skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That response to "ok we're going to make the database stable now" is quite reasonable for something which has had the publicity that CockroachDB has had. (Even the name suggests stability/availability above all else!)

The alternative is for CockroachDB devs to clearly state "this does not work yet, no one should be trying to use it" before all notable communications.

This is actually a necessary immune response to a "open source ecosystem" that is becoming overwhelming to navigate - people need to know what to not bother paying any attention to yet.
By suspending his account, the user will just create another and continue annoying the very same people that had blocked him already.

Why can't Twitter do what Metafilter does? $5 to sign up and a 24 hour delay on any posting.
Perf seems to be a recurring issue, e.g. see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues/675

That said, I find the openness with which core architectural issues are discussed to be refreshing. (e.g. see the very detailed writeup explaining the root cause of the above issue, here https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues/677)
Here is an article [1] in the Mail Online which appears to give a possible explanation for beaks on dinosaurs. From the article, I can't quite figure out how they reached that conclusion. But it is at least a possible explanation.

[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2517009/Myste...
Days before losing the election Hillary and Bill had a screaming match
Probably pretty nice for left handed mouse / trackpad users though.
Your post just made my morning :)
Do you have any other directions to add?
China's Tech Unicorns Look Increasingly Cursed
A Bed for Fifty People?
Automating the process doesn't teach people to 'cook', it teaches them to be yet more reliant on a piece of technology.

Precisely the direction SV wants us to keep marching blindly in.
It remains to be seen how Trump will use "Executive Orders" if things don't go his way. As things are going, there's hopefully 2 groups of people in his cabinet. One to tell him what he can do and another to tell him what he cannot.
A handful of years ago (~10) I was offered BTC (way before their $100+ value) and I think $75-200 for my 6 digit number. People used to sell Myspace UIDs as well, Facebook too before they converted to usernames.
It would be nice to add a little 1-click test button to this that can look at some of my sample string and auto-fuzz the pattern and see if some unexpected results come up.

Regex is weird anyway but it's often a surprise just some weird string that's close to what you thought you wanted comes up.
We texted a large portion of the United States so I apologize if you happened to get caught in the crossfire. Better than someone knocking on your door or calling during supper though right?
Cheers! That's a very good point.
So people are super hyped about the Snapchat Spectacles. I get the excitement, they are Google Glass at a proletariat price, so owning them doesn't make you a GlassHole. Snapchat is one of the most popular LA Unicorns. Everyone is waiting for them to go public.

So how did they release their big hardware add on? Limited time vending machines. They are spinning it as cool, but with XMas, their supposed capitalization and user base, it's a pretty big warning that these are not released through a consumer channel. They are probably experiencing major headwinds keeping them out of commercialization, or a major cash crisis.

I'm want to side with the cash crisis. I'd love to be proven wrong, but I don't think their balance sheet is going to be very strong, if the fundamentals were there, Amazon and Best Buy would be distributing the product. Sure, tell me its a marketing strategy for exclusivity, I agree, it's great. It should have been done over the summer, moving into store shelves last week for Xmas sales.
The change in terminology doesn't have scientific significance, it was done to try to improve public understanding.

Basically "warming" in popular usage means "I can take my jacket off now", whereas warming in scientific usage means "increasing the heat energy stored in a given volume."

Scientists have known for a long time that global warming (increasing the heat stored in the atmosphere) would create both local heating in some areas and local cooling in others (it's chaotic). But when a regular person hears "warming" and then the temperature goes down, they're confused. Hence "climate change."

Incidentally, predicting the local effects of warming is a major goal of GCMs, and one for which no other tool will do. But it's damn hard (again: it's chaotic).
Yet another platform to tickle our narcissism and voyeurism. The fact that this kind of innovation is so lucrative make me despair.

And also, get off my lawn !!
Triceratops had a beak! It was for carving out pieces of fronds/palms etc. Bakker suggests that flowering plants invented beaked dinosaurs.
When I was in Congo and experienced talking to the women that had been raped, the tortures, the children that had killed their parents or raped their sister at gunpoint and even being involved in a shooting, with bullets whistling over your head I entered into a psychological shock.

I could not stop thinking: This can't be real, this can't be reality BUT IT IS reality. You start realizing really what the people experienced in WWII and how reality surpasses fiction, how terrible and how amazing life could be.

I was an avid reader but it is one thing to read on the safety on your house and a completely different thing experiencing it in reality. I can't stand reading war novels now like War and peace because it really hurts me after experiencing some of it.

And then you have this "living dangerous" thing in which you want more and more of this war experience, like going deeper in the jungle and talk with people in arms even when you are risking your life and a mistake means death.

You watch things you don't want to remember but you want more and more for some stupid reason.

VR will be a great tool for people learning but it could be dangerous with some things too.
I crowdsourced a logo design on Crowdspring, which supposedly had procedures in place to prevent plagarism. Resulting from posting a new project here, someone who looked was able to tell my logo had been stolen from a company halfway across the world from me- local to this user, but unknown to me. I wouldn't have known & could have run into legal issues down the road had I kept using it.

Unfortunately Crowdspring ruled it wasn't a refundable issue, so I lost around ~$4k on a design I can't trademark. Would be nice to be able to do something about that, but I currently lack the resources necessary to persue it legally.
I'm not sure this qualifies as that. IBM's role in politics has been historically fraught. Is everyone here really aware of IBM's role in the Holocaust? That really happened.

The whole thread is problematic. I dug into some of the claims --- for instance, I'd like to see IBM's "15 ideas" for saving 900 billion in healthcare costs (I was unable to find anything other than anti-Obamacare spam sites suggesting IBM had offered to foot the bill for the whole system in exchange for running it on IBM hardware).

I'm not sure there's much to this story, and so I don't think there will be much to the thread.
Its a type of filing. Confidentially means that we cannot go so EDGAR and look up the filing right now, and they will not need to disclose the documents publicly until very close to the actual IPO. This is a relatively new type of filing that was introduced in the JOBS act, designed to encourage emerging businesses to go public. You can read about the specifics here:

https://www.sec.gov/divisions/corpfin/guidance/cfjumpstartfa...

Normally, if the company does not qualify for confidential filing, we would be able to go and see the draft S-1 on EDGAR 6 - 9 months in advance of the actual IPO.
>but I couldn't tag anyone, or hashtags, discoverability is a serious issues in that platform.

You're looking at it through the lens of a professional photographer, though. When I speak to young people the lack of discovery isn't a concern at all. If anything I'd contest that is one of the reasons Snapchat grew so quickly—you aren't tagged without you realizing it in a friend's picture, your parents aren't searching for your name, etc.
No, real propulsion systems also require propellent
Yeah, I'm pretty sure the rule of thumb is that standard towers can be quieter because unless the SFF computers are passively cooled, larger towers can have larger fans spinning at a slower RPM to move the same amount of air, as well as have larger radiators.
Wal-Mart Is First, Amazon Is Worst in New Ranking on Chemicals
tl;dr Bill's advice over the suffering of the working class was ignored. It is an exclusive by Ed Klein, author of several books on the Clintons.

Worth a read as to being in touch with your voters (or your customers in other circumstances).
With the experiments that showed a result, that result is not explainable within the frame of current theory. The whole purpose of the experimental setup is to isolate the test article from any possible interactions that could exert force on it, other than the one being tested. If the results seen so far are due to mundane interactions, then that isolation didn't work. Is that not a failure of the experimental setup?
I have two feelings about this:

1) It reminds me of the quote:

“Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.”

― William Feather

2) What is the author doing in actual reality that makes it so pale compared to VR?

It's interesting that the first example brought up is about interacting with a phone.

For god's sake man! Play a sport, have sex, go for a walk and smell the leaves, go for a swim in the ocean. Sweat, strain, climb and explore. Be an _animal_ because that's what we are!

Go and get barrelled on a wave in the ocean and then come back and tell me that VR is better. :-)
"Need" money? You mean "want" money, right? And there's no wrong reason to want money since this is the US. Maybe he'll turn into a huge benefactor like Bill Gates and return all that money back to charitable foundations, etc.
This read to me like:

"We need to be relevant! We are not one of the FAANGS! Please hook us up with some sweet, sweet deals!"
I would imagine their consulting arms placement on the H1B listing might be a concern for them which makes point 1 of their letter a bit disingenuous.

Hard to really tell what the policies will be until the secretaries are actually picked.
If aribnb reps would say something like "we're glad this law got passed, now we can charge more and not be afraid of competition" then yes. But I don't remember Airbnb sponsoring any exclusionary laws, it's the hotel lobby that does. And they don't even bother to put a transparent screen of saying "great day for safety!", they just plain go out and say "great day for us charging more!".
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https://github.com/nishnet2002/Safeway-Just-for-u
It reflects a change in IPO filing law. Quoting Wikipedia:

"Under the JOBS Act, it has been possible since April 2012 for "emerging growth companies" to file a Form S-1 on a confidential basis, only making the contents public 21 days prior to the road show for the IPO."

With many IPO filings, the financial docs are immediately available to review. Because Snap filed confidentially, we are not given access to these docs until shortly before the actual sale of the IPO shares.
Hey IBM, maybe instead of offering to create "new collar" jobs, you should stop shipping your existing jobs to India:

http://insights.dice.com/2013/09/27/justice-department-hits-...
I wonder if the user base that rushes in so fast to Snapchat might not rush as quickly to the next cool app, whenever it pops up.
>Agreed, but there isn't much evidence of that at the moment.

I haven't actually evaluated the state of the evidence. I was mainly writing to say the comment I was replying to had made a fallacy.
Keep in mind that's for [Documentation][1], not Q&A (which is what most people think of when they think of StackOverflow).

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/documentation
yeah but platform lock-in shouldn't prevent me from sending an IM from skype for MacOS to skype for Windows...
As an electric propulsion engineer used to measure thrust in the uN range, what disturbs me much more than thrust levels close to the sensitivity threshold is the fact that thrust is only detected some 10-20s after the RF is turned on (figs 9,8,13).
I am rather confident that there is no physical time scale in the RF generation process that would account for a 10-20s ramp, and this would contradict their own report of the fast RF power stabilization.
It definitely looks like thermal drift; in fact, thermal drift is _always_ the first thing to suspect when you get strange measurements with a low thrust balance.

It appears as well that the authors have conveniently prepared an answer for this objection with fig.5 which attempts to mislead the reader by suggesting that the very slow evolution of the balance displacement is to be expected as an artifact of the combined effect of thermal drift and RF pulse onset. But conveniently, the time units are arbitrary so that hopefully nobody will notice that RF onset was assumed in that figure to have exactly the same characteristic time as the thermal drift... When all measurements actually show that RF power stabilizes much faster.
It definitely sounds like Instagram is a better fit for that. But is that really Snapchat's core use case?

There's definitely some overlap in uses, but instagram isn't a complete replacement for Snapchat. And the areas where instagram doesn't cover snapchat, it seems like are snapchat's primary uses.
With Workers Scarce, More Home Builders Turn to Prefab Construction
Serious comment:why bother with gtk anyhow and move to Qt?
I wanted to keep things completely above board so I talked to my boss at my full-time job about my desire to start my own company; that I would do so by working after hours and occasionally taking a day or a week off; and that my company was in a different field and would not be a competitor. He talked to HR and came back and said this was fine as long as I never used any company resources. I'm now working for MY company full-time, and have an employee at 32 hours per week.

Good luck!
Nice to see a keralite here. I just installed your chrome extension! I shall share these links as much as I can.
If you have a Wii U there's a remastered version available for that.
I agree, and I see a lot of Boomerang videos now being posted into IG stories too. To me Instagram provides more tools.
A better example is the way C++ was compatible with C when it first came out. Apache Groovy has lots of little incompatibilities with Java, e.g. == has a different meaning in many cases.
This is just the coolest way to test your regex is a great sandbox with lots of feedback to help you get it right.
A small utility to colorize diff from standart input.
Uses PyGments and opens a webpage served on localhost.

Very simple but I use it daily.

https://gist.github.com/Antoine-Lassauzay/7e0732b6aa272d6946...
I'm on the Nightly channel running Firefox v 53.0a1 (2016-11-15) (64-bit) on a Linux box. NoScript works for me too
I'm saying Tariffs we have enacted in the past has taken a toll on us all to help a few in those protected industries. Tariffs are essentially a tax on all of us, with the proceeds going to businesses in a specific industry.

Consider Obama's Tire Tariffs in 2009: we all collectively paid over a billion dollars to save maybe 1200 jobs: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2012/10/23/how-o...

And it does matter what the norm is. Look: if you want to be the tallest tree in a forest, you can either get lots of water and sunlight and effort to grow the tallest. Or you can chop all the other trees down so you're the tallest. Free trade with minimal government favoritism is allowing the best trees (analogous to the best business ideas) to thrive and grow the tallest. Tariffs are akin to chopping down a few feet from all the trees to boost up the trees which are growing in the shade or otherwise disadvantaged. In nature, those trees are supposed to die.
Info about this issue including a test case: https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/JSONView-for-Chrome/issues...

I started using "JSON Formatter" instead ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/json-formatter/bcj... ) and it seems to work fine.
My personal hypothesis on this is that they're eating a loss at the price range right now and are trying to figure out if people are interested in the spectacles and at what price.
Virtually no discussions I've seen on the Internet about executive orders seem to involve people who really understand executive orders. Executive orders do not in fact give the President the power to override Congress. All they do is define the manner in which the administration will execute the authority granted to it by Congress and the Constitution.

So it is indeed true that Obama altered immigration policy through executive order by changing enforcement priority to avoid deporting children, and it is indeed true that Trump will change that back. But in neither case is a President making new law by doing so: US immigration law doesn't require the administration to have or not have those priorities.
Need, as in, they couldn't capitalize enough for spectacles to be on store shelves for xmas. Obviously, something is very wrong.
Joel, eh? Think you might be forgetting someone in there, somewhere? ;)
Use case wherein people get paid, yes.
Close runner-up: doubleplusungood
Tinder is kind of like that? Wechat has something similar in China. I worked at a messaging company, and I found out those kind of 'unsolicited date messaging' features are a really good way to scare away your female users pretty quickly.
> "Why would a large dinosaur evolve a beak and lose the efficiency of teeth?"

That's a good question. I'm just an amateur, but I can guess at a few reasons.

1) Diet was not hampered by having either beak or teeth and a beak requires less maintenance (no tooth decay) and energy to grow. Beaks can also be more equipped to open seed shells and other barriers to food than teeth. I'm always quite amazed at the way finches are able to pop the seed out of a tiny thistle seed at a rapid pace.

2) Birds use their beak and legs as "radiators" to help regulate their internal temperature[1]. May have helped this species to better adapt to its area than others.

[1] http://www.audubon.org/news/how-birds-keep-their-cool
No, it shouldn't.

But, that's MS for ya! (Ducks and runs)
Also recommended: Robot & Frank.

Not about love but friendship. In any case, a good movie.
Here's the rub. I'm from a generation that treats SMS as a more personal medium; it's exclusive to my friends and family.

The last thing I want is random spam from any organization, regardless if you think they are trustworthy. If it's unsolicited, it's spam.

Feature request: add a platform level opt-out.
What information does this reveal besides your email address, which they clearly already have?
Outsourcing Customer Service to AI:  Are the Robots Coming?
> Google Cloud GPUs give you the flexibility to mix and match infrastructure. You’ll be able to attach up to 8 GPU dies to any non-shared-core machine...

Wow, that's impressive. One thing I've loved about GCE has been the custom sizing. This takes it even further, so we don't have to buy what we don't need.

Looking forward to seeing the pricing on this. Looks like they're going to heavily compete with AWS on this stuff.
$44,400 in penalties? Is that a joke? I would be surprised if that even covered 10% of the price of the investigation.
Hotel business is not exactly "mom and pops" - at least not the majority of it. Neither is a taxi one when medallion is valued in hundreds of thousands of dollars. Moms and pops then are no more than hired labor for holder corporations. And deregulating it so they maybe can become owners instead would be great, but that's not happening. Uber is going around it because going directly against the medallion laws is not possible.
Due to the TCPA rules in the US, the penalties for just missing a few details are high enough many companies just avoid it altogether. I guess this could be an attempt at a loophole since people are doing it "manually." On the other hand, political stuff gets an exemption.

Overall I wouldn't be worried about SMS. The economics don't make sense either with the front end cost or the long term penalties, and soon everyone will be on a third party messaging platform anyways.
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On the other hand, I find it extremely annoying how Team Snapchat routinely sends elaborately animated pre-prepared snaps that are impossible to make in the official app. Eat your own dogfood, guys!
Sounds exactly like this:
https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck
I believe Apache Groovy implementations should be led by their technical people, so its PMC should only have people in it who can and do code, test, and write docs. Groovy's past problems have been due to managerial sorts running things.
If they could just add a decent profile management option, I would switch back from Chrome. Keeping my work and personal accounts separated is the only thing keeping me using that battery killer
Weird. I should have sold mine rather than throwing away the little scrap of paper I'd written it on.
If anyone needs help with a project, do not hesitate to ask. I'm here for you.
No, but I was a moderator or helper in #NoHack on DALnet for a while, giving people removal instructions all day :)
Based on a google site: search and an eyeball of the first couple of results pages I'd summarise as

www2 - partnering, alliances education [1]
www3 - investor relations, careers [2]
www4 - central european languages [3]
www5 - japanese [4]
www6 - no results found
www7 - open vms [5]
www8 - seems to be the primary site for english content

[1] https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Awww2.hp.com
[2] https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Awww3.hp.com
[3] https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Awww4.hp.com
[4] https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Awww5.hp.com
[5] https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Awww7.hp.com
[6] https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Awww8.hp.com
I agree. Tight lips with "information leaks", makes for an intriguing situation. Apple is the master at this. They never announce anything but the media's love to search for information(mostly useless, if not leaked by the company's communication's dept) gives then a ton of constant publicity - very smart.
They aren't the first with mail merge / templates hooked to SMS...textmagic (and probably others) do this today.
(Re)defining Mozilla's Tofino Project
This is a huge deal and I think he has totally underestimated how quickly this will happen. And customer service agents are going to be among the first to get displaced by AI. Right after all the truck drivers. We aren’t doing anywhere nearly enough to prepare for this change. It’s going to make the election look like ripples in a kiddy pool compared to a hurricane.
Norwegian actually.
licq, thanks for that, scary thoughts how much of my life back then passed thru licq.

I'm still on ICQ, via pidgin. There's just 'me' these days, but I'm holding the fort. So there :-)
Engineering Update on Mozilla's Project Tofino
Many hours spent here, trying to create the ultimate email regex, while telling my PMs and managers that there was no such thing.
Fun fact: So many international criminals use ICQ to make deals that "unspecified federal investigators" (read: spooks) had "brought concerns to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S." (the treasury) protesting its sale to a Russian company and asking them to stop it.

ICQ is specifically referenced in speeches by FBI and intelligence agency directors. So that's a pretty neat rep to have.