skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Eric Akerman, vice president of IT, is a high school buddy of Abovitz. He is a loud and outspoken and several misogynistic comments have emanated from his department and from him."

"Vice president of IT Akerman, on Nov. 8, 2016, told a large group of people who asked why he voted for Trump that it was 'because Melania is hot.'"
The application should have logic to re-try connections. When you scale, there is a brief moment ~30-45seconds when the app wont be able to connect to the database and then resumes if you re-try connection.
/I work at Microsoft on the managed PostgreSQL service/
> I don't know if it's true, but I was told once that bing means disease in Mandarin.

Sort of but not really. It depends on the intonation and even with the right intonation (bing4 / bìng), the sound maps to several other possible words aside from "disease".
Yea, I blew a gasket in my late twenties. ("Blew a gasket" because in all the Therapy/drugs they didn't have a clue.)

1. In had a lot of years to think about the reasons and I think they are many:

Genes, so much pressure in your twenties, wanting to be perfect--in a very imperfect, immoral, unethical society. (I'm talking about America because that's where it happened.)
So many societal expectations that after high school you're just suspose to excel at--"Just do it!" It doesn't matter if you have no real support, guidance, or help.

I'm speaking just for men. Because that's all I really know.

Don't take on the elders neuroses, values, beliefs. Realize that even the best parents sometimes want you to succeed, or be happy, but only as successful, and happy as they are. Yes--it's ugly, but it's out there. It's never talked about in Psy 101.

Once you hit puberty, and those hormones flow for the next twenty years like a fire hydrant; realize it's normal to have some f---ing king crazy thoughts, just don't act on them.

We are a few hundred years of waking up looking for something to ejaculate into, and something to kill for breakfast.

We are never told just crazy some of our thoughts are going to be. It was brought up Christian, and I thought Jesus woudn't have my inner dialogue? What's wrong with me?

I could go on, but what's the point; these are just my random thoughts. Just--in your twenties, and early thirties, don't think you can move mountians. I literally thought I could do Anything. I brain one Christmas Eve night said no.

I can honestly say my broken gasket affected my life on so many levels. It's weird. I can be the most capable person is a room, or afraid to walk into the room.

I got lucky with a little bit of money years ago, but I would be homeless if I didn't get that money. You don't need to know how I got the money, but making it didn't hurt the little guy. Ive been a little guy for years now, and the suits are always trying to take the money back. I'm rambling--not feeling great today. Thankfully, it's just getting older though. I hope?

This is just for the mental illness that pop up later in life. It's not geared towards anyone suffering from early on maladies.

I can also add this, go to the Therapy. You might find it works? More importantly, you will find what Doesn't work. You will get better with time. It will lighten up eventually. Don't blow out your liver with medication, including alcohol. Sadly, sometimes, especially for the poor, it's (alcohol) is the only way to get some relief from the daily missery.
You might benefit from this Coursera course [1] "Learning how to Learn". It addresses many of the issues you've mentioned above. It provides a few helpful tricks to combat procrastination and it's straightforward.

https://goo.gl/brJ0qN
The fund has a very low cap and their employees can only put in a certain amount in the fund in the first place (depending on seniority and individual performance).

Also, you're assuming everyone who's put money into the fund has never taken it out, which would throw off your math quite a bit.
It's all flash and no substance. Elon Musk is a great salesman and marketer. I'll give him that. But just like their cars, this roof is for the wealthy people who want to look cool and earn some liberal points. It makes no financial sense for the vast majority of people.

> That being said, I love these things, so hoping it gets cheaper in the coming years.

Yep. Perhaps in the future.
I live on top of a hill where we routinely get 50mph+ winds. Explain to me how roofing tiles carry zero risk.
I wonder how they go inferring objects we do know about? If we had no knowledge of venus for instance, how much could we infer about it?
You could distinguish people who are married or are parents (with false negatives) by recording people who are at the till with their spouse or children. (Send out demographic-research cards once, to a few of the same stores you've collected this info from, to derive a normalization factor that will make such collected observations useful from then on.)

You could make a note of a person's seeming affect—positive/negative/neutral emotion.
Please read my blog about Azure Database for PostgreSQL here -https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-azure-data...
/I work at Microsoft on the managed PostgreSQL service/
> So it's usually POST resource/:id/action and that's fine.

There's nothing wrong with that. It's not anti-REST or anything, assuming you satisfy the other REST constraints, ie. each request is self-contained and any stateful resources are designated by URLs.

As an aside, I'm personally not a huge fan of human-readable URLs because it encourages API consumers to rely on/construct URLs client-side, which is not REST.
This is a case of should be this way, but never will be. People have and always will respond to personal incentives, which is why framing this way is doing well.

If people are incentivized to get solar roofs for personal benefits and it happens to also help the "Life Economy," this is good. Especially because more people will get them when they're framed in terms of what an individual gains from installing it, not what Humanity gains.
That might be your opinion of what the law should be, and I wouldn't disagree with that opinion, but it's not what the law says.
Sorry, I wanted you to expand on this: "cashiers recorded buyer demographics by hand".

Give me an example of what they used to record by hand. All I can think of is "male, adult". I am specifically interested in what else you say they used to record.

I wasn't asking about the present status quo, only your historical statement about cashiers recording by hand.
I'm not a firm believer in what I consider the common definition of passion. You, and only you, have to make your passion. Personally nothing I've tried jumped out of me. Every career has it's enjoyable, intellectually engaging parts, and it's monotonous, weary parts.

If you want to stick with EE and CompE, sit down and list all of the things you enjoy, no matter how seemingly insignificant.

"For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over again" - A butchered quote from The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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I'm not disagreeing with you, but I'll throw out this perspective:

If you want to invent tomorrow's computer today, you can do it by spending a lot of money per unit. That was thinking at Xerox Parc and at SRI before it.

Tying it together, often the only people who can afford and bootstrap early prototypes are wealthy people. Elon has tapped into this strategy by making the early prototypes of his cars and shingles sexy so wealthy people can signal to other wealthy people that they are high-minded and forward thinking people.

Good.

If we can use that to bootstrap the production of cheaper shingle/panels for billions of people in the long run, we're better off in the long run.

Nevertheless, I agree with your fundamental premise that downsizing, possession sharing and clever recycling is the best solution for most people. Personally speaking, I'd much rather live a life where I share my personal possessions and consume as little as possible. Call me a hippy, but I could care less for owning most shit. It doesn't make me happy for the most part.

I'd also love to see us get away from heating/cooling buildings and research heating/cooling bodies with interesting clothing. Again, I think targeting high-minded/forward-thinking wealthy people is a good strategy for cultivating an important industries and products like this.
$450M/year to support 160M daily actives seems insane. That's $2.81 per user per year.

That's like paying $234/month in hosting alone for 1K daily actives. What is all that computing power used for?
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> A web site I used recently puts your session ID in the URL. If you log in, then alter the URL to remove the session ID, you appear logged out.

Nothing inherently wrong with that, but it depends on the situation.

> Clicking the "Log out" button on the page simply removes the session ID from the URL. If you go back and reload the web page with the session ID in it again, you still appear logged in.

That's bad.
"Your video will play after this ad" oh the irony
I think the fetish for GDP and how PPP are calculated [+] mask some actual growth. The number of hours you have to work to buy a meal, pay rent, buy a TV, etc have plummeted, not to mention there was no consumer Internet in the 1990s, much less Netflix (going to the movies was a big production, especially if you didn't live in a big city). IMHO when looked at that way wages have risen.

This is essentially a corollary of Baumol, though he didn't write about it.

[+] Like the Dow, the value they bring is a little bit of temporal comparison capability. But they were designed to give a back-of-the-envelope view that could be calculated by pencil and paper. But people mistake the map for the landscape...
Yakk's explanation there is great.
The US is a massive administrative area with some cities the size of Switzerland and very different demographics and qualities of life in different regions.

Walk into an Apple Store in Berkeley and you can self check out expensive items using only your iPhone.

The generalization you are trying to make doesn't work.
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> but the true challenge is to identify your own biases and irrational worldviews

You're right.

But it's been my experience that the people who harp on this point are the same people who insist that:

- there is no such thing as objective truth
- it is not possible to be unbiased or objective

They almost universally hold that those "truths" constitute grounds for dismissing inconvenient facts, as well as for denying incoherence/inconsistencies in their belief systems.
> (Also, falling out.)

More or less the same way headphones do.
Its exciting to see Azure grow its offering to compete Amazon and Google.
look. you'll never get good grades, because you don't like school. neither did i. i'd never, ever, ever go back to graduate school. getting C's and barely graduating is perfectly fine. that's a lot better than going crazy trying to excel at something you detest, and dropping out from mental anguish. (very common)

once you really understand this, it takes a tremendous burden off of your own mental state.

then, the trick is to just force yourself to do just enough work to finish with a degree, so that your money is not wasted. and doing that is not really hard. it really isn't.

your goal should be to get on with the rest of your life, not feel bad about the fact that you hate school.
The changes log about this release:

https://github.com/catfan/Medoo/releases/tag/v1.4
Don't write an API. Use something like reindex.io.
Their cloud storage said eventually consistent for apps needing a lot of performance when I looked into it. A quick Google on the offerings show pages describing what tradeoffs are available for customers with each option. So, they not only know about it: they implemented it as a product feature. Their internal stores were strongly-consistent with high performance except AdWords on MySQL. That got moved to F1 for strongly-consistent high-performance. Spanner, which F1 uses, then got offered to cloud customers.

After re-reading the F1 paper, my mistake seems to be thinking they relied on eventually-consistent stuff internally. It appears that was just an option for 3rd party developers in their cloud products. Thanks for the peer review as I found some more stuff double checking. :)
I own a two-story, 3000 sq.ft. house, budgeted to the usual percentage of total income. I assure you that $80k is not pocket change (because I didn't pay the down payment with pocket change, and even that wasn't $80k).
I think the relation is that Apple is even more guilty of the thing you were complaining about Microsoft doing.
I have different problems. Zillow's estimate is about 15% higher than Redfin for us. But there's also issues with the facts each have about our home. Zillow's estimate also goes up and down by tens of thousands of dollars per week. Some weeks it'll be as much as a $40,000 swing.

Keeping the data correct on the sites is also a chore, and if I don't keep on top of both sites, entire rooms or bathrooms will come and go, square footage will change and so on.

Real estate agents will claim that appraisers don't go off of these sites, but buyers will use them as pricing information so it almost becomes critical for home owners to police these sites to get as favorable an estimate as possible.
Increasing renewable energy sources and an abundance of fossil fuels is going to increase energy prices at a rate higher than inflation? I don't think so.
could be. the impact of going into a bad school has almost immediate effects. Do you think people dont think at all when they make decisions?
I agree it's a bit cliché and can be annoyingly deceptive, but there's less shitty ways of doing it, which is discussed in that SaaS Launch List article. Regardless, if it works, I wouldn't discount it. It's basically just a ghetto Kickstarter campaign page. I'd rather employ that trick than spend a few months building an MVP just to find out nobody cares. I've done the latter enough times to know how much it sucks when you're wrong about your assumptions.
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Oh, OK. I edited in a link to the buttons the cashiers used, in the original post.
> later known as the Internet

My turn to be pedantic, I guess, but 80 and 443 are only two of many available ports. The internet is much bigger than just the web, even if lots of people never bother to look beyond their browser.
If you ever get to go to Geneva, swing by the CERN exhibit. There's the original fileserver, complete with 'This machine is a server. DO NOT POWER DOWN!!' scrawled on tape stuck over the power button. There's also his paper describing the WWW with the feedback of his manager written across the top: "vague but interesting...".

It's kind of comforting to know that my academic and computing experiences thus far are shared both across the globe and across decades.
I'm currently working on an MVC5 project on .NET 4.6.1 using VS2015 on Windows.

Can I load my solution on VS for Mac and have it work out of the box(restoring nuget packages...etc)?
Knowing that fact sounds very useful...
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> There are other reasons Tesla started with a high-end model.

True, I didn't mean to imply it was the only reason - more that it's good example of appealing to human self-interest to fix a larger problem.
> Did you take into account the 30% federal tax credit on that 30k?

If I understand the tax credit correctly, it's only available if you're paying that much in taxes otherwise. For a $60k roof, you have to already be paying $18k in taxes to take full advantage of the credit. That's an important detail for some.
It is obvious that there are lot of PR firm employees working for Tesla all over social media.

A new roofing technology that is "zero risk".

So many people are trying to "sell" Tesla roof here, reddit and all over social media. It's kind of sad.
For me the only possible benefit was to save time, and on that self-checkout machines have failed miserably. Generally there is at least one problem but often two problems that these machines refuse to clear for me without waiting for help from an employee, and that almost obliterates any time savings all by itself.

A lot, if not all, of the problems are self-inflicted poor design choices!

There is NO REASON TO CARE ABOUT BAGGING; I’m sure this is some ill-conceived notion of anti-theft or whatever but when you aggravate 200 paying customers for every banana theft that you prevented, you’ve still lost. A human cashier can scan dozens of items and toss them aside in seconds!! You cannot come even close to that rate of speed when Every Single Item has to be scanned (and often re-scanned), then moved all the way over somewhere else (and then removed and added again before the computer is happy). And if you have the audacity to buy a vegetable, whose codes cashiers mostly know by heart, you will again be much slower yourself. Not to mention that the entire idea of bagging breaks down with the recent craze to bring your own bags or simply choose not to use a bag, because the computer freaks the hell out when you just want to scan your two items and pay and get out without leaving the required sacrifices on the Altar of the Bagging Lord.

And there’s always at least one employee doing almost nothing except resetting computers. You know what that person could do? Accept cards in advance to start running them through the system while you’re screwing with your groceries, then press a button so that when you’re ready to pay you basically just have to tap a button and sign. Yet of course they don’t do that, they’d rather create the slowest and most unhelpful self-payment system in history, while people are waiting, which of course you can’t even reach until you satisfy the Bagging Lord in the previous step.
I'd love to start using that super power tool with interchangeable heads from Black+Decker, but damn - it takes long time to recharge the batteries. I would rather stick to my knife and hand screwdriver. I'm so fast and efficient in using them.
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That's not quite the issue. Public parking garages have been proposed but getting them sited has been difficult. One reason is competition from developers of apartments, who want to use the space for residences. Rather a dilemma to resolve as both are needed. Not exactly a NIMBY matter in that case.
Pedantry is fine by me when accurate and done in the spirit of learning more nuance about a subject :)
Interesting. I wonder if anyone has documented any best practices for timekeeping in VMs.

VMware has this but it does not appear to have been updated in a while. https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?langu...
Not very well?
CockroachDB has a rather nice admin interface that monitors the health of the cluster.

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/explore-the-admin-ui.html

There's also a lot of rpc end points used for the admin UI that can be queried to get more fine grain info. However, they're primarily for internal use and might change in the future.

https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/pkg/ser...

https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/pkg/ser...
I'm asking historically what was actually done, not what could be done. (For, "what could be done" you could ask if the cashier had seen this person before? Are they a regular shopper here, as far as the cashier notices?) I am asking what information cashiers in Japan actually in fact recorded by hand. What did these cards look like for each customer. Etc.
So did Grooveshark. But Spotify played ball with RIAA.
It almost sounds like people try harder and harder to keep up with societal expectations of continued "sharpness"... until they hit some age where cultural norms say they aren't expected to be sharp any more. And then they stop trying, which causes an outsized decline as their lowered expectations of their own capability, feeds into lowered capability, which feeds back into further-lowered expectations.
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Haha "vague but interesting".

Isn't it amazing how big of a disconnect there is between "people who are capable of identifying/executing on big ideas" (aka Tim and his manager)....

and "the projects that businesses/agencies want their employees to do"
Yeah, garages is one idea, but that's a land use matter of importance re: need for residential development. Garages have been proposed, but difficult to squeeze in among the competing needs. Sometimes the conflicts are just hard to resolve with the various constituencies fighting it out.
Their end goal is to give more resources to a VR developer so that they can increase the adoption of VR games and devices. When they do that their VR ads ( which currently show up on YouTube I have seen one or two) will get more click through and engagement . A good VR ad can give you minutes of engagement and people signing up with their email (went to a VR meet up where this occurred).
A 16bpp linear pre-multiplied format would be awesome. sRGB is a pain to use in practice:

- Slow to convert to linear colour space (requires a pow).. except
- GPUs use an 8-bit lookup table to convert input sRGB to output linear value.
- This doesn't work for more than 8 bits as the table gets excessively large very quickly.

It's a pity PNG doesn't have flag to mark the image data as being pre-multiplied.
Why are you still trying altruism?

Aligning the economic incentives to promote an outcome is much more effective at getting that outcome

WE ALREADY KNOW THIS
For now. When 10% of people have panels, that won't be true anymore.
How long before someone writes an article titled "The Perils of JavaScriptSchools"?
To me, Beta is different than building a business model around piracy. It's quite clear Spotify has spent a metric fuck-ton of money trying to appease Rights Holders (ahem, I didn't say Artists for a reason...) and do their thing. Disclosure: Longtime Spotify artist by way of DistroKid, have very much enjoyed the 'Discovery' aspects for foreign countries to find my tunes.
No VC would invest in this. Beyond it not being monetizable, this is a bad idea for a variety of reasons, but nonetheless, such apps do actually already exist!

These apps are pointless because, legally speaking, sex is actually not contractual (& prostitution is illegal, so no contract enforcement there either). People can, do, and are legally permitted to change their minds about what they do and do not consent to during the course of sexual activity. We may agree to sex, but we all can change our minds at any time for any reason. No matter how we felt 10 minutes ago, we are all allowed to decide actually we don't feel like it, your sheets are too gross or what one partner thought was sexy, the other thought was demeaning, or whatever--no matter what we agreed on beforehand.

TLDR: evidence of prior consent is not a trump card.
> Being single user doesn't make installing software user owned any less of a bad idea.

Can you explain why you believe that?
Like most similar comparisons, it's essentially "our cheapest X will be the same as the most expensive of Y."
I admit that for classroom exercises the package manager isn't a huge draw, but when someone learns some JS basics and they want to try to make a real thing, the fact they don't have to move to a new ecosystem to get libraries keeps the momentum high.
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I feel like I see this all the time at work. Honestly only a couple years into working as a software engineer I'm burnt out on people way over engineering stuff, future proofing and seemingly having a need to make as many comments as possible on CRs to improve their craft/defend from the horrors of 'bad code'.