skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know a lot of people back home, in rural Maine, who have a two-income household where each makes $15/hour, and they get by alright with a house and a couple of kids.

Of course, a decent house in that area runs $80-100k, whereas the same house in the area I live outside of Boston would cost $400k, and you couldn't buy a property with an equivalent amount of land attached at any price in the Bay area.
Why Are Credit Card Numbers on the Back Now?
Amazon already owns Kiva. If you make the minimum wage high enough, it just gives them more incentive to automate.
Replace advertisers with governments, and your centralized store has now been breached. See Lavabit.
> If gun manufacturers could take back their guns (ban users) when somebody threatened illegal violence the analogy would be closer, and it would be quite reasonable to expect them to do so.

Except creating a new profile on reddit is trivial, so "banning" is a weak threat at best.
For the Emacs users, there's eshell - a Shell, implemented in Elisp with the common GNU tooling, but also with the option to hook into regular elisp functions. Pretty cool stuff!
JPMorgan charged higher cash-advance fees for BitCoin purchases
Bay Area is long overdue for a major earthquake
> That API is gnarly.

Out of the many MongoDB criticisms, this one is valid. This https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mongodb-frankenstein-monster-... article is quite right about it (note: endorsing the article does not mean I endorse its author by far).

Other than that, they totally did a fake it until you make it with MongoDB 3.4 passing Jepsen a year ago and MongoDB BI 2.0 containing their own SQL engine instead of wrapping PostgreSQL.
Their basic approach for handling time series data -- partition the inserts by time range -- is one that works for pretty much any relational database. If you can treat the data as immutable which is often the case with time series data, it gets even better. The fact that they have an out-of-the-box solution for it is nice, but I've implemented my own for an application in which a portion of the workload was time series data and a separate portion was not. It's all about mechanical sympathy and understanding the performance characteristics of your chosen datastore.
Why is it that we use heavy solid/liquid electrolytes, anyway? It seems that gaseous electrolytes are possible; in an environment where volume doesn’t matter nearly as much as weight, wouldn’t a battery built on such an electrolyte be an obvious choice?
but how is that guaranteed? If there's a single source of data, its a bigger target for bad actors, and a single source still needs an owner of some sort that you have to trust isn't going to cheat or change the rules in the future.

With decentralized, you still have the same issues (I don't really know how you solve those unless data transfer is truly peer-to-peer which I think causes discoverability and similar issues to usability), but at least the scope of them is inherently limited and you can opt in/out of the source based on your trust of it.
To be fair, some of the "speech" on Reddit is actually dangerous. Like, get people hurt dangerous.
Scuttlebutt is a great idea and has some really smart people working on it ( like Andre and Dominic ) .

With that being said, I don't think Scuttlebutt has any chance of succeeding. SB network has some fairly serious architectural issues which may or may not have solutions that are achievable with the current design. I ended up uninstalling.
It's worth noting that they encourage talking in person, too:

> Outside Home, we encourage people to meet in person—one of our more structured approaches involves a chat bot that helps schedule lunches among Stripes who are least likely to know each other (more than 5,000 lunches have been facilitated since it was set up!).
My Godwin sense is tickling.
I used to work there. The SQL layer was capable of actually the majority of SQL features including joins, etc. We had an internal rails app that we used to dog-food for performance monitoring, etc. I used to work on the document layer, and was sad to see it wasn't included here.
You removed the word "related" in this reply.

I think our contention centers mainly around this word. When I see the word related I envision most standard job offers that have a laundry list of 10+ technologies, not all of them particularly related.

Software engineering is such a wide field with such a huge array of available technology options that if you're limiting to 5+ years in a specific stack you're already massively narrowing down your field to a small percentage of the available workforce. If you aren't offering significant advantages to offset that huge initial filter you're not going to get many candidates you find acceptable.

At the company I work at we hire for "general software engineering ability". You can pick whatever language or tool you want to get through the interview, we don't care. Most strong candidates will ramp up on whatever specific stack way more quickly than you expect.
They have a link at the top to suggest an addition. It takes you to a simple form where you type in the link and hit submit. That might be a more effective means to get this added.
Every person who has ever repeated that stupid "an armed society is a polite society" mantra, for starters.
I'm working the mobile app for Android. Groundwork for iOS is underway: https://twitter.com/andrestaltz/status/981622147864039424
ASK HN: Facebook European Ruling
What if I use a VPN pointing to a server in Europe, create a Facebook profile with a Europe country as my country. Does this means my data won't be sold without my consent?
I'm far from an expert on this but my understanding is similar. I think there are several technical and market reasons for this. First is the simple cost of developing and certifying a new general aviation engine. That cost must be covered by sales in an already cost difficult market. The second part is technical...plane engines are used very differently than car engines. They are not purely steady state but they are typically used in a near steady state way. This makes improvements such as fuel injection less additive beneficial. Ad in that most of the uses of the engines are non-commercial and non-life critical and you have a logic - why would I spend tones more to gain a few points of efficiency on something I use for fun that already costs me an arm and a leg that works. Its the same reason you don't see the most fuel efficient innovations start in sports cars.

example: look at the Lycoming O-360 and the list of planes it is used in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycoming_O-360
To be clear, you're now arguing pay at Amazon is "crap" but that it's good because it gives people motivation to change careers. Glad we could clarify that.
This wiki page links to a legend: Straw Millionaire: Japanese Buddhist folk tale about a poor man who becomes wealthy through a series of successive trades, starting with a single piece of straw.

The funny thing is that in my language, Polish, there's populat completely opposite nursery rhyme. About a guy who through serie of trades went from house to a stick. But in the end ot was all fine because he inherited 4 houses from a grandfather.
“Lovecraft on the Tabletop”: Call of Cthulhu
Does Teaching Chess Improve Education? A RCT [pdf]
GWAS of height and BMI in ~700,000 individuals of European ancestry
It's a protocol, not a product. Just make a new product that uses the protocol and there you go, a new name.
So you're suggesting reddit admins, mods or some algorithm should diagnose antisocial behaviour using the DSM-V based only on a user's written words? This is genuinely what you believe?
Just to be clear, there is little to no risk of someone running a simple blog getting fined by a data protection regulator.

In the UK for example the ICO who regulate data protection matters concluded 17,300 cases, in which only 16 of them resulted in fines.

I’m just intrigued as to how you have developed this perception of GDPR and data protection law looking to regulate small one man blogs out of existence?

/edit oh and my other point still remains - even if you’ve got some customers through a blog, you don’t appear to be within scope of GDPR on the assumption you’re not directly looking to do business with EU based customers (for example through offering payment options in European currencies).
Imho, I don't think that that matters. Guns have plenty of legitimate, beneficial, and legal uses. Sure it is easy to use them illegally, but similarly it is also easy to use a car illegally, so I think my analogy still stands.
We (Wavefront) has been operating petabyte scale clusters for the last 5 years with FoundationDB (we got the source code via escrow) and we are super excited to be involved in the opensourcing of FDB. We have operated over 50 clusters on all kinds of aws instances and I can talk about all the amazing things we have done with it.

https://www.wavefront.com/wavefront-foundationdb-open-source...
Very well summed up. Can confirm from the PoV of Berlin, Germany.

I've been on an interviewing spree in January and February, totaling around 20 companies. There were maybe 3 or 4 with realistic and respectful hiring process.

In the end I was left with just one company I actually liked.
"They can do almost anything they want to within reason and not worry about the financial consequences."

No, they need to make the soundest possible investments with that money. Lots of free cash flow is not license to do "anything they want to within reason," especially for a publicly-traded company (sure, if you're talking about a private partnership and all the partners agree, go nuts, I guess). If they don't actually need it to run the business making the profits, they should return it to shareholders since, you know, that's whose money it is.
Thanks for your reply. I was beginning to doubt myself.
Reminds me of an "interview" I had last year with a secure email company that gets mentioned around here a lot. I was given a coding task to do. Think it took around about a full work day spread over a few days. Wrote some code. Submitted it. Got an email a few weeks later to say they'd hired somebody else. No conversation about the work I'd done or the position it's self whatsoever. My only communication with a human was basically somebody telling me they were going to be sending me some work.

They originally sent me the work over Skype. I don't generally log into it Skype but I did in order to accomodate the way they wanted to chat (send the work). A few weeks after they told me they'd hired somebody else I logged into Skype again to find a message asking how to access the work I'd done from several weeks earlier. Even though I'd provided a link to it earlier on in the conversation. To this day I don't know if anyone even looked at the work that I spent a full work day doing.

Perhaps they just didn't like the work that I did. I wouldn't blame them, I wasn't particularly proud of it. But I had a lot to say about the work, the problems I had and the things I would do differently if I were to start it again. I wasn't given the courtesy of expressing those thoughts though.

The funny thing is, they approached me about the position in the first place.

I wont be participating in any "interviews" structured anything like that ever again.
Housing is usually a shared apartment on base with high restrictions. Kinda like a college dorm room with lots of rules. Heath care is okay, it is free, which is nice, but military hospitals sometimes do not attract the best and brightest. We had some issues over the years. You get about $300 or so for a food allowance each month unless you live on base, then you get crappy chow hall food.
I've always wondering why, in a world where PostgreSQL exists, would anyone use MySQL

I am a solid Postgres guy, but MySQL still has a better multi-master replication story. Confident that Postgres will eventually surpass it, possibly even in a later iteration of 10.

Now in a world where Postgres exists why would anyone use MongoDB is a valid question...
Playstation5, Navi GPUs, XBox's next processor, Ryzen3, 7nm Vega. There's rumors for DDR5 memory controller and MCM reaching the GPU space somehow.

AMD's plate is rather full. They're juggling a lot of cool projects despite having way less money than Intel or NVidia. Zen+ was always going to be a "low effort" minor update.

I'm frankly surprised that this minor update got much of a boost at all. Its a good sign for Zen2 next year.
Federated social networks give you the ability to change allegiance or fork. Don't like a particular moderator on an instance? Leave to another instance, or start your own. Things can get problematic if other instances refuse to federate your own, but if you maintain even a bit of social capital, most instances will not block an instance with a single user. There's a growing culture (and a set of actions in the ecosystem) of letting people know when you've changed instances, because instances are becoming easier and easier to run and more and more people are trying to run their own. But if you don't want to deal with it, join one of the large already existing instances.
As far as I can tell, the title is "Remote jobs and gigs platforms." I see no indication they were ranked. Correct me if I'm wrong.
What happened in 2014?
Former ClearSlide GC Olga Mack Joins Quantstamp as VP of Strategy
Nitpick: To be fully live, a partition needs a majority of the coordinators and at least one replica of each piece of data (if you don't have any replicas of something unimportant, you might be able to get some work done, but if you have coordinators and nothing else in a partition you aren't going to be making progress)
Make sure you're signed in, and then File -> Make a copy...
It would change things primarily under the hood for table-like data structures ... imagine having a data.frame or tibble object but in memory it's stored in a very specific layout which allows it to a) make use of pre-created highly optimized library code to do complicated queries b) be interchanged with other programs with almost zero overhead, e.g. imagine doing a query on a massive database in spark and then loading it into R or pandas instantly without having to wait.
There is work underway to implement the protocol in Go, Rust, C and a bit of Haskell. Some of those are usable, but partially complete.

There is no reason for the protocol to be restricted to JS and Electron.
Generally, because the debris might hit other stuff and break it.

Space is big, but too much stuff goes into very similar orbits.
> preservation of democracy against totalitarianism

I don't think I will ever understand this sentiment. At the time of WW2, the US still legally discriminated against colored people. The UK had a sprawling empire whose colored citizens were not given full rights or representation. France was also similar; in fact France tried to claw its empire back which led to some ugly wars in IndoChina (Vietnam) and Algeria.

Let me say that Nazism and Fascism were surely forces that needed to be defeated and put down. But the Allies were hardly the perfect coalition of "free people" or the "free world" that people today glorify them to be. They were at best a "better side that was moving in the right direction".
Curious why the client is complicated compared to other dbs in same space ?
Social Media Privacy Issues Featuring Google, Facebook, Amazon and Reddit
Reddit once was a good place to engage in things like politics, but now it is a cesspool of left leaning people. /r/politics turning into a largely left platform has helped to give rise to the more extreme groups that feel ostracized. It is my opinion that effectively banning views that can at times be extreme (though non-violent and not inherently bigoted) only draws more people to them.

I don't blame Reddit for being too hands off, if anything I often blame them for being too hands on. That may not be a popular opinion; but I have in my any years in active online forums/newsgroups/message boards from the early 2000s, to now, seen this happen so many times.

A overactive admin/mod group always has a blowback, which generally ends in another community forming with more extreme views than what was originally the cause of the bans.
> (3x256-bit for Intel, vs 2x128-bit for AMD)

It's not quite that harsh for workloads that aren't entirely FMA. Zen has 2x128-bit adders plus 2x128-bit multipliers.
This isn't an example of XSS, it's just changing URL parameters.
According to paycheckcity.com - assuming you get paid holidays - that's about $2000 a month in GA after taxes. There are plenty of places in GA and even metro Atlanta where you could live off of that.
When I lived in Wisconsin, we got $400/year. Officially it was to help pay for heat in the winter, but I always thought of it as a consolation prize for having to live in Wisconsin.

I hear Minnesotans get a stipend, too.
You're not just comparing a tech company to a non-tech company. You're comparing a startup to a non-tech company.

When you compare a non-tech company to a big tech company like Google, the benefits and comp arguments switch to the favor of the big tech company along with the respect and job security.

The only advantage to non-tech companies when comparing across big ones is the simpler interview.
Scsh home page here: https://scsh.net/
As I read it I presumed there would be a github link at the end...
Hey u/trevelyan, any particular reason why the site isn't secured over https?
Would be great if they could set this up to work over your email account. Just add a rule to hide the data passing messages from your normal inbox activity.
toxic users is a definite thing, but I think scuttlebutt is the best alternative social network I've ever found. the development community & the rest of the community are largely awesome, and they actually have a ton of funding.
It's closest to TiDB's key-value layer; a building block for more complex systems. More traditional, monolithic databases like CockroachDB (SQL) or FaunaDB (NoSQL) trade off extensibility for the benefits in performance and operations that come from very tight coupling.

In my understanding, FoundationDB's transaction management is closest to FaunaDB's; read/write sets are linearized in memory in preprocessing nodes and distributed asynchronously to the replicas rather than locked on the replica leaders like Spanner or CockroachDB. This is why FoundationDB doesn't support long-lived transactions.

It's interesting that the FoundationDB team chose to unwind their service architecture (there used to be separate transaction manager and replica processes), I assume in the interests of ease of operations.

It is not clear to me how leader election and failover works for the transaction management role. Maybe somebody from the team can clarify.
In the thread you linked, someone replied:

> Mobile people stop replying it’s there just u can’t see
My dad was first concertmaster of the VSO, and my wife is a pianist. What's interesting is to look at the parallels between auditioning for a position in a prime orchestra and "auditioning" for the position of software engineer/developer.

When you get called to audition, you spend a ton of time preparing at in your "free time".

If you want to apply as a (senior) sw engineer, it makes sense to have an idea about the depth of knowledge and/or the engineering approach of the candidate.

Oldie but goodie:
https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/
RASH, RAcket SHell library and language: https://github.com/willghatch/racket-rash

Note: I am not the author
What I read from the diagram is that we are looking towards an horizon where corporations can keep increasing profits while employing less people and there is nothing we can do about it. Do we simply have to accept that economic growth ultimately benefits fewer and fewer people? Or do you simply believe that somehow jobs will never disappear?
That guy needs to stop huffing glue.
Yes! If the best thing an employer can come up with to say about their compensation and benefits is that they are “competitive“ this is a huge red flag for any candidate who is (or believes they are) above average.
why are you assuming that there is only one income?
> That's true if the government is protecting the employee with a safety net, like welfare and ACA, and laws, like COBRA. A better-paid employee could save more money and provide their own safety net, as many high earners do with rainy-day accounts, investments, passive income, etc.

I personally would advocate taking away the safety net for able individuals and instituting a basic income. I think I would solve some of the market issues we are seeing with low wages. This will become more prevalent as automating gets cheaper.
Weapon inventors usually have no control once the weapon is sold. Richard Gatling thought he was making war more decisive and thus more necessary to avoid. He didn't anticipate machine guns being deployed against indigenous people defending against colonizers, nor did he anticipate the New York Times turning his gun on a riot.
What do you think that Trump did, and why?
That's not even the name of the product. People was the hackathon project name. Regardless it's a pretty strange pet peeve. I really don't see the problem.
I don't see how paying them for their time fixes the work/life balance and already have another job combo?
> none who will do so in violation of ITU rules.

I bet North Korea doesn't give a shit about the ITU rules.
I've never seen an active threat on Reddit, what do you define as dangerous? Can you give an example? I've been on Reddit almost since the beginning and I've never come across a post that I felt posed any danger. Maybe I'm in the wrong subreddits.
Bye Aerospace's electric Sun Flyer made its first flight last week also. http://sunflyer.com/
>Still blowing smoke?

Yes, you're not correctly understanding that you depended on a gamble to outperform the Google offer. That same gamble you could have explicitly made in the stock market while taking the Google offer and capturing the upside of the Amazon stock.
Have you not seen facebook comments on a news article lately? People have no problem being awful under their real name.
... I was hoping to get a trial link!
In principle there is nothing that you would lose out on. Of course in practice there are several existing bug trackers that have had years or decades of work put into them and therefore have a huge checklist of features. I'll grant you that I've never seen a distributed bug-tracking system with a similarly long checklist.

BTW, this is the same argument that people used to use against distributed version control. Why give up this long feature checklist to get a version control system that works on the train? Because even when you are connected to the internet, every time you wait on a server is time you'll never get back. Even if it's only a hundred milliseconds, your life is too short.
I am not sure what is the point you're trying to make.

If we define a behavioral set, such as "antisocial", meaning, behavior not welcome in a society, why does the fact that we later expand this set indicate a problem with using the set?
We run both, memory engine hasn't seen too many updates in the last 3 years though. For SSDs, we use i3 as well as EBS-backed volumes.
Where is the "go fuck yourself mark zuckerberg" option
It's impossible to give Amazon more incentive to automate, since they already intend to automate everything as soon as it's feasible. Raising minimum wage or even wages in general for warehouse workers wouldn't accelerate that schedule, since the obstacles to automation are primarily technical.

Kivas are nice and all, but they can't pick and they definitely can't stow. They could probably move pallets, but couldn't palletize, and having them run around the facilities at the necessary speed dragging a train of pallets would be a safety hazard.

They are really good at reading QR codes and turning at 90 degree angles, though.
It sounds like they just made a social network?