skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've used Postgres for years because it's sane out of the box. I know you can configure MySQL to mitigate these issues and use InnoDB by default, but the mere presence of data-destroying features is a red flag to me.

I know I could put the logic in my application, but I like the certainty that comes with knowing what I put in is what I get out.
What is a "soul"? I can define "survive and replicate" for you, on the other hand.

<rant>This exemplifies the issue I have with current day philosophy. It's too blissfully unaware of the discoveries in AI. While they redefine consciousness the 1000th time, the AI researchers make "Reinforcement Learning Agents" that play Go, drive cars, paint, draw and can take a pizza order from you. Philosophers, get more concrete.</>
Ideology is maybe not scientific or evidence-tested well enough to model the world well enough to take it as seriously as we really do.

There exist libertarian socialists. Libertarian communists. Anarcho-libertarians. You can be whatever you want.

And that may sound silly to you, but the reality is that everything is like this. America is a mix of socialism, capitalism, some new version of authoritarianism, and at least somewhat mercantilist even though we dont admit that we loot resources from weaker countries. In the past we were much more federalist and what would be described today as libertarian, really.

Obama has some quote (that I cant find now) about how ideology isn't as good as pragmatics. He said something like "my ideology is just that everyone should have equal opportunities, dignity and freedoms, and we should try to maximize those, so just ask ourselves what is the best way to do that?"

Hopefully this is not crossing the line in being too snarky, but the trend in identifying with political ideology looks like it is filling the void that religion left behind. I mean, come on, they're both unscientific, morally pompous doctrines to be a part of and get your heart pumping for.
To go from altcoins to fiat, one needs to first buy Bitcoin with altcoins, then sell Bitcoin for fiat. Why would this not be price neutral for Bitcoin?
I see that "useless use of cat" awards haven't died out yet.

Now I'm left wondering if that makes a point for or against the OP's arguments. ;-)
Effective democracy requires Byzantine fault tolerance. 2/3 majority seems impossible though.
I pivoted my career and got hired through networking (active attending meetups)
I'll add StackShare to this list.

https://stackshare.io
A new way to fund companies. Instead of selling parts, issue tokens that work like a cryptocurrency and promise they will entitle to some profits. Sell these for bitcoins. Recently some companies raised a billion USD that way (yes, billion)

The concern, that I share, is that this system is very vulnerable to Ponzi scheme. And unlike Bitcoin, the crash of the pyramid is not a feature in this system.

I think people are right to warn and forbid this thing. Pyramid scheme can have large-scale effect in an economy.

I think etherum provides way to do things more responsibly but I understand that authorities moved quickly when they saw anonymous companies with no products receiving a billion USD.

Even that will cause ripples when it collapses. You don't want it to grow more.
Uhhh... there's already a radd.it which is a nice viewer for reddit videos. people might get confused (or are these related?)

update: radd.it just shutdown. hmmm...
China had plethora announcements that western press overhyped as a death to Bitcoin and look where we are.

Considering sorry a state of major financial systems on a brink -

It's a buying opportunity.
It's also the AP1000 from Westinghouse, not just Areva. There are definitely deep problems at the senior management level down to project management down to QA on welds with Westinghouse. I haven't followed Areva.
I really think the future is a decentralized model that rewards its users for content creation.

https://steemit.com is what I believe will replace reddit.
I'm not sure what you're getting at. Good RDBMSs do not have any global locks, table level at most, and can easily handle thousands of reads and writes per second on modern hardware while maintaining isolation between transactions.

Once you approach the limits of an RDBMS you're in really large application territory and very few of us will be working for a Facebook or Google.
Does Texas allow for landlords to collect rent when the building is unliveable? In mass I believe the landlords have some time to try and repair property in the event of a catastrophe like a hurricane but they don't get to collect rent off of something they are no longer providing
Great question. One way is to learn abstract skills such as managing others and finding and executing the critical path to a solution.

If you have these skills you can apply them to different software stacks or technical problems. A high-level and decent understanding of the subject is sufficient.

Steve Jobs had no expertise building computers.
Sure it is, leftism occupies a spectrum of economic and social ideals, which the US left (led by the DNC) falls uniformly outside that spectrum. I mean Monarchists are left of fascists, but that doesn't make monarchists leftist just because you compare them to something further right.

Just because your system is dominated by capitalists doesn't make the rest of the spectrum irrelevant, and redefining the conversation to fit into your narrow band is what has led to the frustrations with the American situation.

The American left is not left when considering the entire spectrum of left-right political ideas, and you don't get to suddenly chose to define something as leftist within the context of your narrow window of acceptable thought, it must encompass all ideas.
A Frameless Geodesic Dome (2013)
> Take any Linux app

They are made for desktop, they have tiny text and buttons and I doubt anyone has finger small enough to click them. The commenters below have written that Android apps might be supported too which is nice. But I still don't like the idea of having a desktop launcher or console on a mobile phone.
The whole point is there are many ways to do it and the application knows best.

The API specifics are probably different but it's just setting some registers and the the program counter on that CPU core. The code likely looks very similar to a context switch.
Climate change will also increase wind levels tremendously (more energy => more wind)
If you let the product die with a not giving a fuck attitude, of course nobody is going to use it.

For example when was the last marketing campaign that you can remember for Solaris?

Besides, they've started killing Solaris since 2010: http://garrett.damore.org/2010/08/hand-may-be-forced.html

> And Linux and the BSDs are definitely better for those selective code gifts!

AFAIK DTrace and ZFS can't be used with Linux due to their license being incompatible with GPL.
Germany reached 35% wind/sun/bio energy this year.
MySQL is the worst database ever. You can't even store UUID/GUIDs with it and have to use either strings which are much slower or binary data which is unreadable...
I appreciate the sentiment, but not every landlord is a tycoon. Houston doesn't have the real estate crisis other cities have, so you may charge about 2x the mortgage. (Not to mention the mortgage you eat when a property sits vacant, which is pretty common .. again, there's not the real estate crisis here you see other places where rentals get snatched up quickly) So a month or two without income means the property may be in the red, and as there are many landlords without substantial capital to float a non-paying tenant, that tenant may find themselves in a foreclosed property, where everyone loses.
"Under the Texas property code, if a rental premises is “totally unusable” due to an external disaster then either the landlord or tenant can terminate the lease through written notice. But if the property is “partially unusable” because of a disaster, a tenant may only get a reduction in rent determined by a county or district court."

However, there's not a provision for living rent-free; only lease termination or rent-reduction.
toptalkedbooks.com offers statistic of how many times a book was mentioned from HN, StackOverflow and reddit. This is the major difference in terms of data.

here is an example: http://toptalkedbooks.com/books/j5PVXg/Working-Effectively-w...
She identified herself as a journalist and no-one asked that the discussion be kept off the record. It's also impossible to violate an NDA you're unaware of in my layman's understanding. If Forbes had an agreement with Google it seems like Forbes should have pulled the article themselves.

I assume they pressured the author because they don't want to own the responsibility they should.
Reddit is as "toxic" as the Internet as large, considering that it's made up of very disparate communities.
In the context of webapps I'm not sure there's much of a distinction...
When there are new revelations, they certainly are.
Wow - this is a great article full of facts that nobody else wants to discuss!
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Apple Originally Tried to Give GPL'ed LLVM to GCC [2014]
Wasn't this made by Mackenzie Child in 2014?
https://youtu.be/7-1HCWbu7iU
> bigotry - intolerance toward those who hold different opinions from oneself.
It's never been clear to why very simple unikernels are better than running essentially the same code as a normal user program.
I take it you have never had to work on a legacy Oracle solution with triggers and PL/SQL scattered about everywhere.

I'm just saying I like separation of concerns.
It is worth noting that voat didnt start out as particularly alt right, it's just that's now probably the majority of what is left.

The site is totally committed to free speech, and even the Dark Web will allow paedophiles, hit men, and every type of criminal, but collaborated to push off an alt right page. In other words, it doesn't appear to be any agenda of Voat, it's just a fact that any site which allows free speech is where those people will end up.
Agreed. When I got into IT professionally in 1990 I tolerated dealing with SunOS. It was still BSD'ish. But then when it went full re^h^h SysV I put a bullet in its head for me personally. Never used it again after that. I think the last time I touched a Solaris box was 2001 @ TWA in KC. Then 9/11 happened. It was never anything special in my eyes. I just remember hating having to try to find things and software for it. No package management, everything had to be compiled from source. Shiver. AND!!! They didn't ship with CC! It SUCKED! They unbundled it. Yeah not many fond memories of it.
I'm not even sure.. arithmetic really needs learned as much anymore... as a dev I rarely use my times table... if I need to calculate something I'll pull up a console and go into a repl and just ask php or ruby to calculate it for me...

I know HOW the calculation works and why, but I don't need to know and remember times tables. I like the idea of thinking outside the box on how to teach math and science, as I feel modern schools were built with factories and the industrial complex in mind, not technology, arts, and sciences.
Another point against Mysql is how horrible drivers/providers are. Years ago I reporter a problem to MySQL team that async/await is not properly supported for .NET platform and after waiting for years it was still not supported. They only added dummies for async, but it was not a proper implementation. However, PostgreSQL has an excellent open source provider Npgsql for .NET and it has full async/await support and unlike Mysql provider - I never ever had any problems with it.
It's not insolvency. The bank account is still a company asset, even if slightly less liquid.
Or maybe it has the same name
I've long been a fan of PostgreSQL over MySQL.

I do recommend to read through the PGSQL manual (thick PDF file but you can work through the important parts in a week), it's a joy to read compared to the MySQL one.
I think that negative cultural conditioning is an interesting point. The same thing can be said towards statistics. However, once your own personal lens is shifted to show practical application it makes the basics easier to understand.
> a new and proprietary web engine that's not beholden to Apple, Google, Mozilla, or any of the major firms

I wouldn't necessarily go as far as proprietary, but I agree everywhere else. Now that we essentially have a bunch of Chrome flavors, I'm finding myself missing the browser wars of the mid 2000s. Real competition producing real results.
> Code written following this "deliver anything" policy will tend to have unclear, inconsistent, or flat-out nonexistent meaning.

Funnily enough, "quick & dirty" code also often seems to ignore obvious easy solutions to any given problem and instead pursuits more cryptic/unmaintainable ones.

That's the thing that bothers me the most when I'm encountering that sort of thing: It isn't just "a bit ugly" - more often than not it's hacked together using methods that merely almost work when there's a perfectly viable option that has been there since the 70s. And - on top of that - it usually even locks you in on those horrible decisions.

Example:
You have to configure a piece of software. The configuration is highly critical and must be maintainable and synchronizable between systems.

There are tools that put their entire configuration in a database and sell it as a feature. To sum up:

- You can't properly version said database

- You can't diff said database

- You can't grep said database

- Reading the config takes ages if you can't use a different shoddy tool

- Writing it manually is nigh on impossible

- Errors get very obscure since you have to provide tables and IDs as references

...then why the hell aren't we just using text files for that? You could even insert the text verbatim into a table record and be better off.
There is nothing centrist about Clinton or Obama or even the Democratic party, they're right of center. That's why Sanders was so incredibly popular, because he espoused true liberal beliefs, and something that hasn't been heard or represented in a long, long time.
Reddit just recently announced they're no longer open source [1]. The last source dump could still be used, but I think they choose not to just out of a statement that they're against the Reddit corporation.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6xh3xp/reddits...
How does blockchain really work? I built an app to show you
Reddit is kind of a pain to run at small scale because it has so many dependences: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/Dependencies.
I'm pretty sure some people notice. I'm also reasonably sure that if we produce a substantial amount of our energy needs from wind, turbines will far outnumber any skyscrapers.
The first edition of EOPL was eye opening. I learned what a continuation was, (and how to do CPS) from it.

The second and third editions feel less "hard core" somehow.
A $475,000 and a $5 Cancer Cure Announced in the Same Week
So now even the nobility aren't allowed a one-week vacation?
Some Thoughts on AMP at Condé Nast
A difficult thing to describe. Joy Division was a product of a man tortured by his internal demons. To me, their music was never really about the usual topics. It was about the a desire for a just (yet unattainable) world given the barbarism of everyday life.
If you're fifty, it may be trite idealism but to a teenager in the 1980s who could see the shallowness of it all but could not express it, Joy Division was wonderful. And because of Ian Curtis' suicide, that added to the authenticity and romance of it.
Of course suicide is never something to romanticize and is a painful tragedy that leaves family and friends with wounds that will never fully heal. The experience of an adult eventually override the idealism of youth.
I'm nostalgic for the clean and simple websites before the era of gifs...material design brings back the good parts of that...
There's a whole zoo of "little operating systems" out there that more or less have unikernel-like properties.

Some more closely meet the definition of a Unikernel, others are more like stripped down Linux, others are more exotic OS's that are nothing more than a network driver and disk driver in a virtual machine, such as Solo5.

I got Bootrino (see elsewhere) to boot all of these types of operating systems including embedded Linux (Yocto), Solo5, TinyCore, Alpine, and some other weird run-from-RAM OS configurations.

I got MirageOS running on all of the above, so unikernels can fit within other OSs or live on their own.
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I'll take a look... let me rephrase that the Venus project...which I just heard about a few months ago..intrigues me quite a bit... but I don't see it really being feasible till we're an interplanetary species and even then maybe not...But there are good concepts and maybe when general AI hits, who knows what will change...

I do like UBI though along with (the pragmatist in me) believes gov't should work like agile dev teams... push changes up to a github like interface for bills.. the all bills should be VERY succinct and serve 1 goal, and that they should be repealable pretty easily like reverting a change on github... I think we have WAY too much bloat, and omnibuses just don't make sense at all and should be illegal.

Congressmen make very good money and benefits -- and have lots of perks so they should be required to work as hard as the next guy in America - -40 hours per week IN congress discussing bills and voting - -anything to 'market' themselves for future elections is NOT part of their job and outside their 'paid' duties and should be done on their own time.

I think automation, etc will disrupt the entire fabric of society soon, and honestly I hope we can move back to middle-age work days... they worked maybe 20 hours a week, if that and some weeks not at all - if farming the winter was pretty much just don't freeze to death... While their lives weren't long, I have to think they enjoyed life more than we do today.
I still doubt the "networking" part.

I've got my first job in the states because a recruiter called me. Same for the second job. The third one was through being acquired. The fourth one, you could call networking if you call showing up for a recruiting event networking. 5th one? You guessed it, recruiter called. Sixth one? Yep. Exactly.

Before that, I worked in Germany. 1st job, applied cold. Second one, applied cold. 3rd one, applied cold. 4th one was working with a friend, so there's that. 5th one, applied cold for contract work, converted into a job. So half networked.

So, if we're generous, 2 out of 11 were networking.

As far as I'm concerned, work on the things you care about, build your skills, and when you switch jobs, make sure it propels you forward in some way. If you're a social person, by all means, enjoy meetups/meeting people because it's something that works for you. But don't force yourself to yet another meetup just because everybody says you should.
if only we were all as wise and ethical as you
Why would you go to a hospital for ibuprofen? Isn't it over the counter there? I've waited at the ER in the US for hours because there was limited staff and more serious cases were handled ahead of mine.
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I'd definitely take a vacation--but then I'd work on sideprojects--and be my own boss, because that's way more fun than working for someone else and I still want fun toys and things... I'm a jr dev and even at 60k/yr money is tight... when we made $30k, we really struggled..I don't think people should have that kind of pain and struggle, i think life could be easier for most people and as a society we could make it so..sure a small fraction might use drugs or something w/ their money -- but you know if they use up all their rent money and get evicted then they don't GET UBI (stipulation is you have to have a home address to receive the check and must live there..i.e. no vagrancy/etc... that's really the only requirement).
Skymind (YC W16) is hiring AI systems engineers remotely
Skymind(YC W16) is hiring across the globe. We are building an "AI Operating System" called the Skymind Intelligence Layer (SKIL)
SKIL is targeted at bringing deep learning to large scale enterprise data warehouses where data is fragmented, messy,and often in hadoop based systems.
We are an open core AI company behind deeplearning4j.
We are focused on running large scale systems in production on premise.
Skymind focuses on problems deep learning best solves, including applications in:
Robotics (Japan)
80 exabytes of Healthcare (China)
Telco (France)
We are a remote first company with multiple subsidiaries across the world.
We are 30 full time with contractors we bring in for specific engagements.
We are backed by a mix of great investors including Tencent and Y Combinator.
Skymind places a very large focus on family. Most of our engineers are older with families.
We do not value ping pong tables and working people to death.
If a mature work environment working remotely is for you, please reach out.
I enjoy writing with my fountain pens (I own a Lamy Safari and a Pilot Metro). But, there are some real-word gotchas:

If you travel, large increases in elevation will make the pen burp up some ink. So I always pack mine in a separate baggie wrapped in some tissue paper.

If you run out of ink, refilling it on the go is a royal pain in the ass. Once a fountain pen becomes your daily writer, you need to have a spare pen on hand. The Lamy has a convenient window to indicate the ink level, but it isn't 100% reliable. Personally I just use a nice gel pen that is wet enough for my taste as my backup.

Lamy cartridges are expensive. Expensive enough that I've switched my Lamy over to piston fill with a so-called "converter" to use a bottle of ink that should last years. OTOH, Pilot/Namiki cartridges are very inexpensive and I still use those in my Pilot Metro.
I like the array field as well
Agreed, it usually takes less than a minute to figure that out.
Albeit, I usually don't ban it unless I find them hopelessly close minded when it comes to debates. For other subreddits, I follow them once I have seen them enough times to like them.
I expect there are a lot of craftsmen anticipating the [anachronism] renaissance at this very moment. Most of them will be wrong and I guess we'll write about the ones who guessed right.

I don't see how this company is an example of anything but survival bias. Hindsight makes them geniuses.
Pivoting sin't because they've failed. It's because the path to their goal has changed or isn't what they previously thought. Basically, they're adjusting to new information (market, industry, etc) just like the rest of your definition.

Yes, it's an overused term but it's NOT a sign of failure.
Why assume Chrome? Most likely he uses Firefox.
most sports subs are great, shoutout to /r/mma, best mods on reddit.
The how is what is supposed to be being taught to children at the moment and why the math classes are shifting away from times tables and such. Rote memorization doesn't produce as good of a result as understanding how the calculations work on more intuitive level. I can't find it at the moment since I'm in the metro with poor connection but there was an article about how geometry was taught in such a way to teach kids to distrust their own common sense and instinct by relying on Byzantine rules from the getgo instead of letting kids naturally explore geometry and get a feel for shapes, angles, etc. (with the rules coming later)