skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of a story where Robert Sapolsky, a professor in biology when he was staying in a native African hut and decided to put out the indoor fire before sleeping, since he was concerned about the smoke. Later during the night he woke up, covered in driver ants, realizing very fast the reason why the natives sleep with the huts full of smoke.
I think rule of law as it is understood is mostly applicable to first world. E.g. countries like India may not have military dictators and all but deep corruption is way of life. It is not for lacking of laws but because for most of the population it is morally justifiable to take bribes, not pay taxes, jump traffic lights and so on.

Why is it morally ok? Because earth is a place of sin anyway and goal is to work towards going to heaven. This is done by performing religious duties. So 'rule of law' is either an inconvenience or irrelevant towards main goal of life.
Kinda. Dev are hipsters that lack of fashion sense after all.
I just ping support when I want to know partitions. They also told me a little trick. If you create a kinesis stream for your table, the number of shards in the stream is the number of partitions.

But you're right part of design for DDB is picking a proper partition key so you don't end up with hot shards.
Did you ever run a profile to see what was going on? Or run ProcessMonitor to see what was using the disk etc.?

It could be the indexing service for files.
There is the NTFS MFT which is used by tools such as Everything by "void tools", but Windows also has its own Windows Search (WSearch) service which indexes files and contents. I believe this is similar to the Indexing Service found on Windows XP that would give you hopeless results (duplicates between its database and the actual file system). This is meant to make Cortana be able to give you helpful results when you search for things like files locally.

I have found it to be slow to type something into the Start menu (just type), particularly compared to the results from Everything (mentioned above) or Apple's Spotlight. It is very odd because Microsoft has its own SQL Server division (and SQLite is free if they want to use that!) as well as embedded SQL Server for file-based database systems yet their start menu search is horribly slow so as to be useless (for me at least).

I recommend buying Windows Internals 6 volumes 1 & 2 to understand what is going on, at least under Windows 7. There are not versions released for Windows 10 yet (and will there ever be? It's a constantly moving target).
I ran with BTRFS for a while. It was pretty nice overall, but you have to be aware of which features are production-ready and which ones aren't. And the wiki isn't up to date either. I had to ask questions in the IRC channel because I didn't feel like wading through mailing list archives which is apparently the only place up-to-date info gets written down.

Edit: This is new. https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Status I was hoping that it would grow into a more stable, user-friendly project. But RAID1 was broken for months, it would let you create RAID5/6 volume even though the feature wasn't even finished yet, and I personally ended up with a filesystem that will crash the kernel when I try to read certain files. I recovered most of the data using a virtual machine that I could reboot quickly. Maybe I'll look at it again in a couple years, see if someone is taking the project seriously.
It is no surprise to see many Swiss vocally supporting the 'Grundeinkommen' - which is a basic income for everyone. In the age of corporate greed (move the jobs to cheaper locations) and automation (bring in the robots) Switzerland, like every country, will have to ask itself 'what do humans do'.

The basic income is the solution in my opinion. Let all citizens live to a basic level, but not too good a level that the incentive to innovate or do more is gone. The basic income will, in my opinion, lead to a more entrepreneurial society where risk takers are supported - and also a more socially responsible and caring society, where people can donate their time to help others.
I'm not sure why you say that? I didn't assume that at all. But if you're not good at programming, it won't matter how good you are at something else if you're trying to get a programming job.

If you're even a little good at programming, practically anything else will synergize with it. My favorite Junior Programmer got hired because she claimed "good business sense" during the interview, along with some programming skill she had picked up in her personal time. She's a really good programmer now, and fits in great with a team because of that business sense.
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Yes - wealth, fame, and power have surely made him a more considerate and humble individual.
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Crisp is quite transparent in how they work and it's documented here if you want to clone it yourself:
http://dna.crisp.se/docs/index.html
I've been using ZFS on all my desktops and my personal NAS for, I can't remember, probably 4-5 years.

Including ZFS root filesystem, and swap on a zvol.

I have to say, I really like it, and I'll use it again if I have to redo a machine.

Installing Ubuntu on a ZFS root filesystem is much more involved than merely running the installer. If you have never done it before, and are appropriately cautious, it'll take you half a day to follow the (very detailed and helpful) Wiki page. I can do it in less than an hour now.

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So far, only one problem (and not a bug, more of a misfeature): when one of the disks in the NAS died, I couldn't replace it with a new one, because the ZFS mirroring was using its default 2kb blocks (I forget the correct term). It can only do this on 2kb/sector HDDs. My new HDD had 4kb/sector.

I was forced to recreate the entire filesystem using a larger blocksize (ashift=12).

Luckily this worked without a hitch, thanks also to zfs send | zfs receive, but it still pissed me off.
There's also OnyX: http://www.titanium.free.fr/
That whole class of cars depreciate like that. Mazda3, Corolla, etc.

Basically, luxury goods depreciate a lot. Luxury cars depreciate a lot.
Why does he invoke hated but the late Walt Disney (which Disneyland is just as memorable) does not.

People will vote for him because he's pragmatic, similar to Gore and Clinton . The nominee of either side gets at least 45% of the vote , so it comes down to undecideds
A bonfire's smoke moves in the wind's direction. If they sit towards the bonfire with the wind in their backs, what's wrong with that?
Although if the smoke goes toward your home I understand you anger.
Anything remotely complex is weird and unintuitive. I've had the displeasure of writing AppleScript as both a novice and intermediate scripter/programmer. The latter is much more frustrating because instead of just the "natural language"(for lack of a better term) falling apart you are now very much aware of what it's lacking.
I didn't say it was a good thing (or a bad thing), only that there are legitimate use cases and that the suggested notification method would be, in my opinion, terrible security practice...
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Nobody? Regarding verdicts there is literally no boss who can say anything about how they do their job (sometimes much to the grief of judges in a higher court).
As someone who's been involved in the emulation and preservation community on the Apple II side of things, free and open source implementations of old operating systems continue to be useful for historical research, archiving of old software, etc. etc.
According to the article, it answers questions (using Google). I haven't seen one, but I'd expect the microphone to be featured.
Yes, thank you, that was my point... when online communities are connected to real-world communities, the atmosphere of the online communities are usually better. I'm not sure how the person above missed that, since I said it twice. I brought that up because Zuck was talking about facebook being used to help real-world communities... like your kid's kindergarten class... and my neighbourhood watch group.
Of course, that's because you did something morally wrong.

This is different than what people label as 'echo chamber'. In there you'd have either 100% love or hate.

Having mixed responses verging toward hate, says you screwed up and the general public doesn't approve of it.
I imagine soil has a lot to do with it as well. Munich probably has a somewhat stable soil given how close it is to the mountains.

Might also just be a side effect of Munich being one of the highest quality-of-living cities in the world, with some pretty high-end auto manufacturing as well.
Facebook is powerful. A thousand disparate networks would not have the same potential for global change and community.

I am not a huge Facebook fan, but Zuck is right about that much. That potential could be squandered or worse. Right now Facebook is still largely a toy but that potential is there.
Good. Compare the average quality of third party releases on something like the 3DS with the iOS app store. For once I would like to see a walled garden behave like a garden rather than a jungle with walls around it.
The interesting part is that in CH, unlike in other democracies, if people will vote for it, it will be implemented. In the last referendum about UBI the proposal had ~23% support. And if the automation advances, that number may raise quickly.
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Wolfram was there in 2002. Pretty cool examples though.
That's the direction I'm thinking at too. For instance, even Venus has temperatures around 500 K at its surface, and much higher pressure than Earth. But it obviously gets harder to model chemistry the more different environments are from what we have here, due to the lack of (or difficulty to produce) empirical data.
I don't believe this works well, especially in larger organisations. Groups of people naturally form a hierarchy, whether it's officially recognised or not. It's human nature.
It's worth keeping in mind that this is a company of 40 people. Half the size of most primitive hunter-gatherer tribes which had no formal organization whatsoever. At sizes that small, everyone knows each other, everyone knows what everyone else is doing, and people can make decisions through consensus after a round of informal discussions.

The problems only start once the "tribe" grows beyond 150. That's when the number of people involved is too great for the human brain to process the entire social network. Hence why formal organisations and hierarchy are now needed.

It's great that startups and small companies are innovating with different organizational styles. Many of the structures found in big corporations are overkill for small organisations where everyone knows each other. Just don't expect any success stories from these startup experiments to scale up to bigger companies though.
And now, with C#6 that last bit becomes:

if(items.Any(x => x?.SomeValue == null))
Do you have any links? I'd love to read more.

How did they suggest dealing with changes over time, as members join and leave or shift roles as the organisation changes?
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> I strongly prefer strongly prefer projects/communities that are managed by technical brilliant, cynical jerks over more inclusive ones if this decreases the effectivity.

If it's a strong preference, then the presence or absence of a CoC - and more generally, the existence of CoCs in some online communities - might be a very useful signal to you, I would think.
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I think this is glorious. Thanks for this gem.
How are current static website generators limited? The powerpoint doesn't go into more of why that is.
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Hmm OK, then it's odd that I couldn't find it, but I guess I'm overestimating by browsing-fu :P

Thanks!
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* Monoscopic far field rendering for mobile VR.

Not sure how long this has been brewing, but I imagine it provides a significant performance boost.

Anyone got any experience using it from the previews?

Great work Epic!
I'm curious - is water that tastes like water actually an issue?
They've written it down -- it's the board for big things and "shared among other employees" for others. It actually sounds pretty practical to me. As people become more responsible and self-regulating, there's less need for a single person to be in charge in a hierarchical sense.

> The staff decided that many of the chief executive's responsibilities overlapped with those of the board, while other roles could be shared among other employees.
That is exactly my point. I never use the word steal either as it would imply loss for the original owner. My point was directed to the privacy concern together with the impossibility of knowing what happens when the vendor manages the data, and also for the second hand clients (in government solutions for example).
Doing exactly this right now on a new project using Preact. Working great so far.
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Agreed. I've noticed that organizations that often times claim to be 'leaderless', just have other implicit ways of exerting power and influence. Truly leaderless is difficult, and requires humility from all it's members.
With respect, I just don't find SQL that difficult, especially for the simple things that an ORM does a nice job with. "select foo, bar, baz from quux where uuid = '8bd67f1e-6bb8-4ccb-8ad4-fa631b36ab8e'" is easy.
Yes, the crosses mark the characters that died in the war. The mark is in common usage for death, regardless of religious affiliation - we don't spell the names of the characters in the original ancient Greek either.
Why not tell them yourself? Passive aggression on a news feed won't improve the situation.

On the other hand, if the neighbors are burning wet wood, pine or otherwise Doing It Wrong maybe they would appreciate a friendly heads up.
Humans can do lots of things robots can't currently do: they can create thoughtful art, write meaningful stories and journalism. They can take care of and raise children. They can easily tailor instruction to individuals, and more.

What do all these roles have in common? They aren't usually valued very highly by society. It seems a lot of people want to work the jobs the robots are good at and not do the ones humans are best at.
It's not a workers cooperative (shared ownership). The consultants seem more analogous to hair stylists renting booth space at a hair salon. Based on Google's English translation of the Swedish recruitment page[1], it says:

- "It also means that there is no guaranteed salary. The only thing we guarantee is that you will have to pay a flat fee every month plus one-tenth of what you bill."

That fee structure makes the BBC article superficial and misleading. Yes, if every worker is not paid a regular paycheck, it doesn't seem like a breakthrough innovation in business organization theory to not have a CEO boss them around.

They make the headline about "no CEO" but omit any relevant details such as how workers are compensated.

[1] https://www.crisp.se/om-crisp/jobba-pa-crisp
I actually did something similar a few years ago but with a washing machine and concentrated detergent. I hadn't used it before and didn't know you had to dissolve it in water and just poured it in, and when I came back the was a mountain of suds in front, it came out around the door and was waist high and about 4 feet wide. The Washing machine still works.
L.A. preps for a huge storm
L.A. preps for a huge storm.

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-live-powerful-storms-moving-l-area-strongest-storm-in-years-taking-aim-at-1487305729-htmlstory.html

Now's a good time to mention a book that I learned about on HN. The Control of Nature by John McPhee. It has chapters on: The lower Mississippi food control structures, Iceland's fight against flowing lava and Los Angeles's efforts to control raging water flowing down thru ravines.

Here's an excerpt:

String out along the San Gabriel front are at least a hundred and twenty bowl-shaped excavations that resemble football stadiums and are often as large. Years ago, when a big storm left back yards and boulevards five feet deep in scree, one neighborhood came through amazingly unscathed because it happened to surround gravel pit that had filled up instead.

Jeff Masters has a great blog about the Old River Control structure. It prevent the Mississippi from flowing off toward Baton Rouge (an 150 mile shorter route) and forming a new delta. The Mississippi pushes so much sediment down stream, that short of this control, it would build a mound in front of itself, then just tumble off to the right.

https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/americas-achilles-heel-the-mississippi-rivers-old-river-control-st
And I submit to you the Wikipedia article about Unintended consequences: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_consequences

We can outlaw cars but what will be the consequences?

One reason Americans have a fascination with cars is because Americans have a fascination with freedom.

When governments attempt to eliminate imbalances they usually take away liberties. This is not necessarily an improvement.
Every time you upgrade :P

So, like every two years, for the rest of your life?
Sorry, wanted to say CoMiniSatPS, here:

http://cs.nyu.edu/~chanseok/cominisatps/index.html

One of its variants won the Main track of the SAT Competition of 2016, see

http://baldur.iti.kit.edu/sat-competition-2016/index.php?cat...

For all the solvers' source codes, see

http://baldur.iti.kit.edu/sat-competition-2016/solvers/
Well we do. Conspiracy theories are noise but not in the same category as pixel noise. When neural nets start falling for conspiracy theories then I'll start to worry about the coming singularity.
It's open source. You can fork and disable the tracking.
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By your definition of subsidy, everything is subsidized.

Why don't we stop subsidizing education too?
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Yes, but my point is that a user who has handed over Facebook access has with it handed over 'login with Facebook' access.
These outdated OSes have a tiny market share, and more importantly, an organization that prevents sw installation doesn't use outdated OSes. Others can install Firefox even on XP. Old Androids and IPhones are a bigger issue.
Many times. There's one fairly high-profile case going on where I live just now.

Devil's Dictionary is funny but things don't completely work that way.
So are you saying they won't make any more alternate releases for future releases?
Could you really call it a democracy otherwise?
Ah, haven't kept up with Adversarial examples research lately,sorry.
so.. NIMBYism?
I'm aware Facebook bought WhatsApp. I don't think that changes matters much though. WhatsApp is one of the "private channels" that Facebook Inc owns, and in Zuckerberg's manifesto [1] you can read:

"We are strong advocates of encryption and have built it into the largest messaging platforms in the world -- WhatsApp and Messenger."

My point is that "end-to-end encryption in private channels" and "using AI to analyze data in private channels" is incompatible.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/building-glob...
"Witches... certainly don't have leaders. Granny Weatherwax was the most highly-regarded of the leaders they didn't have."

- Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters.
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I don't have time to formulate a proper response but I just wanted to say this makes me sad.

We've now reached the point where HTML and CSS served via a normal webserver is regarded as insufficient and anyone who wants to build websites of even the simplest kind is expected to wheel in an incredibly large client-side and development stack.

Something has gone wrong. All this to avoid a page reload? Should the terrible effects of a page reload not be solved elsewhere?

> without the hacky "pjax" solution.

Before you start using the word 'hacky' you might want a moment of self-reflection.
Yup. I've seen really nice people become incredibly wealthy and stay incredibly (maybe a little too) kind and I've seen petty people get a little more cash than their neighbors and become intolerable condescending assholes.

It's about the person, not the money.
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I totally agree. I recommend KDE Neon for newbies (up-to-date KDE on top of stable Ubuntu core) or Xubuntu if their computer is older.
Ignoring reserved prices, it is $10.40/hr (these are eventually consistent reads, so half the cost of consistent ones). That puts it roughly on par with an RDS postgres r3.8xlarge instance with 10k provisioned IOPS.

Sure, you likely have more than one table on RDS, so that cost is amortized, but when you get to the scale where you need 160k reads/s, you aren't going to have much more than that one dataset in a single instance.
Because there is a loudmouth sub-set of the community that think a single look and feel of the DE would bring about "the year of the desktop". This while they keep CADTing the APIs and ABIs, thus making third parties weary of developing for said desktop.
https://youtu.be/V_d55RrPfP4

Couldn't resist.
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Essentially a The Right Cup [1] clone which raised 1.3 million on Indiegogo and is already shipping.

[1] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-right-cup-trick-your-...
> There is no amount of wood smoke that is good to breathe. It is at least as bad for you as cigarette smoke, and probably much worse.

And yet very few sane people wish to ban wood smoke. It smells good. There's nothing like the smell of fall and winter, with fragrant smoke blanketing the countryside.

I'm perfectly aware that wood smoke is bad for me, that it pollutes my lungs and makes my food poisonous. But it's delicious.
This is a lot like constructing a partial dependence plot [1][2] for a very, very sophisticated predictive model.

1: http://scikit-learn.org/stable/auto_examples/ensemble/plot_p...
2: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/datarobot/vignettes/...
Ask HN: Can't get a job because poor communication skills
I was let go from my last job because I couldn't fit into the "office culture", and now I'm really struggling to get a job because of "poor communication skills".

I've been looking for 4 months, with 90% of my rejections being something to do with my communication skills.

I feel worthless honestly, and the worst thing about all this is that there is really nothing can do to make my autism disappear.

And honestly, I don't even see why my autism is a problem. I've always seen my autism and quietness as my super power, and it drive me nuts that you people don't see that too.

I was going to ask for help, but realistically that's pointless - I won't change in any significant way. And yeah, I know, "just be good enough that they look past it".

Please just try to be more understanding. It genuinely upsets me because I'm a pretty good developer, yet I know people who are really quite terrible, but they can bullshit well so they're all doing better than me. And this is at your expense quite frankly. The dude writes terrible code, but he came across well, so obviously we hired him...

Oh, and you can all fuck right off with your office culture. Stop wasting yours and my time sending each other cat.gif and joking about how the German IT guy is a secret Nazi. It's not remotely funny, I can't even explain how mad it makes me that I was let go for not participating in this madness.

Urgh, autistic rant over. I've got work to do.
Tell that to the NFL.