skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many relational operations don't require a whole stream to compute, and many of those that do don't need it all at once.

Projection (mapping), a join against a fully loaded other side as well as filtering work.

Aggregation can consume an indefinite stream with limited working set if the cardinality of the grouping key isn't large.

And of course you can combine these in nested and unioned operations, computing across multiple indefinite streams concurrently and with limited working set.

It would be tricky to make work effecively without hinting for things like joins, for sure; join order is one of the hardest bits a query engine optimizes.
100K simultaneous connection limit is published here: https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/usage/limits
Robust statistical analyses require knowledge, judgement, and increasingly, specialist expertise. To market a product as a way to jettison the statistician is so shortsighted as to be intellectual malpractice.

Forgive me if I seem overly aggressive but I have grown weary of my and my colleagues' profession being side-lined and belittled. Politicians, administrators, and even some other scientists see statistics as merely a badge to be placed atop their own work for validation. Well, ladies and gentlemen, statistics is more than that. It is an empirical science in its own right.

Of course, it doesn't always take a statistician to do the necessary statistical work. I am no physicist yet I can certainly apply the Clausius Clapeyron equation as needed. Likewise, I expect many (perhaps most) scientists to be able to apply an ANOVA or simple regression as the need arises.

HOWEVER, the lack of intellectual humility on the part of so many non-statisticians when applying statistical tools to their own work is maddening.
Right. Which is exactly what the GP said.
I run my SaaS https://focuster.com on Meteor and I have also built several SaaS projects for clients using Meteor as the base. Some have criticized the scalability of DDP. While out of the box the real-time reactivity won’t scale infinitely, the community has released packages like https://github.com/cult-of-coders/redis-oplog which is a great solution for scaling.

If I had to start over I’d probably still use Meteor but with Apollo as my data layer instead of DDP/pub-sub.
When I get an email to an address that isn't exactly the same as mine (e.g. due to extra dots in it), desktop gmail does actually show a small informational link next to the receiving address saying something along the lines of "yes, this really is you; click here to learn more". I haven't seen this on mobile, although I use the Inbox app, so it's possible that this it's there on the vanilla gmail app
Yup. Since I run my own email server, I have 200 email addresses that are delivered to a single account. Some are service accounts (like postmaster@example.org) but a lot are single-use email accounts to track the selling of email addresses and spam.
Have revisited 2001 recently. Particularly the scene just before Intermission. Where HAL is reading the lips of the astronauts in the pod. It just really holds up. Apart from the genius editing and sound design. It feels even more a cautionary moment for modern minds on AI. As it must have been to American audiences during the height of the Vietnam War era.

Ridley Scott's original Alien and Blade Runner remain immensely watchable 30+ years on. Perhaps even more so. Which makes it high time not to just complete Clark's monoliith films. But write the next chapter in "Dystopian AI" cinema. One in which a super-intelligence doesn't merely write off the necessity of humanity. But actively yet surreptitiously nudges us to produce more powerful versions of itself ;)
Venlaflaxine not only saved my life, but gave me a new one. It shouldn't be looked to as the only solution, however, it's one of the most powerful ones in the arsenal. This bias against anti-depressants is quite miseducated and unfortunate.
It's not on the level of never having to reuse a number, but arguably we've already seen something similar to IPv4->IPv6 (restructuring/numbering to add capacity) in the UK through PhONEday/Big Number Change. Expanding that out to never having to reuse a number, especially now that most people don't have to remember phone numbers (or at least far fewer), doesn't seem that difficult (at least on the numbering end; I don't know about the engineering side of that).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhONEday / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Number_Change
Have you kicked your oxygen dependence yet?
Sure, but AWS makes money from being paid to host data securely. Facebook and other social networks make money by selling your data, so it inherently comes with an amount of transparency to function as a marketable product.
Bear in mind, my above comment highlighted that for objectors the issue is far wider than murder, and also involves the presence of accessible weaponry's influence on: accidental deaths, suicides, and drivers of militarization of police, all of which were introduced before your response - and absolutely none of which would even be visible through the statistical lens you have chosen to employ.
That was a really interesting tidbit of information.

I was also caught a bit off guard by the website, cntraveler. I only ever heard of conde nast as the company that used to own reddit. The author's name was also interesting as it's the same as the famous Jeopardy winner, which this being a quirky trivia type of article makes me wonder if it's the same person.
I tried Zyban years ago. After 7 days I stopped smoking and then had this weird time slowing down effect. I guess most people don't have that effect but I wonder how many do.
I'm sorry but this is ridiculous. The author

1) mentions the dots DO matter, and calls for they're removal as a feature, but makes no mention of the ability to add '+{whatever}' to an email providing the exact same attack vector

2) states this is a gmail issue, when any email provider could do the exact same thing and have it be a problem

3) states the Netflix not verifying the email before payment is somehow not a fix because "using someone else’s address on signup only cedes control of the account to that person", when the receiver has full ability to _not_ confirm the phishing account.

Netflix is what, just supposed to know and stay up to date with all possible email providers various email mappings? No, rather, they should verify the email address before payment. Granted, the onus is on the user to notice a new 'Confirm your email with Netflix' email. Maybe Netflix could make it really obvious that the email is for a _new_ account? Defense against phishing attacks will always rely on some amount of intelligent user behaviour, if a user is going not going to read an email and blindly click-though I'm not sure there's much that can be done anyway.
> Such credentials are worth a lot in our societies, hence the high wage.

Lots of professionals with great titles and affiliations steer people down a totally incorrect path.

An easy example of this is Harvard study published in the New England Journal of Medicine promoting dietary fat reduction, shaping what every credentialed person would advise for diet for the next 50 years: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074...

Drug companies shoulder the rep of being cold evil capitalists. Psychiatrists also become extremely wealthy as part of this medical complex, and get to keep a positive reputation. It reminds me of ticketmaster essentially being paid to shoulder negative PR for excessive ticket fees which are often largely passed on to performers.
Yep, possibly easier to obtain and/or hide, though.
9 to 5 corporate can be depressing, but so can the high-flying, play hard startup life.

I'm seeking something somewhat in between these. At least I get paid by the hour which in tech is a great luxury.

Salaries are a scam and I stay away from them, at the price of job security. Which doesn't exist anyway, right?
Anyone have an intuition to the next step after parent?

Acknowledge its a hugely complicated subject.
Hum, there was also a lot of differences with the importance of the character of Johnny Fontane who is way more present in the novel.

In this instance, the "opposite" actually happened. Coppola is supposed to have said, when finishing the last page of the novel, "I'm supposed to make a masterpiece of this turd ?"
Databases have been generating machine code for things like sorts since the 60s. JIT code for queries is a very old approach.

Databases are a lot more interesting than they appear on the outside. They combine the disciplines of compilers (parsing, typing, optimization, codegen), operating systems (caching and memory management, concurrency, file systems) and distributed computing (replication, distributed transactions) all in one project.
#ashwagandha
Your comment poses as though Microsoft is a victim here, which they're not. Around 2012ish if I can remember correctly, Apple was throwing around lawsuits like crazy at everyone in the android ecosystem. The most notable I can remember was the one with Samsung. And the next one was HTC. I owned a HTC phone at that time and they made both Android and Windows phones that were very popular. Microsoft, following suit with Apple, started suing almost every major Android vendor to for basic patents[0]. I can't find the article, but their deal was that if you made Android phones, it means you had the means to build Windows phones as well. If you made a Windows phone AND an Android phone, the licensing was very reasonable, otherwise the vendors who made only Android phones would have to pay a lot in royalties to Microsoft.

I personally found this slimy and a very shitty way to sell Windows phones. Technologically, it's a great phone (I had both - Android and Windows from HTC). It was fast, fluid and almost didn't have any lags. Ethically speaking, I'm glad their sneaky sales didn't work out and Windows phone is dead.

[0] https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/microso...
Ask HN: Any recommended online courses on journalism?
I kind of found Dialyzer disappointing from starting a project from scratch. It would miss many obvious mistakes that I expected would be caught. Very much was not a fan of this key design decision of success typing! That said, the theoretical research behind it I can respect.
If you don't like your situation at Amazon, by all means take the Adobe job. Nobody has nailed you to your desk.
It's the other heroin. People can't get off the stuff, and it's everywhere.

In about 2012 I visited Copenhagen, capital of Denmark, which was until recently allegedly the self-reported "happiest nation on earth". I found it extremely weird that everyone was perfectly dressed and all the interiors were spotless, but nobody was smiling. It was like I had walked on to the set of some kind of dystopian movie. Mentioning this to an American woman who appeared and who had been resident there for some time, she simply laughed and leaned closer. "It's because they're all on antidepressants!"
And check out "Motivation" in xsv's readme (at the end) to understand why it might be a better choice than most other tools suggested here, particularly those that go through Python and sqlight.

Also, while I like/applaud Miller (also referenced), xsv has a simpler UI that only handles CSV.
If this was me and it was happening often enough to be such a nuisance I had to hijack people’s accounts, I’d just get a different email.

Mind you, I’m saying you should have to give up your email because other people have trouble spelling, just stating how I’d handle it.
I also work in AWS and will agree with,

>Friction between teams with different cultures may explain why some people find Amazon a stressful place to work

It can be incredibly difficult working with other teams, but hat's not unique to Amazon.

Mostly just that in general it's a very stressful place to work regardless of being an engineer or other role there.
> I just don't see how you can get out of bed otherwise because most important things are really hard to do.

I am curious as to what it is that you consider so important (and really hard to do)? Most things I see people rushing to do, are not actually important. Perhaps they are important to that person in particular, but such an importance is manufactured and should, if anything, be avoided.

I get out of bed mostly because there are fun and interesting activities available that are more entertaining than lying in bed. I'm not anywhere near anything that's actually important.
> Technology has given governments around the world new tools to monitor their citizens.

This is the fundamental thing that really gets to me. Governments do not need to monitor their citizens! In fact that very concept is anathema to a free society.

I really wish people would get this and stop trotting out the usual "oh but terrorists!" type arguments. Pervasive monitoring destroys your way of life faster than any terrorist (or other justification du jour) could.
Cordova has many issues and shortcomings but that was not really the issue I had. E.g. you had to use a shim [1] otherwise many JS frameworks wouldn't even work in the webview and on Windows 10 you have to work around capability restrictions. On Windows 10 at least there was a straightforward way to sideload a dev build. On Win8.1 Phone this was quite complicated. The performance of the webview was also pretty bad.

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/winstore-jscompat
You could check out http://vulcanjs.org/, we're trying to get it to be a "Rails for GraphQL/React".
What is your cover up story when the police notice that your electricity bill is much bigger than your monthly salary? Also, do the police want to hail you or they only want a cut?
So either the secret service (or similar) is monitoring the area, but DHS doesn't know about it and just blew their cover, or foreign spies are hoovering up intelligence and blackmail material on top officials and whoever is talking to them.

Either way, how are heads not rolling for this?
There is also a "triple divide" point in North America, from where water can flow into the Pacific, Atlantic or Arctic Oceans. It's either in Montana or Jasper National Park in Canada depending on whether you define Hudson Bay as part of the Arctic or Atlantic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Divide_Peak_(Montana)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Dome_(Canada)
How did you end up getting properly diagnosed for Bipolar disorder? I'm currently taking antidepressants after battling SOME kind of mental illness for most of my adult life. I'm really inside my head, and often have very existential, self-doubting moods, to the point where I have burned a lot of bridges (jobs, friends, relationships) with antisocial behaviour (that I would never logically think is the right thing to do), but in the right mood, having also tried MDMA, I act completely normal, can hold conversations, etc. (but that's once in a blue moon normally).
This is why, on my semi-personal (<10 users) email server I process several different characters as tagging characters: dot, dash, underscore, and plus IIRC.
Excellent demo.

I've been working on a procedural terrain generator for fun. Voxel-based. Just big chunks of 16x16x256 sections. Like minecraft.

My goal is create a function that will take any 3D integer coordinate and output a particular type of block for that coordinate... be it air, granite, dirt, etc.

The constraint, however, is that the only knowledge the function has is the coordinate; that is, it has no knowledge of adjoining blocks.

The second constraint -- (because one can never trust floating point) -- is to have the function (and the requisite RNG) use only integers between 0 and 100,000 with no calculations that involve fractions. This constrain is to guarantee that with a given seed, the same terrain will be generated on any system. Rolling hills and mountains and caves and all the typical minecraft kinda stuff is trivial. But, I'm trying to get my magical black-box function to create buildings with walls, windows, etc. that's trickier.

Have you come across anything like this?
Since there's a lot of quoting of studies on this topic, I hope that everyone reads this very informative (and long) blog post by a psychiatrist on SSRIs and their effectiveness:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/07/ssris-much-more-than-yo...
> The du rounds are not highly toxic per se the radiation level is low you might have some problems if you inhaled dust with uranium particles

Uranium itself is toxic. It also decays to Radon which is itself toxic.
I find that surprising. What's the typical compensation model? Salary or hourly?
How is Google wrong?
Hmmm. I suppose that I was hypermanic. And maybe it wasn't so much that I was affectless, but that it wasn't appropriate affect.

OK, for example, I would be driving, in a hurry. And without much emotion or warning, I'd find myself running red lights and whatever. Laughing. I remember an accident, where the other driver said something like "Where the hell did you come from?" And I almost said something like "God sent me to kill you!" But I didn't, fortunately.

That SSRI truly made me a danger to society and myself.
> 1. Corruption 2. Inequality

How about actually catching bringing back people who have fled the country like Nirav Modi and Mallya or how about making sure a celebrity like Salman Khan goes to jail.
YouTube responding to users' serious concerns? And it only took about 3 years? Well, may wonders never cease.
> Trial versions never expire. They do not report p-values, and cannot save or export. Requires OS X 10.10 or later.

Maybe this makes the trial versions better?
I found a psychiatrist who asked me whether amphetamines made me happy or nervous. I said happy. He said bipolar.
Venezuela has taken some hostile actions and stances towards miners (the people), and also the import of miners (the ASICs). I'm just waiting to see the day when the cover story for mining becomes growing marijuana. Hopefully it's just a joke, not as a result of mining becoming more illegal than growing!
This is a dangerous opinion and can inspire guilt in folks struggling with mental disorders. Not cool.
Ooooh. Yeah, that's definitely full-blown mania. Delusions of grandeur, risk-seeking behavior, euphoria.
Similar to "Pico Tres Mares" (Three Seas Peak), in Spain:

> The Pico de Tres Mares (Three Seas) got its name because it is the source of three main rivers which flow from it into three different seas - the Híjar, tributary of the Ebro which flows into the Mediterranean, the Pisuerga, tributary of the Douro which flows into the Atlantic and the Nansa which flows into the Cantabrian sea. This peak, which rises to 2,175m, reveals a splendid circular panorama to the north of the Nansa, to the east of the Sierra de Peña Labra and the Montes de León, and to the west of los Picos de Europa.
From what I know have seen some of this is just an illusion. Alexa has been around for a while. The idea must have been around for a while. It probably doesn't take them any less than it'd take anyone. I don't think there's a mystery to the engineering side.

"Amazon's Next Mission" is just marketing speak.

To their credit, they are willing to invest in expanding their products and finding adjacent markets. That's really hard for companies to do and where Amazon seems a little different in the way they don't seem to care at all about profit. If you don't care about profit you can do a lot of things that otherwise are difficult.
As far as I can remember they supported Pointer Events but not Touch Events. It was only in a few cases where this mattered to me but there it was quite a pain.

MS really tried to get Cordova on Windows Phone. They had a dedicated blog and dedicated developers who were quite active for a while and laid a lot of the groundwork and developed the necessary workarounds and tutorials but then they suddenly stopped and abandoned it completely. Quite a while before Windows Phone was discontinued.

I wouldn't phrase it the way you have. Some choices they made were really problematic for Cordova and no help and effort they put into it could overcome them.
If you're into anime, you might enjoy watching Beatless. It's a wonderful and scary view into what an AI dominated future may hold for us.
As an example of something that can go wrong: Apache Impala uses LLVM to JIT queries. Turns out some code optimization algorithms are O(n^3) (or worse) or so, where n is small enough not to matter too much with human code, but falls apart with a few thousand columns in a single table, not super unusual with analytics in an environment with expensive joins like Hadoop.
> how does a state go about providing services to its citizen if the state cannot identify citizens as its own and as unique entities.

That's why it is risky to insist that the State should "provide benefits". The more benefits from the State, the more one needs to consult the State for daily life.

This stuff isn't surprising, it's a natural extension of entitlements, it happens every time. If the government provides healthcare, it won't be long before your life choices become the government's business.
I've been using that mix for several years. And I'm not interested in changing.

But why do you say "better"?
I was in weekly talk therapy with a psychologist and checking up with a psychiatrist every few weeks to fine-tune my meds, the two were in close contact, and one of them (don't remember which) picked up on my periodic euphoria and social extroversion.
Have someone who has a clue how to design and integrate complex systems from a high level on your team. Seems to be the point of the whole article.
Yep, though its the most common reason, SSRIs are not only prescribed for depression be it mild or severe. Anxiety is another rather common reason SSRIs get prescribed, and in my case Fluoxetine for ASD.

Its anecdotal but I know that in my specific case it helps.. a lot! I can focus better, I am less anxious, I'm happier (though that is not my main complaint at all), and most of all I get less agitated. That doesn't just help me; it helps my significant other, our newborn, my co-employees, and my family in general (don't have friends).
Well it's a good illustration for anyone here: ideas and good software are easy. Building a company that can successfully sell them is the hard part.
Totally... different services provide different ways to have multiple addresseses. The article already mentions one (plus addressing), but there are also others (like FastMail's subdomain addressing)[1]. And many people have catchall or misspelling addresses on their own domain.

That said, I dislike Gmail's "the dots don't matter" since it really screws up calendar invitation handling, because calendars don't handle aliases well.

[1] https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/addressing.html
Earlier I suggested YouTube start to use actual editors: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16758397

I guess this is their response.

AI will never replace humans in judgement. Sorry Silicon Valley. It's not going to happen. Stop trying to make it happen.
The point is that if the unsafe code is correct, any assumptions it is making need to be in the module. Ergo, you should only have to scan the module itself to figure out whether the code is unsafe or not, because if you can't prove safeness by looking at the module it's ipso facto not safe.
However, if the unsafe code is written correctly, it is in fact well encapsulated. We can prove this now, it's no longer just conjecture.
Was it easy to sideload dev builds on Windows 8.1 Phones for UWP apps? I think the bundling and deployment process is identical and I would not have characterized that as "great".
And it's not so much as not having "bothered" writing a UWP application as it was porting an existing Cordova application.