skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spark is built around a query planner that can aggregate multiple data sources and "push down" predicates, ordering and so on into the "leaf" node itself, much in the same way that Cockroach does. But I suspect that while this design is flexible and fast, to get the kind of OLTP-friendly performance that Cockroach is aiming for, a good the distributed execution logic has to be fine-tuned in a way that Spark -- being a general-purpose, backend-agnostic system -- cannot do. Spark can query things like Hive, Elasticsearch, Cassandra and so on; Cockroach has the luxury of only needing to target its own engine.

Also, last I checked Spark had very limited support for mutating data in SQL; it was designed for queries. Cockroach has to do both.
Economist here. I concur. Much woe is caused by applying supply and demand reasoning to situations where other constraints are prevalent.
But it may probably not be a solution or take a couple of decades, like the scalability of Elon Musk's projects.
To clarify, NES Mini was last year, SNES Mini is this year's sequel.
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The US government rules as a big power structure. Now Red happens to be on the pinnacle of that, but that doesn't mean Blue has no say in what happens.

It just means things are a lot more "costly" for Blue and/or Blue things (like climate change policies).

But of course in the primary layer a lot of things become infinitely costly for Blue things. (Because they fall under executive rights.) But there are a lot of other layers. (State legislatures/governors, city level issues, and so on.) And though a higher layer can force things on a lower layer, but it's not zero-cost, so usually things settle into an ugly compromise.
Find your favorite useful data and "print as pdf"?
> Works for users that block cookies: you can very well put your session token in the LocalStorage and achieve the same effect

AFAIK LocalStorage is disabled when cookies are disabled.
Org-mode can be pretty good for that kind of thing with many languages.
Check snappydata ?
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There's always more space in the mempool :)

And IBLT can amortize block latency very effectively https://bitcoincore.org/en/2015/12/23/capacity-increases-faq...
My 1 year old Thinkpad has one too, but on the bottom. I guess the Microsoft kickback is less than the Intel one.
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Well the conversation might say their claims are backed up etc. but so do most other news outlets of scale. Eventually they still have clear, inevitable political leanings and bias there, just as every other news outlet.
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You would get into trouble using Ubuntu around your boss? On what basis?
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A generic one, or the one with the license key? The latter at least makes some sense...
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On mobile, for me at least, the text content of this article disappears when the page has fully loaded. Anyone else? This isn't the first time I've seen this sort of thing happen
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"The reporting in this case presented an unbalanced view of the magnitudes of the benefits and harms of distributing bed nets" more here:

http://blog.givewell.org/2015/02/05/putting-the-problem-of-b...

Another analysis:

"A comprehensive analysis of 14 surveys in several countries with 14,196 households showed that that the overwhelming majority of nets were used for malaria prevention, and only 255 nets were repurposed (which make up less than 1% overall). Furthermore, the majority of the repurposed nets were already considered too torn, indicating they had already served out their useful life for malaria prevention[62]. The authors conclude that national programmes and donor agencies should remain confident in the appropriate use of bednets."
https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/post/2015/04/update-against-...
In Iraq in 2003-2004 it was "send one of my guards to the market to see what was on offer". I spent the entire time I was there trying to get a Sig or Glock; had a Browning Hi Power pretty early on, then upgraded to a CZ 97B once I found a way to get .45acp ammo. Also spent the entire time trying to get a decent AKM, never found one, ended up with an RPK. I saw some MP5s as well, but they were $3-5k, and 9mm isn't really a great round in FMJ, so I never got one. Obviously everything remained in country when I left.

I was locally contracted with DOD/etc and had letters from my customers authorizing me to be armed. (There was policy that such authorization had to come from the combatant commander, but in reality it got delegated pretty far down, and even if people in my customer orgs were not individually authorized to sign, no random MP would challenge those orgs.) It was a pretty ambiguous situation, but being American, I was essentially exempt from local law, and private citizens (Iraqis) were allowed one rifle for self defense in any case. There were some US bases where I wasn't allowed to carry, but the commanders were able to authorize that as well. The absolute worst thing that could happen from the US side would be "sent back to the US", but there was really no risk of that, and the most routine thing was at worst "please deposit your weapons with our office until you leave our base, if you don't have weapons authorization" on the biggest bases toward the end of the occupation -- and those are the places where I would have just secured it anyway in an armory because I didn't want to carry it around, and in any serious incident I would have been around professionals or could have picked up M4s off the ground.

Most private contractors were prohibited by their US issued contracts and their insurers from being armed, unless they were security companies. Many outside the wire contractors still armed themselves the same way I did.

The international shipping of arms is really the only problem; within a country like Iraq it really isn't a big deal. I did end up learning to do armorer level maintenance on the AK and Hi Power platforms while there, and made friends with a gunsmith.
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I was just thinking that journalism needed less on the ground reporting and critical thought.

More mindless aggregation and repeating of existing data custom tailored to the views of the people reading it is really whats missing.
Also, JavaScript is at only 2x it's 2004 figure on the graph.
Oh my god thank you! I lost it! How did you get it? Can you tweet me @levelsio?
You are actively encouraged to leave wifi on, on ios at least, to improve location accuracy.
Everybody knows that the empire state building is a unit of measure for length!
I am not an expert, but I believe malaria is most common in humid areas, where crop failures are rare.

edit: not completely disjoint but the overlap is small

http://www.traveldoctor.co.uk/images/MalariaMap.jpg

http://vf-tropi.com/vf-kfamn.gif
Not that I'm aware of. It's tricky because the data storage format, query scan method, data distribution etc. requirements are different for OLTP/OLAP. However you can replicate the data to both OLTP and OLAP database and use both of them at the same time. That's people usually do.
In fact, even if there is a database for this use-case, it should probably do the same process internally so that you don't need to do it in application level.
Not really. For example 90s gave us the RTS and FPS genres as we know them today, among others, and basically were the building blocks for making gaming mainstream. They were a renaissance of sorts, and many elements you see in games today can be traced back to that period. What did the last decade do, apart from going after a wild goose chase with the mobile fad, and adding microtransactions which didn't really improve the gaming experience?
That is just how these interviews are done by the BBC. It would be the same if both participants were in the UK speaking English.

I think it's perhaps because the BBC does a lot of educational material aimed, at least partially, at children and schools, and the presenters are trained to be very exaggerated and enthusiastic in their reactions. Experts like scientists and engineers can be quite placid in their delivery, and so the presenter's job is to make whatever it is they're talking about seem more "exciting". E.g. some engineering project, scientific experiment, historical fact, etc.
Improving women's education and children's health is probably the best way to reduce uncontrolled population growth. Wanted, healthy children are more likely to grow up to be productive adults.
The stickers are there because they sell these things on store shelves to people who actually care about the hardware they are buying.

They aren't that hard to take off.
Ladies and gents, thanks a lot; those are some nice starting points!
Welsh was pretty much wiped out as the far more practical use of English press over the centuries. About 50 years ago there was a political movement to re-introduce it, laws were past to ensure that government communicated in Welsh on request , roadsigns were bilingual, and Welsh was taught in schools (which is probably just as useful as French being taught in schools).

Language is the major barrier of freedom, I can theoretically get a job and move to Dublin, London, Berlin, Rome, Cadiz, Porto, Budapest, Taliin or Athens. In reality the language prevents it in most cases.

In 100 years time we could either live in a fuedal society where you can live/work in a small area owned by a local baron who reports to an international mega corporation, with international style communications in a language nobody knows - just like 14th century England and Latin, or we could have a free borderless world where there is fictionless movement and communication. I hope technology will enable the latter before the former entrenchs again.
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> Really, don't get me wrong

You're offering a most disingenuous argument.

Would a pediatric hospital in a relatively poorer town in the US ask the same question while treating a child?
I mean this is the nature of the web. To be honest HN is already the best we can get compared with most alternatives. That's why.
What about laptops with Broadcom Wi-Fi?
As for the internal bleeding risks.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2036.2006....

"These results translate into an absolute rate increase with aspirin above placebo (the incidence of cases of major GI bleeding attributable to low-dose aspirin) of 0.12% per year (95% CI: 0.070.19% per year).[20] Based on this value, 833 patients (95% CI: 5261429 patients) would need to be treated with low-dose aspirin instead of placebo to cause one major GI bleeding episode during a 1-year period (i.e. the NNH is 833)"
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Although I'm generally opposed to centralizing decision making, there seems to be proof that centralizing building restriction away from municipalities would help [1].

Restrictions on generating housing stock seems to be by far the biggest driver of income inequality and gentrification ("regulation accounts for 85% of the increase of house price dispersion from 1980 to 2009"). Not just gentrification within cities but the polarization of groups across a country.

[1] http://idea.uab.es/jmarket/2016-2017/ANDRII%20PARKHOMENKO/Pa...
I mean this is the nature of the web. But HN is already as good as we can get. You yourself keep coming back as well, apparently. Otherwise do you have an alternative to propose?
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Next up: mice vote to bell cat.
Wait, are you saying that dating co-workers is wrong? Seriously?
You're becoming suspiciously more terse.
Surprising display of sanity and logic.
With enough mice, it might just work.
Not only that, they are basically turning this whole mental health thing into a farce.
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Not if the cats are the ones who already have nuclear weapons.
ha! Good question, I guess they'll say its magical realism with strong late-cuneiform influences, judging from what little is left from the devastating eruption from a vulcano no one ever found.
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He refers to a talk from the Assassin's Creed team in comments, and I discovered the person who gave the talk wrote a fairly extensive set of forum posts on it (including links to the original slides) here: https://forum.beyond3d.com/threads/gpu-driven-rendering-sigg...
"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master." -- Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
Well, we have excess on one side and scarcity on the other side. Not that this can't be solved, it has never been a priority and probably will never be a priority to solve this problem. Please dont equate human life with philosophies of wealth distribution. God forbid, you may never know you may be poor in your country and your life may no longer be worth the medical treatment and maybe captitalism will win in that.

So please dont say they can have children cause they dont have money and people were interested more in looting this continents resources and destabilizing it than uplifting it.

Dare someone say something to this effect on black Americans and they will be crucified. Because these guys are from poor nations you can contemplate its a good idea millions not be born.
They clearly state this, the K80 contains two "GPUs", when you get one K80 instance you only get one of those two GPUs, so you get half of a K80.
This is an interesting point about college education:

Traditionally, contracting was the best paying "blue collar" job out there, and to a certain extent it still is. If you were smart, hardworking, but didn't go to college, you started hauling bricks on a construction site and then worked your way up to general contractor over the course of years. Lots of the best GCs out there did this. But, as less and less of super capable kids DON'T go to college, there are less super capable 18 yearolds hauling bricks and 10 years later, less super capable GCs.

As more and more kids are going to college, who will do these high-skill blue-collar jobs?
It's a real shame that the programming industry has bought into the Go hype so readily. Don't get me wrong: the design decisions made by the Go team make lots of sense within the context of Google. But the vast majority of programmers don't have Google's problems of scale, and by using Go they give up many benefits of modern type-safe programming languages. There's a method to Google's madness, but for most development teams, adopting Go is imitating the madness without understanding the method.

Of course, this is extremely beneficial to Google: they get a community of people developing free libraries for them. But for the rest of us, it's an enormous drain of mindshare that could be devoted to more general-purpose languages.
Completely agree, as a dumb user of latex I only care that I can make a document and that it looks the same on every computer or browser or printed out.

That solution just happens to be latex, especially since virtually all computers will have some way of viewing and printing pdfs by default.
Last I checked, Lucene doesn't use B-trees. It uses a variation on skip lists to implement efficient inverted indices.

As I understand it, its performance comes from a column-store-like approach where large document lists can be efficiently intersected. Lucene also uses a LSM-style approach when writing index files; instead of updating a single large index in place, it incrementally appends to new partial index files, and to execute a query it queries every partial index and merges the results. (These partial index files are then incrementally merged in the background to reduce the number of files that need to be aggregated at query time.)

Lucene is slower than an RDBMS on narrowly targeted queries where an RDBMS can use a B-tree, but is more efficient when a query matches many documents because its index data structures are more efficient than a classical "sequential scan" across row pages.
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Yes, exactly that – the voices started out whispering, but would culminate in rage. Interesting, I wonder if there's a name for this.
Excuse me for going off-topic, but I have a question regarding the grammar used in the title:

Shouldn't it be "modeling the agents"? Because "Modeling Agents" could also mean "agents whose job is modeling".

I'm sorry, but the usage of "the" has been a question for me recently.
Are you sending customised cover letters etc to those employers? Generally, you don't want to be sending the same thing to 180+ companies, and you want to make sure you actually know the company you're applying at.

Also, depending on the company and its size, you might want to reach out directly to engineering manager X at company Y, instead of sending it into the pit of despair that is HR.
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(I'll ignore the fact that we currently produce more food than the world needs, and much of that food is destroyed. http://www1.wfp.org/zero-hunger )

Children who survive can farm the land.

Children who die cannot farm the land.

Also, because so many of your children will die you have more children.

If more of your children survive you'll have fewer children.

http://www.irinnews.org/report/94947/lesotho-weather-extreme...

> In a country where nearly 60 percent of the population live below the poverty line, and some 40 percent live in extreme poverty, such weather extremes are pushing the coping mechanisms of families already devastated by the effects of HIV and AIDS to breaking point. Lesotho has one of the highest prevalences of HIV in the world. The epidemic has created a shortage of farm labour and left 130,000 children orphaned, according to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

> Malebohang Makhoathi, a 68-year-old widow, has over four hectares of land in Ha Makhoathi, just outside the capital, Maseru - more than enough for her to grow all the food she needs to feed the four grandchildren in her care, but she has not ploughed the fields for the last six years since her son, the family's main breadwinner, passed away. She has neither the money nor the manpower to cultivate the land and is contemplating selling it for short-term relief.

> “The money will make some difference in my family, even if it’s for a short period of time,” said Makhoathi, who will have to wait another two years before she qualifies for a government pension
Probably the same super capable kids just starting 10 years later as - still super capable - adults, realizing that their college degree has brought them virtually zero advantage over everyone else in the labour market.
You have difficult accepting the generalization and judging individuals by it; however, statistically speaking, you are more likely to find intrinsic merit and accomplishment in those from ivy league schools; which is why when an assessment of an individual needs to be made, ivy league heritage is a useful heuristic.

There is also the age old question of nature vs nurture, and I suspect that we disagree in that those of a certain superior nature+nurture tend to congregate in prestigious and productive institutions.

I would love to know why my original post low quality, but I suspect people are once again absuing downvotes to shame me into avoiding taboo.
Because it quite obviously does, even by your own admission. Are you arguing against yourself now?

That reddit post is clearly tongue-in-cheek, written consciously in an exaggerated voice to spark interesting discussions (which it did) -- not a peer-reviewed journal article. But I have no doubt you're aware of that, please stop trolling.
They often require parking spaces, though.
Same on Android. In fact Android has a Location-feature called "Scanning" that allows apps and services to detect wifi networks at any time, even if you have your wifi disabled. Meaning you can turn wifi off but it will randomly turn it back on to help increase location accuracy. This feature is on by default.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/3nrfa0/psa_wifi_sc...
It enters the debugger due to the error. In the debugger menu you see additional entries YES and NO.

yes or no?
[Condition of type SIMPLE-ERROR]

Restarts:
0: [YES] YES
1: [NO] NO
2: [RETRY] Retry SLIME REPL evaluation request.
3: [*ABORT] Return to SLIME's top level.
4: [ABORT] abort thread (#<THREAD "repl-thread" RUNNING {1003167FA3}>)

See? All debugger menus are actually implemented as the restarts, set up at various call stacks. In this implementation of the debugger the way to select YES is to enter 0 or click it on the emacs buffer. In another debugger, it could be entering ":r 0" to the stdin. You can also implement your debugger function, which `read-line` the input stream and only recognizes a specific string, y or n, and set your function to `debugger-hook` to use it (I forgot to mention this in the above example).
It would be better to say "many are hiring" in place of everyone.

I'm a Computer Science myself with professional experience in IT since 2004 and I'm unemployed for 2 years now and I cannot get passed a decent interview without being labeled as "overqualified".

Right now I'm in the process to change path for good and become Security Guard because I have no other choice.

Technology works for countries like US, China, and such big industries, but not for tiny islands like my country I'm afraid.

My suggestion to original OP would be to find any job for now to make a living if he or she has no other financial support from family and work on his / her side projects until they gain momentum they deserve.
Cryptocurrency is not a ponzi scheme. A ponzi scheme has an expectation that you'll be paid dividends or returns by the company you are investing in. Essentially, old investors are being paid by new investors. There is only one investment period for these tokens (eg. ICO).
Always thought that the deals were very meh. Does anyone have a site that will be distilling the deals into the ones that are worth looking at?
the question now is: How many Olympic swimming pools fit into the Empire State Building?

But seriously, I am OK using this kind of unit to illustrate that something is really big but at a minimum they should also add some real units.
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A little info is dangerous.
They should just write "really big".
These bridges are almost always tolled on express ways. If the potato farmer below doesn't (or can't) pay the toll, then they aren't going to use the bridge. More to the point, this bridge is better for thru traffic and has very little to do with the potato farmer.

A comment made in an a recent NYT article on these new Chinese bridges: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/10/world/asia/china-bridg...

> "If you don’t build roads, there can’t be prosperity,” said Huang Sanliang, a 56-year-old farmer who lives under the bridge. “But this is an expressway, not a second- or third-grade road. One of those might be better for us here.”

Expressways are sexy and useful if you are driving thru. But...I have the feeling they are overbuilding it in many places while not caring much about the less sexy roads that might improve local lives more. But then, such roads would never be talked about abroad and wouldn't do much for China's prestige (and therefore the official's in charge promotion).

The cars on the expressway have little bearing on the farmers below it. A rice farmer isn't going to be driving a new Audi or even a Toyota, even in rich Zhejiang, but definitely not in guizhou or Hunan.
A deal is a deal. My concern would be showing weakness, and thereby inviting all your investors to walk all over you. What happens in the next round? All your current guys start whining. A deal is a deal. Don't willingly spill your blood in shark infested waters.