skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel that like is often used as a verbal em dash, for emphasis and interruption.Once I understoid their intended usages I love the
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In a modern world there should be no commute

Definitely not once there is VR tech
5 reasons why telcos won't exist in 5 years
It seems like an easy way to prevent that is clearly marking the packaging (which they did), and to package them in a good case so that the user can easily tell if any of the magnets are missing when they are put away.
> This is a case where the db server should use the entire resources of a single server

They have thousands of clusters. They didn't design/architect anything.

They're likely just trying to regroup databases because they are heavily underutilized and noone knows WTF they are running. And the organization will keep growing like that, adding new databases every day.
Nixon and Kissinger derived and expanded on this from ideas originally employed by Eisenhower.
Even without an Ego it is still impressive. Just imagine the steps that led to transmit these traits. How did the first ones know that by planting a seed a plant would grow? How did they know that by adding soil it would help to the growth of the plant?
Ants are so perfectly in harmony with the colony that I can't imagine how an ant would step into botany without external input; they don't have time to try new things, they're always doing a task for the greater good of the colony.
Vulnerabilities like buffer overflow do not happen in languages with a string type. Humans are responsible if something bad happens, but without a safety net, the outcome is worse.
Well, that's nice to have the same exact warning here in the comments that the article has, but I'm not sure it's necessary?
I am glad I had my SF adventure when I did. I lived there from 1996-2001 and paid less than US$900 for a charming Nob Hill bachelor. That same apartment goes for $3k today.

Currently I am in Toronto, paying CAD$1400 for a rent controlled one bedroom downtown that I have been in for over a decade. Current market price for same is CAD$1700, but this includes a flood of new condo units more luxurious than mine.

Toronto is looking good in comparison to US cities. It has all the amenities of SF, Seattle or Boston, though the IT salaries are not as high. Plus, no Republicans.
> Like the kind every European country figured out how to do properly

While I can't compare to US railways, EU railways have their fair share of issues. There might indeed be a fairly large offer, the structures running them seem to be an organisational mess in many countries.

Just some examples I know of:

* The Netherlands and Belgium ordered trains that were never able to drive [1].

* Rail is sometimes referred to as Germany's inefficiency secret [2].

* Rail privatisation in the UK isn't very popular [3].

Obviously it isn't all bad. But it also isn't organised properly in many EU countries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyra

[2] http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/a-series-of-defe...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatisation_of_British_Rail#...
>> On a couple of trips over the past few years, I've looked into taking trains between destinations in Western Europe (e.g. Dusseldorf to Paris) and it's turned out that taking the train was going to take me far longer and cost far more than flying.

That comparison is a little disingenuous, of course flying between two cities with an airport, that are not major hubs connected directly by hi-speed rail, will be faster and cheaper. Now consider how you'd get to Dusseldorf or Paris from whatever random smaller city with a train station (in western Europe basically any city with a population over ~100K). I'm not sure if there even are international airports around western Europe that arent directly accessible by train...

Besides traveling for business or pleasure, trains here are heavily used for commuter traffic as well. If you live and work close to a train station, which is quite common in the more densely populated countries, traveling by train will 100% be faster that sitting in a traffic jam every day. And in many cases your employer will even cover most or all of the cost (at least here in the Netherlands).

Obviously trains are still only point-to-point transportation, so if you need to be somewhere without a train station, or without many connections to larger hubs, you will lose time. But compared to the pitiful state of passenger rail in the US (or at least that's how I experienced it), it's pretty great here. I took the train from San Jose to SFO once: there was only one train every hour or so, which took something like 2:30 hours at a snails pace to get to San Francisco, then I had to get on the BART (which is actually pretty good), then I needed to get on the AirTrain, all just to get to the departures. By car it usually takes less than an hour... There really is no excuse for that...
Thanks!

In my case, there is a consistent message sent out to everyone and most people do work hard and eventually get rewarded. Some other people don't care and are OK not to grow and be at the same level for their entire life. I seem to be stuck with such people lately which is what I am trying to deal with.
Life After an Exit: How Entrepreneurs Transition to the Next Stage [pdf]
How about people beginning a sentence with "it's interesting, ..."
on edit: There are so many of these companies that are basically stylized versions of Alibaba listing pages or are basically re-skinning of some business process that, turns out, doesn't actually need to be disrupted. Transporting gasoline to fuel up someone's car? Really? We're going to be energy wasteful just to shave 10 minutes off someone's week?

The other disturbing thing is how many of these gadgets are IP enabled. I really hope YC has some kind of IoT advisor who insists upon security at a low level.
Open Sourcing DataFire
I'm glad they're releasing this, but it gives me a slightly funny feeling. "Here, have this tool we also use to hack you!"
Are we in a golden age of open source or just open-washing?
The exiling of Chris Christie from a position of responsibility in the transition team, and the termination of many (or all?) of his people on the transition team. That was very much a drain the swamp thing. So are the various bans on lobbyists/lobbying for some years after holding a position.

Putting Sessions' top dog or thereabouts in operational charge of the transition team. See the next item for why this isn't an establishment pick.

Nominating Sessions as AG; his position on immigration alone puts him way outside the establishment.

His Education Secretary, not so much or at all, I'll admit. But I'm in the "putting your children in today's public school is child abuse" camp anyway, so....

Picking Steve Bannon as his "Karl Rove". That's very much a sign this is not going to be a business as usual administration, as you can see from the Left's and the establishment's (but I repeat myself) total freak-out over that.

Citizens United ended a ban on core political speech, quite literally the government in oral arguments said it could be used to ban books, and it was specifically used to ban a movie about a candidate while she was running for office. Getting "money out of politics" is a pipe dream, but this was about silencing certain segments of the nation, and absent that decision by the Supremes it's hard to see how a civil war wouldn't have resulted sooner or later. That's the sort of thing that happens when you make it impossible for people to participate in the political process, at least, people who aren't going to surrender once that sort of thing happens. TL;DR: don't mess with the Bill of Rights.

That overturning Roe v. Wade is a consideration of his picks is hardly "solely"; long ago he published an initial list of suitable candidates, they're not one dimensional.

But while we're at it, you're eager to kill a core 1st Amendment political speech right while supporting a right literally conjured from the "penumbras" and "emanations" of other constitutional rights (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griswold_v._Connecticut). I don't see how there can be any meeting of minds between the two of us.
Kinder surprises still banned though?
IMO, pointing out the similarity between what Lilly preaches and what was — love it or hate it — a successful strategy in another field (that happens to be politics) is relevant and apolitical.
Or, the manufacturer of the batteries could recall them.

Also, plenty of phones have replaceable batteries, including new models, so I'll just keep buying them. Means I won't be buying Samsung, but that's just an extra bonus.
The idea that the agency banning the magnet balls is ignoring much more dangerous issues such as pools or balloons is interesting - I can think of many examples of disproportionate government enforcement. For example, huge sentencing for computer crimes that under the right circumstances can be more punitive than what a child molester or violent assaulter could expect, or the entirety of the insane war on drugs. I'd be curious to see what kind of "balancing" could be done on the legal system.
There were also incidents involving teenagers using them as jewelry.
In my experience it's generally safe to upgrade (and usually even downgrade) across post-GA point releases of the same major version, i.e. 5.6.22 -> 5.6.31 or vice versa.

You should always run mysql_upgrade to be safe, and I'd assume Uber's automation does this. But you probably won't encounter problems if you don't.

mysql_upgrade typically just makes some quick changes to the system schema ("mysql" database), not to other data. And it typically only needs to change things across major version upgrades (5.5->5.6) or pre-GA releases; it's rare to make a change in a point release of a major version much after the GA release.

That all said, I don't ever advocate using Docker for MySQL in production at this time; see my longer comment in another subthread below for reasoning.
Agree. A great code management feature like CTEs is limited to less data-intensive operations because of this :(
I hope this cuts down on negative reviews from obvious competitors too. I've seen that a lot on products where the product literally shows up on Amazon (a product I am selling) then within 12 hours has like 3-4 1 star reviews from non purchasing people. Obviously it hit some keyword they are searching for and then they go in and spam it. This is one of the reasons people are so crazy about trying to figure out how to get paid reviews and whatever because you very very often get spammers who work for a competitor who are trying to lower your rank to help themselves.
Samsung Defection from ARM to RISC-V
> Maybe this will help dispel some of the myth that Docker is useless for any scenario where you need persistent state.

Docker is useless for what is not stateless.

You can run database in Docker... until the assumptions of Docker will come back to bite you.

> There are still many advantages to wrapping your database in a container, and this post by Uber explains really well how and when to use this technique.

Well. Run databases in Docker if you've got 3000 clusters and your only concern [that you created yourself] is to run multiple of them on the same hosts.
> The other thing I would say is to stay close to professions that create and make things, and stay away from derivative professions like finance. I think makers increasingly have the power in our society.

Wow, interesting words from someone who works in finance.
People supporting the rule change are calling it a minor tweak, and Wyden is saying it's "an enormous policy shift." Wyden is still on your side on this one.
Being an UNIX clone available for free instead of having to pay for expensive Solaris, Aix, HP-UX, SGI workstations, while BSD was busy fighting AT&T helped.

UNIX is the VHS of operating systems.
I have. Many items are "Prime (ships in 3-5 days)". Seemingly at random, be they big or small (I usually shop more in the electronics and household sector).

I also live ~15mi from an Amazon distribution center, and ~50 miles from a second.
They're not ignoring pools nor balloons. The agency going after the ban only wanted suitable warnings to be included with the magnets, and for the company to stop selling them to children as toys.
Reinforcement learning in adversarial environments
> How is it that he was able to do this?

I suspect some Reddit users take Reddit a lot more seriously than is warranted, but I still find this sentiment more than a bit odd.

What kind of architecture did you think they had where the CEO wouldn't be able to run some UPDATE statements against the live database? Were you expecting a system of three administrators with interlocking physical keys who all must be present in the flesh?

Did you think Reddit was put together by the people who write software for banks?

Is the principle of least privilege, rigorously and scrupulously applied, all the way up to and including the CEO, something that startup culture has somehow led you to expect?
Yeah, sorry, I meant for unpressurized cooking.
Interesting analysis. I do wonder what a self rating for developers actually means: how do you define the difference between a high rating and a low rating? What is a great developer vs an average one?
"The more houses people buy to live in, the supply for houses for rent lowers."

Surely the demand for rental properties lowers by the same amount when someone buys a house.
but it's interesting to see the engineering chops needed to maintain this operation

No. Uber has clearly hired too many engineers and has too little for them to do, leaving them free to come up with Rube Goldberg contraptions like this one. This is not anything any company that isn't swimming in money should even contemplate (and neither is slapping a layer on MySQL and claiming to have invented a "new datastore"). The kids are incharge of the nursery over at Uber and they are in desperate need of a good, adult CTO...
Tried telling them that many times:

1. Learning about a wide variety of sub-products that few know about
2. Opportunity to influence the roadmap of these products
2. Potential financial reward in the form of a substantial raise
3. [Big picture] Enabling a wide-variety of new customers who will end up becoming revenue streams for the company
4. [3] is a major point to put in one's CV
5. etc.
> 3) Transferring data from one host to another when you need to bring up a stateful process does not scale. Above a few gigs, the transfer process creates significant load on both the source and destination host, and will easily saturate the link between the two...

It depends. @falcolas, could you point out a few other solutions then that? (for resharding live, other then replication / copy / rsync / ...)
ZEIT – Deploying GitHub Repositories
That's certainly a view I hadn't applied to myself until now, but yeah, I've been living in sunny climes for the last several years (BR/PT).
We don't sell fireworks nor guns to children. (At least, in the UK we don't).

The magnet companies sold these items as a toy to children and resisted efforts to put warnings on them and resisted efforts to stop them being sold to children.
The sad thing about the end of the cold war is that the governments are spending less resources on establishing such hidden underground societies
I miss being on a team with a proper DBA. Startups these days expect the full-stack dev to know everything under the sun. Your post was really great to read. Do you keep a blog?
Does anyone know more about the recent research into galactic cosmic rays? I believe the article has it completely wrong, but I'm not sure.
I've noticed a huge rise in people staring a response with "to be honest" or just "honestly".
I'm actually making no statement of technical competence but playing into the assumption of the GP. If he thinks muni is incompetent then they should take way longer than Y/L. In fact e's expecting them to be faster. In general GP wanted more than just about anyone who had expected this type of failure and had an active response with required 1-day SLA would be able to provide.
It doesn't surprise me that I had to scroll so far down in the thread to find this comment. Kudos for saying what needed to be said.

EDIT: Make your system as simple as possible, but no more simple than that.
That's a big conflict of interests and Amazon can't be trusted with it. The last thing I want is Amazon reviewing Hachette books instead of real readers. There are likely few categories where Amazon couldn't find a way to "optimize" profit based on the success or failure of certain products.
There is such a thing as path dependence. C got ubiquitous because of reasons (UNIX?), and now we're stuck with it.

Now the historical accident theory is pretty obvious: it could have been an Algol, Fortran derivative instead of C, if only UNIX used that as a basis. C itself could have been designed differently, and if so would probably have different flaws and qualities.

Asking for a Rust/Go/Whatever OS is dishonest, because you know full well it will fail for reasons that have nothing to do with the underlying language's intrinsic qualities: even if that OS is great, nobody expect it to be so great we all have to switch away from Windows and Linux. Well, except maybe if we prove the correctness of the kernel, hence ensuring the absence of many vulnerabilities. Research is ongoing, I'd like to see where that goes.
>To finish, with you being a Jew, "What you mean 'we,' kemosabe?" You're very much correct to weasel word "kinda-technically-white".

I like how you try to blame the Holocaust on the Left, and then admit that you're an alt-right neo-Nazi who fully intends that Jews be excluded if not eliminated from society.
For example, we support both SPDY and HTTP/2 and will do SPDY if an older client can't do HTTP/2. NGINX guys didn't want that.

We tend to publish rejected stuff as patches: https://github.com/cloudflare/sslconfig/tree/master/patches
This is a hilariously bad attitude for any software that other people will use. When software crashes, people lose work and time. When software has vulnerabilities, bad guys take advantage of them and build stronger botnets. "The danger" isn't like wiping out when you're pulling a stunt; "the danger" is wasting the good guys' time and empowering bad guys.

Computers aren't just tools, they're also toys. People use computers for entertainment in varied and sundry ways. What is so wrong with somebody wanting to enjoy hacking around in the low level guts of a system? As long as no lives or livelihoods are at stake, what's the problem?
Android world isn't that much better.

For example, the Sony M5 has a very unpredictable glitch - it did have a "workaround" (unlike this iPhone bug) but which significantly degraded usability - it was to to resort to 3G WCMDA network, 2G GSM GPRS/EDGE. I'm glad I didn't get it (free off contract)

http://www.manilashaker.com/fix-auto-shutdown-sony-xperia-m5...
You may want to look at Smolder:
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Smolder/lib/Smolder.pm, with main link
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Smolder/

Though this will probably require you to adopt TAP protocol.
Snarky dismissals of other people's work are not welcome on HN, so please don't post like this.

I tend not to post as many moderation scoldings in YC-related threads, but that was such a bad HN comment that I'll break the pattern for it.

Edit: you rewrote your comment to make it (somewhat) more substantive and less snarky. In principle that's fine, but it would have been more respectful to preserve the original context for the reader.
> There's nothing about these little magnets that make them worse than button magnets except for negligent adults.

When you buy an item marketed and sold as a toy you have a reasonable expectation that it's not going to cause the death of your child.
This has always been my problem with websites like codeacademy, and I started my entire career by learning through that website.

Take the Javascript course - a fantastic way to get introduced to the syntax of the language, and I highly recommend it for total noobies. But then you come out of it with no understanding whatsoever about what javascript is. If I asked someone who just finished the course to make an "app" that console.log'd to the console, they wouldn't understand where to start. They wouldn't know that JS is a language run in the browser, that they need an HTML file with a script tag or a node file that they can run in the terminal. They wouldn't know about DOM manipulation, etc.

This reminds me of the Java class I took in highschool - the teacher was going on about ints and floats and loops, and the only questioned I wanted answered, and never got an answer for, was "what does `public static void main` mean?" I think the fact that I never got an answer to questions like that are why it took me nearly 3 years into my career to figure out I should be a developer.
That's fine if it's a blog post about the book containing some excerpts and some analysis, but that's quite different from a link that simply leads to a form to fill out one's credit card info!
My kids knew not to put just about anything in their mouths by the time they had the fine motor skills required to pick up one of the magnets.
Paul Berman has written at least two books on the subject.
I think in most of Europe there's a relatively painful 50/50 balance between passenger and freight traffic. The freight trains run mostly at night. The tracks are used really, really hard, which causes maintenance issues.

It's quite hard to do track maintenance well when there's a train passing by every 5-10 minutes, 24/7. Maintenance windows can become really expensive.
I've experienced this problem as well. I really wish a customer review of an Amazon purchase were tied to a particular seller.

For example, I was recently looking at a Hario Buono kettle [1] to make coffee. There are two versions of it, one made in Japan and one made in China. Unfortunately they share the same model number. The Japanese version is considered better quality.

Of course Amazon has the lowest price compared to specialty coffee retailers, but since they don't differentiate between the two origins, it's a gamble. Different third party sellers stock one version or the other. You can see in the reviews that people have received both. Without the reviews being tied to a particular seller, it's hard to say what you'll get, so I'll end up buying from somewhere else instead.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Hario-VKB-120HSVV60-Buono-Pouring-Ket...
Not sure if you were just using a made-up example, but Tumblr primarily isn't on EC2 and never has been. For compute they were bare-metal from the start and moved to their own self-managed datacenters in 2012.
Right, I really wish when you clicked "Write a review" Amazon would explicitly ask: "Is this review about the product or its packaging / delivery to you?" and that the latter would then leave the review with the seller, not the product.
Sure there are, many of them look like candy (for instance, in reference to zenmagnets, the neoballs). I've not seen magnets sold in grocery stores or home stores that share that property. Additionally, the size and shape make them quite easy for a child to swallow.

What magnet have you seen in a grocery store or Home Depot that is the size and shape of a small gumball? Link?
Great single-purpose tool that does exactly what it advertises. I found AnyBar when searching for a programable menubar indicator. I use it at the end of a particle.io -> ifttt -> node/express/socket.io -> go-lang middleware -> AnyBar pipeline so I don't have to get up to check the only single occupancy restroom at the office.
While that machine was a beast at the time it cannot compete against a modern iPhone. There's just too many things working against it.