skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And, errors handling put aside, both takes more or less the same number of LOC.

So apart from the difference in line count they are the same line count :)
Luckily kids don't need to pay the bills for a while. ;)
How Much Time and Money It’s Really Going to Take to Productize Your Idea
I assume you're just guessing, right? We already landed something on Titan! And small patches of liquid brine exists on Mars; obviously unlikely, but so is Cassini drilling through 5 miles of ice to reach to liquid water water inside Enceladus.
>believe they'd need a clustered NoSQL database or it wouldn't scale.

While for many developers, NoSQL might be overkill - Stackoverflow is a bad example. If you were any fast growing startup in the cloud, and you wanted to go the SO route it would have meant going CoLo. SO has set of machines with a nearly a terabyte of RAM - GCE doesn't even offer cloud machines with the same specs.

And even then their setup is far more fiscally expensive than something you could get done with 20 cloud nodes on some NoSQL solution.
Operating system, written in Lisp, where manual begins with line editing commands which feature combinations with Ctrl and Meta keys... When I hear this description, I'm thinking of something else.
I'm not a systems programmer, much less a hardware designer, but it seems to me like if it has been done once it can be done again.
IAMKHEMO THE CURE FOR CANCEROUS MUSIC HAS BEEN FOUND IN THE ART OF RAP
This is classic young-person-fails-to-understand-venerable-standard-so-he-reimplements-half-of-it.

Messagepack is schemaless and noncanonical. What that means is that a lot of the bounds/field checking is pushed up to the application layer. I wouldn't encode crypto with that (and I love Messagepack).

All the hate for ASN.1, yet it is among the most battle-tested specifications out there. Blaming ASN.1 for the shitty ASN.1 parsers written in the 80's and 90's is like blaming libsocket for all the network attacks.
Even speech can be reconstructed by packet length and timing. A paper from 6 years ago "Phonotactic Reconstruction of Encrypted VoIP Conversations":

http://www.cs.unc.edu/~fabian/papers/foniks-oak11.pdf

edit: this paper is referenced in fact by the paper submitted here.
This doesn't mean anything.

At some point, it's easier to throw resources at your old stack to make it scale instead of migrating to something else.

Example: Facebook and PHP. They decided it was easier to write an entirely new runtime instead of migrating to something else.

Often, this results in significant improvements (MySQL and PHP are great examples).
While you are still there, reframe your thoughts. Is there some interesting CS problem you can solve within the context of that startup that would be applicable to other industries?

Do they allow open source? If they do you could always start something that benefits them but under your own git account. It benefits you in terms of marketing yourself and your skills.
Smalltalk with Style (one of the books in that page) is actually a really good book on coding style in Smalltalk. I remember reading it and taking its advice about twenty years ago when I was using Smalltalk heavily.
Well... As pg mentions in one of his essays: the startup game is about getting the rewards of a 30 year career out of 4 years. If you truly believe that you are building something that matters and you are going to win, 80 hour weeks make a lot of sense.
No, when MySQL didn't have transactions, it was the fastest "database" for writes!

Also, as somebody who's being very careful with which fields I update, keeping in mind indexes, I'm still in shock about learning that PostgreSQL updates all indexes on a table, even for columns not included in that write - that ha to have a cost.
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Products [besides Visa Signature Preferred / Visa Infinite]: 2.70%
Has no one considered a neural net post processor which has been trained on daylight views? Seems like an obvious method, given Hacker News...
“These deals remain lucrative in both good times and bad, as they are immune to economic cycles.” So were tech stocks and real estate until they weren't. This time is different because loses will only affect banks, no big deal.
I also use pure XML/XSLT for one of my production sites. In theory, XSLT is th nicest templating language I've ever used (even the 1.0 version). But, in practice, there are too many inconsistencies among browsers (e.g. in-page JavaScript is difficult because IE’s CDATA handles escaping “<” and “>” differently than Chrome, Firefox, and Safari).

Sadly, Google is planning to deprecate and remove the feature[1].

[1] https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/m/#!topic/bli...
> I don’t need to know how to code or shoot in 360 degrees or big rights to music, but I do need to know the very best people who can.

We can't all be managers.

> We can’t begin to imagine a career in 2020, let alone 2030.

Come on. Those are 3 and 13 years away.
Unfortunately, we are routinely exposed to thousands of synthetic chemicals daily, making it impossible to attribute future ailments to particular compounds. It's very sad that there's zero requirement to understand the long term (60 years+) effects of these new chemicals to the human body.
> Studies have been done on characterising the sievert profile of tobacco leaves, highlighting the risk of this but no action on the tobacco industry has been taken to mitigate this.

Most people who die from smoking don't die from cancer. You could easily reduce the risk of lung cancer from cigarettes, but that would place an enormous burden on the healthcare system, because then smokers would just die from more expensive conditions like emphysema.

If government required tobacco companies to limit the amount of radiation in their productions, cigarette taxes would need to go up to compensate. The real solution is just making the sales of cigarettes illegal, and then forcing people to buy loose tobacco and roll their own if they want to smoke.
How does it compare to eComStation? I bought eCS 2-3 years ago out of curiosity, but the system basically looks like they got the last version of OS/2 IBM made and piled a ton of binary patches and third party fixes and utilities, replaced "OS/2" with "eComStation" in several messages, added a few wallpaper and called it a new thing. It gave a very hacked on feel and somehow i doubt they even had the source code for the OS.
"the website’s data will now be fully accessible to US police snooping, in accordance with recently enacted “anti-terrorist” legislation"

I changed one word, guess which.
Emacs doesn't run on bare metal.

(yet)
>We've open sourced so much technology that any student can put together powerful country-wide surveillance and control systems

Don't forget all these technologies equally help fighting surveillance and control. The benefits here greatly outweigh the costs.

>we've handed those people all this tech for free and are actively maintaining it

Don't mix Russian people with their government. Many of Russian people are actively developing and maintaining all this tech.
Gnome 3 too, in X11 mode.

In Wayland mode, only if you are very patient. I'm not. Virtualbox support for Wayland is not there.
In the end, is it possible to make a dumb version of an app that includes both the JSON and the Jasonette client? I guess most non-tech-savvy people will prefer something like that.
Stock trading bot
Analysis of Over 100,000 Tweets of Reactions to South Africa's Cabinet Reshuffle
But that is basically the point of the whole article and this thread, that it's great for proof of concept that morphs into production when needed. If you can deploy in one day that means you can test 5 ideas/week until one catches on (hopefully not that long). Once one catches on, you can actually put more effort into it and optimize it as needed and not the other way around.
Okay, I'll start supporting Uber in those dreadful HN threads, as soon as a majority of Uber drivers in the US speaks German. Promise!
In recent times, Livejournal was used mostly for 3 things:

- Furry, slash fandom

- Political blogs

- SEO spam (it sells usernames of deleted accounts, some of which was popular and there are lots of external links to them)

So since the first two are banned, the only use of Livejournal that remains is spam (which is ineffective for modern search engines I think).
Pretty sure it's not a typo. Amazon i3.16xlarge is 488 GB of Ram, 64 vCPUs, and a 20 Gigabit connection. Postgres/Mysql can absolutely scream perf-wise on that.
That is assuming that the software writing software can write software sophisticated enough to design robots sophisticated enough to replace humans. Of course there's the possibility of human beings working only as the body for an AI. But that wouldn't be replacing all jobs.
This has happened before, right down to Snowden being involved:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/17/us/shadow-brokers-leak-ra...

"This is probably some Russian mind game, down to the bogus accent"
I'm talking about that Gizmo/Gremlin.
How is Dgraph licensed? I see both Apache and AGPL in GitHub.
It's already done: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hcp.find
See, your baseline requirements to me suggest a kid that has not only accepted the system but embraced it. They've gone all in on a dumb, onerous, do x, do y, do z to succeed worldview that's inherent in high school.

Now maybe I'm just complaining about being a bad student, but I'm at least a little suspicious of students who have so willingly grabbed onto that system and don't see through it for the farce it is. I think it's more likely that you'll get excellent employees out of those people than it is that you'll find great creative passion. The time investment required for such marks certainly weighs against it.
There is no passthrough in LXC, because it is containerization, not virtualization. You are running the same kernel and kernel modules for both systems.
Impressive peak power however please look at the graph https://electrek.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/solar-eia-calif.... Eyeballing the area covered by solar is more around 15-20% i.e. while during a good day 50% is covered by solar the overall contribution is much less. Also note that peak demand was at 17:0-18:00 and solar contributed almost nothing at that time.

Unless one can time-shift solar power in sufficient volume the benefits will be limited.
> It's really weird to see one of the reasons for their switch to Go was because it's a statically typed language. If you want static typing, you don't choose Python in the first place. You know it beforehand and it shouldn't come as a surprise for you.

It's weirder that many Python/NodeJS switchers cite this reason, since out of all the commonly used statically typed languages, Go has the second weakest type system (the first place obviously Goes to C).

With so many methods returning an interface{}, you'll get exactly the same crashes you had with Python.

If type safety is really such a major issue for you, you'll get a significantly better deal from Python Type Hints (using mypy or PyCharm) and TypeScript/Flow. All of them support generics (and hence nearly eliminates the need for wildcard types).

I suspect performance and static binaries are the real reason for most of the cases of projects switching from dynamic languages to Go.
Interesting. I didn't think it was a problem to be treated when you put cash on the table. But maybe you have to be very rich. At least in Germany, some hospitals/doctors in Munich are pretty known for courting rich patients from the middle east, and those surely don't depend on some insurance...
In 2017... CBR has been a thing in secure calling apps for ~5 years now.
around '92 (as a student) I wrote to CEO at IBM to rant that if they want OS/2 to get some market share they need to start letting students/universities use it for free

a few months later I got a letter back thanking me and noting the letter got published in some staff magazine and some software would follow

an enormous package arrived soon after full of IBM OS/2 and commercial development tools - my IBM PS/2 55SX wasn't even up to installing the OS - but full credit for trying
Thanks. Interesting to know - I wonder why banks over here don't think they're particularly necessary. (I got my first credit card, unsecured, when I was still an undergraduate working part-time and receiving government welfare payments...)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_and_the_Mockingbird

https://translate.google.fr/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=y&prev=...
Yeah, I found that kind of hilarious. Doesn't this blog post falls into a recency bias that's common with lots of things? The notion that we're in an especially chaotic world must be pretty silly for any generation that grew up under constant threat of disease, war, starvation, etc.

It talks about "fake news" needing to be fought, but then advocates against factual knowledge to do so. The way you know something is fake is by having a well of knowledge to draw from. It's not just rote memorization, it's putting the pieces together, which you can't do if you just rely on Google for everything.
OSs don't run on bare metal. They run on a kernel.
where can i found an introducion to this os?
The readme is more an instruction manual, and google dosen't seem to help much.
I did something similar for Android a while ago https://guidefreitas.github.io/programming/osx/docker/2015/0...
Except for the color scheme, I actually liked Unity a lot. It was a sad thing to hear that Mark decided to shut it down.
The "code written by code" meme is bogus. Code writes code today. That's the point of every compiler, library, and SDK.
We'll simply make higher-level questions and statements than we once did, just like we're doing today.
North+Korea+missiles:+US+warships+deployed+to+Korean+peninsula+•+THE+WORLD+INFO
Opensourcing my codes for training AlexNet using Keras
Of course you were not inside all the time during winter but surely you must agree that you were inside more than during summer time?
Clickbait title, it should be something like "Making Ubuntu run faster by killing Evolution".
This is exactly what I was looking for; I had only checked the String and &str documentation and didn't think to look for a macro. Thanks :)
I assume it's fairly new since you're posting it (without context)? However isn't it almost expected for a project like this to be on github? (hey, github is the search engine of code)?
Open sourcing my codes for training AlexNet using Keras, in three useful scenarios :-

1. Training from scratch
2. Finetuning a pre-trained model
3. Extracting features from a specific layer

Github link : https://github.com/duggalrahul/AlexNet-Experiments-Keras

Blog post : https://rahulduggal2608.wordpress.com/2017/04/02/alexnet-in-...

Would love to take up suggestions/critical comments. Please report any bugs/issues under the issues section on the github project webpage.

Thanks
Part of that world
This is actually a great analogy that I'll use in the future when I meet people who think they're the next Mark Zuckerberg.

Statistically speaking, I'd bet someone entering American Idol is more likely to win than a startup is likely to become a unicorn.

(Also -- it's fine and normal to cry if your startup fails. For many or most, it will even result in clinical depression.)
That's a little like saying you don't subscribe to Amazon Prime because you don't shop at Amazon.

Nobody is suggesting you subscribe to a service that provides no value.
If you compare (gcc7 and latest clang), how much in pair is gcc with clang in terms of compilation warnings? (One of the most valuable tool of a compiler). I'm really happy they are moving in the same direction; I've been worried about gcc.
Because MySQL looks easier for people who have never done SQL, which allowed to be the M in the LAMP stack and the only suported db for Wordpress.

I had little experience with Oracle SQL at school, and MySQL's bad design became very apparent to me, even when I was a junior dev. I'm afraid devs are repelled from SQL because all they've seen is MySQL. Postgres has everything Oracle has, with an even better design, and minus the price.
The US government has other "loyalty programs", for example if you buy a 10 year treasury bond instead of holding cash, they'll pay out a bonus every six months.

Another way to look at it is return on investment vs risk vs liquidity. Since inflation is 0-2%, cash is worth less every year, but it is easy to buy things with it. So if you have lots of cash coming in, choosing where to store it gets more tricky: http://www.asymco.com/2012/01/24/apple-added-38-billion-in-c...
I think you misunderstand my use of unremarkable. It's not wrong or bad but key parts are the same stack you'd have picked 1-2 decades ago – well implemented, values scaled up, yes, but something you could have shown people in 2000 and not had to explain more than that the hardware costs so much less.

I think that's good: SQL databases are very mature and you don't want to be exciting for your core business data if you don't get some major benefit to defray the cost. Boring is a delightful characteristic for data storage.
Crooks stole $800,000 from 8 ATMs in Russia using Fileless Malware
Current popular implementations of it. There is nothing technical in IPSec per se stopping it from being implemented as a library, userspace server, or anything like that.

In reverse, IPSec is typically usable in arbitrary protocols and applications without special support for it, unlike TLS.
If you are looking for great African dev check out Andela.
Five Reasons to Switch to Flash Storage
This is not true because most satellites are in similar orbits, largely because it's easer going east due to earths rotation. Similarly, you could cheaply visit every satilite in geosynchronous orbit. Further, you can pick trash up in an order designed to minimize delta V, and use thing she like solar sails or ION drives.

Polar orbits are something of an exception, as are consolations designed for total coverage of the earth.
Seemingly innocuous virus can trigger celiac disease
Beats me, I've never used it.

I try not to screw with working infrastructure, so it can become invisible to me. I've been using X11 for 24 years now. It's nice that it gained 3D capabilities, but I don't play games much, so the largest daily impact is that there are shadows under windows. Big whoop. Smooth video-playing is a much nicer feature, and we've had that for a decade.

I used fvwm, rxvt and netscape browser for years. Netscape mutated into Firefox. I added Chrome because it turns out that having two completely different browsers is an advantage for me. rxvt became rxvt-unicode. I might still be using fvwm, but XFCE has easier configuration when I move to a new machine, which happens often enough that I value it.

It will be nice when I can get the RX460 downstairs to drive the 4K monitor at 60Hz instead of 30Hz, but it's only going to be a minor improvement.

There are two kinds of idiots: the idiot who says "this is new, so it must be better" and the idiot who says "this is old, so it must be better". I try not to be either kind.
No problem! It is slightly obtuse, given that you store a u8 buffer and then make &strs from it, rather than storing a &str.
> Baseline requirements: near 1600 SAT and near 4.0 unweighted GPA taking the hardest classes.

And there you have it. If you have to have perfect grades you can't experiment or take any risks. A hardcore science student for whom math is easy could never study a language, or work on something they're not as good at.
> the fact that we have 1000 heads so far tells us (in theory) nothing about the fairness of the coin

Really? If I flip a coin 1000 times and always get heads, how much would you be willing to bet me that the next flip gets tails?
If you're talking about Bacillus thuringiensis or the toxin it produces, it occurs naturally in all kinds of things.
Pixel saver does not disable huge title bars.

It removes title bar for the maximized window. For a window that is not maximized, it does exactly nothing.
How about NSA just does this, per its name, and the offensive signals intelligence gets handled by the CIA?
It's not not the first time I've read about this kind of solutions and processes that get hungry of resources over time, even idle. But this solution gets rid of the symptom not the causes.
I'm always curious about this cases and why these happen, I'm not using Ubuntu ATM but I'd look forward for any insights on this.
Title is clickbait, but I will take this chance to say something that can literally make many if not most >1 year old computers much faster: Clean the dust off the heatsink(s) and fans. This is hardware 101, but almost no one actually does it and the result is that the processor or GPU starts thermally throttling, with zero warning or indication that it is operating in a handicapped mode beyond that it no longer has the speed it once did.
Shuttleworth: Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and Convergence
One: run the numbers on the dozens of cloud nodes you mentioned. Is that really cheaper than renting some servers in a colo?

Second: how much time would they have spent rolling all of the data integrity, reporting, etc. features they'd have needed to add. I'm inclined to take them at their word when they say this was safer and cheaper given their resources.
http://linuxfr.org/news/ubuntu-abandonne-unity-mir-et-le-mob...
Somebody is just paying $5000 for you to work on any project of your choice
> Note that I am comparing MariaDB vs MemSQL on a old desktop. 8 cores, 8 GB Ram, HD (non ssd) drive.

... so not really a good comparison then. You're comparing the speed of your 8GB of RAM to an old, spinning bit of metal on an old desktop. Anyone who would use such a benchmark to drive their tech choices is being rather silly.
It doesn't surprise me that much.

Polio looks like an ordinary "stomach flu" virus but occasionally you get an autoimmune response to it that damages your nervous system.
Websites requiring a phone number is bad business and potential discrimination
Websites requiring a phone number is bad business and potential discrimination

Millions of Americans don't have cell phones . Either they are too expensive or the are disabled or other reasons that prevents them for having a mobile phone . Cellphone service is very expensive ,requires decent credit and many poor and disabled people cannot afford it
You can deal with it in many ways. First, you need to ask yourself a few question. Why did the thought occur to you? Where you having a shitty weak, did you have a bad day or is the product genuinely bad? When you answer this your next steps should be talking to someone higher up to voice your concerns assuming there is something wrong with the product. If it is not the product then take some time off as you sound stressed. Don't do any ounce of office work just do something fun.
Or just outlaw smoking and be done with it. /s

If only.
I've listened to a a fair number of tech podcasts over the past few years. The gold standards for me are Hanselminutes and SE-radio. But they got that way through alchemy, the early episodes are rather leaden compared to the where each is today after a decade.

On the other hand, Hanselminutes is still true (most of the time) to its core idea of not wasting the listener's time. SE-Radio is still true to its core idea of introducing and then going deep into a technical topic.

So what do I want in a devops podcast? A vision that the presenter believes that is sustainable over a decade and a ruthless pursuit of not wasting my time.

My advice is to research those podcasts - Software Engineering Daily has episodes discussing both and how they work.

Good luck.
If Humble People Make the Best Leaders, Why Do We Fall for Narcissists?