skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real problem is that you are all on the same email provider.

If we didn't have a monoculture in email providing, this would be far less of an issue.
That's like saying even Michael Jordan was able to win an NBA title, and he has freakishly large hands!

Terry is a force of nature.
> I have many friends who release things like you. I'm not saying you are doing this but these guys just release and make no effort to promote them. They are afraid that they will get hurt if they try hard and no one still wants their thing.

The thing is, not everyone builds things to have something at the end. A lot of my side projects exist because I enjoy hacking on them, not because I have some particular end result I'm looking for.

Of course, I have other side projects where I want both, and for those, shipping probably has value.
What free math textbooks have you used? (with solutions)
Today I noticed a post regarding a free abstract algebra textbook with solutions on the top of board.

I wondered if anyone else had textbooks like this one for topics to continue my mathematics education past my basic CS background?

Any links would be appreciated!
Richard Dawkins constantly reiterates this point in his book The Selfish Gene, constantly reminding us that genes aren't actually "selfish" and don't actually have wants, but these anthropomorphisms are useful shortcuts for communicating the subject-matter.
No. It's comparable to buying stock or options with your own money at a non-finance firm. I would never do this either.

Bonuses are comparable to RSUs/options at non-finance firms.
Color Solid
Deploy manager for Oracle
Development tools are mostly not project-oriented nor environment-aware. This was my motivation for bringing this tool to life. It's a way to giving something back to the community of software/database developers, hope it can help you save a great deal of time.

https://mitchdurango.wixsite.com/deploymanager
I could overload my pockets carrying around all kinds of special purpose labels and stickers, and track my stock of them so I don't run out....or I could carry a pen.

> Do you people really not keep a book of stamps in your car?

No, why would I do that?
Tim.. in this day and age of broadband and terabyte drives, 50GB file size is a non issue. A 50GB file can be downloaded while I am having lunch, during the day while I am working or overnight and it's available the next time. No rush.

- During the installation, the installer can download the smaller needed updates. SQL Server installation does that.

- A company can download the 50GB file once only and put it on a network drive and the developers can install it from there. It saved bandwidth for the company instead of each dev downloading the same bits over and over.

- What about the machines that are not connected to the Internet? You mentioned there are ways around this.

I am fine with none ISO's but I wanted to post the counterarguments.
But in fact, we don't need to coordinate identifiers. Clashes in partition ID's are of no practical consequence.

A 32 bit "fourCC" would be more than adequate. It could even be constrained just to readable characters, like LNXF (Linux Filesystem) and LNXS (Linux Swap).

If another OS happens to use LNXF for something, and you have that OS in the same darn system, it doesn't matter. You just don't have that "foreign" LNXF in your /etc/fstab, and likewise it doesn't have the Linux ones in its equivalent of /etc/fstab.

The only thing that needs a clash-free label is the EFI boot partition, so the boot firmware can unambiguously identify all these partitions on all attached devices and offer them as boot options.
This is [sadly] the accurate advice. While "love what you do" and "learn a lot" and "improve your skills" sound nice, the reality is that success more often than not comes from pedigree (what school you went to, who your parents are), people (who you know) and polish (how smoothly you talk/dress, how you carry yourself, confidence, ability to make small talk, etc.).

EDIT: I'll also add "self-promotion". So, the four P's: Pedigree, People, Polish, and Promotion.
I am very very sorry to break it to you, but this very poorly thought-out and the writer has no understanding of physics or drag. Look around for items after 20000 feet of freefall? There could be a parachute? Sorry are we all in vacuum or something? Do you think they all fall at the same rate? Yes one can survive a fall at terminal speeds but this is just insane to hope there are any items around you after all that fall.
Also consider what the average marijuana user is spending per day vs what the average heroin user is spending.
You're probably getting down-voted because (aside from the off-topic comment) that isn't how copyright works. In most cases copyright starts from the time the work is created, and lasts for a specific period of time (Disney-style exceptions notwithstanding), whether copyright is explicitly declared or not.

The copyright notice only serves (informally) to indicate the start-point for this time.
I always complete my projects but each project takes a long time - months or years.

I'm highly motivated to find something that people want and the only way to do that is complete things.
What bank? I wouldn't want to do business with them if that's how they handle security.
The wikipedia article has some interesting history:

"Doctor is an academic title that originates from the Latin word of the same spelling and meaning.[1] The word is originally an agentive noun of the Latin verb docēre [dɔˈkeːrɛ] 'to teach'. It has been used as an academic title in Europe since the 13th century..."

"In the United States, the use of the title "Doctor" is dependent upon the setting. The title is commonly used socially by physicians and those holding doctoral degrees;[57] however, there was formerly a division between Letitia Baldrige and Miss Manners on its social usage by those who are not physicians.[58] Baldrige saw this usage as acceptable, while in contrast, Miss Manners wrote that "only people of the medical profession correctly use the title of doctor socially," but supports those who wish to use it in social contexts in the spirit of addressing people according to their wishes."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_(title)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_(title)#Development_in_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_(title)#United_States
Which random parts of the Internet start dropping off if Google Registry is down? I'm under the impression that there wouldn't be any news articles (or even tweets) if Google Registry is down for a few hours and that hardly anybody would notice at all. Please explain what I'm missing.
> Most people do not live in the bay area for various reasons and salaries like that are extremely uncommon outside of there and the upper echelons of the NY finance market.

As someone who has actual experience with this, it's easier to get a high paying job in those areas because that's where the hard problems are being solved.

Hard problems are usually solved in high cost of living areas because you need to pay your employees a lot of money and those employees usually prefer to live in high cost of living areas. I actually have personal experience with this.

Yes, the cost of living argument applies if your salary is at the low end of the scale.

If you're solving hard problems at a company that values that kind of stuff, then you can makes just as much anywhere else. I actually have personal experience with this too.

No, the cost of living argument does not apply at the high end of the scale. Cost of living starts to become irrelevant as you make more money.

Sure, rent in NY is $60k per year vs $24k per year in Oklahoma, but it's just not that important if you're making $1m+ year.
Taking CS50 at Harvard Extension School; we chatted during the TF-led section.
Do people think this is OK generally? There are some products I would really like to know the price of but pretending to be a customer to gain competitive information seems ethically questionable.
Yeah, "failed" in the article title is a really douchey move.
The great stack overflow in the sky.
For self study of abstract algebra, I recommend Dummit & Foote. I used it as a supplement to my undergrad algebra classes and found it to be very useful. This is in contrast to some books like Artin which leave a lot to the readers, while not necessarily bad, are sometimes difficult for self-study.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Abstract-Algebra-3rd-David-Dummit/dp/...
The Ultimate Weekend Guide to Rome
One through a forum, one through this previous cofounder
That's just one employee, not really a fair representation of MS upper management nor Gates specifically. I've seen interviews with Bill Gates in the mid 90s where he talks about a long term plan for subscription software over the internet (specifically regarding Office if I recall correctly). That's two decades before Office 365.

Let's also remember just how deeply Internet Explorer 4 integrated into Windows 95.

Microsoft were very aware of the potential of the web but that still doesn't mean they could control it.
That's not how it works. Both their DNS and reverse proxy servers use anycast IPs without any DNS-based routing.

They did recently release some features called traffic manager that lets you control the origin server based on geo. If you just need geo-balanced DNS though, AWS Route 53, Azure Traffic Manager, and NSOne offer DNS based routing.
The ES documentation goes into more detail on this.

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/...
Invisible Hand, works like magic.
Advanced Machine Learning with Basic Excel
> 2017

> new cuck times

Hell no.

I'm very familiar with business intelligence, and I'm somewhat familiar with govt intelligence though I've never actually filled a contract or anything, I've spoken with plenty who have, and have worked with a few as well.

The intelligence universe is completely parallel to the rest of the world. People just don't get it.
Mike, this line is completely and 100% inaccurate:

"Private APIs do nothing that a third-party developer couldn't do in their own code, if they knew how to write it."

There are a million things under the sun that private APIs have access to that wouldn't be possible with the use of public APIs alone, good developer or not. Prime example: "UIGetScreenImage()". That function allows you to take a screenshot of the device's entire screen, your app, someone else's app, the home screen of iOS. That's a pretty big security hole, is it not?

There are countless examples just like that one hidden inside the private API bubble. Things the OS needs to function, (although the OS may not need that particular example anymore) but could cause massive security issues.
I had the same problem with someone signing up for an Apple ID with my email address.

I even tried calling Apple to get them to cancel the account, but they wouldn't let me because I couldn't answer any of the security questions on the account!

The guy on the phone acknowledged that of course I can't answer them, because I didn't create them, bit their policy forbids them from doing anything without the security questions...
I learned something grammatical today.
Italian automaker reveals flying machine
Woops. I was referring to the prediction tier.
As pavel through the tower strolled

Sword in hand and collecting gold

He fought off hordes of soaring bats

And tried to kiss the fairest rats

--mandolin solo--
Perhaps if you had elaborated like you have now I would not have thought it was trolling :)

There is a general consensus what realtime analytics is ( memsql.com apparently tries to define it). It certainly is less nebulous than "big data".

Our biggest problem was continuous aggregates. Continuous aggregates are tough for databases (particularly for Postgres since it is MVCC). So it isn't the relational model that is the problem but the algorithms needed for consistency that conflict with constant read and write speed.

I did goof by saying Cassandra was column oriented (that is a loaded and confusing term) but people do use it all the time for aggregates (see Druid). Druid by the way is apparently column oriented (going back to my point how you can most data stores into something else).

Saying Cassandra is completely different than Postgres isn't really saying something terribly useful. I bring up Postgres not because it is a relational database but because it has some nice features and extensions that seem to be cost effective (compared to just loading everything in memory ala redis which is not cheap).

Cassandra certainly does try to offer familiar things to old school SQL guys like myself (namely CQL and various options for consistency)... again it isn't completely different.

> If it does work better for you, that's great - and it means is that cassandra/scylla was never a good fit to begin with.

You are also assuming some stuff like that we didn't have to compromise. We will still need something like Cassandra as we do want to collect more data points and we do need a place to effectively warehouse this stuff across regions.

Also plain Postgres is not a good choice for continuous aggregates as I mentioned before (again I'm going to ignore theory of the relational model... the relational model fits for us because we make it fit... not the other way around). It was one of the reasons why we investigated other technologies.

> The multi-master global replication is a key feature that will likely never be reached by postgres

I'm sensing some bias here... never... maybe never for postgres core but certainly someone could build an extension or add on.
How do you find Zoho? I didn't know they offered recurring billing.
E5 at Facebook all make north of 250 total comp... mány make far more than that due to discretionary equity. Even e4 total comp is at or just below 250.
For me, AngelList was what allowed us to find each other. https://angel.co/
That would pollute the test, IMO. As things like JCPenny's failed pricing experiments show, price-consciousness and deal-consciousness are two different things, and can lead to some stupid behavior where customers only buy overpriced goods that are marked as being on sale, rather than buying the same thing at the same price without the sale tag.
Damn, I knew I was charging too little. Not only noone is complaining about price, but some explicitely says it's not expensive.
Since everyone is pitching their favorite books on abstract algebra, here's mine: http://a.co/fg0OUdG.

I'd love to hear what differentiates this book. Why should I read this one instead of the existing options? Is it because Sage is used?
Not so different than avalanche survival, then. If you can't avoid going under, protect your available air when you do.
7 Ways to Increase Employee Productivity
Thermal Attacks on Mobile-Based User Authentication [pdf]
A poet finds inspiration in cosmic darkness
Thank you so much - love this stuff.
I recall seeing somewhere that there was a change in things between the Sierra betas and the final release that affected GPGTools. I can't find the post / thread unfortunately. The note at [1] is as close as I can find.

> Apple's changes are even more substantial this time around, then they were in the last releases.

> In addition they're now using more blocks instead of methods in some places, which means that we can no longer simply hook into them, but have to completely re-implement some internal functionality of Mail, to place our code in between.

> We've already rewritten a lot of parts of GPGMail and hope to have a first beta in the next few weeks.

[1]: https://github.com/GPGTools/GPGMail/commit/f871731f5762cb72e...
This is probably not great advice. Prices do more than determine how much money you'll make from a given group of customers; they also select which customers you'll be servicing. The two most important pricing lessons startup founders need to learn are segmentation and qualification. You should select a market segment that's attractive, and your pricing scheme should in part serve to ensure that you're not wasting time being responsive to the demands of people outside that segment.

The list of things you can do to repackage your product to go after different market segments is very long and very few of the bullets on the list involve changing code. I think the most important thing to do is to select a group of customer prospects deliberately and then make something those people want, rather than making something for the whole world and trying to optimize the number of people who buy through prices.

You can cost yourself customers/clients by pricing too low.
There's so much productivity features in VS there's no excuse to invest in a faster machine. Or add more memory. Memory is cheap.
I saw the section on EBS, but it didn't offer much advice. Getting good performance on networked storage is the biggest challenge to me. The last time I asked about that here [1], I got this answer:

nasalgoat 161 days ago [-]

The secret to EBS is to use General SSD,
not Provisioned, but use a RAID stripe.

The reason this works is because IOPS are provisioned
per EBS drive and by the size of the drive. So a RAID0
stripe of, say, ten General SSD drives will outperform
the more expensive PIOPS single drive.

That sounds like a great approach, although I haven't had time to try it out yet. I'm curious if anyone else has done anything like that.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12609172
Ages ago (early 1980s) I read a magazine article about the minds' adaptation when falling. The article posited that the brain kicks into high gear and time subjectively slows down for the faller, enabling them to take action to save themselves.

The article had several first-hand accounts of people who had fallen off cliffs, wagons, and the like, and one skydiver who survived impact by landing in a muddy ditch. The article was especially interesting since I was a skydiver at the time and all of us jumpers could relate to the feelings described. Not only that, but the one skydiver interviewed had jumped at our drop zone and was known by most of us.

Sadly, I can't remember where the article appeared. I think it was Smithsonian Magazine but I have been unable to locate a reference online. If anyone else locates it, please post.
Atlassian co-founder asks Musk for 'mates rates' in Tesla's Aussie energy plan
It may or may not have income to cover its obligations, but it's still a "ponzi scheme"[1] in the sense that I will not get out the money I put in. Rather, it counts on new "investors" to meet it's obligations to me. The big threat to such a scheme is fluctuations in the investment stream - for example, people not supplying enough money (as in a recession) or fluctuations in the pool size (as in baby booms). It's a very dangerous scheme and shouldn't be counted on for what is essentially investment.

To say that it has a "massive trust fund" is like me saying I am rich because I have a cookie jar full of IOUs that I wrote to myself on top of my fridge.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme
I met a cofounder while interviewing potential customers during the early validation, pre MVP. His questions were smart, he knew the market and has been a founder before. Right after the meeting, I called my other cofounder and told her we should setup a meeting and get him onboard.
Really? I didn't think they'd do anycast on their reverse proxy servers, that seems risky to me (ie: a TCP connection changes from one server to another due to a BGP change), but I suppose the odds are fairly low.

I seem to remember getting different IPs from different locations, but it could just be random or I could be mistaken.

EDIT: Tried now and it seems I'm getting the same IPs from Canada and Australia, so you are indeed correct.
The idea that the software is a gift to you is not so much an argument as it is a fact.
If you click the info (i) in the bottom-right, you'll see that the basemaps are from OSM and MapBox but the raster satellite imagery is from Planet's satellite constellation.
Real-Time Deduping at Scale with Redis
I'm not entirely sure why but this seems a bit unethical to me. It is quite clever but maybe you should make it more clear that you are doing a survey and not actually selling your book.
Through a friend of a friend.
Dental insurance isn't even really insurance so it isn't comparable to medical insurance since there are no out of pocket maximums and the maximum benefit is pathetically low. It's basically a dental care/maintenance subscription and if you need any major work, you're going to pay $$$.
I hated those questions as a kid because I had nothing to answer them with.
The miserable war on drugs is the failure of the society to acknowledge that people have right to their own life and even thought we may not agree with their choices we must nevertheless support them to exercise their right.

Drugs destroy life ? They dont destroy it as much as spending 10 years in jail for having few gms of heroine.

The overall theme of politics these days is to create an "other" group and blame everything on that group. Demonise that group and take more power in hand to then hurt them to cover up the failures of the government doing basic things.

Muslims, illegal immigrants, Asians, China, Blacks, stoners, hippies, Rock musicians, top 1% etc.

Thus government gets to pretend that they are doing something for "us".
S/he brings up a useful point of understanding the ToS. What if the next iOS and Android require my location be constantly shared with third parties? I would lose privacy or have to go without a smartphone which is freakishly hard in today's modern world.

Obviously that's a hypothetical but I appreciate anyone who pushes back on digital rights given how deep we are in the civic/digital rights gray zone.
Air India plane loses ATC contact over Hungary, escorted by fighter jets
Since KE = (1/2)mv^2 we can just do the math.

Say m=2 so we're just left looking at the v^2 terms:

120^2 - 96^2 >? 24^2 - 0^2

5184 >? 576

So yes, the KE difference between 120 and 96 is greater than the difference between 24 and 0.
The threshold for overdoses is fairly high in all opioids though lower for heroin than for morphine. The reason people regularly overdose on heroin is that heroin from the illegal market is often of wildly changing purity and sometimes mixed with substances that increase the risk of OD.

Handing out known quality heroin eliminates that risk.
I mean there are lots of funds/managers you can only invest with if you have a few hundred million to play with. Sure, they invest in the same asset classes you do except in theory they do it way better.
I recommend the book "priceless." It goes through the psychology behind how you set a price. E.g. Why there are expensive wines on a wine list.

https://www.amazon.com/Priceless-Myth-Fair-Value-Advantage/d...
Ancient pharaoh statues uncovered in Cairo mud pit
> Because most physicians are restricted or prevented from prescribing drugs for "off label" use.

Wrong. You have no idea what you're talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-label_use#United_States
I write a lot of personal userscripts that I upload publicly to Greasyfork just in case they benefit someone else or someone asks me to share with them. I rarely have plans to improve or maintain any of my work beyond my own benefit. I fix bugs only when they are an issue to my personal work flow. Most of them are quick hackjobs I write in 10 minutes to fix some personal pain point on websites I use.

The amount of users that (a) browse the same websites I do and (b) take issue with the same things I take issue with are next-to-zero.

I also don't care to hear how I could refactor huge parts of my code to be more extendable in the future - because I have no plans to extend it to begin with. I know the code is absolute garbage and I can easily improve it if I took 10 minutes to refactor it. But it works and that's all I needed, so that's all that gets done.

People have different motivations for releasing publicly. I know you were probably speaking more to side projects, especially potentially profitable ones, but I felt I'd throw in my $0.02 to accompany all the others.