skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only that i had a Facebook campaign that consistently under matched Analytics reports. Either Google under reports Facebook clicks or FB overstates theirs.
Not the worst thing, but they could make it possible for distant family members to locate you based on DNA similarity. This isn't always desirable.
We discuss a few concrete examples of this around the cold war in the episode! :)
The survival of our species is irrelevant on the large scale. It is only important to us - the members of the species. Let's he honest, the world as a whole needs nothing from us. In fact, it was arguably better off before us and therefore would benefit without us around.

And it's not true that everything up to now would be pointless. Advancements in technology, science, knowledge, etc. have all been enjoyed by those who are living and have previously lived. Any lack of future humans doesn't mean the benefits of those efforts were not realized or consumed.
True, but I think you undersell the benefit of this:

> This allows people to reroute or exit the highway before the traffic jam, reducing the burden on the bottleneck.

Many of those people could have already been intending to exit the highway earlier. Because of the back-up, their journeys are slowed way down unnecessarily. And then you get compounded effects - the highway backs up past another entrance, causing that feeder road to back up past an intersection... In the worst case you end up with gridlock.

I'm not arguing that zipper merges are magical either, but they can definitely have a significant impact.
There aren't enough tiny schools to explain this result.

The p-value against this result if this school was as good as Stanford by pure chance is 1/10k. There are only 3k 4 year colleges in the USA. The vast majority of which are significantly worse than Stanford.

It is therefore extremely unlikely that pure chance alone would explain this data point.
I can only imagine. Stay safe out there
Think baby steps. Getting NYC/Albany to remove some of the legislation that prevents similar efforts there would be another nice direction to pivot.
Yes, also longer commutes, when an hour was acceptable before perhaps 90 minutes is now if you can check your email or read the paper on the way.
Fidelity began verifying voice for telephone customer service a short while back. They recorded me during the call then at the end said they were going to use it to verify for future calls. No way to opt out.
I wouldn't really say there's huge effort. CSS Modules provides scoping in the same way that C++ added scoping to C (AFAIK) - it just mangles the names transparently at 'build' time.
Really fun stuff. I noticed that it seems to have problems starting sentences. Especially if I try to start a sentence with "hi,". Interesting nonetheless. This passage seems to be rendered fairly well: https://lyrebird.ai/g/LYoVuaZm

Also, https://lyrebird.ai/g/D3Fw328D
"your poor lifestyle decisions."

Why frame the issue in this way, except to make yourself feel better about being complicit in denying your fellow citizens access to basic healthcare?

The alternative explanation is that you genuinely believe all issues requiring healthcare are the result of "poor lifestyle decisions", which is plainly ludicrous.

I think you should give some serious consideration as to why your brain forces you to frame the problem in this way. I suspect it's because at some level you do feel morally culpable for whether your neighbor lives or dies, but that inevitably leads to a position where some social programs are morally just, and a belief in orthodox anti-statism is more important to you.

The only way to square that circle is to frame all healthcare issues as "poor lifestyle decisions" and social programs as "like slavery". Much easier to feel better about a child dying because they can't get access to basic healthcare if you can just hand-wave it away as "poor lifestyle decisions."

Your attitude is sickening to me. Why not just go full-on black hat and say "fuck the sick" instead of pretending all healthcare is due to "poor lifestyle decisions"? At least that would be intellectually honest, and no less evil.
Anyone who dismisses BEM because of the syntax is missing the point of BEM entirely.
lol

And there's a satellite too now, so +1 resilience for Bitcoin!

https://www.blockstream.com/satellite/
We had zope, plone, turbogear and pylon before that.
> I think they want to it to be durable in the sense that even if the events are already consumed they can still play them back to reindex elastic search (which is a thing you need to do periodically).

That (replaying if needed) is exactly what Kafka allows you to do, unless I misunderstood what you wrote.
> To be complete, the discussion should include optimization of interactions with the load balancer, e.g. where to terminate https, etc.

Not necessarily. There are other ways of spreading traffic, like DNS round robin for example, using the DNS delegation trick or even have client-side load balancing (which is perfectly feasible if you control the client, like your own app for example).

The article itself mentions that what they're talking about is the Dropbox Edge network, an nginx proxy tier, which sounds like load balancers to me.
What is this mysteriously-named Hash Array? Perhaps you're talking about a Contiguous Allocation with Well-Shuffled Value-Derived Indexes?
We're the only things around with the capacity to care about the future of the planet. "Better off before us" is context-dependent: the concept of "better" is meaningless without knowing who is doing the judging. Since you are doing the judging, it seems a bit disingenuous to say that the world is arguably better off without you.
I think the grandparent commenter is talking about inflation measures in Canada — I don't think Canada uses US CPI.
Kafka is a fine replacement for a RDBMS if it fits your particular use case. It has very strong data consistency guarantees - stronger than most RDBMS - if you configure it properly (acks=1 et al). It won't even lose data if the leader of a partition crashes during a commit.

It has been explicitly designed for these use cases and even has features like compaction:

https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#compaction

Now, I agree with you that in most cases, using Kafka as your primary data store instead of a RDBMS is madness - but that doesn't mean it's a bad idea in general.
To say "it is absolutely selection bias," you have to include Harvard poetry majors in the comparison, which they did. Why so condescending?
Nginx goes beyond its server roots and launches its application platform
The method of paper to code is really interesting. Does anyone have additional articles or books about this method?
I imagine I could hold cash safely for a fee less than 0.75%
Yes, if it was noteworthy or somehow remarkable and written to the standard of the NYT, I would. There was a fantastic piece that toed this line on This American Life not too long ago (https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/522/...). I'm generally in favor of people having a medium to say things I disagree with and even find distasteful. That's what I think of when I hear "free speech". It's a core American value.

I would also "tolerate" the opinion piece, in any medium, that argued against it. I think it's very easy to make a good argument against pedophilia so I'm not at all worried about some random NYT op-ed piece suddenly turning the societal norm. Just like I'm not too worried about someone writing an op-ed that argues for slavery again. Once 'we' thought these things were ~ok, now we know they're not, and we have a long list of very good reasons for that that are nearly impossible to overcome.

I don't understand the fear of ideas that censorship advocates have. What's so scary about someone being wrong and having an opportunity to learn as much? If you stifle every conversation on topics we as a society have long since covered, these ideas will grow and fester in the dark (say, on StormFront or whatever). It's OK to let them in the light every now and then so that we have an opportunity to educate those who might not have learned the lesson.
Linux is probably faster and has always been for years now. Benchmark a recent kernel and prove me wrong.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but I'm guessing you aren't. Anyway, from a full time Java developer's perspective, lambdas and the FP stuff added to Java 8 have sort of been a holy grail. Filtering with streams have single-handedly made my life as a developer measurably easier, but then again I'm a back-end web dev so it comes up a lot. If you're a Java developer, I'd strongly recommend going back and trying some of these features because they really are quite nice once you get the hang of them.
Inline CSS is underrated. Sometimes you just need one big red button, not a .big-red-button class.
I don't really think that applies? If anything, you know that you can add 2000 to the version version number to get the year.month... if we're to the point where that rolls over, I think we have much bigger problems.
Off the top of my head, I don't, but I'll have a look if I have a chance later.

There have been approved CAD systems separate from imaging systems since the 90s.

"Value" is a nebulous term. FDA looks specifically for "safety & efficacy", and the criterion for each are rather dependent on the intended use.
The discussion is about the merits of raising taxes and this user derailed a large part, probably the only part most people will read, into a discussion on how we could or could not tax the wealthy.
Hysterical to me is the notion that Bitcoin is some kind of e-gold that will be of immense value when all of society begins to fall apart.

Access to cheap power, powerful electronics, and reliable Internet connectivity are not generally what I think of when I consider the downfall of society.
It sounds like if you are a merchant and don't like chargebacks and deposits, the best idea is to run a cash only business then, if you don't mind turning away cc customers.

Strange world!
It sounds like all their Sparc hardware folks have been laid off, too. Most news stories seem sketchy about the details, but there are posts like this:

https://www.thelayoff.com/t/P3fbgtN#wih
Well, here's a whole slew:

http://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-2.html
"My dogs are as important to me as my friends and family." That's not sweet, it's sick.

House on fire, can only save one...
Dog or Friend - Friend (time spent deciding, 0 seconds)
Dog or Family - Family (time spent deciding, 0 seconds)
Dog or Total stranger - Total stranger (time spent deciding, 0 seconds)
> Pascal in embedded systems

aka Modula-2

http://cms.edn.com/ContentEETimes/Documents/ESC%20Proceeding...
I think examples of jobs that have a high potential to be automated could help. Just to get the creative ball rolling. Or just presenting specific problems. The tech crowd loves to dive deep into an issue and try and fix it. But I think part of the problem is, they don't have enough understanding or knowledge to know what could be automated and where the opportunities are. For example, I grew up in a rural community, but was not directly involved in running a farm. I am interested in what you are saying, but I have trouble thinking of what needs automated. I want to put my brain too it, I just don't exactly know what I am putting it to. Hopefully that makes sense.
I agree.

But I would like to clarify, I am not 100% against tolls.

Its perfectly reasonable to be expected to pay, for example, a small entrance fee at a national park. But it is unreasonable for this small entrance fee to fund the entire park and unacceptable for it to become a large entrance fee.
As an experiment, I think communism was absolutely worthwhile. Why not? Societies with private property have all sorts of problems, so let's see what happens when we change that variable.

The problem is when experiments continue despite failure.
Typing class has been replaced by computer classes. I think it's an eventual reality, albeit a slow process.
To get less congestion you would need fewer journeys, as this technology is likely to make travel cheaper I think we can expect the opposite.
I'm not sure that there's any exaggeration in my post - I didn't mention any overblown outcomes that could result from these sort of actions, purely the considerations that weren't taken into account before the action was taken. I may not be seeing the wood for the trees though - it's been one of those days at work today! :)
There is a scientific theory out that has yet to be proven, but addresses the actual purpose of life.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-thermodynamics-theory-o...
TL;DR (with my philosophical interpretations included) - his claim is that life occurs as a natural process to help dissipate concentrations of energy. This occurs because the universe is on a never-ending march toward higher entropy and life is a tool to help it achieve that goal - the goal being maximum entropy and the effective end of the universe as we know it, a situation where all matter is in its most stable state and no energy can be obtained from anything anymore. So we are here to help the universe and all life die.
Because you likely weight the survival of similar genes highly, being decendant from genes that did
Something like say... United Nations and UNESCO?
99-year leases cost about the same as outright purchase. That tells you how much people really care about their grandkids and beyond.
That's arguing that the past will be like the future when things are still really early. Statistically almost nobody owns or uses Bitcoin, especially when you subtract the Bitcoin proponents who do most of their transactions using something like a credit card which actually uses local currency via Visa or where Bitcoin is converted into real currency immediately by the recipient, and who thus would have very little switching converting to something else.

Ask how long either #1 or 2 would hold true if, say, a couple of large banks, Visa/Mastercard, Apple and/or Google, etc. launched a currency accessible to their existing customer bases. I'd give that a couple of days before Bitcoin would be a rounding error in the daily transaction volume.

The big long-term reason I expect that to happen is the deflation model baked into Bitcoin: every player which didn't acquire a substantial holding years ago has a huge incentive to find an alternative which doesn't mean they're putting effort into making someone else rich. Right now there's very little mainstream demand for Bitcoin but if that change it's hard to believe the finance people wouldn't be obsessed with ways to capture that revenue going to a third-party.
> Why not?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_Communist_...
I wasn't really meaning the As-Seen-On-TV "rich and happy".

I meant "happiness" more as the opposite of "pain and despair". If you are not in a place mentally to have a partner and children, don't do it.

Same with "health". If you aren't healthy, either by circumstance or by choice, you probably aren't ready for a partner or kids.

"Money" is relative. I really mean, if you have enough resources to provide for more than yourself. If you can't provide anything for a relationship, or kids, you aren't ready.

You could draw this as concentric rings of self-control, and only once you are in control of the inner ring, can you progress to outer rings.

You must control your mind, body, environment, relationships, and offspring. If you lose control of one of the inner rings, then you cannot control the outer rings.
Because Brendan Eich's management lied to him about allowing him to do Scheme in the browser: https://brendaneich.com/2008/04/popularity/

When I think of what web programming could have been like, it makes me want to weep.
Unfortunately for certain voices our model has difficulties to generate the very beginning of the sentence. We hope to fix this problem soon.

Some other people shared their voices on twitter if you want to compare: https://twitter.com/LyrebirdAi
Another anomaly is that "hello" yields the same array position for all three hashes, which makes it highly prone to collision.
Define "stop". Like VHEMT? On a not more serious note, most people on this planet do not drive cars. 947M registered passenger cars for 7350M people in 2015 is 12.8%.
Lynn Margulis has proposed that our neurons have bacterial origins[1], this would certainly appear to support that hypothesis.

1: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1749-6632.2001....
> Inflation has occurred outside of CPI basket, most notably in equity markets and real estate prices in large urban cities

Those are assets rather than goods. They are neither produced nor consumed. That being said, yeah, it's no mystery that low rates have caused asset price inflation, not consumer price inflation.
That may be an exaggeration as well. As a resident of Southern Ontario, but not Toronto, the CREA data shows that home prices in my area were stagnant, to slight decline, for most of the last decade. It has only been in the last year that any meaningful price appreciation has been observed. And I attribute the recent price appreciation to an improving economy and near record low unemployment (currently 2.9%).
Too many people are on antidepressants – GPs must act now
> Linux is probably faster and has always been for years now. Benchmark a recent kernel and prove me wrong.

How about you post the benchmarks you used to form your answer, otherwise your post is nothing but speculation and probably just favoritism.
plenty of people do try to learn a second language. that's why apps like duolingo are popular. but language is a medium for exchange, and if you have no one to practice with i don't think you'll really get it. of course, i only speak english myself.

you would really trust yourself to translate a film after picking up a language without ever speaking it with anyone?
There exists a theory that says all the suffering that has been experienced up to this point would have been avoided if our species hadn't survived, and that the scale of human-inflicted horror and injustice, which we are doomed to continue repeating forever, far outweighs the relatively small and inconsequential improvements that humans have contributed to nature.
I don't know about Canada, but using a wildly unjustified extrapolation from my country - many a public sector wage, and worse - retirement plans, are following an official cost of living index. Calculating a "realistic" index would have a devastating impact on the long-term fiscal balance of the state.
Do you have a source for that? As far as I can piece together by going through the 2016 and 2017 StackOverflow developer surveys, the median professional developer appears to be ~30yo, with ~8 years professional experience.
Wild Dogs Sneeze When They Are Ready to Hunt
It's an interesting problem for the prestige car manufacturers, people don't care what the make of a taxi is in the same way they do about the car parked on their drive.
This article is a bit more thoughtful than the title suggests.

It's from the UK.
Makes a lot of sense. I hope it works! There are also current pediatric trials using the measles virus.
What would differentiate a real justification from a "made up one"? Point, purpose, justification, etc. are by definition human concepts; without humans, things just are.
That's also bad, but at least it is reasonably well documented, and there are a variety of tools (Ghostery, uBlock Origin, uMatrix, Disconnect, Privacy Badger, AdBlockPlus, ....) that can all help you with controlling it.

Unlike files, your OS has access to every file, every key press, etc; some of these get sent in the telemetry. Also, Win10 is mostly a black box in these respects, you don't know what gets sent and there is hardly any documentation either.
I never needed a picture to understand a hash table once I knew what a hash function was. If it were called a McCready table, that's one more trip to Wikipedia, plus one more every time I forget.

Re: naming: It's a table of hash function results. It probabilistically stores a set. I don't see any filter here, though one use of the technique is indeed in filtering a list, though there are plenty more.
I tend to be the one arguing this, to stick to postgres for most things but even I will admit it does depend on scale.

I'm not sure what the NYT requirements are but from my understanding of Kafka, its persistent redundant distributed queues scale automatically horizontally across machines to support colossal amounts of data. It's possible that they had difficulty fitting everything in a postgres instance.
The outcome of this will be that GrubHub will start limiting the number of hours their drivers work. There's no way GrubHub will consider them employees, that would kill the business model.

The banks in Canada already do this. If you are a contractor, you can only work for 18 months before you are required to take 3 months off. This is to avoid you being classified as an employee, entitled to benefits and other employment perks.
I third this recommendation. I've worked on a ton of data intensive applications on all kinds of stacks over the years, and this book gives you lessons learned as well as a very valuable historical perspective on relational databases that is missing from a lot of the popular literature today.
Yet every time we increase efficiency by building roads we end up with more congestion. Can we outrun this problem?
At my company I find the culture mildly frustrating because we do so little to educate the new hires. Our method is to hire experience. So we now have a group of 25 design/engineer level people with a variety of project methods and a ragged list of skills. Because of this we can only accept small to medium projects. We would not be able to execute a large project because we don't have a large team, we don't have a uniform background or uniform method.

In my first engineering job there was training path and there was a "company way" of doing things. We hired all levels of experience and trained them on the skills and the company way as needed. I know a predefined method of project execution can be stifling, and that sometimes happened, but it was a good place to start.

At my current place, a person can roam the halls or chats and ask questions, but it is just too random. If someone is not delivering up to expectations, the engineering manager will visit tell them to improve. That is not what I call training. While it does work, somewhat, those who survive it simply reinforce whatever method of execution they develop in their own heads. The company grows by adding a small revenue stream, but not in the ability work together.

Finding your spot, developing your skills, learning your domain are mostly your responsibility. When you say "jobs were far to come by in my old area of expertise" that implies you are now in a better area to find a company more suited to you; maybe a more mentoring company. I agree with so much of the advice given to you so far. I will be working on myself using what I have read here. Some of the advice, however, was targeted at the time before you changed jobs. That is still possible.
> The biggest problem was seeing that the common element over those multiple domains is that nobody really knows what they're doing, and everyone is just faking it so hard that it somehow just works anyway. So if you have any genuine competence in anything, you just copy everything that makes even an iota of sense from that into whatever else you're doing, and that makes you an instant genius.

This is sooo true. From my experience most organizations and teams are very low performing, speaking about older companies, especially ones that have had rounds of layoffs or lots of turnover over the years. You truly get the "don't move my cheese types" who are just there because they're to lazy to find another job.

Mostly, the people who really knew the code/domain left long ago. Occasionally you'll find an old BA who ought to be running place, hunkered down somewhere. These people are gold.