skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At a high-level, most distributed architectures take a similar approach: Spread partitions over multiple nodes, insert/query to any node, route (sub)requests to the appropriate nodes. The unique parts of Timescale is that, unlike Postgres XL or Citus, our design/optimizations all focus on time-series data.

So, as we've mentioned in some other replies, this means that our partitions/chunks are typically based on two-dimensions (time and a primary partition key), chunks across nodes are automatically created and closed (based both on time intervals and sizes), and there are a bunch of time-based distributed query optimizations and time-series-specific functions that we'll provide out of the box.

More information in whitepaper: http://www.timescale.com/papers/timescaledb.pdf
It's been a while since I've used Django but at the time (I think 1.6) I couldn't figure out a way to do a migration like adding a non null column to a decent sized relation 100M records without having the table lock up.

I use flyway now for db migrations and what's great is that I can perform migrations in multiple steps (because it's just SQL). So in this case, I can alter table and add a column with nullable, deploy my app to write to both, migrate data at a later time, deploy app again to stop writing to the old column, update column constraints and remove old column.

Does Django ORM have this kind of flexibility?
Ask HN: Do you have a custom-payment-system horror story?
You always hear that it's usually a bad idea to write a custom payment system. Let's share why.

- Maybe you charged your users multiple times?
- Or charged somebody way too much?

Let's hear it!
Next, Windows video ads you can't block that only appear when you have a projector connected, chosen by adtech which reads your PowerPoint presentations.
They should have gave it to the Wachowskis to do it.

They would have done it justice.
I don't recall the animated movie mentioning it but Stand Alone Complex series she was part of a UN task force, and it's heavily implied she had much more experience before that.
Amazon Prime will replace Twitter to stream Thursday NFL games
I Agree. (and I updated my passive wording)
Are the hypertables effectively views with insert triggers on them?

Does Timescale have any baked in support bitemporal constructs?

Are temporal foreign keys supported?
But the program was massively delayed and technology has progressed dramatically. Why bring a jet to a drone fight? Or to a laser fight? Seems obsolete.
> "Just REST" doesn't actually encapsulate meaningful behaviors by itself.

Yes it does: open a socket, speak HTTP, get some data back. Yeah you'll have to feed it into a JSON parser or whatever but apparently people consider that a lot of work now?

I do agree on the points with statically-typed languages. Finagling dynamic types in such a system is a PITA. But I do not see the need for autogenerating tooling if you're consuming REST from a dynamic language; all you've automated is the HTTP call and data parsing (which takes very little time to write oneself)

Maybe I've been living under a rock the past 10 years but REST has never required very much effort, either to implement or consume. Then out of nowhere I begin encountering all these weird-ass tools -- Swagger (and who the F named that one, Old Spice?), Grape, whatever. All this crazy software to do all these crazy things when... it's just HTTP and JSON over the wire :/

At some point people need to ask themselves, 'how much abstraction is too much abstraction?'

Swagger's real value-add to me is in a standard documentation format for REST APIs, but the last instance I used of Swagger made my work more difficult :/
Swagger, the REST Kryptonite
Wow. Now you too can vicariously live a life of entrepreneurship from the comfort of your couch.
https://www.healthcarebluebook.com/
*Pop science
I just want to watch local games on my HD antenna. Being locked out of a Patriots MNF game, forcing me to either go to a bar or watch an illegal stream, is simply absurd.
But velocity is the integral of acceleration, and for constant acceleration, this means

velocity = 1/2*acceleration*time^2
momentum = 1/2*force*time^2 = 1/2*mass*acceleration*time^2

So momentum is actually proportional to acceleration in this case.
"Any Covered Software that You distribute or otherwise make available in Executable form must also be made available in Source Code form and that Source Code form must be distributed only under the terms of this License. You must include a copy of this License with every copy of the Source Code form of the Covered Software You distribute or otherwise make available. You must inform recipients of any such Covered Software in Executable form as to how they can obtain such Covered Software in Source Code form in a reasonable manner on or through a medium customarily used for software exchange."
Have you tested running it on a FreeBSD box with ZFS? It has lz4 compression by default and makes such a great storage solution for PG. You get compression, snapshots, replication (not quite realtime but close), self healing, etc etc in a battled hardened and easy to manage filesystem and storage manager. I've found you can't beat ZFS and PG for most applications. Edge cases exist of course everywhere.
I am writing an interpreter for Gedanken (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8443298).
REST APIs must be hypertext-driven[1].

The term "REST," like so many others, now "means" something totally different than what the inventor of the term intended.

[1]: http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hyperte...
My experience is way different. Technical individual contributors in San Francisco are expected to be way younger and expected to be way more stylish than the expectations in silicon valley proper. At least that is the impression I get at nearly every interview I go to up north.

My experience is that if I interview up north, I get rejected on cultural fit grounds. If I interview south of San Carlos, if I get rejected, it is because I did not do well enough on the technical portion of the interview.

Just my experience, your mileage may vary.
Constraint programming is an interesting model to discuss here. I've been looking into machine-generated constraints, and there's a lot of potential for transparency when you get into constraint-producing functions that also produce labels, and then go further up the abstraction ladder from there. Structured right, you can produce dynamic labeled matchers, especially if you build a UI tool for marking particular hateful elements of hate speech.
> That might be the lock-in talking

It is.

Apple hardware is ok, except for the fact that it is insanely overpriced.
> don't burn bridges, bro.

Some bridges need to be burned.
Well, you can set up Dynamic DNS or (my favorite method) set up a persistent reverse SSH tunnel from the NAT-ed client to a world-facing server.
One of the major takeaways for me from this article was about how sincere feedback and contributions to the company can be so quickly brushed aside. Making improvements aren't always easy, but espousing a "two-way street" then acting very "top down" is dishonest. A cultural issue.

Then I saw the communication about performance and then the firing, and I don't feel a reason to doubt the author. It's not a new story or situation. I've witnessed first-hand how some employees can be 'set up' by management to pretty much ensure a Termination channel. I'm not claiming the employee in my example was a Saint, but I watched the machine work and HR is not your friend.

A distant relative I got to meet was a career HR professional, eventually becoming the Top Dog at a company with 20k+ employees. He had one phrase for me that has been and continues to be invaluable: Guard Your Words & Actions.

This article should be appreciated for digging into the personal elements of reflecting on 'warning signs' that maybe there wouldn't be a happy ending. Wisdom is not always easily earned. What this author did is share some very personal experiences in their own perspective and I think, in many ways, it's like therapy.

We sometimes question our own choices and intentions in hindsight because in the moment clarity isn't possible. We're human. This piece felt very liberating to me, because I know I've been in similar situations and wondered if I was the one out of line or if maybe there was a bigger picture.

Sometimes talking dollars is the way we get down to what we value. This author is essentially putting his money where his mouth is. That, to me, is important and impressive.
Why is this absurd? It's expecting you to pay for their product.
The whitewashing didn't bother me, but the stupidwashing was offensive. Hollywood took one of the deepest, most brilliant cyberpunk classics and dumbed it down to the point of being insulting.

I've been recommending to my friends that they stay away from this film to prevent them having a bad impression of GitS. Instead, I am recommending they watch every episode and movie in the original GitS. Watch many of them multiple times to appreciate just how innovative this series is even today.
Amazon closed my seller account for no reason
I sold one book, it was picked up by customer.
check for yourself: usps # 9549 0131 9103 7083 0379 35

I have no bad metrics - Amazon is out to get me - beware
I've gotta admit I'm weary of the usefulness of a table with billions of rows. Doesn't that just drown the user with noise? Have you explored alternative means of presenting the data? Billions of anything sounds like too much information for any human to make sense of and process. Could you explain a bit about your use-case?
Startup remotely 'bricks' grumpy bloke's IoT car garage door
Longtime Industrial Designer Leaving Apple's Design Team
How Not to Program the TensorFlow Graph
Everything will be forgotten. The only question is "when".
Livin’ in a Gamer’s Paradise
This One-Year Alternative to College Promises to Land Students a Job, Debt-Free
> (also, curious note: this comment went from 4 points to zero in less than five minutes. Hmmmm.)

When I have a comment on top of a thread that isn't exceedingly positive, I've seen much wilder swings than that. I wouldn't read too much into it.
Elon Musk’s Reusable Rocket Just Changed the Space Game
> I want those space opera and space ship and hard stuff.

I've been watching The Expanse on SyFy lately and it's quite good! I enjoyed it so much I'm now reading the book series it's based on, and really enjoying that as well. They're slightly different, but both good in their own way.
There's nothing particular unusual about Japan's taxation here.

If you buy stock at the stock exchange at $100 and its price increases to $150 but you don't sell it, you don't pay any taxes.

If a company pays you with stock that's worth $100 then you pay income taxes on it (even if you don't sell it), just as if it were salary. It makes sense to me. (If the company bought you a car you'd have to pay taxes on it, even if you didn't sell it; otherwise it would be a great tax loophole.)

With stock options it's similar. You don't pay any taxes when the company grants you options or when they vest. If the strike price is $10 and you exercise it when the market price is $100, you pay income taxes on $90 (basically your company paid you $90).
James Gleick's CHAOS: The Software
It's Google. If you're going to call a lawyer he better be north of $750/hr.
You do realize that he's paying, right? They force you to go to the game physically to watch it (unless the game is sold out), which IMO is pretty unreasonable.
No one has mentioned it yet, but I have used slate for years. It's a programmable window manager. You can program the Windows 7 functionality you described with a few lines of config, if you wish, and that just the tip of the iceberg.

It can do everything but make lunch.

https://github.com/jigish/slate
I suspect parent was talking about the distributed nature of it. Subscribe to whoever you want, allow anyone to subscribe to you.
Post-Bitcoin Technology Has Geeks, Giants, and Hackers Excited
They would have called it "The Matrix".
I love how the shape of that new Jaguar calls back to the XJ220! Japan would be the place to field a series that's crazy without being a circus. I too would love to see an all out series but I wonder the extent that humans will be in the car. F1 cars are already pushing 5-6G's in the corners. Perhaps drone-style racing will be where we see insane race track tech. However that tech might quickly diverge from anything that can be applied to road going cars.
I disagree. I appreciate his courage in posting this. As an employer, this won't stop me at all from hiring him. I would definitely think about hiring you though, specially being so condescending as if you have seen it all.
watching it over a regular broadcast is paying for it. you're watching ads.
That's a workaround, not a solution. Not being able to replace memory is absurd. But being able to replace a hard drive (the part most likely to fail) is just evil.
Machine learning is now used in Wall Street dealmaking – bankers should worry
Family has a birthday party supplies business, so there might be some non-intrusive ads for that with the birthday reminders.

Initially the plan was to partner with existing birthday reminder websites, but I didn't like that they required logins, passwords, etc. for something as simple as a birthday reminder.
You could argue that Star Trek is an 'space soap opera' haha ;)

But I agree, there are some pretty bad films being made under the science fiction genre. I want movies referencing hard science fiction (was wondering the other day what an adaption of 'The Three-Body Problem' might be like) and space operas too (Culture series is dying for a film adaption).

But in terms of science fiction, I think it's great seeing non-space material being made too. Stuff like 'Dark Mirror', 'The Man from Earth', and 'Safety Not Guaranteed' are pretty good indicators to me that good science fiction has gone mainstream.
The subtitle is much better: "Millennials are lagging behind on the traditional markers of adulthood."

Also:

"There's also no sign that young people today are lazier than three decades ago. In 1980, 74 percent of baby boomers reported that they had worked in the past week, the Census data show. In 2015, slightly more millennials, 77 percent, said they'd been to work in the past week."
So every time a gitlab openness post comes up, you can be sure this link will be pasted here.
Yes, it should be clarified we are talking about the Nazi swastika.

Unfortunately in the West, the Nazi use of the swastika dominates the public perception of the symbol. (This is very unfortunate given the long historical tradition of the swastika in Asia and other cultures.)

As far as I'm aware, legally, context matters significantly in places where the symbol is banned; eg the Nazi swastika is outlawed in Germany because it represents a banned political ideology, whereas a Hindu swastika is not.
This is pretty impressive.
Ah yes, because big houses and with backyards are just so affordable in silicon valley ;P

(/s)
I have to say that the dynamics of momentum diagram is a thing of real beauty. The whole paper felt a little NYTimes like and then of course, I see that Shan Carter helped a little bit with it!
Friend of mine is considering the Asheville area - she wants a more rural setting, and Asheville is a liberal outpost in the middle of what would otherwise be very conservative country. She's thinking of getting out of software entirely and becoming a teacher, so the tech scene is irrelevant.

I've considered the RTP area and idly talked it over with my wife. The big plus is that we could buy a gigantic house on 5 acres of land free-and-clear, with no mortgage. My brother-in-law's family also lives there, and my mom is up in New England, so family reunions would become simpler. The big minus is that I think the work culture in NC is a bit more conservative than I've gotten used to in the Bay Area; I doubt that they'd appreciate me rolling into work at 2 PM, or trying out new programming languages, or openly challenging my VP on product strategy. Plus, my wife works in philanthropy and there are fewer rich people with money to manage there. So it'd really only be an option once we cash out & retire.
> You can get into the US on a car, train, boat, bicycle or a good pair of chanclas.

What does it buy you to trade one expensive ticket for another? I don't think you're seriously suggesting that walking here from even Central America is not a large impediment, to say nothing of the unconnected continents where the large majority of people actually live.

> You certainly don't need to be here nine months to have a kid.

The alternative is to get a travel visa when you're already pregnant, in which case the government can observe what you're attempting to do and deny the visa.

> You can certainly find work in that time

Working on a travel visa is illegal, therefore harder to do and lower paying.

> and emergency medical care is "free"

That implies going through a pregnancy with no access to non-emergency medical care (e.g. ultrasound), risking the life of the child.

> And while yes, it means more people, those people are a far cry from new immigrants and their numbers can still be limited federally.

Either you're increasing the number of unskilled immigrants or you aren't.
This is an awesome thread! Very inspiring. Has anyone that applied received an invite to interview yet?
You're welcome to walk my mother through this process.
You're also watching ads on any paid steam.
You can watch if the game is sold out
30 Years of TCP – And IP on Everything (2013)
No the point is to entice ticket sales. If the game is sold out its broadcast..
The Town of Innisfil partners with Uber for transit instead of buses
Ask HN: What Python web framework can generate static sites?
I would like have the flexibility to build a dynamic site as well as a static site. So far, I know Flask (with Frozen-Flask) and Django (with django-medusa, django-bakery, django-freeze, django-staticgen) can do it. However, I still try to find a complete list for comparison.
This seems semi-related:

http://journal.burningman.org/2016/10/philosophical-center/t...
That's great to hear that the Matrix community cares about this so much, and is thinking along similar lines! (The fact that you're already exploring the Stellar approach makes me feel a little bit less crazy for thinking some of these things.) I agree, I hope we can work together... it really does face everyone in this space.

I linked your comment and slides from the blogpost now, btw!
totally off topic, but misapprehension is such an oddball word. It doesn't mean what I would have thought it meant. Totally threw me for a loop and I've added it to my list of words that I think people shouldn't use because there are better more common words to use to express the same idea. Thanks!
Bah; I wasn't able to grasp Serial Experiments Lain but I wouldn't change it one single thing; I prefer something that tries to challenge my intellect that a plot simpler than a rom-comedy; there is already too much of the latter anyway.
http://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/
1) it's hard to spell (you just misspelled it)

2) the UX isn't all that great

3) their homepage offers zero discoverability, meaning there's no organic blog growth, you have to import users from other sites

4) every blog post written on svbtle looks the same, especially with the lack of any sort of header image

Medium is a (slightly) better platform. That's why people use it.
Well it was only 106 minutes long. Actually felt more like 90 minutes. I think it was great, I didn't expect a cinema blockbuster to perfectly sum up more than a decade of GitS canon.

I want to see it again, just for the visuals.
Alice is going to revolt against Samsung when her s8 is bricked and go buy the new iPhone which also has a Broadcomm chip in it? How is this causing problems for Broadcomm's marketing department? When she goes to the store and explains how frustrated she is with Broadcomm surely the phone rep will point out that some phone makers were good about pushing out the update?

Moreover, heap overflows and videos of batteries exploding dont have the same staying power in consumer minds...
This reminds me of the old Yogi Berra quip "Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded."
This is why I'm in SV rather than SF, but it's a poor reason to come to SV over the rest of the country. Outside of Atherton & Los Altos Hills (where you're looking at $15M for a house), maximum lot size in most of SV is a quarter-acre. You don't really get much in the way of big houses and backyards here.

I grew up in the Boston suburbs and my parents owned an acre of land. My mom just sold it for a quarter of what my in-laws house (1/4 acre) in Cupertino is worth.
Is there a way to tell if my android phone received an update to protect against this exploit?
It's basically impossible with a private company.
Lots of interesting ideas in the book spread out through a really mundane story. The best part of the book for me is the chapters with the New York Citizen telling us the history of the city and how it got to be to where it is in 2140. The story itself has some highlights, but overall it was mostly a slog to listen to.
There is no Google Play store in China.

It might come though http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/02/06/no-really-this-time-...
Understanding the Transform Function in Pandas – Practical Business Python
I don't think that you and I are in disagreement about the TBL’s design competence: I stated that his decision to set aside the problem of provenance that preoccupied other hypertext research was intentional.

But, your argument is perilously close to begging the question that the success of web is a good thing. Now, I happen to think that the web is a net good (no pun intended), because (among other things) it helped break Microsoft’s hegemony and continues to force OS vendors to provide and support a standard universal computing platform (albeit a crippled one). But, it’s also arguable that the success of the web may have set personal computing back by a few decades, while also exacerbating a bunch of other problems like wealth inequality and reduced privacy/sovereignty, because it turned the Internet into a big modem.

I’ll take a look at Weaving the Web; thank you for the recommendation. To you, I commend Jaron Lanier’s Who Owns the Future.
An Explanation of the Atom C2000 LPC SERIRQ Failures
It's different in a sense that public works don't just create jobs, they also create public infrastructure that is then usable by, and materially beneficial to, everyone.

A space program would obviously create jobs, but 1) does it create as many jobs as infrastructure work, per unit of currency spent, and 2) does the output that it produces materially benefit the public?

Basically, it's not a question whether they should spend money on space program, or on handing out free food. It's a question of whether a space program is really the best bang for the buck in terms of creating jobs and other benefits.

And you could argue that it might be, because the space program will produce important long-term benefits. But short-term benefits will produce "interest", so to speak (if you can get more people out of poverty today, you'll get more people who can become scientists tomorrow - and it might not even be the same people, but their kids). So such an argument cannot be a mere hand-wave - it must present the numbers.
He's made that claim numerous times over a span of years. Are you claiming those were all jokes?
Mustn't disagree with the hivemind, it bites
That is exactly why we need more open standards.
> I felt it to be a strong culture of comparison.

My biggest problem with SV. It's like a rat race. It's all about doing the cool new thing.
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She probably said "no" in order to be able to make further sequels movies with the same top-selling actress (whatever her name is), not due some deep philosophical decision.
This is an interesting move, to have contractors, not employees. Probably VCs are quite happy with this idea...
This. Inpatient daily notes with charge codes/ICD10.