skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We all prefer to feel like we have control over our lives. People also like to take personal credit for their success rather than chalking it up to luck or circumstance.

This often leads to bad advice.

When I had a corporate job, one of my coworkers with a lavish lifestyle was giving a lot of financial advice to another coworker with chronic financial stress. It wasn't necessarily bad advice per se. But it kind of glossed over the fact that the one with money was childless and her husband made scads of money. The other woman had four children and an ordinary Joe of a husband.

I always felt the advice should have started with "First, go back in time and marry well. Second, go back in time and don't have four kids."

It's vastly easier to do things like pay off your credit cards in full every month and only pay cash for a new car when you have lots more income and fewer obligations. These were the sorts of things she bragged about as if she were some financial genius, glossing over the huge income difference that allowed her to implement these ever so wise financial choices.
I have heard of people being able to negotiate a one time hiring bonus if they didn’t go through a recruiter. I was also offered a $5000 bonus through a recruiter to try to persuade me to take a job.
Mine isn’t working either. I also use Ubuntu / Firefox and also the computer isn’t plugged in, so there’s that.
I wrote the original version of Solandra (which is/was Solr on Cassandra) on top of Jake's Lucene on Cassandra[1].

I can confirm it wasn't fast!

(And to be fair that wasn't the point - back then there were no distributed versions of Solr available so the idea of this was to solve the reliability/failover issue).

I wouldn't use it on a production system now days.

[1] http://nicklothian.com/blog/2009/10/27/solr-cassandra-soland...
Ball pit, ladder, disco lights, slippery slide, rope bridge - all things the kid will cope with that will freak your robot out.
>it should at least do 50% of what facebook does

It's a common mistake to attribute the success of Facebook to its features (it boils down to microblogging + threaded discussions). The usefulness (i.e. product from a marketing perspective) of Facebook isn't its features, it's the people who joined it. Look at Google+, it's not that bad in terms of features. But it lacks people, therefore it's not a competing product. A competitor would be not someone who does 50% of what FB does. It would be someone who has 50% of what Facebook has.
Especially if you consider IBM's systems for tracking the Holocaust and Apartheid. Special purpose people-tracking systems.
Install Postgres;

`su postgres` or whatever user it uses;

run `psql`;

`CREATE USER X IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD;`

`CREATE DATABASE X OWNER X;'

Now X can connect there and add tables as he wishes.

Postgres onboarding coule be better, but it is naive to choose a tool you will use for years based on the first 5 minutes experience.
We're built an open source project quite similar to Stripe Home, it's available as SaaS (https://carrot.io) or it's all OSS to host your own (MPL V2 License). Check it out if you'd like: https://github.com/open-company
Not a joke. They weren't a great client. I think some of the managers had watched too many heist movies or something.

I offered an equally crazy budget because of the time and effort for something this crazy, and they said yes on the spot.
Does anyone who's working/worked in the Healthcare "Intelligence Augmentation" have something to say about the challenges they've faced in setting up an "Intelligent Infrastructure"? Maybe someone who's worked with the DeepMind Streams application?
Legitimately, if you used ex. Ethereum to compile your code could actually prove that a given executable was compiled from given source. Otherwise the only way to verify a build is to build it yourself and check the hashes. Signing just verifies that the build came from a given person, not that they used the source code they say they did.

This was one of the interesting use cases I thought about when I dug into crypto.
> Is there something MariaDB doesn't have?

* Proper native JSON support
* Spatial support lags behind MySQL

However we are still using it in production and MySQL 8 is a no go given that it removed MyISAM support. We still use MyISAM due to fast inserts and easy backup (just copy the files). We use MariaDB for storing IoT time series data.
I like the fact I can go to any gas station and not have to worry about which nozzle fits my car

In seven years of ownership of a Nissan Leaf, that been neither a concern or a problem of mine. Every public charging station I’ve used worked fine with the Leaf. Not that I use them all that often because the “gas station” I go to most often is in my garage.
It's a problem if your product is anything that actually matters. (Which is why several medical start-ups have wound up neck deep in shit in the last few years.)
Hah, I was about to post about the same plane, some friends of mine are involved with it. :)
Clickbait title. He "made" (compensation) 59 times the median; the other figure uses his overall net worth increase, but even that assumes that he could dump all his stock without crashing the price.
Degrees matter deeply among the untalented in my experience. I have one of those fancy pee HUDs, but I only whip it out when I'm dealing with the above sort.
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You both seem to have really confident opinions given that you admit you have no expertise in the field.
Michael Jordan @ SysML 2018: Perspectives on Modern AI
FYI: Stackpath owns Highwinds. It was likely an internal configuration issue at Stackpath.
It was certainly fun at the beginning, and I think they were aiming for crazy levels of security, and obscurity sounded nice to someone.

But the tooling really isn't there.

Ended up using 'make' and 'm4' as preprocessors to work around things.
'But, like SMS, Chat won’t be end-to-end encrypted'

Hey Google? 1992 called, they want their clear text messaging app back...
That's pretty good, I know people who've had worse results.

Some of them were former coworkers who leaned very heavily on algorithm problems and whiteboarding because they were terrified of people who couldn't code at all (though wouldn't that be the easiest kind to let go?). But they still missed sometimes. Both on people who'd studied purely for algorithm questions and got through, despite having little practical ability; and on people who could knock out a task but had no ability to reason about its place in a larger system, so created more work for others than they contributed themselves.
The great thing about small satellites is that they are light and cheap and easy to launch. However, once they get to space, they take up just as much room as everything else: one orbit. Space isn’t a parking lot where you can park the smaller things closer together, and not being able to track the small satellites just makes that problem worse.
Design Patterns and Practices in .Net: Null Object and Special Case Object
Let me see. A lazy developer that only knows Ruby compiles the entire Ruby interpreter into WASM just to run Ruby. Then the user clicks a button that does an API fetch and the whole browser freezes while it waits for the response. . . . Yeah not happening. WASM was built and meant for high performance low level languages, there is no way in Ruby and Python will make the cut.
How Will Law Enforcement Get What It Needs in a  Encryption Era?
> That sounds horrifying.

That means any previous version could fail during DDL execution and leave your metadata in an inconsistent state that you couldn't recover.

Now MySQL is about as good as any commercial database.
That website also snaps into a mobile-optimized design at 960px width.
Not exactly what you'd hoped for, but there's a GH link for https://github.com/open-company
No, there will always be a provider to webmail because there's demand for it. "Some webmail provider" is irrelevant, nobody is tlaking about people who run their own server here.

Federated social networks are like email: each instance is like the "webmail provider" you can pick and chose and some of them even come with their own clients and bells and whisltes.

Protocol doesn't need a business plan.
The vast majority of people who have opinions on Ayn Rand or her philosophy of Objectivism haven't read a word of what she wrote and are repeating what they heard or have read it and failed to comprehend her ideas. Whether such failure is due to ability or dishonesty doesn't really matter.

Note the ad hom comments in this thread dismissing the content of this article because Binswanger inherited his money. Nobody has "deconstructed" Rand's ideas because they are true and because modern intellectuals are unable to rebut her arguments they are reduced to smears and gross misrepresentations of an important intellectual achievement.

My advice; read Rand's work firsthand and judge her ideas for yourself.
Also a "non profit" which had an injection of $1 Billion in cash from investors. Not many non profits have that going for them.
Science Fiction Browser Based MMO Game
A lot of people don't think about how hard validation can be. You need a lot of high quality labeled data to confidently say that your algorithm works. I don't see a way around this even if learning algorithms become very data-efficient.
How is a blob not mysterious. The fact that it doesn't use some exotic gpu-based bootstrap is irrelevant. A black box is a black box. Also I'd argue it is uncommon for everything the kernel uses to be open source, I don't know of one where all the drivers are open source (without losing functionality).
I must have missed the reasonable reasons. All I saw was:

1. Terminal emulators have too many LOC (how many LOC does cairo, Xlib, Chrome, or GTK have?)

2. Oh noes, you have to check for control codes in your text. (do you want to use a text editor that doesn't?)
Pivotal and Amazon would not meet the rate and benefits that my current real company was paying, let alone the one that just poached me for a 15% raise. She's spot on.
Hey you with good ideas? 1984 called, I can't tell you what they said next...
Without encryption, it's dead on arrival.
Generally it's judged by the types of games which have been produced. Since Unreal has had AAA games released using it, then yes I'd say so.
The principle is that the network can become federated, which makes it possible to switch providers while remaining on the same network. This allows there to be competition between providers. Presumably, providers would compete based on their ability to protect your data. Facebook, on the other hand, competes almost solely based on the size of their network, which eclipses every other factor like accountability.
what's the point of rcs when it's controlled by the carriers (aka you will be billed for it). at least with imessage it's free to send between apple devices.
Nice - I went to the blog page on your site and this wasn't there. Good stuff.
Great post. Undervaluing time is a common mistake.
Doctors at RSA simulate emergency overdose caused by hacked medical pump
The non-mobile version of the sites works really well on mobile browser. What does the apps add to the browser experience?
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I've already seen the bomb go off with an extension.

A top rated chrome extension was inserting porn Ads in Youtube's companion renderer element. Google removed it after I tweeted about it though.
So, a bunch of people with a lot of experience in a particular technology, and who are in top leadership positions are being paid a lot of money.

How is this news?
Well of course if there was a citizens referendum on the issue tomorrow morning it would be legalized nationwide. But we live in times where the body politic is miles away from where the public is on pretty much every major issue. That's not really supposed to happen in a democracy. But that's the USA for you.
Design Rule Complexity Rising
We've got trials at https://carrot.io

It's not exactly the same as Stripe Home, which looks amazing for an internal project, but Carrot is available to everyone, it's all open source, and we're committed to solving this problem for every company that wants to be the Stripe of their industry some day.
I'm reminded of a an early Asimov story where mute household robots that are as capable and agile as any human are commonplace, but a computer than can talk is unique in the world and the size of a building.
Trial and error is definitely a part of theory building. But with only fuzzing as a vector, we tend to hit a wall sooner or later.
RSA Conference can't secure its attendees' details
Does Cassandra hash the primary key to get a more even distribution?

If you have a sorted data store, you can get the same distribution by keying off a hash of the "real" primary key, right?
Pretty sure Franklin's effort to cultivate these virtues in himself lasted like a couple weeks. These articles never mention that.
Umm, the site in question is a big button to download something to run on your computer. You don’t think it would be bad if someone hijacked that and had people downloading malicious software?

You seem to misunderstand https... for one, it doesn’t hide your visit to that site from your ISP; they know the IP address you visited, and due to SNI, they will even know the domain. The point is to make sure you are connecting to the site you think you are connecting to.
> but you had better have a good async RPC system!

The microservices crew with their "our database is behind a REST/Thrift/gRPC/FizzBuzzWhatnot microservice" pattern is still catching up to the significance of this statement.
I looked, but as far as I can see you’re right, and it’s consistent. That’s really impressive, and I’m sorry for calling you out like that, I was wrong.
Not too different to a normal light aircraft, although maybe a bit quieter. Most of the sound you hear from them is prop noise.
I realize that you’re doing the best that you know how given the time pressures you have as an interviewer. There is no perfect answer to this problem.

Here’s the thing though, you are “leaving money on the table” when your interview process deselects great programmers because of a mistaken belief that Test A is a good proxy for developer talent. When HN developers are telling that Test A is a bad proxy for developer competence, perhaps, just perhaps, you might consider trying to improve it with the advice given.

The upside of being able to accomodate developers who “lock up” in stressful interviews, is that you now have access to great developer that are (according to your competitors) “impossible to find”.
Most of the dependencies are for the Node dev tooling and never gets deployed. You can easily build a lightweight Vue/React site with Webpack.
The real fallacy is calling neural networks the analogue of animal brains. We still have a lot of research to accomplish in this sphere.
This is really cool and I wish I knew more statistics to fully grasp it.

I can’t see what would cause the recession though. Interest rates are only just starting to rise.

Though to be fair if the media says the economy is good then it’s time to pull out. If the media says the economy is bad it’s time to invest.
Next up is graphene pollution. All such new tech should also have tech that allows for natural decomposition and shouldn't probably be used until that is available as well.
So turns out granting poorly-verified extensions permission to literally take over your browser after reading easily gamed reviews is a bad idea?

The worst of the spyware / download guys are now the best of the "legit" extension affiliates.

I don't get why googles verification team is asleep at the wheel on this, I feel the exact same way about amazon and their counterfeiters abusing the shit out of fake reviews and buy counts.
> Diaspora is federated, which for non-technical users is worse than FaceBook itself. The individual nodes (to which thousands of users are connected) will have far fewer resources to secure themselves than a behemoth like FaceBook

That's a weird argument - it doesn't even make sense no matter how you look at it.

1. Security is more or less centralized as per core code and core protocol.
2. Why do you imply big monolith is secure than a small instance? Where's the logical connection in that?
A lot of relatively fixed-function peripherals tend towards hardware, but the industry is moving away from pure speed (alternative interpretation: pure speed people failed) and for many strategies software can be more than fast enough and the flexibility benefits are worth it. That's not to say there aren't pure hardware strategies, but most of them operate in tandem with latency-sensitive software strategies as well.
Iot is only the latest in a long chain of previous buzzword heritage. Telemetrics, M2M, etc were also hammers in search of the elusive nail. I posit that the main difference this time around is the democratization of marketing the internet has created. More people have thrown more shit at the proverbial wall, thus, more stuck. But iot still remains a huge industry without a killer app, at least in the consumer market.
Failing a high-stress technical screen and being unable to write fizz-buzz in pseudo-code are two very different things though.
My thoughts exactly. I was looking around thinking maybe they had some third-party audit they could lord over 1password but they don't =\
What do you mean by “forms”? Spanner is also layered. The bottom layer is basically a key-value store. On top of that there’s a full blown SQL layer, which, BTW can work with hierarchical records as well as flat tables. Both support transactions and guarantee global consistency.
The signature doesn't have to be from the developer; it could be a signature from google that marks the extension was compiled from/matches the specified source. If you're running chrome and installing extensions from the chrome web store you're trusting google already.

As evinced by the article, the web store isn't perfectly trustworthy but this kind of validation could be done automatically and I do trust their ability to automate.
cryptocurrency would like a word with you
> deep-inside-baseball from-the-horses-mouth

Does the horse choke on the baseball? Is there an equine version of the Heimlich maneuver to be performed on horses suffering from mixed-metaphorical-adage-induced asphyxiation?
> Not to belittle anyone but...a plumber is licensed. An electrician is licensed. Even a hair stylist is licensed.

How often do you hire some one based on certificates?
Fool me twice google! I won't get fooled again?

In all seriousness, how can anyone advocate for the adoption of this new chat app? After Chat/Buzz/Hangouts/Messenger/Duo/Allo and probably more, I can't with a straight face convince anyone I know to adopt yet another Google messaging product, despite whatever problem it sets out to rectify this time around.

At this point, I have zero trust that the application will continue to get long term support or will even still exist in a few years time. Remember when Google said Hangouts was going to consolidate and fix problems in all these disparate applications as well? Google has lost 100% of the benefit of the doubt with me in regards to trying out new messaging applications and it's not worth putting in the hassle to convince others to use it with me.
Americans will no longer have to sign for credit-card purchases
There are boatloads of studies that show heavy marijuana use is tied to brain damage.

Caution is warranted.
"As part of that effort, Google says it’s “pausing” work on its most recent entry into the messaging space, Allo."

Oh hey look, another app Google is going to neglect and then abandon. What a surprise.

/s
The partition selection / pruning in 10 was not yet improved from older inheritance based "partitioning" (COPY might already have been optimized back then, not sure right now). It's looking different in v11.
I have to assume you're not familiar with his lab at all then:

http://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/?refresh=1

I mean one of their papers on the stuntmen was on the front page of HN recently.

They are most certainly on the forefront.
Well some of us can tick off most of those boxes. Still can't get past the AI gauntlet though.
Data usage is not free and also controlled by carriers.
Thanks - I believe instant and clearer pricing up front is a great strategy that can also be a moat against competitors.
its also a win for them too in that they dont need to provide office space for you
are u sure ? (final)
Well, in a large scale, performing a gradient descent on the earth should always end at an ocean or at an endorheic basin.

Sure, when you increase the "resolution" to meters or smaller, there will be an endless number of mini-endorheic basins. For example, the former Collect Pond in NYC:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collect_Pond
> 1. ... For distributed systems there are more ways to exploit the APIs and gather data on users.

However there is no global state, users only push-pull feeds of friends and friends of friends. (In part for privacy and in part for performance, you don't need to carry all the data for a social network to be useful)

> 3. GDPR compliance about deleting data is almost impossible in a distributed system.

However that doesn't apply to individuals that aren't providing a public service.

> 4. ... Open source software and distributed software tends to be much harder to use.

Yes, however there has been some exiting discussion around what UX could become possible in a decentralized context. See https://coolguy.website/writing/the-future-will-be-technical...

> 5. Any future concern/issue will be much harder to resolve if there are thousands of different instance running decentralized social networks.

There are no instances, only peers. (Pubs are sort of easy to connect to peers and there is work being done on peer discovery to outdate most pubs; they could still be used to connect communits around topics, hobbies, etc as a way to reduce the distance between peers)

> 6. Using AI to detect abusive content or spot fake news is much harder if you only have a subset of the data.

There is no retweeting/sharing, though there is work being done on Out of Order Messaging to propagate a single message along the follow graph and there is work being done on flagging/tagging feeds/ids and posts. (Along with some semantics around how to interpret the flags/tags to improve UX and user control)
Someone needs to replicate this because it wouldn't make any sense for them to make use of them on day one rather than wait and accumulate.

Since you're anonymous anyways, why not just tell us what you know? Are they breached or is the platform itself some sort of trap?
From https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207006 (at the bottom of the help article) - "If Wi-Fi is unavailable, iMessages will be sent over cellular data. Cellular data rates might apply." So I'm not sure if it is free over mobile data.

On the other hand, I believe AT&T zero rates their RCS messages if you have an unlimited texting plan. (e.g. https://www.att.com/shop/wireless/features/advanced-messagin... > FAQ > how much does advanced messaging cost). Could not find details on TMobile except this article: https://newsroom.t-mobile.com/news-and-blogs/rcs-messaging-l...
I spent 6 months moving 13 Microsoft Access apps to Powerbuilder equivalents. We went from daily problems to I could actually enjoy my morning cup of tea.
The short answer, if you read the article again, is because it isn't a new chat app.
One reason would be that they allegedly steal passwords entrusted to their password manager.
But was that because of OOP? Or in spite of it? There are many reasons OOP is used in all of these systems which aren't related to it's technical "superiority".

If popularity is a valuable metric, then javascript is probably the greatest language ever invented (sigh).
The problem is that they can't handle normal piping well and we don't want the extraneous output in our logs & tests.
Distributed Neuroevolution with gRPC