skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have lived overseas for over a decade, and while I have no current plans to move back to my country of origin, I think I know what moving back would feel like, and it matches what other people have told me.

The article talks about things having changed when you get back. I'm not so sure that's the big issue. I think the biggest problem is that you yourself have changed so much, and your views are greatly expanded. While when you come back, nothing had really changed. That local grocery store is still there, and things are pretty much exactly where they were all those years ago.

I feel some of this every time I go back to visit my family, and at the end of the trip it feels very relieving to go back.

I think if my home country looked very different, as they suggest would be a problem in the article, going back would be a much more exciting experience.
> As for gene editing, it's a question of polluting the gene pool of a life system.

You mean like life had been doing since its inception?

You can gripe about the speed and power with which we're performing genetic modification (and things like gene drives are powerful), but I can't agree with the "It's something that's never been done before!" angle.

We're just doing so intelligently. With incomplete knowledge, but a hell of a lot more intelligently than random mutation.
Happy to answer any questions about bcachefs :)
Twitter is spending over $15M/month on server costs alone to support 333M active monthly users.

Now compare to Pokemon Go's huge explosion of 20M daily users from a while ago.

This problem is only going to get worse with another 5B+ people coming online into the 2020s.

In order to scale, using (what you call) "fog computing" will be absolutely necessary. Cloud services will still be used, of course, but they will be built as P2P systems to take advantage of the "fog".

Cloud infrastructure will always be around, but how apps are built will be a fundamentally different architecture. But when S3 goes out, like it did the other week, we can't suffer worldwide downtime - that will be unacceptable.

Rethink's unfortunate failure to capitalize in this market is a signal that Master-Slave databases (even the best of the best) will have a very small role with respect to the total amount of data flowing through the internet.

My thoughts here: https://hackernoon.com/the-implications-of-rethinkdb-and-par...

As well as my the Changelog podcast interview: https://changelog.com/podcast/236
"An untrained eye would take the # for comments"

\begin{pedantry}

I'd argue that an untrained eye would take the # for ordinary syntax noise, since such an eye would have no notion of a "comment". A trained eye might be confused by that, but only if it was trained against an environment that uses # for comments.

\end{pedantry}
Is this a new addition to their website?
First of all it's not like cable bundle - you pay flat fee to access EVERYTHING like utility (probably % of your ISP bill). Call it content tax, if you will (BBC in UK is funded this way). Internet is NOT free anyway. Then whatever you paid goes to authors in a share proportional to content value consumed (I don't want to go into weeds on how to evaluate fair price for the content, but it's possible).

It is right for content consumer: no annoying ads, no interruptions, no more punishment for using "free" content by being blasted with non-relevant junk.

It is right for the content creator: you rewarded for high quality content, not for ads shows (natural flow of interests) -> no need to beg visitors to disable adblockers (this is what some youtubers do). BTW, IMHO, this is also a very good and organic way to "embrace" piracy - just redirect torrents income share to copyright holders - nobody will ever fight torrents after that point.

Ad companies is unnecessary middle-man in this relationship. And this middle-man will be eventually eliminated for good. I understand that you represent one, but there's still market for ad companies in other areas - where ads are relevant to context (like when I'm searching to get a new car or fix my fridge). Ads should help users, not annoy them.
Having millions of shards is a bit of a pain ops wise. There is also some other costs to having lots of shards. For example, the current Citus distribution planner takes time linear in the number of total shards. This isn't an issue 99% of the time, but since we use a composite type as our distribution key, we have an extremely high constant overhead for planning time. I believe the current median Citus Master planning time is ~350ms. We've talked to Citus about this and have discussed possible solutions. Currently we are trying to purge the composite type from our database.
If it works like it shows, I like this. How difficult is it for companies to integrate their onboarding data?
No, they arent
I've lived and worked in both Toronto and Silicon Valley, and it's not even close. SV has a way better quality of life than Toronto, even for the marginally higher rent. I paid $2600 for a two bedroom in San Jose -- split that with another person and it's only $1300. I'd be paying more for a studio in downtown Toronto anyway.

And you can't just look at it from the perspective of money. I need to be in a city with things to do, preferably one that isn't practically uninhabitable 6 months of the year. You couldn't pay me to live in Kitchener-Waterloo.
The video you posted below[1] is so much better. Your target is pretty technical, they buy some home automation stuff, so it seems fair to explain exactly the flow (button talks to my phone, my phone talks with all the stuff you can control from your phone), how far can it be from the phone for it to work, and so on.

Also, I know it's great to hear it all from the founder perspective, but I think you are not doing great job as an actor and narrator. It's probably more of a video guys failure not to give you more hints. At the end of the kickstarter video it's visible how you smile and look with kind of a proud at the button just as the video cuts off. But during the video there's not much smile, more something like "I came up with this really smart thing". Clearly you put a lot of thought into this product, but when looking at example of using it, I probably would have more positive emotions looking at some random relaxed dude with smile on his face that may look like he's completely clueless about the whole thing. You know, typical ad stuff, it's cheesy but it works.

And nice one with the fast response and gathering so much feedback here. I wrote mine because it seems that you make use of this constructive criticism. So I'm pretty sure your next campaign will be a blast.

1. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/nsvfn7n3l8phbi3/TurnTouc...
LegalZoom has a compliance calendar feature and it tries to warn you of (some?) impending deadlines.

It's best not to rely on a third party to do the work for you, though, since their errors could end up costing you a lot of money in fines.
What did you do save them money?
You need to read J.R.R. Tolkien
I enjoy visiting India (I'm an anglo American) but I always know I'm back in the US when I arrive into Houston and there's a fifteen-foot-tall banner advertising donut ice cream in the food court inside the airport.
Ah, I see what you mean. Chrome is throttling client-side operations. Because the python kernel of an iPython notebook is running as server-side code (even if that 'server' is local), it couldn't be subject to throttling by Chrome.
> What is the point of transition where we stop treating someone like a victim and begin treating them like a criminal?

A possible answer: proportional response. Breivik dealt out much more damage than he ever sustained. If a child has his ice cream taken by another child, and goes on to crush his ice cream bandit's larynx and watch them slowly suffocate and die, I no longer care about the ice cream. Breivik is a monster of the highest order who watched and prolonged his destruction. "Being a victim" is, in cases like this, irrelevant.

At least in terms of how we view people like him, and how we handle similar criminals.
Hmm. Not quite feeling your idea of arrogance. If this wasn't unusual, it wouldn't be newsworthy. Case closed.

However, you didn't write anything offensive and have your own point which is valid. Nothing to down vote IMO.
From my understanding.

v2 I can include x264 either dynamically linked or statically linked into my software and sell the software but wouldn't need to release the source code to my software. If I make any alteration or modification to the x264 source code (eg.. performance/bug fix) then I'm bound by the license agreement to make such modification available.

v3 very similar but under the license agreement I have to make my source code and any derivative libraries that my software package source code available under the same license.
It might even be feasible to have a system like a drive-through carwash, that instead lifts specially compatible EV's, remove the old battery "strip" from the lower portion of the car, and then install a new one. If it could get down to 3-5 minutes, especially if your car could interface with the "hut" so you don't need to be in it...
I know most Westerners are a bit taken aback at first but I'm an HN regular and around if anyone has any questions. FAQ is here: http://pastebin.com/V3474kYs
Not only misleading, but mildly offensive. He did not survive alone. Quite the opposite.
> There's 4 people at 4 registers and no line for any of them.

We are definitely not going to the same Walmart.

EDIT: To clarify, I know this is one of Walmart's strengths, but it doesn't improve my experience.
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>If he were growing up today, they would likely give him some diagnosis on the Autism Spectrum or some related diagnosis and try to give him meds and force him to somehow fit in.

That sounds like you're saying that being able to fit in is a bad thing when talking about a guy who lived in the wilderness alone stealing from people for 25 years as a better alternative.
> I don't know that owners were really put out as much as all that

They were "put out" for the exact value of the items he stole. Whether the theft results in a direct detriment to the victim is irrelevant.
Definitely! Being Italian, I find the whole Trump-style so soo sooo rétro, and my family is amused by his improbableness too. He reminds us of our (admittedly not so dignified) past.
I left the US when I was 11 and lived in Europe until I was 18, returning to the US for University. So to mine was added the fuzzy memories of childhood.

Wal-Mart absolutely blew my mind. Also, America is huge.
True, but if blue people commit a higher number of crimes, then it's reasonable there will be a great number of witness reports describing blue suspects, and therefore you can expect a higher number of encounters between police and blue people. You can examine the link between suspect descriptions and the number of encounters and see if an ethnic group generates more or less encounters per description to check for racism in who police decide to encounter.

You can then look at the rate at which police encounters become violent, and if that rate is different than the rate for green people, that would also be clear evidence of racism on the police force.
Congrats Karam! Good to see your public launch.
I wonder if you thought of building your dabba on top of an Android phone. The Android Things platform combined with COSU mode in Android 6+ would make this kind of hardware very developer friendly...with remote management and updates built in for free !

It's something I have been wondering about lately. YMMV.
I'm not aware of any other services which offer pricing that isn't based on number and size of database servers.

Edit: Thanks to all the commenters who corrected me :)
I know the guys who worked on the W3C spec. They worked their butts off. I'm hopeful they'll have some success. But my system (Fiskkit.com, if curious) can't consume W3C annotations because we have more narrowly constrained parameters to enable analytics. But maybe we'll be able to export in a standard readable format? We'll see. Too broke to build that right now! :-)
The links between colors and emotions are (at least somewhat) culturally specific and subjective. There have been some efforts to classify specific cultures’ associations and preferences which you can find in a search of the academic literature. It’s hard to find much rigorous material on the subject though.

You can of course also find many artists and art teachers with grandiose personal theories about the subject.

My recommendation is to just put the time and work into learning your own personal preferences, by doing your own color exercises. For some design-y ideas about exercises to try see e.g. Josef Albers’s book. For photography, the best training IMO is to just make and look at lots of pictures.
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If it's flagged, actual people will review the primary profile picture and decide whether they believe it is a picture of the account holder that meets their (quite reasonable) guidelines. Jokes, nudity, too close, too far away, obvious fakes, etc. will get your account locked.

So no, a picture of your pet rabbit will NOT work as a primary profile picture.
Plato despaired, but he also pointed the way to renewal
I think the Model 3 will end up costing way more that $35k, to turn a profit.

That's Tesla's biggest risk - they can't deliver profitably at the price point they pre-sold at. The Model 3 is an ambitious car to sell for $35K. Tesla is not a "lean manufacturing" operation; their head counts at the auto plant per car sold are currently quite high. They'll probably get that figured out eventually, but meanwhile, they need the high margins of luxury cars.

The timeline will slip and it won't come out until 2018.

Probably. They're claiming "late 2017" now, and new orders won't be processed until 2018.

The whole Solar City deal was premature.

The Solar City operation has political problems. It assumes Government subsidies for solar, which may be going away for political reasons.
One Dunedin Study https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunedin_Multidisciplinary_Heal... result shows that a "disadvantaged" childhood combined with a certain set of genes leads strongly to anti-social adults (well, men). The same genes with a good childhood tends to result in entrepreneurs.

This result really hit home for me, because I was removed from a badly dysfunctional mother when I was ten, and now run my own startup.

It seems to me that as a society, we should be a lot more focused on raising our young - failing them incurs the direct cost of their crimes and a lost opportunity cost of the businesses they might have developed.
Cloud Datastore does exactly that:

https://cloud.google.com/datastore/pricing

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (and sit near the Datastore team!)
Studies show that there is a large correlation between genetics and life outcome.

i.e. when treated badly, most people will end up bad, some won't. When treated well, most people will end up good, some won't.

There are people who are pre-disposed to do bad things, no matter what. There are people who are pre-disposed to do good things, no matter what.

See the stories about Romanian orphans for how a bad system can turn most people into functioning sociopaths:

http://www.livescience.com/21778-early-neglect-alters-kids-b...

Yet some still turn out OK.
Yeah, but no. This isn't about the autopilot not being like on the video, it's about the autopilot being worse than it used to be. The really hard problem already had a better solution.
Completely agree with this. I too have lived abroad for a while and it amazes me how much things remain the same back in the United States. The culture shock is always more about how much I have changed, not America.
Asymmetric warfare 101 right here.

America prevailed over Germany in large part because the US could produce more weapons for fewer dollars. It probably helped that American factories weren't being carpet bombed, and that they had all the resources they needed domestically, but the design of the weapons was also a factor. German tanks and artillery were notoriously complex.

Now the shoe's on the other foot. There's $200 drones dropping home-made bombs on $100M tanks.
Take a look at Cloud Datastore's pricing, which is probably a leader in this area (I work on it).
That video supports what I've suspected: the SV self-driving car projects are training on wide American roads in perfect Californian weather, so that's where they might work. Put one of these things on a poorly-paved rural road or a snowy mountain pass, or in a driving rainstorm, and it will disengage and/or kill you.

Just today I drove by a temporary orange sign saying "X St. closed; use Y St. detour," which I'm sure would have confused a fully autonomous vehicle. I bet we'll get fully autonomous cars to drive on existing roads about the same time we create strong AI.
> The problem is, let's say you have an issue where the community is 60% 'opposed' and 40% 'for'. going against the grain means you will always have a net-negative vote count.

No, it doesn't. Numerous threads on hotly contested issues have substantive comments taking opposing sides and neither having net-negative scores.

They also tend to have unsubstantiated comments on opposing sides, both sides having negative scores. Popularity of the idea presented probably has some contribution to score, but it's not the dominant factor by a long shot.
I once had someone ask in a class of mine why CS is considered such a male subject when all these women seem so influential (Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper, and many more) and the teacher responded: I wouldn't be concerned what other people think now, I'd be more concerned with what you can do today. These women did incredible things when no one was paying attention.
And I've always thought that was a great point. I have no doubt based on the stats that tech is male dominated but there are a ton of incredible women out there and highlighting there stories is really important.
I have been a fan of Evan going way back to the early Rails days. Congrats on the launch.
“After a time," said old Mathers disregarding me, "I mercifully perceived the errors of my ways and the unhappy destination I would reach unless I mended them. I retired from the world in order to try to comprehend it and to find out why it becomes more unsavoury as the years accumulate on a man's body. What do you think I discovered at the end of my meditations?"

I felt pleased again. He was now questioning me.

"What?"

"That No is a better word than Yes," he replied.

― Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
The answer is complicated. ZFS wasn't designed with a small number of heterogeneous drive sizes in mind.

If you don't care about redundancy then you can span a volume across as many odd drives as you want free and clear.

If you do care about redundancy, you need sets of similar drives put together and then it only makes sense if you have a large number of drives.

Raidz has performance penalties and should only be used with a large number of vdevs unless you care little about speed.

An array of mirrors is the best way to go for small to medium sized zfs installations which means pairs of same-sized drives and only 50% available space.
It sounds like a really bad idea. These companies aren't charging very much and between ordinary maintenance, hard use by uncaring customers, and flat-out theft, I don't see where big profits are going to come from.
Remember that homosexuality was once officially a mental disease.
Remember that being Black was once officially a mental disease.

Do you trust the government to decide who is a valid parent?
Those are exactly the problems we were running into. Our pipelines ran 3 consecutive stages (lint, test, deploy). Because every push and every merge triggers a pipeline, and because every stage runs a job, almost anytime we did anything on gitlab.com something (or everything) would get stuck. This slowed our dev/deploy process to a crawl, to the point where we spent all of Monday pretty much just checking, waiting for, or retrying jobs. Sometimes we would merge a branch and an hour later none of the jobs in the pipeline had even started (had status created or pending). Yesterday (Tuesday) things were still pretty much the same. Today we just moved on.

Jobs getting stuck might not seem like a big deal, but when every dev on the team needs to manually check every 5 minutes to make sure things are running and retrying everything, while clients are waiting on a hotfix, bugfix or a new feature that we promised we would ship by a certain deadline, then the issue becomes critical.
You should only need the @google-cloud/datastore module:

https://googlecloudplatform.github.io/google-cloud-node/#/do...

and like Dan said, you can come over to Cloud Functions now if you'd like ;).

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.
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Even just visiting Japan (I'm originally from Japan) causes this for me. Short stay is fine, but I feel really foreign, maybe more so than "foreigners" as people in there can detect disconnect of my appearance and mindset by my subtle deviation from expectations of how I act in there.
This struck me as a good article with a bad headline, and I wasn't sure how to reword it so I just used part of the subheadline (dek). Open to other suggestions for it.
Not sure 'pariah' was the word you were looking for?
I was wondering about his dental hygiene. I've never had a major toothache before, but I've heard they are off-the-charts painful. Maybe he went to the dentist, too, off his stolen goods ?
Don't overreact. It's easy to have Internet commando types give all sorts of bad advice.

Take a look around, but don't do anything drastic out of an emotional reaction.
Das Keyboard + Logitech G602.

I also have a cheap Monoprice mech kb that is actually pretty nice.
Not to stray too far off topic, but that Disqus story is ridiculous. What do they do that 2 people charging $10/mo couldn't? "Looks like the freemium thing isn't supporting our fancy office, let's try to sell some data out the back door."

I mean, seriously:

But more recently Disqus has been trying out other things to expand its business. That has included a growing programmatic ad platform based around sponsored comments, which debuted in 2014 (it’s this that makes the company money, as Disqus takes a share on ads that run through its otherwise free platform). And earlier this year, Disqus opted for another traffic gain as it relaunched of its own site as a central repository not just of content and comments from sites that you follow and comment on with a Disqus ID; but also of standalone comment threads that existed independent of these, Reddit-style.

This seems like a lot of digging of one's own grave. Apologies if all of this ground was covered in Dec, but it looks like the story never made it to HN.
I dunno... India is no slouch when it comes to absurdly sweet desserts. I used to get fresh custard apple covered in condensed milk as a "snack" in Mumbai.
For anyone interested, I wrote up a response:
https://robdodson.me/regarding-the-broken-promise-of-web-com...

Kinda used it as an attempt to address some bigger questions around Web Components I've seen come up a bunch. Curious what you all think.
Sadly your last one Silvio was involved in that international right-wing manufacture of the "Yellow Cake documents" so buffoons that they may be in many ways, these sorts are very dangerous when enabled without limit.
Personally, I dislike the "get people hooked" formulation.
> Good content creators will find a way to get paid.

Spoken like someone who has never known an artist.
Nice, I love reverse engineering posts.

You'd think Nvidia would want people to actually be able to use their hardware.

Why try to hide the API and fight a battle with the only people you should be helping, your customers?