skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you be so kind as to disclose any special interest that you have in the matter of patents?

Your comment was fairly strong so I'm curious if you have much skin in the game.
Sigh and resign is the only sensible response to about 90% of life's frustrations.
Is there reason to believe ayahuasca shortens that period?
Spark still uses Hadoop underneath. While Hadoop mapreduce uses the disk, spark uses memory for faster processing. And I am not sure anything is going to kill spark soon. Once a library gains critical mass, it's harder to replace it in existing systems
That’s actually a brilliant idea. State what it does, not what it is...
I admit to number 2, as a lot of us in MI did. I just stayed home because I was so disappointed in HRC.

Fun fact, in my state the number of ballots with a blank presidential section exceeded the margin of HRC's loss in the state. This was a Bernie state.
This is about what I figured. In the US PhD programs have a nominal cost but it's almost always waived. In effect graduate students usually make about $20k/year
> Users can control which ads they see.

What? How is this, in reality, even remotely true?
I had an interesting "blind" taste test. I had gone to a winery, sampled some of the wines and decided to buy the one I liked the most (it was about $100). I put it in the back cupboard thinking I'll save it for something special. Then on some random night me and the girlfriend are watching TV and she decides to get some wine. I'm thinking we'll drink one of the $10 bottles. Instead I start drinking and am like this is so good, which wine is this blah blah. Then I find out it's the super expensive one. Even if there wasn't any alcohol in that, I would've still enjoyed it.
It seems that they are tweaking the results live because I see 4.94% now. Almost 2% lower than Mac.
Further down, he mentions that it was a server failure and necessitated migrating to a new primary server.
Not even every language in that study supports concurrency, as the study itself points out. I hear a lot of praise for Go because of how much people like doing concurrency with it. The fact that they observed a higher rate of concurrency bugs in Go could just as easily support the interpretation that Go is good for concurrency as it does the interpretation is bad for concurrency.
> I've got a much nicer branching model- try not to have one. Everyone works off master, and you aren't allowed to check in code that won't run in production. Hide unfinished features behind feature flags, and never merge/push a change that won't pass tests/CI.

You've just described a naive implementation of the Git branching model described in the article which fails to meet some basic real-world requirements experienced on all software development projects. It matches the policy of merging changes from the development branch onto the master branch but lacking any support for very basic aspects of software development such as code auditing, versioning, and continuous integration.

It's silly to let everyone work off master if master is supposed to remain stable. If master is supposed to host stable versions, someone needs to be responsible for keeping it stable. If someone is assigned the task of ensuring the master branch is kept stable then he needs to control what gets into master and what doesn't. If someone needs to control what gets into master then other developers need to commit their changes to some other branch.

Add parallel releases and couple of levels of these real-world everyday aspects of software development and you get exactly the branching model described by Vincent Driessen in his blog post.
I am fairly sure this was a contained failure. The reports I saw (unofficial) said no blades detached or hit the aircraft.
Gaming Service Goes Down After Hacker Wipes Database and Holds It for Ransom
It depends on what sort of asic stuff fyou want to do, meaning digital or analog.

Adanced chip design by kishore Mishra is very good and like 50 bucks last I remember.

If I were you, I would just look at Amazon reviews and buy whatever looks decently rated and is avalible for cheap used.
So for why I needed help understanding the tone, I think I read too many crypto exchange announcements, where this kind of apology usually accompanies "we lost everyone's money. we're shutting down." That's why it seemed strange to me.

The title "there is NO excuse for 1 day of downtime" just seems so superlative to me.

It just seems to me that this is just an inconvenience. You yourself use the word "frequently" to describe the frustration you felt. a singe occurrence once doesn't seem like a catastrophe to me, though another respondent told me that it was.

For me, I don't consider it catastrophic if I can't access banking for 1 day. At any rate, thanks for the responses. It's clear some people consider this catastrophic.
NPR has been openly critical of the GOP all the time. I'm sure RT is willing to deliver a scathing criticism of Putin's opposition if anyone cares to listen.
> Sure, we can locally source our artisan recovery with organic planks, but if you're expecting the US to instantly turn out massive scale of anything other than food, I dont think it will happen.

You're talking about a scenario that threatens the existence of the US, its economy and its people. It would be equivalent to WW2. The response would be predictable accordingly: massive industrial mobilization.

The US already has a long history of churning out things at massive scale, long before China got into that game. It was primarily the US that built up China's manufacturing capabilities from the beginning, providing both the know-how and the capital. It also wasn't that long ago, you're talking about only going back to the early 1990s (China's GDP was a mere $360 billion in 1990). Further, the US presently manufactures things at massive scale, its manufacturing output is larger than the next five biggest manufacturing economies combined. Your premise falls apart just on that fact alone.

Companies such as Dell, Apple, HP, Intel, Cisco, SanDisk, Seagate, IBM, and thousands more, have all manufactured IT technology in the US in the last 20, 30, 40 years. The notion that couldn't be restarted in a national emergency in which the survival of the US is threatened, is very far-fetched.

The US also has numerous other allies that could help, such as South Korea. They'd be more than happy to dramatically ramp up their output and expand if Taiwan were cut-off. Perhaps India would like to take part of Taiwan's business, the US could distribute capital investment to aid in that as well, just as it originally helped to build up Taiwan's IT manufacturing capabilities in the first place.
In the recent news, "Nazi" has been used primarily with reference to people who self-identify as Nazis.
High-mounted brake lights had an effect for the first 5-10 years or so, while they were still a novelty. After that, the benefit disappeared.
I had no idea what the product is so I clicked the logo. It went to the blog which doesn't explain what it is. Instead it should go to the main site. There's no obvious link in the blog so I had to edit the address.
RawTherapee 5.3 – Photo software
Depends where you are talking about. In some countries, phone credit is used as a (primary) currency and trading platform.
I'd love to see a modern filesystem comparison featuring etx4, zfs, xfs, btrfs, hammer2, etc. Anybody know of a good resource for this?
One interesting use case for zfs is striping eg you add a bunch of left over disks with different speeds and sizes to a zfs pool, then zfs automatically optimize. It can be used on for example dev machines where everything lives in repositories and all you care for is getting as much performance and storage out of the disks as possible.
For serious use you should always use zfs with two or three-way mirrors. If the disks have different sizes you can make partitions, then add the partitions instead of the whole disks to zfs. zfs software raid is very popular but really the poor mans choice, and will not give you any benefit over hardware raid, so always use mirrors !!
My current setup is ZOL with 4 ssds in stripe and 2 hhds in mirror. Yep if one of those ssds dies I'll lose all my data, but this gives me GB r/w speeds and over a TB of total storage for very cheap.
The general consensus on the parts of the internet that I frequent is that this is Trump's fault, do you more or less agree?

It seems to me there should be a skeleton of resilient roads spanning the land for disaster relief distribution, but maybe that's a naive opinion.
Haxl: a big hammer for concurrency. (YouTube)
Agree with most of what you say.

Right now China/Russia are in a position where they have very little to lose and can just sit back and watch the US embarrass itself. They can't be seen as enabling NK, but beyond that they win by default in that we are distracted by it and look weak.

Russia has very little to gain or lose in this whole situation, but they benefit so long as it isn't resolved. As long as Russia holds a veto in the security council, nobody will be trying to take action on Ukraine, since they can start vetoing NK sanctions to make a point. Maybe more importantly, while the US tries to build an alliance to invade NK (possibly inevitable), Russia can sit back and call for calm and peace and de-escalation. This doesn't undo their Ukraine grab, but it creates an equivalency between Russian and US policy.

If I were China I would wait until I could horse trade. They want mineral rights in the south china sea, and Japan/SK/US (who are the primary states who can resist their island grabs) want to regime change NK. I predict they will do the minimum required by the UN and passively resist any other attempts to defuse the situation (in fact I think the more they pressure NK the more they make war inevitable. NK is now going to start starving and it's leadership may have to become hyper-aggressive) until they are paid out. Even then they will insist on concessions such as 'no US troops in the former NK'. If I were China I would participate in korean unification, but only with the condition that the US pull 100% of all military assets from the unified korea (since what can the US claim is the reason to keep them there if NK doesn't exist?), and that the US/SK/Japan concede that china owns the claimed undersea minerals.
You can run a bank without ACID SQL

ING uses Cassandra, which has no single point of failure, has been around for almost a decade, and would have made gitlab’s mistake a nonissue (and almost certainly would have made this one a nonissue as well - single instance failures don’t matter and linear scalability is a thing)
Because misinformation can be as catchy and as (un) appealing as you want, whereas the truth is almost mostly a lot more boring.

> If we're going to consider whether FB was complicit in a dirty win by DJT,

My observation of the discussion is that no one (well, very few) is trying to claim that FB was complicit, but their inaction and what defines them as a platform implicitly involved themselves in all of this.
Relevant: The empirical distribution is ... not empirical (5:58) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iw9oqnhVKQ
> Depending on the frequency of your deploys you can simply add release branches or tags to the “work on master” model.

...and then you get the git workflow described in the blog post.

It only takes a single regression to learn the importance of separating the development branch from the main branch.
> I delete the if statements once the feature becomes permananent

Right. In theory. Does this really scale when there's more than a dozen developers touching the same code paths? It's not just you scratching off your own TODOs, it's multiple entagled condiditionals. Can you really delete your flags with confidence that this does not affect any other code path?

Which brings me to my real question: How you you guys test this stuff? When I have experimented with feature flags before this has been to much detriment for testing. Suddenly the new payment API our provider will launch in June needs to be tested with the new backend we'll launching Tuesday, and with the new asynchronous database driver our DBAs wants us to migrate to. And so on. The complexity explodes. Especially when the features have dependencies external to you.

When everything is in master and everything must be in shippable condition you need to test everything with everything else, while previously the new payment API in June could live in it's own branch and test on their own schedule and not bother everyone else everytime the payment provider's test environment took a nosedive for some reason.

So you either end up with brittle tests that can take days to execute, or you end up scratching a lot of the less pressing combinations. Which brings us to the situation above. How can you then be confident to remove conditionals without testing the newly exposed code paths?

It is so far my suspicion that most people who speak of feature flags as an alternative to branches either work with trivial products where most developers fit in a small room (in which you are not the use case for these things) or talk out of some theoretical conviction which has yet to meet with reality. These things are hard, because of all those details which seem small if you squint enough.
I don't believe in this cilantro soap trope. Cilantro distinctly tastes like soap to me... and is delicious. I'm pretty sure it's just an odd taste that some people enjoy and some people don't. I used to hate it, now I love it, it tastes the same.
Interesting. Do you have a reference of how (in what contexts) ING uses Cassandra?
Aha!

Maybe now you'll upvote me.
If you do that, why wouldn't you use a FPGA or just a fast CPU? Microcontrollers and CPUs are blending in performance, and are cheap enough to plop on a board and call it done for many applications.
Tell HN: Request for startups to solve our “Garbage World”?
Hey Ycombinator, how about adding "Solve the unbelievably huge problem of our Garbage World" to the request for startups list?

YC emphasizes to "find a problem", well here is one of monster proportions, completely unsolved.

The quantity of garbage we are creating is beyond comprehension, it's in every nook and cranny of our world. Is there nothing that startups can do to solve this whilst also making piles of money?
I was thinking the same and then thought, oh no, the car maybe is crushed under debris? Then when the smoke cleared I thought, phew, no, no damages to windshield - and then again - NO! - a tree across the street. Something like that could easily have crushed a car along with its occupant.
|Instead, he's taken the approach of arguing that the gender pronouns themselves promote murderous communism

I mean, at the risk of repeating myself, I just said that every statement he has ever made on the issue that I can find focuses on compelled speech via policy rather than disagreeing with using the words by free will. Rather than come back with sources, you just repeated the assertion.

| and his colleagues should be ashamed of using them

Again, please show where he said this. You're simply doubling down rather than having a reasoned discussion with it.

You're straw-manning the whole situation by saying "If his criticisms of policies were restricted to traditional freedom of speech arguments like those made by many others he'd have attracted little attention". That's basically saying "I'm saying this is the REAL reason why he's popular".
This is quite interesting, thanks!

It uses an FPGA with DDR3 incidentally, huh.

Thanks very much for this, this is very close to what I'm trying to get at. I agree that figuring out how to help out on this project would be very constructive, I've filed it away.
How to spot a great ICO
Zuck’s intellectual honesty

Is this a thing? [0] Let's face it, Zuck is too busy making money to even pretend. Even this current hamhanded "sorry we suck" posture is more of an attempt to convince the right people that he's going along with their favored narrative, than a sincere statement about anything that might or might not have happened.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/01...
See tree falling almost on top of car - also, guy seemed to want to protect other people.
Try entering in parameters manually and it tuxes an amusing inage if a man with the label
“I’m a hacker”.
For what its worth a lot time working towards Carnegie Mellon's undergraduate (and graduate) degree in computer engineering revolved around verilog and FPGAs and ASICs. After learning all sorts of principles and design skills we learned verilog so we can actually build decent size projects and simulate them. Then we would build real world projects with an FPGA and then the advances classes has us designing and simulating ASICs. Then the really advanced classes has us studying manufacturing ASICs.
I met one of their architects at a few Cassandra summits (2014 and 2015), so their talks should be online

Here’s one: https://academy.datastax.com/resources/ing-groep-nv-exploiti...

And another https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-sD3x8-tuDU
We in Zimbabwe are used to this.

The biggest bank, Steward Bank, owned by the much adored Strive Masiyiwa and his Econet Wireless, is offline more than half of the time. They drop transactions and mobile money balances disappear without explanation or apology. Been happening for years now.
Sorry, America (and NY Times), don't make this all about you. Facebook (and WhatsApp and Twitter and Google) have already significantly influenced the electorate of other nations with fake news and other such tactics. Look at the elections of more polarizing and more dangerous leaders before Trump in Turkey, Phillipines, India, et al. Good that you woke up now, but neutrality of the medium needs to be intact. In the long term, truth will win. More platforms, not more regulation is the answer.
How retailers can build the store of the future
I see... ouch.

Another comment mentioned the HDMI2USB project, and the main FPGA target of that project uses DDR3 FWIW. I get the impression that managing RAM is just really really really _unbelievably_ hard; not impossible, just pɹɐɥ ʎllɐǝɹ ʎllɐǝɹ.
Feature flags _are_ widely used. They generally manifest as commented out code. Like many features that migrate down from these massive codebases it's a common behaviour thats been systematised.
this lady is what they call, simple minded
10% is a pittance!
I disagree. Functional languages are well suited for concurrency.
More like the entire higher education system. This is what happens when businessmen run an education system and not True academics.
That is interesting.

Hmm, I just found a teardown video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLs2CNhbKAs

I spy a Xilinx Spartan 6 at 2:16!
It’s perfectly normal to have an aversion to people who want to talk endlessly about anything. Wine isn’t special. I have had similar issues with Android handset aficionados.
Most countries do this. I don't know why people always pick on the US in this regard.
You are making a lot of assumptions based on that blog post. Unless you have other information, I'm confident you don't have it straight and that you are wrong.
I mean... it's not just a trope, it's OR6A2[1]. But yes you're broadly correct that the overall taste is the same. Some people are just much more sensitive to particular compounds in it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OR6A2
Baloney. Transactions have been very cheap for the past few months.

Fees only go high when big blockholes are logjamming the mempool with spammy 1 satoshi transactions, in a misguided attempt to further their big block agenda.
It’s like those on HN never go to 4chan and vice versa...
"Regrettably, we have learnt a great deal from this experience"

Well, there's a weird turn of phrase. In what way is learning from the experience regrettable?
Funny to see the name Alice in the context of Python. Alice [1][2] is a Python-based environment for creating animated, interactive 3D scenes, created by Randy Pausch and his students. They picked python intentionally for its simplicity at a time when it wasn't yet well known.

[1] http://www.alice.org
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_(software)
Now I'm curious what their company does. Does anybody know someone who responded to try to learn more?

Also, as much as I assume the people running this company are completely clueless, I could actually see them trying to spin this to their advantage. One of the questions on the application is about hacking systems besides computers - they could say they hacked their way into finding a CTO in a limited amount of time. Of course, like all hacks, they aren't meant to last, and the CTO left after a month and they have nobody that can build them a product.

I really wish YC had a blog of their most entertaining failed investments.
I actually thought the smiling people in the images seemed less intelligent and less honest than the neutral looking people.
The white government and people made the country much richer than it’s surrounding black governed countries

I think you’ll find that South Africa’s enormous mineral wealth did much of that. And until the 1960’s or later, the surrounding countries were also white governed. If anything, the money wasted by segregation and the deliberate suppression of human potential[1] held the country back, and is the cause of many of the problems it faces today.

I had a coloured girlfriend from Jo'berg for a while and she was ambiguous too - no love for apartheid but no desire to live in one of the black governed counties either.

As I alluded to in GP, many mixed-race (“Coloured”), and Indian people were co-opted by the apartheid system, and indoctrinated to feel superior to black Africans, and inferior to whites, as a part of a well-executed divide-and-conquer programme. It isn’t surprising that a visceral fear of blacks is pretty pervasive in many, considering how much effort was explicitly put into making them feel that way.

[1] It was logically inconsistent that many racists claimed that blacks were naturally inferior, yet simultaneously sought to deprive them of opportunities to succeed or fail on a meritocratic basis. One wonders if they really believed their own propaganda.
Kind of the point. War paints a wide brush of the opposing side. Being a Nazi isn't a binary thing
> Europe’s leading digital banking app. Instant spending alerts, free money transfers and global fee-free spendi...

It's the first line of text after the header.
Here's some science to save you from pretending to love any liquor: alcohol naturally tastes bad, probably because it's poisonous.

That's why so many flavors are added to it—to mask the bad taste of ethanol. Wanting to "get a buzz" is stupid. Go for a run.

That's what I think.
Right, that is a possibility. Overstock is also working on it.

But even going that perspective is going to coincide with scalability and UI improvements which make decentralized exchanges better.

These structures will have no entity to register as a broker-dealer and are incapable of distinguishing between any smart-contract's legal status
> I really wish YC had a blog of their most entertaining failed investments.

Are you assuming that this application / applicant failed to make it?

Does anyone know who this is and if they 'squeaked through' ?
A quick warning about Embedded Micro: do not use the "Mojo IDE". It's extremely barebones, and lacks many important features -- in particular, it has no support for simulation workflows or timing analysis.
Blogging with org-mode and Gitlab Pages
After Trump is reelected he will close down the CIA. (To be clear: without my vote! He is a cretin and a horrible man and I would never vote for him. Still, I can be happy about happy events...)

That action will deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, but he won't get it.
You mean this list? https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/ You can just use the 'contact' link in the footer to reach the people who wrote the list.
No big deal -- their backup was severely unprepared to handle live transactions. It's not like these guys leaked private information or otherwise lost people money.