skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like you grabbed a copy of What.CD - or perhaps the entire Touhou lossless music collection torrent (2 TB). ;-)
You would probably integrate this into a self contained application binary.
To be clear there is no doubt it’s a sensible direction and a great product but charging for it is not IMO. Superior product will drive more business to them regardless. The market of payment gateways is competitive already.

But congrats and good job Stripe. Just reconsider the pricing.
Since China essentially steals intellectual property from companies of every country, Trump should really focus on building a coalition of concerned countries rather than going off alone.
Just because somethings already been done, doesn’t mean you can do it too, or even better.
SF and DC: Two American Power Centers Are About to Clash
Instacart does not have better selection at WF, due to the inferior inventory system.

Amazon’s minimum is $35 for free 2hr delivery.

Not too worried about Amazon’s operational experience with deliveries.
It seems a stretch to say you were burned. The company has no idea how much you are worth (to them, not an abstract company) until they interview you. The offer you got is not necessarily the same as the offer that somebody else might get; perhaps your offer was much lower because you seemed like a poor fit.
Symlinks are brittle when files are renamed and when files move from device to device. Also, symlinks don't solve any of the other problems I'm interested in, such as: Not being forced to make unique file names, being able to find files by hash, being able to find duplicate file content, being able to have tags about tags, and more.
In theory, the tech is decentralized.
Mining power is concentrated into the hands of a few big players. https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/mining/pools/

Then is it really "decentralized"?
8 Immutable Laws of Customer Service
In what sense is this “arbitrage”?
At Joyent, we are working on bringing bhyve to SmartOS and illumos. Much attention is being paid to performance and stability. The plan of record is for this to eventually replace KVM.

If you are itching for some slides, http://bhyvecon.org/bhyvecon2018-Gwydir.pdf

We have some work to do before we are ready for widespread use. As those pieces fall in place, we'll announce on smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org.
An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point
Well said.

> CLtL2 has 1053 pages if you count the front- and back-matter, 975 if you don't.

Actually CLtL2 is not a book describing the standard, but a book describing a specific state during the standardization. Thus it includes lots of superseded material (plus the reasoning why it was superseded) and also material which was not part of the language (like Series) or later has been removed again (like environment access for macros). Probably (just an estimate) 1/3 of the book is not actual language documentation, but there because this special nature of the book.
Why do you "disagree with" the idea of functional projection of application state into views? Because that's all React...is.

And, as a Ruby developer going to React, I overwhelmingly disagree with regards to both developer happiness and productivity; I write better, more testable code, faster, when building out a React frontend than I have in any other system I've ever used, bar none.
The CS program should focus more on data structures and algorithms (and possibly UX and good ol' software dev as well) and the DS program should focus more on statistical/analytical methods and their particular nuances and limitations. If the DS program is done well, with a lot of stats classes, then it is not a weaker program.
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Yeah, but it's probably not smart to re-invent the wheel too many times. Especially when the projects that came before don't look badly written or unreasonable.

I think I do have something to offer -- mostly trying gossip and making use of aggressive automatic sharding -- but I'm also more interested in what I wanted to build on top of distributed SQLite as well. No need to get down in the weeds if someone's already done the hard work for me :)
BUMP (YC W18) Is Hiring a Director of Engineering and Senior Android Engineer
BUMP is the only peer-to-peer marketplace dedicated to streetwear (clothing, accessories & sneakers from brands such as Supreme, Palace, Nike).

Sam and myself built BUMP so we could find, buy and sell our own streetwear more easily. We’re only on iOS right now and have grown from $0 to $700K monthly GMV in the past few months. We just raised $2M from Kleiner Perkins amongst other top investors and are starting to melt under the demand since it’s just the 2 of us in the company.

I’m a self-taught engineer and built the whole thing myself but now we need someone that can rebuild things so we can take BUMP to the next level - this is perfect for someone that’s excited to build up an entire engineering team from square one. We’re looking for someone that has 4+ years of professional software engineering experience that includes shipping an Objective-C app and back-end experience.

In the next few months, we’d also like to add several great engineers to the team so we can build an Android version and keep up with user growth.

If you’re interested or know of anyone that would be then drop me a line!
jack@sobump.com

More info on us and the role here:
https://angel.co/bump-/jobs
Where can I get a job like that? I'd be happy to take it at this point.
I’m working on a solar system chart for my daughter, to my eye it’s more aesthetically pleasing to scale both distance from the sun and radius by square root.

Regardless of your approach the sun is too big to usefully represent on the same scale and have all other objects be visible
Myanmar groups attack Zuckerberg over hate speech amid suspected genocide
Each location you use a card increases the risk of the number getting copied. So using a debit card exposes tons of possible people with entry points into your account.

So once you assume whatever you use will get stolen, you determine what dealing with a stolen card number will be like. With debit cards it's your own cash locked up in a transaction dispute. With credit cards its the credit card companies credit balance and you have no money locked up.
At that time Apple chose CR, UNIX was just one of a multitude of minicomputer operating systems. Compatibility with it would have been only important in hindsight.
Why do you disagree with it?
you could make that argument even for basic applied math, ... don't expect to be hired ... because the people hiring don't know why they are hiring or what to look for
I’m really glad I dumped TSLA stock while I still some profit. For a while I had drank the koolaid and it really tasted good, I even had my preorder for a Model 3. But it has become clear they aren’t that great as a car company. Other manufacturers will surpass them, and then what? I rate this as a sell.
They can refuse your transaction for whatever reason they want, it's their business. If you give off any vibe that the card might be stolen, then a business can turn you down whether or not what you were doing was technically correct.
The grain of truth in one of the world’s most persistent myths about cannabis
There is TMSU for Linux among others. That's the only semantic file system I've tried, and around 10 years ago, but it was easy to use then.
Volatility is your friend.
Debit card fraud drains your checking account, creating a short-term emergency: legitimate transactions are then returned for insufficient funds or create overdrafts. Both carry punitive fees. The bank has to restore your funds eventually, but in the meantime, there could be an eviction notice on the door.

You generally share your bank account number with a small number of trusted parties: employer, landlord, creditors, utilities, tax man, etc. Exposure is low. When you start swiping a debit card around town, you hand out the same level of access to every merchant you buy anything from, and whomever might be skimming their terminals or stealing their databases.

Credit card fraud adds to your balance, but you don't have to pay it while the investigation is ongoing. Typically they revoke your card number and mail you a new one. During that time, you live off of a different credit card your debit card. Critical payments go straight to your bank account and are unaffected. When the investigation is over, the charges disappear. At no point are you deprived of actual money, you merely have an inflated short-term debt.
What exactly is Data Science?

Data Science and DevOps are both just labels for things people have been doing under more mundane terms for 40-odd years.

Even Machine Learning is just a trendy buzzword for what used to be called Predictive Statistics.
Is CRT the Best Display for Retro Gaming?
Impractical and it only makes matters worse since it can turn bigger debris into multiple smaller ones. Rather than shoot stuff with a laser, why not use a vehicle that generates a magnetic field and at least collects feromagnetic debris in one place. Then throw the whole thing into the atmosphere to burn and crash in an unpopulated area.
145 per user per month, not 25. Not all countries pay 10k a month to their employees
Haha. "Every program attempts to expand until it can compile and run a copy of itself"
I'm no fan of Facebook and deleted my account years ago, but the flood of articles like these that are barely embarrassing since the major Cambridge Analytic embarrassment feels more like an agenda or piling on than newsworthy items.

There are many reasons to reduce or eliminate your time on FB, but this isn't one of them.
Proved again and again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16725506
I just searched and couldn’t actually find any models listed with it available, but even so the search I did came up with more results for “they couldn’t fix it onsite” than anything.

I’d rather pay the difference in AppleCare. Most developers on this site are making large sums of money with their machines, 1000$ or even 2000$ is hardly going to make a measurable difference on the ROI of my laptop.
This is spot on. I was surprised the first time I worked at a major university just how toxic the environment was and how little mindshare was spent towards actually contemplating compelling hypotheses / experiments. It was much less of the ideal "life of the mind" I thought it would be and much more like show business / social climbing, minus the widespread name recognition and glamor.

I was already on the way out of science when I started working at that job, but the publish or perish culture really accelerated my departure.

It's also interesting how the current incentives really warp the incentive structures not just at big research universities, but also at small liberal arts colleges. I grew up as a fac brat, and so I've been able to tune into a lot of dialogue about the latest crop of new professors coming in to replace older professors as they retire, and a lot of the older professors are genuinely shocked at how little emphasis the newer professors place on teaching (traditionally what SLACs have focused on) compared to research. Even at schools with around 2000 students, new professors are demanding generous starter packages that no one would really have thought to ask for in the 70s.
The US will get there again. Other countries are clamping down on lending to contain house prices while the US is opening up lending once again. And you can trust they'll do it recklessly again too.
That’s because you misunderstand the intent of this pile-on. The intent is to ensure full compliance in 2020 elections.
Also counts, Macs just weren't something we would care about on 80's Europe, beyond an occasional article on a computer magazine.
git-annex might have some interesting thoughts about this: https://git-annex.branchable.com/tips/metadata_driven_views/
Thing is a nothingburger. Do people really believe messages can’t be deleted no matter what?
I disagree with this. Every enterprise company has an analytical department, even more so in the public sector. My municipality has 8 guys working on analytics for instance.

They are mostly economics or (I’m not sure what it’s called in English, but it’s a degree in societal administration), but they really ought to be data scientists because everything they do is based on huge sql data sets.

We pay private contractors a lot of money to turn our data into cubes and manageable models because none of our analytics know how.

In 10 years I suspect anyone with that job title will need data science on their resume. Not just to manage the data, but also to start doing machine learning on it.

By comparison we have one network guy to run the network for 10.000 employees and 5000 students, with a backup guy who knows everything the first guy does but works with something else, you know, in case the first guy quits.
The implication here is that the US NOAA has jurisdiction over the entire Earth, or is sovereign over any extra-terrestrial camera that might be floating over it?

Ludicrous and arrogant. My country's bureaucrats are just the worst sometimes.
The behaviour described in this article implies a culture willing to look one way for users and another way for themselves. That’s pertinent less to users and more to lawyers and lawmakers.
Hyperloop has no growth potential, and TBC might (depending on how competent they are at bringing tunneling costs down, which doesn't have good augurs at the moment).

The problem with the "mass" transit concepts of Hyperloop and TBC's skates concept is that they are trash at throughput [1]. Furthermore, as unproven technology, that means that you're unlikely to win contracts without spending the company's own money building demonstration tracks. Even early contracts are likely to be structured in such a way that substantial portions of cost overruns are borne not by the public.

[1] Capacity is primarily determined by station dwell times and switch clear times, which means it's driven primarily by consists per hour. The original proposals here basically propose passenger capacity per consist that's in the region of 1% of bespoke mass transit systems.
If you setup Joint Venture at purchase. If you make a living off your Mac I’d recommend it because for one 500$ fee you can cover multiple devices
I’ve had both Impossible Bueger (@Umami) and Beyond Meat (@home) and thought the latter tasted better. Umami gave you two small over cooked patties (I tried it twice). But looking at the ingredient list I didn’t feel like I was eating something healthier and I didn’t feel satiated like I would have from a regular burger.
That service doesn't justify the price tag for me.
Using Virtual Reality as an Alternative to Opioids
Cisco firewalls block GitHub occasionally...
> The state only exists to keep capitalist enterprise in check.

John Locke would disagree. The state exists to protect the rights of people and the public good. "Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins."
It looks like a dependency of lxd, the successor to lxc, which is being developed by Canonical (of Ubuntu fame). You can see how they're using it in https://github.com/lxc/lxd/tree/master/lxd/cluster.

Dqlite and rqlite are not in the same space as postgres and mysql, they're more comparable to tools like Zookeeper, etcd, or Consul[0] - low throughput CP data stores that are generally used for coordinating distributed systems. In this case, it saves users from having to manage an external data store to run lxd clustered.

[0] in fact, dqlite uses the same raft implementation as Consul, which is cool
Form factor? Could a MBP in its current form factor actually fit all that?
Tensorflow or Pytorch. Plain Numpy for quick prototyping/testing. Sometimes have to write/modify Cuda kernels.
Yeah. Sort-of like all those people that continually threaten to leave Facebook...
> Papers are the currency of academics, and all metrics for grants and careers hinge off it. It hinders cooperation and fosters a cynical environment of trying to game the metrics to secure a future in academics.

I honestly can't contemplate who in their right mind would want "a future in academics" where academia is defined as a constant stream of metric gaming rather than actually accomplishing what you originally set out to accomplish.
I think it's clear from nearly a decade's worth of Facebook's trysts with privacy issues that it is a company that doesn't have a fundamental stance that's in favor of user privacy. Over and over again it has either intentionally built features that disregard privacy, or put in wrong defaults, or simply brushed off criticisms when others have misused Facebook. At this point we should be asking ourselves why we expect Facebook to change on its own.

There isn't a good alternative to Facebook (given the network effect and the legitimate features that Facebook provides), but it's probably important that there be public oversight of Facebook (and any other social media company that becomes large and powerful as Facebook).

We should also be asking ourselves whether an organization that has the power to be so influential in the destinies of nations should be run by executives who see every issue as a PR issue to be dealt with, rather than ones that should teach them fundamental lessons. If the leadership is so reluctant to tackle these issues head-on, maybe they need to be replaced with a humbler set of leaders.
All of the things you pointed out are legitimate concerns. My ideas are at an early stage (esp. without an implementation or usage experience), so they are necessarily incomplete. To respond to your points:

1. Inertia on hierarchies. Totally correct. I want to tackle immutable media collections first (photo, audio, video, documents), because developer tools (scripts, source code, path configurations) have a more intimate coupling with the hierarchial model.

2. Permissions. I have no clear answers. I suppose there could be a meta mechanism like, "for every file tagged as WordDocument, make it readable to $ANOTHER_USER". However, I believe the default of share-nothing is about the level that we get in most web-based applications. And I think the file-level permissions (like Unix, NTFS, etc.) are too fine-grained and confusing.

3. Mounting. I don't want to repeat myself, so first read https://www.nayuki.io/page/designing-better-file-organizatio... . However, it's true that you might want to vary the query domain depending on what you're doing.

4. Tag taxonomy. My proposal isn't any worse than the ad hoc taxonomies that people make in hierarchical file systems. At least when I proposed public "tag cores" (search in the article), there is one possibly viable way to unify everyone's vocabulary (opt-in, of course).

5. Projects. I suggest tagging every relevant file with its project tag. I'm not sure what you are pre-supposing with "pre-defined structure", because you could tag tags with the project tag. Also, I like the idea of tagging over hierarchies in this case because many of my project files also belong to other projects (e.g. monthly account statements vs. tax documents) or to a general stream (e.g. photos).

6. User interface. This is one of my big obstacles at the moment. With a hierarchy, there is really only one reasonable way to present the files, and one reasonable way to browse them. With tags, the options are numerous. There might even be metadata to control how tags are ranked, hidden, etc. At the very least, a UI would need to present many facets of metadata, such as file type, topic, timestamp, author, etc.

7. Necessity. You hinted at the problem in your statement. Application software have demonstrated to us that media libraries (e.g. songs in iTunes, photos in Adobe Lightroom) are extremely convenient and valuable. But they are all proprietary data silos. The metadata you generate is only accessible within one media program. Moving to a different program means giving up your investment. Also, media libraries are brittle, and when you move/rename the data files in the file system, the media library often behaves poorly (broken links, slow rescans, etc.). I believe that keeping metadata in an application-neutral format and letting the file system handle queries is a better alternative than proprietary media libraries. I wrote about this in a section: https://www.nayuki.io/page/designing-better-file-organizatio...
Most people outside the "tech bubble" don't care about decentralization or open source software. These ideals are not enough to convince them to use a new platform.

At this stage, I don't see how a new decentralized social network could realistically compete against the big guys.
"Do as I say and not as I do"

-Facebook Privacy Policy, circa 2018
I agree, but these seem like operational concerns that you'd anticipate for each individual account in today's world of broken payment networks. It might even be nicer to have bank account disabled with a few hundred in it, than temporarily lose a credit card with a high limit that you funnel larger payments through for the rewards. You can't prevent this, so my comment was focused on how much you could actually lose after the dust settled.

Good point about a check bouncing though. I would think your bank should waive any charges (after all, you weren't defrauded nor did you write a bad check), but the recipient might complain about their bank's fee (for essentially a rejected ACH transaction, but I digress). Although speaking of checks, readily handing out a printed withdrawal key seems like a poor idea if your goal is avoiding surprises!
The true test will be if after realizing Voice doesn't work, that they need to Exit.
> Zuckerberg’s profile doesn’t show a button to add him as a friend on desktop, and the button is grayed out and disabled on mobile.

Of course he has special rules for himself. Fun fact: you cannot block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook. It just won't let you.
I highly highly highly highly recommend beets [0].

[0] http://beets.io/
The article cites the reasons why the author arrived at the conclusion. I think usually articles in Economist are fairly accurate. So keen to know why you think this to be a bad article.
RocksDB is a storage engine (a non-distriuted ordered Key-Value store with transactions). SQLite is a non-distributed SQL database that uses a storage engine (see SQLite4). The linked tool here makes SQLite distributed.
why did you put 'disagree with' in quotes? I don't think its an idea that accurately encapsulates what a UI is. I'm not saying thats not what drives reacts philosophy... I just think there's more to it. If we're talking about first principles, I think that would a little blunt of a perspective.
On the contrary, everyone's willingness to accept this kind of behavior as normal indicates how far the Overton window has moved when it comes to the trustworthiness of our digital services. We need a collective effort to shift things back where they belong.
I can't imagine how painstaking it is to do every frame through the panning camera backdrop, and the amount of work gone through the planning phase. It definitely seems like Disney invented interesting technologies back then.
It’s difficult to retract a message SMTP’d to my server then POP3 download to my desktop computer

Sometimes the old protocols are the best
That actually sounds fantastic. Can it drive a 4k display?
Arguably a better link, which explains how the process actually works: https://nbalkota.wordpress.com/2014/04/05/recover-your-forgo...
All great points. I was just responding to what seemed like a defeated perspective.

By all means contribute to this project. Everything starts somewhere!
I would argue Yes. It is definitely one type of democracy.
Using bad arguments is rarely an effective way to get what you want.