skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
and the argument would be that our understanding of God increase as we understand creation even more.

on the flip side, if one's faith is based more in the god of the gaps, i.e. the "magical" aspects of creation, of course one's faith will be tested or discarded as science's knowledge increases as the gaps shrink and shrink (and fits with clark's "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.")
Hi guys. Can I ask a simple question?

I understand that we are talking about a globally distributed, serverless and yet consistent relational database.

My question is about latency. How long does it take for transactional atomicity to become a consistent read on a globally distributed database? (1) And what are the measures taken between entry nodes to prevent clients from recieving inconsistent data? (2)

As I ponder this, I am struck by not the consistency problem, as that is solvable. But I am struck by the latency problem of assuring that all global queries are consistent for some (any) time quanta. What sort of latency should be expected?

both questions (1) and (2) are interesting, but (1) is critical while (2) is academic.

Thanks, and very interesting work guys.

EL
I like your CTF suggestion.
But finding a job as a security researcher will be hard if you cannot show any experience.
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Sagashimono wo sagashi ni yuku no sa ONE PIECE

Rashinban nante juutai no moto
Netsu ni ukasare kaji wo toru no sa

Hokori kabutteta takara no chizu mo
Tashikameta no nara densetsu ja nai !

Kojinteki na arashi wa dareka no
BAIORIZUMU nokkatte
Omoi sugoseba ii !

Arittake no yume wo kakiatsume
Sagashimono wo sagashi ni yuku no sa
POKETTO no KOIN, sore to
You wanna be my Friend ?
We are, We are on the cruise !
Again, neat stuff, but that's not what this link claims:

* The first serverless database
* The first active-active multi-cloud database
* The first strongly-consistent multi-region database available to the public

None of these are firsts. I don't know if our (GCP) services are themselves the first of their kind (it's an ambitious claim and, as an engineer, I try to be careful about those), but Datastore meets at least two of those three and predates FaunaDB by several years.
> Philosophy is the obsolete precursor to science.

To be fair rather than dismissive, philosophy (usually of something concrete, such as mathematics, mind, etc.) may be seen as a science that does not have a name yet. True, it may begin with an analysis of the subject that is very preliminary and that can be not very accurate and may even contain mistakes, but there is no limit to how complete and precise such philosophical analysis may become later on.
After not eating meat for over 20 years due to the environmental and ethical concerns over how it's conventionally been made, I was lucky enough to be at the tasting described in the WSJ article. I wrote about it here: https://medium.com/@sethbannon/i-just-ate-meat-for-the-first...
Learning AI If You Suck at Math – P6 – Math Notation Made Easy
Error Prone: Catch common Java mistakes as compile-time errors
Just guessing, but might they have had something in their EULA / TOS up until October 4:th 2012 that somehow forces them to keep the Public folder available? Maybe some language about how features are removed /deprecated, or about how changes in the EULA / TOS are allowed to be done, that makes it infeasible to do without breaking the contract?
The truth is probably somewhere in the middle.

How do you get "brilliantly managed company" when they just had a massive data loss? How can you say that honestly?
Here's one of the resources I came across. I only perused it briefly, but it mentions a Father Yakinf returning to St Petersburg and translating "the Confucian classic Four Books (Sishu)" among other things.

Hopefully this link works for you and isn't dependent on local cookies or something. But the book is: China and Japan in the Russian Imagination, 1685-1922: To the Ends of the Orient By Susanna Soojung Lim

https://books.google.com/books?id=RQldRM5wlfcC&pg=PA65&lpg=P...
Those come with a "stop" sign as well and are usually seen on high speed highways as a way to get drivers' attention long before the sign comes into view. This intersection has a yield sign. A blinking red "stop" and a yield can't go together can they?
I'm not sure what they are getting at there. There are beautiful illustrated haggadahs (Passover prayer books, which certainly contain the divine name) dating back to the early middle ages. The British library (the linked site) owns several examples, including the Golden Haggadah: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_27210_f0...
but, again, i get the mission - nowhere does it say how you make a few billion in profit off of it.

did we have a bubble with no burst? just a fizzle?
I suspect that 200 feet off any walkable/drivable path is too easy for such a treasure. It's more likely within 200 feet of a river/stream/creek - the assumption being that there are people canoeing past without getting out and traversing overgrowth with no obvious man made paths.

The only detail that really matters in terms of whether someone can ever even find it is whether it is buried. If it's buried with no markers, the odds of stumbling upon it even with a metal detector are so incredibly low.
> For some reason I still only instinctively trust Dropbox to reliably sync my files.

Used to be that way for me too until all the nasty tricks they employed in the OS X app installation process to elevate their privileges came to light. Though the syncing still works as reliably I no longer trust them with the content or to behave responsibly.

I haven't had any issue syncing with OneDrive or Google Drive for larger projects. I don't doubt you might've run into that issue in the past but I'd recommend giving it a go if that's what's holding you back. If anything knowing that you can reliably switch storage providers in the future should you need to is a good card to hold.
Renault accused of large-scale emissions cheating
That's the hard part, finding something 1) you're passionate about enough to suffer through the writing 2) has value to people to buy it.
Where can I find my account creation date other than a welcome email?

If I missed the instructions in the announcement, I apologise.
I'm the author, and am happy to answer any questions.
Honestly, for most tech people, the value in either publishing or self-publishing a book is mostly in the resume value. I don't necessarily mean that literally but now your bio includes "published author" and, in my experience, that opens up speaking opportunities and other doors--which open more doors etc.

Most authors won't make a lot of money but, for many types of jobs, published books can support a lot of other things even if they're not some definitive best seller.
depends on the state

https://taxfoundation.org/does-your-state-have-estate-or-inh...
Oh man, when I first saw this I was actually going to ping you and ask to remove the "quietly" - I cannot stand this new clickbait term of choice! Thanks!
I've been struggling with this a lot lately. I'm in a Masters program. I'm struggling. After a lot of reflection, it's due largely to the way the class is taught. I need lots of examples over the field. Don't throw a wall of math at me. Show me how to do Thing1, then Thing2, and then Thing3. I'll induce a process.

So while it's not the types of learning offered in the article, I think there is style around inductive learning and deductive learning. I think the math folk are deductive learners, and teach that way. People like more, more on the art side of software design spectrum, are inductive learners. The two don't mix.

So neuroscientists reading this post, please to to the NSF for grant money about this. We might get more masters level or PhD's if a) there is such a distinction and b) we can adjust programs appropriately.
Seems that it can be turned off at:

chrome://flags/#expensive-background-timer-throttling

...though they may eventually remove the flag.
Education bias suffers insane bias. I've never seen a study (though I'm sure there are some) where the researchers rejected the teaching techniques they advocated.

Specific Example: I've been in flipped classrooms. They suck. Everyone hated it. The instructor justified it by showing studies "proving" how great flipped classrooms work conducted by people who advocate and teach in flipped classrooms
The node that receives the query figures out which nodes it needs to talk to for an answer, and then it adds the operations to the next batch for those nodes. The batch dispatches, the nodes do their work, the batch commits, and the client receives the response.

It's not really a full answer, but maybe hints at the architecture.
I believe they already do some kind of bandwidth monitoring, so I could also see them just passing that along to subscribers who use too much. I would have also hoped their bandwidth costs would have improved when they moved to their own cloud instead of S3.
Right for who though? The important thing is to have choice as a consumer, both ads and paid or ideally a spectrum between both extremes.

Advertising is the most egalitarian method because everyone regardless of money can access the same things. This is an important issue in a world full of great wealth and power disparity.

Also what you're asking for is basically a cable bundle for the internet. It's in the works by a few companies, we'll see if it goes anywhere.
My entire life, listening to classroom lecture has been an absolute struggle for me. It requires a monumental amount of effort and willpower to pay attention, process and retain all that info at the same time.

On the other hand, I can read something once and If I can handle the material, I typically retain it effortlessly. I know a lot of other people that cannot self-educate via reading.

This study seems to be suggesting something similar to a denial that introverted and extroverted types exist. How can they not?

Im a little suspicious of the proposition:

poor results when current matching styles to lessons = learning styles do not exist.
According to wikipedia the Christian calculation traditions started with the earliest Christians and continued through medieval European times https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Earth_creationism#Biblic...
Shouldn't you use the software before calling it amazing?

Your reflexive defense isn't any more useful than extreme criticism.
Why the universal hate for whiteboard interviews? I studied computer science at a German university and it was expected that in the exercise groups you are able to solve the exercises that you prepared on a whiteboard from the first semester on. If you did not solve it sompletely you still had to whiteboard-code the parts of the solution that you were able to and improvise the rest.

For more complicated algorithms I still love to draw lots of pictures before implementing them.

I can understand that people complain that they have to solve tasks (on a whiteboard) that won't have to do much with what they will do at the job. But this has nothing to do with whiteboard interviews, but with badly chosen tasks (say: data structure brainteasers) for the job interview.
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This seems like a small feature to add to their invoicing app, not a business.

Also, there's quite a number of car servicing startups now, like YourMechanic.
I run uBlock and I have nothing to do with this campaign (other than a strong dislike of multiple Conde Nast publications due to their one-sided gender prejudice on sites like Ars Technica. Conde Nast are part of the committee).

Why give flippant answers like "which ISP is free?".

I'm at a point where I have been antagonised and vilified by the MSM (because I have a penis) that I'd be willing to fund decent media that has a clean track record on being sexism free, especially if it openly goes against the current PC intolerance that has become the norm.

If the ads are decent and non-intrusive, I'd support them. However, context makes the ads meaningful and more valuable. The easiest way to do that is to track users. That is a tricky catch 22 as I don't want my web habits tracked for the sake of ads (eg. I don't Facebook). You can try to pick your articles and place selected ads for that, but, I expect the miss ratio to be much higher.

Maybe, you could specify a way to let users determine where the money goes. This may offer an incentive to reward or punish by the tick of a box.
SXSW: Bladeless drone could aid in home deliveries says inventor
Yeah, but orthodox Jews are like 10% of Jews.

As a conservative Jew, I think this view is a minority position amongst all the liberal movements.
> Groovy... forgot about it because most people just use it for Gradle scripting

You can use Kotlin for Gradle scripting as well since Gradle 3.0 released about 6 months ago. Given that Gradleware also said they're switching their preferred language for Gradle addons to Kotlin from that version onwards, I'm guessing the same will happen for build scripts some day.
Looks like FaunaDB uses Raft[1], so I'd expect that data is sharded into multiple consensus groups, like Spanner or Megastore. That would mean consistency on a single shard/consensus group is basically just dependent on reading from and writing to the Raft leader.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13645876
Not exactly. Those ads are functional. They eventually link to something, typically something they want to sell to you. And they don't go in a circle. Instead, the clickbait ads want to get you to go to a specific website. In the original "I don't usually link to blonde jokes, because they are sexist" if you clicked enough times you eventually came back to the website where you started. If you were very, very stupid, then that is when you realized that there was no blonde joke. The joke was on you. But I would guess that most people realized there was no blonde joke after they had clicked on maybe a dozen links or so.
"I think that the perception that it's just a hazing process comes from a failure to look at it from the company's perspective."

Actually, speaking of looking at it from the companies perspective, in 2010 google and several other big name silicon valley companies were successfully sued because they all agreed with each other not to cold call each others employees to try to recruit them. They actively worked to try to make it harder to switch jobs from one company to another.

Right after that, they started doing whiteboard interviews, which serve the same purpose of making it painful to switch companies, but without the risk of being sued.
Congrats to the gitter team, you guys are awesome and have a way (far far superior) product than slack.
One of our early investors insisted we transition to a C-Corp "for tax purposes". We were later acquired via an asset sale. The acquirer refused to do a stock deal. We ended up paying an effective 61% tax rate federal+state on the exit. I really wish we would have stayed an LLC.

However, all of Gust's points are valid if you successfully negotiate a stock sale.
Yeah I'm really surprised that they don't do something similar to https://buffer.com/salary or stackoverflow.

I applied to Gitlab, but then I noticed the calculator. London is below market rate. In Warsaw is half what Google pays.
The trouble is in idiomatic Kotlin you have lines like that, because when you want to represent absence you use nullable parameters. So you can't assume a line like that is wrong. But you can't assume it's correct just because it compiled either, because as you say it might be an unannotated Java method.

In idiomatic Scala you would never have a line like that (because you represent absence with optionals rather than null). So you can insta-fail any line like that in code review (or give very careful review in the rare case that it's calling a Java method that accepts a nullable parameter, but good modern Java libraries are moving away from those, so that case should go away).
The NH90 uses fly by wire controls, and the Bell 525 whenever it gets certified will be the first civilian helicopter with fly by wire controls.
From Wikipedia: "He filled the chest with "treasure" containing gold nuggets, rare coins, jewelry and gemstones, along with a jar holding his autobiography. He intended to hide it and end his life nearby, with the treasure as a legacy.[2] However, he survived his illness and waited until he was 79 or 80 to hide the treasure."

These are all bearer instruments. You may not know if it's found. 79-80 is 2009-2010. If he had a cellphone, there's a trail for some enterprising telcom worker or NSA analyst to follow (base station->sector->signal strength if not outright location). Presumably he drove there, maybe some ALPR database to mine.
I vaguely remember that they were able to throttle/block off a public file when it caused unusually high traffic.
App search engine Quixey shutting down
OneDrive has public folders, although the URLs are opaque.
The Archive's philosophy is that they welcome any and all content. If you want your content to be on the internet, available for everyone to see and for the future to find, then by all means use the archive. Far more apt than a dropbox folder imho.
For What'sApp the attack is apparently even more simple. IIUC, there is a client-side whitelist of MIME types on uploader's side. Obviously, the attacker can change the code on their side to whatever they want; in this case they just add text/html to the whitelist.

Apparently, the receiving end just uses the browser to render whatever it's being sent. So apparently there is (or was) effectively no whitelist or verification on the receiving end. Conveniently, the uploader can also control metadata including filename and the thumbnail.

Since the payload is e2e encrypted (for What'sApp, anyway), the server obviously has no idea that any of this is going.
Maybe I should start off with Pokemon Go first to get warmed up. Similar concept where Fenn wants people to bring out their inner Indiana Jones. Instead of giving away a fortune, the makers of Pokemon Go were trying to make one.
I responded in a different sub-thread, but again, I would say this isn't quite the same, because the links don't go in a circle. In the original "I don't usually link to blonde jokes, because they are sexist..." if you clicked the link enough times, you eventually came back to the website where you started. And then you knew the joke was on you.
I think this depends on the complexity of the components you implement as web-components.

I mean, in React, the whole app is basically a component. It wouldn't make any sense to replicate this with Web Components.

But yes, I read a few times that the React devs don't consider React a "data flow framework", so they decide when to re-render and stuff. Cycle is more in line with this thinking.
> nearly all parts of Mac GUI

This is fine for MacOS but it relies on accessibility annotations that most apps I use were missing the last time I used it.
OneWeb will be putting their first LEO satellites into orbit this year. They raised another $1.2B from Softbank just a couple of months ago, and have the spectrum and launch contracts.

It looks like they will beat both SpaceX and Google to the task - which is unfortunate for them since the founder of OneWeb was involved with attempting to develop the same project with both companies.

http://spacenews.com/oneweb-gets-1-2-billion-in-softbank-led...
I'm not sure this would have the outcome you'd want. A HN page is simple, loads and the DOM isn't really altered, so no real gain. Some pages alter the DOM significantly just when scrolling, or even wait to request content until you get there. The harmful sites would probably just break, but in a different way.
The dev is just re-implementing the game engine. I think the Ep4 game files only included because it was a shareware release.

Still, I'm not entirely sure what the legal ground for the engine here is. It goes back to the whole issue with formats like mp3s/H264 (If you write a decoder entirely from scratch; do you still have to pay party x?)
Does "historical preservation" count as fair use?
I had a lecturer in a class on infrastructure policy at (German) university who was an ICT exec and always said that the first rule of the business was "Wer gräbt, verliert." (you dig, you lose).
Sure. Part of it is probably egoboo (and/or unrealistic expectations). But, as I wrote in another comment, a lot of people in tech depend on their public reputation for work/salary/etc. Published books help that reputation.
Confirming, I got mail on Dec 16 and Mar 03 notifying me of this. (Pro User, they renewed my account automatically on Dec 01, which annoyed me somewhat... "Here' we're taken your payment, but failed to mention to you we were announcing in two weeks the removal of the most useful bit to you from the service you're paying for! Have a nice day!"
Maybe here are the policies from 2009:

https://web.archive.org/web/20091228083110/http://www.dropbo...

And the policies from end of 2012:

https://web.archive.org/web/20121216094126/https://www.dropb...

That said, given the Terms of Use say they were last modified on March 26, 2012 — it appears possible that is not the reason.
So you've never watched a good movie or tv show or listened to good music? Millions of people work very hard fulltime on creating the best content.

Some people might produce some gems as a hobby but much of that is also crap.
Ultimately what matters is the user experience, not your development experience.
> Oh, they definitely notified their users.

I am a Dropbox Plus user. I never received any emails. I just checked and the email address that dropbox has is correct. This change breaks the links to PDFs of some papers and posters that I presented at scientific meetings a few years ago. I didn't expect the links to last forever, but it's still a shame.
John Mohyi is a local whom I met last year at a pitch event. Impressive technology but what matters is whether the home delivery companies see any value in it.

Nice to see that the FCC sees value in what he has developed, it may be what gets him a leg up in a crowded marketplace.

He's got bold ambition, he wants to scale the technology to carry people. Not exactly flying cars, think flying saucers. Maybe Larry Page should talk to him, they're both from East Lansing.

http://www.nibletz.com/events/sxsw/john-mohyi-bladeless-dron...
Cool. I travel enough that this is actually worth knowing.

In most jurisdictions in North America, you are meant to yield to pedestrians at all crossings. Further, there is an implied crossing at every intersection regardless of whether there are any signs or other markings. If you see a pedestrian standing on a corner, you are supposed to stop for them. Of course, what the law says and what people actually do are not always the same.
Aha, I took the parent's comments to be about the ethical and/or existential questions.

After all we do various kinds of brain altering operations and take brain altering drugs. DNA is not our personality, just how our body is built.
Show HN: Mac-like window switching on Windows with alt-`
> In Kotlin null is always safe. The problem is that types imported from Java...

Well yeah. But Kotlin advocates say you're supposed to use those extensively.

> think of it like getting memory management right in a C FFI.

Yeah, that's pretty terrifying. I would never want to use a language that expected me to make extensive use of a C FFI. It was bad enough when I used Python, and that involved a lot less C than Kotlin does Java.
Is there a word for that deep realization of your mortality and existence; almost pain, that comes nostalgia?
> it's not true that human attention is an acceptable currency

Why? How about people decide what they feel is acceptable for themselves. The answer is choice between advertising and payment, ideally a slider to dial your preferred setting.

Extremes never work.
You could put this more nicely - they have spent alot of time working on it. I'm sure no-one intends "BULLSHIT".

One way to handle it when something strikes you as not correct is to politely ask for clarification.