skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The premise that SQL is "beating" NoSQL is pretty dumb. I have never been aware that such a competition between datastore designs exists.

Who is that competition between developers? Users? Most of the places I have worked in the last 5 or 6 years have had both relational and non-relational databases. This is not uncommon. In none of those shops was there a competition between the two databases but rather they were complimentary.

This article and title seem to be very self-serving for their own product. Its seems to willfully conflate SQL the interface and SQL a general term for a relational database.

NoSQL has always been something of a misnomer - non-relational would have been a better term but it doesn't sound as buzz-worthy I suppose.

The SQL like interface has been in Cassandra for longer now than it was absent. The gain in SQL like interfaces for non-relational databases is because it's familiar and works really well. Anywhere there is a database there is going to be a need for selection, filtering and projections of tuples.

>"In Amazon’s own words, its PostgreSQL- and MySQL-compatible database Aurora database product has been the “fastest growing service in the history of AWS”.

Is this really surprising that the world's largest cloud provider is selling more databases than anything else? Almost everyone needs a database, given howrelational database, there are more people around that have experience with it.

>"To understand why SQL is making a comeback ..."

No, SQL never went away. Full stop.

>"But don’t take our word for it. Take Google’s"

No, this practice of blindly adopting ideas just because they work for Google needs to stop.

This post sounds as if the author(s) themselves bought into all of the NoSQL hype that buzzword-obsessed tech journalists were spinning and they are just now having an epiphany that much of that hype was just that.
Let me ask a question that is closer to the spirit of what I meant before:

Given that there are already carefully tested FOSS secret sharing systems, why should some other enterprising soul not just host one of them and compete, rather than building a new proprietary scheme?
>most bikers observe the traffic laws

Not in Philadelphia, at least. I walk everywhere, and racking my brain for bike encounters I can only recall one of maybe 20 instances in which a bike actually stopped at a red light. I can recall at least a third of those instances where bikes were travelling the wrong way on a one way street, and another third with bikes on the sidewalk.

That being said, I still think biking is a net positive. It would be better if the roads were designed with bikes in mind. The problem with bad human behavior is almost never the human, but the system that's designed to disincentivize the good behavior.
What countries have developed electric infrastructure (or really, infrastructure in general) without the state being heavily involved? Not trying to be dismissive, I haven't seen anything about this and my quick attempts at googling don't seem to turn up anything.
Never tried numba. I write all of our cuda stuff by hand anyway, and wrap that into cython from c++ where needed.
I understand his argument against ebooks[1], but I still wish I could buy a copy in that format. On a Kindle you do give up something with respect to typography and you have to accept non-standard formats, but you gain something in readability.

I respect his choices though and I hope future devices eliminate his typography and format concerns.

[1]: https://practicaltypography.com/why-theres-no-e-book-or-pdf....
Lots of comments from people suffering issues and missing their favorite plugins, so I thought I'd jump in as a former Chrome user.

Firefox quantum is really very good. This is the first time in a long time that I've been able to entertain switching browsers. It is at least on par with the speed of chrome, and since I'm moving from chrome, I'm not really missing any Firefox plugins too much. I've been able to port my most needed plugins from chrome's app store, and I'm using an "open in chrome" plugin to bridge the gap with hangouts so that I can have a reasonable workflow at work. It's been a pleasure to use!

I am currently also experiencing the awesomeness of tab containers. These things are a godsend, and I think they'll be in every browser before too much longer.

I have to say, I do feel that Mozilla has sacrificed some of its existing userbase to make a grab at Chrome's. It's worked in my case, but they've definitely upended the environments of a lot of people. I hope it pays off for them. For the first time in a long time though, Firefox feels really fast and innovative again. I look forward to my next phase of my browser life as an enthusiastic user.
Yes, I'm surprised how celebrities and CEOs of big corporations live so long... In spite of the bodyguards.

It's hard to appreciate the sheer number of people that exist in the world... Surely there are enough crazy people to populate an entire city.

Is it possible that intelligence is inversely correlated with insanity? I thought it was the opposite.
how many .com sites did you register before this one?

I made a list of like say 20 then tested with a bunch of people here in union square NYC.

i mean is this your first shot or how many previous shots did you have if i may ask?

Whenever i have an idea i put up a landing page and start testing, this is another i am testing: http://tryoldster.com/ I got a BUNCH of emails already. I don’t know what todo since i have ADHD and need to narrow my focus to the one thats making money.

how did they go?

So i just asked them i’d list for free, it was unusual if I’m honest and people started asking how I’m different then carsdotcom, whats the benefit if they list with me and what is the fee, whats the traffic amt. Most of the times i had to scramble and think on my fee because i actually didn’t know what i was doing , it kinda just unfolded and i kept it adaptive (“wait and see” i guess a lot of luck, you never know what the heck the customer is gonna want or say or ask. But you better give them an answer which satisfies them.

how did you get the interest of people to find your web site?

I don’t know. I was on all the tesal forums / listening to what customers are saying and what kinda problems they are having then i messaged a few and kept going. Goal was to make $150/day.
> where the sensors controlling the lights do not sense bikes

Not real bikes, anyway; they might be able to sense some 75 pound piece of pig iron from Walmart.
(I live and bike in Toronto)

The streetcar tracks are definitely something you need to be aware of. If you do your best to cross perpendicularly and avoid rapid swerves when it's raining, it's pretty safe.

I spend most of my time on separated bike lanes, which are increasingly becoming A Thing. It's great.

The only time I really have to deal with streetcar tracks is if I'm on Queen St and I need to pass a stopped car on the right. It's fairly rare, maybe a few times per year. The rest of the time I'm just passing over them going on Richmond/Adelaide across Spadina which is orthogonal and easy.

Overall: The tracks are not great, and they're the #1 thing I warn new bikers about, but they're not a huge issue once you're aware of them and know how to deal with them.
We've reached a cross-over point though.

Current-generation ML techniques have proven business value. You can talk to your phone, and it understands a decent set of common actions to be performed. It is now mass-market.

Businesses see the value of the existing ML systems, and can also see that investments in incremental improvements will pay dividends. And so, investment will continue.

Meanwhile, we're finally starting to figure out the actual architecture that allows us to think and move. [1] With continued research, we'll see progress there as well.

[1] http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-unc...
Books and Blogs
Agreed. Seems more of a way to advertise her product than to actually share any wisdom. Still a pretty interesting product.
I tried. Didn't help.
Who will get our 200,000 Bitcoins?
You called China "the only country on the planet that seems to think and execute long-term". I agree with that. That gives them a huge advantage.

The issue about repression stifling creativity is orthogonal to that (unless to the extent repression might be necessary for long-term-ness), and gives them a huge disadvantage.

Which huge thing is huger is anyone's guess. They look to be winning so far. (What could really derail them is a bad leader, Mao-style. Checks and balances would be to avoid that. But that's a different topic altogether)
The reasonable doubt burden is high but don't worry about the company, we don't even get there when there isn't any criminal liability for what looks like the reckless disclosure of vast quantities of private info.
>... does very little to enhance our web presence in the first place and then never does anything further to improve our results. Complaints are met with excuses. In other words, ... ... a company that makes false promises and delivers little value.

SEO agencies in a nutshell.

Disclaimer: I'm a SEO.
Non closable pop-up window.
I would argue pure meritocracies become bureaucracies. No need to know the person, just put in their merits. Everyone knows their pay grade and everyone knows what it takes to get to the next level. However, how effective are bureaucracies, well just look at government.
The insurer.
Won't it end well for him because he gets fees risking other people's money? Or is there typically a, "if I do poorly, there are no fees" clause?
> The OP was making the argument that "men choose not to get married because reasons." Seems like they never bothered to consider there's a significant amount of professional women that are not interested in getting married until later in life. There's been a lot of thinly veiled (and sometimes pretty blatant) misogyny around HN of late, that's why I made the joke about them probably having something do with it.

Are they required to mention a woman's perspective in every instance where they mentions a man's perspective to not be a woman hater?
Reminiscent of laser eye surgeon Mockovak putting a hit on his business partner and fellow laser eye surgeon King. [0]

[0] http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Renton-laser-eye-surg...
Google and Levi's Release Internet-Connected Wears
I'm convinced it's because of CSS animations / transitions. Firefox seems to be doing just fine loading static sites like HN. Stripe.com however seems to be Firefox worst nightmare.
> Firefox Quantum enhances Firefox’s integration with Pocket, the read-it-later app that Mozilla acquired last year. When you open a new tab, you’ll see currently trending web pages recommended by Pocket users so you won’t miss out on what’s hot online, as well as your top sites.

That doesn't sound good. What are the reasons for having bloatware bundled in instead releasing them as separate add-on or installation option?
I also follow the "red light stop, stop sign yield" rule. I'm as annoyed by bikers who just zip through stop signs as everyone else, but when riding attentively and respectfully, I believe the Idaho stop safer and more efficient for everyone, not to mention waaayyy more considerate of bikers (who, until recently, have just been given the finger by norms, laws, and infrastructure in America).
I used to have to navigate tramway tracks daily in Nantes, but luckily never got my tyres caught in them. I have had two friends loose teeth there, though!

They're not only dangerous because of the cracks, but they're also extremely slippery when it rains.
I'm on High Sierra and I got the same issue!
South Korea’s Gaming Giant Buys Korbit Crypto Exchange
Nice. When will it come to Firefox beta?
Self-reported preferences and experimentally observed preferences are not the same.
Those doctors have formal credentials. Does Equifax security head have the equivalent formal credentials? Anyone can get to top position if they know who and how to suck up.
Because you can't prove damages. If you suffer loss that you can directly link back to Equifax, and you manage to get your day in court, you'd get damages just like if you had a faulty steering wheel.

The problem for the law is that things are much more indirect in this case.
i found https://rockiger.com/en/akiee/, but not web based and seems to be dead.

I'm also interested in self hosted apps.
Yes. Insulting people on the basis of using Apple products should disqualify them from any discussion beyond drunk jokes on a table in the suburbs.

(Disclaimer #38274932: I am not defending Apple per se. I find them pretty shady in a number of aspects as well as Google. But what is happening in this thread is just shameful.)
as long as circumlocution is valued.
GameCredits became the part of Linux Foundation
Awesome perspective! Thanks for the detail and the advice!
> Entrepreneurial reward for managerial duty.

That is such a perfect way to sum up the pay disparities in large corporations these days. I have no problem whatsoever with someone making $300MM from the sale of the business they created, but making the same amount for manning a desk? Seems like madness.
Someone posted a Show HN[0] here a while ago to fix this, and I use it everyday

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15123638
You can definitely kill someone with a bicycle. And a punch.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/gay-basher-ge...

http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2014/10/stanley-park-pedestrian-d...

This is just recent local news from my neck of the woods, off the top of my head.
I actually think chat conversation from a decade ago would be quite relevant. One baseline recommendation system is "people who bought X also bought Y". Consider "people whose conversation is in cluster X generally liked people in cluster Y". If chat conversation can be usefully used to cluster users for better matching (and I think it can), it would be valuable to keep even if content is of no interest.
Imagine someone is attempting to immigrate to escape a hostile family intolerant of their ideals. Like an atheist attempting to leave a Muslim environment. If the contents of their "social network" may prevent their entering another country what's to prevent their family from filling their social network with terroristic nonsense to try prevent their escape?

This is just a simple example... Social media is not an official record and is trivially influenced and manipulated by the general public without recourse. Any information empowered to substantially restrict individual freedoms should correspondingly be protected from inaccuracies, e.g. court documents and police records.
Muesli koolhydraatarm voor betere gezondheid en makkelijker afvallen
May he land gracefully from a proper golden parachute deployment
Deloitte Breach Affected All Company Email, Admin Accounts
That's around 220 matches a year since shes had the app, so like 18 matches per month for four years...

She matched with a new guy every two days basically, and he mentioned she only sent 1700 messages since she started. That's almost two average messages per match before getting bored and moving on.

With that much abundance of choice, I guess you could say life is nice and easy for the author.
That video in the post seems to show Chrome is still significantly faster in half of the tests shown there. How is that possible? From what Servo was initially promising (even 3-4x the speed of old Firefox), it didn't look like Chrome would come close either.

Did they make that many compromises when "porting parts from Servo" to Gecko? What's hurting Firefox's performance so much that even after implementing Electrolysis and now Quantum, it still can't be a clear winner over Chrome in performance? Is it simply a matter of Google "being ahead" in performance tuning and having more engineers, etc, or is there something fundamentally wrong with Firefox's codebase compared to Chrome's codebase?

I wish Mozilla was more committed to rewriting Firefox in Rust. Or perhaps it would be better to have it as a completely new project, like they did with Firefox Focus, which by the way to me it seems faster than Firefox + ublock origin on Android, even though it only blocks trackers.
When's the last time you saw a driver doing 25 or under in a 25 zone? I ask because my commute has drivers who will threaten your life for doing the speed limit.
'No results found for "Invalid store category name".'
I was referring to general vehicle size and configuration preferences, not specific brands.
Go, Erlang, Elixir; what’s in a programming language anyway?
Oh sure, I was responding to the OP stating that criticism of Borgmon was more a meme than reality.

It wasn't meant to be commentary on Prometheus(which I quite like) at all :)
Yes, those are explicit laws but there are more examples in the report. For example,

"It makes no sense to say that a foreign national has a First Amend- ment right to criticize government officials or to join political groups without fear of criminal prosecution, but that he may be deported for the same activities."

"The decision marks the first time outside of a war setting that the Court has upheld preventive detention of anyone without an in- dividualized assessment of the necessity of such detention. And the majority expressly rested its decision on a double standard, noting that Congress can make rules in the immigration setting that would be unacceptable for citizens."
It'd only be "normal" if they did it to everybody. If they specifically targeted American tourists and left everyone else alone I don't think we'd see that problem.
When you are exercising hard heat is much worse than cold. A light sweater is enough for - 30, but at just over 25 you run out of things to take off.
> The fastest Firefox ever

I dunno, 0.x and 1.x Firefoxes (Firefoxen?) were pretty fast.
I think they should rebrand the browser entirely. I want to try this but imagining the Firefox logo on my computer makes me sick to my stomach - reminding me of a time when my browser crashed constantly and slowed to a crawl if I had 5+ tabs open.
​SUSE introduces new container management service for IaaS and PaaS clouds
What I have found is there is a tiny minority of people who _hate_ bikers.

I walk 4 miles a day on city sidewalks. The number of times I have to yield to bikers on the sidewalk is disgusting[0]. And some of these bikers are going fast. I once saved a child that was about to run out of a store. I could see, from my vantage point, the biker and the child set for a collision course. I stepped in front of the biker, doing about 20 mph on the sidewalk, to stop them. I got an earful of 4-letter words not a thank you.

Of course, there was the 20-something woman killed in a crosswalk by a biker running a light in SF a few years ago.

As a pedestrian, I have no love for many drivers or bikers, since they are a constant source of danger.

EDIT:

[0] I had an argument with a young woman at a light once, where I told her politely that she wasn't supposed to be on the sidewalk. He response? To tell me I was a selfish person not wanting to share the sidewalk.
> No other browser can do this.

Every other browser can, they just don't as of now.
I have to agree with zichy.

I started to scroll while reading, this led to the situation that the white type on whyit lens flare made it impossible to read further. I stopped right there.

I closed the tab and thought "well, for an old crap like me, who didn't grow up with tablets but with pen and paper, this will always be to slow, so why bother if they can't even get thy typo right." And without the impulse sent by zichy's comment, I wouldn't have bothered to let you know either.

Take ist for what it's worth.

Good luck!
CFCs are also terrible greenhouse gases. The net result of the Protocol is positive for the climate, by a significant margin according to Estrada: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/11/131110-montr...
"Pack it up boys, our work here is done."
With smooth scrolling disabled it's

- Firefox Beta: ~59

- Firefox Nightly: ~57
I cycle myself and also enjoy the pedestrian life.

Some bikers in the city are irresponsible and ignore traffic laws. The same treatment given to cyclists by some drivers is meted out to pedestrians by some cyclists. Something to do, no doubt, with that pesky issue of power imbalance.

In terms of risk assessment as a pedestrian in NYC, I always watch out for (1) MTA bus drivers, (2) any sort of livery, and (3) people on bikes, in that order.
I'm from Sweden and have been biking in NYC as a tourist. I must say, it is one of the most scariest places I have biked in my life.

Huge cars, almost no biking lanes, a lot of people and other traffic. I admit I was also a bit drunk but still, in Stockholm we have biking lanes almost everywhere and you feel a lot safer. Also there is a lot more people that use the bike when you give them a lane to bike on.

Please, create more biking lanes. It's better for the cars, it is better for pedestrians, it's better for the environment and public health.
There is actually lots of business value in this data. One research https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.5710 found:

"There is significant discrepancy between a user's stated dating preference and his/her actual online dating behavior." For how much discrepancy, read the paper.
I think the brute force approach will win in the long run. I don't think the approach machines take should be compared to the approach humans take.
For people who use password managers, beware that lastpass's extension is not compatible with the new release. Found that out the hard way.
I don't find it that surprising. It's the Literate Programming Knuth came up with ages ago. I own a book called 'Physically Based Rendering' which deals with rendering images through, essentially, simulation of the physics of light which is written in the same manner. As far as I know, Knuths work and the Physically Based Rendering book are the only ones published which are of that type... well until I saw this posting this morning, that is!
Chrome is an insane ram hog. It is inexcusable to be using >400MB per tab, but I see that all the time.
Bayesian learning for statistical classification to improve your model
Scrolling momentum is broken in iOS (couldn't resist!)
What are these "equivalent" formal credentials for security?
Showtime Web Sites Commandeered for Cryptocurrency Mining
A good analysis of the plan and what it takes to implement it successfully:
https://swarajyamag.com/infrastructure/before-those-bulbs-ar...
> even if content is of no interest.

Can't they just keep (at most) the metadata?
Anybody care to enlighten me what this does other than being a simple outliner? I tried to find out, but, why not just use an outliner? What am I missing?
> many of the things they have done have been weak, easily exploitable, or hacked

What specific things are you referring to?