skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
* Americans are used to cheap meats and are very very slowly becoming used to paying for meat at prices where it can be raised more healthily*

This may be true, but I wonder how much of the cost of meat is the inability to buy direct.

My family buys all our beef (and considering pork this year) from a local farmer by pre-ordering a quarter steer. The total price I pay is far less than the supermarket price for beef and the only explanation I can come up with is that we're cutting out the middlemen.

Likewise, the bison farmers around here are advertising prices well below the cost of bison at the few stores that carry it.
Very often you can't get to court because of mandatory arbitration clauses that the Supreme Court has ruled are all but inviolable.
Check Ministry of Testing story on IH.
Some typical pragmatic applications:

1. Escaping parenthesis hell: sometimes you can escape an unreasonable amount of parenthesis nesting by using (some) point-free programming.

2. The same thing that you'd use cascades in Smalltalk for: repeated applications of operations to the same object without having to name the object over and over again. (Obviously, in a functional language, it may not strictly be the "same" object, but conceptually, it's the same pattern.)

3. Combinator libraries (mentioned by the article itself). Here, the functions being composed are really meant to be (mostly) opaque entities and the fact that you're using a form of function composition is an implementation detail.
The vfx in Amazon's Man in the High Castle were done in Blender. There's a pretty big cultural shift that would need to happen for Blender to become common place in the film industry, but I'm starting to feel optimistic.

https://www.blendernation.com/2017/02/23/man-high-castle-sea...
Ribonucleotides are very very very reactive / unstable - definitely in today's atmosphere / world, and likely even in a neutral / reducing abiotic world. (almost every surface we touch today will be left with very robust RNAses, for instance, which makes working with RNA a particularly fun experience in lab.., but I digress).

I am struggling to imagine a clear path from ribonucleotide synthesis during an atmospheric impact to polymerization (which again requires protected / specific conditions), to the point where the randomly assembled RNA polymerase has catalytic activity, and specifically, ability to self replicate.

I recognize that the article is not claiming the nucleotides can polymerize, etc. Still, I fail to see how enough nucleotides could be created through such processes and remain stable through their descent to the surface to form polymers / ribozymes.

I understand that these are probabilistic events, so a low probability event is still possible.

However, my contention is that atmospheric synthesis of ribonucleotides, followed by polymerization into a catalytically active RNA polymer (which is equally unstable) which then has to have a readily accessible pool of mono-nucleotides or peptides / amino acids to act on, all during high atmospheric impact / subsequent descent to the surface, seems, well, challenging to envision.

So, to summarise, I think this is a cool result, but I don't think it moves us forward much in terms of understanding how life got started. And I speak as an advocate of the RNA world hypothesis.
I thought it was pretty awful when some news sites started publishing information on the passenger that was dragged off.
That is what I meant, wrong words though.
People are working on things on-top of Kubernetes, such as https://github.com/CrunchyData/postgres-operator
My understanding was just that since Google+, as a "social feature" was supposed to be integrated with everything Google. (See the controversial merges into Gmail, YouTube, etc.) So it was kinda Google+Social. So like an upgrade to Google, rather than being a separate, distinct site like it's seen now.
I suppose if the US simply executed criminals at the rate Iran does, we would have a lower population as well.

We could also lower the number of people incarnated if we had public lashings instead, as Iran does.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Iran
People don't seem to understand how close to the edge of disaster we still are. The message in movies like Threads and The Day After are quite relevant today, despite how impossible they may seem. While an intentional war may be less likely today, the danger of an accidental one is just as real.
Best use case for an Intel Compute Stick yet.
Most of the Armenians were located in Eastern part of Anatolia. As far as I can see there is no desert in between Syria and Eastern Anatolia.
Please stop violating the guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Apprenticeship works. Lots of places will have junior people work below senior ones on projects and gradually gain experience and become senior.
Hi! I'm a Product Manager for the MySQL Server. I don't specifically work on InnoDB Cluster, but am happy to answer questions.

Let me start of by describing how the clustering works:

- A cluster is 3+ nodes in a group, each with a complete set of data

- When you say 'COMMIT' the server you are connected to certifies your write-set with its peers (i.e. has anyone else tried to modify the same data). Once the majority agree, the transaction is considered successful.

- The distributing and certification of the transaction is synchronous, but the applying of the transaction is asynchronous. Thus you actually retain pretty good performance if the network latency is reasonable.

The performance question comes up a bit, so here's another post for more context:

http://mysqlhighavailability.com/an-overview-of-the-group-re...
I don't know - but being a Hindu seems as much an ethnic thing as a religious thing. So I get the same feeling as reading about Rachel Dolezal.
New Night Lights Maps Open Up Possible Real-Time Applications
I am struggling to understand your point - your last sentence is a masterpiece of unclear grammar - yet as you're now referring to "religious texts" and "blind devotees" I don't think you have any interest in rational debate. Curious minds can google "The Ethics of Emergencies" for AR's views on charity.
That's OK, you're not the target audience.
JSON is a serialization format, just one that at least nods in the direction of human-readability. Formats which don't worry about human readability (e.g. Protobuf) can gain various degrees of efficiency.
Traefik is amazing - you can add it as a service with almost no config and get http2, https (with good defaults), letsencrypt and auto-discovery of services

I also use it as a frontend to all local dev
What's "the database" that you have in mind?

Start out with the idea that you have hundreds of machines in your cluster, with 1000s of TB of data. Suppose the current data efficiency is on the order of 80% - that is, 80% of the 1000s of TB is the actual bytes of the data fields. What database do you have in mind to store this data, still on the order of 1000s of TB?

You say: a couple of joined tables. So you have hundreds of machines, and the tables are not all going to fit on one machine; they're going to be scattered across hundreds of machines each. How do you efficiently do a join across two distributed tables?

It's no picnic.

If each row in one table only has a few related rows in the other table, it's much, much better to store the related data inline. Locality is key; you want data in memory right now, not somewhere on disk across the network.
> Saying that homosexuals are equal to heterosexuals is not a "trendy idea", it's basic equality.

Equality of what?

Marriage is not based in physics or biology. It's a made up concept, actually concepts, plural. There are countries where it means one man + a limited number of women, there are countries where it means one man + as many women as he can afford (and can afford taking care of all the kids), there are countries where it means one man + one woman, and now there are countries where it means 2 adult homo sapiens regardless of sex. There are countries where it can only be between adults, there are countries where legal children can become a legal adults by getting married. etc...

Shouldn't equality include polyamorists? Why isn't it? What about minors who have the legal right to have sex, can they get married? Actually, what about kids who are legally entitled to own stuff, forget about sex? etc.... As far as I am concerned, marriage is just a legal contract that regulates what is owned by the different parties, and as such, none of the setup described here should be excluded. It does get a little bit more complicated when it comes to succession of active assets, for example polyamorists could daisy chain over time and earn retirements for somebody who was part of that chain and died hundred years ago, so there would be some tweaks to be done there, but that shouldn't be a blocker.

Now do you still think "gay marriage" (as opposed to other forms) wasn't just a trendy idea? Are you ok with polyamorist marriages? If not, even though that this is your personal opinion, should you be pushed out of your job because of it?
You forgot to mention that $550 annual fee.
While some Armenian independence organisations did use terrorism as a means, and indeed the question of the Armenian genocide is not that of the Ottoman Empire's momentary caprice to remove Armenians as a worse people like it was in the Holocaust (Holocaust and Medz Yeghern are incredibly different events, the former was head hunting against completely peaceful people for stupid racial ideals), the genocide happened, and words like betrayal and greed in what amounts to a global war of greed and massacres sound childish. If as Turks we have the right to indipendence as a people, so does ever other peoples.
And milk floats in the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_float, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ethical-hipsters-are-driv....
How does this differ from Galera Cluster / mysql-wsrep? https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/what-is-mariadb-galera-clu...
Do you mean to say that Chevrolet has never bought the AdWords phrase "Chevrolet"? I would be shocked to learn that.

We've considered seeking legal counsel. Part of the problem is that the two primary words of the business name are a generic service offered by this type of business (40 years ago SEO was not a big consideration). Also very few of our customers take the care to quote the two-word phrase, so their queries could plausibly be sent to the competitor which offers that service as well. This competitor has itself recently added the name of yet another lucrative related service to its name, presumably as an SEO measure.

That said, I'd be very eager to see any more advice you might have, or any links to resources you think might be helpful to us.
I really hope React Native Desktop works but I am very skeptical since there still isn't the same coalition of large companies with apps in production using it. Right now React Native Mobile is being pushed by FB, Airbnb, Tesla, Bloomberg, Uber, Soundcloud, etc. and there are thousands of apps using it. React Native Desktop has nowhere near that momentum or support. It would probably be more effective for React Native Desktop to jump on the ElectronJS bandwagon and use it to push awareness, integration, and distribution since it's a pretty close use case.
Amex Business Platinum. Great benefits make it worth the cost 10x over.
Getting to the Andromeda Galaxy is pushing it, but the number of satellites we have launched is staggering.
They replace the law. Supreme court decided can and does permit a total severance of your connection to courts of law against a corporation.

Your rights are replaced with a contract you didn't quite realize you agreed to. As such, you have no rights against a corporation. The arbitration kangaroo court is not required to observe the law. A meeting of the minds is not required where a contract with a corporation is concerned, as a human doesn't have to realize their rights were stripped by the contract.

When everything is privatized, you will have no rights remaining.
Lol! Free isn't free. Your desires are a commodity up for sale. The how doesn't matter. When you discover and block one way, another is created. This happened because you use Google and Facebook.
"Bad this happens when coders are bored. Their productivity slows, they pay less attention to the details of their work, their growth stagnates and their passion is sapped."

yep
>How can you possibly expect things to speed up when the Turkish government is doing everything it can to put the brakes on the deal?

I was trying to say that Turks have, more or less, given up on joining the EU. Not because they don't want to, but because they feel like it has become hopeless. I agree that the past several years have done nothing to help the situation.

Remember, Turkey joining is supposed to be mutually beneficial, so if EU sees some benefit to Turkey joining, then probably there needs to be a concrete timeline (so that Turks see light at the end of the tunnel) and, obviously, Turkey will have to meet the requirements. For many years, Turkey was a free democratic country (though not perfect!) but still they did not join the EU.

edit: Turkey first applied for membership to the EU about 30 years ago. That is a long time; longer than any other applicant to the EU:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlargement_of_the_European_Un...
Chase Ink Preferred. Has a nice signup bonus and you get 3% back on some great categories for the first $150k spend.
I think concatenative languages have great potential when paired with a proper type system and IDE. But you're absolutely right when it comes to plain text programming; point-free style feels clever to write, but makes it more difficult to read.
Six (Im)possible Things Before Breakfast [pdf]
How does this differ from the Galera Cluster / mysql-wsrep implementation?
agreed. I was a bit leery of diving into Lua as I was building http://ratelim.it but it really expands Redis's capabilities dramatically and was easy enough to add.

My apps all write the lua into redis and store the hash when they boot up. Duplicative, but means everybody is on the same page and it's easy to store the lua in the main codebase.
Please don't post uncivilly and call names: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Thanks for suggesting different view. But I believe sympathy/empathy wont help me at this stage. Especially, considering the fact, I joined this startup without proper pay (thinking it will affect startup revenue) or relocation packages etc. The problem is , I can't remove this startup from my resume. When I join other places, obviously people want to talk about it and/or when I see ex-coworkers on places like github..it reminds those time again.

He don't have any control over me, he is thousands of miles away. My mind loses focus from time to time.
There is nothing wrong with getting a cert. SANS offers some great courses. It's a good way for folks to start and get introduced into the industry. There are different roles in security. Soft skills are an important part of that, learning how to manage the process is just as important as being a specialist in Pen testing or Forensics, etc.

Don't get discouraged.
No one programs in category theory, therefore... what?

ELI5: What's the connection between your comment and JadeNB's?
An Uber driver sees a job come in. The customer wants to go from point A to point B. The customer want this to happen in the next ten minutes.

The Uber driver has the choice of taking this job, or not. The Uber driver cannot decide to do the job in three hours time.
I don't doubt it. It's not for nothing that the USA police is by large mocked around the world. Land of the free and home of the brave is quite ironic when it comes to USA police.
Ask HN: Job hunt-related statistics on programmers?
I'm looking to find sources showing at least some of the following statistics regarding job search activities of programmers:

- Average number of weeks or months a programmer takes on a job search before receiving/taking an offer
- Average Number of applications submitted during a job search
- Ratio of years of experience to length of time spent on the job hunt
- Differences in job hunt durations for unemployed vs. currently employed programmers

And also if possible, different averages grouped by total years of experience. Reasoning that, for example, a new grad's job search would probably be a different experience than for someone who's been in the field for 10 years.
The problems with VR are much higher-level than anyone wants to admit. Nobody wants to wear a headset on their face. They'll try it for the novelty, but they have a hard time doing it very long, or mustering up the motivation to do it frequently.

VR won't hit critical mass until movie-style "holograms" are implemented (check out the video game in Her for an interesting example [0]), just as tablets didn't catch on until they looked and functioned just like the thin slates that had been dreamed of in sci-fi.

[0; NSFW] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7MgbMI5zhw Example pulled from YouTube. Very NSFW language.
Yes I like it too, but think farther ahead.

Why is Ubuntu the defacto supported Linux distro? Why is,quite often, steam so difficult to install, while it's a breeze to install on Ubuntu?

You can't expect people to consider you as a legitimate target if you're constantly moving :(
Their "rights" were replaced by a contract. You have no rights not enumerated in the contract of carriage. Rights are for government actions against you. In the United States, "rights" are discarded in favor of profit.
If you pay your AWS bill with the Amazon Rewards Visa, the transaction is categorized under Amazon and you'll get 5% rewards (only redeemable on Amazon though)
Capital One Spark Business Visa currently has 2% unlimited cash back and a $59 annual fee. When I signed up it was 1.5% cash back, no annual fee, and no minimum cash back rewards redemption amount.
1) Can you provide any more details about how Rowfiles are structured and/or implemented? Specifically, how does it handle nested objects? Does it support `transient`? Do `writeObject` and/or `readObject` come into play?

2) Do you feel this is a generic enough solution that you would consider submitting it as a JSR?
So did switching to their homebrew serialization format -- in fact, most of the article is about how they managed the changes (which touched codebases at multiple sites in a fairly large organization).
There is a need for GUIs on Linux IOT devices running on ARM.

I would love to be able to use Delphi/Firemonkey for that.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14094680 and marked it off-topic.
You can have it with Emacs, depending on the language you are using. I have used C/gdb out of the box quite happily and now I use python (elpy) and it works although with some annoying glitches from time to time. Other languages don't work quite well.
JustinDB:Distributed Key-Value Storage Built on Top of Scala/Akka
That appears to correlate strongly with the Christmas shopping season. For example, here's a couple similar looking trends for "ps4" and "xbox one": https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=ps4,xbox%20one

I don't think this indicates any lack of interest in the technology.
Windows as a service? Now, there’s an argument for Linux
This sounds plausible, and fits with the incident if basically no one trusts the airline to negotiate in good faith.
Employees assume that if they don't make a fuss about getting a seat, then they'll have to fly jump-seat or standing-room-only from then on out.
Likewise, passengers don't trust the airline offer of $800 and the next flight out for giving up their seat. I would have taken that offer if I could be assured it was legit, but I'd have a strong suspicion they'd deduct the cost of the flight and the hotel and give me what's left in the form of Chili's gift cards or something.

With trust that low it was probably only a matter of time before a dispute escalated into unnecessary use of force.
Avro can store the schema inline or out of line; with inline schemas, it's at the start of the file (embedded JSON), and it describes the schema for all the rows in that file. If you're working with Hive, the schema you put in the Hive metastore is cross-checked with each Avro file read; if any given Avro file doesn't contain a particular column, it just turns up as null for that subset of rows. Spark and Impala work similarly.

I agree serialization at scale is interesting. My particular interest right at this moment is in efficiently doing incremental updates of HDFS files (Parquet & Avro) from observing changes in MySQL tables - not completely trivial because some ETL with joins and unions is required to get data in the right shape.
its history
Having learned blender first is likely why Vim was so appealing to me.

Blender's UI is so much better this way. The idea that the functionality of any professional software tool should be immediately visible is just silly. Photoshop, GIMP, Autocad, 3DS Max, Maya, etc. all follow that philosophy, and just end up with way too many buttons and menus for anyone to want to sift through. Blender shows functionality only where it is needed in the most beautiful modular system I have ever used.
See the Involuntary Bumping subsection under Overbooking in [1]. The airline is obligated to give you either:

`min(2 * your ticket price, $675)`; or
`min(4 * your ticket price, $1350)`

depending on how quickly they can reroute you to your destination. You also have legal standing to demand they pay you with a cashier's cheque instead of a voucher.

Judging by personal anecdotes I've read around the web, airlines may be willing to pay more if they are in a bind. But note that this whole voluntary/involuntary bumping procedure happens before you scan your ticket and board the airplane.

[1]: https://www.transportation.gov/airconsumer/fly-rights
> only redeemable on Amazon though

The Chase card? You can redeem the points as statement credit.
> ... files that just close for no reason)

Do you mean if you select (preview) a file from the tree browser on the left, the file appears, but if you select another one, it goes away ?

Use this setting/preferrence:

"workbench.editor.enablePreviewFromQuickOpen": false,
Very similar concept, but differences are well described here:
http://lefred.be/content/group-replication-vs-galera/

The Tl;dr I give most people is that the Group Replication technology (innodb cluster) uses Paxos for group communication (with majority) and Galera uses Totem Single-ring Ordering (all nodes).
Hungary.
I guess I can understand that perspective to some degree, but you made a lot of assertions in this thread that were ultimately unfounded.

Do you think that's fair to Larry?

I don't want to give you a hard time, I just wish people were more careful about this kind of thing.
If I'm a competent enough services and web developer wanting to move into infosec, what else could I be doing to get my foot in the door besides collecting certs, as ostensibly shite as they are?
There are big differences between:

1. Genocide and consenting adults choosing how they want to interact with one another.

2. Being friends with someone and being able to interact with them professionally.
thx benbreen for posting - fascinating
Fear of Flying, for Good Reason
to put even one SMART person's time onto a problem that costs less than $10k in aggregate is being an irresponsible, possibly stupid, business person.

the only possible exception may be a company with literally $0 revenue, i.e. looking for their first customer.
Show HN: Qwook, a lightweight framework to draw from Node.js
> It's weird to see the last VR hype cycle repeating itself in such detail.

VR, VMs & cloud computing, automation "taking all our jobs". We've been running the same course since at least the 1960s. Everything that's new is old already.

Even the space race has been restarted. Maybe this should be a new Olympic Games category - "Set foot on the moon, by starting from first principals."