skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started off hating the idea of single page components; I'd have much rather had a component reside within a directory (with template.html, style.sass and script.es6.js files or whatever) but in reality, so long as you keep your templates light and do any heavy lifting elsewhere, it's quite manageable.

Newer JavaScript functionality makes that work nicely.

Almost all of my components fit on one screen.
I feel it's necessary to post this equally obsessive companion piece about whiteboard cleaners:

http://rumkin.com/reference/whiteboard/cleaners.php
It’s hard for me to imagine that the actual outcome of such a proportional representative system would be worse (in my judgment) than the current US federal district system, but the theoretical criticisms are obvious. For instance, it makes sense to have representatives represent a specific area who were supported by a majority of voters from that area. That way, the representative can in theory represent specific interests that are disproportionately important to citizens from that specific area (e.g. agricultural issues for rural areas or public transportation issues for urban areas).

Of course, drawing these districts (in either system) is an inherently arbitrary process which can lead to counterintuive or obviously unideal results, the most obvious example of which being gerrymandering. But at the end of the day, unless we have a one world democracy, borders must be drawn. National borders are “easy” in the sense that they tend to be formed not by a democratic political process but rather historical conflict.
Ah, possible. I also use a normalization library (for both atom, jsonfeed and RSS), it might mask the worst of these occurrences.
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Time for some heresy... I just do not understand the obsession with whiteboards that seems to be almost a requirement among programmers and software engineers. I've probably used a whiteboard by choice two or three times in the last ten years. They are terrible; I'd much rather scrawl on a regular sheet of paper, if it's throw-away stuff, or fire up Visio if it's something worth keeping.
>The inability to publish ads inline RSS ultimately killed it.

Huh? There's no such inability.
nah, just gotta open a bar that serves nothing but baijiu.
You could do Facebook over RSS at one time. Requires more effort to rig it all up on your part.
I think they're just large, complicated physical things where stuff goes wrong, even if you're maintaining and testing.

My best story was as a young student turning up for my helpdesk shift at about 5:50am to a phalanx of fire engines and the Hazmat team.

The generator in the basement was maintained and tested. This time it had started when power went out, but there was a pump that filled a holding tank from a 10,000ish litre tank under the building (speced to run for a week apparently). A pipe had cracked, and so it just kept pumping fuel on to the floor, carpark and into the local stream ...

The only person in the building overnight was the operator (tape changer and report runner) some 5 stories above all this, who eventually smelt it and eventually investgated. It was a massive nightmare, and the place stank for weeks.

Then there was the time the halon system went off unnecessarily...
“Actually, yes. I need to know I have to walk towards them so I need to see them from afar.”

That is a really weak argument. It’s a strawman. Your ability to see stairs from a distance has no bearing on their usability or functionality. So long as when you’re in the space, it’s obvious that they are there, which from what I can see, is indeed the case.

Your beef seems to be Apple’s apparent arrogance at removing ~4% of battery (realistically closer to 2% when covering and fixings are accounted for) and moving forward with newer connectivity options like headphone jacks (which when looking at how compact the internals of the iPhone X are, make more sense) and older USB ports. I remember when they dropped ADB and parallel/SCSI in favour of USB. I remember buying an iMac without a floppy drive. Apple have always done this. And even when at their lowest, the pack have generally followed. Ask yourself why when you’re next saving a file in Dropbox...
I've found it's easier to opt out of Google than of Facebook. The former is difficult because their products are relatively good (I consciously use a different browser, search engine, etc, but at the same time there's eg no competition in the field of mail clients), whereas the latter (including WhatsApp) is difficult due to the immense social pressure. I appreciate that far less.
After the death of google reader I looked around for a new reader and finally decided for newsbeuter an open-source RSS/Atom feed reader for text terminals.
Since I always read the article on the source site newsbeuter is perfect for me. newsbeuter does the heavy lifting of downloading and storing and I just have to press 'o' to open the article in my browser.
In a reasonable environment, gaining remote code execution on the database server wouldn't give you the ability to decrypt anything, the DB shouldn't have access to the decryption keys/oracle/whatever.

To get a dump you'd need to compromise two systems - a database server that has access to all the data, but in the data it stores and returns all the interesting columns are encrypted; and an app server that can decrypt data that it gets (and it has the keys only for the columns that this app server actually needs to use, if you have different classes of confidential data) but can't get all the data from the database freely, only a predefined subset in a limited and logged manner controlled by the database system.

Granted, if the attackers can get RCE on one of those systems then it's likely that with some effort they can get the other system as well in a similar manner, but still it's an useful defense in depth.
> Are column-store databases relevant on SSD/NVME?

Yes. SSD generally has lower latency for responses.

While sending data (throughput) is similar, the operating system doesn't ask for all of the blocks of a file at once -- even if you read(fd,buf,size) -- because other processes might ask for other blocks in the meantime. An IO schedular is making decisions, and that latency helps turn around those decisions faster.

> I ask because on a physical medium like hard disk, storing data on physical disk in column orientation can make a significant improvement to read operations.

I'm not really sure this is true. Hard Drives have (for over a decade, probably longer) had logic that lies about the physical layout of the disk to the point where all I can believe about the linear block address is that the circuitry "believes" that likelihood software will ask for the next linear block address is higher than any other one.

Further that, I imagine SSDs can probably make similar optimisations.

The reason column-orientation helps is that it reduces the volume of data that needs reading. If you have a table with 100 columns in it, but a query that operates on 2, then a column-oriented database needs to read 2 things, while the row-oriented database either reads 100 things, or it interleaves reads of 2 things with skips of 98 things.

It isn't difficult to believe that the circuitry needed to handle the former will outpace the circuitry needed to handle the latter for a long time.
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I don't understand where this "RSS is dead" mantra came from. RSS does what it is supposed to do and indeed there is nothing better yet.

E.g. I don't have Facebook, Twitter nor YouTube accounts (since they collect a lot of personal data about you). I use RSS to subscribe to YouTube channels. Both Twitter and Facebook used to have RSS. Now I use third party services to follow couple of pages I'm interested in: http://feed.exileed.com (supports Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and some other) or https://twitrss.me (Twitter only). I don't have Reddit account, instead I subscribe to subreddits via RSS. Any blog on LiveJournal, Blogger supports RSS. Any website built with WordPress or Drupal has RSS support out of the box. Many forums have RSS option. Even Wikipedia watch list has RSS. I'm not even talking about any news site.
With some knowledge of JavaScript and Apifier.com you can turn any page into RSS feed.

Indeed there is still no any other technology that can do all this better.

(I use Inoreader.com to read RSS. It has many features, the only downside is that their free plan is quite limited.)
Pretty much any RSS client these days can connect to Feedly API so you don't need to use their app.
Agregators and spam. Can't agree more.
GP probably meant targeted ads, beyond just 'well if you like this feed,'...
https://feedly.com
You're looking for an agent service (can't think of the proper name right now). They exist for Taobao.
I love me some Vue. VueX is actually quite simple, especially compared to Redux. It doesn’t try to invent too much new terminology.

I did end up needing to reach for jQuery in two situations with Vue. First was to auto focus form inputs when the form becomes visible. For the life of me could not find a good way to do this with Vue. Second was when a particular architecture of the app required using lots of modals. Vue just doesn’t do well with components that live inside modals and need to be reset whenever a modal is opened or closed. Basic CRUD using Bootstrap modals is a huge pain, especially the Update mode. I ended up creating rather gross hacks for notifying the component in the modal that it needs to be reset.

One of the coolest things I did with Vue/VueX is having updates about server side events delivered via WebSockets. A single generic connection to the server pushes CUD events about all the relevant models to the client, where VueX duetifully executes the ADD/UPDATE/REMOVE actions for instant updates to all parts of the app.
Please enlighten us - it's often a whole different world if you're used to Amazon.
Dyalog APL is an extremely interesting environment and implementation, with very good downloadable technical documentation, I suppose it might go for some lisps too.
The Alibaba Group's revenue for the entire 2017 was ~$23B (see https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/BABA/financials?p=BABA), so making $18B in a single day sounds unbelievable.

Is one of these numbers incorrect?
What’s AMT? Is ME on Macs innocuous?
How long does it take for packages to get to you? In Australia I had a run of less than two weeks but it's been back up to a month recently.
Feedbin.com has been wonderful for me since the demise of google reader, and frankly it's far better. It's not free, but it's very cheap and as far as I'm concerned that's a feature -- means it's less likely to just disappear or shut down one day, and AFAIK all the source code is open source.
Just out of interest, can you check a couple of prices on Dealextreme, Gearbest and Banggood to see if they're comparable?
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Only one place to go for things, no 'endless scroll', once stuff is read it's read.
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The problem with RSS is that I don't want to subscribe to blogs that have only one lucky post in a decade, I want a curated list of topics on a daily/weekly fashion and for that newsletters are the best. Unfortunately email is not the best platform for delivering content so I came up with an idea to offer a news reader that consumes newsletters you can subscribe/unsubscribe at any time. It's just like an email client but just for newsletters.

Lo and behold, opened a gmail account specifically for newsletters, subscribed to my swift, kotlin, design, UX and AI newsletters and I'm now using Apple Mail to have the time of my life consuming all the content I need, delivered to my inbox daily, with no spam, no friends, no follow, no ads, no nothing.

Of course there is still the possibility to provide a nice client rich in features for the common user so the idea for a startup is still in the air.

RSS is dead, long live newsletters.
>Did you come here from reddit?

This is directly against the rules.

>It's unnecessary and inappropriate

No it's pretty appropriate. I didn't say anything uncalled for. Especially when someone is being dishonest. Congratulations on not being able to discuss the subject matter in your attempt to completely derail the conversation.

>devil's advocate type of questions.

Or just misinformation.
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Oh yeah. Cyriak, and Blu.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr_lcVVoDIY

I remember re-reading / looking at things more often than I would do today. That is, a few books I liked a lot. Other than that, new and wild was always appreciated, just not so wild to be scary. But still, protection from overstimulation (and danger) is a really important job of parents, especially for infants, predictability to a degree is important. Vital, even. Too much lack of it puts the baby into survival mode so to speak. This is cobbled together from armchair psychology but I'll just say it anyway, I think a roaring sea of non-sequitur events is just about the worst that could happen to a developing brain, it will have to develop shells instead of being able blossom and keep the ability to be sensitive (while developing the ability to, when needed, protect one's own attention oneself). So I agree, it's probably a combination of both. New input, come to terms with it, integrate it, get comfortable, get hungry, get new input :)
It's also not 15 at the same time.
Hah! That's an interesting idea. I might just think about doing that for an April Fools' or similar...
What is the name of the language where the whole game of life was literally one line of code? That was the example that convinced me that terseness can be too much.

also some physical theories which are summarised as
A=F(P)
Anterior=Factor(Posterior) ,
the future is a function of the past.

the difference to E=MCC is that the later one actually contains physical entities and that 'Factor' is often not well defined.
I really like the idea of RSS I just would replace it with JSON.
Thanks for that, it might just get me back to reading my RSS feed. Using RSSOwl isn't so great if you never open it, so the content just languishes. The browser is pretty much the natural place for RSS readers (thanks, Opera!).

Now if I could only get Feedbro to sync my read items...
What about Atom? Isn't it better than RSS?
Goddamn, that really does sound sinister as hell.
And this is why we can't have nice things. Like magic
Banggood mainly - I've had better luck with them than Gearbest.

OzBargain.com.au also seems to like Lightinthebox, Rosegal and Zapals.

I do wonder if there's a way to go "one level up" - who supplies all these Chinese stores?
I'm under the impression that encryption should be covered by the second amendment as an 'arm'. Just like guns encryption is there to protect us from malicious parties. If only we could get the NRA or some other more ethical gun club to endorse it as such.
Would this be likely to hold up in court at all? It seems like this kind of thing would fall under the purview of defamation law, and benchmarks are essentially "just facts" so about as safe as you can get. I imagine they'd have to show that you maliciously construed the benchmark itself or something to make any case stick.
It varies a lot. Sometimes 2 weeks, more often 3 to 4. Currently a number of items seem overdue at more than 5 weeks.
Unrelated thought:

With the growth of 'category kings' (Amazon, Stackoverflow, Wikipedia etc) does anybody else feel that google's search becomes less and less useful?

I never understood the 90's obsession with domain names until I skimmed several news articles from that era. The main logic was:

1. People will go to a couple of websites for most their needs, the ones with memorable names will be easier to go to.

2. Things like search engines (Google) weren't as hot as curation directories (yahoo) because nobody expected so much fragmentation on the web.

3. The more fragmented the market in an industry, higher the value of search ads. If you know the most options and high quality reviews are available on Amazon, you don't really bother with as many reviews.

While this analysis failed for the past few years, with the amount of consolidation happening in the industry recently its possible search engines loose their main source of income (e-commerce) and start being used more from ideleness/curiosity perspective.

Wonder if google should pre-emptively start penalizing the aggregation marketplaces and promote direct providers (essentially try to be the Ebay for everything) to prevent such an outcome.
I mean startups. The ecosystem is poor. The Atlassian guys said they would never have started in Australia given a second chance. I have also been told that Australian venture capitalists are utterly hopeless.
> First, it doesn't add ads, as others have mentioned.

I think this is more a problem of scale. Simple, text-based ads could work if the audience is very specific. For instance, you could start each item with a one or two line message by a sponsor. Ads could be purchased for a fixed amount or even on a pay-per-click basis if the url is a referral.

This could work brilliantly on a regional level I think. For instance, a local news paper could draw attention to a new restaurant that will open up soon, a sale at a mom&pop store and so on...
almost as funny as naming a catacomb 'Hit Lair'
Killing another human without any real direct threat doesn't seem that natural to me. If some guy is actively trying to hurt me then it seems entirely natural to kill.

He's wearing the wrong uniform seems less of a reason. Volume is also a problem. Basically, killing seems traumatic in and of itself.
They're both correct. Alibaba makes almost all of its money from advertising.

They're frequently incorrectly portrayed as a traditional retailer, akin to Amazon (which itself is increasingly not a retailer).

They're a retailer in the sense that eBay is. They own no merchandise, they sell no merchandise. They're a platform that other people sell on/through. They don't primarily make money from listing fees though (as eBay does), in their case it's from ads and equivalent. Alibaba has a lot more in common with Google than Walmart (which is also why their profit margins are so high, versus eg JD.com).

Incredibly, when Alibaba was founded, China's GDP was ~1/11th what it is today. Which is another way of saying, they were dramatically poorer just 18 years ago. That factor combined with non-existent online micro charging capabilities circa 1999, no smartphones, etc. meant that Jack Ma couldn't easily charge traditional listing/selling fees to be on their platform. So they went with a mostly free platform that made money via ads. That is also a big reason eBay failed in China despite being there semi-early:

(story from 2010 about what happened to eBay in China)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/china/2010/09/12/how-ebay-faile...
I stopped using RSS circa 2010 since RSS produces just too much content (well at least my reader did, as it was not archiving stuff until read, just like an email inbox). I was reading my RSS feeds almost as a full-time job and the unread count was only going up and up :)

TBH, it's a bit like this now for me with HN and Twitter even without RSS. "This looks interesting... (click)(open in new tab)". One week later: 300 tabs open.
In China, your signature usually has to be legible. I've got funny looks in the bank for apparently scribbling all over the signature field.
I signed up back in 2009, so almost 9 years ago now. I've been frequently telling myself since then that I should cut down, and quit using it for a while. I always end up using it again.

The reason I use it is that sometimes there's a link posted to something genuinely novel, fascinating, and/or perception-shattering. Likewise, sometimes a comment will be deep, insightful and/or informative on a poorly-known topic. These are what bring me back.

But, most often, the community is prickly, fad-driven, and increasingly conformist.

It's always been a mix. I don't think it's actually gone downhill - I think the metric of quality has changed. The new moderation team has cracked down on overt rudeness and trolling. However, the userbase has shifted - it's larger now and more dominated by employees than entrepreneurs. That leads to a narrowing of opinion. The tech industry has also become much more high-profile, and everyone is hyper-aware of the media criticism of startup culture.

Once upon a time people would express controversial opinions and expect at least a fair hearing - it felt like a friendly gathering of smart friends. Now, it feels like people standing on soapboxes shouting to a hostile crowd. People like Sebastian Marshall (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lionhearted) used to be top posters here, and he's no longer active -- and I doubt he'd go down well with the current crowd. Steady changes in the userbase like that change the vibe in hard-to-define ways, but it's definitely changed.
> you write by moving your whole arm

Which f*cking nobody properly teaches or bothers to mention (at least where I was studying). The problem with cursive is not the cursive itself but incompetent teachers who don't know how to write. Add to it mid 20 century style of teaching forcing students to write tens of pages of notes each lesson for 16 years, all the time doing it wrong, with fingers only, and you get a population of people who can only scrawl something unintelligible on paper. I'm forced to write in separate letters when doing notes because otherwise it is too embarrassing.
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Not the OP, but here are my 2¢. Introducing generics in a language implies a deep revision of the type system, which risks to become much more complex to understand. Moreover, this might have a bad impact on compilation performance (compare C++ compilation times with Go compilation times and you'll understand what I mean).
Also the reason for eV and mole units, and Fortran. Not to mention the whole imperial unit system. Adults can't be bothered changing their ways and since they have the power, they make the next generation do the hard work of keeping up instead of correcting their own mistakes.
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I hear people praise the Java ecosystem so often, but when I use it I cannot replicate that.

There is nothing like Django in Java land? Instead you are sent into a confusing mess of interface standards like JPA and implementations (hibernate, ebeans, ...) and little guidance how to choose.
For the websites that actually provide whole articles via RSS, what's your next step ? How do you keep and organize those articles ?

edit: I mean how users, not article authors, keep and organize full articles.
That’s how the cargo cult works. You’re teachers couldn’t explain why cursive was “better” but forced its use anyway.

Similarly, forcing left handed students to write with their right hand finds a rationalized basis in superstition, although it’s been explained that when a cultural custom forces a bias toward a specific dominant handedness by default, it benefits safety optimizations in aggregate.
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I also found the following aggregators/search engines:

https://en.pandacheck.com/

https://sealsmile.com/

http://chinaprices.us/
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