skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The coin flip being tired or a trope is irrelevant. The million and 20 may not even be correct (haven't checked). the point is that people see patterns even where they don't exist. That's why science has methods for telling whether a pattern really represents something or if it would likely be seen even if the data were random. Until you do those stats on hedgefund returns your irritation at the trope remains unconvincing.
I am not a scientist but I think there is a problem in the article that you are correctly (IMO) pointing out.
It is that the notion of temperature has not the same meaning at molecular level and at macro level.
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Are you kidding?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_canon#Literary_canon

There is literally a literary canon. It has certainly evolved over time, but almost everything I was assigned to read in my high school literature classes was in it. My personal opinion is that no one would bother reading Inferno today if it wasn't in the canon.
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Respectfully, like 80% of HN comments, mine was not "nice", but it was neither uncivil nor unsubstantial - parent was literally an anecdote related to their billing grievances and their proposed solution was literally to let poor people die of treatable ailments. Unless you had an alternative reading?

Totally understand how you could interpret my comment as uncivil if you believe I intentionally misrepresented his argument.
Thanks... I just ordered a used copy. I remember enjoying one of Ceruzzi's other books:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/history-modern-computing
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I've been doing it for a decade [1].

Not a lot of success on the big one - before FPV it was notoriously hard to fly, and after FPV it turned out it was unstable on sharp turns (see crash videos). Haven't gotten around building a next iteration. Latest one is a aluminium-plastic frame, 2825-1100 motors, 3.5Ah 3S battery, about 1.5Kg weight. Nicknamed flying guillotine due to it's bush-chopping 10x3.8 props.

The small one ("Acro") performs very well as an indoors/training quad. 3D printed frame, 800mAh battery, 1811-2000 motors, about 300g weight. Held together with zip ties across stress points, with connections angled as to be flexible on impact but lock solid under static load. So, you can crash it all day long and only need to replace the zip ties or props occasionally.

All had custom flight controllers and software, no ideas on that front. Not sure about the prices, since all the core parts were bought years ago.

[1] http://orbides.org/pepela-gal.php
I wish there were fewer steps to set alarms. I'd love to be able to say "ok google, vibrate my watch in 20 minutes".
Read and learn: https://research.google.com/archive/spanner.html

Serializability is all about ensuring a single consistent ordering of events. Lots of algorithmic shortcuts you can take if all your nodes' clocks are precisely in sync.
I guess it's time for me to be a crotchety old man again.

Opera lost me when the followed Chrome in the elimination of the menu bar. If they haven't rectified that, I'll stick with Firefox.
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In my eyes, PHP was a template engine to begin with, so it indeed doesn't make sense. But I doubt that your business logic would require to include manual memory management or bitwise operations, for example.
Wordpress is effectively the operating system of the web. It's much more than a run-of-the-mill CMS.
According to the about page, he is a software engineer that also wrote a philosophy PhD thesis at Princeton on the history of computing. Sounds pretty fascinating.
About nine months ago we made the decision to go with RethinkDB for our infrastructure in place of PostgreSQL (at least for live replicated data), but if this existed at the time we'd have seriously taken a look. We're pretty happy with RethinkDB but I plan on still taking a look at this so we have a backup option.
I'm confused. What's the difference between 'Yes' and 'Optional' in the 'Commercial Version' row on the comparison chart? To me 'Yes' suggests there is only a commercial version, but clearly that's not true for CockroachDB.
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Ready to dump gmail and pay for email service. I'm willing to pay <$10/month. This is really about wanting to own my own email/calendar data - I am not going to host my own, and given how important email is, definitely don't want some fly-by-night operation.

any thoughts as to what is the best way to go? seems like gsuite, kolabnow, fastmail, and outlook/office365 are resonable offerings, any others i should be looking at? any reason one is significantly better than another?

Requirements:

-migrate old gmail

-strong calendar app

-good web interface and iphone compatible (own app or native mail/calendar app)

-would prefer tagging vs folders for organization

-Reputable company with strong security
Could be.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/skype-ditched-peer-to-peer-supe...

> ...the Skype peer-to-peer network architecture elected certain nodes to be "supernodes", to help maintain the index of peers as well as handle parts of the NAT [network address translation]/firewall traversal for other peers. This election algorithm chose only machines with open Internet connectivity, substantial uptime, and which were running the latest version of our peer-to-peer code.

I probably misunderstood the first part of his comment to mean that they also wanted to distribute some of their processing to clients.
same could be said of venture capital
How many of the people who were going to steal it do you think were converted into legitimate buyers when you took down the free source? Also, I expect that your book is still available in certain circles for free.
> I somehow doubt thats really true

See: Europe. High taxes, strong social safety net. The "debate" is a minority of highly vocal people.
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I'm a 'Joe'. Never been a problem. At work there were at most two Joe's - me an another guy. Curiously, we worked three different jobs at the same time. He must have thought I was shadowing him.

The only time I even had a Joe issue was, when working another startup with a Joe, and my son Joseph joined, we all sat in a row in one room. Folks had to say JoeC, JoeA or Joseph to get the right one!
Createdmall development company, take the contract, deliver faulty building, accept payment, pay out funds to employees (subcontractors) and owners of the company, shut down company if the district comes after them.

It would incentivize his sort of behavior too.
I thought that was an exceptional way of phrasing that phenomenon, and the best pitch for moving compute back out to the edge that I have heard.
No. She ran a fund of funds.
You can't diversify a bad strategy, like selling cheap out of the money puts or picking nickels up in front of a steamroller with lots of leverage.

If you somehow have uncorrelated good strategies it's the best free lunch you'll get.
That was at the core of the "locationgate" a few years ago because location of surrounding access point wasn't flushed enough regularly. Hence revealing approximate location to people that can materially access the phone (this was before iOS full disk encryption).
See: http://allthingsd.com/20110427/apple-breaks-its-silence-on-l...

And by today standard I really appreciate Apple approach of doing most of the computation on the phone itself.
Thanks mholmes680... probably related to the previous owner... not sure how we can change that. If you have any insight please share

And thanks for the heads up :)
I have a Garmin Fenix 3, and the vibration wakes me up easily. It also goes well over a week between charges, even using the GPS heavily. Long battery life is important for a watch you are going to use as an alarm, since you lose the convenience of charging overnight.
maybe they just see self-driving as D.O.A right now. Or simply, lower priority?

Maybe they're just better at keeping it a secret (given the parent comment by the throwaway id). If Amazon can figure out a way to get self-driving car aligned with a) Alexa, b) logistics, c) prime membership, and/or d) driving shopping to their marketplace - then they are obviously working on it.

Or maybe, typical Amazon, they're already working on Amazon Engine, in parallel with Amazon Wheels, in parallel with Amazon Windshield, and Amazon Steering Wheel, and we'll have something that can be used as a car in a few years.
I can't for the life of me see why I would ever want such a monstrosity on my desktop...perhaps certain help-desk and locked down corporate configurations could benefit slightly from a walled-off version of Windows, but much of this is already available using Group Policies and such, so I just don't get it.

Please don't tell me they are trying to androidize the desktop, because that could possible be the most hairbrained idea MS has ever had, esp. this late in the game.
I'm not the OP. But I can see why they would not wish to go back; it is a breach of trust between company and consumer. Their product was using network to stream personal data, and gave no warning about it. The fact that they were caught does not matter, what matters is that because they thought they could get away with it in the first place, they did it anyway.
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There is a common element here. The original developer of uTorrent sold his product to BitTorrent and teamed up with the Spotify guys as the key engineer, and was critical to the success of the early product.

Ludvig is a badass. He's been one of my favorite programmers since the early uTorrent days. That's why Spotify was such a good product back in beta, he basically had control over everything technical.

Thus the P2P approach to bootstrap their service (I didn't mind. It was actually a pretty cool solution to an engineering problem) and the use of pirated media to test the product. Ludvig helped create Spotify in an attempt to turn his love for P2P into an actual commercial product.

Of course, Spotify sucks now and BitTorrent has mutilated uTorrent. I hope he leaves Spotify and starts a new project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludvig_Strigeus
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Then how about ShelterDB or ProtectDB or something along those lines? Shelter is actually a pretty kick ass name for a DB IMO
[Cockroach Labs engineer here working on performance benchmarking]

We have load generators for YCSB (just raw key-value ops in a firehose) and TPC-H (very complicated read-only queries) running right now, and we're about to start running TPC-C queries (moderately complex queries in large volume) as well. You can follow along on our progress here: https://github.com/cockroachdb/loadgen

In the context of your dichotomy, we want to bridge that gap. We want the linear scalability of your second group along with the full feature-set of the first group.

We will be publishing our performance numbers, but we haven't so far because the product has improved rapidly, and our numbers have been quickly obsoleted, but rest assured, we will be publishing a series of blog posts very soon. Anecdotally, our beta customers are not finding that they need very many more CockroachDB nodes than their existing database solutions, even with something as high-performant (but inconsistent) as Cassandra.
I know it's 'free', but Protonmail[1] does look promising. Not sure it has a calendar app though. I think Mailbox.org[2] has some office features like a calendar. The basic plan on Mailbox is EUR1.00 per month, but they do have other plans if you need more storage.

[1] https://protonmail.com/donate

[2] https://mailbox.org/en/
Thanks for your comment. I certainly hope my post does not come off that way!

I think there’s a perception outside of Japan that the country is a much more culturally conservative place than it actually is, and that it is much more hostile to LGBTQ rights than it actually is. In fact, it’s hard to overstate how quickly Japan has embraced LGBTQ rights in the past 10 years. A decade ago it would have been unimaginable to have so many companies present at a pride event in Tokyo, and it would have been unimaginable that the city government of Shibuya would have a booth at the entrance of the festival inviting people to discuss domestic partnership registration.

Much of this change has been the direct result of just a few individuals who took risks early on by speaking out. In the article I mentioned the example of Atsushi Kawada. In 2003 he did something that was unheard of at the time by coming out as gay to his boss at IBM. In 2004 he launched the LGBT employee group at IBM Japan, and later in the 2000s they became one of the first major companies in Japan to actively participate in the pride parade.

Having IBM in the parade was huge because it made it ‘safe’ for a few other forward thinking companies to join. And as more and more companies joined, it helped to move LGBTQ rights from a fringe topic to something that is now mainstream. In 2003 when Mr. Kawada came out to his boss it was a rare and courageous thing to do. Thanks to his efforts (and those of many, many others like him), in 2017 one new graduate working for IBM actually had his boss walking with him in the parade. Things changed because he changed them.

As for Apple, I do understand that the company and Tim Cook have been vocal about their support for LGBTQ rights in the US. Given the incredible strides that Japan has made in advancing LGBTQ rights over the past decade, I think a lot of people here would be delighted to have them participating at the same level in Japan.
The problem is not property owners being unwilling to sell out to developers, it's almost always nearby NIMBYs opposing new development.

IIRC a large percentage of buildings in Manhattan would be illegal to build today in terms of design/zoning.
It was amazing. A massive library of obscure releases across all genres. Merzbow box set, thousands and thousands of country LPs, music from African and Asian countries. Gradually it got whittled down to what certain labels would agree to.
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I think this only works if you set `git config --global user.useconfigonly true`, otherwise git will try to guess your name/email.
"Technical reasons" such as vendor lock-in ...
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From a business perspective, my first approach would be to build on an existing ecommerce platform...Amazon, ebay, Yahoo etc. That avoids a host of security and payment and content issues...and ongoing support issues. The app would be a front end for the shopfront and be the place where features add value (rather than risk).

One particular risk using an existing platform reduces is the risk associated with maintaining the ecommerce site. A developer who likes to build stuff in node may not have long term interest in tasks like regulatory compliance and such...things like calculating VAT depending on the buyer's location and automating payments to the government concerned.

Good luck.
> "RoachDB". It conveys the same meaning, while not being that awkward to discuss with users/clients

"Roach" has some other connotations as well[0], which may not help with selling to larger and enterprise clients.

[0] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=roach
Any wrist-mounted Fitbit will do this, even the tiny ones without a screen. I've been using one as my only alarm for about a year, and it works great.

Disclaimer: I work for Fitbit.

Edit: Also, the battery needs a 90-minute charge only once or twice a week.
But I think we can all agree that if we are programming a gun there should be an unsafe block.
> It's not at all surprising that their initial "success" is tied to torrenting as well.

Two founders of Spotify came from uTorrent after the sale.[1][2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ek
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludvig_Strigeus
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Actually, WalMNart cares and so does T-mobile. You probably care too if you stop and think for a bit...

The concern here isn't just order of transactions, but also synchronization. For instance, WalMart might charge you twice for a transaction if it appears to have happened at different times when it arrives in different data centers.

Also, the comment "The higher frequency the transactions the more you get into quantum physics." isn't relevant here. This is more in the realm of relativity than quantum physics. Even so, we aren't currently at a point where we need to worry about transactions happening at relativistic speeds.
Unfortunately, that's not universally true. But a smaller environment MAY have less politics and, even if it does, those politics may be easier to navigate.
I also sometimes find :Gstatus useful when resolving merges/rebases/cherry-picks. Makes it easier and faster to iterate through the affected files.
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This sounds like the sort of disincentive (after the units are sold and the horse has left the barn) that a good lawyer can easily prevent. Just like movies & funds can make/lose money that can't be clawed back, you just build an investment that pays out on sale to be nonexistent/bankrupt when fined.

Are there regulatory
ways around this? Of course, but they are complex, restrict the market in other ways, and lead to different distortions.
I've worked in the VFX industry and I find the subsidy situation fascinating. Canada and England have provided large subsidies to movie studios on visual effects work in a (successful) attempt to create visual effects industries of their own. Visual effects production is technically very complex and the artists who work in that industry often have years of training, so it's a bit disturbing to see that an entire industry that was created in the US can be uprooted pretty quickly simply through a government subsidy.

I'm actually surprised Canada hasn't tried this strategy with tech. One other interesting note about this situation is that the WTO (World Trade Organization) has rules that appear to be violated by these subsidies, but it seems doubtful that a case will ever be brought forward because VFX workers aren't unionized/organized and powerful movie studios have a huge financial interest in keeping these subsidies going.
Amazon must have nearly 400 R&D people in Toronto now. Probably 300 when I left. I was always involved in recruiting and Amazon hires the best from all over the world and probably over 70% of the engineers were from Waterloo and the new comers are mostly from Europe, plus we got a few returning from US Amazon as well. There is always some who wanted to move to Seattle after 3-4 years but the number is like 1 in 15..
I'll probably get some flack for saying this on this community, but after working for a unicorn, I understand this:

"Reflecting broader concerns about whether they can match the rich valuations offered by private investors."

It feels like a Ponzi scheme. I haven't called the end yet, but I finally feel like the end is near.
There are some transgressions that people don't forgive easily or at all.

I have been taking part in a one man boycott of Nintendo for over 20 years.

Not that it hurts them. Not that they care. I was just done with them.
That's a great article you linked to. Pretty eye-opening, to me at least. I feel a little different about peer review now.

> decisions about what to publish and what to reject were usually made by journal editors, often acting largely on their own. These decisions were often made rapidly, with papers appearing days or weeks after submission, after a cursory review by the editor. Rejection rates at most journals were low, with only obviously inappropriate or unsound material being rejected

Maybe this isn't possible today because of extreme specialization, but this sounds like a system with a lot of positives (relative to what we have now). ArXiv-like.
Geany hits most of these except fancy select, though there might be a plugin for that.
> I mean Mongo has very bad associations for me in terms of childhood taunts and Blazing Saddles...but now the name really relates more to the product than to the original meaning.

The difference is that the word "mongo" is an issue of the same word having different meanings in different dialects. Whereas, with "cockroach", it's the same intended meaning, but with different connotations.
Shell corporations can be made to funnel money around to the right people then die. As it is incredibly difficult to pierce the veil due to corporation protections being more important than human health and safety, all the "law" will find is a dead corporation with no assets. The developers will have already stripped it clean and started 10 more in the same way.
I posted an unlisted video of my daughter at a noisy indoor theme park. It got automatically removed because the venue had a song playing in the background.
Could the "rushed" approach of the Russians have to do with the characteristics of the French election? That up untill the first round it was not clear who would go up against Le Pen.
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Does CockroachDB have a streaming API a la RethinkDB changefeeds? This is a killer feature, IMO.
What you're saying makes sense, but it applies oppositely too in that tab is non-physical and notation very physical. Example, if you see a scale in musical notation, it's immediately obvious that it's a scale just from a 50 millisecond glance, whereas in tab it's not obvious that it's a scale until you read/play through it.

When you become adept with musical notation, this is one of the primary hindrances of tab.
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