skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Citus warp: Database migrations without the pain
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I think this is the most likely short-term outcome, too. And what's worse is that this outcome will make it significantly harder to get back net neutrality in the future. Peeling back each anti-consumer policy one-by-one will be necessary because of the way that the ISPs will frame the debate in the future.
Isn't it the same with JavaScript?
I'm not writing it off completely just because. I'm writing it off completely because it doesn't even seem to address the really hard part of this all: how do you spend cryptocurrency in the same way I can use regular currency? If it's not eventually going to be useful as a currency, can we stop calling it cryptocurrency and call it cryptogold or something?

Edit:

Also, you seem to take it as proof that since people are buying BTC, there must be a demand for a currency that cannot even be spent anywhere. That's one way to look at it, personally I explain it with the Greater Fool Theory [1]. I think this because whenever I heard about people buying BTC who aren't die-hard true believers (ie normal people, not cryptocurrency enthusiasts), they don't know why BTC is valuable. They don't see any value in it, other than the fact that it's price has gone up a lot. They don't understand it, they don't think it's useful, they just see other people buying it and driving the price up and want to get in on the action.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory
Possibly dumb question, but what do you actually run Q# code on?
(Not a trading whiz.)
Is there anything in this strategy that would prevent any other trader from piggybacking on the swings and making money? I could it see it working the first month but I think a lot of other traders (perhaps with better trading equipment - think HFT) would be prepared and could split the available profit in subsequent months.
In as much as you seem to be making any point with your comment, that points seems to be a veiled threat that has no place in this discussion.
Nope! But you had to promise Verisign that you wouldn't build any malware.
> Sounds like a term that really got away from them.

I think there's a class of developer that is very against "old" ways of doing things and has driven a lot of that narrative.
I tried to sign up for stripe atlas in beta and they didn't want me :)

More seriously - owning shares in us companies create scary tax implications that require some advice when having us clients. US banking system is stuck is in the 1800s and dealing with it is a very serious pain. US legal system, unlike European is very unfriendly for individuals - its just infeasible to do stuff yourself on a shoestring budget, without hiring professionals.
Bob Lutz is almost the Steve Jobs of the auto world. At least in his own mind. :-)
It's not the tech, it's the data.
Warn? Isn't this expected....
ID Fraud Suggested by Fake Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Commenters’ Response
Given that "this" isn't referenced in the function, though, it's practically equivalent.
Deception in Security
> What's not straightforward is recognizing cover songs and the like. But that's not only non-trivial but AFAIK can't be done.

Well, you could translate the music into actual notes (or musical intervals), and use Smith-Waterman (or any more advanced and more recent technique) to find the song with the lowest edit-distance.
Buys/Sells temporarily disabled on Coinbase
SpaceX: Building Real-Time Systems with Bazel (Bazel Conference 2017)
> I doubt anyone at Apple would be silly enough to allow software on an unannounced OS to freely send out analytic data

...and you'd be wrong. It is very common for Apple to test its new browser versions on the public internet and for those version numbers to show up in the logs of popular Apple web sites. It's one of the ways that Think Secret could confirm that a new version was on the way.
Hitler promised a lot more and did not arise to power in the situation of good economy. He promised new land under theory that Germany is overcrowded, he promised power and went up as capitalism/democracy seemed to be failing. Hitlers popularity went down when economy was better and up when it crashed.

Another thing that played against socialists in Germany was knowledge of purge in Russia. Germans were scared that something like that will happen there unless there is strongman in lead. And to be fair, communists getting power would likely mean danger and killings.

People also hoped that Hitler in power will cause street violence go down.

People will trade identity and purpose for comfort, but in Germany it did not happened out of comfort. And it happened in violent already militaristic state that valued military a lot long before Hitler.
I'm admittedly inexperienced with WebAssembly, but I'm a little unclear on going beyond the basic "hello world" implementations.

Is the idea to write an entire application in WebAssembly, or is it to break out parts of the application that benefit from performance improvements and potentially cross-platform code bases?

Also, how do you do things like make network requests or decode JSON in webassembly? Do you need to implement these things yourself, or pass things back to the browser to handle them, or find C libraries that do that for you?
> He was brazen enough to admit, early on, that he does not care whether or not his plan is unpopular and that what the public thinks makes no difference whatsoever.

Looks like it. It's pretty surprising how ambivalent the guy is to public pressure.

Also, we really need to look into how government and regulation works in this country. What's the point of having a regulatory system for industries if the officials of companies in these industry lead the governmental/regulatory agencies?

If former goldman sachs officials run financial agencies and if a former verizon official runs the FCC, what's the point of these agencies?
It seems Americans like to compete against someone. I don't think improving infrastructure will be motivating. It needs to be something where they can win.
For those of us that struggle with his cadence of speech, are transcripts available online?
Good! We should be working to automate ourselves away, along with everything else. It's what we do.
other similar stories:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/11/16761016/former-facebook...

based on this interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMotykw0SIk
Predictions of imminent collapse are being made all the time. The reason you don't see them is you don't look in the places they are being made, and they don't receive media coverage. Because they are indistinguishable from eye-twitch crazy.

In the same way that warnings about bigger conspiracies look increasingly crazy, warnings about more imminent collapse get lost in the sea of other 'mental' predictions.

Even if you do go looking for such predictions, distinguishing them from the crazy stuff that surrounds them is not easy. They would look exactly like the noise that surrounds them. Plus, in such forums, a medium-term collapse production based around something so mundane as climate change is passé.
> A person that understands that popularity doesn't settle much?

Then why are they using Spotify? That's like eating at McDonalds and complaining that the food is bland and un-challenging.
That's really cool and good to know. I will keep that in mind! Thanks
For a master, you have The Georgia Tech OMSCS. Most of the on campus classes are available.
I can see objections to T-Mobile's plan:

It is a layering violation, since the network is dictating application requirements (the video streaming technology must be "T-Mobile friendly" to benefit from the zero-rating).

It fails when users use VPNs, because the network cannot inspect packets or determine which service is used. Likewise with proxy servers, Tor, etc.

It is not applied equally to all streaming services; T-Mobile maintains a list of registered services that is not even remotely comprehensive.

So yes, this is a net neutrality violation, even if it is not the sort of behavior prohibited by the 2015 rules.
It's definitely not just the top charts. Notably it has picked up when someone near me was playing Chopin on a piano as well as the occasional KPop tune my girlfriend is listening to.

My guess is it supplements the data with songs from your Google Music and youtube history.
Just a fun geography tip, you can easily remember the locations of the 3 Baltic states because they go in alphabetical order from North to South. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.
$5000 is a Kilgour suit. I can take them or leave them - you can get really nice suits for $1k. In NYC, you can get really nice ones for $750.

$200 dinner is nothing special. You can easily spend $200 for two people in any major market in any non-garbage restaurant:

Appetizers ~ 17-20 each
Mains 29-60 each
Bottle of wine - 40 and above
Tax ~ 10%
Tip ~ 20%
My top list is missing a lot of stuff and instead contains songs I can't remember ever hearing, taken from albums where I've listened to only one song a couple of times. The copyright for these songs is owned by RCA / Sony Music, so I guess Sony is paying to insert them into playlists to promote the rest of the album.

On the other hand, Spotify's description for the "Your Top Songs 2017" playlist doesn't explicitly make the claim that these would be songs I actually listened to; instead it's more vaguely phrased as "songs you loved this year"... So I guess they're just assuming I would love these.

It also helps that Spotify doesn't show play counts, so there's no way for me to verify the actual top list. I'm thinking of buying more MP3s from now on -- files on local disk don't try to actively manipulate me to listen to something else.
For myself, I like MacPorts better than Homebrew because in my experience it's subject to less breakage, less flaky interaction with tools like rvm or python, and has a better project philosophy overall. And I personally like that it's not in Ruby but I understand the opposing opinion too ;)
The study cited is a 3 page PDF that has absolutely zero scientific weight.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.00676.pdf
You can get an entire free curriculum from Open Source Society (OSS) and a lot of their classes you can get credited for, however it's mostly a curated list of free resources like classes offered from MIT and Stanford and various other schools last time I checked. Might be worth looking into.
Well then, surely academics will have been replaced by 2030, right?
Sure, that's what I was trying to convey in the paragraph after D. That said, I think that even for a company Google's size, having those different skill sets will be useful as your business ages. Google will probably always need a number of people that have memorized every data structure known to humanity, but they would probably be better set up to avoid stagnation and continue in a position of market dominance into the future if they also have a set of people who can come up with new things and implement them.

But also maybe it's better that those people don't end up at Google et al. and that these gigantic companies stagnate and eventually die because their corporate bureaucracy/scar tissue prevents them from hiring the people who can prevent them from stagnating and dying? I dunno, haven't really fleshed this idea out too much.
If you already have a BS (or higher) in another field, then Oregon State University has a 60 credit completely online computer science BS degree. They have 1, 2, 3 and 4 year tracks depending upon each person's available time commitment.[0]

If you already have a BS in computer science or a related field, then see this comment[1]

[0] - http://ecampus.oregonstate.edu/online-degrees/undergraduate/...

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15899756
While a very interesting story, "artificial pancreas" seems a bit sensationalized.

"Alabamian automates insulin pump" might be a more accurate title
Bitbucket PM here. Thanks for the feedback!

Support for punctuation in search is something we knew wasn't ideal when we first added code search. As with all software, there were some technical constraints that made it hard to do.

We plan to have support for full stops and underscores in a future version and are exploring how to best handle more longer term. Our focus, based on feedback, is on "joining" punctuation character to better allow searching for tokens. Support for a full range of characters threatens to blow out index sizes, but if we get more feedback on specific use cases we're always happy to consider them.
Stacking the Bricks: Eliminate your #1 cause of struggle
Curious to know: what's your home country? What are the tax implications for you locally?
T-Mobile isn't paying for something on your behalf. You're paying for cell service. They've just decided to charge you a different rate (in this case, nothing) for YouTube traffic and the like than for everything else. It gives favor and preference to the large established services which are included (by making them free/cheaper for consumers to use), which hurts small startups trying to disrupt the market.

Binge On is the exact definition of a net neutrality violation, but since it's not available "a la carte" as an "add-on", nobody's really talking about it. Free things pass under the radar.

Zero rating by T-Mobile hasn't been blocked by the FCC's existing rules which is one of the reason's I'm in support of the repeal: The orders being repealed aren't even protecting our net neutrality successfully.
Given recent discussions mentioning tools like Black Duck Software that looks for per-line signatures from open source projects, is there any information on any needed licensing for any of these? I know they're snippets, but I also know there are companies like SCO out there.
So basically everybody gets a virtual personal money printer to put in their basement. Awesome.

How many Ian bucks for your car?

I hope that sounds as ridiculous to you as it does to me.
Phone specific:

Delete as many apps from your phone as possible. If you can do it on a computer, ditch it.

Turn off notifications. Check apps when you're ready, not when it tells you it needs attention.

Personal hack, using Tasker, the phone stays in monochrome except for a few apps. HM and websites feel more like newspapers. Simpler in a cognitively relaxing way.
Georgia has a few good ones. Georgia Tech and Columbus State University have fully online graduate CS programs
If you're ok with BS in Information Technology instead of CS, WGU has a good 100% online program. If not, their masters degree programs may be a good follow up (one of them is in security and may include one or more relevant certifications).
You know, this is good advice for a lot of enterprises today. We are too focused on giving the customer exactly what they think they want vs. doing the hard work of anticipating what they will want. A lot of PMs are guilty of this. Like spending all your time flying around to meet with customers to chit chat.
I keep seeing a ton of ads for starting a company in Estonia.

To those who've done it, what are the pros/cons?

For the record, I'm based out of India and have been advised to setup in Singapore
Here is Obama's space fact sheet

https://web.archive.org/web/20081107061417/https://barackoba...

Human spaceflight is important to America’s political, economic, technological,
and scientific leadership. Barack Obama will support renewed human exploration
beyond low earth orbit. He endorses the goal of sending human missions to the
Moon by 2020, as a precursor in an orderly progression to missions to more
distant destinations, including Mars.

- pg 3 paragraph 4
It's self-indulgent to not have children?

How is it not self-indulgent to have a child to fulfill your own sense of purpose?

You are utterly alien to a lot of people.
That's a pretty bold claim. Source?
Obama explicitly stopped an effort to get to the Moon with a massively ignorant “been there, done that” (exact quote!) attitude. If he signed legislation authorizing it, it was due to being part of a huge authorization bill for which space policy is not important enough to quibble over.

The brief history is that NASA has a legacy of not taking cost effective routes to exploration and rather preferring the too expensive to sustain Apollo model. The first George Bush gave a directive to get to Mars. The massive program that they came up with would have bankrupted the economy. Congress instead forbade NASA from spending any money towards people to Mars.

Clinton took the focus away from destinations and supported the ISS as a post-cold war olive branch to Russia.

George W Bush lifted that ban and gave the same goal towards boots on Mars with explicit direction to pursue a commercial space settlement approach that through cost sharing and reuse would have kept total cost reasonable and bootstrapped a self sufficient extraterrestrial economy. That directive was ignored and we got what NASA literally described as “Apollo on steroids”.

Obama killed that albatross without a replacement or any intention of providing one other than giving them permission to do something like visit an asteroid, as pointless an exercise as that would be, just so long as it could be done within a frozen budget, meaning minimal if any tech development (a directive to do tech development and a budget was provided, but it was substitutive not additional and eventually gutted anyway). Congress overruled and started giving their own directions for NASA, including the pork driven SLS that serves no purpose really.

Now Trump seems to be sending the pendulum back in the humans to Moon, Mars, and beyond direction. It’ll be interesting to see how it gets unwound by a democratic successor.

If this seems rather political, it is only the mundane politics of traditional party bases and campaign contributions. There is a lot of overlap between NASA and defense contractors, typically republican supporting, and they stand to benefit directly from an Apollo like approach. Lots of waste to profit off of in the traditional NASA model. The saddest story for me is that George W Bush actually seemed to care and DIDN’T authorize the traditional republican battlestar galactica approach but rather tried to direct NASA towards the SpaceX model of lean efficient reusable commercial tech, not government programs. But he was ignored by a zealous NASA administrator with a “NASA glory days” obsession and congressional pork. Space Policy isn’t exactly what the president should be focusing on, especially with two wars going on at the time, so presidents tend to get their directives used by others with opposing agendas.

Edit: down voters explain yourselves? I mention political parties only because the answer to the question involves politics. I tried to be explicitly non partisan about it. I worked at NASA during the second Bush and Obama years and saw directly the internal policy considerations as they were made. The above constitutes my high level summary of that.
Or the ISPs just suppress all mentions of reinstating Net Neutrality.
They did. Many of my friends have dropped their phones in the tub or toilet over the years and asked for a phone that wouldn't be destroyed when that happens.

Note that the point is customer behavior in buying does not match their stated desires. I own a fairly small phone that is waterproof (to 1 meter), but everybody I know thinks I'm weird for having an off brand phone.
Why would they not allow internal software send out analytics data? At this point it is common knowledge that Apple is working on a new version of OS X that will come out next year.
We did this a few years ago with Lockitron. It's a small hill of work. Don't need a device more powerful than a standard Nordic or TI chip.
Mo Repos, Mo Problems? How We Make Changes Across Many Git Repositories
Case by case situation. WASM is nothing but a spec and impl for CPU tasks. If you want to do something like networking, you call out to JS (today). If you want to decode JSON, you could call out to JS, or populate some part of the WASM-accessible mem (a byte array) and then ask WASM to operate on it. It could be a C library compiled to WASM or hand-written or in some other compile-to-WASM lang.
Steering the economy toward growth
They also have Software Dev.

https://www.wgu.edu/online-it-degrees/software-development-b...

And I believe CS coming "soon."
Just because all you see is an app, doesn't mean there isn't more software they have running behind the scenes. A lot of consumer facing companies need to have DMCA copyright compliance software, explicit content software and various "big data" integrations, both to power better recommendations engines, but also for BI purposes. They also need a way to ingest content so they can identify new music.

A good app looks like it only takes a few engineers to maintain, but in likelihood there's a lot of complexity, even that's outside of the core "platform" software going on.
I suspect someone deleted the samples from the demo. :/
I am not sure if I fully agree with this.

I think time and health are the most valuable assets one can have, followed immediately by money.

You can have all the money in the world but without health, you will not enjoy it.

You can have all the money in the world but without time, you will not enjoy it.

Having more money is fantastic, if and only if the first two criterias are met in my opinion.

I think it's a matter of calculating the risk/reward which greatly based on your personal situation, we can't lump everyone in the same basket.

There is a balance to keep.
I'm not criticizing Obama or Bush or Trump.

It's Congress. I'm sure every president since Nixon wants to go back to the Moon.

But again it's Congress. Allocate the $ and we will go back. Hopefully this time it's for real. I'm not holding my breath.

We'll see.
Bachelor's CS is hard to find for some reason. ASU and PSU have Software Engineering bachelors which has the basics and covers a good bit of practical knowledge but not so much theoretical. This is probably not ideal if you are already a working software engineer and want stronger theory.

The University of Florida and Auburn University have online CS programs but I don't know much about them.
Climate Change Could Take the Air Out of Wind Farms
> Some night even argue that not having kids is selfish.

People argue all kinds of insane things.

Having kids to fulfill your own sense of purpose is very selfish.
A lot of big companies, even in 2017, don't have a very good in-house process for buying software that isn't available on CDROM from a preferred distributor (CDW, etc...)

One place I worked, it was easier to order a new work van for the department than a $30 program because the program could only be downloaded, and not bought in a box.
http://open.edu.au partners with a number of Australian universities like RMIT and Griffith, and five or six others, to deliver all of the content online. However each subject generally still has an invilgated exam. From what i understand though, even these exams can be undertaken in a host of other countries.
Nope, no veiled threat. For example, when someone chooses to go diving with sharks, they've made a decision that puts them in harm's way. Being a public servant (as all government jobs are), and refusing to acknowledge the will of the people you serve, is similarly dangerous. You put yourself in a place that has no social protections, by violating trust.
McDonalds introduced their first salads many years before subway became a national chain. Of course current competition is a good reason to keep them, but it clearly can't be cited for the initial decision.
Anyone here know how I can get ahold of knuth without email? Hit my email in profile. I would like to help him finish his proof.
Good article. Always drowning in good ideas and never enough time to get to most of them.
The Rising Importance of Visual Engagement in the Insurance Industry