skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curious to know what are Netflix's needs for relational database?

Doesn't strike me as a business with complex logic.
Linked In, Opted Out
Vanilla forms just GET or POST to some server endpoint with all of the <input>s passed in as query parameters. Frameworks (e.g., Rails) put some syntactic sugar on it, but that's really all that's happening. If the form submission contains invalid input, it's customary to return to the form page (with all the values already filled out) and show a server-generated message about what went wrong.

JS is absolutely not required for any of it.
Google has to support Google, Youtube and many of the most resources intensive services in existence on Earth. They needed to be "efficient enough" to operate that, meaning incredibly efficient.

Amazon runs nothing, it's an outsourcing firm. They needed to make services "good enough" to be sold. If a service is somewhat inefficient, it just charges the clients more to cover the costs.

Technologies reflect the business they were created in.
I'd be curious to see how this compares to CoreText on Mac and DirectWrite on Windows. Both are highly tuned for their respective platform so I'd see them as baseline.
I think this is not going to work on any large scale. Say you are a domain expert in some tiny little plant on some tiny island. Like, you wrote your PhD thesis on that plant. Sure, this is not very 'big', but it merits inclusion into the Wiki. Telling people that want to contribute, that are the domain experts, that have read and debated all the sources of which they may be the definitive source, that they have to go figure out how to set up their own wiki somewhere and then try to figure how to 'pull' and 'push' things to Wikipedia on a semi-regular basis because of some bot's deletion bias is the best way to make certain that Wikipedia is only written by insane people.
What you have just described is literally Ticketmaster's modern business model. Ticketmaster scalps the tickets and pays a kickback to the venue and/or artist. Ticketmaster takes the heat so the the venue and artist don't have to.
How VCs Work
Yep just got bit by this as well. We're heavy users of the API and this was a surprise. Would have preferred some notification about the change OR better yet, just create these instances with new plan ID's.
The main problem Craigslist still has is that it does not have an official mobile app which is actually why I started using a competitors service. It's a lot easier on a phone to endlessly scroll through items via an app then it is to go to the CL website. CL is fine when I'm sitting down in front of a computer but if I'm on the bus I want to just be able to use my thumb to quickly flip through.
Redux is difficult to reason about because side-effects can be triggered from anywhere in the application by middleware.

If you're using something like redux-thunk, a single dispatch can cause both a store mutation AND trigger a side effect, which is confusing. I'd rather have those be 2 separate concerns.

Those dispatches can be triggered from anywhere in the app, and multiple middlewares may trigger multiple side-effects in new and exciting ways.

I find that logic to be difficult to follow and test.

I wish it had a more opinionated way to do side-effects, but the solutions like redux-saga seem even more complicated and confusing.
I'm impressed how easy it is to get started with a Rust project from zero.

# brew install rust
# cargo build --release
# cargo run --release --example lorem-ipsum -- resources/tests/nimbus-sans/NimbusSanL-Regu.ttf

It doesn't appear to generate text properly on my Mid 2014 Macbook, however. I ended up with what appeared to be a red channel from random GPU memory when I pressed the screenshot key.
From experience, I know that these things are not comparable. Swimming in open water is fine after a few minutes of adjustment. I have learned not just to drink coffee, but to prefer it without sweetener.

But I spent over a year at perhaps a 10-15% reduction in calories. Persistent discomfort never went away for me. I was only able to maintain the diet by my constant awareness of concrete and measurable progress towards a specific weight loss goal.

I believe that I have more willpower than most, and diets are probably easier for me than most. Yet I doubt that I could live the rest of my life on a calorie restricted diet for the sake of living a bit longer.
With the estimated value of that package, cheap insurance seems less of a "hindsight 20/20" problem and more like a "extreme risk-taker" type of problem.

The package is the sender's responsibility until it's received.
>Still, I do agree it makes sense to be light on the weekdays and splurge on the weekends.

Right. I make no claims about my method being "good". But I work long days, and commute. So I usually don't each during the weekday, then come home and have a great meal. Then TV and bed. I'm sure any benefits come from fewer calories eaten in aggregate.
Is this what you mean: https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp ?
Craigslist is not ugly or janky. It is old school. It works great. It does what its supposed to do perfectly well. It is not going away until all of millennials are dead.
Right that's what I was getting at, a typical web app does not and probably should not start with Cloud Spanner (ignoring the fact it costs $0.90 per hour per node). Cloud Spanner seems like it is attacking the big data market correct?
We haven't tried it, but I know it's really successful in the Middle East. For instance in Dubai it's really effective, especially to reach younger Emiratis. There's really no other way to reach that target demographic without going through the influencers they're paying attention to. I haven't seen the same necessity in the United States, so I think it depends who you're trying to target.
that those H1bs didn't work outside the US, causing increased spending on food, and housing, and overall supporting American economy.

In a lot of cases H1bs could work in their home country, at a much lower wage and build that countries economy instead.
Dupe, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13641253
It depends on whether pedagogy is the primary goal. For teaching, the in-place implementation can come after the conceptual "pick a pivot, partition accordingly, then recurse" is made concrete.
The universities are effectively run by the tenured faculty members. As long as they produce more labor than they need, they can hire scabs if teachers go on strike.

The real question is why so many bright minds want to go into this to begin with.
Exciting times on the horizon for Cloud technologies. Godspeed.
I just published my ios app Bottly
Rate of living theories are more or less thrown out as not useful at this point in time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate-of-living_theory

These correlations probably have more to do with the membrane pacemaker view of resistance to oxidative damage, and how lipid composition of membranes varies with metabolic demands. Look at birds and bats, for example: tiny, with rapid heart rates, and very long lived in comparison to other species of similar size.

https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2015.08.008
This is an excellent starting resource. As one of the maintainers of a popular open source project I was wondering how I could get help with the project by attracting new contributors as I work full time and find the balancing act hard.

Users have previously enquired about donations and I didn't know the best way to set up the project to accept them in a responsible manner. This guide points me in the right direction!
My experience is the number one strength a founder has their passion. It's really not something that can easily be copied and given the vast amounts of opportunities in the world, hiring someone that really knows how to map that passion to a business model and attack the assumption has zero to do with being an entrepreneur, it's just another skill. Core issue is if the founder is not learning from the process and owning it.

Anyway, it's a topic that's interesting to me given how bad most startups are at it.
The Garden: Instacart's Physical Staging Environment
I think great shame is that many educators lie about future career prospects in their profession. It is like pyramid scheme; only way to make living is to teach at university, and create more educators.
A lot of the pain comes from cleaning every single cartridge. Many old games look like this:

http://i.imgur.com/sdRqyl.jpg

And you need them to look like this:

http://i.imgur.com/GbxMxl.jpg

That takes about a half hour's work. Then you get to open the cart and clean the contacts, another five minutes. Then once it's connected to an SNES and powered on, you have to wait 5-10 minutes to dump it, and then move on to the next cart.

It's a full-time job for several months to do a complete PAL set. And that's not even counting scanning the boxes, manuals, cartridges and PCBs :/

It's a lot less effort for the donor to send me his games, and I send them back, and reimburse him on his shipping charges.
As the article mentioned, they forward customer credit cards to purchase the tickets, even two levels deep. So the bot can use credit card numbers from the actual fans.
How is the US coverage from the FT? The best parts about the WSJ (and NYT) is the timely breaking news, the live-video and live-audio feeds of various proceedings (E.g. both had a live broadcast of the cabinet confirmations, along with real-time input from on-hand journalists, giving generally good insight).

I actually vastly prefer the FT website to NYT/WP/WSJ, but would very much appreciate the prompt US-centric news feeds. I know it's Euro-centric and Britain-based, so I wanted to ask.
Moving a product in the direction of higher profit, and even more starkly, more revenue, is not at all the same thing as moving in the direction of higher value. This is often mistakenly conflated.

Another possibility is that CL has reached a local maxima and they can't see an easy way out of it that isn't actually reducing (globally) value to their customers. I'm somewhat playing devils advocate but it is plausible.

After all, many of the "innovations" suggested in the comments here have actually been tried by other services - ones that on average have not succeeded nearly as well as CL. Some of which were pretty terrible.

You can interpret this as due to network effect, or due to CL just providing more value, or some mix. But you have to at least accept the possibility that the other views are correct. It's easy to point at feature "A" in something like CL and say "I can make that better by just doing B". It's a lot harder to understand the effect of "B" across a large, diverse, heterogeneous user population.

Maybe CL just hasn't seen a compelling improvement yet?
Why not just use cjdns?
Ask HN: Why there are no GPU clouds using cards like GTX 1080?
AWS and Azure offer instances with GPUs like K-80 that are expensive on themselves and the instances are pretty expensive too, for example p2.xlarge costs $0.9 per hour. These cards are so expensive partly because they have good double-precision capabilities.

However, for Deep Learning it is enough to use cards like GTX 1080 which are much cheaper than something like K-80. I wonder why none of the providers like Linode or DigitalOcean built servers with these cheaper cards and offered instances with them. I think there would be high demand for this kind of offer taking into account the current AI hype.

I've heard somewhere that Nvidia legally prohibits using their consumer cards in servers, but I didn't found anything confirming it. The consumer cards also probably have less expected lifetime than their server counterparts in 24/7 usage mode, but the huge difference in upfront cost probably could compensate it.
and worse, it technically includes all ports. which could basically mean radii around every international airport.

when i first learned about this, I scared my lawyer girlfriend about it and she helped me look into the actual court cases. they have been somewhat difficult to hold up. usually because LO abuses the rules by not following the three terms listed above. and it still takes getting all the way to Supreme Court which is a massive drain on resources for those typically affected by this.
I am in the same boat. Need additional storage for less random-access demanding data, like photos/videos. If you check the Linode forums, they have begun to work on block storage option, like Vulr/DO. But it is still early in the design phase and they don't have an estimate launch date yet.
I've never seen any evidence that in any leaked papers and Google has very strongly denied it.
Most performant and easiest to follow/debug/reason are often not the same thing.
Or it can harden your view that all users are idiots, as seems to have happened with certain _nix DE devs...
Control period was 3,200, starvation was 1560. This seems high. Most dietary recommendations today are structured around a 2000 calorie diet. Wikipedia mentions that this was a healthy weight diet - they must have been very active and/or large.

What calorie deficit is required to obtain 25% weight loss in 6 months?
Public stock is much more liquid.
President Bannon's orders
That doesn't follow. There's plenty of ground between these extremes, but it takes discipline to resist the strong winds blowing us there.
I'd encourage you to read the F1 paper and the Spanner paper if you haven't already. The big thing that stood out to me is that Google started that way (with BigTable) where you'd roll your own availability and transactions. It didn't go well.

That's the motivation behind both Spanner and F1: take the experience of how painful it is to do transactions on a Regional or Global level, and never make individual teams do it again.

I see it a bit like "Don't roll your own crypto". Clearly some people are exempted from it, but you better be able to tell me why you get an exception.

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud and want you to pay for Spanner :).
The administrators are often former or current faculty. In articles and discussions similar to this there is often this conflict portrayed between faculty and administration but the reality is that they are often the same people. If not from the same institution, then from another institution.

Universities sometimes require or encourage support staff to have higher ed. degrees. Computer tech support positions may require a bachelors degree. Career counseling or academic advising may require a masters. Faculty encourage students to get graduate degrees at the universities they(the faculty member) got their graduate degree from. Politicians and alumni get favors for their families. Universities are practically influence and nepotism laundering machines. Faculty are simply part of the power structure, each trying to improve their position within. Grad school practically selects for individuals who are invested in the institution and will not rock the boat.
Also, talk to your doctor before going 3 days without food.
I call this productification. "Can this feature be made into a product?"

Ah, your word processor can count words. Can we sell a separate product that counts words in documents? Ah, your network interface can be taken up or down. Can we sell a Network Management Product?
This has been my primary (ignored) hesitation with the consumption of coffee and other caffeinated beverages - the worry about the increased heart rate therefrom reducing my longevity. The threat has definitely not stopped my consumption, though maybe it has decreased it. A little.
I remember an article about a fellow who was doing caloric restriction in Portland, OR. He was described as going from entirely average build to at the edge of under weight.

I personally maintain a weight at the edge of under weight generally consuming a high level of calories (and this is in my 50s). I doubt I could survive calorie restriction.

Anyway, maybe it's sour grape but I suspect the whole calorie restriction thing is boondoggle based on ignoring the variety of factors influencing calorie consumption and longevity outside very controlled circumstances. If normal lab mice (or monkeys or some humans) are fat and inactive, calorie restriction might be good for them while it might be very bad for active animals.
Some of the more interesting recent research, from the perspective of evidence for meaningful health benefits, and some degree of additional longevity in our long-lived species.

Caloric restriction improves health and survival of rhesus monkeys
https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14063

Will calorie restriction work in humans?
http://dx.doi.org/10.18632/aging.100581
<grumble>the hell's wrong with Jersey?</grumble>
No, but the sender had a contract with them, to deliver the package, not USPS. USPS were acting as a subcontractor in this instance. So legally DHL are liable if anyone is.
> most universities are run by bureaucrats with the actual mission of continued existence and expansion

Existence is a prerequisite for all learning/teaching/research, and expansion is implied in these goals too. Unless their stated goal is to further knowledge, but not too much!

I'm skeptical that shady administrators actually don't care about the goals of their organization and have ulterior motives. What seems more likely is that universities are like any other large organization. Most people involved want to do a good job, but only a few are truly passionate about success. Fewer still know exactly what needs to happen for success and are able to rally others to fulfill their vision.
Product Hunt: Cosmic JavaScript GraphQL API
Access to a single user's data is different in degree and effect to bulk collection.

I can't defend the secret courts or how long the secrecy lasts though.
My own anecdata: Late in 2014, as I turned 50, I stepped on the scale and saw 295 pounds. I knew I had long been overindulging, but I freaked and decided to do something about it. As it was, it was starting to hurt when I walked.

First thing to go: snacks. I made a simple rule: don't keep snacks handy. It's way too easy for me to graze. The other thing I did was to greatly reduce my portion sizes. I found a couple of things: first, that if I still felt hungry after finishing a meal, I didn't feel that way a few minutes later. I also noticed that I didn't feel nearly as hungry in general as I thought I would. Keep in mind that restaurant portions often are big enough for two, sometimes three people. If I take half home, there's tomorrow's lunch or dinner. Win-win.

Occasional treats are not a bad thing, but I won't let myself fall into the trap of "oh, just one more bag of chips won't do any harm (lather, rinse, repeat)."

The first summer, I broke out my long-dormant recumbent trike, fixed the broken spokes, and got it back out for long rides, and I also rode a lot last summer as well. During this time, I found that I needed to eat more to support the rides, but I didn't gain weight, and my rides got faster through the season - very noticeably so last summer. Once it got too cold to ride, I had to readjust my eating habits again, but it still wasn't too difficult.

After 28 months of this, I'm down to 195. I'd like to get down to 170, but I'm not going to go nuts trying to hit the target. As it is, my knees and feet are very thankful, and I feel a whole lot better.
Plenty of photos at: https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/02/14/indian-rocket-set-to-p...
Imo that article is written in an overwrought, unclear, and bloated fashion.

Though I guess thats what the author has been trained to do.
I haven't been able to find documentation from Microsoft as to which algorithm DirectWrite uses, but if it's the same as the algorithm Direct2D uses for general path rendering it has an expensive CPU-side tessellation step first and so has the typical drawbacks of long setup times. I wouldn't be surprised if DirectWrite does the actual path rendering on the CPU, like Skia does in typical configurations.

Core Text (really, Core Graphics) renders paths on CPU. I benchmarked it and it generally performed a bit worse than stb_truetype.
>Seems like it could just be part of the website change process.

It might be.

But don't worry, if that's the case I'm sure there will be a story right at the top of HN that says, "Whoops! Trump didn't delete anything". Because we hate fake news and are not hypocrites...right?
The BBC? No subscription either (ad supported outside of the UK). I'd also throw in Al Jazeera which has a slight slant but that slight slant counteracts the BBC's slight slant giving you a very balanced overview.

AP and Reuters themselves are good too (even if you're typically used to reading about them as a source rather than a direct publication).

PBS and CSpan are good but underfunded. Other US news is too biased and full of pro-US propaganda which gets tiresome in a hurry. Plus if I wanted to read unverified "anonymous's sources" or "report: <some other publication>" I'd just read Reddit comments or Tweets. Unfortunately that's largely what US "news" is these days, unverified facts and others repeating those facts until they're true.
XSLT was proposed as a limited transformation language, and actually (still) does a very good job of that. And since we're doomed to repeat the past we now see various XSLT-ish languages being developed for JSON/YAML/etc, relearning all the edge cases that drove XSLT into its current form.

On the other hand, students of the past will notice that Jsonette looks awfully similar to Ant build files, which sucked. JSON/XML/YAML is a horrible way to construct general-purpose programs. Computing languages exist for a reason.
> Amazon runs nothing, it's an outsourcing firm.

What the fuck are you talking about. It's one thing to say AWS services are "good enough" but "Amazon runs nothing" is a ridiculous statement.
That's like being sad about the emergence of banks, because everybody's money is being kept in a small number of vaults instead of under each one's mattress.
Macbook Pro used to be for Power Users, not 'most users'. Power users do not drop $3K on a laptop to let it sit idle, they compile stuff, run multiple VMs, convert videos etc.
AWS, they just don't talk publicly about it so much.
Neat history! I was not aware of that! I meant to imply that sybase's rdbms offering is no longer a big player and I would not want to bet the future of my career on being an expert in it.
He has the right in the U.S.A. and it's only due him from the government. Citizens owe him exactly squat. I want him to need ACLU protection and I trust them to protect only the rights we all deserve.

He doesn't have that right in other places. He would be a non-citizen elsewhere, subject to foreigner's rights, except where foreigners get the same rights as citizens. Which is nowhere in the 1st world.
https://uptime.is/99.999 puts that at:

Daily: 0.9s

Weekly: 6.0s

Monthly: 26.3s

Yearly: 5m 15.6s
Which is why when Apple moved to TCP/IP, multicast DNS (Bonjour, zeroconf) was such a crucial part, because it let them implement a similar model on top of port numbers.
Yes, it's something we have on the roadmap. We will adjust priority based on the level of demand so thanks for your vote ;-)

(disclaimer: I work on Cloud Spanner)
That's his point. DHL is shit. Do not ship with DHL.
Thanks for the report! Could you file a GitHub issue mentioning your graphics hardware (which you can get from System Profiler)? This is the kind of GPU driver issue I was hoping to be able to get wide coverage for. :)
Yes, after sitting for 21 days in US customs, it's now stuck in Jersey City, NJ:

http://i.imgur.com/XYB1lZS.png

Note the "in transit to destination" is a fake event automatically added 24 hours after no scans. Assuming it wasn't stolen, it's still in NJ. Sitting in a pile for 10+ days for no apparent reason despite being priority mail.