising path.
Enable pledge(2) in vmm and the VM processes (OpenBSD)
The best $50 I've ever spent has been on a pair of Audio-Technica ATH-ANC2 noise cancelling earbuds. Are they as good as Bose or other over-ear versions? No, but they are significantly better than non noise canceling and pretty cheap. Paired with a white noise generator (I use Spotify that has many), and the loud coffee shop chatter fades away and I can get work done.
Because there's a risk that another replica will fail. And because you can do the copying more slowly if the failure is predicted and not super-immediate.
Curious what your thoughts on Joel Salatin + Polyface farms are? I've read a small handful of his books and found them enlightening - if a bit preachy. From the perspective of never really farming for profit and only volunteering / taking urban farm courses in college, his writing seems prophetical to me. Any thoughts?
Smaller than most international cities? Which cities are these? Singapore us bigger than all but 4 European cities and 1 U.S. city
What % of people do you estimate would make that distinction?
> I was essentially stuck with using flashing leds and printf to debug code.

Should be enough for anyone. Some people used flashing LEDs to dump an entire firmware! ;)

http://hackaday.com/2008/05/27/porting-chdk-to-new-cameras/
I have approximately the same take. But why do we think Drew Houston recruited Rice for his board? Is it the Stanford connection? Does Dropbox do a large amount of GSA business we haven't heard about? Surely it can't be because he supports Rice's performance as National Security Advisor.

I think Rice is towards the bottom of a list of architects of the Iraq War, for what it's worth; only Powell is further removed from it. It probably goes Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bush, {Wolfowitz, Feith, Bolton, &c}, a bunch of other people, and then Rice and Powell. She's a critic --- not very credibly, but a critic nonetheless --- of the actual execution of the war.

I wouldn't hire her, but my reaction to her involvement with Dropbox is less visceral than, I don't know, puzzlement?
Well Google has an incentive to make everything better, but they can't literally work on everything, so they have to pick and choose.

For example Google has repeatedly explained Reader was killed because "usage has declined"¹ So this validates my point: they put resources in developing a product, but it doesn't get enough traction, so they kill it and redirect their resources to other projects that will hopefully be more successful and provide more users and ad revenues to Google.

¹ http://googlereader.blogspot.ca/2013/03/powering-down-google...
There is a massive delta between knowing that, and being able to code examples of each from memory on a whiteboard during an interview.

Also, it may surprise you, but there are many highly experienced and extremely capable programmers that didn't study computer science in college. Filtering those people out because they can't answer programming trivia questions is, at best, hugely short-sighted.
Watching cars driving down a highway outside of Tokyo, from our own satellites
“You have a Twitter account and are trying to avoid service? Now I can just get you on Twitter, it’s huge. You can just serve them there on the spot," he says, noting though that attorneys still will have to show first that more traditional methods failed.

How does this work given Twitter picking what tweets to prioritize and a lot of folks not enabling DM from everyone?
If the presence of smart counters indicates imminent failure, their absence by definition indicates health.

Not perfectly, obviously, but this is about probabilities.

Say you want some level of data security (i. e. 99.9% over one year).

The formula for the risk of data loss is (r^n) where r is the failure rate of drives and n is the number of drives (assuming independence and using just mirroring).

But – if you have a test that can predict failure with some probability s the formula becomes (n*(1-s))^r. which is strictly smaller for any 0 < s <= 1, meaning you get a higher level of expected security (or possibly the same with fewer drives).
Yeah, they lit oil wells -- petroleum. And after the fires were extingushed, sometimes with large amounts of water, the water- and ash-covered desert bloomed like no one could remember in at least twenty years. This did not make the news. It was a footnote in stories with more drama and human interest.

The rich people failing to do something effective about this are fools. They are like the hyenas in "The Lion King" destroying the landscape -- the very source of their wealth. Without abundance, wealth dies.

I blog about varying topics -- homelessness, managing health issues without drugs, etc -- topics to empower ordinary people to solve their problems with minimal resources. There isn't much money it and a lot of people are openly dismissive of me. But not doing it scares me more. No one seems to be effectively addressing these problems.

I would be thrilled if you would check out some of my writing and Tweet it or otherwise share it.
Using types to unit-test in Haskell
Nations, communities, individuals: they value autonomy. Building their own networks rather than submitting to whatever is being fed by silicon valley is not a pointless job.