skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Though the article begins by noting that POSIX was first developed over 25 years ago, that opener is actually misleading and sets the wrong tone for the article's content.

POSIX has been continuously developed since the first version was ratified.

The POSIX of 25 years ago didn't have threads or async I/O, for instance.

Then what the article criticizes is precisely the lack of use of mostly the newer stuff from POSIX, not of what was developed over 25 years ago.

Nowhere do I see the claim that functions like open, unlink or chdir are being replaced by something home-spun in Java or what have you.

So the argument boils down to this TL;DR: "new activity in POSIX over the past quarter century has been increasingly bloating the specification with committee-designed cruft that few applications use."
Just to read an article from wsj? No thanks.
I don't really see why the whole foods hate is so hip. I shop there routinely and buy mostly the non packaged stuff. Organic vegetables and fruits are cheaper than in most chains and I really have not found any other place where I can get grass fed (tasty), pasteurized (convenient), non homogenized (yes it makes a difference. In taste and texture and arguably healthier) milk. Of course I do not buy the silly precut fruits and stuff. But if someone finds it convenient and doesn't mind spending the money I don't care. But in the end I shop there because most stuff there is made from good simple ingredients and I don't have to spend a long time reading ingredient lists especially the ones that changes often
On Booking.com mostly, they have feedback on Wi-fi. But yes, it's super frustrating.
I'm guessing because most SETI research is done in the states and partially financed by taxpayer money. I don't know the specifics, but at first contact they would be an advisory panel to the president and government and our government would hopefully disseminate the data from our receivers to other nations.
Good point on 2 and 3. Should just involve checking the previous commands return code before echoing the uuid. I'll get that patched up and ship a new version in a bit.

Not sure what you mean exactly by 1 and 4 though.
This is 200 lines of bash using the file system as a database. The term document store implies a database which this is not. How is this different than just writing files to a directory?

What are the use cases of this project?
> India never suffered from war

After Independence and Partition? India never had to deal with war??
>> most syscalls on MacOSX are just plain slow as compared to Linux (or FreeBSD). I think this is partially an artifact of performance not being a major metric for most system calls on MacOSX

This. When flat out milliseconds per syscall is deemed to trump actual functionality and usability of the operating system as a whole, your priorities are simply wrong. Nerding out over obsessive metrics is literally that - nerding out over useless micro-details rather than real-world needs. When your loyalties fall solely upon a race-to-the-bottom speed on POSIX standards that are 40 years old... sigh.

We come across this kind of thing whenever someone releases a new pre-alpha, first-time-endeavour, operating system. Arguments like "It's not 100% POSIX!". Excuse me, but if you think that POSIX is the only valid foundation for an operating system, you're pushing your previous experience as the only facet that matters, rather than any actual measure of quality or merit. The ability to easily port existing applications is not the only metric that is going to dictate the operating system of the future. POSIX is so ancient at this point that it should have been iterated upon a multitude of times by now. It's so out of date it's almost a joke - we're basically still building our operating systems with horses, without even considering that a mechanical or electrical engine is even a possibility.

For 99.9% of use cases, this kind of metric is so far beyond worth even mentioning that it sounds like a farce. Nobody cares about the performance of mkfile. Nobody. If you're one of the very few people wasting your energy on such a thing... holy shit... get over it and modernize your way of thinking. We're not living in 1980; and no, it's not that the "reasonable old ways no longer gain any respect or recognition" - it's that you are trying to live in the past. Move on.
Me and my boyfriend were talking about possible tiles to use for our future home, we never actively looked it up, as it was a conversation that sprung from watching a series. (In the episode during a bathroomshot we saw interesting tiles)
During this conversation I was holding my phone.
Next time I scrolled through fb, I got an ad for freakin' tiles.
Day 3 -- still waiting for the "expedited" review to start. My app is still crashing in prod.
No, it was meant to replace everything else.
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Can't diff a indesign file, whereas latex is easy to diff.
If you ever look back here, thanks. I was a little disappointed that no one else had answered, but this is super helpful :)
This has happened many times. Since I deinstalled the fb-app and use facebook only through mobile safari, this has stopped.
Physical journal? As in paper and pen?

I was listening to the Twit podcast once and Jerry Pournelle was on. He talked about his life log. Basically it was a journal in which he recorded everything - meetings, meals, phone calls, weather, along with the more usual thoughts and ideas. I tried to do that for a while and it was a lot of work.

What do you track in your journal?
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You can replace certain use cases of email, but you wont replace all the use cases at once.

For business opportunities might be around workflow and
decisionmaking.

Slack dramatically reduced my email volume by replacing a use case that email handled badly, for example.

A consumer analogy, Facebook replaced a bunch of email use cases. I still have a friend who sends out email updates with photos while traveling, for example.

SMS and messaging apps, of course.

Someone could do a map like this list of companies that replaced specific use cases of Craigslist

https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/craigslist-unbundling/
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This is a well known phenomenon that has been understood for thousands of years.

It's called "coincidence".

There are many books available on the topic if you wish to increase your knowledge of the concept. Meanwhile there is a Wikipedia article to get your started:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coincidence
Nothing... I would like to see better interfaces for email. I am looking for 2 things. Conversational layouts so long message chains can be easier to read and review (this is difficult as not everyone in a cc'd email chain gets each email). A better way to manage multiple accounts from one inbox.
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You might also like 'Soldier in the Mist' by Gene Wolfe, about a greek soldier who loses his short term memory from an injury. He starts each day by reading the journal he finds beside his bed..
I think your title might not be the best;

* Serverless typically implies something accessible from more than the host you're on

* It's not zero configuration, there's at least 1 configurable parameter (albeit with a sensible default)

* I'm actually not even clear why this is a document store limited to JSON, other than you're piping it though a JSON python module.

Having done some things like this in the past, as you continue, you'll probably want to create subdirectories based on the first N characters of the UUID, but I'm not sure you wouldn't get considerably more value of just putting your json blobs into an AWS Dynamo table.
IMO this is what's known as a coincidence. The odds against seeing an advert for a product you have just talked about are incredibly low, but there are also a hundreds of millions people using Facebook every day, each seeing hundreds of ads and discussing lots of products with their spouses. Eerie coincidences are inevitable.

Derren Brown did a great demonstration of a similar phenomenon by asking 100s of people to bet on a series of horse races. Of course one person backed the winning horse on all races and thought it was magic. What they didn't realise is that there were a lot of others doing this too and having one person back all the winners was (in that experiment) an inevitability.
> The avoid ORDER BY is the main reason not to fall into per-cpu licensing (most commercial data engines). That's the licensing trap they make.

I used to agree with you, but in the cloud, all databases are essentially per-CPU licensing. It's just that instead of paying once up front, you pay by the hour.

That's also why I love database administration as a long term career bet, too. Now, I can go performance tune someone's database queries, and they see an instant reduction in their monthly bill, thereby justifying the DBA cost. If I tune someone's on-premises licensed server, they don't get an instant rebate - the licensing and hardware is a sunk cost.
Ask HN: IOT devices – what language to choose?
Guys, what language do you use for IOT devices? Is it C/C++ only?

When we look at something small like connected sensor - will it have enough power to support runtime for Java/JavaScript/C#?
> but if you look at the totality of the literature, you find out that it isn't inherently either of those things

I haven't actually looked at the available lit in a year or so, but if this is true, it's a huge change from the last time I did. My understanding is that several very good, large studies had shown dramatic differences in organic vs orthodox food.
Well, global three-letter agency surveillance was an urban myth until it wasn't.
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High energy photons are quite different compared to visible light. They scatter instead of being reflected. They have a low cross-section which means you can't make tiny pixels. No reflection or diffraction means no optics.
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And of course it's what they did at:

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

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/28/us/troops-radioactive-isl...
No it wasn't.

But even if was, then your logic would be absurd. You would be saying that every urban myth is true because a single example was true. That is nonsensical.
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> Use a VPN and now you're only vulnerable to the VPS service and the NSA

You can always try 'chaining' VPNs together, or stacking them on top of each other so that if one of the VPS servers is compromised, a TLA gets nothing but encrypted traffic and can't see what you're doing. The only caveat here is the 'exit' VPS is always going to have to be unencrypted. This is why it's worth looking into offshore VPS providers in non-five-eyes countries. I'm not sure what countries these are. I haven't done the research.

Typically I achieve chaining by doing the following:

- Hardware VPN that I connect to as normal. Personally I use http://www.pivpn.io/

- Then I connect to another VPN on my host/hypervisor machine

- Then I fire up Virtualbox and run another VPN inside the VM

- The chain now has three hops, and the exit VPN is on a box that I control. I avoid Digital Ocean like the plague as it's a US company.
Well, there's this option (which looks like it would be the way to go for its purpose):

-n Create an empty filename. The size is noted, but disk blocks aren't allocated until data is written to them

Also the description on the man file says: mkfile creates one or more files that are suitable for use as NFS-mounted swap areas. The sticky bit is set, and the file is padded with zeroes by default
When it's being de-feathered, the chicken is dead. Why should this either affect people's reactions? Or, given that people are irrational and will react to the 'suffering' of a chicken's dead body, why should it be shown to the public as a component of the process? It's not 'unkind' to the chicken.
Spotify's revenue model will not differ significantly from Pandora's. Same cost structure.
Depends on the sort. A naively implemented mergesort needs a temporary array of the same size as the the array being sorted. But whilst that takes up a chunk of memory for a while, it shouldn't be the sort of thing that makes GC choke.

And anyway, not many people will be using a naively implemented mergesort in this situation!
My partner, who is bald, was sitting with his arms crossed, and I teased him for looking like Mr. Clean. We both got ads for Mr. Clean in the next 48 hours.
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There is already an issue about supporting sharding https://github.com/nodesocket/jsonlite/issues/15.
Have they been uploaded to Wikipedia (Commons)?
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Well, most of the work (asm.js compiler, github pages template) has been done by lean developers (and I agree, it's a marvel):
https://github.com/leanprover/mkleanbook

My contribution is just the content. There are alternative tutorials available, but they all require significant time investment (weeks to months)
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Massless particles will move at the speed of light (photons, gluon, nutrinos (sometimes because they change flavour as they travel, some flavours have mass so must move slower)) and most relevant to this is the graviton.

Graviton is assumed massless because gravitational force appears to have unlimited range (galaxies attract each other over very large distances)
I tend to agree that the fresh fruits and veggies are pretty much the same price as competitors (really only experience is Safeway)

What I do find as a plus is Whole Foods tends to get more stuff locally if they can and a store like Safeway is going more regional or to Mexico to keep its costs down.

I'll pay a little more to have my fresh food being sourced locally and more time to ripen on the vine then ripen in a truck.
I think best option is try talking some 'unique' topic again and see whether related ad popups or not.

Please do share your results :)

Ps : record the topic and take screenshot if you like to make a proof.
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Does email need disruption? I have not faced any problem with emails as a form of business communication.

I have used Slack but it doesn't come anywhere close to emails in terms of ease of use, especially for people in non-technical fields.
My 2 cents: there are sites like Rentacoder.com. Are there any RentaManager or RentaCxO.com sites? Does anyone discuss off-shoring management or executive positions to save money?
For personal uses, email has already been disrupted by Facebook, WhatsApp, and instant messengers overall. Longform newsletters are the last real use case, because RSS failed to disrupt it. Facebook and others are working on that as well.

The op's question was about business though.
Not verbal communications, but I have seen ads relating to SMS messages I've sent or received. Perfect example was my wife advising the vacuum cleaner was broken, next thing I see when I logged onto Facebook was an advert for vacuum cleaners.
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You should be able to convert this into an experiment. Find an off-the-beat market and start talking about it in the presence of your phone (and maybe with the app open, don't know the particulars of when the app can activate the microphone). If an ad for a product in the space appears it would confirm the hypothesis that FB is listening in.
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"A database is an organized collection of data". I think writing files in a directory with a convention falls in that category.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database
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Serverless means anything really, a cli app is now serverless. I didn't know I was writing serverless applications for 20 years then. Serverless was already a bad buzz word, it gets more and more meaningless by the hour.

By the way sqlite just got support for JSON :

https://www.sqlite.org/json1.html

off-topic : I'd like to see more books on database implementation for beginners. Of all the crap load of CS books that come out year after year this is a matter with very little literature, as most papers on the subject are research papers. Seems like an excellent topic to teach distributed programming.
I completely second byoung2's comment.
When we say email , the thing we refer to would be free email services for personal use or inbox hell at work.
The same question without Gmail,Yahoo mail and other is easier to answer.

SMTP might be here to stay, but a low cost protocol independent messaging protocol with an Identity layer can and will come along.

Why does no official comm happen on email? No ID validation.
Maybe PKI can help.
Solution will either be use case by usecase or platform change like FB or chat
"One reason you're seeing this ad is that bluefrog Plumbing + Drain wants to reach people who are part of an audience we created based on data provided by Acxiom. Facebook works with data providers to help businesses find the right audiences for their ads."

So, it's Acxiom doing the listening?
OP don't listen to the jelly haters. If you were making $100k/mo each of these hypocrites would get knocked off their high horses and copy you. Well done, congratulations!
If you cant just click on it, its paywalled. Idk why we put up with all this bs for the so so rag that is the WSJ. I just downvote paywalls and move on.
I agree that "serverless" now mainly means "Function as a Service." The goal here is convey that there is no server component of the database, similar to SQLite and unlike PostgreSQL.

What is the correct terminology to highlight this architectural distinction?
I have worked and invested in M2M and IIOT companies, and I think the most effective languages are:

- C

- Python

- Lua

Since new devices are more powerful and full OS can now be used, JavaScript is growing. Also, in the past J2ME was available, but it was a pain in the a.
Some people talk, some people do.
Self sovereign ID
Protocols built on top of that
What I'm missing here is a simple: Don't use a laptop or cellphone to store sensitive information in the first place (regardless of whether of not you take it across the border). That seems to be the simplest precaution of all.

Was that an option or was it assumed un-avoidable that people will always have a smart phone or laptop with sensitive info on them? (so it would have to be an iphone according to the article) whereas that is assuming the choice has already been made that you have to have a smartphone to begin with.
I don't know about disrupt but I sometimes message new business contacts on linkedin. It gets kind of annoying after a bit though.
Why does'nt someone sniff the network traffic and see if this is happening or not. https man in the middle attacks exist.
It might be worth it for the reasons you mention, but the lowest end plan is still far overpowered for VPN use and that's reflected in pricing.
Undefined behavior in C and C++ programs
Check out how chickens are treated while they're alive and get back to me about cruelty.

Hint: they don't run around in happy green fields.
I run a website that shows random images.

I ALWAYS get emails asking why I have showed an image that relates to what they person was just talking about.

But the images are random! It's the well understood concept of confirmation bias.

It's just depressing to see here, because I thought the readers of hackernews were more sophisticated than random sampling of the general population.
Axciom does all of the data buying and creating models to figure out what people like.

Source - Used to work with Axciom data myself
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Let me spell it out for you: You claim that X is nonsense without any reasoning whatsoever. Why was NSA surveillance before 2013 not an urban myth? Why is facebook eavesdropping on you nonsense?

And no, I wasn't implying anything - I'd like some arguments regarding your point. And saying 'thats nonsense', 'you're wrong' does not make any of your points valid.
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I quite enjoy having servants when I'm in India. There are many jobs where I don't have a comparative advantage so I pay people to do them. Your language "own a full time servant" is nonsensical, it's "pay a person for their labor at a mutually agreed upon wage". If an employee finds something better (which they often do in a fast growing economy) there's nothing I can do to keep them besides offer them more money.

By contrast, in the US, I'm forced to pay people not to work.

Why is preferring the former "creepy"?
“Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.”

-JWZ
This is why I think governments should fund libre alternative projects substantially and long-term. It is a matter of national interest.

LibreOffice Calc is missing features that are required by many users? The government should pay for it to be developed.

The ironic thing is that it is not even expensive to break this monopoly. So many countries share this interest in breaking the monopoly.

Why the EU spends billions to protect farmers but is not willing to spend millions to finish and maintain a nearly workable independent software infrastructure is beyond me.

Most politicians are old and most old people don't understand computers, the internet and it's consequences. They don't get what is at stake. I still hope that some day people will get elected in Europe that understand theses issues.
You're thinking about it the wrong way. First ask yourself what's wrong with email and why does it need to be disrupted? What problem are we actually trying to solve by replacing email.

Email is a powerful tool for asynchronous communication and it's here to stay. The way in which we interact with email may change over time as user interfaces change. We've gone from desktop to mobile and soon there may be some other dominant platform.

To answer my own question. In large corporations email is typically still used to announce or notify at scale. So what we're really looking for is a way to strip out this notification aspect. That's basically just an enterprise version of twitter with an opt-in model for streams which allows you to keep track of what everyone's doing in the organisation without having your inbox spammed. Notice I'm not talking about the collaborative use of email since that's already being solved by tools like Asana, Slack and Atlassian.
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Location: Graz, Austria

Remote: YES, PLEASE

Willing to relocate: NOPE

Technologies: Former Frontend-Dev but also familiar with Full-Stack/Backend in Node.js. A/B, Usability Testing and Conversion Optimization Expert

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/tiefenb/ll/blob/master/lebenslauf.md

Email: markus DOT tiefenbacher AT gmail DOT com
After your work is done for this client, I recommend looking at MIT open ToS
I am working on a way to have a document repository on github
Wouldove to collaborate and build an open source legalzoom + juro
/puts on conspiracy hat

Facebook might obtain the ad profile match from a third party which obtained microphone access and would let them bot claim 'at this one company we do not use microphone recordings to target ads'
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> JSONlite sandboxes the current working directory similar to SQLite.

Huh, what does that mean?
Does it actually matter much whether there are current, proven examples? If you give their app access to your microphone, they're going to use it for ad targeting and worse as soon as it's politically / technically / economically expedient to do so.
Wait... I just confirmation biased myself by only concentrating on the replies which believed that Facebook listens via your microphone, and ignoring those that disagreed.