skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've linked to a duplicate of this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1427622
AutoCAD is vast, recursive, and bloated. I really hope someone comes out with a lightweight version that does less, better.
Why do you think they are using persistence at all, and why do you think Basic Tier doesn't have data loss on scaling?

I read it differently. When they say full cache flush doesn't that imply full database flush, I was thinking all data gets wiped on scaling operation.
headline doesn't match link
Restrictions on how private parties can provide a private service are ubiquitous in every market. In the US, home-cooked meal startups get shut down because their uninspected kitchen doesn't meet commercial standards. In Ethiopia, you need a local entity with an IT license (seriously) to import a Dell server that you've already purchased. In Canada, you can't agree to an employment contract that allows for zero-notice zero-compensation firing when you didn't do something extreme like steal. Etc.

I don't think most of the people who find Facebook convenient for coordinating groups actually choose the tracking knowingly and willingly (at best begrudgingly), nor do they choose to exclude the people who object more proactively to those things even when that's the effect.

Society's legislative and regulatory choices have a valid role to fix negative externalities of what economic actors would otherwise naturally do. Natural monopolies/oligopolies like electric companies, highway operators, and Facebook are all worth regulating for roughly the same reasons - even according to Orthodox free-market undergraduate microeconomics 101.
Do it here and now! Take all the risks in the world and don't listen to the system. Don't get a 9-5 job right away. Location doesn't matter, failure is a good thing.

In other words, I should have taken the entrepreneurial route right away. My environment wasn't promoting that at all back in the days so it's easy to say today...
Is it a real company, or just a website or project? As a hiring manager, nothing gets a resume into the trash faster than someone calling themselves a CEO of some small website or weekend project.
The map shows he meant the CME Group's data center in Aurora: http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/colocation/co-location-servi...
I know more people who still use a Zune. (1)
Find a book that introduces to programming patterns.
I read 'Design Patterns' from the Head-First series when starting out
http://www.headfirstlabs.com/books/hfdp/
> pure nicotine is harmful too

In what way? A summary [1] I have read some time ago does not seem to suggest nicotine is really harmful in any obviously offputting way.

[1] https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine#health-issues
Any language in the area of discourse is a Turing-complete language. Therefore you can do anything you'd like to in any language.

Besides, I would be highly critical of anyone who claims to know a variety of languages since it probably means they are only familiar with a strict subset of their standard libraries and quirks. Or that knowledge is incredibly outdated.

Learning the syntax is one thing, the more time-consuming for development part is always knowing the quirks and patterns used today.
If they had the same kind of investment support, hype, and customer satisfaction as Uber, they might be really successful. But it doesn't sound like they have any of them.

Uber is getting support from everyone to subsidize the cost of rides. And the ploy is to wait until self-driving cars are viable. I guess the market is saying that movie theater chains can hold out against bargaining for longer than that.
Oh, just found out that Google News has what you're looking for: go to headlines section.

I opened the app and found it weird that there were news about Taylor Swift, the British royal wedding and a lot of other topics that I'm not interested in. Then I noticed I was in the "headlines" section, and not the "for you" section.

I'm glad they split both up.
Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug and The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman.

While they're not strictly software or programming related, I really like the concepts of making interfaces that require minimal thought to use and empathizing with your users. I've seen an unfortunate amount of "programming machismo" where a confusing or poorly engineered system is used and accepted because "that's just how things work in the real world". And whenever someone struggles with the process, it's obviously because they're wrong, not the system. But more often than not, if more than one person has trouble understanding your system, whether it's an API, a website, a build process, the design is the issue.
Yeah, and look what a failure crypto currency has become…

Combined crypto currency market capitalization is currently nearing 1% of the market capitalization of the entire planet.

IOW, great thesis.
Facebook makes big structural changes and launches blockchain division
It's almost like the magnitude has something to do with it.
It sounds like they're scaling by adding larger instances, replicating, and then failing over. So they'll lose any data that hasn't been synced to the new instance when the failover occurs. I'd bet it's rare, but they're being explicit about it.

The Basic Tier probably only uses one instance, so they just replace it in place.
Code Complete. I found Code Complete to be as eye opening for day to day work as SICP is while learning in University.
Proposed fix: https://bug1387695.bmoattachments.org/attachment.cgi?id=8901...
Might be hardware related. Did you provide your HW profile in the bug report?
This is
a 296-page JavaScript tutorial I recently finished. The full text is available for free online; for more about the book, and for a 20% launch discount on the ebook formats, see the launch post here:

https://news.learnenough.com/learn-enough-javascript-to-be-d...
Then after 25 cases they'd be bankrupt for the year.
Aha! That detail (that it's specific to scaled resolution) explains so much!
“Decentralisation in stages” – Streamr DataCoin’s approach
relax and release

be patient and go with the flow of life

you are on a speck of dirt spinning in a vast space of nothingness
Chinas "Social credit" score has nothing on the US. We are much more sophisticated, privatizing all that monitoring: from credit scores to pre-crime assessments..
Isn't that like people wishing for a more lightweight Excel not realizing the "80% of people only 20% of the features" is true but it's not the same 20%? Could you even come up with a financially viable lightweight enough Autocad competitor?
In business circles there appears to be widespread panic about GDPR.

Amongst "ordinary" people, there is a growing sense of unease about data collection - reflected in the "Facebook must be listening to my phone because they overheard a conversation I was having and now I'm seeing ads for it".

I believe people are starting to understand the implications of data collection and are quite unhappy about it.
Do not start a company on your own in germany.
That's interesting. So now a student can come back and demand you delete their permission slip for a field trip?
Navigation System Helps Autonomous Cars Tackle Country Roads
Consumer spending going away means business spending going away which means jobs go away... Which means more consumer spending goes away and you can fill in the rest.

Personal Consumption Expenditures make up ~70% of the US GDP. Unless you really enjoy recessions you don't want to see it go down.
Adults are mostly grown children, and you are at least as capable.
The Boy Scout Rule Is Now the Scout Rule
Play Store rollout always takes a bit longer
How the Father of Computer Science Decoded Nature's Mysterious Patterns
I wish I had continued working as a developer outside the tech industry, as I did in the early years of my career. I've learned more while working in the tech industry, but I've also burnt out multiple times and generally been treated much more poorly. I wish I had stuck with those instincts that initially kept me away. I'm much less happy overall, though that likely has as much to do with aging as anything else.
Remember where your loyalty lies. Difficult to revisit the hidden work you did for the man, easy to revisit work done in the open. Favor authoring for transparency and posterity over opacity and money.
Back when I was just graduating from college I picked up a book called "Coder to Developer: Tools and Strategies for Delivering Your Software". It was basically written for people who knew how to write code, but not all the stuff that comes with it in a professional setting - unit testing, build systems, version control, deployment and monitoring, etc.

I'd have a hard time recommending it per se, because it relies heavily for examples on specific technologies that were dated even when I was reading it half a decade ago, but I think something like it with that kind of content is a must-read for anyone starting in SE, especially coming from a CS degree that might have been light on those areas. If I could find a version that's more recent I'd recommend it to every new grad I know.
Embulk (https://www.embulk.org)

- Define your datapipelines with yaml + ruby (using ruby proc filter)

- Functionality can be extended with ruby(or java) based plugins.

Been using this for few years, works beautifully.
Hmm. Let's consider the forces involved here:
1. Apple makes their hardware in China.
2. Apple sells their hardware in China.
3. If Apple doesn't comply with China, 1 could be affected, not just 2.
4. Apple cannot move their hardware manufacturing to US (now), without losing their competitive edge, because everybody makes their hardware in China.

Do you think if Apple could be privacy oriented in China, it wouldn't? It simply doesn't have the power to do it in China. Don't equate it to Google, FB and numerous others who despite having a chance to be privacy oriented in US, won't.

This is like Cantor's infinities. Sure they are all infinities. But they aren't the same.
Don't Make Me Think is a good one, but I always felt like its lessons could have been summed up in an infographic...though I guess that would be missing the context to get people over that hill. I guess if you don't know that intuitively, you're the kind of person that needs that book.
The company is building a decentralized data streaming platform/marketplace for monetizing data produced by the Internet of Things.
You can download the apk straight from Mozilla: https://firefox.com/m
Yes, but clicking "like" on a celebrity's FB page is not personally identifiable information. You cannot use to it discover the person's identity.

To connect to other users on a service, I don't need to know any personal details about them, only their chosen username, which can be completely random and have no relation to their identity.
If you'd like to see what Google has about you, you can visit https://www.google.com/settings/takeout (or search for "Google Takeout"). Google has maintained and updated its own solution to export data it has collected from you, the user.

While I do trust Google more than I trust Facebook, I also actively avoid giving information to Google (through various practices).
Event Sourcing with Lagom on GCP
Apps are one risk, but it's an opt-in risk.

Telecom companies are also another risk, and much larger one in that, because there is no opt out of location sharing with them. Same with analytics on your telco network traffic.
"Squashing free speech in effect is dangerous"

Sure, but limiting speech in your private forum isn't squashing free speech.

Unless your definition of free speech is being able to say whatever you want whenever and wherever you want with absolutely no consequences from anyone.

Not inviting a friend for lunch because of their annoying Taylor Swift obsession is, by that definition, squashing free speech.
Can someone explain use cases of using remote redis? Doesn't network delay is a big downside?
> What does that mean?

It means you can't deny service if the consent is not granted by the user.

> Why did you link to your parent comment?

Because in it I try to explain why donatj's theory that FB can simply deny service if people don't consent seems incorrect to me.
If American tech companies ever pull out of Europe, other startups will quickly fill the void. After all, it's not like the technology isn't available in Europe. Somebody just needs to build a product using it.

That would be great for diversity, not to mention provide a fertile playground for much-needed alternatives. Too bad it probably won't happen.
Open about:debugging, goto Manifest URL of the extension, search for 'permissions'.
+1 to Coders at Work. That book does an excellent job of showing the human side of programming.

I think too many people approach the industry thinking programmers are god-like deities who have an unlimited amount of time and brain power. Coders at Work does a great job breaking down the "imposter syndrome" plaguing new people coming into the industry.
My parents still use their touchpad.
Le Petit Prince. Certainly you’ve read this but it should be reread on occasion and starting a career is a good time.

eg “You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed”
I find it a struggle to use pomodoro in an office environment. Too many meatspace distractions. Pomodoro is best when you are working by yourself on something.

Of course office distractions are a problem in more than just that way. Hard to stay in the zone when things keep yanking you out.
The GDPR effectively outlaws certain business models. "You pay with your data" is one of them.
Glom – Restructured Data for Python
Disrespecting a court is a serious crime. Much more serious than pricing a drug out of the reach of those who need it.
>It is also hypocritical for privacy advocates to purchase products from China.

If you take Apple out of the argument for a second, thats quite a complex case. I think you can have two positions "we don't compromise on privacy" and "were trying to improve the situation the best way we know how". Under #2, you could make the argument that buying a general purpose tool such as a computer made in china, and using it to promote privacy is a net benefit, than not having the tool to promote your cause.
(author here).

Mara data integration is indeed a glorified version of Make (with cost based scheduling and lots of visualizations)
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp
I wish someone with the time would start producing a "De-Mozilla'ed" fork a la Chromium. I think Firefox has gotten to that point, things like this and the Mr. Robot fiasco indicate the project needs to be saved from itself.
The GDPR does not allow you to make access contingent on PII data collection, unless your service cannot possibly work without it.
No Thanks, Google. I'll Speak for Myself
> 6. i’m less competent at js than html and css

This is why a lot of front end folks should look at an alternative like intercooler:

http://intercoolerjs.org

It is far less violent to deal with, with a much lower barrier to entry and satisfies most needs of most web apps.
BricsCAD is pretty popular.

https://www.bricsys.com/en-us/bricscad/
Which Is the Best DOCSIS 3.0 modem in 2018?
A lot of the optimizations I found (in taskwarrior) was allowing the app to figure out what I needed to do next. Due dates and expected duration and priority...all done programmatically.

I really only needed that for work, as my personal life is much easier managed with pencil and paper.
The owner of this website (through-the-interface.typepad.com) has banned your IP address

Whelp, I guess I didn't care that much.
Superdupermegapreviouslies:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=books&sort=byPopularity&prefix...
Cool! I saw that thread last week, but didn't check back in to see that antirez responded.
Anyone else get the bug where it doesn't auto-fill (shows grey box), you right click and it shows that you have no stored logins, and then once you close that (right click) menu you are prompted like normal? This happens to me frequently, though seems to be specific sites.
per the comments section, it appears that the engineer is open sourcing or maybe has already open sourced (discussion was 6 months ago) their testing setup so perhaps someone can check his work?

Maybe the lack of notice of investment should have been noticed earlier (or perhaps should be amended to include), but I'd assume an engineer isn't aware of details of who is providing funding (don't work for them, though, so maybe they do). The engineer specifies the metric that matters most to them is long term cost (performance per watt) so with that, I don't get the feeling that their conclusion is flawed when comparing ARM vs Intel in consumer space. We host a few pre-core ASP.NET web applications so I'm fairly certain we wouldn't come to the same conclusion due to use cases. I will say, though, based on the Bloomberg article vs the Cloudflare one, I'm a bit bummed as it seems like long term it'd be a good avenue where applicable and losing a competitor is unfortunate.
Chiming in here. I would absolutely love to switch to Firefox for a host of reasons, ranging from "I don't want to use Google products" to "I love the tabs". Unfortunately, it's completely unusable for my workflow on a 2015 Macbook Pro with 16G RAM. I keep a variety of tabs pinned (JIRA, Zeplin, Gitlab, Jenkins, Invision, etc) and it seems as if they continue to hog a disproportionate amount of resources even when in the background, which is not an issue on Chrome.
He's not wrong
I'm surprised the tooling isn't mentioned more...

To be fair, this reads to me more as a midstream reflection on the learning curve, not supplying any kind of solution for any of them.
I wonder if anyone has ever successfully sued a credit reporting agency for defamation when the agency reports information about fraudulent accounts.

Seems like it would be very easy to demonstrate damages.
The exact opposite from gnu
grogers explained my intent well, especially around the promotion of a replica to a primary work load (thank you). I think we're arguing semantics between optimizing machine code and rewriting mysqld. I want to emphasize that Dynamizer looks super awesome, and I do intend to try it, so no offense was intended. Well done!
This is not an effective way to convince someone you know what you’re talking about.
It is intended to be accessed by resources running in the same Google Cloud zone/region, so the network latency is minimal.
The L train is actually the one train with fully upgraded signals, and no track sharing with other trains. Probably for that reason, it also has the highest on-time percentage of all trains.
Or as we used to say, anyone can sell a dollar for ninety cents.
Some relativistically distant foe tries to wipe us out from some time in the past (light speed, so many many years ago). We recover from this event fully and locate the source.

Why attempt to retaliate? This would be like waging war on Italy for atrocities committed in roman times wouldn't it? Even if you could guarantee success, you have no information about the moral culpability of the target, and would have to assume they have lifespans many multiples of humans to assume any such quality, wouldn't you?
> To understand why banks are scaling back and why it causes American Samoa such pain, imagine a basic small-town bank. It takes in paychecks and other deposits from locals and uses them as reserves when lending to their neighbors, who then invest in property and businesses.

> That model breaks down when banks span states or countries. The big banks with tiny branches in American Samoa are happy to take deposits from locals, but when it comes to lending that money back out, it makes cold, actuarial sense to focus on bigger, safer clients elsewhere.

This is another pretty good general argument against bank consolidation. In addition to increasing economic fragility during crises, large banks also neglect real communities that need their services during the good times.
Another vote for The Phoenix Project. It really helps to set the right mindset for identifying and addressing the multitude of non-technical challenges that quickly become the focus of many (I'd venture most) developers' careers.
Their plan is to make it up in volume, clearly.
Infographic: App Academy 2017 alumni survey
A first look at Chrome's Picture in Picture mode
It would be a long shot. But until something changes, Autodesk is just going to keep layering tools, buttons, and menus on top of each other. It's such a rubber band ball now, they would have to start over to make something efficient. But there's no real competition, because even though it's incredibly cludgy, it will work if you learn it's labyrinth.
Life gets better after 50
Agree I don't think it is persistent. "a full cache flush" represents all data loss to me.
Dear me, 1986: Learn C, it will solve your money problems!

(That's the youngest self I think would have taken any advice.)
I guess this is like storing mined 1800's gold in one's home. Totally unsecured, especially for the average Joe. Once it's gone, it's gone.
Enjoy the time when you get to pick your children's clothes.
The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse.
Yes, twice.
I disagree. Jobs want multiple languages nowadays.
The github link has a better explanation to what is going on:

https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum-docs/blob/master/decomp...
It could most likely be done on any internet reservation system with little to no effort.
Risk arbitrage.
I'm certainly not one to always come to the defense of law enforcement, but this headline is false. He was not arrested for leaving his car idling. He was arrested for refusing to cooperate when being ticketed for leaving his car idling.
It would be extremely trivial to transport a time-keyed, completely random one-time-pad out of band (e.g. over a commodity internet link/vpn) so long as there is sufficient difference in bandwidth,
and then simply XOR the data with it.. good luck cracking that.

and that's just what a few seconds of thinking came up with.
Remote work will be a thing someday. Choose a specialty that's better suited for it (not embedded or instrument control).
Can't wait to see the new redesign. Hopefully it takes some hints from the host platform - it'd be great to have Riot feeling more at home on macOS!
You mean completely flouting the regulations and muddying the waters by putting up ToS compliance popups that don't have anything to do with GDPR, in order to fool their users?
Tried. No success. I've also fully-uninstalled it with CleanMyMac, also to no success.
If Redis Cluster support is coming soon, how are they currently handing cross region replication and failover? Is Redis Sentinel (painful and requires client support) deprecated now?
I'd be more inclined to write a pro forma letter, then sue for statutory damages for technical violations under the FCRA and/or FDCPA the instant the established deadlines pass. It puts the burden of proving the validity of the debts on them, and if they ignore you or drag their heels, you win by default.
App Academy Survey: after reaching $100,000, coders look for “meaningful” work
You must have your head in the sand if you don't see the "fear media" also warning you about legit companies tracking you.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/11/technology/facebook-priva...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-07/even-priv...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-has-more-of-your-personal-d...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2018/05/03/what-th...
I don't get what the benefit of using React is, aside from having it on my resume. A virtual DOM? What does that get me? It renders faster? Rendering speed is not a problem my CRUD screens have. Etc., etc.

Perhaps some UIs are so complex and dynamic that they're easier to build and maintain using React. I'm not saying other people shouldn't use React, but I'm fairly certain it wouldn't give me enough payback to justify the investment it requires.
Nope, the GDPR does not consider a flawed business model to be a valid reason to breach users' privacy.
Yeah plus I find it strange that their telemetry isn’t picking this up.