skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I imagine some people may not take your "insurance" deal with a 50% chance of breaking down versus no insurance deal with a 5% chance of breaking down.

Not some - many. It's just that few are willing to put an actual number they would pay for that insurance - especially given how under other circumstances, most of them do their best to get the cheapest insurance. On this one type of insurance, they think differently. Perhaps this is a clue that they are not viewing it as insurance.

>Folks probably put a large price tag on the time and trouble they'd have to spend waiting for help, getting towed, and dealing with the repair, plus the opportunity cost of losing that time and interrupting or missing outright whatever they were on their way to.

Yes, this is how they rationalize it, but always careful to avoid putting a number on it. My $5000 is a low estimate. Realistically, think $10K. For less than a fifth of that, you can have a great vacation for two for a week. You're ruining the experience of one vacation so you can have 5 or more of them. (This particular trip cost me less than $200, so it can be a lot more than just 5 vacations). But instead, people prefer to have fewer such vacations in order to not have a breakdown.

For that one experience that you're worried about being ruined, I could have had (and may actually have had) many that you did not take due to lack of money.

>There's also the consideration that a small fraction of break-downs may be dangerous (either high speed loss of control, which I'm sure is rare, or even standing at the side of a highway, which I bet is much less rare but also dangerous). What value do you put on that?

I'll invert the question back to you, or to whoever is using that argument to justify a much newer car. How low a probability of it occurring would make it not be a consideration for you? If this happens to 0.1% of people who buy used cars, I don't even consider it as a factor. If it happens to 20%, it's definitely a consideration. And I'd compare it with the likelihood of other ways of dying.

My point is people will come up with these rationalizations (a fancy word for excuses) without really thinking about them. Very often, people just want a shinier car and use these reasons. Or they're scared to admit how much they'd pay for their insecurities, so they exaggerate the costs (be it in Dollars or in human life) of a used car.

Don't get me wrong. One of my cars is a very expensive 2 year old car, which I got primarily for safety reasons. So I am aware of both sides. But I'm not going to try to tell anyone that getting a safer car can, in any way, be a wise decision purely from a financial standpoint.
This blog post in English has more details for the .ch/.il TLDs: https://securityblog.switch.ch/2017/07/07/94-ch-li-domain-na...

Impacted domains by TLDs were: .ES, .SE, .UA, .CAT, .IT, .HK, .ASIA, .AU, .NL, .DE, .CX, .PT, .RU, .CM, .DK, .PH, .MG, .LU, .JP, .AT, .GY, .CZ, .GR, .RO, .HT, .NZ, .SH, .AM, .NO, .PL, .SI
Sure, if you return an index. I bet the parent poster was discussing returning a pointer, though.

Imagine look4 returned a pointer to the found element. Making look4's signature const-correct in C is not possible.

(Think of strchr).
maidsafe

edit: I thought Ripple and Stellar had blockchains?
Responding to the misleading headline (as opposed to the content) Fyre only "wrecked it" for themselves.

As to the content, had they shown that "DesertTrip II" or some other festival was not held because they couldn't find an insurer they might have something to talk about but I didn't see that in this piece.

I did learn a bit about how festivals are insured though so it wasn't a complete waste of time, but I don't like clickbaited titles and "trusted" media sources would be wise to avoid them imho.
I came to say the very same thing. There may still be problems with using SKIP LOCKED but it appears the core problem mentioned in the blog post would be solved by it.
I think it's purely an English law thing (?) but have you heard of Vicarious Liability, it's kinda crazy what a company can be liable for.
A lot of the fentanyl in Canada comes from china and was ordered over the dark web.
IOTA:
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/iota/

Here's the related white paper:
https://iota.org/IOTA_Whitepaper.pdf

Website is here:
https://iota.org
Beauhurst | Full-stack Developer | Brixton, London | http://about.beauhurst.com/careers/full-stack-developer

Beauhurst is on a mission to find and track every ambitious, high-growth business in the UK. It's going well - in fact, we're already the number one data source for this sort of information. And we've built a clever online platform so that we can share unprecedented amounts of it with our users. They tell us it's enormously valuable but, as an ambitious company ourselves, we're not done yet. If you're a fearless generalist who loves working with Django and Python and doesn't mind getting stuck into different problems then this this might well be the job for you.
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that the occasional hetero guy searching for gay porn is a rain drop in the deluge. If gay men search for gay porn as often and as reliably as hetero men search for hetero porn, the occasional hetero guy conducting a bi- or gay-curious gay porn search would be insignificant.
The advice is more specific than "Be prolific". It's "Be prolific within constraints." The former is the error of switching before you get to fluency (getting of the bus too soon).
certainly, would have helped but then we would not have had such great article about inner workings of PostgreSQL (especially since it applies to more the queues). If this problem would have been encountered by an average team (like me) it would have been impossible to fully understand what's going on so I am glad this article exists.
My mother was in foster care, some good, some bad, and that was a motivator for me to do it.

We don't do foster-to-adopt. We do the other kinds: for situations where the goal is still reunification, or adoption by a family member.

Biologically, we have a two-year-old daughter
, three-year-old son, and a son on the way. We have the right to know the history of placements and say yes/no to each one. Our foster care rep knows that we can't (won't) take aggressive children or children over 12, because we gave young kids. We also only do Level 1 care. (There are three levels in our state for rating behavioral and handicapped difficulty. Levels 2 and 3 require extra training.) We do, however, take sibling groups.

Our bio kids LOVE having foster kids. They now think that any friends they make should live at our house, because their other ones do.

I don't have any foster horror stories though I've heard plenty of course. We've been lucky enough to have remarkably well-adjusted kids. I think poor circumstances often demands increased maturity. IMO, the hardest people to deal with are the parents, not the kids.

Getting licensed involved 30 hours of in person training over a few months, a few hours online training, a house inspection (fire extinguisher, escape latter, handrails on stairs), and an interview with very personal questions (e.g. if you're married, "Have you ever considered divorce?").

The hardest parts of parenting are also the hardest parts of foster parenting. So I would expect a biological parent to have a pretty solid idea of what foster parenting would be like.
Yeah, I'm done with this "scientific" tone, this PDF thing and so on. What is in this paper that couldn't be posted as HTML in a web page? How is PDF better compared to that?
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If you're going to drive a lot, buying a new prius and driving it for 15 years is something you should look at. With really low maintenance and gas costs combined with really long service life (>500k is possible) the cost per driven mile can be really low.
> always careful to avoid putting a number on it

Why assume it is them being dodgy? Perhaps it is really hard to put a number on it.

What number would make me risk my life on a low-shoulder highway in the middle of the night with my son in the back seat? I have no idea, but I can tell you it is not in the ballpark you are discussing.

> purely from a financial standpoint

Maybe you've never suffered significant financial loss due to a breakdown, but can you guarantee no one ever will?

And there's more to it than finances, obviously...
Heh, funny but not that long time (started in 2006, planned to be finished by 2020), while Sagrada Familia (here in Barcelona) started at 1882 and after stopping/starting/stopping forever, it's not estimated to be finished by 2026–2028 (so about 140 years, if accurate).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada_Fam%C3%ADlia
Wait wait wait wait.

You mean we don't naturally end up with 1% of the people having 99% of the dollars??
Agree with dahart. Among the things I typically do on nights and weekends:

- Travel to national parks and state parks. Exercise during the day, do photography at sunrise, sunset, and at night

- Build funny robots at home that don't do anything useful but I learn a lot from. Through that I have also gained some ideas for potentially useful robots that I might hack at later that are orthogonal to the robots I'm working on for work

- About 4 software projects I have going, not intending to commercialize, but maybe release into FOSS if they materialize into something useful

- Learn to cook new dishes, especially healthy ones, so I can eat less unhealthy crap outside. Visit farmer's markets to get better-quality ingredients and support local economy

- Practice piano. Occasionally perform locally at meetups and things

- Review things that I spent years learning during my undergrad and PhD that I wish to not forget, for the sake of my future (e.g. quantum mechanics, quantum computing, quantum communication, signal processing, CS). Occasionally re-take past final exams or homework assignments to make sure I don't lose my skills.

- Learn new stuff online, watch lectures, read recent academic papers.

I don't have time for Netflix, and don't have too much time to socialize without purpose (although some of the above things I do with friends).
You can mention the liability potential from the ADA.
I was in the same position a few months ago, and there was no printed version. My solution: pay for the damn book, use the required Adobe product to be able to unlock it, use a tool to create a DRM-free pdf (IIRC it was Calibre), and finally unistalling the Adobe product. I wish I didn't have to give money to DRM sellers, but in this particular choice I had no option.

Apparently this makes me a pirate, despite having paid for the product and not having any intention of releasing it.
I'm not a physicist and I probably could have phrased that a little better. The example of a bowl of soup randomly and unevenly changing temperature implies to me that the physical system behaves randomly which I do not believe it does.
Are you trolling? It's a scientific paper.
Most of these are just good principles for making a site better for everyone, so it's good how much overlap there is. The screenreader requirements are probably the only things that imposes some actual constraints
A developer who knows the basics will have less chances of doing stupid mistakes when dealing with algorithms. Data structures are the bread and butter of coding.

Like all things, if you want to make a high building, you better have a strong base.

Now it's true that the grunt of a programmer's work won't be such a problem, especially since there is a need for more coders out there.

But still, I'd still prefer being conservative and be sure any average coder (even more so for an engineer) knows about some data structures.

I still vividly remember that time some student argued that vectors and lists were about the same thing.
> Are they really though? Indeed they abuse political dissidents and disallow free speech, but are there really that many people that violate these rules any more?

A kidnap victim getting Stockholm Syndrome doesn't make the kidnapping OK.

Bad rules are a problem even if people follow them.
This is interesting, as both these companies have high reputations and at times low reputations depending on your perspective. All consulting companies have their mix of failures and successes. Is this a correlation/causation thing, or do you truly think Pivotal or TW do something uniquely horrible to companies?

( I work for Pivotal but not Labs and am curious. )
He's right about those generally not actually needing PDF for non-print purposes though - simple text and a few images is way more web-friendly as HTML. Sadly only very few repositories make HTML versions available as well.
This is a really great summary of the problems with queues in Postgres.

I ended up working around this by moving jobs to an "archived" table when they were complete, so the "hot" table never gets too large, and by avoiding long running transactions - we update jobs to in-progress, and then the worker is responsible for marking them as "complete" or "failed". If the worker crashes, a "stuck jobs" background worker will mark jobs as failed after a timeout.

https://github.com/Shyp/rickover
I think we now know enough about the mechanics of life (molecular biology in particular) to conclude that we are simply fantastically complex clockwork automatons.

It's awe-inspiring and impressive that it works, and that it likely evolved from goo, but I am legitimately curious if anyone actually disagrees with the statement above in a justifiable way.
> but if only we had draconian DEA policies aggressively stopping overprescription now.

Not sure what the policies are now, but around me, I can not go get any prescription for any back pain (have really needed it twice in the past 3 years). "Nope, go see your GP" (vs going to a walk-in clinic). The walk-ins around here all have signs on the front door saying "no prescriptions for oxycontin, etc"

Now... yes, I could try to "see my GP", which generally means waiting a few days. (and, I don't really have a GP anymore, because I can never get in to see him).

What's strange is that about... 6 years ago, going to one of the same clinics, my wife went with an eye problem. Specifically, she'd had a small piece of sand get in her eye, and it was really sort/irritated. Home flushing wasn't working, so we went to the clinic. As she was leaving, they asked if she felt she needed any pain medication. "Well, not really, but it's a bit sore, and I do have a headache". They gave her a script for 14 oxycontin on the spot. Same place last year would not even talk to me about pain medication ("go see your GP").
Massive Customer Data of Indian Telecom Giant – Jio Has Allegedly Been Leaked
You'd have to sketch out and describe some pseudo code for me to better understand what you're wanting but I'll mention that Bootstrap makes it pretty easy to rough out a UI.
GAME DEVELOPMENT VS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: WHICH IS BETTER?
GAME DEVELOPMENT VS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: WHICH IS BETTER?. https://www.theexplode.com/game-development-vs-software-development/
> ...all it takes is one leak to end your monopoly

I don't know about that. Most significant software packages require ongoing maintenance (bug fixes, security patches, compatibility with other software) and add new features over time. A one-time leak certainly would be damaging but not necessarily fatal since most businesses want to have assured support and upgrades.
Weird article. As others have mentioned, it uses the Fyre Festival as a hook for an article about insurance, but the Fyre disaster doesn't have anything to do with insurance, and the article doesn't even try to make the case that it did.

Also, the article tries to make the case that festival insurance is expensive, but the actual costs quoted in the article seem...not that bad? Basically a few percentage on top of the ticket price. They multiply that number by a million, saying that if you had a festival that big, the absolute amount of money would be large, but that doesn't really mean anything. Lots of numbers are big after you multiply them by a million. Presumably the organizers care about the cost as a percentage of revenue.
Wait, you're saying that a false positive in an ad blocker is _not_ an issue with the ad blocker? Of course it is! Blocking files based solely on their names is a brittle and error-prone way of doing things, and this false positive is a clear example of that.
I gave my cat a poop transplant
I'd like to see you try programming a simulation with that in mind :)
Live music exceeds the revenue of the top 2 music publishers, Universal and Sony, as per: http://variety.com/2017/music/features/live-nation-concert-b...

[Addendum]
For a perspective on independent musicians, here's Steve Albini: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/nov/17/steve-albinis-...
Initial condition can be regained, each side moves a horse then moves it back.
What makes it "scientific"? The fact that it is a PDF and the impersonal tone?
Are the irregular demonyms limited to places where Southern Germanic dialects/languages are spoken, or is it just coincidence that your examples are all in Switzerland/Austria?

Recall also that residents of München are not Münchener but Münchner.
Dave Bunnell's story
Not at all. If you want to become wealthy, being broke is way better than being in debt.
It’s Mosquito Season. Here’s How to Prepare
Happens in real life, too. The income level of the top 10% and the top 1% and the top 0.1% are relatively stable in aggregate, but who is in each of those categories changes drastically over time.
Deep Hosting Compromised (Tor Shared Hosting Provider)
The project was inspired by the paper. Which is in fact a real bonafide scientific paper.

The kind of publication that has a distribution model based around print. Something that has usually been best served by PDF rather than html.
>Yik Yak - the anonymous social media app that was at the center of several college harassment scandals - announced its closure on April 28, after struggling to keep users on its platform.

YikYak was very popular at my univeristy back in 2014. What replaced it? Or has anonymous social media fallen out of favor all together?
India's biggest data breach?
Did you consider pirating the e-book?

To check the ethical box, I would've just used the pirated e-book version immediately and ordered a hard-copy.
And for every Carmack out there that can dream up whole new render pipelines in their sleep, there are thousands and thousands of games that start with a pre-made engine that in turn i deeply wedded to the DirectX platform.

Game engines, much like web browser engines, have become complex beasts. Hell, even as far back ad Wolfenstein 3D i suspect ID Software made as much or more licensing their engine to third parties as they did selling actual games.
>Many hobbyists and professionals use Lisp to solve their problems and make money.

Is there anywhere that one can read about such cases? Would be interesting to read about both how well they are doing and what sort of apps they use Lisp for making.
They have "ledgers". Each ledger is based on the previous ledger, but the previous ones are discarded as soon as the next reaches a state of consensus.

How does MaidSafe work, by the way?
Let's talk about something simpler first - about movies.
We know enough about chemistry of photographic film
to conclude that movies are simply fantastically complex clockwork automatons, correct?
>Why assume it is them being dodgy? Perhaps it is really hard to put a number on it.

>What number would make me risk my life on a low-shoulder highway in the middle of the night with my son in the back seat? I have no idea, but I can tell you it is not in the ballpark you are discussing.

As you say, you yourself do not know your tolerance threshold (and that's OK). So it's futile to use it in decision making unless you do put a number on it.

As for the difficulty of putting a number on it - I don't know, as I have not tried. But do you think you could find out if you're willing to pay $1000? Just because you can't put a number on it doesn't mean you have to pay $10K more. There are intermediate options.

>Maybe you've never suffered significant financial loss due to a breakdown, but can you guarantee no one ever will?

I know people who have paid a lot of money due to cheap cars dying much earlier than expected. Looking a those in isolation, the cheap car was more expensive than the newer car.

But that's all part of the insurance mindset, which is to think in terms of probabilities. If I buy a cheap used car from a reliable brand every 7-8 years, do I expect all of them to end up being disasters? No. Do I expect none of them to be disasters? No. I expect I probably will end up with a bad car from a financial standpoint one day. But the amount I'll save over all those other cars that turned out fine will more than compensate. I won't get upset - it's all part of the strategy.

I think what I'm trying to get at is everyone points to the person who bought a cheap used car that ended up dying within a year or two and point at how wasteful that was. Yet few people point to those who buy much newer cars and talk about how bad that decision was. Purely from a financial standpoint, both are bad decisions. Yet society tends to think only one of them is.

>And there's more to it than finances, obviously...

Sure, there's peace of mind and comfort. And if you're open about it, that's fine. I often see people justifying it as being cheaper or "almost the same as used car when you factor in repairs". I think my goal in this thread is to highlight that if you do your research, that statement is just not true.
> storing jobs in a database allows a program to take advantage of its transactional consistency; when an operation fails and rolls back, an injected job rolls back with it

This is a false premise for using a database as a queue. The same goal can be simply achieved with a different queuing system, say SQS, by only enqueuing jobs AFTER successful transaction commit.
This is very interesting. As a Mancunian, the term is so common I guess I've never questioned it much. It's just taken for granted.

If it makes it easier, it's often shortened to just "manc". We tend to just use that instead of "Mancunian". I recently commented my little girl seems to have a thick Manc accent - it's quite comical. Burger becomes "burg-oh", finger is "fingo" where The "oh" is like the o in "goth".
Two previous Reddit threads on this topic:

https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/489f9l/open_source_pro...

https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/5sxrun/what_are_some_e...

My list:

SeaStar and ScyllaDB https://github.com/scylladb/seastar https://github.com/scylladb/scylla

Cap'n Proto https://github.com/sandstorm-io/capnproto

LLVM

range-v3 https://github.com/ericniebler/range-v3

Facebook folly https://github.com/facebook/folly

easylambda https://github.com/haptork/easylambda

thrust https://github.com/thrust/thrust

xtensor https://xtensor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/numpy.html
Do you have any sense of whether tricks like momentum which afaik came out of improving SGD for neural network training have found application in other arenas where batching is less reasonable?
Pretty cool, but why is this being submitted here? (Not that it shouldn't be - just curious why.)
Wow, their website literally murdered my browser, anyone have a JS;DR? I don't like my laptop sounding like its about to take off, considering it is usually silent...