skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, universities are run by boards of directors like every corporation and a president/CEO. Tenured faculty has some vote (but NEVER a controlling or even large vote, they often have to fight to be included at all in serious decisions). It's top-down business decisions by investors and the CEO, who tell the deans/provosts/chairs/faculty/adjuncts, all the way down the totem pole to the grad students,

"oh we'd like to pay you decently and hire enough workers, we really would, but the market simply can't bear it, we don't have the funds, I'm so sorry. We're on the same side here, really, it's just the practicalities of the situation. You wouldn't understand, it's business, and you're an expert in Art/English/Engineering/Chemistry which I totally respect, but you just wouldn't get it so just trust me. I'm one of you. Oh, and by the way your faculty parking lot is being redistricted into stadium parking, and since you aren't an administrator you'll have to purchase a special faculty pass (half off!) that isn't valid on game day. You can take the bus on game day, you like that kind of stuff, you're a liberal, right?"

I think nearly unconditional tenure is kind of untenable. There is so much dead weight in any academic department and it's so easy to see. Ask any grad student which professors don't do research or take students and teach like absolute trash. There are always plenty. Usually old, taking up the few slots available for bright young PhDs.

But we could also make more slots. There's nothing wrong with being a teaching professor, lots of people love it and they love it so much it doesn't need to pay well, just decently, and how about tenure-ish-track teaching only instead of shunting teachers off into second class citizens who can be fired if some students drop their class the day before? There's plenty of room to expand if that was the goal. But it isn't. Cuts are made where they can be made. It isn't really a market, quality of education isn't really the measured output of paying tuition so the market will NEVER select for what we think of as 'good', but the institutions are being run as if they are operating in a market instead of a public service, which is THE central neoliberal fallacy whose implementation has been as disastrous in education as it has been in any public service which is not a real market (eg healthcare)
All digital properties go to a clean slate when the Presidency changes hands. There's nothing odd about this. It's similar to the physical aspects of the government, such as cabinet posts, that are directly under the Presidents purview. It being factual really has no bearing on this, although given that for data it just gets archived rather than completely purged it seems to be an incredibly reasonable treatment.

The title of this post, on the other hand, is, dare I say, an alternative fact.
It's correct though. The national government ("India") instituted the ban, not Delhi.
That's what I thought too. Especially since the story mentions the username "billg." Wait, so did he log out the support person and then log himself in before taking the call?

I mean it's possible, but it's also possible it's just a nice story.
um.. clickbait? misleading for certain.
That's a pretty good cutover, but as you say, they should also include the time needed to detect a failure and initiate the transition.
You may benefit from something like this if you do an analysis of your DB usage/growth patterns and determine that server/cluster scalability is going to be a non-trivial concern in the near future. Volume of data doesn't matter (to a certain point) if you seldom query that data. 1000TB of data that is neither queried nor updated doesn't require a database at all, for example.

So, as with all things engineering, it depends. You know you'll benefit from it if you can demonstrate that you'll benefit from it an that the effort/risk/etc. is lower than some other solution you could choose. If you're unable to determine this, you should bring in an expert who can.
I fail to see what the above has to do with prejudice, personally. Poor air quality is a problem in many parts of the world, notably so in developing areas.
I'm very surprised that Relay is not getting more traction in this space. Given, it's a lot of work to get it set up and running but once it's in place it's great. I haven't found a library that manages network state and the associated difficulties that come with it better.

No reason why you cannot combine both Redux + Relay, in fact once the app gets to a certain size and you want to rely less on passing around long chains of callbacks and state objects then you pretty much have to implement either Redux, Mobx or similar.
Something like 30% of US households own guns. I'm not so sure gun ownership is higher amongst terrorists.
Ugh, the guy who discourages people from working on side projects because of potential contract violations?
Source code: https://github.com/Song-Li/cross_browser
Demo: http://www.uniquemachine.org
Yet as far as know longevity records among humans did not have any particular diet, did they?

As caloric restriction is being more and more shown to be the only efficient method to increase longevity, I suppose more and more people will try it and soon enough we'll get to break records. Time will tell.
For reference types probably yes, but Java also often needs extra methods or overloads for handling primitive types, which would get unnecessarily boxed when used in generic methods.
Real competition in general is good, it'd force both products to improve.
If the universities had fewer grad students in English, they'd need even fewer English professors.
What are they going to replace plastic with ? Can you invent a kind of material that is as capable as plastic but has zero negative effects on the environment ?
Not available in my country. And I'm not sure any of the aforementioned people would be willing to pay for something an adblocker provides for free.
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True, but it does seem like a good idea for the type of events that everybody knows will sell out, mainly to scalpers, in a matter of minutes.
> This is a dangerous path as well. Should a conservative business owner be able to fire anyone in their company that supports abortion? Should A trump supporter be able to fire anyone in their company that supported Hillary?

If their actions potentially harm the business, then sure.

> A few years back, I remember when a few companies opposed supporting birth control and abortions and didn't want to pay for it through employee healthcare plans. There were so many people (including here on HN) claiming that companies have no rights and they shouldn't even be given the choice. Now that it supports your political opinion, companies have the right to not do business with anyone they wish.

How is that in any way similar? PewDiePie is an entertainer associated with childrens programming. Anti-Semitic statements are actively harmful to Disney's (ironic given their history) reputation. So they fired him.

This is an entirely reasonable course of action.

Hobby Lobby sticking their nose into their employees health because they are a bunch of religious zealots is a very different situation.
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>RTFA

Providing me with the email would have been more helpful. Regardless, I sent him an email. Not sure if I'll be able to do anything, but we shall see.
Parts of the US have this policy (plastic bags), too. I thought I'd dislike it, but then I realized how amazing it was that most plastic rubbish disappeared.
Awesome. Giving WhatsApp, Wire and Threema a run for their money.
Facebook is still figuring out how to tackle fake news
If you're using a Metabones or LA-EA4 adapter on a camera with phase detect AF, there's no practical difference. AF will be slower on a camera that only has contrast-detect AF.
I just read three different articles on this subject and it's not clear if disposable plastic bottles (bottles, not cups) are also banned. I'd argue this is one of the bigger problems as displayed by some of the images used in the articles, and personal experiences of travelling india and seeing miles of train tracks littered with plastic bottles.

The reason I mention this is that it may be directing action to local vendors, but not necessarily regional/national drink vendors.
I've dropped ~50 lbs in two years nearly the same way, or at least the same net effect: a rather large breakfast every day, no lunch, and medium sized dinner. No snacks during the day, though I often grab something later in the eve.
The gap might qualify as intermittent fasting, but I do drink coffee with a fair amount of whole milk & sugar through the mid afternoon.

I am not eating any healthier, just less food.

For exercise, I started walking my dogs 4-5 nights a week in the evenings for a few miles (think closer to speed walking than regular).[0] I stopped losing weight when I stopped walking so often - the cold is getting to me this year, will resume in the spring. I'm seeing no weight gain though, because I haven't increased the amount of food I'm putting in.

Couple of things to add to your observations:

I've found that with time, a sensation of 'hungry' is just another sensation that my body reports - it's not an imperative to eat. And as I've adapted to reduced calories, this has largely faded.

For the periodic conference or social gathering, I'll and enjoy the excessive amounts of food. For longer events this might cause an uptick of a few pounds, but it settles back to the prior level within a week or two.

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[0] I know - in the US I should put the period inside of the paren (or quote). But that's illogical. I refuse.
> $.90 per node per hour

That makes $700 per month. Is this the minumum? or can we have 0 node when the lambda is idle ?
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I stopped reading after paragraph 5 when I realized he was nowhere near making the point alluded to in the title.
In general availability is defined in terms of time.

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

Five-9s means 5 minutes of downtime per year.
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By law, all health insurance policies are required to provide this coverage. Those companies can still be vocally against abortion, but they still have to comply with the law. What if someone is religiously against traffic lights? Then their options are to follow the law or don't drive. Nothing to do with freedom of speech.

Hobby Lobby won. It's disgusting but companies now have the right to regulate their employees health options because of religious freedom.
Spanner is related to MySQL at Google: a product with Spanner's semantics was required to replace MySQL for some important business operations (https://landing.google.com/sre/book/chapters/communication-a...)

it's actually hard to beat MySQL for a lot of things. i was skeptical about this when I joined google, but as an SRE on the MySQL team around this time, I gained a lot of respect for it.
Why does anyone feel it's necessary to explain why they have the phone they have? There are plenty of people who use cheap phones, and not just as decoys. Why would they exist otherwise?
Very happy to see this become public, and it looks very impressive. I'm blushing a bit. Patrick and I indeed had very stimulating conversations, but all the hard work figuring out how to map rendering efficiently to a GPU is Patrick's.
I actually live between three of the cities listed in my area, they're all about 20 miles from my house and part of the same metropolitan statistical area. Being able to search LA and SF at the same time might be silly, but being able to search two or three very close cities is not IMO.
> This seems somehow problematic: a DB trying to meet modern performance requirements by relying on how it was done over 12 years and 2 major kernel versions ago.

A newly developed product made today would use threads but we're not talking about a new product. Once the effort has been expended to make processes and shared memory work, especially for a product with a fairly constrained scope like a DB server, the argument becomes about whether it would be worthwhile re-writing today to target threads. So far for PG the answer is : no.

I think you are making assumptions on the basis that "threads == progress == better" that are not necessarily valid. For example do you have benchmark evidence that in-process locking would deliver significantly better performance for PG under workloads of interest vs the current XP locking scheme? It might, but I doubt it.

Here's a discussion on the topic that's only 16 years old:

http://grokbase.com/t/postgresql/pgsql-general/997f59hcqx/mu...
you just contradicted yourself.
He obscured it, looks like, probably to avoid spam bots:

> You can message me on Twitter @byuu_san or you can contact me via e-mail at setsunakun0 at hotmail dot com. (That's a zero at the end, not an O.)

EDIT: On behalf of byuu, thanks for looking into this.
Craigslist is fast and gets to the point.

Back in the day, search engine home pages had a vast list of categories... Google just had only a text field to input what you wanted to search for. Google search won.
That would be a bad idea(tm).
Not all capabilities are positive-value for the owner - being able to sell your kidneys means that people will have an incentive to extort you into giving up a kidney.

Also, letting people make the best decision for them isn't the same thing as the best rule for everyone to follow. Tragedy of the Commons is the best example for this - if everyone makes their best choice for how many fish to catch, the lake gets emptied.

I really ought to turn the above two points into a detailed blog post aimed at libertarians. (Libertarians make good points, too - generally they have better policies than the ones they critique. These processes are some of the biggest things that libertarians categorically ignore, though.)
What does criticizing air pollution have to do with prejudice?
> And the result of a raster job is then coordinates in the Atlas?

Yes.

> Sorry if I wasn't clear; I was trying to understand whether the library or the application is managing the Atlas. Sounds like the library.

The library manages the atlas, because it uses a particular packing algorithm that maximizes the performance of the accumulation step (by increasing parallelism) when rasterizing many glyphs at once.
The first two paragraphs were incomprehensible to this computer science graduate. Something about literature reflecting society reflecting literature?

But the actual thrust of the article - that English departments are intentionally turning out more graduates than the job market, which consists almost entirely of the exact same English departments, can absorb - was clear enough.
Prejudice is an unfavorable opinion formed without knowledge, thought, or reason. The worsening air quality as a result of vehicular emissions in Delhi is very well documented and will have serious consequences if it is not dealt with seriously. It's not a matter of opinion.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3664745/
Use the Sendy API in dot net ( C# , VB.Net , F#, dotnet core or any DLL)
It's not that it needs to be equally capable in each way - you need something that is more degradable and ecologically sensible for each specific case.
In addition you can - to an extent - eat to satisfy the craving in that you have the food you want. Just ... less.
Just wanted to say thanks for this writeup. This is really excellent, to the point I was passing around your blog post in lieu of the GCP announcement.
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While prejudice is not probably the correct interpretation, the GPs post reads like "don't ban plastic until air pollution is fixed". Any improvement is better than nothing.
Nah, I had an option to take 30% in lieu of salary. Was doing $3m/yr in profit. Equity isn't inherently evil.
>Canon and Nikon have well established support infrastructures for their working pros. Sony... not so much.

That infrastructure is, to a great extent, a marketing expense. It's not very profitable to sell cameras to professionals, but you make your money back from the trickle-down to amateurs. The R&D expense of designing flagship cameras and lenses for a tiny group of professionals is amortized over a vastly greater number of amateurs. If a rift opens up between those user groups, Canon and Nikon's camera businesses are in real trouble.
Not a huge fan of outright bans, and think this is probably the wrong priority for India to focus on. (I understand this is just Delhi)

Air pollution is huge right now. And sad to say, people pooping in streets and rivers is still a major problem.

To me, plastic remnants are a very minor issue in comparison.
Eat To Live, by Dr. Joel Fuhrman describes a diet that is low calorie high nutrient and it's a very good, easy read for anyone who is interested. I personally lost 70+ pounds on it: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Eat_to_Live

Health = Nutrients/Calories!
I like this Fermat thing but it would be cooler if it could add a date to the papers who, for some reason, do not have a date.
Long day. Suppose I could've been less snarky. Good on you for trying to help.
Sure, but you can make geo-replication and even implement proxy for providing consistency across DC, sure it won't be that fast in terms of latency, but throughput will be the same.
That spikes the prices of big shows insanely high. Buy 8, sell 7, meet at venue. I've seen Metallica tickets that were $100 face go for $5,000 each because of this.
I assume you're thinking about USA, which is a country I have no desire to visit.
Or, in some cases, reusable. Most places in the US that have banned disposable plastic grocery bags are encouraging reusable bags.
So it wouldn't be a problem, but if you carry a dumbphone, hand it over and then they search your luggage and find another phone, you'd be in deep trouble.
ARIN charges for IPv4 address allocation (https://www.arin.net/fees/fee_schedule.html) and I read that below $5 a month it becomes unprofitable for hosting companies just because of the cost of leasing IP addresses. If your services can run on shared hosting there are a bunch of hosts for less than $1 a month around.
How exactly would it benefit the unemployed? They lose all the benefits the moment they start working!
Note: Thank you for down voting for pointing out a glaring 'fake statistics' and poor journalism, on a #1 trending post on HN.

The first and the second quote do not mean the same thing, not even close.

"A massive 60%t of the plastic waste in the oceans is said to have come from India, according to the Times of India."

The TOI reads - "Banning disposable plastic is a huge step for the capital and the country because India is among the top four biggest plastic polluters in the world, responsible for around 60% of the 8.8 million tons of plastic that is dumped into the world’s oceans every year."

As an Indian, I see a lot of journalists stuck in a colonial era. They go out of their way to tarnish and stereotype the great unwashed. They manage to turn even positive news to mock and heckle the less developed world.

But this article has taken it to great heights. The TOI isn't exactly known for journalistic integrity and often conveniently pulls statistics from their backside. But to misquote the devil, this article has certainly hit the lowest level.
Hungry is a signal, but it doesn't require action. Or rather, when it is strong enough that it does require action you can tell the difference.

Unfortunately, we (US) teach people that it does require action - through advertising, through school nutrition teachings and implementations (meal + 2 snacks in a 7 hour school day, at least for young kids).
I just index S3 with SQL, that combination is plenty powerful, not a huge worry, but it might be interesting to see more native support for that kind of thing.
> I've also seen a bittorrent client that uses WebRTC

Yea, webtorrent[1] is a great project.

We've also created Sharefest[2] a while ago which is basically WeTransfer with no servers.

I think multiplayer web gaming has a nice potential and need for a high performance network stack using WebRTC.

IoT might also be a candidate for direct p2p communication, without the need for all the devices in your home/office to connect directly to the cloud.

[1] https://github.com/feross/webtorrent
[2] https://sharefest.me/
"small businesses still use paper or spreadsheets"

that's usually your first red flag. when management starts going after this market then things aren't looking good. low margins, sales dominated org if you're lucky can keep you afloat for a bit. long work days etc. avoid.

the real money is always in enterprise. liability is a huge issue. ain't no huge corp going to throw down millions on some random scheduling software run by a couple of dudes.

in the rare event that it does happened, raise as much money as possible and hire as quickly as possible. reduces risk and your work load.

they just didn't have the capital to compete. the market is there though clearly they just ran out of dough.
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Source? I have been a Simple customer for years, and haven't heard anything about them shutting down?
Tried it today with a relative, the audio quality is significantly better, almost no stuttering.

Video was very smooth as well.
I can think of a half dozen ways to beat that, at varying levels of legality
The problem is you've just invented a "fake news" story, in practical terms. You took an event, invented a conspiratorial narrative, then presented it as unvarnished truth. The fact you qualified your title as speculation in the comments doesn't matter.

I'll tell you what I tell my very conservative family members: Your feelings or beliefs are not the same as facts. They are not equivalent in any way. Representing your emotions or opinions as anything other than your emotions or opinions is dishonest.
Air pollution caused by vehicles and industry is not a subjective matter of prejudice. It is fact.
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The problem is, the less fat mass you have, the less good you will feel restricting calories. Dieting down to 15-20% range is very different than dieting down to 8 - 12% range (for males). The additional fat mass is like having a constant drip feed of fuel. Some other factors matter too, like leptin.
Now you have me wondering how that site managed to retain its position at the top of the regional heap. My dad was obsessed with Saturday morning tag sales when I was a kid so he was an early adopter of various local proto-Craigslists. I can't remember the name of the site which was the king of the CT market but it was very similar to the familiar front page of Craigslist which is still in use today.

Craigslist took over despite not having anything meaningful to offer over this site as it was free to list with a single picture and this was before the era of ad-infested local sites. I'm honestly surprised to learn a local competitor managed to withstand the Craigslist juggernaut.
> So, we have decided to return over $1M in cash to our investors.

That's some nice common sense there!
My father told me that American highways used to be lined with trash until it was made illegal to throw trash out the window.
Thanks, I'll have a look at it.

Edit: The first result for MobX in the French version of DDG is a porn site xD.
I don't understand how we can build self-driving cars, send people to the moon, and create advanced facial recognition software, but can't build technology that can separate plastic bags?