skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're making some assumptions. For example if you use epaxos for the quorums there is no unavailability due to a leader failure and re-election. Even then, re-election is likely going to be a lot faster than any sort of fault tolerant 2PC coordinator recovery protocol. You're exaggerating the write amplification. The above offering is single region. Google says they do 5 way geo in their various papers/etc, and there's no way they're paying some cumulative 15 copy write amplification as you imply.
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It would actually be better for the White House datasets to be cataloged and managed via catalog.data.gov. They posted some speeches and videos back in 2014 but have been running their own show since then.

https://www.data.gov/metrics

Notice that White House is listed as having a total of 4 datasets.
Upgrading to new graphics cards has a very high fixed cost which may not necessarily be offset by the decrease in variable costs from efficiency.
Google owes a fiduciary responsibility to its investors. Maintaining relations with a fool like that is bad for business, and could expose them to shareholder suit. There is even more than speech, not that Google wields coercive power to prevent speech in the first place.
This includes all workers, including childcare, public schools, museums and garbage disposal. The administration itself has around 8000 employees. They do practically all everyday tasks: issue parking fines, marry people, register residents, issue residence permits for foreigners, organize all elections, grant building permits, organize the city's own construction, plan traffic, register cars, and so on. Maybe you can streamline a process here or there but there is not much you can save.

Regular ID cards are printed by a central contractor in Berlin (presumably automated). However, emergency ID cards or passports are printed directly in the office with special ink. There is not much you can automate here – it doesn't happen too often but can't be batched as people need them immediately. Just with ID cards I can think of a lot of other specialized hardware: optical scanners for the ID card itself, optical scanner for paper documents, fingerprint readers, contactless readers, automated forgery checkers, and probably more. All of that needs to be supported.

I can't think of many processes that still aren't automated that could be. The only thing is that most internal processes where many employees need to work together are still paper based and a file is often transported physically to a couple of people – for example to have a medium-sized contract at least the case worker, their supervisor, the tender office, a lawyer, and the treasury need to have it on their desk. But paper is going to be replaced with an electronic file system soon (but again – that is probably not developed for Linux and needs to be ported).
2016 Nobel prize was awarded to Yoshinori [0] for his work on Autophagy [1] - Cells eating dead cells and auto-correcting body functions when there is lack of calories/energy in the system.

Ancient philosophy also says about fasting 2 days a week. The Autophagy process provides a scientific foundation for those claims.

[0] https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autophagy
As mentioned elsewhere, the average user probably doesn't know or care about JavaScript. They do know and care about simplicity and speed. Not having JavaScript (or only very little) often positively affects speed. (See Hacker News vs Redis on mobile for an example of this.)
yup. Its like i said: redux is simple. Middlewares are what makes it complicated.

Redux-loop had a nice model for side effects, but the syntax did not mesh well with javascript limitations. Redux-saga is nice for testing, but it adds new non-standard concepts on top of generators that make it complicated. I really like the Netflix solution (redux-observable).

Since JS is not Haskell, side effects can be shoved to the side a bit, but there aren't a whole lot of ways to make them nice.

CycleJS probably has one of the better systems. In Redux, even without redux-observables, if you closely follow redux semantics I find that reasoning around thunks works quite well (if you're making sure that your actions are semantic and not glorified setters)
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Wow! That seems like a pretty slow swimming pace to anyone who has swam in a competitive settings. It is shocking that that pace is top 0.1% of swimmers.

But your observation seems accurate, not many people swim.
Along these lines, well, in parallel and a few doors down, there's Alacritty, a GPU-Accelerated Terminal Emulator written in Rust.

https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty
I usually add on the content to existing articles these days cuz of the frigging deletionists.
This is like saying "well, our side lost 90,000 out of our 100,000 soldiers, but the fact that you can still find 10,000 soldiers on our side means the enemy didn't win!"
Some people do prefer to work on a new article in their user space (sub-pages of their user page which you're free to edit without interference) until it's in shape to be moved to mainspace (the actual Wikipedia that you can search).
Wouldn't the write master be I/O-bound, rather than CPU- or memory-?
"And you can bet that countries like China and Russia aren’t far behind" - I am a Russian citizen and I cross the border of Russia very frequently and I cannot agree with the statement. The worse thing I've been asked about was "what is the goal of your trip". Getting your phone on the border of Russia is something impossible, it's just unimaginable. I've never been asked to show anything except for my passport. At least now and for the time before this moment.
The hardcoded plan (PlanID 2) that I had in my program was pointing to a 4 GB 2 CPU plan (4 GB), now it's pointing to a 2 GB 1 CPU plan (2 GB).
I like that. We do something semi-similar at Optimizely, where we have all go-to-market employees walk through the ticket answering process with our Technical Support Engineers. Makes the customer demands feel very real, and gives other parts of the org ideas for discrete improvements.
Crazy marketing idea leads to OpenTable cease and desist
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Well, I think there's a lot to learn about management then. This makes it interesting. Nobody in my family (even extended) works in tech and the places they work at management exclusively means managing people by giving them work and taking back product. Also micromanagement.

I'll have to experience it once I get into a job (starting this July). Thanks for the insight.
>It would not be hard to offer minor but relatively simple identity validation for users. Or dabble with the ability to create trust networks or reputation. Or offer basic mechanisms for safe transactional payments.

And when users are lulled into a false sense of security from these changes, who is all of a sudden liable when things go south? CL being barebones is a feature, not a bug.
If I wanted to be a monster and screw over the guy who already successfully lent me a package of 100 PAL games back in September, and was nice enough to lend me another, and say "well it's all your fault for not paying for more insurance!", I could do that.

But that is not the kind of person I am. He was doing me the favor. If not for my asking, he'd still have all his games right now. And I'll make it right if I have to.

But I'm still holding out hope that someone at USPS might notice this and lend a hand.
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Great service, but be careful simply cancelling payment and assuming the problem will solve itself. That's how people wind up being sent to collections with huge fees tacked on.

For example, people regularly cancel cards or move and assume "the gym will figure it out" only to discover two years later that that $20/month bill is now a $600+ bill and they're being hounded by a collections agency.

Credit scores make this even more risky (if you care about such things).
it is the top-voted comment right here before you even made your post.
Ah, somehow I missed the part where you mentioned you wanted to use a shared-disk FS. That puts you in the unenviable position of wanting to use properly a niche feature that would be misused to catastrophic effect more often than not.
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Are users screaming that? I like Craigs List as is. To me, it's sort of the classified equivalent of Hacker News. Minimalist, fast, gets the job done, not cluttered, not encumbered with useless junk (other than the listings. :)
Awesome resource! And thanks!
Keygen is missing https://www.w3schools.com/TAgs/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml5_k... which is available in Firefox 51.
Why aren't politicians making easier to hire people part time? It would benefit not only the unemployed but also the employed that wants to trade part of their salary with more free time.
Actually, there are lots of reasons why it's hard to share a service externally. Making a service public means you have to deal with lots of new problems like billing, abuse, dealing with lots of small users instead of a few large ones, stronger backwards compatibility requirements and so-forth.
Maybe... I personally doubt I'll be savoring the sweet 70+ years of age period if I make it there.. but who knows I guess. I'd rather enjoy my life and not worry so much about "one day I'll be glad I deprived myself of so much." There is a balance as others have said too though.
It says they tweaked it per person, those are just approx amounts. They were measuring weight to make sure it stayed on track for that loss. So I think the deficit varies slightly.

It says they picked people from the CPS(civilian public service) work camps, so I would guess they were doing a lot of physical labor.
You can create "value" without needing to sell your data. By offering free services to small sites they can gather more data on browser profiles, attack patterns, attackers, etc. which they can use to improve their techniques, tuning, intel, analytics, etc.

Still, I would assume by signing their ToS you are agreeing to some hefty terms.
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>The package was insured for 1000 Euros.

end of story.
What company?
I have thought about this too and while I think it is a good starting point, there are many variables you may not have thought of, such as is it about heart rate on average or perhaps more about actual number of heart beats in a lifespan (eg, short high-intensity workouts vs distance running? Drugs that increase heart rate being used daily, etc)

I honestly think it might not be about caloric intake itself, but the content of those calories. Papers like this:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3718635/

Make me wonder what the effect of certain foods might be on telomere and mitochondria. In the same way it has been shown that charred or overcooked meats (red meats in particular) can have certain adverse long term effects, it makes me wonder if certain chemicals or cooking methods contribute to reduction of effenciency in cells mitocondria or can cause dna damage that results in shorter life spans.

In this case, the increase in caloric consumption might just be that with more calories in, the more likely some of those calories are to be ones that might damage some tissue functionality somehow, and it's the actual calories to life expectancy is more of a correlation and less of a causation.

Here is a paper that showed "For every 1 serving/d greater intake of processed meat, the T/S ratio was 0.07 smaller".

http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/88/5/1405.full

On your note though, I would say everything we have talked about indicates that one particular combo would seem to be an ideal starting point for reaching an effecient balance: high intensity excercise to increase metabolic effeciency paired with meditation excercise to reduce standing heart rate/stress hormones.
I'm not sure that that is worse than excessive credulousness. I think it's advisable to be skeptical of the news in any source, no matter how reputable -- who are the sources? What are their motives? Is this analysis credible and does it fit with the facts presented? Even the big names get it wrong.
Interesting. I imagine Craigslist must indeed be pretty popular—how many people does it need to employ to do that little?
Is it still "premature optimization" if it bites after 12 years?
They only get two tickets. And I simplified the explanation a bit. It's a lot like a sports draft. The longer you are a member, the better your odds are of winning the lottery on the better tickets.
Is this what the halt state for Western civilization looks like? Very high quality of life, long lifespans, and essentially no crime, but at a cost of rampant ennui.

The shrinking population thing is basically happening in every first world country, we only notice it in Japan because their immigration policy is essentially "No."
> I have never yet seen a system that cannot be beat by scalpers, including paperless ticketing,

I have seen such a system. A festival near me has a limited number of tickets available each year (due to site and staff restrictions) with surprisingly high demand. Their solution is to do a lottery that gives people an opportunity to buy tickets, requiring the name of each individual ticket recipient at purchase, then they match the names on each ticket to IDs at the gates. The only way to defeat this system is with fake ids.
You assume this isn't all on purpose as part of their "retention strategy." Pretty sure this is now taught in MBA farms to the latest batch of grads as everyone does it...

Nobody measures the lost repeat business due to these retention strategies because most people don't look beyond the current fiscal year.
Pagespeed is a ranking factor, but it's far from the most important one. I would think deeply about what might make humans engage with your competitor's site for longer than yours.
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One improvement they could make that seems like an unambiguous win for society would be an open API. That way they could continue to run the site however they like, but people interested in other experiences could seek them out as well. I can see why a business might prefer to keep a monopoly on their data (although there are business advantages to providing an API as well), but I can't see any argument from a purely user-focused perspective. Obviously I'm biased, but (for instance) the response to padmapper didn't seem to be about maximizing value for users.
I like merge sort, but quick sort is also very elegant.
I'm really glad they're not making the site "better", because it works fine the way it is. Making it "better" these days would clutter it up with a ton of unnecessary graphics and scripty whooshy hover widgets that pop up over whatever it is you're actually trying to do after wasting a whole bunch of load time pulling in 10+ MB of Javascript from god knows where.

It works, and I'm really glad they're leaving it that way.
"silly"
I wonder what's the best way to apply this to daily life. Restriction at every meal vs alternative day restrictiona vs fasting a few days every once in a while.
> Mostly, they're building mediocre versions of what already exists

Yes and as such they can easily be summarized into X for Y. It shows no originality and it requires no thought.
The point is that the article is likely to be deleted, so if anyone sets up their own wiki it's a net win, since the information won't be deleted altogether.
It would be interesting to connect Pathfinder to Alacritty. They accelerate two different things: Pathfinder accelerates the glyph rasterization (converting the vector outlines to bitmaps), while Alacritty accelerates the glyph compositing (blitting the bitmaps onto the screen).
Having worked in the robot-assisted surgery field, I can tell you that Mako (Abovitz's previous "success") was similarly hyped and was acquired for an enormous sum despite the facts that (1) surgeons hate using it and (2) patient outcomes are no better [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24574012]
How Sonos will take on Alexa and Google: by integrating them
>And how often do airlines lose luggage? More often than packages go missing.
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Are you sure that's true? I think the loss rates of both are around 1%

But yeah as dtparr said, obviously don't check your luggage. If it's too big to carry on, take it to the gate instead of baggage drop to ensure that it's manually put on the plane.
This reminds me of the very insightful article "Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths"[1] posted on hn a couple of years ago.

I'm not sure to what degree it can be mitigated, but it sure seems like something to account for when engineering social content communities.

[1] https://meaningness.com/metablog/geeks-mops-sociopaths
You did a nice job explaining why consumers should choose the local service option, but you didn't address why the service options shouldn't/can't launch in those regions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Tom_Parr

He existed and even thrived on a diet of “subrancid cheese and milk in every form, coarse and hard bread and small drink, generally sour whey”, as William Harvey wrote. … "On this sorry fare, but living in his home, free from care, did this poor man attain to such length of days".

Thomas Howard brought him to London to meet King Charles I.

Parr was treated as a spectacle in London, but the change in food and environment apparently led to his death.
> Newspapers are exempt from do not call lists

That does not appear to be true.

> Exempt Organizations include charities or certain non-profit organizations, organizations engaged in political solicitations or surveys, or Sellers or Telemarketers that call ONLY consumers with whom they have an established business relationship or from whom they have obtained the express written agreement to call.
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You're also allowed to own 100 Lamborghinis, but that doesn't make it feasible for most people.
But why sue? They will be happy to return full sum of the insurance.
Another likely reality here is that there are A/B/C tests running, and this person just fell into a cohort where 12 month options were unavailable by chance.

Either way, i'm just a pessimist, going digital isn't easy for any legacy company and it's clear they're all struggling.
There's another factor which the article misses: being a great critic isn't at all the same as being a correct critic. Great critics take risks, flirt with contrarianism, point out flaws that other observers miss or gloss over. Not only are they not "neutral"--no one can really look at art neutrally, anyway--but they are particularly likely to take eccentric views. A negative view of a well-regarded classic can do a lot more to spark the imagination, to make the work exciting, than a boring list of the work's obvious virtues.
So you recklessly decided to post something inflammatory just because you think there's "overwhelming reason to believe" it--so overwhelming that you haven't cited it? Meanwhile "hopefully" we'll have more information "if someone looks further into" it?

When Trump does this the New York Times calls it a lie. He often says we "need to figure out what the hell is going on," just like your "if someone looks further into this."
(I have my own, and I'm probably the only user ;) https://pypi.python.org/pypi/obiwan/ )
Yeah, so I never used kijiji until I moved out of Toronto. Within metro Toronto proper craigslist seems to be used more? Or hast that changed.
And yet this probably only happened because it was getting coverage.

I did my time as a Wikipedia editor. I've watched others do it, too. It's exhausting. You end up obsessively checking your watchlist multiple times a day, then every hour, then multiple times per hour, because you never know when someone will get you in their sights. And then you have to be prepared to obsessively watch talk pages and project pages and noticeboards 24/7 to be ready to come back in and copy/paste sources and arguments and the appropriate WP:IMEMORIZEDWIKISPEAK links over and over and over again to try to defend something. And even then you probably won't succeed.

Wikipedia is eating itself and is smugly proud of it. The effort involved in creating and preserving a piece of worthwhile content is orders of magnitude higher than the effort involved in deleting it, and people who get stuff deleted also get rewarded for doing so, while people who create and maintain get comparatively very little recognition. Eventually Wikipedia will have only two articles, someone will propose merging them, and them someone else will speedy-delete the last one for breaking various rules. And that'll be the end of it.
We as a community need to invest into people who are willing to take the time and duplicate all data that is "public and open source" in truly independent repo's. Its simple as that, we know from history that as times change, government changes, political policies change, the truth becomes a victim.
16 hours, multiple times. Sometimes no bugs/clean deployment, other times a lot of re-work.
Many interesting points here, but the most striking to me is how this is yet another industry that is socializing their costs by paying employees so little that they have to get food stamps, hiring people part-time so you don't have to pay benefits, etc. I guess you sort of expect that from Wal-Mart, but a university?

It is true that supply exceeds demand for PhDs, especially in humanities, and prospective PhDs should be aware of this, but I can't really see any excuse for this behavior by universities. It's bad for the taxpayer, bad for the employee, and bad for the students. Only one it's good for is the administrator, who can pocket a bonus for cutting costs. The government shouldn't stand for this, IMO. I think this would be a good way to frame an argument for a minimum wage in such a way it would appeal to a conservative. "Businesses: you must pay employees enough so they aren't eligible for (most forms of) public assistance."

As the link points out, faculty are complicit too by taking on unsustainable numbers of grad students out of pure self-interest.
Not fair.

Amazon: IaaS

Google: PaaS

Amazon is philosophy is being 'close to the metal' to allow Enterprise customer to migrate 'regular apps' into a 'regular environment' in the cloud.

Most of Google's offerings are (at least were) novel, but proprietary ways of doing specific things.

Amazon is not a laggard: they have provided a number of interesting and useful 'helper' things to facilitate IaaS - as well as a number of 'pure cloud' type things.

Amazon is very, very customer focused. Their products come from customer demands.

Google often 'cool things they've done internally' and exposes them, hoping that they might have some use-case in the rest of the world.

Google and Amazon are equally interested in profit.
Why would it matter what he expected? It was the sender that failed to insure it properly.
Yes, I'm not really claiming (I hope obviously) that CL simply can't be improved from the point of view of their users .

Rather, I'm objecting to the "naive economist" approach being touted as clear evidence of, well, anything really.
Yes, restricting a standard western diet to 25% is can be awful when you're addicted to easy digested and processed foods. Our homeostasis mechanisms did not evolve with those.

Your assumption that you will be "hungry all the time" is incorrect. It's quite easy to run a 25% deficit in keto. So easy that difficulty maintaining body weight is a big reason people stop.
Might want to look into pgq and/or logical decoding. Both can give more guarantees than LISTEN/NOTIFY.
This [1] is a bit dated - maybe from 2014 - but still quite relevant to this discussion. Some new entrants have made their way in like AptDeco - and some have fallen off. Overall, there is still tons of opportunities to supplant Craigslist piece-by-piece.

[1] http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/4dd4d1cf4bd7c8c90f0...
Wait, so you didnt even reimburse him cost of insurance?