skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough, though at that point, you're layering on additional complexity and getting further away from the goal of simplicity. (And to point 3, while this is true, using a log means this problem can be dealt with a lot later, and there are solutions that don't involve giving up linearizability, such as a dedicated set of log replicas apart from data partitions, or implementing something like Calvin.)

My main point was that the deficiencies of strong-leader-based consensus protocols are overstated, and despite a (minor IMO) level of additional starting complexity, a raft-like protocol is going to be quite a bit simpler than a paxos-based protocol of equivalent capability.
Yes, this is more like the "a PDF that runs arbitrary commands when you open it" class.
Will top teams from Startup School MOOC be accepted into Summer 2017 funding cycle?
Or they will have a completely independent path and own demo day not related to the main program?
"comfortable professional class"
Linkedin because most of my postings are aimed at increasing my professional development/reputation
Really? As far as I can tell, the `git_current_branch` function in `lib/git.zsh` is fine.
Why is it unfortunate that you're not vulnerable? Isn't that a good thing?
CNN is full of it. The key paragraph in the article:
"North Korea has never successfully tested an ICBM, despite repeatedly showing off what it claims are working missiles at military parades. Some experts have publicly doubted whether these missiles are anything but mock-ups."

The missile that is claimed to have a 5,400 mile range has never demonstrated this capability, making the article alarmist claptrap. CNN should check actual distances they've achieved, versus what they claim in their breathless press releases.

NK's last launch, on March 6, went 620 miles.

NK have detonated 5 nuclear underground tests, which have had incredibly low yields. Like early US designs, it is likely that the devices were large and heavy. I do not believe NK has a warhead small enough to fit on a rocket - the costly R&D to make a miniature nuke is beyond their means.

Finally, NK loves posturing and bragging. The NK leadership is well aware that an actual attack would end the good life they have as elites.
No opt-in. So how can one opt out of ISP snooping?
Tab autocompletion looks to be affected too, at least on my system. Create a branch called 'complete_$(./foo)'. Then type 'git checkout comp<TAB>'. This gets autocompleted to

git checkout complete_$(./foo)

If you hit Enter at this point without thinking you'll end up running './foo'. It should have expanded instead to something like

git checkout 'complete_$(./foo)'

or

git checkout complete_\$\(./foo\)
Mine isn't, YMMV.
Eve – An extensible event-driven application framework
For anyone interested, you can watch it for free, legally, here: http://www.crunchyroll.com/relife (you can read it too but that needs a subscription, oddly).
Just about the coolest little critters on Earth! They're cute, they can survive just about anything reasonably thrown their way from hard vacuum to radiation, and now this. It makes me happy to know that regardless of how badly we as a species screw up ourselves or the biosphere, these little tardigrades won't even notice.
jekyll on surge.sh
This is basically DRM for deep learning. While that may be useful, it's not about safety.

The big problems involved in building safe AI are about predicting consequences of actions. (The deep learning automatic driving systems which go directly from vision to steering commands don't do that at all. They're just mimicking a human driver. There's no explicit world model. That's scary.)
I don't believe we are anywhere near the physical limits of computing at all; the laws of mathematics, physics and information theory give us an enormous upper bound on capacity. There are technologies like quantum computing we haven't even started to scratch the surface of, and our knowledge of nano-scale engineering is still very much in its infancy. I would be very surprised if in only five years computers were not dramatically faster, let alone 50.
You've just described the vast majority of my experiences in my EE E&M class. Very hard multi-variate calculus problems, but as soon as you can find the symmetry they get dramatically easier.
Didn't work for me - I'm using oh-my-zsh in iTerm2, and I'm just using the git plugin & a custom theme, nothing else. Maybe we're using different plugins?
Sanakirja: Transactional, branchable key-value store in Rust
Lol no please. I love nintendo games, and I bought the switch for the games. If I want graphics or VR, I buy a desktop computer not a console.
I don't like usage of the term "lock free" to mean "locks that are less costly".

There's a difference between (A) locking (waiting, really) on access to a critical section (where you spinlock, yield your thread, etc.) and (B) locking the processor to safely execute a synchronization primitive (mutexes/semaphores).

CAS is "lock free" only in the sense that it doesn't require the processor to stop the world in order to flip the mutex boolean. It's still a mutex, and it still gates access to a critical section, and you still need some kind of strategy to deal with waiting for the critical section to become available (e.g., spinlocking, signaling the OS to sleep thread execution).

An example of operation using coarse locks would be a method in Java with “synchronized” keyword.
If a thread T is executing a synchronized method on a particular object,
no other concurrent thread can invoke any other synchronized method on the same object.

That's just putting one giant mutex around all access to the object. Having finer granularity != "lockless".
I see what you're saying, but it seems to me that your description can be misunderstood to mean that lock-free programming is simply more fine-grained locking, which it is very far from.

You can use mutexes to do fine-grained locking and still get into a dead-lock. Your algorithm can use only CASs and still not be deadlock-free.

The general idea of lock free is to holistically design a data structure that guarantees that when you I invoke its operations in any concurrent scenario, the overall system will make progress and won't get stuck.
I use Octopress and host content on NearlyFreeSpeech.net. I like it over gh-pages because I can run TLS on the root domain and can tweak server headers via .htaccess. On top of that, static hosting at NFS is extremely cheap. 2016 cost me 82 cents. I get maybe 5k visitors/month and use 300mb/month. I cheat on bandwidth by caching at Cloudflare heavily. Without CF my bandwidth would be double (but still pretty cheap!).
Really? Do you have an example of a substantial set of programs where that holds? I don't see a priori how it could work unless you can do exhaustive search over the space of all programs and determine if they halt and return the right answer.
> I read a short story about this... a neural implant that starts off in passive mode, learning to be you, and then you switch it over to active mode at some point and you are it.

"Learning to be Me" by Greg Egan?

I read it in the short story collection (various authors) Beyond Flesh
> Nobody bats an eyelash when doctors refuse to help with executions or torture

But it turns out that no one (initially) cares when doctors do help with torture, either. The APA helped design the American torture program, and despite some inflammatory articles never saw any real consequences for it.

I don't think this devalues your point about technologists, but it does make me suspect that our uniqueness is overstated; quite a few 'respectable' professions have at one point or another joined in on horrific government overreach.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/01/us/report-says-american-p...
You have a choice not to use privacy abusing services like Facebook, and use privacy respectful ones like diaspora* instead. With ISP most users have no choice, and that's exactly the problem. They abuse their monopolistic position to snoop on people.
Unlocking Data Preparation for Business Intelligence
And, what level of threat you perceive to be relevant. For myself, I am not worried about the NSA, TSA or ICE inserting custom hardware into my devices while they are in transit...
Using the word "best" isn't always quite appropriate. I think it is better to mention, "Best for <whom>".
I'm going to second this, especially for a tech blog.

I sent one up in January. Despite not spending much time on it so far, there were a couple things I've already gathered from it.

First, is basic Git functionality. Without having much experience with remote repos, it provided me a good opportunity to try things out without being able to break too much. I essentially write up posts locally, then push them to a GitHub repo. Super simple.

Second is Linux and SSH. I have local repos on a Linux machine at home. I can SSH into the machine, write up a post, then push it out. I had very little knowledge of Linux and SSH prior. It's been pretty helpful.

The biggest thing I think it offers is convenience. I have a very simple way of writing posts, no matter where I am. It's pushed me to learn new systems (ones that a lot of people are already familiar with) and it allows for a simple means of fixing things (through GitHub's interface) in case I do break anything.
But this is what the AEI does. It produces op-ed information dolled up to look like research. I personally believe that the motives of the "think"-tank AEI should be held up first and foremost when discussing 'articles' that they produce.

They have an end goal in mind: uphold or attack research to support conservative ideologies.
According to the story, it sounds like wages and cost of living are already there.
Strange. Willfully contextless reading comprehension. No wonder the word appears "random".
To be fair the Lusitania was packed with ammunition, so it's a little harder to say it was unjustified, but it definitely was used as allied propaganda to fuel anti-german sentiment. Also as terrible as it is, Japanese internment was ruled constitutional (and is regarded by many as a very terrible ruling). I think your larger point is still true, and rules are for the losers (aka Nuremberg).
It's my understanding you can't deploy HTTPS on a github hosted Jeckyll site that's using - has that changed?

(To clarify: https:github.com/shitpostingblog, but https://shitbpostingblog.xyz is not)
I'm not sure what it is you're saying.
saw this recently on HN: Men not at work: Why so many men aged 25 to 54 are not working[1]. I know that "not working" and "not leaving your bedroom" are differnt things, but maybe that's what makes it "American".

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13795397
I'm also a big ran of ramnode and pelican. I've had a host there for the past 4 years
I feel weird posting this link, because I was relatively old when Wikipedia became a thing and still remember what "real" encyclopedias were like.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/algebra/Applications-of-gro...

> Some other fundamental concepts of modern algebra also had their origin in 19th-century work on number theory, particularly in connection with attempts to generalize the theorem of (unique) prime factorization beyond the natural numbers. This theorem asserted that every natural number could be written as a product of its prime factors in a unique way, except perhaps for order (e.g., 24 = 2∙2∙2∙3).

That seems like a pretty good first step to me.
IMO FHE is going to be key in democratizing ML/AI to more companies/industries. There are tons of companies which have business use-cases that could benefit from ML but there are often huge obstacles to sharing data.
Can you play it anywhere on the go? Can it play the nintendo games?

The only reason to get a console these days, besides the switch, is for the exclusivity. With the switch you also get a handheld console in addition to exclusivities.
To the parent's point, it's probably generally considered slightly 'cooler' to work at In-N-Out than at McDonald's. In-N-Out certainly seems to be trendier amongst young people than most other fast food restaurants.

Anecdotally, it seems that as general affluence within a community rises, so does the value placed on social standing. So your compensation package has to cover increased lifestyle expenses, adjusted for the position's impact on your status in the community.

If wages stagnated, but somehow McDonald's just kept getting trendier, I expect they would retain more of their original demographic than if McDonald's was increasingly seen as a place that only employs losers and morons.
The EULA you get when you sign up:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/servicesagreement/default.as...

It contradicts the promises on the homepage. I would not sign up unless I get the signature of Nadella on a contract stating that Microsoft won't sue me
Show HN: *nixy filter to color stdout, by rows or space-separated columns
Blogger. I am planning to migrate it to Pelican (getpelican.com) on DigitalOcean soon.
> I think from Thiels' capitalist view, he's totally correct on this point.

Isn't that the same as saying from Theils' capitalist view the solution is to prevent capitalism from functioning? How do you have capitalism without competition?
You've used a lot of incendiary language here but I am struggling to find a concrete point.

What rent seeking opportunities? Who are "bleeding heart liberals" and what "demands" are you talking about?

What fraud are you talking about specifically? Who was scapegoated? What should have happened, in your view?
IMO the Wii was unique, but a gimmick. The Switch is the real deal, the sales will probably reflect that in December for Christmas.
"Labor costs comprise only 6 percent of the price consumers pay for fresh produce. Thus, if farm wages were allowed to rise 40 percent, and if all the costs were passed on to consumers, the cost to the average household would be only about $8 a year."

http://cis.org/articles/2007/back907.html
A rough guide to the Orthona language
Jekyll + S3 bucket's static website + Cloudfront

S3 bucket static website is great. I have also hosted React apps with full routing by setting 'error' page to 'index.html' on the S3 bucket properties.
You can. I did it with cloud flare.
The Joy-Con issue affects all units and has nothing to do with the human body, although that obviously makes the problem worse. After five or so feet away from the console, the Joy-Cons begin to respond intermittently, making proper gameplay impossible. (This is with nothing between the console and controllers.) The issue lies partially in the design of the antenna. The right Joy-Con has a better antenna, which alleviates the problem to a degree. I don't know how this could not be caught before release. A hardware mod can fix the antenna issue; a courageous user can solder a bit of wire onto the antenna to significantly extend the range.

The point is that the left Joy-Con is poorly designed.

They may be able to solve this issue by raising the gain on the antennae, at the expense of a significant amount of battery life. I don't know if they'd have to go through the FCC for this.

The screen issue isn't that the screen is plastic, it is that the dock itself damages the console. It takes a day or two with heavy use.
Specifically, mentally ill homeless:

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-Nevada-reach-tenta...
This is why tardigrades have such high radiation tolerance as well. It turns out that dehydration is incredibly damaging, especially to DNA, and the same repair/protection systems for dealing with dehydration (such as DNA repair) tend to protect against high radiation doses as well.
In a few years they can make a "Hidden Figures" movie about the previously unrecognized men that worked on that Mars mission :-)
YouTube got rid of star ratings back in 2009 for similar reasons: https://techcrunch.com/2009/09/22/youtube-comes-to-a-5-star-...
Unless you use adblock, there isn't a pirate streaming service for anime that doesn't have ads. Even the non-streaming bittorrent trackers have ads. How can you pay for a server to host anime if pirates are trying to avoid paying money?
Expedia Names Chelsea Clinton to Newly Created Board Seat
Counterpoint: MuleSoft shares spike 45% to $24.75 on first day of trading, worth $3 billion

http://venturebeat.com/2017/03/17/mulesoft-shares-spike-45-t...
I created this script a few days ago and it has proved it be quite useful. It isn't polished (ie: no doc, tests ..not even 'standard' arg parsing) but it has made debugging and reading logs so much easier that I thought I just had to share it. Comments and PRs welcome.

PS: note, feel free to fork and make it 'Enterprise ready', if you are inclined to but I will be very reluctant to add bloaty ^features^ to this.
I think its odd that you keeping referring to an abstract "here" as a an alternative and standard of comparison to the Bay Area but won't say where that is. This whole discussion is about geography as it relates to career.
Snowball: a small string processing language for stemming algorithms
The publisher of the article cares - they chose to highlight that aspect.
They aren't high enough. Perhaps prices need to be raised. If they can't raise them then I have basically no problem with these farmers investing in machinery and employing fewer people than they do now but making those workers legalized americans and paying them a good wage.

I also don't have a problem with this guys vineyard failing. That's capitalism, sometimes (a lot of times) businesses fail.
This is a complete non-sequitur. What you've said is that energy is a form of wealth, and energy is finite, therefore wealth is finite. It doesn't begin to follow; what about forms of wealth other than energy? You even admit those exist when you say "transform [something] into a more valuable configuration".
The programs are independent. We hope that some top MOOC teams will apply to YC and join the summer batch.
It's misspelled indeed, but I'm pretty much sure I wanted to write losing.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lose
Writing Kickass READMEs
I see your points- I agree that "best health outcome of the patient" is the priority. I don't think that is always at the cost of privacy, though. In fact, if people feel more secure about the privacy of their information, they will be more likely to be open and to even visit a health care provider in the first place. (Some people may not care either way, but there are those who do- and certain circumstances that people are more likely to care about than others).

I don't think the challenges you mention are unsurmountable-

An ER doctor seeing 100 patients a night might have the system setup to automatically log in as an emergency, and they already need to log the reason for the appointment- or else there is no there is no record of it...

Setting up the initial access should be handled by staff during check-in for non-emergency visits.

Patients are generally already expected to carry a health insurance card (at least in the US- not sure how that is handled in countries with Government provided health-care). As the system becomes more widespread, it would become normal for everyone to have a security token, and they could use those tokens for access to multiple systems, not just health care (The USB disk thing is probably optional, just a slight improvement for when the network is down or you can't otherwise access the information).

I also think the User Experience on the systems I have seen could be greatly improved to reduce unnecessary clicks- and I have noticed that more often then not though- loading information over a slow network takes more time than navigating the GUI.

I would agree that the problems with health care go far beyond EMR systems, but they were the topic of the discussion.

Thanks for participating, I want to better understand all of the issues and these types of discussions help a lot toward that goal.
> can survive just about reasonably thrown their way from hard vacuum to radiation

Remind me not to be around when you are being reasonable.
> [2] And if the government does build it, we should ditch the emotional appeals for FTTH and rely heavily on sensible, cost-effect point-to-point wireless.

How about we ditch the emotional appeals to deploy whatever technology is the flavor of the month, and instead deploy whatever meets the needs and has the lowest TCO over the lifetime of the asset?
Sure it is. You move from the person moving the hay to the person designing the hay moving systems. This would be a perfectly cogent career story for any engineer working in agriculture, and I know plenty of people who have worked in higher-margin areas of agriculture who have made the jump. (Beekeepers learning biochemistry and getting jobs working as Honey Q/A scientists, chefs jumping into food research and development positions, farm owners pivoting to seed banking/specific organism sales, etc.)

The fact that you can't generate enough economic surplus to fund studies to acquire the additional mechanical engineering study in a manner competitive with other mechanical engineering students is why you view the path as untenable. Hence why these positions are desperation tier end-of-the-line jobs and why the CoL/Wage arbitrage is required to keep them staffed.

Similarly, people engaged in agricultural studies generally don't come out of the 'harvest labour' workforce.

Working on a farm is a transaction with a specific expected ROI. If the ROI sucks in comparison to other mutually exclusive exchanges, why would you do it?
Nothing special, just a wordpress self-install hosted on linode. I don't blog much, and haven't had a need to use anything more modern.
The biggest fascinating point about Tardigrades is that they can survive in space.

I think the implication of this should be explored further.
Ah yes, a classic. I always love coders who are so naive they think computers are deterministic and code can be perfected.

How much perfect code have you come across in your life?
As a Georgian (from the country of Georgia) I was really surprised to find out that Stallman is into our folk stuff. He seems a bit too uh, cerebral for it. I believe he even visited our country around 2010 just to research the music.
Just in case you missed that delightfully weird story from last month:

Google was working on putting live tardigrades into Android phones:

http://venturebeat.com/2017/02/24/complicated-weird-beautifu...
Oh god why. Use https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto
I use a workflow that goes Hugo <==> GitHug <==> Netlify

Completely automated, blazing fast, and all 3 are FREE. Netlify even includes basic SSL for free (!!!), and that what I've implemented on all my Netlify hosted sites.

Here's 1 of my blogs that I maintain using this setup. https://www.pawpurrazi.com/

I've also made a youtube video tutorial showing you step by step how to do this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSwoCvd4QIc

I came to this setup from previously using WordPress to host all my blogs and then getting tired of dealing with all the security holes, performance bottlenecks and "pharma hacks" that come with it. I did evaluate Jekyll as the blog engine, but the lack of incremental builds was a dealbreaker for me. Hugo has incremental builds from v 0.16 onwards, and it is also super fast, I tested with 5000 posts, builds in a few seconds.

DISCLAIMER: I don't work for Netlify nor am affiliated with them. I find their service to be blazing fast and their support is excellent (even for free tiers), so I made the video a while back for everyone else to use. The co-founders Matt Biilmann and Chris Bach are both super smart and answer questions promptly, Matt also appears to have deep technical knowledge when it comes to caching, security, performance etc.
> They can scan content automatically to show ads

This is even worse than manually spying on people: automation gives leverage. Now all we have to do is repurpose these targeted ad engine to deduce things other than buying preferences.

Sure, they have their surface ethic (and Alphabet's employees have their actual ethic), but the tools they have in place for total surveillance is downright chilling.