skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see the correlation between 'being an asshole' and 'sold my start-up'.

There are plenty of successful entrepreneurs that are perfectly capable of relating to others and treating their fellow men, friends and family with dignity and respect.

Some people succeed because they're playing nice with others, some succeed in spite of not being able to do so, some even succeed because they are are assholes.

There is no correlation here and you probably won't be able to extract many lessons from this piece, no one talks about it because it isn't a particularly common experience.

Wealth does not typically turn assholes in to non-assholes.
The clock starts ticking on coffee as soon as it's roasted (green beans last a long time). Grinding accelerates the degradation as more of the coffee is exposed to oxygen (nitrogen flushed containers help here). Coffee off its peak isn't harmful, but is less flavorful.
Yes. You can download a sample chapter from the aforementioned link
I'm not convinced the baseline is that low, I think most middle class people still have discomfort or inconvenience which could be removed.

For instance I now sit in a comfy chair at home, but when I fly somewhere I'm stuck being uncomfortable in economy.

And then there's the big one: I have to go to work, every day, whether I feel like it or not. Inconvenient!
Decade ago they were doing that in the UK. Showing proof of funds when you arrived.

Had one trip to the US where they asked how much money I was carrying. I said none, just a credit card. They asked if I were planning to work there. I said no, I'll pull money from the debit card as I go. They (presumably) acted puzzled about this.
Where do you fly?

All the Australian, Asian, ME, and Canadian flights I've been on in the past 5 years have had them except for porter air which is short haul flights from Toronto. Really just US airlines I've seen this happening in but they were always pretty barebones.
You are misunderstanding this article. This is not a benchmark, this is a test of how correct the database is with distributed transactions and data in the worst conditions possible. These are not real-world performance numbers in any sense.
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She's famous and has unique insight, that has quite a bit of value.
There's already a frustrating degree of uncertainty as to when (if ever) showing up at the airport will actually yield a seat towards your destination. Adding the uncertainty of other people's demand and even more highly variable waits in line sounds like hell.

I'd much rather cope with the Christmas rush by booking months early than by waiting at the airport for days.
nice. if only these stats were given as much press as anything including the word "drone"
Oh! I'm sorry. I forgot to add the disclaimer, and can't edit the parent comment anymore. I'm the author.
Where does it look like I am I saying that multiple agencies would coordinate sharing FB data? I feel that the parent post was needlessly worrying about a risk of e.g. border teams using unlocked phones as a routine way to harvest data and hand it over to e.g. NSA or whatever "evil government" snooping agency they'd be worried about, because (a) NSA doesn't need this assistance because they are likely to have better mass collection methods on their own, and (b) they wouldn't coordinate this with a large number of DHS grunts, neither by asking them to gather data nor by providing them with a list of all data that they have. DHS is likely to have a lot of data themselves, but anyway unlocking a phone provides extra information in a simple&practical manner.
Does this have anything to do with ReactJS or React Native?
having to stare at your lap or hold a screen at eye level is pretty hellish.
> When you roll up to someone’s house in a Tesla, how can they help but assume that you’re just a judgmental asshole?

Am I the only one who feels that those guys were judgmental assholes rather than the author?
Even without refreshing the cells they actually last quite a lot longer than you would expect. This is an old research paper on the topic but unfortunately, it looks like all of the images and videos are broken which is a shame because it gave you a great mental picture of the "half-life" so to speak of RAM.

https://citp.princeton.edu/research/memory/

The bottom line is that you would need to stop refreshing it for minutes if not longer to be sure that there wasn't an information leak and if the memory is cooled down it'll last a great deal longer without being refreshed and even still keep the majority of the contents after hours of being removed from a running system if they are cooled using liquid nitrogen. Either way one or two cycles isn't going to really matter at all.
The mayor of Charlotte, NC went to prison for bribery after accepting a suitcase full of cash from the FBI.
I'm surprised the project is still ongoing. Agree they cooperating with the wine team on their progression?
This article [0] says they expect latency to be between 25 and 35ms with the 4,425 satellite constellation.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/space...
All? No thanks. I'll take my life as it is and live it the best I can rather than to live for promises of eternity that most likely are nonsense. It's perfectly possible to find balance in your life without religion, which destroys as often as it heals.
Some of those screens look literally decades old. Horrible viewing angles, huge pixels, etc.
Ozgun, any performance benefits for time-series data?

+1 for Top Gun
This was on HN recently, but I really enjoyed Robin Wieruch's react tutorial in which you build a HN like app: https://github.com/rwieruch/the-road-to-learn-react
No, and ReactOS has been around for much longer than React and React Native. Its first released was 13 years ago.
Not at all!

Riseup's response to questioning about failure to update the canary was:

listen to the hummingbird, whose wings you cannot see,
listen to the hummingbird, don't listen to me. #LeonardCohen

That is, "yes, there's a gag order".
> Yes, I totally agree. Yann LeCun, Geoff Hinton, Jurgen Schmidhuber and others did unpopular work for a long time.

...

> Until then, I'll be ... rolling my eyes at brain analogies.

Maybe you don't realize this, but these guys made more brain analogies than you can count over the same period to which you attribute their greatness. Meanwhile, they were attacked year after year by state-of-the-art land grabbers saying the same things you just did.

> isn't being presented as basic research on a risky hypothesis.

It is basic research, but it's not a risky hypothesis. Existing neuromorphic computers achieve 10^14 ops/s at 20 W. Thats 5 Tops/Watt. The best GPUs currently achieve less than 200 Gops/Watt. Where is the risk in saying that a man-made neuromorphic chip can achieve more per dollar than a GPU. There is no risk, and suggesting that this field is somehow has too much risk for advances to be celebrated is absolutely crazy.
He's far from the only person who's had to struggle through this. I give him the benefit of the doubt that he sincerely does not want to be seen as a rich asshole.

His wealth is still very new to him and there's an adjustment process. Both individuals and entire nations go through this adjustment process of newfound wealth. It gets to your head and it takes some time to work it out of your system, counting your mistakes each time you "slip up" and show your materialistic, vain side again and again. But if his desire to be a decent guy who happened to work hard and made it, then he'll figure things out for himself.
I was under the impression that the viewing angles were intentionally poor for the sake of privacy and not having glare in the faces of the people behind you.
I've read Realistic Ray Tracing by Shirley, before reading the first edition of PBRT. RRT definitely has a more "incremental" approach, and is a lot more approachable than PBRT.
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I enjoyed Tango with Django, and was very positively surprised when they emailed me an update for the PDF I bought. The first was inexpensive, and worth it, hopefully helping support the authors.

Not only a good tutorial for Django, but the authors made it even better offering the free improved/corrected version.

The final project is a Django webapp that allows visitors to add sites and rank them. Many different aspects in Django are looked at, as well as beyond, such as CSS, Bootstrap, search, Jquery, AJAX, etc.
I learned UCSD Pascal on an Apple 2e, and then Turbo Pascal on an IBM PC XT in high school. 1984 to 1986. It helped me learn more languages like Ada, we had Janus Ada for DOS.

Delphi 1.02 I got from some CD in a UK magazine sold in the USA. They gave away free copies of commerical software for buying the magazine for $10 or so.

I did better in Visual Basic because I got jobs that required it.
A better parallel is a USA Vice President's son getting a Board of Directors' slot in a foreign oil company[0].

[0] http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27403003

Regarding Chelsea Clinton: in reading her various writings from the email leaks, she strikes me as both highly intelligent and insightful (speaking as no fan of her parents).
If at all possible, you should choose one DBMS and stick with it.

There are non-abstractable differences once you no longer have a toy project, e.g. locking and isolation semantics.

There might be some valid reason for making your applications talk to different DBMS, but you have a tough slog ahead no matter how you do it.
There's also issues with how fast the satellites move across the sky. At low orbits they fly by and you either need ridiculously sensitive wide angle antennas or solid-state steerable high-gain antennas that track them as they go by.

See ex: https://www.kymetacorp.com/
Let me start with the caveat that I'm in my early-mid 30's and progressing ahead of time into the cranky old man stage stage of life. In general though I find this style of automation has too many exceptions and the negatives of those exceptions generally outweighs the benefits.

To take the coffee pot as an example. I'll hit the snooze button between zero and 10 times a morning, so automating the coffee machine would often result in cold coffee. Other times, if I've get a bit to drunk the night before, I'll skip the coffee, so the automation would be a waste. There's also some introduced mental overhead of having 2 workflows for the same thing, if I want a coffee, I go make a coffee, but now I'd have to think about if this was one of the automatic ones or if it requires manual intervention.

I may be atypical in this, but I have largely automated the process myself. I wake up and while I'm still on autopilot fill and turn on the jug (we don't do coffee pots here) go pee, come back and put the instant coffee in and the jug is boiled by then. There simply isn't room to optimize much further than that. I'm also a bit of a stickler for fresh water (incident with a cockaroach ~25 years ago), so I don't like the idea of filling the water the night before. If I wanted too though, I could automate turning the jug on in the morning with an electrical timer 30 years ago.

I think I could come up with a similar list of issues for all/most of your other examples considering most of them are more complicated, particularly the fridge one.

My zombie horde action plan is considerably lower tech ;)
It would be bikeshedding if we were all, for no good reason and without prompting, suggesting names that we preferred, with no consensus emerging.

Instead what I see in this thread is a clear consensus that the current name is atrocious, even to the point of being detrimental to the long-term success of the project, and should therefore be changed.

Personally, I refuse to use or recommend this product as long as its current name remains. And to those who think I'm being petty, 1) I can afford to be petty given how many database options (NoSQL or otherwise) are out there, and 2) market forces should punish products with names like this, or else we'll eventually find ourselves debating the merits of HerpesDB vs. ManureDB.
Yes, that sounds much more useful to the world than, you know, not partnering with people that are happy to harm it.
Ignoring a bit all that I'm-a-successful-Ceo, when most of the "people that mean the most to you" are saying that you are an asshole, take the advise: probably you're. Money doesn't necessary play a hole here. My bet is that you were an asshole before being a milionare. Check with those 'old friends that understand you'.
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They certainly do propagate across API surfaces. People just ignore that.

Just like Go error handling : looking on github you see that Go mostly makes it easy and less visible if people totally ignore errors.
I think this can be used as a pretext, but these screens look extremely old anyway. My TN monitor 10 years ago had a much better picture.
Sounded like those humor shows where the Rich Cousin said to the poor cousin he had soooooo many problems in his life, like having to buy all Christmas dinner ingredients from France ...
Buying a Tesla is embarrassing. My net worth is definitely higher than this dude's, and I don't have a Tesla.
Agreed.

The working approach is: Use Hibernate (or any other ORM) so that you only need to write the SQL that matters.

There is nothing wrong with using a tool to make your life easier, and there is a lot of necessary-but-borderline-boilerplate work that needs to be done when interacting with a database: validation, caching, transaction management, etc.

An ORM can handle the 90% use case for these things, freeing the programmer to focus on the 10% where the business value actually lives.

Using an advanced tool doesn't remove the need to understand what is going on under the hood: it just eliminates the need to care about the inner workings until they interfere with solving the problem-at-hand.
I completely agree. There are some things you can do in Excel that are nearly impossible to track down. There are auditing tools that help, but you can truly ruin a spreadsheet in undetectable ways if you want (or more likely, don't want).
...except that's not what it's saying at all. They're scaling back their initial goal to deploy worldwide because it's working so well in smaller deployments, and the worldwide deployment doesn't make sense.
Craig here from Citus. Spanner is absolutely some interesting technology, but focuses on some pretty different use cases than we're looking to solve. Spanner is globally distributed but the cost of that is likely to be 100ms per operation. Further it uses SQL for the read, but the insert and update is RPC so it's a bit of a different interface.

Citus is much more focused on interacting like a relational database that simply scales out as opposed to re-inventing a lot of the underlying tech and interfaces. You can find the comment further down from one of our founders, but we're very focused on a few use cases.

1. Scaling beyond single node Postgres (this primarily for B2B applications currently)

2. Operational analytics, here because of the way we parallelize the workload you can get sub-second query performance across terabytes of data.

3. NoSQL++, this is a bit more akin to where spanner may fit, where you have exceptionally high read and write throughput requirements. (Exceptionally high meaning north of 100k writes per second).
Reading the article is helpful to make informed comments.
I'm not sure I love the article, but I agree with the author's sentiment. I'm 4 years in to a successful bootstrapped startup, and I've lost many close acquaintances. I simply don't have time to keep the social connections alive and I have not prioritized them. I'm somewhat introverted by nature so this is not really a major concern of mine at this time, but I suspect it may be a regret later.

What is challenging for me is the fact that most people cannot relate to my life. They can't understand why you'd work 60+ hours a week on a fledgling business. They can't understand the obsession and inability to "turn it off." They don't understand what it takes to get a customer to actually pay you, let alone build something people enjoy using and solves problems. I do find that many folks assume you just "lucked" your way in to success.

And I think bootstrapped business owners have it the worst of all. It's comparably easy to spend VC cash once you get funding, rather than money from "your own pocket." It's not hard to justify hiring 5 people when the VCs explicitly tell you that's what the money is for. Bootstrapping a successful business is indeed a rare feat, and only the people who've been there can understand exactly how all consuming and difficult it is. (At least, that's been my experience so far)
It just looks this way because 2/10 manage to guess what the article is about.
And I used some of the techniques from Tango in a car database app I sold to a local repair shop, so I definitely consider it money _well_ spent. I am now working on another app for yet another local business, leveraging some of the same tricks...
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> Google has something like 10+ years of my saved search history. its just ridiculously good at finding exactly what I'm looking for (which quite often is something I searched in the past).

This is the opposite a lot of the time for me. If I found what I was searching for last time, I wouldn't still be searching but google thinks that because I clicked on it previously, it's what I'm after. If google gets it wrong the first time the wrong results become self reinforcing.
Django Unleashed is written as a step-by-step guide to building a single Django project. The link below has links to Amazon or to Pearson's own site (DRM-Free!).

http://django-unleashed.com/

Full Disclosure: I'm the author.

If you're looking to go nuts, I recommend reading the first twelve chapters of Django Unleashed, following it up with Harry Percival's Test Driven Development with Python book (also written as a step-by-step guide), and then finishing Unleashed.

http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000000754/index.ht...

Two Scoops of Django (not a guide) is great to have after that.

https://www.twoscoopspress.com/products/two-scoops-of-django...

Hope that helps!
As a technical documentation nerd, I hope we can get a rudimentary JS (or WASM) IDE and compiler worked out and A/B test everything on Khan Academy for version 3.0. One impossible task at a time : )
And a Stickley couch running about 4x as much will be handed down to your great-grandchildren, for that matter. Quality costs more, but the price/performance ratio is much better.
My uncle was a lawyer on the other side of a legal dispute involving Daewoo in the 1990s. All the Korean chaebols operate similarly. (He’s a badass and bopped them in court though.)
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First thing I saw that popped up on your website is your age. Not sure why, but I seem to think some (potential?) employers could take it against you. For example, being young, lots of people would think you're unprepared, inexperienced, or much worse, does not bring much to the table. On the other hand, some might think otherwise that when you apply for them and get hired, there's the potential that you might jump ship when the next better opportunity comes.

Others may think differently though - they could see you as someone they could probably use for tasks which you would find dry and not worthwhile, hence, even before you start, the odds are stacked against you.

Just my observation. Your credentials looks impressive though. But hiring managers rarely look deep into what your page tells.
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I know what you're saying, and I do agree, but as you know, not all problems will be Nvidia's fault.

I guess it depends on how obscure/serious the bug is, but the reason we can't have everything working always is because people want to be able to put whatever random hardware and software of their choice together and have it all work. It's not that simple.

There's a lot of stuff that has to go right for things to not have problems. PCs have become insanely complicated and there's almost unlimited chances for a particular combination of hardware/software to have bugs out there.

If you paid (a lot) more for a certified system, then maybe you could expect it to work flawlessly. Are there vendors that do that? I guess it would have to be for only a particular software setup as well.
How can something that was released 13 years ago still be alpha and has 0.4.4 as the version?

I am curious what the story is, is this backed by some company? Was this almost abandoned along the way but picked up?
Slightly tangential, but I'm really interested at the political influence of what space satellites or balloon Internet might do.

I'm considering a scenario where a nefarious, space-capable entity is capable of disabling satellites. Idk I guess from the perhspective of like a civil engineer or something, it seems that an idea where your infrastructure is out of reach or particularly vulnerable seems like a bad idea.

There could be """accidental""" space object collisions, direct attacks on them, or even just unforeseeable maintenance difficulties trying to take care of dozens or hundreds or thousands of objects not immediately available to us, serving an incredibly critical and global backbone of infrastructure, for more or less every industry on earth, or potentially ventures off earth as well.

What an exciting time to be alive, it's like some Twilight Zone Star Trek mashup lately.

Edit: the title of this post is pretty dumb btw, I contend it should be changed to reflect changes in the program, not its abandonment
West Elm is mass-produced garbage. Quality couches are expensive and you need to do your research. I highly recommend the Danish "Innovation" brand of furniture, which sits in a similar price category, but made of much much better stuff. Check out http://innovation-usa.com/. Quality springs are key.

The furniture market in general is extremely uneven: price is all over the place and does not really correspond to quality. It is an interesting problem. I truly enjoyed reading the write up!
No. this is economically incorrect.

Telecom is a classic example of an industry which will always have imperfect competition because of high barriers to entry and large fixed costs.

You will always need government intervention to ensure that telecom firms don't abuse their position.

American telecom firms are genuinely pieces of work, truly innovative in their means of colluding. They managed to insert pin codes in their bids for spectrum. Thus letting other bidders know they should step out.