skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised you wouldn't understand this as it's an absolutely requirement given you are a user of MemSQL.

But then I went to their docs to link you to the details, and it feels like they intentionally avoid stating clearly the problem.

Essentially, they allow committed transactions to hit memory and not disk. They allow you to configure it so that's not the case, but it isn't the default, and looking over the current documentation they certainly aren't clear about it like an open source project would be.

transaction-buffer needs to be set to 0 for durability, but the way the docs are explaining it is trying to confuse not being durable, as a different kind of durability.

I'm not interested in getting into a long discussion about this though, but it's difficult to explain the literal issue when they do such a marketing job of trying to hide the specifics.

Now I'm far less surprised a user wouldn't know this. Apologies for my forward initial statement.
It would be interesting to see an extension of this that gives out stuff to post on hacker news.
I do this sort of thing, and I highly recommend it, especially with PG. Another thing I like to do is to use queries against the pg_* tables to generate code/metadata for components of the application running outside SQL.
As an example; it does a very neat impersonation of the Amstrad PC1512 (my first PC, back in 1989) including a faithful rendering of its unique 16 color CGA variation.

And unlike Dosbox, which doesn't try to run things at the proper speed, the right feeling is there...
Thanks, I thought it was bullshit, but now I know for sure.
Late response, but I simply mean the collection of content on the site. Burning man is a major center for electronic music. You probably wouldn't be surprised by the head of Netflix going to Cannes, by contrast.
It's the constant pressure from VC's for better monetization. One of the features being discussed on the thread over on Reddit that is planned to be introduced is a location-based front page. This will make targeted ads by location an easier product for Reddit to sell and mine data from.
Biki Is a Good Start but Honolulu Must Do a Lot More to Be Bike-Friendly
Shame that data isn't store in a side repository where it could be replicated like the repository.
Ozlo is joining Facebook Messenger
I think the spf there is Linus' email account, right?
Itn seems communists are more dangerous than AI.
Another useful thing to do is to take advantage of record types. PG SQL is approaching something that one might call higher-order SQL.

When you can query the SQL schema using SQL queries (though I admit that the pg_* tables kinda suck) and when you have things like record types, you really do have a very powerful SQL.
Nice resources here.. I'll add this Udemy course to the list:

https://www.udemy.com/the-complete-elixir-and-phoenix-bootca...

Does anyone have recommendations for specific Phoenix learning resources?
Was this sarcasm?

In case it wasn't, in the last election the candidate that won lost the popular vote by about 3 million votes. But won 3 critical swing states by about 80k votes total.

There was no widespread auditing of the voting machine code after this happened.
Terribly sorry for this rubbish reply, but here you go: http://i.imgur.com/ueRIgtq.png

I love it, and it's perfect for when you want to say something witty like FUD or D&D, but can't justify it. Now with CIM, I can!
It sounds more like Nintendo's Streetpass and local multiplayer on the 3DS
> In all reality, the car was safe when it was new. It simply wasn't designed to withstand such an accident because such a thing is pretty rare in everyday vehicles, although it happens.

Except that cars now days do undergo rollover tests and are required to support 3x their weight when upside down.

> Were you under the impression it was designed to withstand being upside-down in a ditch?

I just read that some experts believe the standard should be increased to 4x. My previous assumption about my safety was a bit off, I am safe, but I could be safer.

Sadly enough, the increased rollover standards have created huge A pillars that impede visibility. Citation: http://wardsauto.com/news-analysis/new-pillars-enhance-safet...

So in this case, illogical worry about rollovers causes an actual measurable increase in pedestrian accidents.

Kinda like our worries about nuclear safety ended up causing even more radioactive pollution from burning coal.
I would be.

It sounds like they're rewriting the whole front end. Why would they want to spend time and effort doing that and then, in addition to continually tweaking/adding to it, also maintaining a legacy interface?
- traceability requirements

- price discrimination

- prescription process (consultations)

- liability

- price opacity (the weird non-market of products paid for by health insurance)
>So it's fine to mess with them, even illegally, just because you don't like them?

The previous commenter never mentioned messing with them illegally and disagrees with the analysis that this scraping is illegal. He said he hopes the courts do not rule this is illegal. Pretty disingenuous to start a reply like that...

Many of your other points are not really giving the previous commenter any charity at all.

For example,

>For what definition of legitimately? Yours? Since it's their business, they can define what is a legitimate free use and what can be a paid one.

He was literally trying to provide an example of where their scraping protections can be appear to be overzealous to casual users, not arguing whether those users are legitimate or not.

What is the premise of your argument? To me, it seems you are simply trying to defend LinkedIn's business practices and legal pursuits, rather than discussing anything about the legality of scraping or the specifics of LinkedIn's anti-scraping implementations.
Preface: lead for Juno & ScalableBFT

First, some additional benchmarks:

* Juno (w/ hardcoded language): 500 tx/s

* TendermintBFT w/ EVM: 1k tx/s

* ScalableBFT w/ Pact: 8k tx/s

The thing about the high-performance private blockchains is that they are limited by the sequential smart contract execution performance. Juno ran an embedded "rough draft of a langauge" do it doesn't really count (not a full language, more like a complicated hardcoded counter). From TendermintBFT's docs, if memory serves, they say that if you hardcode a counter they hit +10k/s. For ScalabeBFT, it's it's ~14k/s. This is a minor difference, by the way, that isn't due to the consensus mechanism but more to the engineering of the system.

The reason for the non-hardcoded performance difference is that ScalableBFT runs Pact for smart contracts, which was designed to be a high performance interpreted language in part because of this bottleneck. Even if/when the EVM moves to WASM, the performance bump only impacts fat contracts by making them kill performance less. As in, if your 10k-step contract takes 200ms to execute and that drops to 2ms you can get 100x perf (not quite but it's fine)... but that only takes you from 5/s to 500/s and not to 1k/s or 8k/s.

The numbers above are for a simple coin transfer contract so the performance is mostly dependant on the read/write performance for keys in the DB. There's just not much contract level work to do when you're transferring coins between accounts so the WASM move won't bump things up much if any.

More broadly, I think that the article misses the point of private blockchains when it discusses them:

> I would discourage you from blockchain consortia if your intention is to never use the public chain and if you don’t care about Ethereum. I’m going to put it bluntly: if you’re not looking at the public chain, you’re wasting your time. The benchmarking numbers paint a pretty obvious story — Quorum will never give you the speed of Kafka, especially since blockchains get less efficient as more participants join (because of that pesky “consensus” thing).

They serve a specific purpose: being a multi-administrative DB. Distributed DB systems (like Kafka, raft-based systems, etc.) can't robustly/safely serve that end.

I have a longer comment about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14853521
I think providing more information on the questions for Candidate 2 would be pretty helpful. The description is really vague as "easy" and "hard" could mean different things to different people.
it depends on your SLA ;)
Can we get a citation for the toxicity of ABS? My Google-fu is failing me as I can only find articles that say the fumes can cause minor irritation when inhaled or in contact with the eyes.
I'm really interested in using Smartphones / Mobile devices for inference. Can this work with react-native so that I can build it without a bridge ? I would assume I would create a webview that would load a local website.
I'm not sure how great the revival of the Victorian workhouse would be, but yes, the involuntary imprisonment and forced labor aspect of your plan is far and away the most objectionable.
> web redesign (codename: Reddit4)

I seriously can't tell what's going on at reddit -- are they embracing their Digg-ness?

Ed:

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/6qptzw/with_...
And how is that surprising? It even has a name: Tragedy of the commons.
Python for Data Analysis and Visualization by Jose Portilla
Source? That's crazy if true. I assumed only poor 3rd world countries still did stupid stuff like that.
Or just say "Sorry Tom" (if his name is Tim). (Any name that is close to his name but isn't his name: Jason/Justin, Tim/Tom, Nick/Rick, Bob/Bill, etc.)
> you should respond to said abuse

To expand on this point, a solid "whoah, whoah, whoah...slow down for me...what happened" goes a long way. Recognising someone is in emotional pain, and working to solve that, goes miles with even the crankiest people.
That is an interesting fact.. LinkedIn broke the ruling against scraping they are relying on to prevent scraping.
So was Napster. Turns out, law>technology.
A DOM that doesn't work with a screen reader is definitionally not a better one.
Andon Cord (vehicle manufacturing)
Gas you use to cook with doesn't smell either. They add stuff to it so u can smell it. It is just as silently deadly without these additives.
I usually like to pay for a premium account on other sites even if I wouldn't have to, but for some reason I don't do it on Reddit. In hindsight, my gut feeling was right, because they are in fact backstabbing butts in seats who sell out to greedy investors at first opportunity. Rich assholes who think they can make another Facebook are the easy way to get a "hiring spree". Gold was the slow and horribly marketed way.
Mark Zuckerberg Shuts Down Facebook’s Artificial Intelligence
> Scheduled downtime is still downtime.

Except in the SLA.

I've argued more than once when watching a vendor announce "emergency scheduled maintenance"(!) as an outage is looming.
Benchmarking software should do more to provide a clean and meaningful representation of the distribution of performance - people care more about a card's worst case than its best or average.

You should check Tech Report's Frame Time Analysis:

http://techreport.com/review/31546/where-minimum-fps-figures...
Sweet. That's certainly a nice improvement :). If removing ENUM values will be supported at some point as well, I can see myself recommending them unconditionally.
No, if no one claims a draw, it can continue forever.

In perfect play either black or white resigns in their first move or agrees to a draw.

But in in-perfect play you could get a situation where it plays until heat death. You at the very least could wait for a bit flip on the memory of the opposing player that might let you win.

Of course two Kings can't checkmate each other. If the board bit flipped, well that would be cheating / not a proper game. So in this specific case it'd be agreeed to a draw without the 50 move/repetition rule by the most basic of programs since checkmate is not possible given any play. But legally they wouldn't have to, unlike the above scenario when it can make logical sense to continue.
> I dislike the way it looks like JSON but isn't.

Sticking on the topic of syntax, JSON has its own annoyance that the extra comma on the last field will be a syntax error when other languages let you get away with it. A field that goes over two lines is the exception so there should be a more verbose syntax for that rather than for single line fields in my opinion.

> As broken as CSS is, it is here to stay for the a while yet.

I prefer SASS with significant whitespace, no semicolons and no braces. :P

> Also FWIW, I know it's a holy issue but when you copy lines round in python etc you ARE having to add and remove those extra bits of syntax except they're invisible, they're spaces/tabs (don't even). Any sane person would have to have white space visibility turned on in their editor so would just be looking at cruft anyways.

Hmm, so in pretty much all IDEs, I can paste Python code then do TAB or shift+TAB to fix the indentation level as what you pasted is still selected. Having to add e.g. curly braces/bracket to fix nesting is miles more cumbersome and error-prone when there's a syntax error. It's super irritating trying to work out where the missing brace/bracket is.

I'm less concerned how it looks and more concerned how easy it is to move lines of code around plus find syntax errors. I'm still amazed how bad syntax error messages are at helping you work out what's wrong.
There's so much lithium in the earth's oceans that if you manufactured batteries out of it would be enough to store 50 years worth of the world's electricity consumption.
Average time from final designs to shovel in the ground is about 10 years. So already your tech is obsolete by the time you start building. I do agree there should be TIGHT regulations, but there certainly is a limit. Also, it has a lack of subsidies, compared to the other sectors.
> Did your mom never tell you to ask before you touch? Hope you learnt a lesson today

If I weren't livid already, that would get me there. It's condescending, needlessly brings in and insults a loved one and offers zero empathy or productive feedback.
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There is a lot of macroscale dumping of garbage - and the plastic stuff just accumulates over a time, until sunlight and wave action break it down.

However, a lot of this plastic _starts_ as micro-plastic particles: microbeads from cosmetics and polyester fibres from clothes (water from washing machines is full of this) - these are in household waste water and often end up in the ocean.
I think neither.

There is a property of electricity that enables us to path it and observe the results which can be made Turing complete. The RNA computer is similar but utilizing the properties of RNA sequencing or restructuring.

Take the above with a grain of salt because I'm not an expert by any means.
I love Venmo more than you can ever know. It's one of the few ways I can actually pay people back since I literally never have cash.

If people don't have Venmo, they just don't get paid back.
I'm not surprised that Westinghouse behaved idiotically; they've always struck me as the Ford of washing machines, and I can only imagine what they're like at utility scale...

It sounds like the best course of action is to bring in foreign firms to construct reactors in the US; but that'll probably have to wait for the 2020 election... if it happens at all, that is.
I don't understand why people make this sort of comment. You don't need to be a chess player to know what's coming next.

Is the desire to say something of your own that overwhelming?

I will thoroughly enjoy seeing your comment downvoted to oblivion, in any case.
Yes, event sourcing is just a loosely defined pattern. It does make tamper proofing a bit easier due to its log like nature. I know some systems do use physically "append-only" storage.
From the video:

The production system is cloud-connected

Seriously, that's a selling point nowadays? I have to buy a hyper expensive piece of hardware and if the company goes under I might not even be able to use it anymore?

Not everything needs to be on a bloody cloud.
I really can't tell if this is a joke.
Longest was Philippines for 2 months and China for 6 weeks. Besides that just bopped around SEA for 2-3 weeks at a time.
I don't see why you would expect them to. It's nice and all, but they're under no obligation to tell the world everything that happened every time they have a minor outage. Not every outage is newsworthy or even that interesting, and oftentimes they're little more than a PR piece for the company.
I don't think that is an unpopular opinion. It also implies that LinkedIn is wrong, because of their HTTP server says yes, they want to retroactively say no.
It would be pretty exciting to duplicate keys (especially proprietary and "do not duplicate" institutional keys) from the privacy of home. Might even hasten the end of the mechanical lock as a security device.

Sure, you can do that now with Shapeways or a crooked locksmith, but it would be fun to do independently.
Another book by someone with no experience in the language. Typical vultures latching onto a community and trying to monetize it.
Paging HN's own JoshDoody, who helps developers with salary negotiation for a living. And/or anyone who has used his (or similar) services!

“What’s your current salary?” is a trap question–Here's how to answer it
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13724755

"Before you even get a job offer, it's important to decide what your "walk away" number is [...] I recommend literally writing it down" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14447890
Good, but it would be better if they ask what kind of data is sold to any party
Only by introducing hundreds of extra failure modes. If you implement this I can now destroy your democracy by:

- Bribing voters because you've implemented voting over the network

- Once you figure out you need to switch to voting booths I'll do timing attacks to deanonymize the vote

- As soon as you have a count I'll seed distrust in the count as only a very small percentage of the population actually understands the blockchain and cause a riot or two

Electronic voting is the reverse FizzBuzz. FizzBuzz tests if you know the absolute basics about technology to implement something extremely simple. Electronic voting tests if you are able to reject the use of technology when it doesn't add any advantage and instead creates very hard to solve failure modes. Voting benefits from the use of the extremely simple ballot and box. It benefits from it not being programmable and from the counting method being something that almost all the population is able to carry out let alone understand.
> The redesign is a massive effort and will take months to deploy. We'll have an alpha end of August, a public beta in October...

https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/6qptzw/with_...
You don't even necessarily need a large number of logic gates; with just one NAND gate you can build a (extremely slow) Turing machine.
Dear Giphy,

You know exactly how much each GIF served costs you.

Charge that to a balance I keep on file on my account, and add autopay with a monthly spend limit. Let me indicate whether my GIF links should become sponsored or should simply return 1x1 transparent when my balance for the month runs out.

I don't want a "premium monthly fee" account, I want you to charge me S3 delivery fees + 15% markup for the privilege of dealing with S3 for me.
No. But the dissemination of data without consent should be.
Sure, but you're still taking data from outside of your original package scope and running it or allowing it to be run later.

That's just useful. Javascript eval gets a bad rap (entirely in my own opinion) because

1. It's the de-facto language for the web, which both drastically increases the number of inexperienced developers, as well as the total attack surface.

2. Again, as a scripting language for browsers, parsing untrusted user input is a common need. Eval filled the need for parsing, but not the need for trust.

You can absolutely use eval in entirely safe ways. Most people don't, and doing so (especially in JS) is hard. That's because JS has made establishing trust hard. Juuuuust recently, with the introduction of some of the webcrypto work, and the rapid rise of ubiquitous https are we really getting to the point where doing so is really feasible at all.
> Usually as a major plot device of the story i.e. Neuromancer and iRobot to name a couple.

In those two stories, regulation is unenforceable or downright dangerous. Having a private, self-regulating industry group like FINRA might work. Especially if they own the vast majority of patents on anything related to AI.
This applies to extroverts as well, not just introverts (and there are plenty of extroverted programmers too)
It depends.

You have to keep in mind that an entire generation was brainwashed that personal data isn't that "personal", so Google, FB and the rest can have amazing profits.

Most of these discussions are stained by general unawareness of the privacy and copyright law.

Ofc because the value of the data supplier (usually a single person, etc) these never reaches the courts, which just reinforces the ongoing misconceptions.

If you really want to test this, try copying the content from Google, Facebook hiQ or whoever that's big enough to go after you.

But people somehow believe that it's okay for businesses to do what regular persons aren't allowed to.
The committee also calls on Tesla to release clear policies on how Fremont factory workers can get promoted, adding that "there are no guidelines for what is expected of us, or what defines success."

Uh, what? Do they expect a checklist with items like "be there for 9 hours a day" and so on? Frankly, people who need such a list are not the ones who deserve a promotion - those who do deserve it just work away at the problems and add value to whatever they put their hands on.
Ethical Questions for Marketers – Part 8
Not such a strange concept. I have no opinion on the subject, but other people do:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/the-gay-communit...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/06/misogy...
Undifferentiated? They are specifically labeled as "higher risk".
Dog Licking Your Face Could Harm You
Practical Nootropics; Political Brainhacking
I want to say those are bad examples but nonetheless valid. A better expample would be Javascript's strict-mode situation. In less civilized times, you could do all sorts of terrible shenanigans with javascript, and luckily for developers strict-mode gained support to the point where everyone naturally assumed you were talking about a strict environment. When ES6 came around, those 'sloppy' mode differences made implementing new features tough, so with adopting ES6, 'sloppy mode' was implicitly dropped.

So yes, the web isn't by any means backwards compatible-- but definitely better at it than most ecosystems.
I've found the guide on the Phoenix website to be enough most of the time.
I love Spotify and will happily continue to pay a few bucks a month to use their services. Is going public really their best move though?

It really seems logical that Apple would have acquired them by now and just merged them into Apple Music, once again giving Apple control over the online music industry.