skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is kinda surreal that a company obeying the law is headline news.

Note that they appear to have responded on the final day allowed. Throughout this process, Google has repeatedly asked for extensions to review the claims or come up with a response for all of these cases. It seems like, knowing the result, Google has attempted to draw out this process as long as legally possible. The PR damage from keeping this case ongoing presumably pales in comparison to the profit from their unlawful conduct.
> They have drivers and could be in the area in <10hrs after the plan is activated.

You think so, eh? What percentage of drivers do you think would show up, given that many of their families would be in danger themselves?
And obviously a very good driver to get people to upgrade to high-end Android phones. There aren't too many use-case drivers for that right now.
more likely their model is wrong. it reminds me of fukushima: https://ml.berkeley.edu/blog/2017/07/13/tutorial-4/
Why wouldn't the FDA allow it? I didn't see anything about that in the article.
> It is funny that we have a thousand and one different general purpose programming languages that try to solve the problems with general purpose computing, but SQL dialects (with slight variation here and there), have very little competition, despite all the problems with the SQL language.

This is kinda like complaining that there's only one implementation of lambda calculus. Yes, SQL is not directly a relational algebra, but it's pretty close. (Also, tables are not relations and SQL deals with that.)
> …this just seems like a perfect example of why the ability to do a thing isn't necessarily a reason to do that thing.

Some Twitter post occasional tweetstorms. This tool makes it easier to do that. Is it possible you're over-thinking it?
We just had an article headline today that said Email is the largest social network.

I find it very plausible that if push came to shove a decent lawyer would be able to convince a jury or a judge that Email is indeed a social network.
Thanks for the kind words.

RSI is the elephant in the room, I'm afraid. I actually have constructed my own coding chair out of couch cushions and PVC pipes (inspired by a kind stranger's reply to another HN post of mine!), but it only makes the pain bearable. It doesn't resolve it. Nothing resolves it - I've tried everything.

Downtime is always welcome but it doesn't make things better when I come back to work.
Minor comment, but isn't the whole trope of starting an article on "we need to do X more" with "famous person A did X, and famous person B did X" a bit played out?
Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi Says He’s Taking the Uber CEO Position
I'm doing something similar. How long did it take to feel competent?
Hints of Trigonometry on a 3,700-Year-Old Babylonian Tablet
> the more red pixels you have on the screen already, the less likely is that you hit a new yet-not-red pixel, so the final pixels take forever to turn red

This would be true when using the built-in random number generator, modding the result to a pixel on the screen.

However, this is not how the "maximum-length" LFSR proposed in the original article works. It visits each pixel exactly once, and turns the screen completely red in a deterministic amount of time. (Just see the screenshot here: http://fabiensanglard.net/fizzlefade/die.gif)

This behavior is indicated from the stopping condition in the Wolf3D asm code alone -- the seed starts at 1. It terminates when the random number returns to 1, completing the cycle through the number space.
I hope that wasn't during the summer. That's a big rectangle!
Nice, but it seems like a cut-down version of frontend-maven-plugin: https://github.com/eirslett/frontend-maven-plugin
> And a nicely-packaged extension makes it accessible to more people, especially non-technical users.

I followed the links on parent comment. Installed Stylish for FF[0] to manage userStyles. The link provided by parent[1] now shows install style:)

After installing the userStyle, medium is so much more readable as default without me having to click an extra 'readability' button to reload.

Very nice! I'm going to have a lot of fun experimenting with some other (annoying) sites.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-Us/firefox/addon/stylish/

[1] https://userstyles.org/styles/140923/medium-com-removing-bot...
Interesting that one of the reasons for their dropping Solaris support is "Operational difficulties." The same would also be valid reason for saying "Farewell" to Mongodb.

Anyone that's had to manage a MongoDB database could tell you about regularly having to manually re-synch their secondaries, manually having to run compactions to manage disk space(the power of 2 allocator), the automatic "balancer" process that sends I/O the roof, the rollback files etc. I think MongoDB being so operationally difficult is the prime reason that MongoDB offers a managed MongoDB PaaS offering.
This. I don't even use twitter, but that even that doesn't keep one safe from seeing links to twitter threads and 'storms'. Often labeled 'Must read!' My usual response is 'will not read!'
I'm a fan of both Vue and React native. Check out https://github.com/mikermcneil/chatkin for an example app using both
its the gamblers fallacy black 17 has not come up for ages so its more likely to come up - looks like the journalist does not understand probability
Thats probably dependent on the hardware and size and complexity of workflows and DB size. Our JIRA install is one of the slowest webapps i've seen in a while. Can't wait to move on to something else.
I don't know how the price is calculated behind the scenes. I paid a total of $1,900 and am happy with what I got for that price. I completely deleted Windows 10 when it arrived and installed GNU/Linux.

You do pay for Chromebook software with your data.
Nice. For dates we'd go to a library or book store, take random books and dramatically read the first, middle, and last lines. And speculate on the rest and/or make fun of it.
It might be an apples to oranges comparison but does 6.9 million DAU seem low? My expectations for DAU were set by working in the game industry. Both for Zynga (back in the CityVille days) and for some mobile game companies. If by DAU they mean "people who pay $11 or more per month" then that does sound decent. But if that number is free and paid it seems a little low over all. Of course if you look at the stats for F2P, web, or mobile games that launched in 2008 maybe 6.9 million is still a good number for their DAU.
I'm wonder what effect the unemployment levels have on bootcamp attendance?

I would guess low unemployment would cause attendance to go down for people grasping at a chance for a tech job?
My real table is messy enough. Now I can make it messy digitally too!
There is always considerable political pressure to low-ball the estimates. That is hinted at in this article, and it happened in New York, where the first post-Sandy flood zone maps provoked widespread opposition from those in the newly-expanded zones, and they were rapidly scaled back. There is, of course, some uncertainty in the estimation, but it seems likely that the official maps will be, at best, based on the most favorable possible interpretation of the data.

Mother nature does not respect grandfather clauses.
> One thing that I rarely hear about crypto-currencies is the environmental impact

How many Crypto threads does this exact comment have to be posted in before it stops becoming "rare" to hear about?
We've updated the link from https://apple.news/Aric4YYSmRzWy1eAlVj_Dyg which redirected to this.
We used Couchbase (a NoSQL like MongoDB) for email batch sending (think invitations to a party) and it worked very well. We could store each email sent as a separate, denormalized document so the sender could see EXACTLY how their contact data was replaced in each individual instance, the "View as a Web Page" functionality was trivial (instead of recalculating everything from the normalized forms- which can be blown up by contact data changes, just load the document that you sent out), and it's lovely TTL feature meant we could handle the configurable retention policies trivially as well.

It wasn't so good at doing reports (how many customers viewed the email yet, responded, etc.). One thing we talked about doing was just storing a sqlite or h2 database as a document for reporting purposes (if we had been more single threaded that could have worked nicely). We ended up using a separate Sql DB for that.

There are cases where denormalized data is the "right" way to view stuff, and cases where the data really is easier if its normalized, and that is a good reason to push your DB selection one way or another.
That's your opinion. I'm not saying there's anything wrong about it, but it's just that a modern capitalist government's priority is to make sure its society stays stable (unless you think its priority should be to seek chaos) because that's what governments were built to do--to provide stability.

What you're not taking into account is macroeconomics. When you let anyone do whatever they want, it is very likely that the rich will get richer (because they are more informed) and the poor will get poorer. And with that comes corruption. That's why the government steps in to break off organizations that become too large and make sure things like antitrust don't happen.

If you think the society is unjust, first try to learn WHY things work that way, that way you may either come up with a solution that can solve it, or go build your own nation, or at the least understand what's going on.
NEO is interesting if for no reason other than it doesn't even exist yet, and the market price has risen so quickly. One can easily imagine a scheme with any of the premined networks where the price is manipulated by only releasing a small percentage of the total supply and than buying up what's available on the exchanges with BTC to pump the price and than as rubes buy in, slowly selling off at the inflated prices.

The 50,000,000 units were arbitrary distributed to unknown parties within China.
If anyone from Asana is out there, the fonts on your site look /very/ weird on my machine - Debian 9.1, Chrome 60.0.3112.78. https://my.mixtape.moe/qpziak.png
Work where your skills have the highest impact. Sometimes it translates into labor -> dollars.
It was the right decision, @alyson-cabral. The major market is linux-based, correct? There are better uses of company assets, than trying to chase the less-than-0.06% of holdouts that operate Solaris.

As a person of science, I've used both Sun Solaris and SGI Irix.... time to let go of that past and pivot to the future!
Talking about Cleantech, if you live in California you can signup for Solar Choice from PG&E. It charges you extra for electricity, with the proceeds going to a program that offsets your electrical consumption by building new renewable energy sources. Here's a link to get started: https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/solar-and-vehicles/opt....
Isn't every similar database a pain to support?
> It makes me sad to see what Oracle has done to it.

Wasn't it the market that did that? What could Oracle have done to make Solaris popular? AIX and HP-UX aren't doing so well, either.
> That test was accurate

> the authors demonstrate what I believe to be a staunch leftist

Sounds like somebody is biased here.

> "just because of how they worded this I have to say X because they are making an absolutionist statement on something I'm not absolutionist about".

That's how and why the test works. It need to extract the user's leaning by choosing between extremes.
For material that I struggle understanding upon first read (e.g. academic papers), I often find myself pacing in circles in my room/backyard, reading it aloud, slowly, with proper intonation, as if I was lecturing. It helps a lot, although my neighbors probably think I'm crazy.
My wife and I had a long-distance courtship. We used to read novels to each other over Skype. It was a nice change from chatting when we'd run out of things to say, and a fun way to share favourite stories. We didn't ever try to read anything really ambitious, but that was part of what made it enjoyable— even just kids' chapter books, stuff like Gordon Korman, Louis Sachar, Sid Fleischman.

We don't read to each other as much these days (though sometimes in the car), but we definitely do read to the kids.
I would definitely implement a bloom filter with an array of booleans, and will not use bit operations to modify the cells.

Whether I use array access or a bitmask will mean nothing performance-wise, since the bloom filter itself is likely already speeds up a different algorithm by an order of magnitude.
The (controversial) economist Steven D. Levitt pointed out that there was no correlation between parents reading to children and reading test scores.[1]

I don't know which studies are accurate. I just remember that story because the findings were counter-intuitive.

[1] "Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, which tracks the progress of more than 20,000 American schoolchildren from kindergarten through the fifth grade."
-- https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2005...
I always thought it was weird that they had their own venture fund. Shouldn't a growing business invest in itself?
I don't believe you actually read the article.

The entire article is literally about why they took they approach they did, and why they couldn't do it in the US. The first line of the article is:

>Defying U.S. safety protections for human trials

Then:

>Neither the Food and Drug Administration nor a safety panel known as an institutional review board, or an “IRB,” monitored the testing of a vaccine its creators say prevents herpes outbreaks.

>...But in order to approve the drug for the U.S. market, the FDA requires that clinical trials involving human participants be reviewed and approved by an IRB or an international equivalent. The IRB can reject research based on safety concerns.

And as to why not deal with the FDA:

>The push behind the vaccine is as much political as medical. President Trump has vowed to speed up the FDA’s approval of some medicines. FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, who had deep financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry, slammed the FDA before his confirmation for over-prioritizing consumer protection to the detriment of medical innovations.

>“This is a test case,” said Bartley Madden, a retired Credit Suisse banker and policy adviser to the conservative Heartland Institute, who is another investor in the vaccine. “The FDA is standing in the way, and Americans are going to hear about this and demand action.”

This trial was part of a larger political push to weaken FDA research oversight, as the article clearly and fully explains.
The argument in favor of the tests: https://www.siumed.edu/pr/highlights/game-changer-herpes-vac...

Excerpts:

>“Many of the virus vaccines we currently put in our kids — chickenpox, mumps, measles and rubella — were developed using live-attenuated viruses in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s when the regulatory landscape was more relaxed,” he says, “and they have worked remarkably well.”

In the United States, a noticeable shift in research focus occurred around the time of the Belmont Report, published in 1978, which summarized ethical principles and guidelines for research involving human subjects. The FDA began erring on the side of caution, and expediency became a casualty of the government’s procedures.

>Dr. Halford feels the relative risk is fairly clear-cut.

“Relative risk is not a new concept,” says Halford. “Our technology is much better today, yet within first-world countries the mindset for developing vaccines has moved away from relative risk and toward the legal approach that asks ‘Is there any risk whatsoever?’” Dr. Halford smiles. “There’s risk when you walk out the door each day.”

He believes the more humane, common-sense approach weighs the risk of testing a vaccine candidate versus the risk of doing nothing.

“For example, in 2016 we know that about 60 million people will get newly infected by HSV-1 and 2—about a million people per week—and 2 to 3 percent are going to progress to a lifetime of chronic disease,” he says. “Many of those people will face a lifetime of never-ending isolation and pain caused by a chronic herpes infection. These can also have devastating effects on the psyche of patients.”

“So, do we run a small trial using something that’s been proven safe on animals for the past 20 years or do we sit on the sidelines?” he asks. “If we sit on the sidelines, people suffer.”
Exactly and this should become a mantra for startups to follow, knowing that there is no miracle but hard work and strong flexibility for change/pivot when necessary
I think this is pretty straightforward actually: the UX of a Twitter thread sucks, but only a little bit less than opening a link and waiting for the page to load. People don't want to leave their Twitter client. Twitter needs to allow long tweets, which they could do with virtually no disruption to the existing Twitter UX.
I like the wedge shape and the battery life, which isn't even comparable to the MacBook Pro I had. Haven't seen one IRL yet and I'm not sure about the new keyboards, but I'll check one out someday after my Air(s) die.
I find it interesting how the fiduciary duty towards shareholders given priority over obeying the law. My initial instinct is to basically assume that the former requires the latter in some way.
Fair enough, and for personal ideologies, you are right that it doesn't matter. But I don't think it's a futile conversation to talk about the how one mindset vs another has effects at the collective scale, e.g. when it comes to social development or politics, etc.
My cat's name is Computer. (Adopted, came with the name.) Not great for naming my frontend framework though.
if you are changing or pivoting a business plan, because one wasnt successful. The first plan was a failure and you pivoted/changed to a new one. I think both terms are applicable and can be used together.
Except there's a very good ability to know precisely the odds of what the ball landing on black 17 are.

It's a very complicated question to determine what a 1/500 odds of flooding are.

So, it's very possible that this isn't the gambler's fallacy, but rather the model itself is inaccurate.
This story was originally killed by the software because it was submitted with a link shortener.
Here is another tip to track down that long tail.

"Tracer bullets". Have a flag that can be put on an action that causes it to be logged very verbosely. In a way that travels through your system. And then aggregate those logs, process them, and make them available. Then randomly tag a small fraction of actions with that flag. Like 0.1%. Because you do this relatively rarely, you can make verbose logs without overwhelming your system.

When you receive a complaint about foo occasionally being slow your first stop is to see if you've got a concrete action that was slow, look at the picture from the logs, and try to figure out why. This will greatly help in reproducing rare problems or, if you can't, at least identifying where they come from deep in your system.
So something like PostgreSQL `json` and `jsonb` types? You can select them out into columns, so they should play nicely with ORMs.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/datatype-json...
Sorry, when I said "Nicer language", i meant that it has a more readable syntax.

On top of that, I was comparing Python to JavaScript and wasn't even talking about PHP, which, as you rightly discovered, I have very little knowledge about.
The slow loading speed was definitely the primary reason that I stopped using Asana. I just tried Asana today on Firefox, and it felt faster than before, or at least the perception of it was faster.

I hope that they work to optimize the iOS app as well. I know the op is about web and not iOS app, but iOS app is just painfully slow, and takes awhile to load a simple page with 1 single task! My other gripe is that it won't work in off-line mode, when I don't have internet access. Anyway, being slow really ruins the user experience.
When reaching 90% completion, like an MVP, those remaining 10% will take much longer. I also get angry when tax money is seemingly being wasted. What should you do though ? Offer to do it for free ? I'm a developer and I like building stuff, I do not like selling stuff. Thankfully there are people that actually like selling, so I suggest finding such a partner and be prepared to spend five years completing the last 10% and hopefully make some money.
Right... I'm in my 20s and really don't know a lot of people like that.
The fine makes it worth complying. It's 5% of global daily revenue per day, which is significant. It's also not tax deductible. If the fine would be $10,000 a day, Google wouldn't care.
The need to maintain an explicit schema and update it every time your data model changes is the point of friction here, not the migrations system. To be perfectly clear, I'm not suggesting maintaining a schema is onerous enough to outweigh the numerous other benefits having an explicit schema provides, even at the prototype stage, but when you're prototyping and don't need to worry about data migrations, having to maintain a schema is certainly not going to be _faster_ than not having to maintain a schema, as the original post claimed.
I don't think this is a good argument. Posting personal information on a public forum is completely different from letting it sit in some database that no human is likely to look at. The latter can be a reasonable trade-off to use a free service.
Perhaps because Netflix figured out that if there's even a whiff of impropriety on the part of Amazon, and it gets out, Amazon will lose a ton of other business. Because if they'll screw Netflix, they'll screw you, too, if you're seen as a competitor.

That's just a guess, of course, but it's also why I think Target could be over-reacting a bit.