skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Silicon Valley has for a long time lauded "crazy" ones. Andy Grove's book is titled "Only the paranoid survive." Steve Jobs's first Think Different commercial was "Here's to the crazy ones". YCombinator has stated on several occasions that they're looking for "extreme" personalities who "see the world differently", a16z says explicitly to "hire for strength rather than lack of weakness", and Chris Sacca loves to parade out Travis Kalanick's Wii tennis story and talk about how he's not a normal person.

The reason for this is because "crazy" is usually an appellation that the rest of society sticks on you for being "not normal". Silicon Valley is looking for the crazy person whose "normal" will become the normal for the rest of the world. You can't change the world if you think the world is already pretty good as-is.

My concern about Trump (and his few Silicon Valley supporters) is that they're applying ideas outside of the domain where they're sound. Most crazy people are, in fact, crazy, and not great visionaries who will bring the world to a higher level of being. A crazy startup founder will at most hurt himself and his investors if he's completely detached from reality; he requires the consent of his customers to do anything significant. A crazy POTUS could literally destroy humanity, so the stakes are a little bit higher.
Enterprise companies spend millions on database projects and majority of the cost comes from Professional Services and Consultancies engaged in data migration etc. So cost of the product itself is never the driving factor especially when the cost will be so substantially less already than Teradata or Oracle.

And the most important part of a database is confidence. You need to be able to trust that when you have a Production outage IT is able to talk to someone to fix it. DataStax has proven capable of meeting that task. It's very difficult for a second tier player to do the same especially with Cassandra being such a niche product.
"If anyone does not believe in Venus, they should gaze at my girl friend" Reading these just emphasizes to me that these are people just like us. We might wear different clothes and speak different languages, but we really are just the same as people were thousands of years ago.

"If anyone sits here, let him read this first of all: if anyone wants a screw, he should look for Attice; she costs 4 sestertii." Seriously, I'm pretty sure I saw this same graffiti in a truck stop restroom stall once.
> In Malaysia (and other Muslim countries) you get kidnapped for trying to spread Christianity.

As a Malaysian, there's plenty to criticize about my country, but this is the first time I've heard of this. Got a source?
Ask HN: Im passionate about education and app dev, what niche should I focus on?
I want to develop apps for education related projects. Im unsure which education niche I should focus on where there's a market and cashflow that I could tap into. Anyone here developing in a specific education market to guide me towards the right niche?

Im not talking about app ideas. Im looking for markets that are looking to hire a developer to build an app.
Business plan.

1. Let someone else solve the hard distributed-system problems.

2. Re-implement the local pieces for higher performance.

3. Profit!
That is mentioned in the article: "For young companies pursuing both profit and purpose, the existing imperfect structures (hybrid for-profit/nonprofit, Public Benefit Corps, B-Corps, L3Cs) can be prohibitively expensive."
Yes, I would accept that.
While you see it as a historical truth this is something that is patently false in my daily life. Sorry I don't substitute historical truth for modern truth! I don't deny the existence of sexism.
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Bizur: A Key-Value Consensus Algorithm for Scalable File-Systems
This is a great app. Sam's Club has been my grocery store of choice since I started using this app.
That's the bit I wondered about. If they are losing 120 to 800 million per quarter, are there enough investors willing to wait through those losses for X years? I've heard wildly varying estimates for the value of X.
I bet you anything that there is some (however tiny) overlap between the two populations.
Strongly agree with you. Her post was all feels an no reals. In other words, it feels good but neglects the motivating forces in reality that drive people's actions.

VC isn't broken. It is what it is. It's that way because it's what people find to be most profitable. People often assign moral value to things where morality is irrelevant or was never intended in the first place.
Try doing it with a manual transmission.
(product person at Appuri in Seattle)

We work with customer data, so lots of time-series. We use SQL for exploration and feature engineering. Model-building happens inside a Docker container that runs on ECS. Scores and predictions are inserted back into the data warehouse (Redshift). It's a simple, practical system that works well without needing a ton of infrastructure.
You can criticise the president because it's a safe subject.

If you join the neo-nazis (or any similarly unpopular group) and posts that on facebook, you will lose your job, your customers will shun you, and if you are sufficiently famous the media will make sure it stays on your record forever. You will also have no platform and no way to gather like-minded people. Whatever social media you use will ban you or seek to limit your voice constantly and in imaginative ways (cf shadowban). Whatever hosting service you use to communicate with your group will shut you down unannounced when you are of sufficient size, forcing you to move, bleeding members all the while. Paypal will refuse to process your donations.

At some point somebody will dig through your past writings/interviews and misconstrue you as a pedophile.

At the end of the day you will be just another destitute crackpot that nobody pays attention to. Why bother with the jackboots?
It's a common pattern throughout history and one that really annoys me. People argue that the pay gap isn't real because men choose more highly-valued positions, but the reality is that positions favoured by women are inherently considered low-value. If some type of "women's work" somehow starts to become respectable or starts to pay better, it stops being "women's work" and the women are pushed out. If women start entering a respectable field and the field becomes "women's work", it stops being respectable. You can see it with the salaries of doctors in Russia, and the narrowing definition of what is considered "hard science" or STEM as women enter these fields in the US. It has very little to do with how difficult or important the work is.
This is what we call a kafkatrap.
They mark up HEB prices too although not as bad as this. It's the main reason I stopped using them.
You can do this with a moderate sized enterprise. Engage HP/Dell or a strong VAR. Get them on the hook and focus on Intel E7 (and SQL Server enterprise if you are an MS shop).

Then get meeting scheduled with IBM and Oracle. Talk to the VAR or OEM guy in your office with your POWER mug poorly hidden. Start asking questions about TPC benchmarks and error correction. Ask if you can pay for cores only when you need peak capacity.

Intel will provide them with marketing support, potentially very significant if they care about you. Microsoft will also bend over backwards for an Oracle compete opportunity.
What a horrible right-angle turn to take into flamewar hell. This is exactly the kind of thing we don't need here. Please don't do it again.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13823192 and marked it off-topic.
Ah, fair enough. Too bad, I'd be really interested in hearing how you do that. I work for a consulting firm as a data scientist, and we have a lot of issues with data size. I'm aware of the tricks for image data (rotating & flipping, playing with different gamma levels), but I haven't seen much for standard, tabular style data.
We've all been there
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In order to be designed it must first be perceived and understood by the designer. Without considering the nature of the designer, how can you create a good interface between the designer and the program?

As an extreme example, consider that life on earth displays all the desired qualities of programming -- abstraction, modularity and composition, maintainability, and it even supports complex ideas such as concurrency and meta-programming -- yet the language it is programmed in and evidently provides all these nice programming concepts looks nothing like ML. Why? Because it is optimized for a different kind of programmer. I think that if that programmer were forced to use ML, we wouldn't see any of those nice qualities or even a working system at all.

This means that programming qualities are not attributes of the language but of the interaction between language and programmer.
Sam's quote:

"He’s an outsider. He took on a system he thought was broken and then disregarded the rules, he got to know his users well and tested his product early and iterated rapidly."

An outsider who disregards the rules is the polar opposite of an authoritarian. Rather, I think he's admiring Trump's bias toward action and disregard for conventional wisdom, as well as for people who have a vested interest in the conventional wisdom.
Is your experience that of a woman? If not, you really have no idea whether it's overblown or not.
What? No they aren't. Kim Il-Sung was an outsider who disregarded the rules. So was Pol Pot. You've made a category error.

It might be the case that history's most effective authoritarians are disproportionately likely to be rule-breaking outsiders.
Your comment is vacuous if you don't expand on it; it goes without saying we want to try to minimize bias as much as possible. Science is part of a world of limited resources too, and investigators have to decide what experiments to try, what topics to pursue
Yes. I've been at Jet since 6 months before launch and now is as exciting a time as any to be at Jet.
The source: https://www.glassdoor.com/research/studies/gender-pay-gap/

The methodology: https://www.glassdoor.com/research/how-we-analyzed-the-gende...

I didn't find the editorializing in the cnet article very helpful.
Congratulations to the team.

Any word on native JSON types ? Scylla will have another reason to drop Cassandra.
I think that is a good thing. Still, it is likely that your experience might fall in the "anecdote" category. It is a big country!
How Facebook Messenger evolved into a chat camera
well I've read the paper a multiple times, most of these "exploits" need "malicious code", how is that even possible? If somebody can inject malicious code I would say that the game is already over.
Of course Applets are different, but I always hoped that they will be removed soon and that will be the case (soon).
that farmer chose ... wisely
There's an argument to be made that people who are healthier throughout their lives will be able to have a higher quality of life, and need less care, well into old age. So even if they live longer it might not cost as much in old age care. But you're right that that's more of a gut-feeling/heuristic kind of thing. We'd need actual numbers to know for sure.
One reason it's dead is because Grails has issues with its governance. Look up the DNS details for its website (grails.org) and you'll see the same single individual listed, with a blank organization field, as the contact person for registrant, admin, and tech. A project run by a single dictator instead of many leaders cooperating together within some organizational structure, not even a loose one, isn't one users are going to trust.

Apache Groovy had a similar problem which also helped caused its decline. It joined the ASF 2 years ago, but it was too late.
I'm probably inviting downvotes, but this paper's conclusion reads to me as "Object-Oriented Programming caused these exploits"
No, it's actually not evidence of a pay gap. The study is flawed because it doesn't control for number of hours worked for men and women. It is well known that men work more hours, which would explain why "men get paid more". The study you linked is not wages per hour worked, it's just wages.

The fact that this myth just keeps getting perpetuated by people is ridiculous. If companies could get away with hiring women for less money, why the heck would they ever conspire against women to hire less women!!!

Get the same and/or high quality work from women for a cheaper price or conspire to not hire any women because I hate women I guess? - Pick One.
> An outsider who disregards the rules is the polar opposite of an authoritarian

Revolutionary authoritarians are, almost without exception, outsiders who disregard the pre-existing rules, both formal rules and merely conventional ones. The very few exceptions are insiders who disregard rules in the same way. Lenin, Hitler, and Napoleon, among others, were many things, but followers-of-rules-set-by-others wasn't high on the list for any of them.

I think you are confusing being the opposite of a willing subject of authoritarianism with being the opposite of an authoritarian.
Great idea, thanks for doing this!
Once I started using arrow notations, I stopped worrying about `this`.

Whenever I need to export class function, I do

var foo = () => bar.baz()

, no more worrying, no need to understand what the hell bind does exactly.

Also with the ... notation, I stopped worrying about .call and .apply. So I can write

var someArray = [a,b,c]
var foo = () => bar.baz(...someArray)

and so on.
Customer Service Technology: Why Computers Aren’t Quite Ready to Takeover
Previous submission (6 days ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13778494
I'm working on Fold – a modern functional language with lisp-like macro-system on top of OCaml.

- https://github.com/fold-lang/fold/wiki/Language-Overview

The language syntax is defined as a library and can be extended, which makes Fold ideal for DSL implementation. The powerful macro system can also be used to perform many static optimisations. My goal is to have a very flexible and performant language specially suitable for data processing.
Certainly possible. Another issue I have is that I regularly see good responses to these sorts of studies linked above pointing out valid flaws and yet none-the-less I'm expected to take this issue seriously. I just don't view it as a legitimate issue, not that I'm unwilling to.
Is there a a reason to learn bind, where I can use arrow function, which is cleaner and more readable? (And probably does bind under the hood)

Also, what is the reason for the prototype style inheritance? What is the benefit? Why use it over "classic", java-style OOP?
My take is that he's looking at the mechanics of the operation rather than the politics of the operation/governing style. From that perspective it would seem he made a reasonable statement.
Well, I'm a programmer and the ambiguity of "America" and "American" disturbs me. Maybe "US American" would be better than USian though, since it matches the name of the country.
While I cannot truly understand what you want through I can deeply sympathize with you. Thank you for sharing your story.

Have you tried getting any support regarding intimacy? It is a great feeling to be in love with someone who you can trust and trusts you back.
Google's statements are PR fluff. This was an acqui-hire. They paid for a few talented engineers. I expect it to be shutdown in a year or two.
Recruiting Manager
> I don't believe we're going to reach agreement, and we're both repeating our earlier points, which is my stop rule.

Fair enough, and I agree. So you don't go away empty handed, I'll note that some of your counter examples have merit and are illustrative of a valid counterargument, I just don't think they go var enough to explain away my point of view.

Also, thanks for the conversation. I've expressed this concept a few times before, but I believe this is the first substantive conversation it has generated, and it was useful in exploring it in more detail. I only wish I had more time to devote towards making my responses more coherent and substantive, but I've been pressed for time lately. (Which is not to imply that the only reason you weren't convinced is because I didn't try hard enough. I'm fully willing to concede I may be wrong.)
That what? Big Pharma is a thing?

Vaccines are, by comparison, not big money makers.
Important to understand this doesn't mean potatoes can grow in perchlorate soil.
You also need the iterative structure to support continuations. Of course, if you do all that---you've just reimplemented function calls.
I was a bit disappointed when I found this out about it:

"The formula is a general-purpose method of decoding a bitmap stored in the constant k, and it could actually be used to draw any other image."

That makes it less of a self-referential formula in my opinion, and more of a cool formula that can print any bitmap.
Great resource.

Which tool is used for creating diagrams ?
Nice to see Web Components v1 and ES6 adoption!
Yeah I feel like the tone of the paper is a bit unfair, all of these exploits are the result of a feature that very few other languages/runtimes even attempt to implement(safely running untrusted code).
"Political Detox Week had nothing to do with any of this. Leave Dan and Scott out of it. I was as hopeful about that experiment as they were."

While I agree with the sentiment, the irony of being told to pipe down, discussing a contentious issue related to YC/Whitehouse is not lost on me.
As the creator of https://dev.to and the co-author of this article, I concur mightily.
This comment breaks the site rules, obviously. Please don't do that regardless of how wrong someone else is. It does no good and makes this place worse for everybody.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
> Replicated by other studies, that research helps explain the discouraging finding that within five years of having lost weight, 95% of dieters will regain all the weight they lost. And most will gain a few extra pounds as well.

I'm part of that privileged 5%. I lost around 60 pounds in 2009-2010 and I've kept it off. It really is a lifestyle change. You have to be constantly aware of the portions you choose and remember what you've already eaten that day to keep in "budget". There are tools and processes that can help, but it's a constant struggle against your body that is constantly lying to your brain. I can definitely see why many people would give up.
Did you ever sit down and made a back of the envelope calculation to how much "fossil" fuel needs to burn to put up Wind Turbines?

Here is a good article to read,
http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/to-get-wind-power...

I wish this board was less susceptible to green-washing campaigns and look at this problem through more thorough scientific and engineering lens.
The world could always use a few more zebras. In tech, they tend to be less compelling because of the easy-come easy-go dynamics: One day you might have most of the market, the next day the ecosystem has shifted, the market went somewhere else, and nobody buys your product. I think this, more than anything else, has pushed tech investment towards the unicorn model, since a company that aims to strangle out all competition is more free to subsequently operate at its own pace.

And if you look at "big tech", past and present, the survivor companies mostly have it in their culture to pragmatically engage in monopolistic behaviors: IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, Adobe, Autodesk, etc.

There's a big gap between that and the Stallman-style hard "free software" position, which also drives a lot of presently used fundamental software technologies. F/OSS has ultimately had a sort of accelerationist effect on the market by raising baseline capabilities, increasing the leverage of startup companies to challenge incumbents. In some respects, F/OSS is losing because the platforms most used are also generally more locked down and black-boxed than in the past. In others, F/OSS is winning, because people will no longer pay for certain categories of software.

These kinds of challenges define what the marketplace is today; verticals where a monopolistic, marketing-driven approach is bolstered by tech get a lot of press hype and VC interest, while pure engineering and social-benefit companies tend to live in the background, scraping by with a "side hustle" that funds their core mission, or if they're a little more naive, aiming to get acquired before their money runs out.
I strongly disagree. The closer you look at the argument, the worse it gets. It simultaneously makes positive, normalizing claims about Trump while calling the startup ethos itself into a kind of disrepute. It is, to shoplift from a much better writer than me, a fractal of bad analysis.
These days I won't run anything more complex than an executable that isn't in a docker container. I think that a lot of people feel this way too.

It's just so much easier in the end.
I suspect the claim is that the talking point is retired because it's false.
The Case for Narrowband-IoT
> REI... Showing overpaying for shit that doesn't matter is SharperImage's whole business model.

Comparing Sharper Image to REI isn't fair at all.

REI is the only and cheapest place to buy a lot of "backcountry" gear (aside from online, which has obvious downsides) in huge swaths of the country.

And not just for big ticket "could make do with cheaper variants" stuff like backpacks and tents. I've never found low-volume quantities of isobutane fuel canisters cheaper anywhere, including online, than when they're on sale at REI.

> Or a sleeping pad that collapses down and fits in the closet...

"I have so little dwelling space that I'm willing to pay $100 for a sleeping pad the size of a plate" doesn't exactly scream "luxury city" to me.
Does this charge over USB-C?

Edit: seems so, https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/DSC06...
I used to work for a database company and have been involved in the purchasing side of database support contracts. Professional Services/Consulting is a small revenue line (and TCO component) relative to support licensing. It also has considerably lower margins.

Scylla is an upstart... but I would not call them a second tier player. DataStax is already trying and failing [0, 1] to incorporate ideas from Scylla in to their product.

Yes, support and SLAs matter. And this round of funding will go a long way toward helping Scylla build out those parts of their business.

[0] - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-10989

[1] - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8520