skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope, it sends stdout to sheets. Getting input from sheets would be cool, too.
Hmmmmmmm.

Glares at telstra what are you doing to my internet connection

(It's 11Mbps and I'm ~2.5km away from the exchange, so the line quality seems alright.)
It makes sense to this degree only, if you DONT use ECC no matter where you are using ZFS you are introducing potential checksum errors in the data path. ECC is not that much more than normal ram. To me it makes no sense to run ZFS even if in some tiny home NAS and leave the data path vulnerable to corruption of any kind. Why bother with ZFS at all if you don’t want complete protection? That’s just bizarre.
> That's probably something to do with Wikipedia's editing guidelines these days. They have a rule against using primary research citations.

Jeez. I haven't paid much attention, but every time I hear something about Wikipedia's editing guidelines, they're getting it horribly wrong.
> they don't turn matter into light but rather light is created when the energy level of electrons changes (whether in electric or chemical light sources).
> Of course indirectly, this energy comes from matter being turned into energy, whether by the sun or by nuclear fission.

This is incorrect. It directly comes from matter as the rest mass of the low energy state is a minuscule amount less than high energy state. Specifically it is E/c^2 less, where E is the energy of the photon.
You know what would be interesting, though probably also flawed? Looking at mRNA.

The reason DNA wouldn't work that well is because a lot of DNA we have isn't actually coded into the traits we present. I think this is what happens at a fairly abstract level:

DNA -> RNA(whole) -> Splicing out of non coding (introns?) portions of the RNA -> RNA(coding) -> some more pre-processing -> mRNA -> Proteins

Those proteins are most likely what help us look the way we do. So going a step back, mRNA could be an interesting target for understanding what genes are actually on and coding how we look.

An obvious flaw from the get go: mRNA is extremely difficult to extract from human tissue. Yields are super low in laboratories, and is consistently an issue in molecular biology research. And you'd have to design a primer to amplify the amount you obtain, that matches up with every strand of mRNA necessary to get a good idea of what someone would look like. Not to mention there's probably some step I'm missing in this process that would affect the role of mRNA. Something like microRNAs, maybe?
This is pretty great. It looks like it automatically writes to the next logical empty cell.

curl https://www.bitstamp.net/api/v2/ticker/btcusd \
| grep 'last": *"\d*\.\d*' -o | grep '\d*\.\d*' -o \
| tosheets -c A1 --spreadsheet=foo

^ That will append the last BTC price to column A of sheet 'foo'
What exactly are you suggesting? We only communicate with email?
What you're trying to say, then, is that you need to stay up to speed with your discipline. That's fair.

I think that the main solution to all of this is that you need to have skills with a long shelf life in addition to being up to speed on what's hot right now.

Bringing up a new release of a language as being essential for any programmer is missing the point here.
"Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free." -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It's necessary to be careful with such articles. The correct figures to use should be "total employee compensation", which includes the value of employee benefits. These average about 30% on top of salary in the US.
Also, Mark Zuckerberg went to high school at Phillips Exeter. Their current tuition is $39,000 per year for day students, and $50,000 for boarders, of which he was one (although he went during 1999 equivalent tuitions). On the 1-10 self-made scale they have, with 1 being inheritance and 10 being self-made, he ranks an 8.

So that is the bearing for this scale they made to keep in mind - the 8 of 10 toward "self-made" are the type of people who were going to $50,000 a year high schools.
Because Blockchain.
Some very random comments:

– Although not intended to be a viewer tools like your product, you might get some good (and bad) ideas about UI/UX by taking a look at PHPMyAdmin [1];

– the pages don't declare any character encoding settings and language is declared on `html` tag. It won't be a bad idea to check some of i18n good practices [2][3]. This is specifically important for the non-latin script content you know the language of them [5]

– be prepared for bad parameters passed [4];

– some field types (like date/times) could benefit from reformatting in the UI for readability and time-zone-awareness;

– use BCP-47 language codes; `zh-Hant` vs. `zh-cht`

– some minimal effort on typography.

[1]: https://demo.phpmyadmin.net/

[2]: https://validator.w3.org/i18n-checker/check?uri=demo.sqldata...

[3]: https://www.w3.org/International/techniques/developing-specs...

[4]: http://demo.sqldataviewer.com/tables/SalesLT.Customer?_rowLi...

http://demo.sqldataviewer.com/tables/SalesLT.Customer?_rowLimit=999999999999999999999

http://demo.sqldataviewer.com/tables/SalesLT.Customer?_rowLimit=-100

[5]: http://demo.sqldataviewer.com/tables/SalesLT.ProductDescript...
That is the favorite to parrot around. It's not that impressive considering the large percentage of the world's population has a negative net worth.

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2014/04/04/stop-adding...
There are plenty of not-quite-correct things in this article, but I think both lines you quoted were meant to be more or less tongue-in-cheek.
Mark Miller's class "The Science of Great UI" at DevIQ is pretty awesome. He teaches principles of design and ease of use and then shows example after example in the physical and digital realms.
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I apologize for the off the wall comment. Every time I read about wall street programming, I've got this subliminal voice in the back of my head wondering how anyone could find the motivation to do this work. I'm obviously revealing my biases against the financial industry here. Also, I'm unable to make myself do work if I don't see it contributing to some greater vision or cause. Are there people out there who love finance and learn these types of specializations on the job, or are they hired away from other industries lured by big comp packages?

I guess it's just a case of lack of empathy on my part. I just can't understand why anyone would want to put so much effort and skill into making bots for farming money for a bunch of questionable people.

I don't feel too guilty for saying this. Every time a story about bitcoin is posted to HN, people go off topic and start complaining about everything that is wrong with bitcoin. I don't see the same when we talk about finance in general, even though similar sentiments apply, maybe more so.
It looks to me like you're being downvoted, but what you're saying looks correct to me. $PROGRAM sends to stdout what google sheets reads from "stdin"
Maybe reevaluate your resume and interview skills also. There nothing scientific abnout hiring decisions. so much is subconcious.. I like this person. My experience, most hiring managers are not as smart as the programmers that work for them are are not super analytical, they make decisions on instinct.

I started on the IT support desk cause I had zero experience with nothing on my resume except an Economics BA and pizza delivery job. Within a year I transitioned into a programming job. My experience is in IT depts of large companies, many have a good attitude with letting you change positions once youve been an employee for a while.
I had a Columbia 22, a very light weight boat. The Orca could have destroyed the boat or come over the side of the cockpit. I think it was just messing with me.

At the apex of it’s jumps out of the water it was looking down at me with dark eyes. I really thought it was a nasty creature.
What do you mean by herd mentality?

If you want to make contacts, that's different from running a lathe, but maybe I'm oversimplifying.

I will say that people at makerspaces generally want to be there, whereas people in CCs generally see it as more of a steppingstone to a decently paying job. You might get more out of one or the other, but there's no denying that makerspaces charge extortionate rates for machines that the CC provides virtually for free, if you know the prof well enough so he lets you sneak in.
In what way has a rich person in America spent their money in a way that infringes upon your rights?
There are desktop computers which are in shared environments (computer labs, public libraries, kiosks, teller lines, etc). So user-based permission models make a lot of sense for desktops.
Same could be said for "just finding cat videos."
I don't know about corporate leases, but early termination fees on a lease AREN'T a given. Some states have next to no regulation on it, and landlords are free to write terms without one. The early termination fee there is simply "the remaining rent", which is what is reflected here.
The Exterior Algebra and Central Notions in Mathematics (2015) [pdf]
Apologies if I wasn't clear, that's what I was getting at. Commit the code, CI generates the binaries. I guess you could commit the binaries if you wanted, but a separate caching repo would make things more manageable. You'd still be using the commit to reference the binary. But this is ideal, and there are good, practical reasons doing what he describes.

For games the binary data isn't from code. They're textures and models generated in a package (like Photoshop). The bits of code are often tightly coupled with the textures--like a procedural waterfall that uses still images. You'd need to version both of those together.
Yep, that's it. How useful is it in practice? I haven't ventured into those settings ever since I got my Airport Extreme.
OK, I'll change the wording. Thanks.
Amazon hasn’t cracked China’s cloud market. This blockchain startup could
I assume they are fetching the min_lsn for a user from the master so it would be up to date.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693920
Yeah but what if you got to choose between 2 people that knew the answer 50% of the time but one of the them enjoyed making up answers when they didn't know and the other just told you they didn't know?
Hmmm. I wouldn't have guessed that! I suppose it does make sense that SMBHs in galactic centers could have relatively significant accretion disks. Thanks for the informative response.
Looks like about 1.9%

Estimates put the total net worth of the world's richest 1% at 140 trillion.

The Forbes 400 has about 2.7t net worth.
According to that article, the 1% are worth around $26 trillion. So to answer the Muffin's question, looks like the 400 have just over 10% of the 1%er wealth.
The AMA is empowered by government to restrict the supply of doctors. The purpose is to keep doctor compensation high.

See "Competition and Monopoly in Medical Care" by Frech
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Cash motivates plenty of people, as does the joy in solving a problem. Whether the value of that solution to society's benefit is positive or negative does not always factor into a solution architect's moral calculus. This is how I explain your observed point to myself when I see folks stoked to work for $largetechco or $adtechco.
The laws of physics and special relativity would like to have a... word... with you in the other room.
Consider the command:

tosheets --spreadsheet=ABC <myfile.txt

In this example, stdin is what goes to the spreadsheet. stdout is (I assume) nothing.
I think at the end of the day it approaches dystopian levels of "what can we do?" against these people if they were to behave in ways that the majority of society deems irresponsible.

If Gate's wanted to he could cause immense harm in the country.

It can be argued that some like the Koch's and Mercer's are doing that harm: depending on your political views.

What could be done? These people are literally untouchable. I think the Mercer's would be untouchable even by the US government, if they played their hands in a smart way.

...Unless we'd want to send the army after them, they could just hide on their yachts :)

Anyway, there's no realistic revolution you can have against these people, is my point. If that fear doesn't exist, well, they can do what they want, yes?

I know that what keeps my worst urges "in check" is because it is not healthy for me to act on those actions.

I'm talking about stuff like "pissing off my prior employer" and "saying fuck you to my boss."

I do not know what kind of impulses the .01% have ... I am afraid what I may say or do to that old employer's company if I didn't have to worry about repercussions!

What should I fear from them?
You do not think that, through lobbying, a person having literally thousands-more-times a say in our democracy is infringing on my rights?

I do think that it is.
I don't have time to socratically convince you of it, so i'll just spell it out: you can't tolerate intolerance of groups, persons or behaviors (that don't infringe on other people's liberty) in a _democracy_ because it will undermine the legitimacy and thus participation of said group or person within the democracy itself.

I realize that "intolerance of intolerance" is paradoxical in nature, but common sense and a little charity in interpretation goes a long way.
>I feel like you have to go with the biggest players that have the best chance of surviving

Both Nest and Logitech have bricked old products.

I think the only way the industry survives is if consumers understand that they are not just buying the ‘thing,’ but also a license to the software that powers it. Some SW licenses are open source, some require a monthly fee, and some are sold ‘as-is.’
It goes along with this line... "For some reason I don't totally understand, some have 2 names (e.g. C#=Db, D#=Eb, F#=Gb, A#=Bb)."

It would probably blow the authors mind to know that some scales have sharps and flats, including the ones
Apple pushes HomePod release to early 2018
I'm European and, like almost all, don't want my government making deals with dictators. If there's some press coverage about the things you say at least we can make enough noise that it gets the attention of politicians.
Huh. I see C++, Java, and Python as the go-to languages with my wall-street programming and modeling acquaintances. Very little esoterica.
A for effort, but as a programmer and musician, simultaneously makes me a little sad as an example of the all-too-frequent phenomenon of programmers trying to model a domain without spending enough time actually learning the nuances of the domain first.
I meant in the sense of creating a small self-hosted blog. I wouldn't dare use it in a setting where money is on the line.
Employer provided health care stuck around because it was paid for with pre-tax dollars, while buying it individually was with post-tax dollars. This hugely incentivizes employer paid plans.

It has become so entrenched it has more or less morphed into a "right" that employers should pay for it.
No, not more productive, but it's definitely useful.
With synchronous_commit = remote apply there are complications though. You either have to make it wait for ALL your standbys (and then deal with the fact that a failing standby can hold up commits indefinitely), or you can have it wait for N of M standbys to apply, but then how can a reader know which standby nodes have applied the commit they're interested in? I have proposed synchronous_replay = on to solve these problems. It's building on the same technology: the remote_apply patch was a stepping stone, and replay_lag was another patch in that series. The third patch add read leases so you can fail gracefully while retaining certainty for readers about which nodes have fresh data. See https://commitfest.postgresql.org/15/951/ .

There is also a proposal to add a 'wait for LSN' command, which the author of this article should check out. See https://commitfest.postgresql.org/15/772/ .

The two proposals achieve some form of causal consistency from different ends: one makes writers wait but doesn't require extra communication of LSN inside (and possibly between) client apps, and the other makes readers wait but requires more work from clients. I hope we can get both of these things in (in some form)!
tosheets definitely reads from stdin: https://github.com/kren1/tosheets/blob/8a853d2ebb722c474f5bb... :)
Perhaps they just don't like sharks and are eating them out of spite, or the livers are a treat that don't alter their normal feeding schedule, which I imagine involves constant eating of fish.
Agree. I think it is financially irresponsible for yourself and your family if you don't have a plan to transition yourself out of programmer job. It is okay if you are financially secure or independent, you can do whatever you want. But seriously, have a plan.
Lol no
Presuming you’re not trolling: take the implication of what you’re saying to it’s natural conclusion (no inheritance tax, no property tax, etc) and explain to me how we don’t end up with a feudal society in a generation or four?

In my view, there should be some correlation between hard work, smarts and financial outcome that isn’t entirely determined at birth.
And he didn't mention the obvious corollary... B# (aka C). (and Cb, Fb)

The dude's mind is going to be blown when he learns about double sharps and flats.
Could be a plausibly deniable way to introduce others, especially non technical people, to your product.
robin hood didn't steal from tax collectors only, and it's an interesting but unsupported claim that the ultimate accumulators of the wealth in his day stole less than the perpetrators of pyramid schemes, pump and dump stock schemes, or their opposite ; devaluation of a valuable stock before the release of say a new iphone -- ie jim Kramer.
I'll axmit that while I am not aware of groups considering tax-the-rich politicians as "robin hood" types it's believeable, not necessarily a straw man argument. robinhood brokd the law to do something people liked, the Arthurian legends were similar in not promoting an obvious moral purity in their tales, but i think robinhood would have been just fine stealing from comcast and the linked article seems to imply something different, and is also comically absurd in its claims
I'm a senior at an HYPSM school, currently looking at offers from one of {Google, FB} and one of {Jane Street, Old Mission, Five Rings, HRT, Virtu}.

The offers are about the same at about 200-250k depending on bonus and stock performance -- the big tech company upped their stock grant to meet the expected bonus at the trading company. It's not obvious to me which one will be more in a few years, and it seems like hours in tech are better. Can anyone weigh in?
Good point. Pointing out the flaws of the current system and actually realizing improvements are two different things.
This is good to know, an interesting contrast to YouTube TV advertising support for 6-ish account sharing out of the box.

Maybe it'd be worth paying for a separate account for the TV.
18 नवंबर शनि अमावस्या सरसो के तेल में देख ले बस अपना चेहरा रातोरात देखे 200%
Not much of a response. The interview treated Koch influence on politics as a forgone conclusion. (Because it is and Charles didn't seem to argue otherwise).

The point of the interview was to learn about his personal philosophy. Something of which wouldn't be of much interest were it not for his huge amount of influence (that, again, no one is arguing).

As for the final thrust of this response, on how Koch helped stopped a supreme Court nominee, it's likely nothing nefarious. It would be the same as any citizen. Contact your congress people. Difference is, they are going to really listen to the billionaire donating money to their campaign a bit more than your average Joe.
I cannot go into much details about what I do, but basically we have some kind of "network operators" that are the only one using the write db (and not a lot) and then we have a massive amount of computers doing reads on the system. We don't need citus for that, but PG replica does the job very well
It would probably be more profitable to make a good film about the crypto space and fund it with dollars.
Yes, that's the school I went to
> I like the government idea because frankly I can’t think of anything else that would work (outside a rediculously improbable change in consumer behavior).

I'm surprised PCI (payment card industry) security standards have not been mentioned on this thread. There's a case where non-government regulation has, by some definition, worked.

PCI isn't perfect: if you check all of the boxes, it doesn't mean you're secure, but I'd rather have the industry self-regulate than have politics come into play.
Universal React Native Starter Project
WIP => I created a project to create React Native Applications for iOS, Android & web sharing components & logic.

hope this could be useful to someone & if you feel and have time to contribute please do!

https://github.com/hhg2288/Universal-React-Native-Starter
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Penalty up to 25k EUR from the BundesNetzAgentur, up to 2 years jail, or up to 1 year if just by neglect.
Also it is just that these devices classify as spy-bugs aka covert listening devices, which are for good reason illegal to posess.
Also, you really want to get rid of the thing.
> as does the joy in solving a problem

This is it for me. Futures trading is a zero sum game (negative sum if you factor in fees), so writing a program to automatically extract value from an ever changing market is a nontrivial and ongoing project. But unlike a game, getting good at it can pay the bills in a real way. I understand that in the big picture long term, I'm not making much of a mark on society, but nevertheless it satisfies my personal and financial needs.
You’re comfortable enough to be ethical about your capital, for me it would be a big constraint. I’m sure I’ll get to be picky someday but that’s years from now. And at least there’s cool maths :)
People care more about how much money companies make than their own well being as customers.

It’s weird.
In those environments the same local user account is usually used. Or, a network account and in that case files are usually stored on a server.
So you advocate firing all the hard working folks who designed, built, maintain, repair, clean, and operate that boat, and take care of the passengers? They they too will lack the basics, and the money you just protected from "waste" will need to be used to provide for them.
Fast, Cheap, Reliable - pick none, should be their slogan.

"WMATA: It probably won't catch on fire today"
> it's likely nothing nefarious

It's legal because of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, but I hope that, before the Koch brothers pass away, we'll see a constitutional amendment overturning this egregious decision.

The idea that money = speech is toxic to democracy.
The hxp security Capture the Flag 2017 is up and running
If you want to try these chord progressions in your browser, check out:

http://wildsparx.com/rhythatom/

Coincidentally I just finished it. Source is here:

https://github.com/wildsparx/rhythatom

In theory it should run in any Chrome/Chromium browser, but I've received several reports of rhythatom failing to play. Would appreciate any help or ideas.

If you look at:
https://peterburk.github.io/chordProgressions/ChordProgressi...

There doesn't seem to be any indication of major/minor. One way to interpret that is "always use the diatonic." Which means only use notes in the key, which means chords (1,4,5) are major while (2,3,6) are minor. However songs can have non-diatonic chords.

If you look at Rhyathatom, it defaults to the well-worn 1645 progression - the 6 is explicitly minor, which makes it diatonic. Try making the 6 major and you get a different animal - kind of sinister! That's a non-diatonic chord.

Maybe the author accounted for this elsewhere.