skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are you doing all of this stuff manually? There are several providers that will set all of this stuff up automatically for you. I like the Kismatic toolkit (https://github.com/apprenda/kismatic), but there are a bunch of others. Sure, maybe once you go to production you'll want to install manually so that you have everything finely tuned the way you want, but learn it by using it rather than trying to have to figure things up front.

Or even better just use GKE for development / learning purposes. Just stop the cluster when you're not using it, and it'll be a lot cheaper than something you won't want to take down because you spent days installing it.
There are aspects of the scientific method in programming work, but I feel it has much more in common with engineering than science.

Science uses the scientific method to model the universe. The experiments serve the purpose of clarifying that model and uncovering new information.

I feel programming is more like building a bridge. An engineer uses his knowledge of physics and (much more importantly) a wealth of field knowledge and best practices to design the bridge. As a programmer, I have tasks much like building bridges, only they are apps. I don't discover new algorithms through experimentation. I implement algorithms that are already well understood. If there is a problem in my code and I run performance tests, the tests do not clarify hitherto unknown phenomena regarding the nature of computers. They simply highlight human errors or bottlenecks caused by well understood characteristics of the underlying computer system.

If this is considered science, then basically anything that involves trial and error, be it snowboarding or checkers, is science.

Of course I admit it may depend on what you do (programming is a broad field). There are those, for example, that invent algorithms and such, though it seems to me those computer scientists are more mathematicians than scientists.

The one area of my work I have felt was scientific was AB testing, which is a kind of consumer science.
The Nintendo Switch has become the system people love to love
It's a loan agreement not a grant.
Needing scalability means you should have customers which means you have revenue.

I tell every startup that I advise that "revenue solves many problems" because if you have cash flow, everything else becomes easier.. you can buy spot capacity in the short term. You can hire contractors to help refactor. You can rent coworking space for an office.

There are many "good enough" solutions for now. Take advantage of them until you know what your next steps should be.. and then commit accordingly.
good hosts also know, if they see their guest start drinking the contents of the finger bowl, the host does the same :)

I'm stealing that one.
Blender3D Game Engine

http://cargo.smidginsoftware.com/static/images/Making-Screen...
> Imagine what kind of havoke a foreign government can create if they buy up all aggreculture land and control food prices in peace times and famines in war times

They would also have to invade this country or corrupt the government.
> I've never seen anyone else acknowledge "confirmation of email address existence" as a security issue

It's usually called "username enumeration" and there's plenty of pen testing firms that include this as a standard part of their process.
This entire discussion is an exercise in premature optimization. It will probably take 20 years from the time we have level 5 autonomous cars before most of this is even relevant. Manufacturers of traffic signals still get sued to this day for liability in accidents. I'd rather see more effort in making traffic signals more intelligent; I hate sitting at a signal with nobody around at 6am.
Does 30+ sound 'old' to you...?
No worries, thank you for replying :)
I've got to make sure I've got my shoes and jacket on before calling an Uber it arrives so fast, it actually saves time because I don't have to deal with parking.
Good to see the author using wireguard as an additional network security layer
Yes, even at school aged 14 I was told that if I wanted to really learn about science I should read Scientific American in preference to New Scientist.
for the last 4 years they have been running their v1 app.
we were brought in to build their v2 apps.
Puerto Rico Closes 184 Schools After Filing for Bankruptcy
Anybody aware of a good tool that does the reverse (PDF to some nicely editable format)? I don't care to maintain the page based layout.

I've tried some tools many years ago and the results weren't so good. I realize that due to how PDFs can be structured you can't ever expect such a tool to always be able to give perfect results.
If it is something that OCaml, Haskell and Lisp are not lacking, it is books written about them. We can argue on technical points. But the existence of documentation is a non-issue for all of these languages.

https://ocaml.org/learn/books.html

https://wiki.haskell.org/Books

http://lisp-lang.org/books/

It could well be, that these books are written for experienced programmers who don't need basic concepts (control flow, object orientation, etc.) explained. But that was not the point.

The absence of an easy road for these langauges is because they need to teach some powerful abstractions first that have no equivalence in Python, Java or C.
Consumers are willing to pay $4,900 extra for a car that drives itself
I don't think I ever heard a good technical reason to use a traditional RDBMS. And as a default choice it is not a very good one, when something distributed can deliver an easy to maintain resilient solution pretty much out of the box.
Going to agree here. I get "OK" results at between 550F and 600F (preheat gas oven which runs a little hot on 500, then turn on broiler). This is about a 6 minute pizza. It's not perfect, but it's almost as good as the best NY-style pizza place in my small city, and much better than any of the chains.
Is this sarcastic..? Sounds like something I would especially see Google do.
Some other industry players also made a movie about climate change at about the same time, but their conclusion was basically, "Don't worry about it, because plants will just love all the excess CO2." I remember this film because of an otherwise good, but somewhat dogmatic conservative high school physics teacher.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greening_of_Planet_Earth
Yet as bad as our taxes are in the states, I'm still not losing upwards of 60% of my income!
I read somewhere, don't remember where that your healthcare system is more costly because of you're legal system.

There are more legal risk and cost for doctor, hospital, etc.. in the US, so their insurance is (way) more costly, so their price is higher.

But I don't have any data, so that's just an hypothesis. But if this is true, good luck to change that.
Slightly off-topic, what caught my attention was how the firm developing MariaDB is Finnish while one of the top leadership* who approved the agreement is Finnish too.

*: European Commission Vice-President Jyrki Katainen, responsible for Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness
>>> We should make spending transparent, publish a detailed account of what the money is being spent on and answer any reasonable questions asking for more details

Isn't this an obligation for foundations ?
The title is misleading, nothing is said about future.
When You're Not Quite Sure If Your Teacher Is Human
When it gets cheap enough, you won't want to move there. That's why it'll be cheap.
The problem with "dormant" wisdom teeth is that they are often misaligned and will push against the other teeth, ruining expensive orthodontic work.
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-another-stu...

> The notion has lived on despite copious evidence that that the so-called defensive medicine practiced by doctors merely to stave off lawsuits accounts for, at best, 2% to 3% of U.S. healthcare costs. As for "frivolous lawsuits," they're a problem that exists mostly in the minds of conservatives and the medical establishment.

> A new study led by Michael B. Rothberg of the Cleveland Clinic and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association aimed to measure how much defensive medicine there is, really, and how much it costs. The researchers' conclusion is that defensive medicine accounts for about 2.9% of healthcare spending. In other words, out of the estimated $2.7-trillion U.S. healthcare bill, defensive medicine accounts for $78 billion.
That really depends on the startup, and sometimes starting with micro-services helps with hiring - In our case thanks to starting with micro-services we hired developers knowing different programming languages and they can work together on the project by exposing end-points/consumers. Of course I wouldn't recommend doing that for everyone but in our use-case we had to start with distributed system anyway due to quite complicated domain.
Generating holograms from WiFi radiation
Other relevant reasons: single payer healthcare is less expensive because otherwise hospitals have more market power, which allows them to charge prices way above what it costs. Also, insurance companies here don't use cost effective analysis as much as Europe and will pay for the latest experiemental treatment, whereas Europe might ration its care for expensive relatively ineffective treatments.
US big cities are expensive, but there are plenty of places in the US that you haven't visited that are quite affordable to live in. You can't judge the whole US by NY, LA, and Chicago.
Are all biologists scientists, or only researchers? Because your statements seem to imply that you believe the latter (where CS researchers also lie).
MVC is correct. it was just 1 month behind..when things started to slip.. and thats when we stopped work.

having said that we will be taking major retainers and updating our contracts so they are bulletproof.
Make sure to dance quietly! Sounds like a blast.
Is the Gig Economy Working?
Reminds me of something I once read on the difference between good manners and good etiquette. With good etiquette, if your guest starts eating the soup with the wrong spoon, you correct their mistake. With good manners, you use the wrong spoon to match.
> Relatively early in our marriage, I made a career choice that was an unambiguous case of putting my career ahead of my marriage and family. The consequences of that choice resonated for years in our marriage. That was the biggest mistake I ever made, and I am grateful that our family managed to survive it. I will never do something that selfish, thoughtless, and stupid again.

Any chance you'd be able to expand on that a bit? It sounds like something that could be very educational to the younger generation!
Theoretical physics wouldn't exist without experiments that back it up. In particular, for a theory to be relevant, it has to correctly predict the outcomes of all past experiments. In contrast with math, where you can easily make up "worlds" (models) that have no basis in reality whatsoever.
Yup! MySQL + Redis (for query/object caching and queues) gets you the best of both worlds in a lot of scenarios, and is reasonably easy to set up and manage. And it will probably scale better than you expect at first!
> Afrikaans isn't the "main language" of South Africa.

@NicoJuicy might have meant to say "common tongue." I can only communicate effectively English and the pervasiveness of Afrikaans still gives me problems - even though it is currently being displaced as the common tongue.
In urban areas, housing in Europe is typically cheaper than in the US. Rural and suburban housing is much more, though of course the US has a far larger supply of land.
Email enumeration is often determined to be a UX choice rather than a security issue. I've explored this in the past with the idea of doing this to popular sites to build a demo/psychographic profile of an email address. Had a MVP hosted but not working at the moment. I remember sites included FB, Sephora, Home Depot, CafeMom, ESPN. Most have a XHR call to an API that determines if email exists or a message saying "Your password is incorrect".
CityMapper – Smart bus service
GraphQL Cheat Sheet
> Being committed to staying married when there are better alternatives might keep you married, but at what cost?

The evidence shows, on average, divorcees end up poorer and less happy than couples who stick together through tough times. The evidence shows, again on average, the children of divorcees are worse off.

The problem is people are amazing at self-deception. They are terrible judges as to whether they are going to be happier/better off post-divorce.

I don't have all the answers. But its clear that sticking together is more often than not the right strategy.
Better than anything but the fancy, expensive pizza joints around here. 550F max oven. Even bread machine dough pizza comes out pretty damn good. Hard to do worse than major chain pizza, certainly, unless you accidentally leave out crucial ingredients or have some similarly disastrous mishap.
Eye tracking will require new headsets or new accessories but basic foveated rendering which just goes to the center could be done on today's VR hardware.
Really old screenshots of applications and the development tools from the MIT Lisp Machine, here the MIT CADR of June 1980, similar as sold as LM-2 by Symbolics:

http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/symbolics/L...

This is pre Dynamic Windows, which was introduced several years later.
It's one of many factors. It isn't the sole factor and it probably isn't the biggest one.

(We have less doctors that we should, there are structural incentives designed to increase access to hospitals and emergency rooms in low population density areas, our insurance system is designed by the insurance companies, there are mandates about providing services that are not fully funded and on and on)
Well they are in the US too. They are in taxes, in the costs of goods (since many companies are paying for their employees' insurance) etc.

You can strain it out of GDP to see how much it is: over 17% in the USA, 9.4% in Australia etc: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.TOTL.ZS
Can you recommend please some of these non CB based libraries?
Wind and other transient atmospheric conditions have a major effect. That's why individual unguided projectiles can't reliably hit a target more than about 4 miles away, and even at that range you have to be really lucky. The range from LEO to surface is a lot longer.
Quick introduction to mini.css grids
This topic comes up a lot and Ad Contrarian has had my favorite takes on it. His latest-

http://adcontrarian.blogspot.com/2015/04/death-of-tv-continu...
No, google SMTP accepts the RCPT TO with 250 "I'll try my best" regardless of the existence of the email.
Border agents threatened to “be dicks”
That's what they are called though..."versioning filesystems". I didn't compare it to SCM. It is probably more comparable to snapshots. The number of revisions held is configurable.
I'm pretty sure there are already programs out there whose install instructions include activating developer mode and installing WSL Ubuntu.
What about support at the driver level for Java and .NET applications or heterogeneous database schemas?

It is not clear how "XA START" maps into each server.

Am I supposed to manually mess around with text ids?

Nice to see stored procedures are supported, but they seem pretty basic in language features when compared with PL/SQL or Transact SQL.
> I'm still not losing upwards of 60% of my income!

Nor are Europeans.

http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecac...

Side note: I pay $28k/year in premiums and copays for healthcare, so I'd happily accept the higher tax rates. Employer-paid premiums hide the true costs of the American healthcare system from most.
I think if you add taxes + medical expenses you'll find you pay about the same or even more than in most of Europe.
In that climate (and frankly still present in a lot of places), it's a major character slur to imply an unmarried woman going home with strange men.

(as mentioned at #11, this is the time when the waltz was still a bit racey and mildly controversial)
I get it--humans don't make progress except through culling of the elderly, people such as John McCain and Nancy Pelosi--won't be sad to see them go, lol! But seriously, if we're ever to be come a true spacefaring species, the aging thing has to get solved. Humans would then have a far better chance of ranging out. Right now we're just ants.
Maybe you should research what enterprise RDMS are capable of as well, specially in clustering, data integrity and OLAP analysis tools.
It's a lot harder to fix issues like crowding and alignment after the damage has already been done — and the pain is debilitating if you have an infection/issues due to wisdom teeth not coming in 'just right' as well.

I'm on the fence about the rate we take them out, but there are solid arguments for it.
Interesting points, but this still does not shed light on the effective insurance costs physicians pay (annually and over the life of a practice), in case a malpractice suit is brought against them.
#8 Don’t Whisper to the Ladies.

“To affect an air of secrecy or mystery when conversing
in a ballroom is a piece of impertinence for which no
lady of delicacy will thank you.”

Nowadays, don't most people find whispering in a loud setting a kind of intimate thing from partner to partner? I personally find it has the effect of making a big event smaller, more about "us."
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FTFY
Skills are useless without a bit of creativity. You should look into that.

I know creativity and corporations don't get along very well but it'll provide you answers to your questions above.
In the 1500's religious people were abandoning the the Church in numbers. There were 15-20 independent reformers at the Luther's time and maybe 5 of them are still known names.

You remove Luther from the picture and reform changes pace and takes different route but but it still happens.
Perhaps dealing with changing requirements.
Just this weekend my wife told me about a co-worker who was bragging about taking the ambulance to the ER the last time her son had a slight cough. Normally she goes through all the trouble of driving him there herself, but she didn't want to waste any gas. Apparently, any and all health matters end with a trip to the ER in her family. She said several other co-workers claimed to do this as well. Part of the reason is that they can ask for prescriptions for Pediasure and other baby-related goods while they are there, so that it'll be covered and they don't have to pay for it. I'd never heard of this.

For most of these families, the fathers of their children stay home all day and don't work. I admire how these women pull long shifts and work everyday of the week. But when it comes to healthcare, I've heard some ponderous stories that shed some light on how some systems come to get over-worked and require so much money to operate. Maybe our community is the only one in America that this common, but it's a reality where I live.

Yeah I get a little ticked off when my premiums continue to rise when I hardly ever seek any healthcare and my family is rarely sick, and insurance companies count on my never going to help shoulder the burden of the people who do go. I don't mind contributing some to help people who need it, but honestly it's reaching a breaking point with me. The company I work for can't afford to offer a plan better than Obamacare, so even the PPO plan is terrible.
1. keyboard

2. Posture/ergonomics

3. Take frequent breaks while coding.

4. do minimal typing when you are not actively coding.
> it seems like they are only still married because of their religious beliefs.

Every marriage will fall on hard times. Religious beliefs can get you through.

I know many friends who are happy and in love but would have gotten divorced if not for religious beliefs convincing them to hold on.
But aren't many of the inexpensive areas those that are dying due to deindustrialization? Those areas that gave rise to Trump?
I always see this discussion cast as one between scalability (KV) and dev efficiency (SQL), but other reasons to adopt columnar databases include:

1. Difficulty in transitioning a system with SQL-Gone-Wild to a system that can be implemented with other dbs without complexity overdrive
2. Escalating costs to get any additional availability guarantees out of SQL (availability & cost are key business issues)

In AWS & Google Cloud, you're going to need to pay outright for capacity as well as capacity devoted db recovery (a replica / set of replicas in another availability zone). On the other side with something like dynamo / cloud datastore, your payment model is based on requests / sec and the costs for replicated data. I'm just saying that there's nothing simple to deciding where price / availability / dev productivity balances will lead you to, and you can be an inexperienced developer who chooses either side of these technologies without really understanding the full story.
Every practice has those people. But billing complexity is one of the factors driving doctors to work for hospitals and large organizations rather than in their own practice.
Top bracket for California and NYC works out to over 50%, but without free healthcare, education, and retirement.
Who's your Customer
Built to Last – How to Build Company That Will Dominate for Centuries Pt2
Hmm... Reading this article about the transition from a 6 to 5 day work week makes me think it's possible to transition to 4.
Creating the best lead and customer segmentation for your company
I always try the soap wherever I go, now.

I used to have four or five plantar's warts on my hands and thumbs; for years. I couldn't freeze them or cut them off. They always came back, and were quite painful sometimes.

Then, one week while I was in a college's summer camp, staying in their dorms; I used the hotel-style soap they offered in the room.

Boom! three or four days later they were all gone. Like magic. Never came back (About 15 years ago, now). Cheap hotel soap.
The nice thing about programming is that it's not like Starcraft: your typing and mousing skills, which would be the first to degrade as you get older, matter the least. It's not like Doom, where your reaction times decide your success or failure.

It's more like Civilization, where you spend more time looking at the board and thinking of moves than you do actually entering moves. And the more times you play, the more problems you've encountered, and the more possible moves you see. The Huns are attempting to flank you? Been there, done that. Someone picked up a wonder? You can work around that. Playing against Ghandi? Look out for them nukes.

And if you decide to play co-op Civilization with a newbie, you have the opportunity to help them bypass some of that learning curve, by passing on the things you have learned over your years of play.

The advantage of having seen all of the problems, in business terms? You don't have to spend a lot of time figuring out how to solve them, and you won't make a lot of mistakes while solving them. You can get past these simple problems in no time flat, and move on to the problems you haven't seen before. This makes you fast at 90% of the tasks you face.

The downside of having seen all the problems? You have a solution that you know works for every problem, and might not see the benefit in trying other solutions. When the Huns flank you, you send 50 spearman units to break the flank. But what about 10 artillery units? Or 1 tank?

When you know a solution works, you have to consciously push yourself to try a new solution. For some people that's easy, for others, not so much. But if you really want to remain at the top of your game, you need to make that push.
> It usually only takes me a minute or two to ask them a future function question that's not reasonably attainable (and performant) with a NoSQL solution.

Curious if you have an example of this.
A buddy of mine has an uuni3 which has baked quite few lovely looking pizzas for him:

https://uk.uuni.net/collections/frontpage/products/uuni-3

He also takes it on holidays and trips.