skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to agree that there was a lot of noise in the nosql world and a lot of people got carried away by the ease of use metric. I guess people were lured by the prospect of not having to write SQL joins.

That said I found nosql databases extremely helpful for storing and querying large unstructured data. Mostly because it was really hard to build relations and to store this data in tables. Think Wikipedia for instance. Since then my way of choosing databases is to try and model data into a relational db as much as possible and if that doesn't work out choose a nosql equivalent.
I don't see what's wrong with an "evidence bomb" and I've never seen the complaint that someone's position had too much evidence behind it. If Damore had no evidence, he'd be dismissed as a misogynist with no evidence. When he presents evidence, you dismiss him as an evidence bomber.
Reliability and implementation ideas aside, MongoDB popularized document stores and document stores can sometimes be a good thing (even if there's usually little to no reason to prefer them to plain SQL databases for most applications). So they deserve credit there.
My experience is that hardest part is marketing.

Yesterday I have launched https://submit-sitemap.com and I have shared link to it on various platforms. How much traffic I got:

- reddit - side project - 4

- hacker news - 11 (+2 from different aggregators)

- I have added link into 2 communities on Google+ with around 200k people - 3

- producthunt - 3

- Facebook where I have shared it in group with 5k people - 5

- StumbleUpon - 1

And I think that I can subtract 1 from these numbers since I have clicked on them myself to test if those links works. :)
Can't read this, it's behind a paywall. Anyone got a link to the full article?
"I wouldn't be surprised if private donations will eventually be responsible for the eradication of Malaria (1000 deaths daily, much more suffering and cost to society)."

He should improve contraception instead. Would be better for the Africans AND Europeans.
It's an intentional leak. Part of the "game".

If you send a press release, everyone thinks you're lying and boring.

If it's "leaked" it's sexy and ends up on TechCrunch as a "Report: Anonymous Source shows interesting financials"
Hindsight is 20/20. But honestly falling back to ano/pseudo feels like a loss.

Would this have happened if the paper had been written by a woman?
‘iTrump’ Trumpet App Silences Trump in Trademark Fight
Why does medium hate mobile users?
The laws are basically unenforcable.

The carriers could do something about it. I'd consider switching service to a carrier that demonstrated they block these kinds of calls. Just like a big part of gmail's popularity is how effectively they block spam.
The concept of a DAO is too simplistic when presented in all these examples. An organization has multiple levels and on each level there are many decisions being made constantly. Some escalate up, some don't. You cannot just expect that each decision within an organization will be decided via a DAO's shareholder voting mechanism because what will ultimately happen is, there are so many actions to vote on, shareholders will ignore most. If there were 100 shareholders, 2 voted yes, 1 voted no and 97 didn't vote. Do you proceed? This is why a board exists, to represent the interests of shareholders. How much work do you think would get done if you needed to prioritize things with a large body of shareholders on a regular basis?
When Amazon sold ebooks below cost, it benefited Amazon. AMC sees that MoviePass is an attempt to Kindle them so they're pre-emptively refusing to "negotiate" how much control of their business to give up.
I'd say do not put your number on a do not call list. That just lets the robocallers know its a real number, and they are likely outside the jurisdicition of enforcement for these laws.
Trading cryptocurrency - in stock markets charting, Elliot wave don't really work as well (or not easy to use), you're trading against hyper experienced investors. In Bitcoin, ethereum, there is broad participation by less experienced investors and speculators, and there is much more emotions in the chart. It makes technical analysis very easy, because the patterns are obvious, easy to spot, much less likely to be manufactured. The transaction fees are also low allowing small positions. So when I see an opportunity I just put $500. Next thing you know I'm up $200 and I cash it out. One more thing is if I'm ever wrong, cryptocurrency is in a bull market, and the position would always get rescued as long as I am patient. Of course I do have discipline and do cut my losses. Transaction costs is cheap, and opportunities are frequent, so it's easy emotionally to do it. I have a few grand this year which is nice.

I do have a lot of money in stocks and with those I don't do nearly as well but clearly I learned enough to make a quid or two in crypto markets.
Can we get revived WebSQL support?

We can thank it a rough Mozilla devs that long moved one, that WebSQL got stopped and is support in Webkit and Blink (100% mobile devices, 80% notebook), but not on Firefox. Instead this NoSQL IndexedDB was introduced. Let's get over NoSQL fad, and support SQL in web browser!
> if something comes off as proselytizing it's pretty gross

Thanks for sharing additional helpful and cathartic resources. Reading texts like I linked is in the same spirit you may enjoy what you've shared. It may be you're incensed by the religious connotation of what I said. But I have nothing to gain from sharing it, just the hope it may help others. Sorry if you felt it was pushy.
Can you provide more details in english ? (interested)

edit: for lazy: clikable
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I’ll get my goat: Kazakhstan's ancient sport for modern times
> hijacked by anti-regressives

Would someone please explain what this means, wouldn't an anti-regressive be a progressive? If so, why not state it that way?

Also, I thought the term "skeptic" had been hijacked by conspiracy wackos. When I think of a classic skeptic, I look to James Randi and the like; critical thinkers who expose quackery. But, for the last 15-20 years, conspiracy theorists have taken the term over (e.g. vaccine/climate/GMO skeptics). I fall into the Randi group of skeptics, but I sure as hell don't describe myself using that word, for fear of being lumped in with the second lot.

Real skeptics tend to be progressive, conspiracy skeptics tend to be regressive.

Based on the spelling, I'll assume emsy is a Brit... maybe things are different over there, but Randi was always more popular in England than in the US. I'm missing something.
I don't think anyone needs a special invitation to have a discussion! "Hey Alice/Bob, I read your memo and I disagree. here's my point of view...".
How is not taking his money subsidizing him? Tax credits would be subsidizing him.
>> For example, students and professors I met in college
>> that grew up in the USSR thought engineering was
>> stereotypically women’s work

Um, no. I grew up in the USSR, too, and engineering never was stereotypically women's work. If anything, the enrollment of women in engineering programs was even more skewed than it is in the US today. We only had 2 women out of a cohort of roughly 40 people, and they barely managed to graduate. Ironically neither of the two works as an engineer, but then neither do most men from that cohort. Truth is, engineering is not actually the most lucrative occupation in today's Russia, so I can't blame women (or men for that matter) for not pursuing it.

Also, most people here probably don't know this, but Russian language is gendered, and the very word "инженер" is masculine, though it can be used unchanged to refer to women engineers. There is no special word form for female engineers.
Don't you mean the other way round? You always want to be running the most recent 2.6 servers, but when someone sends version 2.5 requests you transform the 2.5 to 2.6 and pass it along to your server (and vice Verda with responses)

The problem I guess is breaking changes come easily - it's fine if say we have example.com/homeaddress and now I add a zip code field in 2.6 - but a 2.5 request has no zip code and if 2.6 makes that mandatory it's really 3.0 - that just feels wrong. But it's a breaking change so, ok. But you get a deeper discussion then over why make a lack of zip code a breaking chnage ? Interesting
Quantum computer in CMOS
I disagree. The incentive is to spend as little as possible on the remaining %, because sick people already cost a ton as it is.

Most insurance revenue comes from non-ACA employer plans, which don't have this requirement.
Oh the joys of government systems. I received this when verifying my number is on the do not call list.

"Due to system difficulties, your request was not processed. Please try your request again later or call 1-888-382-1222 to submit your request by phone. We are sorry that we are unable to process your request at this time."
Yes, but aside from that, he is a very good writer.
I think that beyond our current processes, there is the potential for different materials to take the place of XXnm silicon processes, which could fit more transistors in a smaller area.

Research like: http://news.stanford.edu/press-releases/2017/08/11/new-ultra...

"3D" processes which build multiple layers on top of one another may also see more investment as other methods become prohibitively expensive. And once you've cheaply gone to 2 layers in a big blob of epoxy, what's stopping you from doing 4? 8? 16? 32? [Heat dissipation, probably]

But whatever, people have been saying Moore's Law is dead since Moore's Law was invented. Who knows whether we'll technically hit one milestone or another. Things get faster, what the hell.
Lab to oilfield: how student entrepreneurs hooked the world’s largest refinery
Storing Medical Records on the Ethereum Blockchain
Integrating AngularJS into Laravel 5.1
They have fallen a long way since Adnan ran the site...
It's an exercise in thought and hive management. Will it work? Who knows.

My concern is that while humans can be terrible managers, an automated system that has no checks (depending on how it's set up) could end up being worse if it does not take into account dealing with unforeseen challenges and repercussions if it's dissociated from people.
I agree that billionaries could help society development, but Bezos would not have billions if he invests in public libraries. Nice try.
I used to believe that, until I started to get into cryptocoin mining. There were algorithms that were specifically designed to be GPU resistant and they all were ported and saw significant gains. It was that experience that pushed me to learn how to program these devices.

The tooling isn't good enough yet, but there is no question in my mind practically everything will run on a GPU like processor in the future. The speedups are just too tremendous.

Intel knows this, which is why they purposely limit PCIe bandwidth.
Injecting a controversial (and mostly detested here) political figure into an unrelated topic.
Why are women disadvantaged by the fact that men outnumber them as programmers, but women aren't disadvantaged by the fact that men outnumber women as Mechanics, Architects, Electricians, Sheet metal workers, Engineers, and Lawyers?

Why aren't men disadvantaged by the fact that women outnumber men as Speech-language pathologists, Dental hygienists, Physical therapists, Counselors, Nurse practitioners, Hairdressers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists?

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/03/06/chart-the-perce...
Great news and innovation.
I would like to see the organizers of these scams executed, and given the nature of their crimes and their victims, I do not personally believe that this would be cruel or unusual punishment. I know that the Supreme Court would disagree with me.
You got it. Imported the jpg and traced it with Inkscape. Hand optimized the SVG and inlined it right into the html of the login page.
If we really dig for an example - mountain climbing guides for Mount Everest, certain groups of people have evolutionary advantages that make them more suited for the job.

In an extreme environment where advantages of the tail end of population distributions are important then it's less likely the market will choose a diversified workforce.
I think the problem with tech is that many of us are arrogant pricks (let the down votes start) because of this fact we are facing a lot of politics at the workplace - all with the common source of a desire to dominate. More women might create a more healthy atmosphere at most places, but who cares. However this is unlikely to happen because many women are not attracted by a heavily male dominated work environment.

The argument that women are inherently bad at tech is not based on historical evidence - lots of women in early computing. Believe me it is very tough to debug a stack of punch cards, much tougher than what we have today...

Are HR practices and PC the right way to solve deep problems? I don't think so. Maybe discussions of this sort can move some people, but most people only seek and find confirmation for their own position...
'Frankenstein dinosaur' mystery solved
DynamoDB seems to be the flavour of the day for this, people are using it even in cases where a non-sharded SQL system would work fine.
Sure. I'm not saying google is right. All I'm saying is that the consequences of these actions are quite predictable.

Also: regardless of the actual outcome, going to court is not a guarantee either way.
I agree with you. But there are competitive advantages in a cutthroat industry to being unethical, so over time, it's mostly the bad actors that have the fattest margins and can make plenty of money before getting caught.

Just like any industry, people accept it because it's just what happens. So busy being a business owner that you cannot afford to be Sheriff.
They recently passed a suite of jepsen tests that finally gives them legitimacy they needed (the latest server release has very good consistency now). MongoDB is in a good place from a technical position.
> Agree that it feels hacky at first, but once the whitelist dataset gets huge, it becomes unique training data for Tesla (and hopefully their machine learning will be able to generalize from it).

I guess. But then you still have to deal with rollout in other countries. And maintenance of sign locations which can change over time, get removed, etc. Still hacky IMHO.

How would machine learning make use of white-listed data? I doubt they could use that data to predict the GPS location of unknown signs.

If you mean image recognition, I assume if machine learning could properly identify the signs with accuracy, then they wouldn't need the whitelist. Then again, maybe they truly haven't collected a full overhead-sign dataset yet. I'd be shocked though if they don't by now. Anyway, you could be right. It would be fun to learn more about these setups.
I went to the darkest area within 2 hours (central Indiana) last weekend to watch the meteor shower. The Milky Way was not all that bright here.

It's really hard to find true darkness east of the Mississippi.
I feel like the author unjustly brushes aside the main benefit of using offsets for pagination (that is: the ability to query a specific page of results). Yeah, most page-based UIs do a lame job at it, but it's nice to be able to say "yeah, the record you want is on the fourteenth row of page 9".

If that's not a relevant use case for your application, though, then by all means use key-set pagination.

As a side note, I happen to dislike most implementations of infinite scrolling (especially when the keep pushing down the page footer, making it impossible to actually read or click on anything down there... GRRRR!).
Aspose.Email for iOS via Xamarin Is Released Create/Convert MSG EML EMLX and MHT
tl/dr: Theropods more closely related to ornithischians than to sauropods
2M Free Eclipse Glasses Coming to US Libraries
Would it be possible to recommend it for a future Netflix tech blog?
> - Get an app to block them

I'd soon change my number before resorting to most apps. Unless it's like uBlockOrigin where I just feed blacklists into it, I'm not really okay with giving an organization besides my service provider my call history. Read Nomorobo's TOS sometime, it's a doozy.
A new hypothesis of dinosaur relationships and early dinosaur evolution[0]

[0] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v543/n7646/full/nature2...
Green Ring Hero Crime Battle
Get ready for action and play Green Ring Hero Crime Battle where the green hero saves the grand city from evil powers. There is a lot of criminality in grand city, people wants a true city hero as a protector. This is the new action simulation pack with exciting gameplay. Ring hero fights crime against the rule. Your green ring hero solves the people problems in the vice city.
Or perhaps unikernel, where the OS and the "app" is pretty much one and the same.
1058 comments all descendents of hedgew's comment. First time I've ever seen something like that on HN.

Edit: FWIW, the best female engineers I've worked with were just as good as the males. But yes, distribution is a thing, and we see fewer female engineers compared to male engineers because of a pipeline problem. Lowering the hiring bar just to converge to an unrealistic and superficial hurts everyone. Maintain the hiring bar and address the pipeline issue by encouraging more women to get into this field.
I also doubt that it's meaningfully true. I think the troubled kid would do better in a private school because there are better resources available, and the teachers would not be overburdened with large class sizes filled with similarly troubled students like in a public school.

I worked as a reading tutor at an elementary school for a year in the US. It was a terrible, terrible job because of how strictly prescribed the methodology was. We tested every kid in the school, and the test was to time the students for a minute and count how many words of a text they could read (an incredibly dumb metric). We did this twice a year and then tutored the kids that were at a slightly below average reading level, meaning that I was not even seeing the particularly troubled / low-performing kids. I had about 25 students that year and got to know a lot of them. Some of the kids didn't need my help at all, they were extremely smart but had read slowly and carefully on the test and so ended up embarrassed by having to be pulled out of regular class.

But the kids that were actually struggling to read at grade level almost all had bad situations at home. There was a boy who had to move in with his aunt mid-year because someone shot up their house while looking for the kid's older brother, a girl who had four other siblings and was frequently hungry because of her father's gambling and drinking, a kid who changed schools because his father was arrested for beating the kid's little sister, a recent immigrant girl who had 15+ siblings and step siblings that her mother somehow ended up taking care of, a very strange boy with a morbidly obese mother and no father, and probably some more I'm forgetting about. My co-worker had a student whose parents were both serving life sentences for murder. This was not even in a particularly rough city or a particularly rough school (the school is maybe 60% Hmong, so many of the kids needed ESL much more than "how many words can you read in a minute?"). The point being, if you don't change home situations like that then there's not much hope for a student's education at either a public or private school.

I won't even go into the daily prescribed routine of exactly how I was supposed to tutor the kids, and the constant evaluations to make sure I was, for example, counting down the timer with the correct fingers and correct hand. That seriously is / was an official Reading Corps policy and it was among many other inane policies in a broader system that was also deeply misguided.
Go through this list[0], a widely divergent sex ratio for a given job is the rule, rather than the exception.

Which of these divergent sex ratios are caused by "problematic environmental pressures," and which aren't?

[0]https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/03/06/chart-the-perce...
Experienced Flash developers would rasterize complex vector shapes on the first load to consume less CPU by raw vector rendering, especially animations. So it's still not a Flash replacement.
LFS and BLFS is a system and at least two substantial books, Build Your Own Linux is a tutorial for a one off minimal, built from source, installation using LFS sources and scripts.
I have never once had an unsolicited call on my cell phone number. I suspected it was because I simply never use it as a phone (data and text only) and therefore somehow stayed off the radar. This seems to validate that thought.

It's been an interesting decade, that's for sure. The whole world kind of expects you to have a phone number if you want to do business. Some people are confused, but more often than not it's their software or processes that insist I give a phone number. I leased a car recently and not giving out a number was perplexing to the sales Dept. I explained that I simply don't have one. They ultimately still wanted my business. I wasn't so lucky with getting a credit card.
Are you sure Twilio or Nutanix didn't file confidentially before its S-1 was flipped public? I'm actually not sure if there's a way to tell, other than a leak.
You never worked with accounting I guess. They easily get a single spreadsheet that's over 1GB, and that's normal.
I wish someone would have explained how to approach learning Rust; It's a really hard language to grasp - when struggling, I think it's important to really understand why whatever you're doing is hard - to learn where your misunderstanding and errors are fundamentally. This is non technical but might be worth mentioning.
Given the incessant push towards treating the web as a front end for "cloud apps", timeshare is back baby. Only that now the terminal is replaced with the web browser.
Bitsat (Bitcoin Satellite) is the first fully open-sourced satellite design
"GPUs are only good at _very_ specific workloads."

Let me detail you a completely specific workload citing my own personal experience over objective facts with citations

Oh and let me also take a swipe at Intel again without any verifiable evidence
"robocalls spoof a caller ID number with your area code and prefix, to make it seem more familiar"

I discovered this pattern from robocalls on my cell phone. But it has exactly the opposite effect as intended: since I don't know anyone who has the same area code and prefix I do[1], I have 100% confidence that any call with a number like that is spam.

And if I don't recognize the area code, or it's from a toll-free area code, it's also spam with 100% confidence.

Fortunately, it's very rare for the spammers to leave a voicemail when I don't answer.

[1] My city has 7 area codes and thousands of cellular prefixes - the odds of meeting someone with the same area+prefix are slim.
Maybe we're talking about the same thing, but basically, the way I see it is this:

1. Request for 2.5 comes in

2. Version 2.5 calls v2.6, takes the data, and transforms it into 2.5.

3. Since a 2.5 response shouldn't have a zipcode field, it's dropped from 2.6 before the 2.5 response is returned.
> Oh, and Intel's 10nm will actually have lower performance than their 14nm.

Less than 14++, sure, but 10+ and 10++ will fix that.
It turns out, it's very hard to determine "legit" or not. Standard of care has not permeated much of the AA/NA [edit: treatment] culture. This is a heavily stigmatized group of people who frequently do not have the response reactions you or I might.

Insurance companies like scans from MRI tests, not reports written from mental health consultants.

These are some of our most vulnerable people. We need to take care of them. It's less competitive as a business to do so.

[edit - like much of mental health issues, 'success' is difficult to define, so outcome based measurement is difficult.]