skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Check out:

The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama, which has a pretty long section about how the Catholic Church in medieval Europe worked really hard to break up the power of clans. (It is one reason why they forced priests to become celebate.)

Along the same lines see History of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church by Henry Lea.

South America's conversion to Catholicism came long after this period was largely over.

Family & extended family in Western Europe and the US is nothing like it is in some other places in the world. Do you -- and 50 other descendents -- take a plane trip every year to go to your grandfather's grave 1,000 miles away to pray to him on the anniversary of the day he died for good luck? We do that here.
I'm intrigued that a billboard is above the line, but banners and placards on the roads are below the line.
RealNames for everyone, Google+ lives!

If pseudonyms are permitted, then how will collisions be handled? Aren’t we right back to DNS namespace collisions and years of case law on domain name trademark disputes?

Organizations that paid millions for domain name real estate will object to their assets becoming worthless overnight. Can they sue Google?
Well in their case if they had to they could axe most of their sales and marketing spending, and become cash flow neutral and survive a hiccup.
Oh as a filmmaker, you might not think you are making garbage. But the studio giving you money to make a film for a quota knows you wont make anything of general appeal. Maybe a few people will like it, but the rest will see it as garbage.

There are dozens of French and German films made under this theory.
Being familiar with Strong Towns I would say the author agrees with you. In general Strong Towns tries to point out that the older and lower income parts of town typically produce a substantial tax surplus while the newer and higher income parts of town are a substantial tax drain. This is because, while each individual homeowner may pay more in property tax, they live in much less density and newer infrastructure is usually a lot more expensive (due to increased engineering requirements, ie. more pavement, fancy street lights, etc.) -- so there are fewer people paying for much more expensive infrastructure.

This is obviously unjust, and the organization is trying to help bring awareness to the problem to help create a movement for change.
It’s really just a wrapper around Lucene and a distributed database and REST API bolted on top.

…I completely understand all the rage?
I'm surprised this search isn't advertised on Wikipedia's homepage [0]. Nevertheless it is a wonderful cause and I hope some of the museum's visitors find this and share their photos.

Going forward, is there a protocol for imaging and storing the characteristics of newly discovered artifacts?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Your first marketing hire should probably be a director-level person who can be made accountable for generating a sales pipelines, with experience at a company 2-5x your size.

Good advice. Many companies just hire the first jackass that talks a good game. But much of marketing is being a jackass that talks a good game.
I got one too during the Kickstarter, for myself. :-)

I've reached the point where I'm starting to use the gears for one-shot events but I haven't had the time to go further yet.
That's true, but those same regulatory requirements reduce the impact of monopolizing on consumers. Youtube has already achieved a monopoly without the responsibilities of public service and consumer protection that usually come with them
Correct. My wife does this and the cap is something like 91 or 92% of gross profits. (There's a few types of tax that come out first, but it's over 90% that you can sock away if you choose.)
Subscription was the bulk of their revenue, over licensing and services...
Yes, really good social media would only discuss fact.
It's not elastic's fault, but it is elastic's problem if they can't get paid.
Market likely will be assessing them on billings and then afterwards looking for FCF expansion, and finally tracking Non-GAAP op. margin. At ~80% Y/Y FY'18 billings growth investors probably focus on that metric.
I became aware of the Gujarati hospitality empire some decades ago, when my work involved community organizing in the rural US. I was finding that just about all the old motels on state highways were run by Gujaratis. And when I'd become a regular, some would share about their experience. And would invite my friends and me for dinner, which was heaven. Especially given that the alternatives were typically burgers, steaks or fried chicken.
If the object is modified in place (as it seems to be in this case), then the “pythonic” approach is:

img = ...
img.resize(...)
img.blur(....)
img.hflip()
And it all started with Shay Banon attempting to build a cooking app for his wife who was a chef.

> JAXenter: You started Compass, your first Lucene­-based technology, in 2004. Do you remember how and why you became interested in Lucene in the first place?

> Shay Banon: Reminiscing on Compass birth always puts a smile on my face. Compass, and my involvement with Lucene, started by chance. At the time, I was a newlywed that just moved to London to support my wife with her dream of becoming a chef. I was unemployed, and desperately in need of a job, so I decided to play around with “new age” technologies in order to get my skills more up­to­date. Playing around with new technologies only works when you are actually trying to build something, so I decided to build an app that my wife could use to capture all the cooking knowledge she was gathering during her chef lessons.

> I picked many different technologies for this cooking app, but at the core of it, in my mind, was a single search box where the cooking knowledge experience would start a single box where typing a concept, a thought, or an ingredient would start the path towards exploring what was possible.

> This quickly led me to Lucene, which was the defacto search library available for Java at the time. I got immersed in it, and Compass was born out of the effort of trying to simplify using Lucene in your typical Java applications (conceptually, it simply started as a “Hibernate” (Java ORM library) for Lucene).

> I got completely hooked with the project, and was working on it more than the cooking app itself, up to a point where it was taking most of my time. I decided to open source it a few months afterwards, and it immediately took off. Compass basically allowed users to easily map their domain model (the code that maps app/business concepts in a typical program) to Lucene, easily index them, and then easily search them.

> That freedom caused people to start to use Compass, and Lucene, in situations that were wonderfully unexpected. Imagine already having the model of a Trade in your financial app, one could easily index that Trade using Compass into Lucene, and then search for it. The freedom of searching across any aspect of a Trade allowed users to convey this freedom to their users, which proved to be an extremely powerful concept.

> Effectively, this allowed me to be in the front seat of talking and working with actual users that were discovering, as was I, the amazing power that search can have when it comes to delivering business value to their users. Oh, and btw, my wife is still waiting for that cooking app. Now, 10 years later, it is the basis of Elasticsearch.

https://jaxenter.com/elasticsearch-founder-interview-112677....
What valuation do you give his mother's influence over the board at IBM?
Which island ;) We have two main ones.
I'd flip that around a little: Procrastination is inevitable, so accept that you'll do it, and avoid the worst forms of it.
Check out the Turing Tumble Education site [1] for PDFs of the teaching resources (which includes the puzzles included in the actual set) and links to the in-browser simulations of the Turing Tumble, including one in VR.

[1] https://edu.turingtumble.com/
The NSA actually has a history of solid block cipher and hash function proposals:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Encryption_Standard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skipjack_(cipher)
Now, I mostly read reddit for interesting articles and discussions. Some Facebook groups are decent for that, but they never quite match the reach and range of discussion that reddit does.*

I really struggled with the quality and intelligence of posts and responses on Reddit. I find them short, emotive, adolescent and generally noisy. However a lot of HN folks seem to enjoy it. What's the trick I'm missing? Finding the right subreddits, presumably?
This is only true for people who rely on google searches to drive traffic.
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apart from all the bits where the spec isn't detailed enough and the only way to work out what to do is to look at how acrobat handles it.
> So, we spent ages getting to where everyone agreed on standards and they were correctly implemented.

What are you talking about? What standards? Most content websites are a combination of incompetence and active hostility to the user. The less control publishers have, the better.
I took the first part of that course, enough to write an n-body game:

https://github.com/madengr/nbody

While it was a good course, I wish it covered the analytic portion, rather than dive straight into numerical solutions.
In so much as Google added to "the burden of refinement", in some ways it didn't go far enough. If someone I know posts cat videos and boardgames reviews, and adds me to both Google+ circles, how am I to subscribe to one and not the other?

This problem is bidirectional: which posts of yours will you let me see and of those, which do I want to see. But this is an even heavier ask.
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The fact that marketers hate it can only be taken as evidence that it's a good thing.
Yep, anon and semi-anon are certainly needed. My guess for a pseudonym mechanism would be borrowing someone else's ID as an umbrella. Going a bit abstract, that's what the Guardian is providing its staff, in that you just see "The Guardian", yet you will probably still be able to find favorite authors there even if they don't use their own special ID certificates.

I'm guessing this won't really (or doesn't _have to_) impede anonymity so much. Some kind soul will set up the "GeoCities / NeoCities of Online Identity" and from there it's just a question of whether you care how you are perceived while using that particular umbrella. Domain names would be the big losers.

But this is just my brand-new mental model for what's going on...
The number one thing is to make containers a first class deployment and provisioning artifact. As long as dev teams can control their own containers, they will be able to do what they need no matter how arbitrary or assumption-breaking.

Do not ever require dev teams to go through IT to get their chosen tools deployed to the right places or with the right resources provisioned. Never.

This is the root of all evil with infra teams: if they see themselves or their mandate as being gatekeepers of provisioned resources, then dev teams have lost and you as a data scientist / ML engineer, you’ll never get your work done.

As an ML engineer, I want to define the entire runtime and development environments of any analytics artifacts or web services that I create, and to change these environments as needed, as indicated by what’s required to get the job done.

Let me define containers, hook them up in whatever CI tools are used, push and pull them from some internal container repository, and describe the configuration for the resources they need. Offer that as the contract to dev teams and then infra’s job is to maintain the underlying data center that physically supports running the containers and occasional hand holding for special exceptions, networking, secrets management, and cost tracking.
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Are you saying you're opposed to responsive design?
This is a good post, but OT I had not heard “concepting” before...

https://muddlesintomaxims.com/2016/02/27/verbing-weirds-lang...
Comparing the NYT op-ed to tweets from cabinet members
> rich neighborhoods want more and more services but when the bill finally comes due it is only then that they realize the true cost of that folly

I'm not sure they do; I've known more than a few wealthy acquaintances who just grumble about the taxes suddenly being too high and then move to the next town.
Processor vulnerability can be exploited to access memory
It has to do with reach - billboards are typically high-volume, low-specificity impressions while placards and banners are typically event-specific and have a lower, more targeted audiences. There's gray area, obviously, like billboards in airports.
Is there any decent alternative standard to PDF that can express the small subset of PDF that normal people care about and expect, and isn’t capable of all this insecure dynamic junk?
In case anyone could explain this to me/us:

What happens after a city/county files for bankruptcy? Do the pensioners get the promised amount in full or there would be a haircut? Is the city/county forced to raise taxes over the objection of current residents?
Marketers are the group who initially welcomed this. A shift is happening.
so far i've been using rocksdb for this use case, is there any benchmark that would compare both dbs ?
I'm in a downsized configuration and alternate between Klipsch S4 earbuds at home and Audiotechnica ATH-M50s at work. I have a pair of Beyerdynamic DT770s which are excellent but in storage.

My normal desktop setup is an Indeed class D amplifier powering a pair of Emotiva XRM-4.1 monitoring speakers, connected to an Asus Xonar sound card. The speakers are great but I'd like to upgrade the amp and add a dedicated DAC in the future. I've also had a great experience with Emotiva's Airmotiv line for home theater applications.
Publishers of newspapers, books and music. The old content industry.
Interesting, ut I didnt catch what “the line” is. is the terminology related to “above the fold” and “below the fold” from the print industry?

As a terminology aside online retail sales still uses “hard lines” and “soft lines” as product & organization categories!
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Why do you think I perceive other askers as whiny? I don’t. I think corporate culture is sorely anti-humane, and we need better sociological solutions in dev teams and orgs, closer to what is described in Peopleware.

I take other peoples’ preferences very seriously and treat them with respect. People should at least be heard and compromises attempted.

Management and capricious brogrammer types in every company I’ve ever worked for across 12 years however do not act this way at all, and reasonable requests will only be used against you. This has been outwardly and definitively proven time after time.
> ...FIT IN - DONT BRING CA ATTITUDE WITH YOU

All American citizens are free to bring whatever attitude they want wherever they want in their country. They're not required to "fit in". No citizen gets to tell any other citizen how, or where, to live. Welcome to the land of the free.
Have you considered therapy. Some forms of therapy will help you develop better awareness of and coping mechanisms for negative feelings as well as cognitive tools for dealing calmly with uncomfortable interpersonal situations.
Why do pull requests stay open?
Please add a license to the source code? Thanks.
Those are almost never portable at all.

What we're looking for here is a certain sort of sane non-extremist portability. We want to support hardware that actually ships today as the primary application processor for a cell phone, laptop/notebook, tablet, desktop, or serious SQL or web server.

We don't want to think about opcodes or registers.

The hardware in use today is ARM, x86, and POWER. All of these normally support unaligned accesses, and so we expect that of the language. We see it in x86 except with that weird instruction that gcc wrongly used (it is slower) in this article. We see it in ARMv7 and ARMv8. We see it in POWER, going back at least to the PowerPC days.

All 3 of those architectures support little-endian code. It is now extremely rare to find big-endian ARM, and POWER is rapidly heading that way. It is essentially required by the web now, due to javascript Typed Arrays exposing endianness.

RISC-V is the same way: little-endian with support for unaligned access. This is the future.

The type of control and predictability desired is as follows:

If I have a 32-bit value, and I shift it left by 40 bits, there are only two reasonable answers. The compiler can do exactly as requested, producing a zero. The compiler can mask the shift down to 5 bits first, because hardware commonly does this, causing the shift to be by 8 bits. It is not at all OK for the compiler to do weird shit however, such as assuming that the code path can never be hit and then doing dead code elimination.

If I have a 32-bit 0x7fffffff and I shift it left by 1, that should produce the obvious result even if the data type is signed. (it is -2 in that case) Again, it is unacceptable to do weird shit. It is simply not OK to presume that my code will not run (due to an allowance made in the C standard for some 1960s hardware) and then do dead code elimination.

If I have a signed value and I shift it right, I expect the compiler to use the opcode for a signed shift. At least gcc promises to do this.
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The ironic thing here, is that Carmel Indiana debt is so high in large part because it followed StrongTowns requests.

StrongTowns is constantly telling everyone "you should densify" and "you should slow down / tear up all of your streets" and "chase growth / YIMBY everything" and "hyper-invest in Downtown, only dense neighborhoods matter, middle-class housing is a worthless drain on all of society" - https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/10/poor-neighborh...

So Carmel does all of that, tearing out intersections for roundabouts, creating bike lanes and dedicated paths, densifying everything, and more-or-less following exactly what StrongTowns is constantly recommending.

But it turns out actually following the StrongTowns wishlist is really expensive, far more expensive than not doing any of it. Now StrongTowns wants to complain that Carmel has a high debt load. If they think that debt isn't worth it, they should stop telling cities to do all of this StrongTowns stuff in the first place.

---

The blog even complains that Carmel built "a New Urbanist downtown out of thin air", but does not acknowledge that this exists precisely because StrongTowns demanded it. StrongTowns is one of many New Urbanist groups making those sorts of demands on cities in the first place.
I use ethermine and have been getting about 180Mhs. I've only mined eth, as it has been the most profitable and I have less confidence in other coins that don't require specialized hardware.
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It worked before. Google converted Netnews into Google Groups.
Does that mean that it would support touch-verification on iOS?

[I bought half a dozen yubikeys with NFC last year for my family, setup and tested lastpass, extensively tested my android and PC... when it all fell flat on their iPhone. Whopsie!]
Facebook to build first Asian data center in Singapore
Adb yo, you can remove packages without root. Even then, I do wonder what fragments are left behind. I fear Facebook/Google/et. al are too intertwined with the likes of Samsung and LG.

Even when I remove all related packages, Facebook stuff still shows up in the app manager as 'Not Installed'.

Anybody have a complete list of packages and know if removing them prevents data harvesting by FB?
I ran a one person consulting company for a number of years. Both the simple IRA and the sep IRA are valid options that have a minimum of paperwork and let you save five figures of income, tax deferred. If I were on my own again, would definitely open one of these up.

This is only for the USA, can't speak to options on other countries.
I own the 2018 Camry LE. It's an improvement, but the lag going up hills is pretty obvious, and you really notice the jerkiness of the 8-speed transmission too because the car changes gears four times just going up to 30mph from a stoplight.

All of my criticisms were based on my observations driving the 2018 model. I think the Camry is the reigning champion of "best bang for your buck," but it leaves plenty of room for improvement if you have a bigger budget.
Because 50 years ago it was totally normal for 8 year olds to be on their own for a few hours after the school bus dropped them off and for 5 year olds to be supervise only by their slightly older siblings. Because 100 years ago it was normal for those 5 year olds to walk home from school on their own and play in the streets until their parents returned. Because we weren’t always as crazy and paranoid about unsupervised children as we are now.
History of Databases
First was just a bit of a shot, then a rejection for employment that was turned into a freelance gig. That's actually how I get quite a few gigs. I guess I come across as a horrible employee?

"Constant flow" is just semantics. If seeing your contracts end the day before Thanksgiving removes your festive mood for the next 60 days, freelancing probably isn't for you.
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> Marketers from large companies are insulated from growth metrics by the management layers above them.

I've found this isn't that consistent. If you're looking for a strong demand-gen marketers you can also look at the larger companies where that is core to their growth, like Expedia or Booking.com
I haven't had the misfortune of coming across an AMP page in awhile (perhaps due to using Firefox exclusively on mobile) but this bothers me too. The worst part about it is the lack of a search feature. It's something that has been implemented into every other web browsing experience for decades, yet they are somehow that far behind.
I found this very interesting and I think most Americans understand this concept in theory, but just don’t do it in practice.

Also, and not necessarily related to the above, it’s not always cultural. Many people are night-owls and simply cannot sit down and be productive in cognitive tasks in the morning. However, as the working world assumes that only early-birds are worth anything, everyone has to work a morning schedule. This can lead to some of what you describe, where people are in their seats and not doing much, simply because they have to be there, and don’t really get rolling until later in the day.

Of course Facebook is just a huge time suck and can be addictive, so there’s that too.