skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really was the first NoSQL database that many programmers used -- and it came out right around the same time that JSON was really taking off. The timing was perfect, the product was simple. Fact is most people don't really need insane scale and there are thousands of use cases where you just need to read and write JSON and fetch things by a few different fields. I think they nailed it. Every other NoSQL DB out there at the time was insanely hard to "just play with" (e.g HBase, Cassandra etc.)

I think you hit the nail on the head -- for many programmers who were "coming of age" at that time Mongo was the easiest to experiment with and to get working.
It wants to own the app store for enterprise services.

If this is what WeWork is all about, then buying / leasing real estate worth hundreds of millions is a rather convoluted way of going about it.
There are examples of eusocial animals which are not haplodiploidy. Naked mole rats are one example.

I think you're trying to make an argument based on the game theoretic definition of "rational" rather than the common definition of rational which would correspond to game theory's "superrational". That is, a rational choice based on the common knowledge that all others are following the same playbook. Sure, hymenopterans have a better genetic incentive to favour superrational behaviour but that doesn't stop upstart queens appearing in a hive (and often getting destroyed, but not always).
But they’re not a site that posts user submissions. They’re a site that posts certain types of submissions: that’s what distinguishes them from reddit, 4chan, voat, etc.

A failure to maintain that identity would fundamentally change their offering and lose them their audience. You make it sound like a trivial expenditure of Nothing more than a little bandwidth.

And you haven’t meaningfully distinguished it from a blog. Blogs host comments; they host guest posts, and multiple authors. The degree to which they’re one voice or many depends on their individual structure - and none of that contradicts your core moral statement about the immoral act being not letting people have a free-for-all on your private platform. You make a distinction without rationale for why some private platforms are allowed to curate their offerings, and why others are /immoral/ for doing skz
Wikimedia Foundation is actually rated pretty highly on Charity Navigator with 4 stars:

https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summar...

Overall Score & Rating : 93/100
Financial : 90.96/100
Accountability & Transparency : 96.00/100
DevDocs is old, roughly 4 years or so; I know it from the beginning.

That being said, not every HackerNews reader is aware of every single project in the wild, so re-posting the link from time to time is a good idea, not only to let more people know about it but also to increase the contributions and donations which may be forgotten after the popularity fades away. I can see this re-posted many more times in the future.

Remember that every year new Computer Science students graduate and and they are going to be the ones saying "First time I see this project" next year. So let the re-posts flow no matter what.
RipGrep kicks Ass. (Ag is excellent as well)
Both these guys did terrific work on these tools.
DevDocs is old, roughly 4 years or so; I know it from the beginning.

That being said, not every HackerNews reader is aware of every single project in the wild, so re-posting the link from time to time is a good idea, not only to let more people know about it but also to increase the contributions and donations which may be forgotten after the popularity fades away. I can see this re-posted many more times in the future.

Remember that every year new Computer Science students graduate and and they are going to be the ones saying "First time I see this project" next year. So let the re-posts flow no matter what.

To answer your question, there is no extracurricular community, it's just people like you and me who one day know the project, and next year decide to post it again so the new university graduates can learn about it, that's it.
This would effectively freeze all development and leave us collectively stuck at the current level of expertise.

If every doctor trains an ML algo, then forgets how to be a doctor, then medicine stops dead at that level.
Except when you poison mindshare.

For example, I used Mongo back in the early days. Was terrible. I will now never use it again. I don't care if it shoots lasers. It is dead to me.

Obviously the happy developer count is way more than the hate it for life count, so I am the odd man out here. Perhaps many users never actually had many GB of data or had to deal with the data loss side of things?
This is the first major commit where they pulled in the existing codebase almost a year ago:

https://bitbucket.org/cse-assemblyline/assemblyline/commits/...

Couple interesting bits:

1. Bcrypt looks trusted. I guessed as much given that I've seen it used in other GC projects that were "Protected B" (think Revenue Canada / similar).

2. It doesn't look like they enabled HSTS by default until a couple months later in the repo:

https://bitbucket.org/cse-assemblyline/assemblyline/commits/...

Again, unsurprising since the CSE / CST main page doesn't have HSTS.

3. This part of the original version of the README is interesting:

<README SNIPPET>

#### License (or lack thereof) and Conditions of use

As is fairly evident, we haven't selected a license for this project as of yet. As discussed when members were first granted read access to the repository, dissemination is based on the premise of originator controlled. If you feel there are other partners that would benefit from an early view and would be able to contribute, please contact the project leads and we should be able to sort it out.

We will soon be splitting the platform and services into two separate repo's, so please treat the services as slightly more sensitive than the platform itself, ie: release it and perish!!! ... but seriously, we do not grant anyone the right to do anything other than deploy the platform and use it. No sharing, presenting, etc without our knowledge.

We hope to have a clear release plan soon.

</README SNIPPET>

So it looks like they passed it around a bit either internally in the CSE or to a wider audience that may have included other departments. Probably getting more eyes on it to stop something stupid from going out.

4. There are some fun little commits like this:

https://bitbucket.org/cse-assemblyline/assemblyline/commits/...

Or this (adding the French version is always one of the last steps before something goes public):

https://bitbucket.org/cse-assemblyline/assemblyline/commits/...

Or this (we've all been there):

https://bitbucket.org/cse-assemblyline/assemblyline/commits/...
>Faced with the problem of generating a static part for my website, I just used Django to "print" the static part.

Sounds way more involved compared to what you'd do with just a static site generator -- especially one that's a single binary.
As much as I appreciate https for sensitive information, I feel that for many things, it also functions as a way to lock down the standard protocols of the web and lock users in to proprietary software and services. No longer can you spy on the requests that that piece of closed source software is making while it phones home. No longer can you rescue and reuse IoT devices whose manufacturers have shut down their servers, or refuse to provide updates or promised functionality. Now all communications are inscrutable binary streams that can't be examined or improved, especially from devices that don't allow you to upload a replacement certificate authority.
Why do you want Turing completeness in your probabilistic modelling language? This seems like a domain where you can specify a lot of useful work with bounded loops and other sub-TC tools.
Simple Origami Box Making Tutorial for Beginners
Toronto is already one of the best walkable cities in North America (Jane Jacobs even moved there)

Why not fix a place that has more problems, like this suggestion, Let's Build A Village From A Parking Lot
http://andrewalexanderprice.com/blog20151203.php#.WejmJ4hOk2...
Funny because it started as a breakthrough therapy drug which Shulgin and a few psychiatrists and escaped to become a club drug, especially in Texas. This lead to it being placed in schedule 1 by the DEA, against recommendations by doctors and scientists, that it should be allowed to be researched. The DEA did this by passing a special law giving them emergency powers.

http://www.maps.org/research-archive/dea-mdma/

Having had experience with MDMA I can attest to it’s near magical therapeutic powers. But no drug is a panacea and it can certainly have drastic side effects, particularly when abused but even if not.
WeWork's achilles heel IMO is that they disincentivize non-VC funded companies from staying for more than a year due to their 70% first-year rent discount. We at Habitat are moving out of the WeWork Philly office after just a year because of this. It's just too expensive to stay.
This is in contrast with structural recursion. When you define a binary tree datatype you should get for free a generic fold operation on these trees, analogous to the map and reduce functions on lists. I don't know if Clojure gives you that.
I must say that this is a well-written article, regardless of the opinion, resumed (TL;DR) here:

- Requesting money to Wikipedia viewers is done so often it gets as annoying as an advertisement-packed Wikipedia would potentially be.

- If you have innovated previously (knocking down the traditional enciclopedias), you can do innovate regarding the way yourselves fund the Wikipedia foundation, instead of just implying that "the only way for us to avoid advertising is for us to loudly ask our users over and over again for donations." (author quote)

As pointed out, Wikipedia is part of the Wikimedia Foundation. I find interesting that they apparently only rely on users for the source of income.

On the other hand, if they go for the regular "Foundation" or "NGO" way of requesting money to institutions (which probably would include governments and big companies), this might have a negative impact on Wikipedia's neutrality, and I personally would prefer Wikipedia to stay as neutral as possible.

So it's not so easy to "innovate in funding"...
A city can be in 'perpetual rapid development' if they are constantly tearing down the old and building the new.

Toronto was reasonably spread out.

The Canadian economy is addicted to 'new construction' as a form of growth + plus mass-scale immigration. Without it, the GDP numbers would not be good. Granted - the GDP/capita numbers would be just fine, so the choice is ideological.

Toronto opened up it's downtown to residential construction and that has been most of the change: massive residential towers (or even smaller ones) closer to downtown.

Of course - the endless construction of identical looking homes for 100Km in all direction continues unabated.

Driving North out of Toronto now - it goes on forever: identical homes, a Timmies, a Starbucks, a Home Depot, a TD Bank, another batch of the same homes, a Timmies, a Starbucks, a TD Bank - reapeat ad nauseum.

I think the expansion has largely been a disaster and we'll look back on it mostly as an economic trick to fill as many homes as possible in a short period of time.
What good is karma if you never spend it!
I've only visited a few times, and someone local could probably give a better idea of how the area is, but my impression of downtown Toronto was that while it is car-accessible it is also very pedestrian friendly. Lots of sidewalk and mass transit options and a downtown that has locals walking around at night (versus emptying out when everybody goes home at the end of the office day).
They are arguing that access to the economy without the exchange of productivity will not create the opportunity for personal development, that the cost of basic goods and housing will rise to absorb any universal payment.
GM just switched to Uber.
Chinese local services giant Meituan-Dianping raises $4B
That's a drop in the bucket, and if the treatment results in cure, it pays for itself in a few months. Targeted chemotherapy pills are about $20k/month. It's financially smart for insurers to cover the treatment.
Oh my god lol, I can't believe I never saw this. Thank you.
I'm sure there's already been a discussion on how much of the effect of power poses is due to confirmation bias or placebo effect, as opposed to some other physiological or psychosomatic reason. Especially since in the original study the subjects weren't actually told what they were doing, but in Dr Cuddy's talks and books they explicitly are.

It's just curious to me that she and Dr Fiske wouldn't catch this crucial difference immediately. Effectively it turns power poses into little more than 'the power of positive thinking'.

That said, personal attacks and especially those focusing on her brain function really need to stop. Psychologists treating each other like shit is not just ironic, it's a disgrace. If they can't even behave properly with each other, how can we expect them to treat patients properly?
> There is likely a critical mass of volunteers needed - fewer than that and you lose it all.

Volunteers... don't cost money.

If they were paying people to contribute/edit that would be one thing, but all the money they're spending doesn't contribute to the content on the site at all.

And as far as I can tell, mediawiki -- the software platform -- is basically complete. It accomplishes the goal of displaying editable encyclopedia pages at scale.
This will indeed be very interesting to watch out for. Speaking from experience, WeWork has a high turnover rate — VC-money-hungry startups line the hallways, coming and going accordingly. I don't think the established, boutique firms and agencies constitute a large enough chunk of their business to support them in a recession.

Their rent is just too high to capture the frugal companies who'll be the survivors of a poor market; lowering prices might save them, but I don't know how well their model accounts for this.
> I get what you mean, but would argue that, "it only takes 2-3 trolls plus 300 people who respond to them to create a 300-comment shitshow". An ignored troll is a powerless troll. They get their power to disrupt from the responses, not their words.

I like this idea, but I don't think it's possible to get the shared agreement you discuss. I've never seen an online community where the hands-off, community-ignore method worked. Have you seen one?
Anyone recommend any good resources for learning to use Edward?

The tutorials on the main site are good? http://edwardlib.org/tutorials/
You mischaracterize. Fiske is not criticizing "people who pointed out statistical errors" and begins the entire essay by explicitly stating as such: "Our field has always encourages -- required, really -- peer critiques"!

She is criticizing "unfiltered trash-talk [on social media]... [and] online vigilantes [who] are attacking individuals, their research programs, and their careers".

It's the same tension the article is referring to, between civility and public discourse. On one hand, you'd really like an open dialog about the quality of evidence presented. On the other hand, there's a real price to be paid when people are too worried about public humiliation to risk doing science on certain questions or working with certain people.

As the quote from Jay Van Bavel put it, "It's become like politics — we’ve created two camps of people who shouldn’t be in two camps in the first place"

This point resonated with me even though I'm on your side of those politics. What effect would it have on the OSS community if any even slightly bad code you write could end up in a hit piece published by The Atlantic, and if fact you witnessed people on Facebook saying your colleague, who maybe did write some kinda bad code that one time but is on the whole competent, is a charlatan who doesn't deserve the title of "programmer"?
The number of ways analog audio can work (and equivalently, fail) is small: Mic vs. Line, Power vs. Voltage, Voltage vs. Current, and Balanced vs. Unbalanced. In practice, it's not a big problem because of connector conventions and smart signal detection.

Contrast this situation with digital audio, where the number of modes is exponentially larger by your own admission. Analog audio is more reliable.

This doesn't mean digital couldn't be more reliable; it's just that it hasn't typically been designed with the necessary metadata as part of the protocol.
Yeah, I think the head-to-head between techniques is what's novel about the paper. But what confused me is that they got a strong positive off dual n-back in the first place; other studies of that exact technique have regularly come up ambiguous-to-negative.
Thanks a lot!

1) Yes, a .Net SDK is on our near term roadmap
2) That's a good point. We'll definitely check how easy this would be. So far we trusted in the worldwide reach of our currency :)
>With drumming

Drumming, in a band context, is all about remembering certain drum patters, combinating them mentally so they fit the music as well as possible, and then playing them with perfect timing...

... all of this in real time, and as an endless while(song is not over) loop!!

>And who's gonna tell you if you got it right or wrong?

You don't want to make the bassist, the singer, the guitar player, and the keyboard player all get angry at you at the same time for making the group sound bad!
I think you just expected to much from this article.

This is not a comprehensive guide to testing SSDs, it’s the story of what the author went through when trying to test SSDs. It’s well written and the author seemed to really engage with the topic and describe all the setbacks he had and research they did. I did not think he presented himself as an expert, just a software engineer tasked with upgrading their SSDs. And who knows, maybe this was only a 20% time project.

There are a lot of blog posts on HN that have much less actual content and where the authors have much less of a clue, yet often the response is overwhelmingly positive because someone took the time to write it up. You should really be more charitable here.

And to adress the calls for “outside experts”: If everyone called in outside experts for everything hardware (or software) related, we software engineers would never get to do anything cool or learn some new framework. We’d just be watching an outside expert do their thing. And outside “experts” are not necessarily better, often they might just sell themselves better. And who is going to check their work if the knowledge is all outsourced?

I think it’s great that the BBC lets their engineers do this and learn along the way, and a place where that is possible sounds like a nice place to work. It’s not like they had any downtime or anything because of this.
I hadn't heard of the GPD (thanks for sharing). I have been keeping an eye on the Gemini:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/a-retro-computer-brings-touch-t...
Thank you everyone who helps out on this project!
Easy way to disempower everyone all at once by saying "yeah you might reap what you sow, but it's mostly up to luck" I think just because people don't necessarily know the causes for wealth or the causes to bring Y or Z into their lives, does not mean there are not such causes. The fact that they are still a mystery to so many people probably means that the causes are very non-obvious. I think writings like this tend to assume that the Universe is random, and that success will come when it does, but I for one take huge stock in Causality and would like to encourage everyone contemplating "luck" to consider that there are prior causes to every result, what would the prior causes to great wealth be?
Cobalt static site generator is quite popular with Rust developers:
https://github.com/cobalt-org/cobalt.rs
GDPR – a small word with a potential big impact on your startup
Formal verification and the KRACK vulnerability
Probably AOT compilation and extraction of some resources from the APK. I don't have either installed, but my point was that 200 MB seems like a gross exaggeration. At worst, you could use ride.lyft.com in your web browser.
>you can't subsidize the many at their own expense and have it result in a positive effect.

You can if it changes local incentives to cause a better overall outcome. For example, a tragedy-of-the-commons situation can be improved by having each over-user give up their share of use to a monopolist whose subsidies replace the lost income.

This is explicitly one of the goals of replacing the current social safety nets with UBI. The social safety net as it stands has some extraordinarily shitty incentives. The effective marginal rate on income can exceed 100% in some situations, where income-based phase-outs of benefits are higher than the extra money you make. When I worked pizza delivery, my boss at one time had to scramble to figure out how to decline a pay raise that made her ineligible for childcare subsidies that cost more than the increase in take-home pay.

>But when you make it universal, my economics intuition says that the effect will be washed out by a commensurate rise in prices.

This is why a university degree isn't what it used to be, IMO, and why I oppose the college subsidies people are talking about. The net effect is that an undergraduate degree basically becomes what a high school degree is right now.
> RDBMS makes sense for most applications.

But "applications" are built by development teams.

So: Does an "RDBMS makes sense for most applications"?
You mean like all cities were built 100 years ago?

We already know how to build great cities.

No tech or vision is needed.

Just some basic insight.

The 'urban planners' of the 1950s-1970s really created the monster of the suburbs, now they're going to mess with the city?

No thanks. Vienna is a great, clean, walkable, functional city.

Want a hyperloop? Put it underground.

Want wifi? Make it so it's not physically obtuse.

There. Modern city.

See?
They came from outer space!

/Red_alert
I picked up bouldering a few weeks ago and I love it! I wish I'd learned about it sooner. I've never experienced such a satisfying muscle ache before.
Andrew Gelman's take: http://andrewgelman.com/2017/10/18/beyond-power-pose-using-r...
'Anemic' iPhone 8 demand drags Apple shares lower
If you need even more stimulation, Mountain Biking! With Audibooks!

My preferred workout is climb with audiobook, descend with silence, rinse and repeat.
I think that's about right. That's why we turn off user flags on articles that are particularly substantive or contain significant new information. It's mostly the copycat and follow-up articles (of which there are many more) that lead to the repetitive flamewars, arguably because they're so repetitive themselves.
Does this work with AWS or?
> When I look at a tool like Gulp, I wonder if its success is largely attributable to people not bothering to learn how Makefiles work.

> This complexity cost shows itself when the system breaks (and it will - all systems break) and you have to dive into these overengineered tools. Don’t forget that dependencies are fallible, and never add a dependency you wouldn’t feel comfortable debugging.

I don't have a lot of experience with Makefiles, but I refuse to believe that they're being cited as an example of something that's not complex.

It seems like this blog post is basically the author saying, "I understand how Makefiles work, but don't understand how Gulp works", and extrapolating that everyone else shares his skillset.
Does it even have binaries? It's a Python app, isn't it?
Charity navigator makes no attempt to see if the charity is doing anything useful. It "rates" charities based mostly on their overhead, which has reasonably been called "The worst way to pick a charity"

https://blog.givewell.org/2009/12/01/the-worst-way-to-pick-a...

Under this rating system, a charity that collects money and burns it would be rated highly so long as you didn't pay the guy tending the fire very much.