skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm really interested to see where this leads. They got some quick wins out of this, but they're going to need to somehow revert a lot of game systems to get it back to something approximating the vanilla experience.
Speaking as a German here, the German words in that video were pronounced that way for the sole purpose to ridicule our language. No German would ever pronounce them like that.

Not to mention that the supposedly German in that video looks like a Bavarian and believe me here, Bavarians are not Germans and they're not representative of Germany as a whole. Officially and geographically they are, but in reality the Free State of Bavaria is more like its own nation with its own language and culture. They even have their own political party, the CSU, that only campaigns in Bavaria.
It'll be years or maybe even decades before things will be back to normal in Delhi.
I like how you easily you dismiss any counterpoints or examples.

Even with full 100MB blocks you're only looking at ~5TB of storage for a whole year. This is easily attainable for many people, including myself, today. The point isn't to have everyone run full nodes you know, some trust is acceptable.

The fact is cryptocurrencies work very well as a payment system today.

> then I question why you would bet your money at a place where you can't trust the odds

Obviously here you wouldn't need to trust the odds as they are verifiable.

> I don't know why anybody would want that. If you don't control who votes, you end up with rigged votes.

You can have a voting scheme where you give out unique votes, centrally, which you can then yourself without trust verify that your vote is correctly counted. Why anyone would want that should be clear.

> you mean immutable: nobody sane wants that

Many people would want that. There are of course drawbacks.

You can also store hashes of content which you can store elsewhere which you can verify. Like many torrent sites work.
>No. djrogers above literally said that "This is one of the enormous penalties we as a nation have to pay because neither of our political parties actually wants to solve the illegal immigration issue." So unless you want to play games with finding an alternative antecedent for "this", you are going to have to retract that.

The parent's "This" indeed refers to the "150-Year Green Card Wait for Indian Immigrants Wit..." in TFA.

But as the parent explicitly mentions, "this" (the indian immigrants issue" is "ONE OF" the penalties that the US pays.

He then proceeds and explicitly mentions the larger issue they discuss, which is "the illegal immigration issue".

It's not really hard to parse the obvious fact that the parent expands the scope to the overall issue:

"THIS (the Indian wait issue in TFA) is ONE OF the enormous penalties we as a nation have to pay because neither of our political parties actually wants to solve THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION ISSUE".

Obviously he speaks of the "illegal immigration issue" at large.
It could be that there's a beetle in the picture somewhere.
It’s breakable if you use some publically published document as the key as in cipher 2
I took another look at your post, and figured a 2nd comment would be best.

What would be the value of separating users into isolated groups? What if I want to belong to multiple groups? The simple ideology you've used breaks down.

Okay, so you could add extra subgroups, but here's the thing - this sort of thing gets tried all the time, the abstractions inevitably break, the implementer(s) give up (hopefully after not too much time invested).

The TL;DR of this mindset is that complexity is sometimes good. Sometimes the right tool for the job is the most complex tool, which exposes all the features and shows you the 9,999 knobs and switches and buttons at once. Lot to take in, but then you can do whatever you want.

Trying to shoehorn complexity into Fisher-Price user interfaces results in hamstrung yet bloated systems with more complexity than will ever be used. That's what happened with Electron, incidentally, and why some feel so uncomfortable and have such cognitive dissonance about it, I think.
Spanner seems to solve a different problem. It’s effetively a multi-master database where the leader election algorithm can be tuned to ensure that your masters are geographically close to where writes/reads are actually happening.

Many databases are “partitioned” by user anyway so in this case the DB can be smarter if it doesn’t have to handle cross partition queries.

Seems like the idea of partitioning a MySQL database taken to the next level.
He is talking about using it as a hash function and clearly states so. To quote:

> 1. Hash the key
> 2. Map the hash value to a slot

> Knuth [Fibonacci Hash] uses the term “hash function” to refer to something that does both step 1 and step 2.
Wow zero comments? Truth hurts?...
It's a cliche.
Using Wikipedia for Mathematics Self-Study
You really should contact me in confidence. We’ve done almost exactly this and the data I have is compelling.
The cool thing about the ICE trains and NS trains (Netherlands) is that you can get to the station and just walk on the train. Unlike in Spain where there are long security X-ray lines.
Meta as fuck
Silk Road creator's alleged ally extradited to the US
I would think it wouldn't get things right. But it should get things less incorrect.

The ingredients are a set of items. Preparation is a sequence of steps with the ingredients as input. A neural network taught on lots of recipes should be able to come with sequences that actually make sense given the ingredients.
FIFA World Cup Matches – Live Results
I remember reading somewhere that supposedly when fsck was first introduced there was different letter in place of s.
The bug in the $800M ICON(ICX) token, explained
I have ADD, and at least one form of meditation clearly helps me makes choices better for me when I do it regularly.
Many people are clearly motivated in a way that is detrimental to them, and if it helps them in a similar way, they might very well become less motivated by seeing their situation more clearly. Work is a necessity, an abstracted exchange of labour.

But if the same holds for people without ADD and the most common meditation methods. Work output and quality is still going to be higher, although your employees might not appear as enthusiastic as before.
Perhaps you're right about cetaceans or octopi, but as far as terrestrial animals, I haven't seen any evidence that any of them are smarter than a young human child.

What makes you think terrestrial animals are smarter than young children, or that something less intelligent than a young child has any coherent commentary?
Third annual ReactOS Hackfest 2018 (everyone is invited to hack some code)
no it's not.
You really have this completely wrong. I am a systems/network engineer and am newer to the business side. Asking here to get some upsight into the people side. Thank you for pointing out that things run on servers, that was news to me.
> dust from the field

That's a man made problem. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl
But when covered with wires and pipes and such, they may look quite complicated at first glance.

This is like saying programming is just a bunch of 1’s and 0’s and it only look complicated because of the random curly brackets and semicolons.
I actually assumed he picked up the train and just realized he decided to drive instead by reading your comment.
I think the problem is that "code" straddles this very thin line between technology and operations. The value of technology is that you can solve a problem and perform it more effectively essentially indefinitely. Operations are much more fluid; the most effective way to run operations changes constantly and evolves over time. I think a lot of our time is wasted trying to capture operational logic that is unlikely to persist over long periods of time, and that's where some sort of code decay mechanism would he useful. But the flip side is that occasionally your code will encapsulate something more technological, a solution that addresses a core function of your business or whatever other problem space, and then you have code that you absolutely 100% do not want to decay. I'm not sure there's any clear mechanism to distinguish between those two things. Your idea of scanning code that runs in production might be a good place to start, but plenty of pseudo-dead code (logic that ought to be decayed but manages to run anyway) will probably continue to accrue.
I'm sure the difficulty is not in solving the optimal packing. Any decent heuristic is probably good enough.

The difficulty is to build a machine that can physically put the parcels into the truck.
How to combat 'phoneliness'
> The outliers who really do fine with just a few hours are just that: outliers.

Or you could look at them as people at the forefront of evolution, leading us to a future where we need less sleep.
I wonder how many of those 150k will convert to paying players.
Barrens. General. Chat... /shudder
The SV speak had almost made me forget the original meaning of the word isn’t always positive

It isn’t positive in that sense either, given that it really means evading taxes and regulations.
As the author of the bestselling books on Amazon for both Interviews and Resumes, I’m pretty impressed. Few university career guidelines are presented as readably and attractively as this one. It avoids the trap of suggesting “active verbs” and instead suggests a quite effective list of “action verbs.” And the summary of the differences between CV and resume are the best I’ve ever seen.

A really terrific job by MIT Career Development.

My works on the topics as reference:
https://www.amazon.com/Ladders-2018-Resume-Guide-Practices-e...

https://www.amazon.com/Ladders-2018-Interviews-Guide-Questio...
Robert Moses would never have let any of that happen. There’s a lot of hierarchy in companies, naturally. The team constructs are artificially induced.
It’s like having your cake and eating it too.
These Harvard kids got the lesson of their life in the Heartland
FUN: JMP FUN; Learning about Assembly with Games
What part of CAP is being sacrified here? I'm not seeing it.
Ask HN: What companies you know are most true to their mission statement?
Good call. I’d put it in a top 100, even top 10, for post-zombie/Trumplightenment civilization rebuild.
_Alignof(max_align_t)

should be

_Alignas(max_align_t)

or

_Alignas(_Alignof(max_align_t))
Jan Gehl: In Search of the Human Scale
About 135 miles.

Will the CA train run at 186 mph or 220 mph?

This will translate to an extra 30-45 minutes?
Actually it sounds like early one he decided it wasn't legit. He says he only stayed with Theranos because he literally couldn't find a position elsewhere.
But it's based on the perception of the outside observer. You DO sound angry even though you are having fun when you talk. Ofcourse there are less loud, angry sounding people but in general when listening to people conversing, it sounds like they are angry with eachother. I'm a swede with german wife so lots of biased experience. When she and her friends talk, they always sound angry. Even people at the store sounds angry.
No. As an engineer myself, this is exactly what I'm working to avoid. I know we could terminate, but these people have built careers and have deep knowledge of the systems and business, I'm not letting them go without at least giving them the choice to retrain.
Well in the general case it’s hardly tricking them, right? For most platforms that is exactly what the user needs to do.

But is that really the worst thing about it? Or have you heard other things?

I’m a desktop Linux users but even I don’t try using Skype on Linux.
An ICO in wolves clothing. Beware gifts promising magic. Especially if the magic depends on the dexterity of such a volatile organ.
That once-a-quarter rare bug handling code is not going to fare well with automatic deletion of code that doesn't get exercised in production.

In some domains, I've heard of up to half the code being code that handles rare conditions.

More importantly than removing mature code, it seems to me that pieces of code that are in use and haven't changed in a while are good candidates for applying formal methods.
I've used a spreadsheet with the same basic functionality as this for years and it worked just fine. The main problem with it was when folks asked me to share it with them the spreadsheet wasn't exactly user friendly. Putting it in web app form makes it easier to identify which fields are meant to be edited and ensures that the formulas aren't accidentally changed.

The web app can be used without an account just to experiment and plug some numbers in. My hope is that it can still be useful to folks that'd prefer not to save their data just to get some rough insights and perhaps be a starting point for developing their own custom spreadsheets.
isn't pollution a price we, kinda, have to pay to move to the next step? See USA until EPA, China etc... You reach a certain level of industrialization and then let other countries choke
End of the great card payment rip-off? No, it’s just a new one
Building DSLs in Kotlin for Fun and Profit
This was my first thought too. Although I must admit I didn't play WoW until the release of BC (Burning Crusade) and stopped when Cata finished. So I never really got to experience what was special about Vanilla. More specifically for why I'd want WOTLK is for Arena. The last season was the most balanced that I ever experienced it and some of the most fun I've ever had playing WoW or any game in general.

Jumping back to Vanilla one thing I hate about the current expansions is quest helper and honestly this rings true for other games (Destiny for example) as well. I think the lack of a quest/mission guide is a better experience for the player. I remember playing BC and had a blast trying to complete quest. You had to really pay attention and read the quest for specifics and clues to figure out what was needed or where to go. The completion of quest back then felt so rewarding. Now you just look at your map and follow the "little dotted line"[1] then rinse and repeat. This struggling with quest is what I'm most looking forward to with classic WoW.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzOCkXsyIqo
It's almost as if the guy who wrote that their approach isn't working had a point. Nah, crazy talk!
> I bet you’re not that far from 99% on supercomputers running Linux. Drivers are not the bulk of the system.

No, compilers should also count, and i'm not just talking about drivers. Everything from data storage (file system) to data transfer between the different racks of a supercomputer is usually proprietary. Seriously, look it up.

> Obviously desktops aren’t at 99% unless you’re running Linux.

No, even your Linux desktop is far from being 100% open source. How about the BIOS? The Intel microcode? Even open source GPU drivers interface with proprietary interfaces on the actual hardware. And let's not forget that many Linux distros don't make it very clear if what you are installing is actually free software or a proprietary blob. The reality is that it's very hard to have something fully running on free/open source software from A to Z.
Indexes? Seems to be there are indexes fromNode, toNode and for edges.
When I was a new developer it was all the rage to use static analysis tools to calculate cyclomatic complexity.

There were even processes that required justifying branches.

Unsurprisingly people just turned to patterns that masked the cyclomatic complexity from the tools.
Social Skills Guide for Adults
9 ways to improve your presenting and public speaking voice: V – Voice
Ah yeah, that was the one. :)
What Data Deluge in Life Sciences Means for Exascale and Clouds
NIH shuts down controversial $100M drinking study backed by Big Alcohol
Dreaming up artificial realities using only our brains.

One day we will all be gods.
For many, style over substance wins every time. Who cares if something works correctly if it’s beautiful and designed with love!

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The cost of running WoW servers per player must have plummeted in 15 years, thanks to both better devops and better hardware. They might be ok with a freemium model.
It's raft; thus firmly CP.
Recently the board voted against recommendations made by employees to increase diversity. It's pretty clear what priority the Google board gives to diversity, which is their right even if wrong.
Is that how you read my comment? Odd, because that's not what I wrote at all. The comment I replied to suggested that the timing of a child's birth was completely random and unpredictable. I suggested that's not the case. I don't know how you got from what I wrote to what you read, that's quite a mental leap!
How is it wrong? Who are you to know better what is good for Google than the Google executives?
Automatic Summarization of Resumes Using NER
Automotive AC units use HCFC/HFC gases not HC, HCFC/HFC are not flammable.

If Tesla used R-290 or R-600 (propane and iso-butane) refrigerants in their AC they are well idiots and there is little chance that this would’ve passed regulation.

The video you linked looks just like batery venting.

https://youtu.be/WnZuMfq6kec
https://archive.fo/02dUk just in case
It looks exactly like the battery venting.
The way I put it to colleagues is that my big monitor is mine, not yours. If you write wide code, then you're taking up space I'd use to tile.
Sloppy reporting:

"Just over 25% of leaders were women in 2018, up nearly 5% since 2014."

Actually it's up 4.7 percentage points, or about 25% (not 5%).
Sorry to nitpick but if we're adding variances, 4.5^2 + 4.8^2 = 6.6^2
There isn't really one "correct" way to meditate. There are a number of ways. You can observe thoughts, sounds, bodily awareness, specific bodily sensations, feelings, the breath, look at some specific object or a combination of all these. Meditation can be an active activity (you're trying to cultivate certain intentions) or it can be passive (you just let things happen). You can choose to be more narrowly focused on your meditation object or less and just let whatever comes, comes. In my view, as long as you're focused on something without judgement then you're meditating. Mindfulness meditation would be a subset of this where you're observing your own experience without judgment. I really doubt that this alone would lead to knowing what is good for you and what isn't, without an underlying philosophy (which Buddhism provides, but the westernized secular version of mindfulness meditation does not).

Edit: I guess I should also add that Buddhist philosophy is influenced by insights that could be gained from meditation but my feeling is that the average person doing mindfulness meditation for 10 minutes a day is not having these insights. So my main argument here is that you can be meditating correctly and not having these insights.
Ignoring the quality of the article and cited study, I did massively cut down my meditation routine for exactly this reason.

Essentially, through meditation I learnt how to release "knots in my brain". This was exceedingly pleasant to an extent I cannot emphasize enough.

But then I realized that these knots in my brain were often associated with things I wanted to figure out.

I used to release them by figuring something out. But when I knew how to release them a whole lot quicker without having to ever bother with the difficulty of figuring something out, naturally I figured stuff out a whole lot less.

That made me sad. So I decided that particular meditation skill was one I wanted to unlearn.
Apparently not ;)
I was surprised to find a game as big as WoW to have a data strucutre which clearly violates some basic forms [1] of database formalization. Isn't database normalizaton something that any cs program teaches in the first few semesters?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_normalization
Given all that, I have wondered if there was ever any intent to actually develop any working tech at all. How many blood samples did they get scanned with other people's money before being shuttered, and how much is that database worth?
> Again, doesn't contradict anything I said.

Yes it does. You said: “Reciprocating engines were far more complex mechanically, but lasted as long as they did before being supplanted by jet (gas turbine) engines precisely because of how much easier it was to build and maintain them.”

I pointed out that they were not easier to build. Jet engines were.

> An iPhone is cheaper to build today than a typical computer of the 1960s.

That’s just being disingenuous. The first production jet engines were cheaper to build than piston engines of the same era.

> you're probably not going to say "oh well, won't build any planes for the next few decades, because the engines we'd use today are way more complex and less useful than the ones we'll have eventually"

It wasn’t a few decades. The first production jet engines obsoleted piston engines in fighter aircraft almost immediately. And in airliners in the 50s, by which time they were already more reliable.

> Jet engines are hard.

Maybe, but we've been building them successfully for 70 years. To get back to the grandparent point, What ‘fundamental technology’ is China missing that makes them unable to build advanced jet engines? Are they really so far behind metallurgy that they can’t?
Are we getting closer to [0] instead of [1] ?

[0] https://libraryofbabel.info
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvMxLpce3Xw
Ask HN: Which software systems are required for large companies?
Hello HN,

I am trying to find out the software systems that big corporations are obligated to use due to compliance reasons or industry practices.

Thank you.
Then you locked in Akka?
I'm sorry but that's silly. Everybody in physics knows the Michelson-Morley experiment.
That will be a huge culture clash there. Current servers have a very anti-SJW population. WoW classic really is a classic game. I expect to read lots of angry Kotaku articles, haha.
As an economic principal what you suggest is not the best use of inventor assets and compounds when you factor in employee efficiency/return per employee. If you invested your hard earned money into this business you would want cost efficiencies and high productivity. Company executives have a fiduciary responsibility to do so in the US. If you're running a business and are not seeking cost efficiency but instead are more interested in employee satisfaction, likely you should be in HR and let the CEO handle day to day operations and the bottom line, so you can contribute to the company by driving employee retention, satisfaction or some metric that reflects positively on the bottom line. It's OK to the a CEO. It's OK to be in HR. It's not OK to be a CEO in HR. It's not OK to be a HR as CEO.
People often write about how outreach efforts such as Google's are illegal. They are not. There's a very specific law that encourages it. I learned about it because Karen Sandler told me about it when she explained to me why Outreachy went from outreaching to women to also outreach to specific US minorities. It's the only change that this US law allowed.

https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2017-title29-vol4/xml/CFR-...
Amusing that they don't mention that they're able to better predict your location because of your phone's Wi-Fi.

Tracking people is necessary [0] as Uber needs to provide better services.

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/12/01/50...
Please do share any other reads :), thanks
I suspect that running transactions over multiple partitions would incur more coordination overhead and probably won’t perform well.
Sure. It can come out while there’s (artificial) light out, which probably means that it’s exposed to predators who, in between artificial light and human activity, have moved their hours of activity into the later hours. Riskier behaviour means more chances to get themselves killed.