skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unlike with imperative languages which are dozen a dime, there's almost no alternative to SQL when it comes to relational languages.

That being the case, people rarely even think about whether SQL is a good language or a bad language, whether it's lacking something etc.

But once you actually try thinking about it, it turns out that it's a pretty well designed language and any alternatives you can think of are usually much inferior to it.
This is a great point. I work with exceptionally bright kids, so I push things like computer literacy and exploration, but for most Americans computers are simply tools. "With great power comes great responsibility."
Passing function addresses as parameters is easy. It's more difficult to return a nested function that closes over the outer function's variables.
I've been to rural areas, I'm well aware that millions of people live without reliable high-speed internet connections all over the United States, and those regulations you support haven't fixed it.

Meanwhile, there are poor people in India who aren't going to get internet access because they can't afford it themselves, and net neutrality legislation has removed the profit-motive that would have incentivized private corporations to provide it to them for free.

And net neutrality advocates are cheering it on like it's a huge victory that they've deprived all these people of modern technology.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/08/india-fac...
I won't switch to the new layout until extensions like https://github.com/ParticleCore/Particle https://github.com/YePpHa/YouTubeCenter/ are fully supported.

After you try features like fullbrowser mode, disabled autoplay, PIP mode when you scroll down to read comments, animated thumbnail preview on hover, detailed information below the thumbnail like resolution/like ratio and many more it's impossible to go back.
Spices from India can often have dangerous levels of salmonella and other contaminants.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/31/health/12-percent-of-us-sp...
My understanding is that even SSDs perform somewhat better sequentially (throughput-wise), though the difference isn't quite as dramatic as with HDDs. That said, the 400 mb/s random write speed for nvme mentioned is plenty faster than sequential write speeds most people had access to until recently with SSDs, so that's pretty interesting.
What was the feedback the gave you?
The company isn't guaranteeing it. The government is.
I think you're missing the point.

Children don't need to worry about breaking AdSense rules and getting their accounts blocked, especially if they have accounts dedicated for school.

Children also will have internet at school.
Eh? I connect directly to the computers, either from LAN or WAN+port forwarding, and only have an issue if my home connection is having issues.
I wouldn't say the piece is striving to be idyllic - rather, trying to reclaim dignity for those segments of our society that have been left behind and derided by the rest of us in our ivory towers.
Crispr actually was originally discovered by microbiologists who found it as a mechanism to defend against viruses.
I've never used a Chromebook so this is an honest question - do they not have any kind of local sync, so you can work on your stuff and then upload it back to the cloud next time you get online?
The US is a pretty wealthy place. I lived in Italy for something like 15 years, and people there eat a lot of fish too, of varying kinds. By and large, they do not have as much money as people do in the US.

If it were only about efficiency, you'd probably just eat beans and rice, day in and day out, with a bit of this and that thrown in.

Edit: BTW, this book has some interesting ideas about the US and food: http://amzn.to/2oVeaYz

Among other things, he points out that the US does have slow food with a high degree of regional variety: barbecue.
No, the stigma just changes, slightly. Members of my family who are teachers keep a literal open door policy when it comes to pre/after school meetings and tutoring. Even the accusation of impropriety between teacher and student is a career ender. Some of the teenage girls they teach are extremely manipulative. Some come from broken homes and use the sexual assault accusations as a quick pay day.
How do you even, like, commute to work on a 5 minute online time? Even stuff like essential food shopping, I can sometimes be more than a 5 minute walk away from the car and laptop. Or going to the bathroom.
Sibling comments note that it says you can upgrade to to Windows 10 Pro for $50, or for free until 2018. The free upgrade seems to be possibly linked to this deal (it's referenced in the store page), but the details take you to the Windows S page which notes that upgrading from Windows 10 S to Windows 10 Pro is a normal feature of Windows 10 S (although it notes "affordably", so there is usually a cost).
That's ok, we can use CRISPR as an antibiotic:
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/42992/...
Your observations basically boil down to "my co-worker, who is Chinese, does not like raw fish, therefore..."

There are plenty of sushi restaurants in Chinatown: https://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=sushi&start=0&l=p:NY:N...

There are also traditional - and popular - Chinese dishes that involve raw fish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusheng

You have to understand that Chinese people are huge gluttons (I say this without any judgement). They love to eat.. there are even idioms about it!

1) http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/they...
Wow, this is great. So he took philosophy out of the normative, positivist, Hegelian world it was stuck in, pointlessly proving useless esoteric questions of logic, and applied it phenomenologically to the broad experience of human experience and reality. Anybody know anything I should read besides Nozick along this vein?
"say important bits of the Linux kernel, key optimizations for your latest AAA titles, hairy distributed protocols, etc. "

THe thing most people lack in all those examples is body of knowledge, not aptitude. All those areas are learnable by average developer.
When, and why not now?
Not just that, but the font color is too close to the background color, making it even harder to read.
I found the article to be insightful and interesting in how it used broad strokes to tie together the social changes (feminism, the welfare state, the contraceptive pill, class and gender differences in attitudes to counselling) and economic changes, (mechanisation, globalisation, the decline of industry, lower pay for unskilled labour) and how these changes impact on well-being (both individual happiness and successful relationships).

The article also highlighted that class is just as relevant as gender: “the fact that the highest rungs have male feet all over them is scant comfort for the men at the bottom”.
That kind of misses the point for school use. But yes, for personal use you're right
People who don't have access to truvada definitely aren't going to be getting cutting-edge gene therapy any time soon. And how many people died of type I diabetes in 2015?
What about repurposing ARM-based Chromebooks?[1] Same result, less work.

[1] https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-f...
Gone now..
What's "major"? No Office (only OneNote), no Adobe Acrobat or CC...
There is more chance of the pope converting to Islam, then MS acquiring Red Hat. That is one acquisition that would turn to shit over night, and MS would be left with just some logos, as the companies main assets (its engineering) would all walk out the door, followed by customers not renewing subscriptions.
Lenovo Thinkpad X270 shipped without WLAN card
Renewable energy from evaporating water
Immigrants in general, but especially Asian ones, do not want to pay the fees required to accept cards.

Most people in their communities are fine with it.
Black-And-white Capital Calls for Change at Etsy
Where did the author get the idea that fish is 200k SLOC? They're wildly mis-counting.

Yes, `cloc` on a fresh checkout of fish-shell says there's 200k lines, but most of that isn't fish-shell source. Fully half of that is from PCRE. And if I run `cloc` on just the `src` directory I get 39k lines.
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The funding the scientist is seeking is a pittance compared to MIT's endowment, especially considering they own his patents, they should be funding it.
India’s Silicon Valley Is Dying of Thirst. Your City May Be Next
I'm not sure the point of your statement -- even if we accept that "an HIV cure without some advancement in antibiotics will be swapping one epidemic for a series of others", what's our alternative? Not moving forward with the HIV cure?

The field's challenges right now in terms of STIs are addressed with more advocacy, outreach, screening, education, etc. Treatment is phenomenally effective currently for gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis, etc. Antibiotic resistance has been seen in some of those, sure, and will likely increase, but we deal with that as it comes -- just as we have with every other resistant pathogen. I'm not eager to keep a life-long and fatal STI around (HIV) to try to forestall that outcome.

Also: Those sources don't really support your claims. They describe an explosion of STDs that (at least as posited in those articles) are tied to decreased public health funding. There is indeed lots of discussion around risk compensation in light of improved HIV treatment, PrEP, HCV treatment, etc, but the data's a little unclear, and in my view is irrelevant to whether we should actually find and provide cures.
> Following the historical example from the previous paragraph, and assuming that Moore’s law continues in some form, we are at least 50 years of hard research from achieving thorough understanding of the simplest of human cells.

Things fall apart here. Moore's law has been dead for a while.
> TL;DR: Don't Travel With Work Data

That line from the handbook says it all.
It wasn't microsoft that killed the margins, it was amazon. Back in the DOS, windows 3.x and even windows 9x era the OS was just as commoditized, yet people willingly paid high margins. They did this because they wanted the service of their local PC store and therefore were willing to pay their margins. With the boom of online stores and easy exchanges/returns the brick and mortar stores went away and with them went the cushy margins.

The thing that really doomed the PC market was not that the easy margins went away, it's that OEM's responded by making their products worse. They cut hardware quality, they bundled crapware. The PC experience got worse year after year. Truthfully, windows 8 did not help, but I still think that if the OEM's had just bundled touch screens across the board it would not have been such an outright disaster. The reduced quality forced people off the platform, to macs at the high end, and to chromebooks at the low end. Granted, mobile would have always caused PC sales to decline, but not as much as they did. It is only recently that the OEM's have started investing again in quality hardware with a pure windows experience, and unsurprisingly last quarter PC sales went up YoY for the first time in five years.
It's true traditional databases require you to think through your solution before you go implementing it, but this is not necessarily a bad thing.

NoSQL is great for prototyping and being productive fast, but that productivity comes with a lot of pitfalls. Pitfalls by the way that many devs have been blissfully ignorant of for decades because they have been insulated from them by normalized relational databases.

Unless you are experienced with/aware of those pitfalls, I would almost make a blanket statement that a traditional SQL database should be the default solution for the backend until you can explain why NoSQL is a better fit for a given project.

Also, what makes you think PostgreSQL is slow? What is "slow" to you?
I work in IT, so not exactly the same, but I can relate so much to your pain. Teams are constantly bringing in some half-baked app that "Worked in the demo" and give us the registration key and a date to have it running by. Invariably it become the biggest headache for us, because it never works, fails at the worst times, etc. And when it doesn't work, who is the finger pointed at? The person who bought into it wholesale without any testing, or the team who's been working 60+ hours every week trying to string it up with paper clips and rubber bands?
This guy has written extensively about the business:

https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Wildlife-Filmmaker-Challe...
EPEL is extra packages, not usually newer packages. Software Collections is a variety of curated newer packages (including devtoolset, which includes GCC). https://www.softwarecollections.org
HS student (15) here. Occasionally use chromebooks when we have time in class to work on the assignment.
Some people have read far more than ten times as many math and programming books than others, and spent far more than ten times as much time making sure they thoroughly understand what they've read; and then gone on to tackle ten times as many hairy projects on the edge than others because it was fun for them.

True, an environment can encourage the laggards to catch up or fire 'em if they have no interest in improving their skills and knowledge; but it can't wave a wand and create the skills. I would also note that there are tenX (plus) refactorers who can freely cut large amounts of code from large projects without risk, too.

If you started tackling mathematical puzzles when you were eight, and programming a couple years later you're a different species than someone who switched majors to computing in third year for financial reasons; the early starter's brain is actually physically different (for instance some of your visual cortex and memory will now likely be devoted to math and logic instead of geography, this has been measured in chess players.) Same with a concert pianist vs someone who started playing the piano at age 20. Sure, the environment of the concert hall or practice hall matters - just not nearly that much.

I agree we do need to spend more time paying off boring technical debt, too; though that's not getting much more popular.

I don't want to leave the wrong impression. There's absolutely nothing wrong with doing a very conscientious job of coding and recoding that a whole lot of others could also do, just with a better ethic and constant attention to detail - we need many more such coders too, and I honor them very much.
Does it do any encoding to make sure it can play on the client?
Whatever people thing of flashy trends, there is true value in pair programming. The unstructured spread of not just knowledge, but how to think about programming.

The lack of true apprenticeship, fellowship, mentorship is an incredible disservice to our industry. The number of people who all need to rediscover the same lessons the hard way wastes so much programmer capital.
I may be showing my roots here, but I've never bought a cantaloupe off the back of a beat up farm truck that wasn't delicious.
Mr. Pizza has you covered. A Korean chain in Beijing, who believe corn mayonnaise pizza is a good thing. At least Chinese pizzerias don't use ketchup as tomatoes sauce anymore....those were the days!
That's correct. The first influx of Chinese immigrants were mostly from the south. After the CCP took over, immigration from the mainland basically ceased. During the 60s-80s most of the Chinese immigrants that were not from HK were from Taiwan.

Immigration from the mainland started picking up after the Cultural Revolution in the late 70s / early 80s through now.

"Chinese" food in the US is mostly Cantonese food. Only fairly recently have you seen an uptick of non-canton style food. The latest trend is Sichuan / Chongqing style of cuisine (spicy!).

My favorite Chinese regional cuisine is Xinjiang cai (food of the uighurs, China's muslim minority group). Very tasty - lots of bbq meats, delicious noodles, and spicy. Also bonus that its halal/kosher.
Only to the extent that the sites/apps themselves choose to do that.
Let's ban all regulation. You can't imagine what wonderful things I could achieve if I could just help myself to your capital. I know that sounds like a bad deal for you but market forces will prove me right in the end, just wait and see.
It's certainly not justified by the difference in component costs. My feeling is it's an attempt at price discrimination. For users running an office suite, web browser, and not much else, even the lowest spec machine is plenty. They want to compete on price for those customers. Users doing media processing, scientific computing, or development are probably more willing and able to spend more on a laptop, so Microsoft is charging more.
> There are really no unsolved problems (of note), so it's not interesting to academics.

For anyone who likes SQL and is looking for a research topic, read about temporal databases and suggest some ways to handle DDL changes over time (e.g. adding a new NOT NULL column, or changing a relationship from one-to-many to many-to-many).

Here is your starting bibliography:

Richard Snodgrass, Developing Time-Oriented Database Applications in SQL.

Hugh Darwen & C.J. Date, "An Overview and Analysis of Proposals Based on the TSQL2 Approach".

Krishna Kulkarni & Jan-Eike Michels, "Temporal features in SQL:2011".

Tom Johnston, Bitemporal Data

Magnus Hagander, "A TARDIS for Your ORM": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRgni5q0YM8

I would love to read what you come up with!
I disagree with the author's title (and I see it was submitted with a different title).

This is actually a report of two bugs:

1- the standard doesn't require an order

2 - the IETF's admonition that you be liberal in what you accept.
That used to be harder than it is today. The one thing I could never get in china, however, was western style sausage. They just don't make it anywhere in china, so overly frozen imports are the only option.
why not set up your own business that offers this? Blaze the way.
Setting up Kadira on a Ubuntu 16.04 Server part 1
Exactly, these are single purpose laptops for education.
And I do believe that google docs has an offline mode now. So they can work offline for a limited period (at least).

And how does this 1000 USD compete with 250 USD boxes?
It's not a dilution. It's quite the opposite, it is an expansion of what Surface can be. And let's reach back to the original Surface that was envisioned a decade ago that no one remembers, you remember that table? That Surface? And how it became a tablet years and years later? I think their marketing team has thought about this but, abstractly it seems that they are trying to cover all existing hardware concepts that are in the world today in the Surface line, phone, tablet, laptop, maybe TV. That's plan now of Microsoft's strategy. What's next up Microsofts sleeve, HoloLens. They are still chasing that dream that they envisioned with Surface but it's not going to be realized with the Surface hardware, they are a means to an end (hardware manufacturing experience, keep and grow talent, test device interfaces, implant touchable everything on all devices)
Isn't this treatment good news for everyone with a persistent viral infection? Shouldn't we be able to reverse a large class of viruses with similar methods?
Amazing how they manage to stay so cheap while hiring people at at least minimum wage, with valid work contracts, while paying all relevant taxes and not having any ethnically discriminatory hiring practices.

That's the real miracle.
To clarify, sushi is a recent development in mainland China. The article linked to agrees with that. However, rewind to pre-2000 China, and it'd be rare to find a sushi joint outside of a high-end hotel.
I was wondering this very same thing. Even on my small side project I have all sorts of specialized rules for certain types of email addresses.
It's an interesting convention but on the other hand makes quite explicit the common wisdom that "point-oh" releases are rarely production quality.
Watch videos on my 4th generation iPad, for one thing. It doesn't seem like there should be that much of a difference between the app and the mobile site, but loading the latter in Safari makes it shit the bed (my guess is lack of RAM), whereas the former works just fine - go figure.
Yeah, they're imitating Hunter S. Thompson without really getting what he was doing.

The point of "Gonzo Journalism", as I understand it, was that the narrative around certain subjects (politics, drugs, America, etc) had become so toxically self-referential that there was simply no way to approach them objectively. Even if you could apply some strict journalistic standard, the reader would read it through such a noxious filter of propaganda that nothing would get through.

The only sane response in that case, from his perspective, was to simply throw one's entire self into the fray, indulging your neuroses, compulsions, and desires in and amongst the people you were reporting on, then to pour your whole self onto the page and simply allow the reader and you, through the sacred bond of reading and writing, to commune in some kind of spirit plane above the propaganda and doublespeak.

This leads to an (at the time) shocking blend of personal experiences and "on-topic" reporting. Of course decades later this kind of intermingling has become common and no longer shocks people.

I think the essayists you are complaining about are adopting the "Gonzo" form, blending the personal with the topical, but without actually throwing their full selves into the world they are reporting. Thus the personal bits don't really bear any connection to the topical, and don't aid the reader in seeing through the subjectivity to the subject, the way Fear and Loathing did.
I knew people like that growing up. I can't say we were friends, mainly because of the societal gulf between us.

But if you're broken down by the side of the road, or your car gets stuck in the ditch, they're some of the first people who'll stop and help you out.
IMO the only reasonable course of action is to have a good backup/restore system, and completely wipe your device before and after exposing it to hostile agents. When asked to explain why, say that it's a mandatory policy from your employer in order to maintain a secure working environment.
This reminds me of the multi-part long-form reporting of scam letters from psychics. The substance could have been boiled down into a single, excellent long-form article. Instead, it was aggravatingly sprinkled across FIVE long-form articles!