skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But GitHub is a social network, and that's why it succeeded over the myriad other git hosts like git.or.cz, literally every web host, etc. The product wasn't git hosting, the product was the community.

Not everything has to be a social network, but many things (including software engineering) are better if they are. Not every social network needs moderation, but many of them are better if they have it.
This. Considering the only options for a "city" are San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland, Apple has quite literally no chance of snapping up that much raw square footage without moving out into the more suburban areas of the valley. Even if they were able to purchase and lease literally every high-rise building in, say, downtown San Jose, they would not come close to this pure amount of real estate.
Heh, there's a lot of detail to be captured I agree. But in short:

- All nodes connect to all other nodes

- Each node has a priority; a Paxos algorithm is used to identify the highest priority node, which "stands up" to be the master

- All nodes respond to read queries using the local database.

- So long as you always talk to the same node, there are no consistency issues: you are guaranteed that each request will answered with a database at least as fresh as the last.

- However, if you switch databases (eg, a node goes down and you are forced to go to a different one that might not be as fresh), it will wait until it is as fresh as the node you were using

- Write requests are escalated to the master, which processes them with a two-phase commit distributed transaction

- By default, the master waits for a "quorum" of the cluster to approve the transaction before committing

- However, this limits write capacity to 1/median(rtt) of the slaves

- Accordingly, we have a "selective synchronization" feature where you can optionally designate some transactions as requiring "less consistency". For example, you can specify that the master should commit when at least one other node approves.

- For the highest performance, you can designate a transaction as "asynchronous" and the master will commit immediately

- For example, when someone is reimbursed, we absolutely want to get quorum approval of the transaction: we can't risk losing that if the master crashes. But if someone just adds a report comment, we can risk losing it upon master crash.

- When the master does go down (either gracefully or not), the next highest priority node steps up seamlessly

- Any command escalated to the master but not processed will be re-escalated to the new master

- When a higher priority node comes up, it synchronizes to get up to date with everything it missed, and then becomes master

Anyway, lots of details here and I agree they haven't been well captured in the site yet. Coming soon!
> If the only restriction is on the title 'journalist', what stops people from calling themselves a blogger while doing exactly the same things that a journalist does?

I don't think that anyone would be proposing restricting speech in this way, but on the same note, papers such as Weekly World News maybe couldn't pump out more stories about Bat Boy while attempting to call themselves journalists...
There's a user over on Reddit who is in Australia and was lucky enough to have received the Pixel XL early. He mentioned that he had low usage, about an hour a day, but is able to get to day 4 without charges in between. Others seem to be saying that two days is pretty easy with "normal" use.
Depending on your income, at least in the US, it's closer to 21.5k with the federal 7500 tax rebate. In addition, a few states offer rebates on top of that.
Hm... They read Seveneves? There's similar concept in there.
I work in said building and love it. Absolutely a top notch office in a top notch location. Unfortunately the historical circumstances of the building (see video below) make it pretty much one of a kind; there simply aren't any more buildings like this for other tech companies to use. And good luck trying to build a new building of this scale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVx59XOZtSA
Ignoring the commute-hour-only Stanford Marguerite shuttle, there's walking/biking/Ubering around 1.2 miles to the California Avenue Caltrain, or 3 miles to downtown Palo Alto... jobs at SRP generally pay pretty well.

You can also walk about 0.4 miles to a Marguerite line that isn't commute-only.
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Many people at the time thought the 10th amendment was superfluous: http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2013/03/05/a-brief-history-o....

To be precise, the 10th amendment is a nullity if you already accept that the federal government is one of enumerated powers. At the time of the founding, that was a novel concept and it probably made some people feel better to have it stated explicitly. But today that's taken as a given. The debate is never over if the government has powers not enumerated, but whether a particular action falls within the scope of an enumerated power. And the 10th amendment tells you nothing about the scope of the enumerated powers.
Here's Expensify's CEO (David Barrett) posting on the p2p-hackers mailing list about this. It's from April 2016.

http://p2p-hackers.709552.n3.nabble.com/p2p-hackers-Advice-o...
I know it's not completely related, but does anyone know if ExpressJS runs on 6.9?
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Sure. I have no right to not be offended, I acknowledge that. I do have freedom of association, though, and I absolutely have the right not to associate with those that offend me, patronize businesses that welcome people who offend me, etc. In turn, people who find my views offensive are, of course, free not to associate with me, not to patronize businesses that welcome me, etc., and I steadfastly support their rights to do so!
Fun fact: Marijn Haverbeke was one of the original Rust developers back in the pre-0.1 era.
The growth in our brain size is related to when we first figured out how to process (cook) food.

Lots of food is only considered edible once it's been processed. Look at wheat. Without the great length we go to mill flour, it's completely indigestible.

I think the Apple Juice example is a poor one, as it takes many apples to make one serving of apple juice, and you're leaving out the pulp, etc. This is exactly what we are talking about when we say that the composition matters, not how processed it is.
You have to care what the process is, not just that its "processed".
NC Republican Office Firebombed, 'Nazi' GOPers Threatened in Graffiti
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Yes, but the definition that greghendershott gives is the more amusing version, and seems to be pretty common amongst the Aviation crowd.
By locating in a suburban area, they are forcing almost all employees to drive (or take commuter shuttles). But if they moved to an urban area, many employees could find housing nearby, and many more could find good transit options.

As it is, they're located is a mostly low density suburban area 5 miles from the nearest commuter rail station.
Agreed, benchmarks would be helpful to back up these claims. Good suggestion!

I think the argument in favor of it being more reliable is an easier one, however, as Bedrock is specifically designed (and used, at scale, for 8 years) to provide highly available redundancy in the form of WAN-replication and automatic failover.

Regardless, I think you'll agree that "rock-solid" is not a precise technical term, and I hope you'll allow a bit of play on words. Whether or not it's literally as solid as a rock is unclear, but it is definitely very reliable -- and more reliable than most.
It all depends on how many miles you put on your car. In Austin, I'm paying about $30/1000 miles for my Leaf or about $30/month for the amount of miles I drive.
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Yes, things did get heated and we understand when that happens. If a user emails us at hn@ycombinator.com and we believe that this will never happen again, we're happy to unban the account, but we do need this to stop now. Plenty of slack has been cut already, and it runs out before we get to the likes of this comment.
Compilers that have a language service api are awesome. The Typescript compiler does and it makes for high quality low latency refactoring, code completion, show expression type etc across ediors and IDEs.
Since my other day to day language is Scala I was glad to find out that the upcoming Dotty Scala compiler will also feature a language service api. Yay.
As someone else noted above, "the media takes him literally, but not seriously and his supporters take him seriously, but not literally". Trump has since walked this position back to "extreme vetting" (though you can still find the original press release on his site).

Making exaggerated, hyperbolic statements that appeal to the emotional cortex is an intentional strategy employed by Trump to dog-whistle the media, and his masterful ability to bait the media is the only reason he's won anything up to this point. Showmanship is part of the game.

You need to look at the consistent elements in Trump's statements, which are abolishment of free trade, tight borders, and American protectionism. That's what he's serious about.
An another one: Vandals throw bricks through windows at Delaware County Republican Party office (http://fox59.com/2016/10/18/vandals-throw-bricks-through-win...)
That is highly dependent on where you live. I live in Austin and pay a constant rate of about $0.12/kWh no matter the time of day.
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I am very satisfied with Seeed's service. I used to place an order of 2 layers PCB for $9.9. Their engineer even helped me inspect one of the bugs. Really out of my expectation. I left a msg in the user voice for 6 layers PCB( it was unavailable at that time). After 15 days, they send me email say it is online now. Quite impressive for how they care customer's advice. https://www.seeedstudio.com/new-fusion-pcb.html
It was a key part of IBM's business model. Mainframes in Poughkeepsie and Binghamton, NY, semiconductors in Fishkill & Burlington, AS/400 in Minnesota, x86 in RTP.
Due to the blast in the desert, quartz and other minerals in the sand were melted to form Trinitite, a green glass. Would be interesting to hold this piece of history in a museum (according to Wikipedia, it's safe to handle).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinitite
"It's bad for business."

So is thought-policing your customers.
So far we have Republican offices vandalized (North Carolina: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nc-republican-office-fir... and Delaware: http://fox59.com/2016/10/18/vandals-throw-bricks-through-win...)
It works at room temperature!

We discovered somewhat by accident that this material worked

If this works as stated, maybe the most important scientific "accident" since penicillin?
It was not Trump's headquarters that were firebombed. It was a NC county's GOP office. Those are very much not the same thing.
Yes, we've made a lot of good progress on this front, though nothing ready to demo. Multi-threaded replication is really exciting stuff. As it stands, our "selective sync" capability already gives a lot of headroom for write capacity, but multi-threaded replication will raise that ceiling even higher.
IDK, I've used Amex in Australia for >50% of my credit card spend. All major supermarkets, department stores, most petrol stations and fast food chains accept it. I assume outside of those categories it really depends where you are though - the cafe across the road from my office accepts Amex with no surcharge and no minimum, but I'm in CBR in the heart of public service territory, so...
Have you seen https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/ ?
Pretty sure this is either satire or disinformation (Poe's Law?). Notice the .co at the end of the URL.
Because it's useful to figure the intent of strange-looking code that was last touched 15 years ago. (Don't know the parent's situation, but that's the case for me here. Perforce isn't too bad for that)
It's nice that it's a unified command (yum vs. apt-get, apt-cache, etc.) and the commands do seem less obtuse. I've been using Fedora since the first cut, and by and large it's always been pretty great.

The one thing I'd like to see ported over is ufw, as that's one thing about Ubuntu to envy. firewall-cmd is downright annoying and bizarrely designed.
Or perhaps they know better than to release confidential information about their roadmap?

I believe Google is running out of solutions to further optimize Android because they keep running into self inflicted Java roadblocks. If Fuchsia is any indication of their future efforts their next major overhaul will support multiple first class languages.
Yes. Military people are usually very conservative. It would be hard to get them to engage on the "liberal" side of such a conflict. No doubt there would be defections of entire bases and installments.
Adobe, which is doing very well, moved its HQ to downtown San Jose. Google now resides in the suburban industrial park Adobe used to inhabit.
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Really? I don't think the mind-numbingly large conglomerate behind NBC could be tarnished by anything a low-level bit reporter like Billy Bush could do.
You realize that a US President merely hinting that we won't defend our NATO allies is a direct path to World War III?

This "he doesn't really mean what he says" defense is not only naive: even saying what he says with such blatant disregard for civil society invites violence against non-whites, against politicians, against voters!

Enough of his supporters legitimately believe the election is rigged that we're looking at the delegitimization not only of our likely next president but the entire political system. "Burn it down" sounds fun until you realize Venezuela or Zimbabwe are potential outcomes.
That ice cream was real, it was just freeze-dried. Most astronaut foods were freeze-dried because of its shelf-life and light weight.

My brother-in-law's dad had a small company that freeze-dried foods for NASA. I got to sample freeze-dried everything. At the time it was the food of the future.
I've happily relocated to suburbia since starting a family with small children. As others have mentioned, I enjoy the open spaces, lack of crowds, and lines when I want to go out and do something.

I consider cities like NY and SF to be great places to live if single but basically untenable with a family except in certain circumstances.

There are some great cities like Seattle and Tokyo where I might be willing to raise my family but in general I am glad that tech companies aren't in city centers.
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Incidentally, sqlite doesn't provide stored procedures, but Bedrock does (using a C++ plugin capability). Otherwise, SQLite is actually very feature rich; a subset of features are here: http://sqlite.org/fullsql.html
Using ITA Matrix is pretty easy.
Using ITA Matrix to actually find better deals takes a lot of knowledge about how the airline systems work.

If you're only looking at flights out of a particular airport and with a specific (default) routing, you'll probably not find anything better.

If you know that certain airports are hubs, or that a particular carrier has a slightly longer route that takes you via a certain city and maybe have a longer layover then you might be able to find some really good deals.

Being in Australia, I really don't get to take advantage of these things at all.
I've noticed neighborhood groups on Facebook starting to fill this vacuum. It would be interesting if online journalism could embrace the model of geographic news.
How do you reconcile that with your upstream comment "If society can't trust that private institutions can avoid undesirable behavior, the only recourse is to make everything offensive illegal"?

That statement seems to imply that there is a mandate for 3rd parties to provide systems free of "undesirable behavior" from particular perspectives. Freedom of association means no, there isn't. Demanding private institutions provide freedom from offensiveness implies a perceived right not to be offended.
It's not "cherry picking". Basically all of Silicon Valley is suburban.
Ah, you finally made a hackernews account! Congrats, XD, that's a great milestone you guys hit.
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Fascinating. I had no idea. I'm surprised they don't use Gander International in Newfoundland. This used to be where nearly all trans-atlantic flights refueled before the arrival of the "jet age." Its a pretty important place still. In fact Gandar is still responsible for all air traffic control over the Western North Atlantic airspace. In fact your plane talks to them until it switches over to Shannon on the West coast of Ireland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gander_International_Airport

I've heard there's a cocktail lounge there and the pictures on wall of the visitors that passed through Gander are a cultural "who's who" of the 20th century - everyone from the Beatles, to Nehru, Kennedy, Elvis, Castro, Garbo etc, have their pictures on the wall. You basically had to pass through Gander to take a transatlantic flight.
We moved to suburbia (SF peninsula) and there is still tons of traffic and lines :(
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I goto the supermarket once a week so yeah, thats the only time I use it. I've given up asking otherwise.
Yeah, loved the farecast feature of Bing.

The farecast team left and formed Decide, a way predict prices for electronics and other goods. Eventually purchased by ebay.

Bing also had a fantastic thing that let you earn points when shopping through Bing Shopping. That was quickly discontinued as well.
sigh

Come on man.

If you'd just stopped at the question mark, you'd have a civil, if somewhat pithy comment that could potentially trigger some sort of conversation.

Instead you punctuate with foul language and insults, effectively nullifying your comment.

I know this stuff is polarizing and frustrating, particularly when you think there's bias or hypocrisy at work. But you can do better.

In this particular case, there's a very interesting potential debate that can be had about the ethics of leaks, the timing of leaks, the dangers posed by these types of leaks (e.g., actors with an agenda using "leaks" to release data that's biased or groomed to fit an agenda), the ethics of nation states supporting independent actors engaging in these types of activities...

Incidentally, to address your question, if it had been Trump... I'll admit it, it might bother me less. I wish I could say it wouldn't, because in reality, it'd be no different: an unaccountable, likely biased actor, who appears to be blatantly working to manipulate the election from the safety of a foreign embassy. Whether they're manipulating it to push the electorate toward Trump or Hillary doesn't make that any less questionable...
Perhaps they disagree. I'm still keeping my paid corporate account.
Or perhaps the best catches would never walk in for the interview because they find it a synthetic asphyxiating saccharine fabrication, centered around an automobile and isolation.

The best people out there can make money literally from anywhere, why the heck would they go to some compound of industrialized personalization like that?
I run an human powered transcription service and I get really excited on such news. Typing is the first step of our process (of four) and any ASR system which can generate even around 80% accurate transcript of a file will be incredibly useful. We have tried several systems but unfortunately none have been able to get there yet.
You do know that the US has one of the most progressive tax rates in the world right?
> Just don't vote for him. Isn't that exactly why you Americans hold elections?

This is a loaded question and a good one at that. To put it simply, the presidential election is particularly unique compared to other elections in the US because of several intertwining factors.

1) Unless under exceptional circumstances, the US presidential voting system will always devolve into a 2 party race. Because of this, "choice" is much more of an illusion than people are taught to believe in the US.

2) The manner of choosing party representatives (Trump, Clinton) can be gamed or rigged. For the parties, this is to unify support and strengthen the chance that the president will at least be "on your side" (left, right) even if you don't support all of that candidates particular stances. This sounds great, but this tosses all of the niche voters, which is a broad net because people are forced to be in one of these two parties to not have a wasted vote in the presidential election, to the side and forces them to pick a lesser of two evils.

3) The presidential election is unique in that it uses an electoral college system. When you vote, you are not voting for the president. You are voting for someone to vote on your behalf and hoping that they follow through (yes, oversimplified but it is how it works at the most basic level). This is why you can predict the outcome of the race based on just how a few swing states vote. It's also why your vote doesn't really matter if you are not in one of these swing states.

And these are just the obvious problems in the __presidential election__ system in the US. Voting for representatives, Senate and House, are just as bad in other ways (gerrymandering being the big issue). So no, it's not really as simple as not voting for Trump (or any other candidate for that matter).

On another note, most Americans do not understand how the system truly works and the flaws. On top of that, if you live inside the US or obtain most of your news via US media outlets, I've found that there is a huge bias and attempt to ignore certain realities. As someone who works and lives abroad consuming news that's not even in English, it was clear early on that Trump was going to win the primaries and that Clinton in particular would have a hard time against Trump. The vocal reaction to the current situation is exactly what you should expect.
I've read that this is only true for the term "Professional Engineer." Do you know of a source that backs up your claim?
One of my favorite buildings, the Weyerhaeuser (paper company) HQ in Federal Way, just south of Seattle, sits well and integrates with the terrain around it:

https://www.google.com/search?q=weyerhaeuser+headquarters&so...
Square is really competitive up to about $15 a ticket
I chuckled at "Tech startups became cool because of CERN and Marc Andreessen".
The idea is that there are a number of complicated tradeoffs that must be made when designing a schema. See [0] for an example; note that every rule comes with an immediate caveat. The result is that you have to be an expert to come up with a great design for a particular system. Even then, if your workload is complex, you might miss a non-obvious choice which will outperform your manual selection.

The goal of NoSE is to automate the process by estimating the cost of executing a workload against a wide range of schema designs. We can then select the one which is likely to perform the best. As far as data migration, moving from a relational database is a reasonable use case. Some of the work I'm doing right now is looking at how you can transition between different schemas in a denormalized database. However, our initial use case was to build something that would allow a non-expert user to design a good schema.

[0] http://www.ebaytechblog.com/2012/07/16/cassandra-data-modeli...
Or you (and they) could just suck it up and stop demanding that everyone else behave in the way that you, personally, have decided is the "correct" way. If it doesn't actively "pick your pocket or break your leg", why not let it go?
I'll agree with you on firewall-cmd. One major problem is its documentation. They should initially provide really simple instructions on getting a base firewall (22,443,80) going... And then provide instructions on how to do zoning and what-not on the side.