skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding InnoDB being a great K/V store, you made a similar claim yesterday, but you haven't really explained your rationale in either thread. Care to do so?

EDIT: I'm referring to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14067406 ; my reply to that comment included more specific questions. Unsure of why receiving downvotes here; being somewhat of an InnoDB expert myself, I am legitimately curious why the parent keeps making assertions about InnoDB being a K/V store.
That's what you get when you prefer programs that are merely open source to free software.
Not supported in IE or Edge though, right? So it would still catch some end users.

Banrisol currently has a message up on their home banking portal that Firefox isn't supported.
That's part of what contemporary mainstrea DJ do too. And it's not always gimmicky; a low pass filter as a bridge-cut to slowly restore the full sound (such as the intro of Armand Van Helden - You don't know me) is a very common idiom and has a clear musical emotional impact on people.
I agree there are a lot of useful orbits, but the most useful orbits like Geosynchronous orbit look like a thin donut/torus and have a lot of satellites all have the nearly the same vector just time shifted.

GPS satellites for example have basically a hot spare that can easily replace another satellite in each of the 6 planes. So, if you start out next to one GPS satellites there are 4 more you can easily reach. AKA visiting all 33 active ones would take 5 major burns, and lot's of tiny ones.

Sure, after a collision you can end up with a shotgun blast that would take a lot of effort to de orbit. But, having say 20 tugs that all deorbit the largest debris but getting them to LEO is a lot more manageable than you might think.

PS: The very tiny stuff is cleaned up by the solar wind over time and mostly not a problem in the first place.
"[...] I mean something that causes people to wonder whether computer architects, programmers, compiler writers or operating systems builders will soon be joining truck drivers and limo drivers in the unemployment line! "

How comparable are these jobs?
Everything in direct access, and everything at a fixed place.

Synthesizer interfaces are really interesting: a digital (or even hybrid) one quickly gets to a level of complexity where "one knob per function" really is impossible or too expensive, but good UIs retain as much of that as possible. A display and a few buttons is cheap to make, but impossible to tweak on-the-fly. The interface has a large impact on how a synth feels to play and which of its abilities are used.
His Wikipedia page has the highlights. He is, in many ways, your racist old grandpa, just with a Nobel prize.
Yeah! I remember when I watched Street Hawk as a child and my dad, a huge Tangerine Dream fan, recognized the sound track from the other room.

They have a 2-volume CD set with some of their movie soundtracks, see https://www.discogs.com/Tangerine-Dream-The-Hollywood-Years-....

They were quite active in that space. Quoting wikipedia:

> The group created over sixty soundtracks which include those for the films Sorcerer, Thief, Risky Business, The Keep, Firestarter, Legend, Near Dark, Shy People, and Miracle Mile. They also composed the score for the video game Grand Theft Auto V.
> So far the only long term reliable digital goods business I know has been amazon with the kindle, but I'm sure you can find horror stories there as well.

I'm surprised you haven't heard of this one:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/18/amazon_removes_1984...

I enjoy reading on a Kindle, but I side-load everything from my PC.
The Post JavaScript Apocalypse – Douglas Crockford
People longing for community.
Ha! I can't say I've ever programmed in Fortran[1], but surely it too will perish... eventually. Idle meta-thought: It's actually kind of interesting how hard it is to replace "legacy" in programming... I wonder if there's something we could/should be doing to make it easier to do on a large scale?

[1] I think it's spelled that way these days, but of course given the context of the thread, maybe you're talking about old-school FORTRAN.
Ponzu – An open-source HTTP server framework and CMS in Go
> there's no actual solution to that presented

I think you missed this part

> All of our books are available under free licenses that allow readers to copy and distribute the text; they are also free to modify it, which allows them to adapt the book to different needs, and to help develop new material.

Along with the source to all the books, https://github.com/AllenDowney

We need to find a way to make 100 more Allen Downeys
Unfortunately, there are no unbiased sources that have knowledge of the state of the art, since it exists inside a small handful of companies. The best outsiders can do is speculate.

Personally, I very much doubt we're more than a decade away from cars-drive-way-better-than-people levels of tech. Whether that means you'll be able to buy one is another question.
Flicking through the article made me wonder - would it be possible to have something like ACID tests for OpenGL?
Which said effects have been studied and shown to have detrimental impact on actors. Smoke machines use the same compounds found in vaping, and thy were found to cause irritation of the lungs over time
If you have a table that undergoes frequent updates and this is a concern of yours, look into setting a fillfactor on it. This will help Postgres keep writes in the same page, which means it doesn't need to touch indexes for non-indexed columns.

Edit: non-updated columns, I mean.
Indeed. Most people forget that the response was to "Why do you know about Russia's foreign actions"... 'Because I can see Russia' is effectively what was said.

It really harkens back to much of the Republicans' desire for anti-scientific thoughts, and lack of critical thought. It also explains the overly simplistic thought of "Well, the weather is nice, this climate change must be bullshit".

Don't get me wrong, I think the Democrats have significant problems of their own. For example, they're not able to properly convey scientific thought to the masses, and instead rely on shaming and insulting. That's not exactly a way to engender people to your view.
Yeah exactly, 100W is the thermodynamic "penalty" you pay to move that heat from outside to inside.

Space heaters have the same thermal efficiency as a GPU or a toaster (100%), though could still be an improvement if they heat more evenly or heat skin directly via radiation.
I used to like Sequel Pro, but I've come to LOVE Postico (for Postgres) and I absolutely hate sequel pro now when I have to use it... and this is coming from someone who was in the same boat (I loved sequal pro and nothing even came close)
Support DRM-free purchases from places like https://www.gog.com or https://www.humblebundle.com (when they're not doing a DRM sale) if this kind of thing bothers you. Exclusives are also something that should probably die. Portability of games shouldn't be a problem in 2017.

Edit: buying from the creator/studio directly is also often another option, but less convenient and reliable.
I've had a similar experience with linguistics. The main textbook I've used was $40, is a bit under 500 pages (but is smaller than a typical textbook, and paperback), and I've used it for 3 classes. That's the kind of book I'm happy to buy. Meanwhile my experience with CS classes has been a > $150 textbook that is never referenced in class, is outdated, and is seemingly on the syllabus just to have something there. I ended up just not bothering with the books even if the syllabus claimed they were required.
Your tack is much more likely to get them into an Ivy, and it's not even close.

They will definitely need awesome grades in non-puff classes as well as a very high SAT score, but this is not terribly difficult for kids smart kids who have figured out the fundamentals of learning strategies.

The jammed-packed extracurriculars and overweighted AP classes done to the exclusion of interesting things just makes them a clone of a bunch of other applicants that don't really stand out.
Wow, I have that too! Now I know what it's called.

For what it's worth, I have a pair of vibrams and they're very comfortable, even for weirdos like us. I imagine it's just a matter of sizing.
This would be nice if it had predefined routines to run through, preferably from a plaintext, line-separated textarea.

For example:

insert value
insert value
insert value
delete value
insert value
insert value
find value
insert value

That way, if someone just wanted to see how the data structure worked, they could step through an existing routine. Others, who may want to validate their own routines match the expected output, can add and edit the routine parameters all at once.

You may want to prefill some fields because it may not be clear to everyone what value is expected in the input box.

Neat project. Thanks for sharing!
It could probably work, but plugins currently only work on linux.
Uncleftish Beholding
Because XSLT is Turing Complete, Chromium may be removing it to reduce the browser's attack surface...at least in part.
Bitcoin's ASICBOOST Problem Explained [pdf]
Same in Italy. That's a different license than taxi. Those drivers should go back to their base, possibly very far away from the end of the previous drive, and wait for another call. Taxi drivers complain that the ones working for Uber don't but I don't know the details of the fights of the last months. I use car sharing services and getting a taxi here is easier than installing an app (call a phone number, somebody answers), so I never used Uber and I wasn't that interested in this drama. I expect Uber drivers to go on strike and block streets like taxis did weeks ago. Obviously cheaper taxis would be a great outcome.
I make $3M/second.
That is excellent. Do the authors have any articles about their process? Sounds like something that should be replicated in other educational material.

Textbooks have gone off the rails in terms of price (high), information density (low) precisely because the goal is profit and not education.
Some of Mike Oldfield works also fit the style. Try Songs Of Distant Earth for example.
No, it doesn't. That assumes that the only reason anyone would do a job is to get paid, which is true a priori. Plenty of people do volunteer work without getting paid for it. Perhaps a lot more would if they were on a 25k basic income. That doesn't change the fact that what you described above featured a 100% tax rate on all income below 25k.
> I don't think China will sit idly and watch their tbill ands forex reserves turn into paper.

What will they do? Unloading them will flood the market, collapsing the price.
I dont understand - melanoma (or any other type of cancer) would be explained just as it is currently explained by medicine (i am not an expert), i am only saying its possible that the cause of melanoma is different enough from the cause of lung cancer that they might not deserve to be grouped under the same name. In which case, we would not expect a single cure to be effective for both.

Its a weird semantic point admittedly..
I don't think that kids these days are awful. I think they're great - they're socially progressive, they're cultured, they have high aspirations and they work really hard. I think that successive generations have let them down, due to a culture of parenting that is dominated by fear.

I'm not a naysayer or a nostalgic pessimist. I think that there are clear trends in society, some positive and some negative. It's obviously great news that we no longer consider it acceptable to beat children or to smoke during pregnancy. There is a clear trend in parenting and schooling towards more structure, more pressure and far less independence. We have seen a huge increase in educational attainment and college admission which is overwhelmingly a good thing, but the greater focus on academic study has come at the cost of other skills.

For every twentysomething who founds a startup, there are dozens of baristas with liberal arts degrees. A lot of those baristas might dream of founding a startup, but very few of them have the skills, experience and confidence to do so. Research indicates that the average age of an entrepreneur is actually 40; most successful businesses are founded by people with an established career and a great deal of professional experience. High rates of youth unemployment and underemployment are likely to have a significant impact on innovation in ten or twenty years.

http://www.kauffman.org/what-we-do/research/2010/05/the-anat...
no i didn't.
It sounds just as likely that you're in a bubble where it sounds like a "patently false" notion - It varies heavily by project, and as you check out smaller (and not necessarily niche, unfortunately!) teams' projects, it becomes increasingly likely that the ad-hoc'ing/prototyping patterns - that can indeed eschew 'details' such as testing/docs/maintainability in favor of 'shipping and adding features' - exist (and can even flourish, depending on the dev).

While fortunately as these projects grow the 'rest' of a process model is introduced by others in the community, it's certainly lacking enough to the degree that calling it 'patently false' would be at all accurate.
fwiw, all 3 of MySQL's binlog formats (statement-based, row-based, mixed) are still actually logical replication:

* Statement-based is logging raw write SQL

* Row-based is logical effects of executing that SQL

* Mixed uses statement-based for everything except statements that are non-deterministic or otherwise unsafe for statement-based replication

Physical replication in MySQL would be storage-engine dependent. For example, in InnoDB physical replication would mean shipping the InnoDB transaction logs rather than the separate binary logs. Alibaba built something to do this, and from what I understand Amazon may be doing something along these lines under the hood in RDS MySQL and/or RDS Aurora.
If we talk technologically & not app availability, there's all kinds of things one might do with a better desktop. Academics & random people online stay dreaming up better UI's or other capabilities. I'd like the internal control + self-modification of LISP machines, concurrency support of BeOS, capability-security of KeyKOS or CapDesk, maybe persistence of app data like KeyKOS, reincarnating drivers in user-mode like Minix3, modifiable-for-workload schedulers that prevent one task from taking down system like RTOS's, versioned filesystem like OpenVMS, two motherboards like SGI with clustering like VMS for mission-critical desktops, mini-version of NonStop for desktops for more mission critical, Amiga-style hardware offloading for key stuff like I/O, Burroughs-style CPU that made most code injection or type errors impossible, jumpers write-protecting the chip for my open-source firmware, ECC RAM, and a RAM disk w/ flash backup for main OS & apps to load crazy fast (or it always hibernates w/ hardware acceleration of that or persistance of changes).

That's just a few off the top of my head. If it's a netbook for browsing, it might also use something like Illinois Browser Operating System (IBOS) as its base. Definitely throw in a NUMA chip on the high-performance version, too, so I can finally have me a modern SGI Onyx2 or Altix with 256+ CPU's, TB's of RAM, several GPU's, and a bunch of FPGA's. All hotswappable so my games, simulations, or recompiles of kernels aren't interrupted by mere hardware failures.
>On the other hand, Putin seems like exactly the type who would see intelligence and manipulation as a way for Russia to punch above its weight and is likely to be engaging in it.

Sure, but at the level Russia can afford, and "puppeteering the US president" is a BS claim way above that, tailor-made for a nation spoon-fed with shows like 24 and Homeland and endless claims about how all the world "plots against it" while itself does exactly that globally (and nobody bats an eyelid).

And while Russia/Putin will use such tactics for their country's (and/or his own) immediate interests/survival (e.g. in Crimea, a place with a huge majority of ethnic Russians, or the middle east), they don't have neither the means or the history of meddling and plundering all over the world.

The claims are mostly a way to invent a present-day Bond villain, an easily identifiable target, like it has been played out tons of times in the past. Russia has too many natural resources and wants to control its periphery, something that goes against the general "interests" and plundering intentions of outside players, hence the pressure, combined with the constant post-Cold-War expansion of Nato to suffocate them.

If instead of Putin there was some friendly dolt selling Russia wholesale to foreign corporate interests (instead to national players that the country can somewhat control -- something which is labeled "cronyism"), like e.g. Yeltsin, it would be all love and hugs with EU and the US, even if they did ten times worse in freedom internally. You know, like those lovable Saudis.
Watson was also the second person to have his fully sequenced genome published (after Venter). At the time it was very expensive. And perhaps dangerous since few knew what all that meant.

The most interesting fact about his genome that he had twenty genetic defects for disease that had not expressed themselves for unknown reasons. This helped lead to a moratorium on public genetic disease diagnosis from places like 23andMe, just lifted last week. Because you cant really tell the client they will get sick or not for many of the defects.
FYI: When someone posts factual data, it is poor etiquette to downvote them. Notice that I have not downvoted you even though I disagree with your conclusions. I am not afraid to debate the matter, so I feel no need to try to censor opponents.

I cut them off because they are irrelevant. My point remains: anthropogenic CO2 emissions are approximately 3% of natural emissions. Natural variation in natural emissions utterly dwarfs human emissions. Were the climate so sensitive to +/- 3%, we would not even exist today, because the climate would have gone to an extreme and stayed there millions of years ago. This is a very simple matter of scale and historical data that grossly exceeds human timescales. To think that human CO2 emissions are breaking the planet is ludicrous.
Dedup was rushed. This is supported by the original authors. I believe it was discussed in detail in a presentation by Matthew Ahrens. If I could remember the specific source I would link it, but it did not get the same level of testing and care as other features.
It seems like you're talking about a specific kind of community, which isn't really what's under discussion here, in my opinion.

The open source community exists in the same way as (and partially overlaps) the scientific community.
As far as I can tell GCC is still inferior when it comes to warning about uninitialized variables.

Clang: https://godbolt.org/g/BVfy81

GCC: https://godbolt.org/g/uIN1gG

See the famous and now 12 years old GCC bug: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18501
"If you can’t find one, write one."

What would be the best way to write a free book please? Any pointers? Experience?
Spring vs. Java EE
Yes, works! (article content in the feed would be nice, but as long as headlines are there and the urls are correct it's ok in my book ;)
Please don't create new accounts to violate the guidelines with. We ban the main account in addition to the throwaways if you do.
Isn't "an opportunity to change the world" just a hook to get 20-somethings without families into working long hours?
Thanks! So is Qt used to write both the logic and the UI?
Can you point to any credible information on this prescription?
Imagine a space where you can bet on bear fights, warm your legs by the fire, witness public dissections (human and animal), solicit prostitutes (male and female), buy and sell stocks, purchase tulips or pornographic pamphlets, observe the activities of spies, dissidents, merchants, and swindlers, and then read your mail, delivered directly to your table. The thread tying it all together is a new drug from the Muslim world—black, odiferous, frightening, bewitching—called “coffee.”
My understanding (and empirical anecdote) is that Clang produces inferior debuginfo (eliding some locals' contents, even when their values are not actually lost) that makes it more difficult to debug than binaries produced by GCC.

asan, ubsan, tsan, and msan are important debugging features, but for my every day use in core analysis, local variables in gdb are very important.
Also all CS books (ok, maybe not all but the vast majority) need to ship with code. To quote Linus, "talk is cheap. Show me the code".
My whole point is that there are systems other than modern science that are valid and effective, so the logic is a bit circular to want sceintific studies to prove that. These systems use a different epistemology and to use science as your only filter in life is extremely limiting.

Nevertheless, I will still provide you with some samples of evidence (these are high level summaries but actual studies are linked within:

Meditation:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_on_meditation

Yoga:

https://nccih.nih.gov/health/yoga/introduction.htm#hed5

Acupuncture:

https://nccih.nih.gov/health/acupuncture/introduction#hed3
I wonder if there is a real cause and effect relationship between being good at this kind of games and being a good coder. I suspect not.
OS/2 Warp was extremely slow to boot on my 486DX2-66 (16MB RAM if I remember correctly). It was our family's first computer and the joke was we could turn the computer on, make a cup of tea and do a bunch of chores before it was ready to use.

Hardly any software (not to mention games!) was available for OS/2. We only used Lotus natively. The fact you could run Windows 3.11 from within OS/2 saved it from being discarded earlier.

I set up dual boot into Windows 3.11 and it loaded an order of magnitude faster.

OS/2 was perhaps technically architected better, but for real-world home use: useless.
Jean Michel Jarre - Rendez-Vous Houston (VHS), 1986

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iVQ2o-PI9M

Fantastic collection of TV sound bites begins at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iVQ2o-PI9M&t=57

This love of some french artist in Houston felt odd when I last rewatched this, about ten years ago. Loved the enthusiasm and openness shown in this video.
Uber is a company and it moves money. I bet the app still works in Italy. Uber could block it or not. What it should not do is keep operating in Italy: not routing requests to drivers is the first important step.
People who don't manage to get a lot of education also turn out to be pretty smart at the same rate.
It can also be used maliciously by the attackers too: they could set HPKP to their own certificates with a 5 year expiry time, then sell them to the bank after DNS is reverted. The bank might pay to have all those chrome/firefox users back.
Waymo does a lot of driving in suburban Austin and suburban Mountain View. Their claim is that this is more difficult than most driving, since stop-and-go traffic with intersections every quarter-mile and pedestrians around is a more complex environment than highway driving.

This claim is almost certainly true for the topic at hand, since long-haul trucking is the highway-est of highway driving. Outside of the topic at hand, my own extremely subjective opinion is that they chose some of the tamest suburbs possible (I have significant experience in the Bay Area, SoCal, Austin, and Pittsburgh).
You don't even have to rule out DEs wholesale. Lightweight ones like XFCE run quite well with no 3D support.
> Potential solutions. Shader languages’ needs are not distinct enough from ordinary imperative
programming languages to warrant ground-up domain-specific designs. They should
should instead be implemented as extensions to general-purpose programming languages.
There is a rich literature on language extensibility [27, 36, 39] that could let implementations
add shader-specific functionality, such as vector operations, to ordinary languages.

I like this part.
Fear of Git