skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure, the only things I've dug deeply into are Netscape Livewire (server javascript), Classic ASP (JScript and VBScript), PHP, ASP.Net, Ruby on Rails, Castle Monorail, ASP.Net MVC, Node (express, koa), Backbone, MEAN-stack, React .. some interest in go, rust and .Net Core lately.

Of all the above, React is the first paradigm (combined with a Node backend) that EVER felt like the right way to do things... all others were "Cool", then dig in and get really disappointed somewhere. The more I've gotten into React... (I didn't like a lot of the early flux-like frameworks, but enjoying Redux) the more I feel it's really close to the right way to build web applications.

Of the above, I really disliked PHP and didn't like RoR too much, mostly because I don't care for ORMs at all really, even Entity Framework irks me at times, but at least it's easier to manage than others I've worked with. I've done one-off things with other tools/frameworks, but none really felt right... And this is in two decades of web applications development.

Mongo and RethinkDB feel close to right similarly. Postgres + plv8 feels really close too, but for the clustering.

For now, Web Assembly can't touch the DOM. And I'm only guessing, but it's likely the first implementations that bridge the gap will be around React/JSX or a similar core for the communication, and representation of UI vdom. Soemthing using the `material-ui` package could be awesome.
Of course computer architecture, compiler knowledge etc is valuable and part of the interview process. I was referring to the general process of evaluating- - thus the question was focused on methods not content.

Additionally, explaining how a system works is valuable, and I captured it when mentioned communication abilities.
I'm working on this right now with a few. I would love to see more contributors to that idea.
So... where does the data go? Maybe a simpleton question but I couldn't easily find an answer in the about section. If it's all function-based, where does the data actually get persisted?
Why Music Ownership Matters
Problems of Matrix Organizations (1978)
> Everything I've read it's because they've lost the lobbying war with incumbents.

Like what? There have been some lobbying skirmishes. But where was the big lobbying war they lost that prevented them from bringing Fiber to New York, Philly, SF, Chicago, DC, LA, or pretty much any major city?

And what about all the cities begging Google for fiber? Why didn't Google take LA up on its bid to build fiber? http://venturebeat.com/2013/11/06/los-angeles-wants-to-bring...? Or Baltimore? https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/08/snubb....
I don't know how representative I am here, but it seems as though the listed acceptable ad criteria miss the point. The criteria focus upon the presentation of advertising. That is nice, but the reality is that users can choose to leave a site and avoid visiting it in the future if the presentation of advertising is annoying.

A more important question is: how can you keep advertisers honest? Clearly labeling content as advertising is a step in the right direction, but I would also expect some measures to ensure that the advertisers are being held accountable for the content of the ad and where the ad redirects to.

Then there is the issue of data acquired by the tracking of users. While I am at the extreme end, by viewing no form of tracking as acceptable, any advertising standard that fails to place restrictions on data handling and collection is basically saying that the abuse of user data is okay as long as you don't annoy the user.
Yeah, unfortunately that's because we made a mistake, here's the relevant issue if you want more info (PDF because it's a private repo so I can't link directly to it unfortunately):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByoIqX0IDB5scWpJT0JKTHQtTG8...

We do want to open source it when we can.
But that's all else being equal. A company with a toxic culture or a toxic reputation is not equal to one with a world-class culture and sterling reputation.
I also worked at Reframe It, after you left.

To add to your point, Disqus is also struggling: https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/13/disqus-lays-off-11-as-it-p...
Inge Sargent: From Burmese princess to human rights activist
Would you prefer a paywall? Seriously asking
> And oh boy, does Telegram encryption suck. Seriously people, don't use that except on a dare.
Artificial Intelligence Takes on the Experts at March Madness
Obligatory: "The talk" http://m.imgur.com/gallery/AMFVx
Canonical extends Ubuntu 12.04 support for paying customers
This is a database FOR serverless style applications. It runs on servers like most databases, it's not made out of lambdas. But it's built so you don't have to worry about the details. When a traffic spike hits your app we'll keep up. And when your app is quiet, you don't pay for unused capacity.
If you quit your job during the year (let's say June), then you can deduct your LLC losses the next year, and receive a nice tax refund. You can't do it with an C-Corp.
I wrote synchronous communication, with which I meant the combination of a sending a request message and do a blocking wait for a response message. I'm aware that the pure message sending in Erlang is async. What I intended to highlight is that the "do a blocking wait for a response" part is possible in Erlang, but not in Pony or Akka (yes, you can do it in Akka, but it's not recommended for performance reasons).
I reopened the issue.
They need paying enterprise customers for all the free OSS hosting they provide.
That looks really cool, it's like the Starbucks/McDonalds wifi points, but for every shop for a really cheap price.

I'm curious about a few things:

How fast is super fast ?

How does it work? Is there a 4G hotspot hidden in the yellow box? or do you require your bakeries partners to install some specific router at their location (i.e. the bakeries must have a pre-existing internet connection setup) ?
A comprehensive dive into WebRTC for client-server web games
Agree and why these latest "tech" companies that do NOT actually sell their tech will not fall as easily from industry changes.

I have a tough time seeing the new three, Google, Amazon and FB going away. I can see it with MS and Apple.
Google Compute Engine network issue in us-central zones
Python Enigma cypher machine simulator
It goes beyond just being "hip". It's about mindshare, which is extremely important when you want user-contributed plugins.
Mentioned in this comment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13878836 - and I will reiterate how important that one number is to optimize, because in order to do so it means optimizing other processes first, like ad messaging, compelling product, and sizing the market.
DISCLOSURE: I WORK AT GOOGLE ON NOTHING AD RELATED BUT IT CERTAINLY PAYS MY SALARY.

>> The fact is that advertising pays for much of the internet content you consume for free.
> I've never had free internet... which ISP do you use?

How many payments from Comcast to New York Times happen per year? Hint, the number rhymes with buck mall.

>> It's because of perverse incentives and a lack of regulation in the entire industry that force bad formats, fraudsters, malware, and the pursuit of data and volume to win over quality and user experience.
> The whole point of advertising is to trick people into buying shit they don't need.

Or, it's to inform you about the stuff that's out there. It's all perspective. "Trick"? What phone do you own? I guarantee you heard about it through some form of advertisement. And before you say that it's only because you read a review about it - I 1000% guarantee you saw an ad somewhere that primed you to even read the article.

>> As much as I don't care for the ABP approach, it's something that can be used to actually make progress and that's what this is, progress.
> This is a step backwards, not progress.

Why?

>> It's finally some outside pressure on the industry to change from the segment of the advertising mechanism that matters most - the people themselves.
> Bullshit. This is a way of lifting the pressure on the industry, and this initiative is mostly supported by players in the industry. Not the people.

There's no one on the other side right now - ABP is at least bringing the people to the table.

If you don't like it, then turn on and pay for Google Contributor (see earlier disclosure about my employer) and then no ads AND the site you visits actually get paid.
I don't agree that this is a step backwards, but I certainly do agree that this is not a step forward.

Progress will be defined by decreasing the amount of obnoxious advertising, until we see that there is no progress and this is all talk.

I do enjoy that both sides are trying to improve the situation, but I still feel like the ad industry has yet to acknowledge that they are the root cause of the problem.

We almost need an advertising "intervention"... If the creation and rapid adoption of adblocking software isn't the embodiment of that though, I don't know what is.
FWIW 2 men 1 horse is a thing as well...
Totally understandable. We have been talking to Kyle. We have internal verification systems and will be publishing more later this year to that effect.

For what it's worth, we have built high-performance distributed systems before....so it's not just wishful thinking.
> It’s relational, but not SQL.

Why not? If you already support relational algebra, it seems like a non-brainer to just add SQL. Even if it's only SQL-92 you would be able to support some existing tools/ORMs almost for free.
1) more complicated discussion that what can be done here

Not necessarily - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_principles_of_faith

2) do some believe that? sure.

I tend to argue that while we say one can't define god, one of the attributes attributed to god is "truth" (last word of Exodus 34:6). Many have a hard time associating God who is defined by as truth with a god who is like Loki who is just here to trick us by putting our senses against us (i.e. what we can observe).
Ooooooooooh, that makes sense now. I thought it was a database implemented as as whole series of individual lambdas and I was having a hard time figuring out how you guys pulled that one off.

Data stored "on the wire"? :D
So, what about https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2396015/:

"While group A was found to be more common in malaria cases than in normals, the reverse situation was found for group O."

and https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-03/ki-hbg030515...:

"It has long been known that people with blood type O are protected from dying of severe malaria."
https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/195/7/1014/800831/Blood...:

"Blood Group AB Is Associated with Increased Risk for Severe Dengue Disease in Secondary Infections"

Not statistically significant? The malaria protection, in particular, seems well known (that doesn't make it true, but I find several papers in what look like respectable sources making such claims) or is severe malaria so rare that being protected against it isn't worth much?
Florida Clinic Blinds Three Patients in Botched ‘Clinical Trial’
Travel nursing, for some people. Instead of putting in hours sitting and staring at a screen (which is somewhat hazardous in the long term), you work a 3-month stint for premium pay, then do whatever you want until you need more money.

Or if you like interacting with people more than machines, sales and marketing are universal skills that are always in demand.
Agreed 100%. The paper prototype is nice but more likely to be an art project than a way to think about the product. They have a giant team, they can and should use internal resources to produce more realistic prototypes of the product.
Same. Separating the container from the items makes it easier to grok. A lot of the browser bugs arise in deeply nested containers, so judicious use has saved a lot of legacy design headache and still allowed me to roll it out with very good support on desktop and mobile.
According to the release notes, you can update to Corral and roll back to 9.10 via the GUI.

The system requirements are still 8gb RAM and 8gb disk minimum.

There are no details of the performance.

Release notes are here.

https://download.freenas.org/Corral/RELEASE/ReleaseNotes.txt
I'm not a huge fan of this question. I've been programming for 20 years (professionally for 13). Is the hardest problem some noddy maths i worked out at 15 to convert real coordinates to screen coordinates? Is it the first app i wrote out of college when i learned that servlets aren't thread safe? Is it what i worked on last year to design my current company's authentication/authorization system?

I find it very hard to interpolate between these examples. And none of them are "hard"! I haven't written an OS or a more efficient linked list. All I've done is plugged away at something until it works.
Understand the workload.

Take the workload difference between in house versus public usage.

If one releases software into the public domain then one has no reasonable expectation as to the kinds of data driving your code. For this kind of general purpose, heavily reused software then code coverage with, unit testing and mocking makes the most sense is my experience.

However, one can also write code for a very specific, limited usage. In those cases I find regression testing with regression data works best. They are not paying me to find bugs to satisfy code coverage.

I find understanding the workload is a significant factor in determining the kinds of testing I use.
Could be this hotel instead: http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/hotel-casanus
We've been unable to talk to OVH's BHS (Canada) DC from any us-central IPs for hours now. Though, we can talk to the instances from Florida. Seems isolated to only a few links.
That's not the point. The point is that any safety you think you have by using an Option is a little bit hand-wavy.

That's not _bad_, but the argument being made by the OP was that nullability in Kotlin was unsafe and inconsistent.
They have developers from poorer countries like Eastern Europe where your twice less is twice more than local market.
(Disclosure: I work on Google's Cloud Datastore.)

This looks super neat, and I can't wait to learn more about it, but just for the record: I'm pretty sure this isn't the first serverless cloud database. Both Firebase's Realtime Database and Cloud Datastore (which powers Snapchat and Pokemon Go) are serverless; you pay only for your ops and storage. They've been publicly available for several years.
Productivity application clients like a spreadsheet or document editor tend to do best when they can receive commands/updates to the document in the background via something like a WebSocket.

Otherwise, each time you switched tabs to your spreadsheet, doc, slide show, etc., it would have to poll for changes from the server in some fashion, and wait for a response. This gets pretty frustrating when you're trying to do something like copy from one document to another.
Traps for autonomous cars
I really like TOML: https://github.com/toml-lang/toml
An Introductory Ansible Tutorial
My God, this is such a good idea and I have so many questions.

a) I'm guessing you are expecting people to use this WiFi on their smartphones? Are your prices coming under the usual Indian telecom data prices?

b) If Facebook comes to you tomorrow and tells you they'll help cut your margins by 75% if you favour their traffic. Would you do it? You'd be able to pass on the price drop to other Indians.
Interesting point about the angles/motions. But isn't the same true if you simply plotter print a map of the city and also use your phone's camera? All the 3d rendering can be done later on…
Have you ever really asked them what their line of thinking is? You are like to get many different answers.

I sought help from my professors and teaching assistants in college not because I felt it "wasn't my fault" or even that "it is his job to teach me" or that "I pay for tuition after all" but rather my thinking was, quite simply, "I need to learn this and I'm finding challenges with the current approach I am taking... maybe there is another way" where "another way" just so happens to include pursuing some direct face-to-face help from someone else. The line of thinking was outcome-oriented (I need to learn this/accomplish X) and I'd do whatever it took to make that happen.
As far as I understand

display-inside: flow;

is the current (default) layout method. So all runs having characters (including spaces) and children that have display:inline | inline-block will be replaced in line boxes preserving spaces between them (consecutive spaces are collapsed into one but still they will be there).

But suddenly all children that have display:block will be a) replaced on new row each and b) with spaces between them ignored.

Such a dichotomy is the source of weird hacks, like advices to remove spaces between blocks at all, etc.
I wonder if a StackOverflow building aristocracy up via gamification approach might crowd source nicely to this problem.
Nearly 2, having read TFA. But yes.
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Some Open Questions
I too can vouch the goodness of this program.
He even hid a bottle of wine behind those books on his shelf...
Musk's Tesla Plans Up to $1.15B Capital Raise to Cut Risk
Sigh. Some instances can not get to level 3 at all. Go go gadget google cloud!

Having said that Kudos that this is on their status page!
Is this extremely useful chart public?
Possibly unrelated, but `kubernetes.io` is down/slow for me and a bunch of users in the k8s slack.
Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?
A thread like this was posted 2 years ago. Maybe those problems have been solved or new problems have appeared. So what problem currently exists in your industry that can be taken up by a startup?
The forest on Melee is fixed; you can find the treasure by memorizing its location or by following the map, but there is no guide who will lead you to it. You find the sword master in the same forest by following a guide (or, again, by memorizing her location).

This was an interesting choice, since the hell caverns in the same game are randomized and it's impossible to get through them without the guide.
Psalm 46 was what I've been thinking of when reading the article, especially after this bit:

>For further clues, you have to read the poem in his self-published book, The Thrill of the Chase.

He might actually make money on this, lol.
Memory in Google's DeepMind Algorithms
Arguably this already happened for a while with Uber and Greyball.
Why should we run countries like companies?
A. We're entirely focussed on the 10 minutes when you're standing at the tea stall drinking your tea and flipping through your phone. Our prices are 5x cheaper than mobile data.

B. Favour their traffic? No way.
Fargo's credits state:

"The persons and events portrayed in this production are fictitious."
> FaunaDB Serverless Cloud

By "Serverless", do you just mean DBaaS? "Serverless" in the context of a database is kinda weird because the data does have to be stored somewhere. This branding doesn't make much sense to me.

> It’s relational, but not SQL.

Why not SQL? Is there something your query language supports that SQL doesn't?
Empathy is highly related with the big 5 personality trait Agreeableness, but is not itself agreement.

It is not a failure of empathy to come to understand someone's perspective, and then disagree with that perspective (regardless of what internet busybodies want you to believe).

Depending on how high in Conscientiousness (another big 5 trait) someone is, they might have action-oriented or planning-based conclusions after empathizing with someone. It might seem cold, calculating and "not empathizing" to someone higher in agreeableness.
> Lots of strong emotions here, as usual with anything ad related on HN. The fact is that advertising pays for much of the internet content you consume for free.

I'd be perfectly happy if ads could no longer support free content on the internet. It would mean that I'd either have to pay for what I want to read, or the author would have to give it away for free. If every bit of ad-supported content had to go into one of those two categories, I don't think I'd lose anything I care about.
We have a bunch of customers listed in the press release. [0] Our managed cloud installation is about the size of our large customers. NVIDIA launched their latest world-scale user facing service on top of FaunaDB.

Personally I'm more interested in helping people writing fresh apps use FaunaDB, because while we can solve enterprise problems at scale, it's the greenfield apps that will be able to best use our advanced features.

[0] http://finance.yahoo.com/news/fauna-launches-faunadb-serverl...
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Can someone recommend a good book on algorithms?
Using Roslyn instead of AutoMapper
As a HPE - this is spot on.
ISP are providing access/transit, not content. Just because you have a car doesn't mean you can go to any store and carry out merchandise for free.

Advertising, and the greater marketing concept, is not that simple. It's about connecting customers looking for wants and needs with the companies that offer them. There is a certain amount of work in creating that desire (hence the wants and not just needs) but it's ultimately still the consumers choice.

Care to explain how this is backwards progress and lifts pressure on the industry? ABP is a company and extension that only makes it harder for the existing ad networks to continue.
Perhaps, but I will say that none of them are nearly as juicy of a lawsuit target as Android, which controls like 70%-ish of the multi-billion device smartphone market right now.
There's a tendency toward this among all living things, and worse cases in the past: Great Oxygenation Event and Snowball Earth being an extreme case. William R Catton, Jr., made the point, in Overshoot, that assigning blame isn't particularly useful. It's the dynamics which drive the thing.

At the same time, humans can, and do, know better. Yet we're headed down that same path. And there definitely appear to be those capitalising on the short-term view.
It's super fast because we draw a 100mbps line to each store. We install our own routers. It's totally free for the store owner, we charge nothing up front. We split revenue with the store owner 80-20.
You never really explain how you can set that up easily and use it efficiently.

It looks like it would be tedious to set up and annoying to use if you have to keep different mappings in your head without any visual feedback. Was the feedback auditory?

So the primary issue is not showing how this thing is pleasant to use.

The second issue is you claim to be able to use it without any smart devices. Anyone with any home automation knows that's a bunch of bull. You control all kinds of things with like special outlets, hue, etc. Why would I buy something like this if I don't have any multi hundred dollar home automation equipment? That is a severe audience limiter.

Saying you don't need any special devices while explaining how it controls special devices just comes off as insincere.
Ask HN: Non-native writers, how did you improve your writing techniques?
Testing cost money.

I find it very unusual to talk with developers who regularly modify their testing practice based on time and money.

The most expensive is to do it all: unit testing, integration testing, component testing, system testing, end-to-end testing, stochastic testing, performance testing.

The art of testing in no small part comes down to the art of money. How much bang-for-the buck does any testing provide given limited resources? I answer that question.
This whole tangled mess of JavaScript, HTML, CSS and custom expression languages screams Lisp.
Isn't automation "laziness incarnate"?
Dropbox accounts created after Oct. 2012 won't have a public folder
They still have better presentation of lyrics then the top rank lyrics sites, even if the other genres lack the same level of annotation.
I'm in a similar boat. When you got the question about job hopping this time around, how did you answer it?
I was going to post same thing lol