skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, only in very specific circumstances: the circumstances in which it is more important to know the knee-jerk opinions of others instead of the opinions that will be selected over time because of non-change/survival due to pragmatic usefulness.

Consider that, for > 99% of the questions for which you might get an opinion out of people, the answers you receive will have never been actually applied in their lives - so, the answers you'll likely receive have never been empirically subjected to any real world test. The opinions that haven't been tested have a lower signal-to-noise ratio than those that have
Thanks. I've received a similar comment in this thread regarding 'Cockpit' name conflict. I have explained my reasons in reply to the comment by @recentdarkness
Are you asking me to debug your phone?

Google Analytics is a service that can be used by websites, online services and mobile apps to track users. If I were to guess, those are requests made by the browser or by the apps that you have installed. I was also talking about a Nexus 6 phone, with the pure Android experience, not whatever Samsung or the others are doing.

I don't feel this is relevant to the discussion at hand though.
> but, sure, advantages compared to other, say, people whose only prior language is Mandarin

I wouldn't understate the significant advantages.

> And, of course, a big disadvantage compared to immigrants who already speak English, even if it's not American English.

Not necessarily. A large percentage of children of immigrants speak with their family (nuclear and extended) mostly in their native language even if their parents can speak decent English. The English skills don't transfer much unless the parents are very active in their child's English education.
Actually I didn't read any concrete arguments against. Blockchain ceasing to operate? That it's an overkill? Hm.
Here is my problem and I think a lot of people's problem.

The only sexism I've seen in tech is benevolent sexism. People interrupting you in meetings? Same thing for men. People who shit on your work? Same thing for most men. Bad jokes? I mean, put an audio recorder in a room full of men and see how it can be.

Most techies I know have been raised to be respectful of women. I'd say even too much.

So when suddenly tech becomes fashionable because there's lot of money there and most outsider media start bashing the field for being full of misogynists I'm starting to get a feeling of cognitive dissonance. A feeling of 1984 becoming reality.

How do men react then? They start getting distant and avoid interacting with women. And now you get articles about the lack of mentoring of women and how men don't interact the same way with women than they do with other men.

It's like the only way would be for men to live, think and interact exactly like women. And soon we'll have the same thing in the workplace as in school: men are defective women.

Maybe women should start their own tech companies and recruit other women if men lead ones are not good enough for them.
Yet I would rather take all of that than dealing with Frankenstein CSS/HTML/JavaScript programming, while making sure it is pixel perfect across all browsers and not making use of the OS features and computer hardware that made me buy it in first place, e.g. WebGL 2.0 on DX 12 GPU.

Most of the issues you mention are solved in .NET, WPF and UWP. COM is a breeze to use in Delphi, MFC/ATL, .NET, C++/CX.

Windows is much more than just Win32.

Apparently Windows event system is so bad, that the younger generation re-inventing it in the form of React.

Also Cocoa, UI Kit, Android and Qt are all better solutions than Web.
I see your point but it also implies that Europe breeds the stupid while US allows them to extract themselves from the gene pool.. not a very nice perspective for me (as an European)
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I think the implication is that Californian students (along with students in at least 12 other states) got stupider "unmagically".
Interesting story. Never knew that and I am a Burmese.
Bloodletting. It's honestly trivial to find examples of where science was wrong. I'm not going to research them for you if you'll make up ad-hoc reasons to reject them.

Obviously I can't give an example of current consensus being likely wrong because if I knew that, scientists would too and it wouldn't be the consensus.

Here's a snarky example though. See if you can find the flaw in it - current consensus among scientists is that you can't prove causation without doing an experiment - in particular you can't prove it using historical data. This is an obstacle to medical research since ethics impedes controlled experiments on people and it's part of why nutrition advice is frequently wrong (there you go for even more examples). But climate scientists have apparently done just that - themselves demonstrating that either the consensus is wrong or they're wrong. Either way, a consensus is wrong.

These are just an arguments to show how wrong consensus can be though - in reality I'm pretty sure that climate scientists don't acutally believe they're right without any doubt. It will be politics and attempts to manipulate people that changes confidence values into supposed certainty.
That 'managing psychopaths' portion of the teacher skill set sure seems similar to that required of babysitters.
Email. Same as always.

Messages don't need to be "instant", except in the most extreme case. I'm not going to install software on my computer that allows anybody in the world to interrupt me any time they feel like it. Why would you do that to yourself?

It's the same reason I have notifications turned off completely on my phone. If you send me a message, I'll read it on my time and get back to you when it's convenient.

The only exceptions are house-on-fire, kids-in-the-hospital emergencies, for which the people who would need to get ahold of me know how to do so. And Drinkin' Nights where it's handy to be able to arrange meeting points via text. That's the short span when you'll find SMS notifications on on my phone. But if you text me at that time for anything else, you'll get a response the next day.
finally, dark matter has been a really embarassing theory, I'm so happy they proved it wrong
dividing the work between teams worked at first but as product grown it started to have dependencies between teams and it got messy. Eventually you need to implement functionality across team areas. one team is assigned to implement it and when it breaks in other areas - that team needs to ask the other teams to fix it... in short, dividing the product to different teams is not an optimal solution.
Now they've introduced this "Mobile data has run out" which stops me from accessing my telco's app to check my prepaid balance, because it completely cuts off all mobile data. Just as annoying.
Well if my country floods its all over, considering we're under sea level the water may never leave.

And I can imagine Japan doesn't want to risk Tokio.
Automated decision making does not an intelligence make on it's own.

Call again when it can actually learn the game from limited inputs available to human players.
That would require that they use WhatsApp... which none of them does.
And it's still incomplete. They refuse to publish what happens for "security" level telemetry, which is sent in addition to basic and not disclosed.
and why would you prowl with your car through a neighborhood you don't belong in? sure, happens to be black folk doing it, but this has nothing to do with why they're reporting it as suspicious in one of the million neighborhood watch programs US-wide. We report white guys in a predominantly white neighborhood for all kinds of crap, stealing UPS packages, mail, breaking into cars....

You had to make this about race. And yes, many crimes are committed by black people - check out the Baltimore Sun crime section daily to see how many black on black crimes exist or some of the Chicago newspapers... Why is it more present in blacks? Look up fatherlessness and see how many black sons are abandoned by their father relative to white sons.... Maybe it will make more sense then why people report things that look out of whack in their neighborhoods. I do, I have and I will - color matters very little to me. I go by behaviors.
I switched around a couple of times by changing the address on my Square Cash card
Unless you are careful it is quite easy to spend $20-30 on breakfast and a coffee in ANZ
What does that say about nextdoor?
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I tried to use it over the weekend, but the CLI didn't recognize `npm profile`, even after I made sure I was on the latest version of npm.
Even if a site gets micro-paid for each video viewed or article written, they still have an incentive to nudge viewers to keep viewing. If you think about it, even if they have a pure subscription model they will want people "engaged", i.e. addicted.
This looks like an amazing piece of software! I have a couple of questions:

- Does it (out of the box) support mapping JSON messages on a Kafka Topic to a table accessible from SQL?

- How would you support the following use case: run SQL queries on one or more Kafka Topics and expose the results in (near) real-time through a JDBC supporting BI tool? I assume you'd use, AthenaX to run the queries and store the results in a standard RDBMS like PostgreSQL?
Except if your raw value begins with a "'". Or if it is 2017/10/10, or 10/10/2017, then it may be represented by an integer with a format of "date". Or if your raw value is 1234567890123456789, then you get a string like '1.23456789012345e18', complete with modified data. Or if it begins with an "=" which could result in basically anything as the article points out.

Excel conflates the idea of display format and data type which is the source of countless headaches. It is legacy pain in the purest form.
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I'm not saying they've done it or are going to do it, just that they clearly want to. And I don't see the Walmart comparison as comparable because this issue is also compounded with the issue of gentrification, which is particularly emblematic of the things that people hate about Silicon Valley and to a lesser extent the Presidency (VC-baked out-of-touch privileged idiots colonizing the urban landscape).
man, the windows app store was a joke.

a teenager could write something better in node/angular in a week
Picking Apple as an example, other are possible.

Object Pascal, Powerplant, Quickdraw, Java Bridge, Quicktime, QuicktimeVR, Carbon, OpenGL, ...

Apparently only Microsoft does it.
Our experience is that AthenaX actually lowers our support costs:

(1) There are significant loads on consultations when users had to implement their own jobs in Java / Scala and run them in production. Sometimes it turned in to co-development as the users lack the expertise of the streaming analytics frameworks.

(2) We consciously encourage our users to write good SQLs via:
(a) enforcing schemas on all analytical Kafka topics.
(b) setting up a team dedicated to help them using SQL in big data systems (i.e., Hive, Presto, AthenaX, etc.)

For UDF we provide general guidances and ask our users to oncall for the jobs that use UDFs. The support costs are definitely not zero but it is still much better to teach users to write a Samza / Flink / Storm job from scratch.
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This is the case for most other companies running ads, they do it for the revenue, not the love of ads.
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And the more you discriminate between good students who prepared the test and the bad students who didn't bother, exaggerating the contrast.
That was just a single front. There were others on other platforms as well, and likely others on FB. It's unlikely we'll ever know the full extent of this operation, but it was clearly huge in its scope.
Kind of, OWL and VCL were much better technology but Borland's management...
How far away are the AIs from consistently beating humans? What are the biggest problems you are facing right now?
I think key based authorization should work great in NPM. Why are they not using keys ? Passwords should only be used to unlock keys.
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I don't think the problem is that girls don't want to code, we males are just crap at encouraging girls and even mentally abusing women trying to work in tech-jobs. This shows up on the news pretty often still.

Just look at the early days of computers, it was a womans job :-)
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It was WIN, not WIP.
Easy, just get the runtime from here.

https://www.microsoft.com/de-de/download/details.aspx?id=162...
They have purposely disabled being able to select text (outside of the SVG graphics) by literally doing this in CSS:

* {
user-select: none;
}

The user-select: none; is intended for places where interaction with an element (e.g., drag and drop, clicking, sliding) is required and text selection should not occur. You might use it discretely on a HTML button.

Blanket banning of text selection is a habit I've seen with developers who live in a touchscreen-heavy bubble, and who feel that users have no reason to select text at all unless explicitly enabled by the developer.

> As citizens of the technology era, there is an undeniable need for optimal clarity in our writing.

There, I copied that quote from their website (by disabling the relevant CSS); one example of a totally valid reason for wanting to select text.
TPC-DS evaluates against batch processing and it is great to hear that Spark supports all of them.

I think the space for streaming processing is still quickly evolving. Many features like stream-table joins, CTEs, streaming joins with late arrival data are unimplemented or do not even have clear semantics yet. It would be great to see a benchmarks like TPC-DS in the domain.
Nice. Tricky with family though.
> If everybody is a PhD computer scientist, who raises babies while they are at work?

In Nordic Countries that would be the daycare/kindergarten (that usually accept 1+ years old kids) teachers, who have an MSc in Education or a community college or vocational school degree. This way also both parents can go to work.
Yes, thus is basically what I've heard described
Little known: the "experimental" distribution is called "rc-buggy", a pun on "release critical".
> Then why don't they make it opt in?

Perhaps because they think it is a reasonable default that few people will want to change (vocal minorities and all that)? Curious if anybody who does opt-in telemetrics has stats on first-time downloads vs telemetry enables.

> Security. In the sense of "enable only needed features, to reduce attack surface".

I’d assume that the attack surface here is pretty small (HTTPS request via the standard mechanism, ignore the response). If .NET HTTPS APIs are broken, we’ve got bigger problems. At the end of the day, everything is a cost/benefit, and it seems like this is something pretty hard to get wrong + pretty large tangible benefit for the project.
How does that work? There's a reason why all the world's biggest metropolises are on the coast. Were would the people go? There are 20 million people in the Tokyo area.

And its actually not a problem. Rich countries can build flood defenses just fine. The Houston flooding could have easily been prevented if the US cared about infrastructure. After Katrina plans have been submitted. They just need funding.
Particularly for those living in Europe, or those that have a lot of international friends - all with phone numbers from different countries - it's a godsend. My phone bill would be ridiculous if I were texting my friends in Sweden or Brazil from my Dutch SIM. iMessage for similar reasons.

Also the group messages are great. My housemates and I all talk via a WhatsApp group. It makes it far easier to hold a coherent group conversation when some of us aren't at home. SMS would be a ballache.

Oh and GIFs, voice messages, and videos can be sent in messages. Free calling too. I can call my friends in Australia for nothing, and it's not a bullshit experience like Skype.

I almost never send true blue SMS any longer.
For UDF we support both -- users can write their own UDFs in their queries. We provide a number of well-tested UDFs to them as well.
Yea, liberalism just isn't in vogue anywhere on the political spectrum. The kind of people you're talking about are particularly intellectually dishonest and morally decrepit, but a rejection of liberalism seems to have taken root all over the place.
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(Assuming this is true) That’s Win10, not .NET. That would happen regardless of the telemetry discussed here.
Yes good point. Now, in the US, some of the stupids seem to extract a lot of other/innocent people from the gene pool with them...
Link to facebook group? A search for 'Starcraft AI' doesn't bring up any results on facebook for me.
First, this has nothing to do with dark matter.

* 5% "ordinary", baryonic matter <-- all now accounted for

* 27% dark matter

* 68% dark energy

Second, I don't think it's embarassing. I think the other explanations if it does _not_ exist are even more convoluted. At least the dark matter idea is only saying there is stuff that interacts poorly with other matter. That doesn't sound all too crazy as explanations like "despite all extremely precise evidence, theory of gravity must still be somehow wrong on larger scales!!" to me (math is not exactly known for sudden special cases), or having to create all new specific theories on why something else must be at play on a cosmic scale than simply (yes, simply) a dumb weakly interacting particle.
Not all spouses would agree to the van life how do you deal with this ?
Android Studio is a fork of InteliJ, you cannot use it as InteliJ, because the options are tailored for Android,

If you use InteliJ with Android plugin instead, then you will always be behind the curve of the actual Android development, as JetBrains catches up.
"Input is evil" is a pretty good maxim to follow.
> The restricted use one is a less known and includes a bottle.

It indeed is very very rarely used whatsoever these days. Even the "official" CD media (which used to be the only place where it was really seen in the past 10 years) don't really exist anymore.
Eh, language is defined by usage and the usage of "bland" is pretty inseparable from its negative connotation. Hell, even all the dictionary definitions you'll find include negative connotations.
Many moons ago, support for TCP wrappers was removed from systemd -- and, a bit later, OpenSSH, IIRC. Fine, I understand. Personally, I still like tcpd (it's an extra layer) and I still use it... but I realize that not very many others do. Okay, I can live with this decision.

Then, about two weeks ago, Red Hat decides they're gonna deprecate TCP wrappers, with a Red Hat employee saying:

> TCP wrappers is a simple tool to block incoming connection on application level. This was very useful 20 years ago, when there were no firewalls in Linux. This is not the case for today and connection filtering should be done in network level or completely in application scope if it makes sense.

Okay, fine. I still think it's useful as an extra layer but, nobody really uses it so, sure, let's get rid of it. I'm on board.

Now, all of a sudden, this functionality shows up in systemd (announced yesterday)?

Really!? This is (one of the) reason(s) why some of us greybeards loathe systemd (and just when I was starting to become "okay" with it, too).
From the people that brought you Gmail man these hypocrites never cease to amaze. The telemetry they're sending back from their OS wasn't enough so now they're sending telemetry from their language tools - unless, of course, the user proactively turns it off which they probably never do because their not directly told about the data collection.
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And that's as formal as someone being labelled a 'troll'.

None of the internet's fads or memes deserve to be preserved in punctuation rules. This is a joke.
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What makes you think these prisoners want rehabilitation? Rather than that, I'd prefer a three-strikes-you're-out prison colony positioned in a walled portion of Utah, funded by PPV drone footage of the prisoners raping, robbing, and killing each other.

Edit: it seems some people dislike my idea. What if we compromised and made it opt-in on life sentences?

Springboarding off that, we could progress cutting edge medical science by allowing the prisoners to customize their bodies with genetic and mechanical augmentations. Maybe one guy will graft a mind controlled articulating mace to his tailbone? Perhaps another with decide he wants nerve integrated sword arms?
Somebody really brave might relocate their eyes to a lizard configuration? The possibilities are exhilarating.
"I don't buy the idea that smartphones are extinguishing the life of the mind.

Sure, smartphones provide access to almost unlimited trash. But they also provide access to Wikipedia, perhaps the most successful encyclopedia ever developed by humans."

This is not really a valid argument. The mere _potential_ to read medieval Latin, or even classical Greek, on your smartphone says very little about the actual overall effect of people having smartphones.

I suspect a lot more smartphone time is spent on Snapchat filters than Homer.
And people think I'm crazy for keeping track of dependencies via SCM. Many packages now a day is compile to JS, eg they have 100,000 build dependencies, but all you need is actually just two or thee files, the rest can be deleted.
Most things in life are not measured and evaluated with a standardized test. Instead, they are measured by aggregated choice or surveys/votes. I haven't used a scantron form in many years.

We could dispense with these tests and let people vote with their feet and wallets.
The S3 SDK allows you to generate a URL that can only be used to upload to a specific path (+ there are other constraints you can enforce, file size / mime type etc)
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To re-billionising!
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Maybe because Windows 7 lacks the sandbox features required?
Those figures might not be quite that high. Actually, the site you linked says "The average wage for a Waiter/Waitress is AU $15.84 per hour (median is $16.45 AUD)" [1]

But you're right, AU front-end staff are paid higher wages, even after adjusting for currency exchange rate:

$16 AUD = 12.50 USD

Maybe median income accounts for this? Different sources are giving different numbers for median income, but google is saying that...

AU median household income in 2014 was $80,704

US median household income in 2014 was $53,719

[1] https://goo.gl/3qQb5u
Ouch! Then we have the choice between a community-provided binary that is cross-validated by multiple build servers of multiple distros, and a vendor-provided binary which is deliberately different and has legal restrictions. Which one would we consider to be more trustworthy?
How did you find the remote work?

Is it with an existing client who is flexible or do you take short term contracts instead?
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