skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can just show up any time the gym is open. There are bouldering walls, just find a problem (what bouldering "routes" are called) that no one is on and go for it. Gym bouldering is usually pretty social, most people will be happy to answer any questions you have about anything, easier problems to try or techniques, etc.
I'd like to see the code for `piraterTousLesSystèmes`
System and method for managing transactions in dynamic digital documents
or airtable
Is PureScript really any more production-ready than Idris? That wasn't the impression I got.
>It's just an environment variable.

Sure. Which needs to be in the env sway gets passed. Which makes for some seriously ugly wrapper script needed, just to pass the stupid variable.

>If you can't set an environment variable then power user tools probably are not for you.

I think you're missing the point. It'll be a shame if sway 1.0 is released like this.
You can have the end webserver serve the intermediate chain, no?
Can be anything from zero to 30+ hours a day.

It gets closer to zero when i have problems focusing and so go into runaway internet time burning. This typically happens when some exciting/problem solving part of a project concludes, and i'm left with either a million possible ways to move forward past the solved problem, or a need to do the boring "awesome, now make it work" part of a project.

Procrastination is a problem solving decompression sickness.

It get closer to "code until a non maskable sleep interrupt fires" when there is a problem and the solution is close or something does not work but should, or something that haven't worked for a while finally starts to.

Between the two extremes there is pretty much any times depending on things to be done and free time available.
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Another post[0] by the same author complements the one I posted above -- this is more recent and is focused more on MongoDB's moves as a company, relating what he saw at MongoDB World 2017):

You might expect a database company to announce improved scalability, reliability, or performance. Or perhaps announce some of the countless features that users have been requesting for years, which are collecting dust in MongoDB's ever-growing issue tracker.

These are sane, logical expectations for a database company, so you'd be forgiven for being shocked at MongoDB's announcements that the company is investing massively into every product category except database technology.

Yet, to those who know MongoDB's troubled history, these announcements come as no surprise. In fact, I even predicted the launch of Stitch just over a year ago, at the last MongoDB World.

MongoDB didn't start as a database company, it's never acted like a database company, and in my opinion, it doesn't really have the DNA of a database company.

If his assessment in this next snippet is correct, one wonders about those who invested in this IPO:

MongoDB has no ecosystem. There are no analytics tools for MongoDB (except SlamData [N.B. this is the author's company] ), no backup software, no recovery software, no data integration software, no query optimization software, no data management software, nothing. Zilch.

There's just MongoDB.

In hindsight, this is an inevitable consequence of a company without database DNA trying to build and monetize a database. MongoDB couldn't figure out how to build an Oracle-sized empire on a database—partially, I'd argue, because they couldn't figure out how to build a database—yet they have to hit their sales quotas.

If you can't sell the database at scale, you end up trying to build and sell an ecosystem around the database. Slowly, bit by bit, MongoDB went after their early partners, trying to put them all out of business to drive a few million here and there.

The result is a "database company" that sells everything under the sun, including database management tools, data exploration tools, cloud hosting tools, cloud hosting services, and soon, BaaS (Bubble makes a return!) and BI software. Everything except, you know, a database.

[0] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mongodb-world-2017-lonely-sto...
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Though I made a grumpy old man comment on this thread, I understand that some people want more tech on their bike and that's fine too, if it gets you riding more.

I just worry there will be a bit of a donut hole problem. Where at the high end you have super smart bikes with electronic everything and on the low end carbon steel big box store bike and nothing in-between.
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A significant change in how graduate studies may occur.
Is this what you mean:

I write my blog posts in Org mode. So I wrote this package ox-hugo that exports that to Markdown + the front-matter required by Hugo, in the folder structure for Hugo.

Now I just write in normal Org, and don't worry about manually setting up the post front-matter -- https://ox-hugo.scripter.co

(That site is generated by ox-hugo + Hugo btw :))
Druid works far better for our uses.
Not true at all. I can't hail a cab with ease from 90% of the places I might want to call an Uber. They also can't be counted on to deliver a quality experience. Therefore, people are switching to the new technology of rideshare apps. Where the incumbents have a huge advantage because using them if you have already is seamless. Self-driving is just the next step in the chain.
> “There is no company on earth with a better track record than Tesla,” it said in a statement to the Guardian.

This statement is a huge red flag. It's almost Trumpian in its useless superlatives.

No corporation is perfect, and even a perfect corporation is made up of imperfect people. In the end, what matters is how your corporation handles when problems arise, and by this measure, it seems like Tesla leaves something to be desired.
The whole point of electronic gear switching is that there is no slack in the lines - the shifters communicate wirelessly with the derailleur and the derailleur uses a small motor to execute the gearshift. It's actually awesome in practice - gearshifts are crisp and perfect each time, without the need for frequent adjustment or dealing with issues such as cable stretch and dirt. The batteries last a few months and if they die, you're stuck in one gear (you can change it at the side of the road with your hands if you get stuck in an undesirable one) - no big deal.

For a commuter / daily-driver bike without weight concern, I think a belt-driven internal planetary gearset with electronic shifting would be ideal as the bike nearly becomes a sealed unit, without any exposed grease or need for lubrication or adjustments.
I had this exact feeling as well.

Complexity comes about when systems integrate too closely. If you're running multiple systems in the same environment, eventually, they have to work around each other, or it leaves the temptation to take advantage of what's there anyways. Docker establishes firm boundaries and reduces the cognitive load of the developer and ops teams.
Not really. Other browser vendors can implement the standard too, which is called Web Components.

fyi: It's generally considered bad practice to assume bad intentions when alternative explanations suffice.
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I think an easier way to think about the OP's point is that if you offer every person $1,000 a month (UBI), prices to live their exact same life style will increase by $1,000/month.

The net change will be zero.

There is an argument that while costs go up $1,000, if a true life changing event occurs, let's say sickness or entrepurship happen, maybe the person can scale down their life style from ramen to unflavored ramen and not be as bad off as with no UBI.
Also like in Duolingo, where you pay 2 "lingots" to place a double-or-nothing bet that you will practice every day for the next week. Most of the time I bet even though I know I'm likely to lose the bet, since it is slightly more likely I'll practice with a 'financial' incentive. Which is exactly what Uber wants to induce: early week optimism, then late week indentured servitude.
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You can just use your hands to indicate your intention to turn, this is done all over the world and AFAIK the accepted method of indicating without having any electronics.
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I give people the second chance to buy absolutely useless token. If they don't know where to invest their money, I'll suggest them to make an informed choice in favor of 100% honest ICO. Yes, they won't get any gain but they've already known it from the first. The main difference between InWASTEment and other ICOs is that InWASTEment'll issue tokens as long and much as people need. I'm not a one-day company that will take your money and disappear. I took the job seriously and for a long time so that everyone could waste their money. There is a simplified version of the investments on our website." "As I promised, I give you the opportunity to pay money even without getting any tokens. Just send your money to the following addresses."
I also give a guarantee that if a sufficient sum is collected, I will go on a round-the-world trip and maintain communication on Twitter.
Paywall:

http://archive.is/Fb1D4
>>Anyone who looks sincerely and closely will see how much more complex the situation is.

The situation is definitely complex, which is why it must be discussed at every opportunity and in every venue, especially by intelligent people who deal with complexity as a living (HN's core demographic). Downvoting and flagging stuff just because you personally don't want to talk about it is selfish. It is in fact the very definition of selfishness.

If someone does not want to discuss a particular topic, they can refrain from upvoting it and posting comments on its discussion thread. FLAGGING however prevents others from being exposed to it as well because it pushes the submission off the front page (where it rightfully belongs, based on votes) and sometimes even kills it if enough selfish people pile on. That only makes the issue worse because it is akin to mopping it under the carpet.

You may feel that discussions on certain topics don't add anything original. Did it ever occur to you that that's simply your perspective, shared perhaps only (or mostly) by other old-timers? Many people, especially those new to the industry, are unaware of these issues and they should be exposed to them within the relatively civil and intelligent medium of HN.
Just wanted to point out that when Bootstrap first hit the scene this wasn't true:

> to add to that, the biggest problem that bootstrap solves IMO is a standard grid system, of which there are now many, more composable grid systems to choose from. Grid systems are so basic that its probably fine to pull one from the shelf, but with flexbox its really not that hard to write your own anyway.

Bootstrap was sort of a pioneer in the generalized responsive framework space. I recall Zurb Foundation close behind and Skeleton a short time after that...although my time line might be a bit screwed up.

Now with flex box it is certainly easier to roll your own...and that reduces the value (somewhat) of using a framework like Bootstrap or Foundation or (insert other responsive framework here), but it doesn't make it 0 (IMO).
If the justification for this is rising housing costs, then giving people free money to pay the high rents is just going to cause housing to be even more expensive.

We've already tried this experiment. It's called financial aid for college. Tuition prices just keep tracking federal aid increases.

http://college.usatoday.com/2015/08/20/report-federal-aid-ri...

If they gave the money as credits to developers to build more housing, then they might have a chance at accomplishing their goal.
Seconding this, they make a rear light so bright my 94 year old grandfather can see it in daylight.
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I'm glad this is the top comment, because I don't often see common sense critiques of UBI that acknowledge price adjustment.

We can't just print money, that is obviously going to fail as it always does. So... Will we try to implement UBI with wealth transfers? Taxing the rich and giving to the poor?

That seems to be the only alternative to printing money, meaning that UBI is not an innovative idea whatsoever. It's just wealth redistribution.
I work on more mature projects so I've never used a pure NoSQL environment but I do enjoy working with a split cache/persistence layer approach combining a RBMS (preferring PostgreSQL) behind a cache layer (preferring libmemcached).
As long as everyone plays by the rules of a free market, or close enough, then consumer choice is what ignores the players for the superior offerings. They win if they can make a better product, and the Giants often have an easier job of making a better product because of the advantages of being a tech giant.
Fix gears are fine as are non-fixed single speeds, but I need my variable mechanical advantage for hills, maybe if I lived in Chicago I'd be all in for a fixie.
That's what the free beer is for - to anesthetize yourself from the negative working conditions, at the end of the day.
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You need more than just a list of companies using it, you can create a similar list for just about any technology, good or bad.

Sony is a worldwide company with 127,000 employees, they alone probably use just about every database system around. So saying sony uses mongo isn't impressive, for all we know it was just a side project from an intern that has 100 documents, there is no context.
> I'd imagine that some wealthy people must find this stuff extremely intriguing

Some definitely do. Example:

https://www.maps.org/news/bulletin/articles/420-bulletin-spr...
Probably social anxiety
Yes, I believe so. I use that to get auto-updates of f-droid apps
Which makes sense, once you've nailed down what you need to be good at and profitable. It's sounds like a good idea and differentiator, but it seems like a premature pivot too.
> Now, if you're running Reddit or Wikipedia or Facebook or HN... do you really care if a user doesn't get the absolute latest version of a document or comment?

I mean... do you? I often come back a few minutes after posting to add something I forgot or rephrase something for clarity. I hate when I am tweaking a Reddit comment a couple times during a period of high server load and I get served an old version of the comment and end up losing something I added in a previous edit.

With something like Wikipedia it would be quite frustrating to lose revisions.

Obviously it is what it is, I can't change their codebase, and I'm sure it's necessary as currently engineered, but is there really no other way to cluster their data except "one big table"? Maybe like shard subreddits to specific servers ala Hyperdex?

But yeah, most places that Mongo is applied aren't exactly Facebook or Reddit either, in terms of total data throughput.
I bet we can find 50 uses of bootstrap in the f500.
This is being alive and has always been: a struggle for survival. With all the capital we accumulated as a civilization this might no longer be evident: we are all competing and collaborating in order to obtain scarce resources (like food, shelter, etc.)

People who don't embrace this and won't have kids will just exit the gene pool. Life will go on.
Right. The idea of app based hailing is far more impactful on the monopoly question than the self driving part.

And Uber's delusional investment premise notwithstanding, it's pretty clear that there's not going to be a genuine monopoly in app based taxi services. At minimum there will be a few major players.

But the relevant point is that there's no reason to think autonomous driving will strongly affect the monopoly dynamics of taxi services really at all.
I'd rather have my car become as "dumb" as my bike.
One issue is that now a lot of riders are using blinking lights all the time when riding for visibility reasons (during the day), so the arrow would need to be big enough to differentiate and visible front and back so now we could be talking about something much more obtrusive. If they're on the back, there's a limit to how big one can go (on easy to mount positions) because the rider's legs/feet/butt will strike protruding things from the bicycle.
That's not the credit bureau, though. Credit files do not contain salary history.
This is plainly not true. In 99% of America (read: not cali, nyc, etc) if you lock your bike up it won't get stolen.
Maybe you know something we don't...

"We’re not ready to talk about agent internals"

What makes you think it uses a tree search?
If we use your tortured logic that reference sites are meaningless then no technology in the history of the world is ever production ready.

Well I have worked for a number of billion dollar companies who have run MongoDB so there is first hand evidence.
The meeting rooms are not all you can eat for your monthly spend. They give credits based upon spend. Once you burn them up (and you will cause it's a pittance in credits) you gouged after that.
Ouch, Robert Scoble, the guy that has a podcast on Techcrunch? or somebody else?
Just want to note Couchbase is not just for mobile. Couchbase Server is an enterprise-class document-oriented (like Mongo) db with a dynamic query language that's a superset of SQL. (FD: I work for Couchbase).
I'm investigating this at my company so I can share a couple of ideas.

Our system is used by a series of companies to manage the performance of their supply chain (keeping this very vague to avoid breaching NDAs).

We generate reports which show the performance. as our system sees it. However, what if a supplier were to bribe us to change the report? I have heard third-hand of this happening before in our industry so that's not as crazy as it sounds.

And what if the client were to change performance criteria mid-way through a contract? The supplier might now be showing poor performance where this is totally unfair.

This is where a blockchain might be helpful. If we publish these reports to the private blockchain shared between us, the customer and the supplier, the customer can verify the blockchain at any time to prove that this has not happen. Finally, the supplier can see if terms are updated and this is permanently stored in the chain.

Effectively, if three parties might not trust each other, then blockchain might be a good option to keep people honest.
This article lays out a company thats a parody of every stereotype known to man.

Jesus.
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Of course self-leased speace is generally (way) better - if you can find it (at the capacity you need right now) and hire people to run it for you. WeWork's entire model relies on the fact that, while not it's not the swankest, most productivity-enhancing working spaces you've ever been in (far from it) -- it is available pretty much on tap, in at least some capacity, in key cities.

Remember all those outright shitholes many companies used to work in (in their bootstrap phases) at least? Or this whole "borrowing office space from a friend, until..." thing? Or, until not too long ago, literally using coffeeshops or restaurants as meeting rooms? WeWork seems to have succeeded in making that culture pretty much go away, at least.
I wouldn't ever park my nice bikes anywhere in any case. They're either in the garage or a few feet from me.
I don't think the specific services you can find are as valuable as the networking itself.

In 3 months in a WeWork I connected with a number of people. Some of them have moved on as the services they were offering didn't work out financially for them.

But we're still connected and most of the folks that moved on are onto more interesting endeavors. One knew I was in machine learning for healthcare and dinged me on a gig. I have one I love, but it would have been a nice option if I was looking.
> “The big problem in the U.S. is that half of the working population in the private sector has no retirement plan available at work — and people do not save on their own,” Munnell said.

I'd love to see an article about retirement savings actually go into why people don't save for retirement. It is almost always brushed aside as a one liner, blamed on inequality, bad luck, etc.

But there are real reasons, some reasonable, some less reasonable. Unexpected medical costs can bankrupt someone in days (this is why we believe everyone should have insurance). School and raising children is expensive.

On the other hand, Americans seem to be chasing the dreams of materialism in ways I don't think we realize. Ridiculously large houses, new cars (peak auto anyone?), eating out, and of course who can forget avocado toast. The American solution is to simply live outside your means hoping times will get better. Until you can't - then look for someone else to blame.

I wish we would have pieces that wouldn't just be a "look at how bad people have it" but actually have useful advice to avoid common financial pitfalls (buying too much house, too little insurance, not having a budget, not having an emergency fund). This article for example starts at the end "these retired people have no money and few prospects." What about their lives before this?
Most companies who do it purely by humans can easily get into the thousands of attributes. Have seen it many times before where you hit the column limit of a SQL database.

But where you get into tens/hundreds of thousands is when you have machine learning models automatically selecting and storing important features from the data.
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Our product acts as a pipeline that sends clickstream & ad data to user's selected databases. Would love to get your feedback!
This is a very good question. I wrote an answer in another thread on this topic which illustrates a use-case you might find interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15512116
Dunno if Shimano is ever going to live down BioPace. At the same time I’m glad clever people kept at it.

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From the TC article:

"""
We like to describe it as a new document that blends flexibility of documents, the power of spreadsheets, and the utility of applications into a single new canvas,” Mehrotra said. “It really started from an observation that we think that the world is full of all these different types of applications but most work gets done on documents and spreadsheets. Every team we looked at, you’d ask them what they use to run things they’d name off all these different applications. They have task trackers, CRM tools, inventory tools, but if you looked over their shoulders they’d spend all day in documents and spreadsheets.”
"""

This description reminds me of the "universal canvas" that Jon Udell wrote about in 2001: http://jonudell.net/bytecols/2001-06-06.html. I'm wondering how far along coda.io can be to justify a $60M investment. Has anyone seen or used the product?
Economic research has shown that in aggregate, cold hard cash is the most impactful aid you can give someone as well as the least impactful intervention you can impose on the market.

The freedom to make your money work for what you personally deem best is the creative, and personally empowering, juice that promotes the most productive behaviour.

Providing water, food, and shelter affects each of these markets in often deleterious ways. For example, consider the oft-cited criticism against foreign aid.
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