skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the postmortem culture and it's great to see people writing postmortems even when they don't have to. It would be nice to get to a point where postmortem is something that occurs naturally, with people expecting it and getting confused and asking questions if it didn't.

One can even imagine a future where each court case is followed by a postmortem. Possible bullet points:

1. Was this an actual problem? Did anybody get hurt? If not so, what's wrong with the law? How should we fix it?

2. What were the ultimate causes of the problem? Ok, A killed B, but why? Could it have been prevented?

3. What are the action items to prevent this exact scenario from happening again? Who's assigned to each action item? What's the deadline for the item?
coffeemug explained it himself in a podcast where he was interviewed about Rethinkdb (I don't remember the name of the podcast). Basically it boiled down to the fact that all existing databases (at that time) could be tuned with very little effort to take advantage of SSDs so that differentiating factor flew through the window
Congratulations! Is there any ETA on MAM in ChatSecure and will the beta-testing in TestFlight continue?
fwiw I've been using "bluhell firewall", and it captures the vast majority of ads with no perceptible cost. It has problems opening tracking links that I actually don't care about (i.e. it fails utterly), but that's work-around-able.

That and the open-tab-in-background "tab queue" keep me 100% preferring Firefox over Chrome. Plus it's Firefox - I'd much rather give them the activity than anyone else.
Jim Tcl actually looks about damn perfect. I'll definitely have to give that one a whirl.
I'm the Series A investor in FoundationDB, met with RethinkDB really early on, and really appreciate your post.
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Release 0.12.0 of Hy, a Lisp that compiles to Python bytecode
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C++ 17 Features
Search works incorrectly.

+WORD1 +WORD2 returns WORD1 OR WORD2 instead of empty set if there is no match.
If you can immediately buy and sell between exchanges it should quickly level the prices. Something like that is easy to automate, so any slight margin that appears will be almost instantly leveled.
I'd add "is the technology they use interesting" which for me is similar to their "is the team worth it". If I assume the company will fail but I got to hack some Lisp for a couple of years instead of writing Java code that might be worth something (languages picked just to make the point).
I don't know - that might be your ears ringing because the volume was too loud? Kind of like the ringing in your ears after you've been at a loud live music event?
It even has a name, didn't expect that. Thank you.
Thanks for the helpful tips! Can definitely implement some of these. Especially enjoyed the piece on data - we've got quite a bit of data that could probably make for some cool reports.
Just a tool to embrace the unknown.
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Yes, clicking a button or link will send a request to the server with some information in the header, such as which browser clicked from which IP.

Selecting the text will trigger no such request, the developer will still know who opened the site and searched for what, but he cannot know the exact torrent that was copied.
The `--i-am-a-dummy` flag, which I wish were called `--i-am-prudent` because we all are dummies.
Kenya buys Sh600M social media monitoring tool as people starve
MDs are not the only ones doing medical research.
I wonder if that's actually the motivation behind opening it up now rather than weeks or months from now. There are apparently efforts underway at other federal and federally-funded bodies (e.g. EPA, NOAA, NASA, some federally-funded college departments) to get backups of raw data into safe places in case Congress or the Trump administration orders it taken offline or even deleted [1].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/20...
Exactly. Money (as a carrot) like most tangible benefits (free lunch/drinks, foosball tables) won't motivate people for long. Weeks at most.

However, the lack of money (or other tangible benefits) that people feel owed is a huge motivation for those people to leave.
Agreed, there is still a market for that imo. couchDB has it, but it's so slow :(
Right now if you want a good DB and a pubsub/notification/streaming capability, that means either increased latency (polling the DB in your application layer and handle the notifications there) or using another dedicated system (kafka, redis, etc) with all the added complexity that introduce :(
Any good reference for ES2017 ? I believe the documentation is still lacking.
IMHO your rant does boil down to the fact that making the browser "end-user-hackable" through extensions was an untenable situation. I mean, you're both saying

"This was a big problem because if you recall, every time a new Firefox release dropped, it would cause massive breakage because APIs would be obsoleted and removed within the same release cycle."

and

"it was stupid not to recognize that extensions were highly valued by both the vocal minority and silent majority that were responsible for the number of Firefox holdouts, and b) making an end-user-hackable browser was, like, the natural consequence to be working on if you were serious about all rhetoric the people from your camp were spewing about making something that really was aiming to be a "user agent" meant to "put end users in control" so they could "experience the web on their own terms"."

I don't buy the argument that a searchable source index is what made or broke this. For starters, the approach you describe obviously doesn't scale. It's fixing a leaking roof with buckets. Resources were in fact better spent elsewhere, so yes, it's exactly "run-of-the-mill lamentations of someone's pet use case not being prioritized and coddled".

The idea that Firefox's add-on ecosystem was an asset rather than a liability did much to set the browser and the users' experience with it back for years, and it'll continue to do so as users lash out when their unrealistic expectations of XUL addons continuing to work are broken.
It was an inspection failure from SpaceX's perspective. The vendor mismanufactured the part initially, but the failure rates of the parts were very low (to the order of several out of a batch of 10000 units), hence they weren't caught in batch testing. Also note that metal performance at cryogenic temperatures is often very different. Certain impurities that are largely harmless at room temperature can cause metals to be completely brittle at 90 kelvin. So testing every single strut would be very expensive, though SpaceX probably does that now regardless.
> The idea that we only started doing this 50 years ago is terrifying to say the least.

It's also a flawed notion. There has been a concerted push in the last 50 years, but applying the scientific method to medicine is considerably older. Koch's Postulates, for example, were published in 1890.
Doesn't the military have a deliberate policy of ensuring high turnover environments by relocating all of its staff every couple of years?

Maybe there is something to be said for preventing people from getting too comfortable, or even establish trust relationships outside of the designated bureaucratic channels.
My point is that services don't come from thin air. There may have been things besides the roads that may need to get funded every year and not have enough surplus to cover the roads. You may even have priorities that are important enough that even if running them was a inefficient, you may need to fund them anyway while you try and improve efficiency. Introducing a tax so that you could finally fund a project is not at face value a bad idea.

I am not familiar with this particular instance. But the story about Clinton as it stands is not really relevant. Much like this sub-thread.
I'll give it a try as soon as there is an Android app. I'll run my own server. I've seen that it's a very simple Rails 5 application. It requires MySQL but by a quick inspection of the code it looks like that any db will do. I'm using PostgreSQL on my server and I'll try to make it run with it.
The screenshot looks a bit like Chef's Automate. The config example looks like Concourse's config (http://docs.screwdriver.cd/user-guide/configuration/index#ya...), but it doesn't look like they have task files.

They should write up a comparison to GoCD, Teamcity, Concourse, Jenkins, Chef Automate, etc. It can be pretty hard to evaluate these things without losing a month.
Firefox says 'your connection is insecure' and I need to add a security exception. Don't know why.
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Having had a friend's girlfriend go into the hospital during a mindfulness meditation retreat last weekend, be careful. Meditation can be as psychologically powerful as a strong drug trip - done well it's immensely uplifting, but a bad trip is similarly damaging.
Job security does not fade away for software developers for now
> Manning did commit a crime.

Not actually. Manning was required by law to refuse and report illegal orders. And not just make a show of reporting it and then back to business as usual.

> didn't it also do things like give away the positions of some undercover agents?

No, but that'd be our fault anyways, for mixing legal and illegal.

> And harm US diplomatic relations with other countries?

The truth didn't harm relations, doing the things that the allies found out about in the first place was the problem.

> Look at it from the POV of the government: How could they not punish Manning?

Um, admitting fault and correcting it. But yeah, we know that'd never happen so what could they do but shoot the messenger?

> It would do a lot to encourage others to indiscriminately leak classified info.

Doubtful. The motivator in Manning's case wasn't the ease or difficulty of leaking, but the crimes that needed exposing.
Oh, Thanks. When I was a child I asked all the adults around about this, but they looked at me like I were a lunatic, so eventually I just stopped talking about it.... :) Glad to have an answer now.
Have you been tested for food intolerances/allergies? Especially wheat? Do you also suffer from atopic dermatitis?
Interested in the speed you're seeing.

I use Gambit-C scheme for most of my scheme needs because of the speed, but it seriously lacks in libraries, that Racket has in abundance.
Sorry i am the one who leaked .
@coffeemug we greatly appreciate your effort and rethinkDB is well architectured database in existance. We gonna keep using it and contribute to Rethinkdb .
>>This is war. The video clearly shows that soldiers made a decision made on an honest, although tragic, mistake.

Um, they fired on a van despite realizing that it had come to pick up the wounded. Geneva Conventions clearly state that hospitals, both fixed and mobile, ambulances, hospital ships, medical aircraft, and medical personnel are not to be fired upon.

https://youtu.be/5rXPrfnU3G0?t=9m10s

(You'll also note the trigger-happy attitude of the gunner. He kept begging for permission to engage, and at one point got pretty frustrated that he was having to wait. Like the OP said: chilling.)
Buoyancy is related to density, which is independent of gravity. Check: buoyancy can exist in a non-inertial reference frame provided acceleration in a "downward" direction.

Also, you don't need gravity to be the force being acted against in order to form a wave. You can get impact waves in water at 0g because of surface tension.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buoyancy
That is indeed a valid point. Unfortunately, most of biology can also be qualified of "soft science".
I however expect that a new age is coming for medicine: the age of science (the real one, this time). We are already seeing the birth of sizable databases exploited by professional scientists, but this is still a very minor part of the research output, and the signal-to-noise ratio is currently dismal. Additionally, the progress of medicine is somewhat parallel to the progress of hard science. What is lacking the most, is solid data and the methods to collect them.
MAM will be in 4.1, but there's currently no timeline for that release yet. We plan to do a 4.0.1 release soon to resolve some bugs, and then start working on 4.1. If you signed up for the 4.0 beta, you'll get notifications for the next beta as soon as its ready.
Free tents?
You usually use localStorage for e.g. user settings that are not stored on the server. There are many sites that give you the possibility to change a preference or two without the need for an actual account on the site. That sort of information is usually stored in one of the client-side storages.
Not even diagramming relationships between tables?
clicking a magnet link wont fire a request to the server.
yes you can track who clicked a magnet link with javascript but you can track who selected the text with javascript also.
It does seem odd to me that they chose to fork Chromium instead of Firefox

WebKit/Blink/Chromium have a large webcompat advantage due to superior marketshare, and Firefox's embedding story is weak. WebKit is big enough that it's hard for Google to bully out users even if they can make piggy-backing on Blink more annoying. It depends on how hard you depend on Chromium vs how hard you depend on the underlying rendering engine.

IIRC at least their first Android browser did fork Firefox, simply because it had a much superior embedding/customization story than the desktop version.
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I see your point now. I guess it all comes down to whether the arbitrageur is willing to take the risk of not being able to cash out bitcoins on the leveraged exchange. Leverage certainly increases the risk of not being able to withdraw, and often when you need it the most.
It isn't "quite real damage," it's potential damage. Without revealing and adressing the past deaths, you can expect there to be future deaths. The point of revealing isn't to say "hey we did awful shit," it's to say "we're doing awful shit and it needs to stop."
with all free services it starts this way ( look at imgur and so on. ) and eventually ends in ads ridden monster.

but we usually end up in a couple of years great service, before they figure out that they could be earning money with serving ads or selling data.
LSD is not a predictable experience, practice 1) and you have the skills on tap, anytime, anyplace, forever :) Meditation is like exercise, you don't need to know why it works, or whether it is working, just do it !
Yeah, focus your outrage on the leaker not the murderers or the cover-up.

Neither reason nor morality made our government listen to criticism from within but maybe the pain of suffering these leaks will.
Nice reading and Kudos to the entire RethinkDB team for what they have done, especially the evangelization of the Reactive Model in the database. This inspired other vendors like OrientDB to do the same.

Running a company where a large part of the users is developers is very hard. The secret sauce is providing a good product and create a business where some of the users would pay to have something more, like support and/or an Enterprise edition.

The truth is, AFAIK, no NoSQL company backed by VC is still profitable today. Not even MongoDB that has got more than $300M and is able to collect just $60M/year by spending much more to be up & running.

Disclaimer: I'm the author of OrientDB.
They likely won't, but would be awesome if someone here on HN did!
Cholesterol is less of a risk factor than previously thought but still plays a role. But the main factor in preventing hearth disease is lifestyle; avoid chronic stress, exercise, get enough sleep.
Looks interesting. Need a lot more information.
A) 538 was one of the few sources that actually gave Donald Trump a decent chance, and IMHO 538 is one of the few sources that was discussing about the limitations of traditional polling. A lot of other sources were more blindly trusting of the polls.

B) The data in the link contains data that is not just about politics. Data includes such non-political topics as, say, "Where Do People Drink The Most Beer, Wine And Spirits?" to "How Americans Like Their Steak".

"Fake news" has unfortunately become a convenient euphemism that usually means the person saying it doesn't like a particular site's political stance. Fine, but what do the above type statistical sets have to do with election politics in the first place?

C) To be honest, since the data sets actually are present, a "this is fake news" sort of post seems lazy. If you have issues with 538's reporting, dive into R and report on any issues you find. Or do you think all of these datasets are fake? That's a tall claim without proof.
>>Chelsea Manning did break the law.

So did the government. But no one from the government spent any time in prison (much less solitary confinement) for it.
More now that what.cd is gone.
I didn't think it was bad until I realized there was no feature to export your notes.
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18-year-old self would be comparing with entry level, rather than senior level, salaries. If you account for both that and inflation, the right question is "how would your 18yo self feel about $45k/y?"
Great to read that vector toolbar icons and Gtk3 are on their radar screen. HiDPI devices have been rolling out for 3+ years, so I hope the fixes get in soon.
Sky TV will be on it in no time
Hello HN , sorry for the early leak. I posted as I've discovered on github after looking around rethinkdb progress.

RethinkDB as a product is not dead.The community and one of ex RethinkDB senior developer are still maintaining it. Since it is fully Opensourced , we are welcoming contributors , lets make RethinkDB great , together!

https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb

Here are current rehtinkdb plans :
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f8qODp7voKIqwioQ3si69q3-...

Most of ex RethinkDB developers are going to keep contributing rethinkdb, after things got settled down a bit.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c27S3Ij2WLB_JiUmpIGkbwJO...

Please try out rethinkdb , and if there any questions we are activly answering at :
https://rethinkdb.slack.com/messages/general/

Please join https://rethinkdb.slack.com/messages/open-rethinkdb for OpenRethinkDB updates.

Thank you very much , rethinkdb is an excellent Database.
I see a lot of New users at RethinkDB slack.
Before RethinkDB slack was quite empty but now it have lot more active user after RethinkDB Shutdown.

@coffeemug , those who've tried rethinkdb are staying with rethinkdb. The product is not a failure and the actual users values the standards you have set!

Many of us are going to stay with RethinkDB .
Most public servers are pretty bad in terms of modern XMPP features [1]. Trust is also a big issue, but one of our goals is to solve this problem by making it much easier to run your own server. We currently default to Dukgo for new registrations but they don't support many of the XEPs required for a good mobile experience (0198, 0313, 0357).

1. https://gultsch.de/compliance.html
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What is the business model ?
Considering they went from about four computers accessing the db, to the Internet, I'm leaning more towards the reddit/HN/whatever-effect :)

Here's to hoping the "someone who got called in to fix it" makes a tremendous work in scaling it.
That's quite a price to pay for being an idiot. Either he should've argued he didn't have the password (it was on the drive they erased), or he should've just given it to them.

If he wanted to "stick it to them", he should've gone with the first option.
Quality of the publication/author, recomendations, and relevance of the subject matter. It's a proven model: it's the same way I determine quality movies or books before I pay for them.
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The news only reports change. If the advice isn't changing then it won't be in the news. That makes it feel like everything is changing because we conviently ignore all the advice that hasn't changed. If you look at medical advice as a whole it hardly changes at all, so most of it never gets in the news.

Also, most people follow news organisations that are fastest instead of following the organisations that are slower but rigourous. It doesn't matter if the advice is wrong; it still gets more eyeballs.
Product Development, Sales and Marketing, and General/Administrative
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFeYFZVqTss
Exactly,

I have been doing bitcoin arbitrage for a while with https://github.com/butor/blackbird/ . The project seems to have gotten some more attention recently for what ever reason.
finders (sales - those that bring in the $$$) = customer machine
minders (admin, finance, hr, etc) = company machine
grinders (the grunts who actually do the work - for a tech company this is the engineering dept) = product machine
I'd call the cops on bank robbers even knowing they may get "damaged" during capture because I think the benefits to society outweighs the harm.

Besides, we saw ~10 people blown away in that one video. That's a fair number of eggs you'd get to break by leaking before even being at parity with that one instance, let alone all the others.
I offer this in the interests of maintaining what I see as a useful, if difficult, discussion, not to be antagonistic:

http://www.jclinepi.com/article/S0895-4356(16)00147-5/abstra...

What the OP is referring to isn't unique to MDs, it's endemic to much biomedical research today. I blame it on lack of tenure protections and science-as-university-income, which in many cases ultimately stems from indirect costs charged to federal grants, or the current grant system.

For me, the concerns mentioned in this thread about scientific research and MD training in particular, bring up bigger issues pertaining to the culture of hierarchy in medicine and its implications for quality of care and competition in service provision and training models.
I explicitly mentioned best companies.
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No, the parens don't constitute a barrier of any kind, really. Reading lisp fluently requires very consistent indentation, though. Then you see where an expr starts and where it ends (with nestings and all) without counting any parens whatsoever.

When writing lisp your editor should help you at least a bit to make things enjoyable. They can help a lot, but doesn't have to help much; I found for myself that if the editor just highlights matching parens, I'll be very effective.
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Should say CUDA instead of GPU.
Customer marketing is actually very interesting but it might not work for certain niches in law, medicine, etc...
I never download torrent files, just look for the magnet link. Same feature, why bother downloading?
It does sync: https://github.com/HappenApps/Quiver/wiki/Cloud-Syncing
Why not markdown?
Anyone know of a tool that can create those nice diagrams?
This article is a very long write about nothing. Throws up topics and questions, and provides no explaination or answer.

An example of medium click bait that leads to medium's eventual demise. Being a platform for badly written PR bullshit will not work out for medium imho.
Yes!

At first I literally couldn't believe what I was seeing - ZERO third-party bullshit in uMatrix. Not just none to unblock to make the site work - none at all!

(Apparently you can make a website without downloading Bootstrap from someone's external CDN...)

And then... oh my God, how fast the site is. I can actually feel I have a somewhat modern, powerful computer. Usual day-to-day browsing makes me forget that.

So yeah, for this reason alone I'll be using and recommending this site. Great job!