skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These two visions you present lie on extreme ends of a continuum. They're both complete strawmen. The folks behind semantic web were aware of both of them, and were careful not to let their work be pigeonholed into either one.

Consider these passages, from "The Semantic Web," Tim Berners-Lee et al, Scientific American, May 2001:

"Like the Internet, the Semantic Web will be as decentralized as possible. Such Web-like systems generate a lot of excitement at every level, from major corporation to individual user, and provide benefits that are hard or impossible to predict in advance. Decentralization requires compromises: the Web had to throw away the ideal of total consistency of all of its interconnections, ushering in the infamous message 'Error 404: Not Found' but allowing unchecked exponential growth."

"Semantic Web researchers... accept that paradoxes and unanswerable questions are a price that must be paid to achieve versatility. We make the language for the rules as expressive as needed to allow the Web to reason as widely as desired. This philosophy is similar to that of the conventional Web: early in the Web's development, detractors pointed out that it could never be a well-organized library; without a central database and tree structure, one would never be sure of finding everything. They were right. But the expressive power of the system made vast amounts of information available, and search engines... now produce remarkably complete indices of a lot of the material out there. The challenge of the Semantic Web, therefore, is to provide a language that expresses both data and rules for reasoning about the data and that allows rules from any existing knowledge-representation system to be exported onto the Web."
I installed Chromium on Ubuntu today, and on the first run was given an opportunity to opt out from Google's personalized ads being shown to me based on my entire web browsing history. It was that moment when I realized, that what I had just installed was not primarily a web browser, but a Google application with a web browsing feature built-in. Because everything in it was built to optimize Google's ad revenue. It even had an ad blocker enabled by default, which made Google's ads stand out by disabling the ads by others.
So.... my MEP calls the LA Times to forward my complaint? If I would want to complain, why should I not tell them directly?

If you want to claim it's an issue of that much discussed EU law, plenty (or even most) of US websites don't have an issue serving their content to me, from NY Times, Washington Post - even Fox News has no problems (I would suspect them to be the first ones to complain about the EU)! To me that shows it's not a problem with EU law, but one with relevant people in power at the LA Times. I don't see how a message to an MEP could solve that, unless you think the EU should give in every time somebody in the US has a complaint - valid or not.
You are totally correct that most applications do not require more than a single host to handle all the load, especially given the hosts that are easily available today. However, the far more common reason to go distributed is redundancy.

This is especially true for storage systems, which are the topic of this post, and are by far some of the most complex distributed systems. Loosing a node can mean loosing data. Loosing a large, vertically scaled node, can mean loosing a lot of data.

You can mitigate those risks with backups, and cloud APIs of today give customers ability to spin up replacement host in seconds. But then the focus shifts to what will achieve higher availability - a complex distributed system, but one that always runs in a active/active mode. Or a simpler single node system, but one that relies on infrequently exercised and risky path during failures.
That’s just like, your propaganda, man.
Indigenous control of resources. The people who live in a place get to make decisions. You’re not allowed to control a mine 200 miles away from where you live and eat, without the permission of the people who do live and eat near the mine.

With this, right of return for anyone living in diaspora.

We can transition from capitalism to that via an intermediate stage of anarcho-syndicalism with syndicates that own property and pay taxes.

Capitalism isn’t “evil” or “useless” it’s just a temporary stage in our development.
While Firestore has a Android/iOS/Web SDK, it also has great backend support (Python, Java, Node, Go, Ruby, C#, PHP) as well. The "realtime" features of Firestore are better suited for mobile IMO, but using Firestore as a scalable, consistent, document/nosql database for your backend is definetly a good use for it.

I actually think most of the server SDKs don't even expose many of the realtime APIs. Maybe they will in the future, but it shows that you can use Firestore like a normal database just fine.

(I work for GCP)
This article lacks any reference to FoundationDB, which offers external consistency and serializable distributed transactions without trusting clocks in any way. We designed it starting in 2009 and so its lineage is independent of either Calvin or Spanner.

FDB doesn't have an actively developed SQL layer at the moment, so I guess you could say it isn't a "NewSQL" database, but none of the properties under discussion have much to do with the query language.
I'd rather non-Chrome browsers such as Firefox and Safari keep some market share so we don't end up with too many "Only works in Chrome" webistes.
More legislative gridlock in Washington.

An economic downturn stemming from mortgages, student loans, and rising rates.

Continued deterioration in global income inequality.

And marijuana legalization will grow.
Wouldn't be necessary if we had a law that makes the banks liable for getting defrauded instead of the individual who's name, and other publicly available "secret" information, happens to be used to do it.
This website preserves the sounds of obsolete devices
Not really, direct communication, eye contact etc... If one cannot do that, facebook friend them and try to tell them that way. The worst they say is they are not interested.

It's a numbers game.
Just file disputes, it'll get removed. Disputes are free and with a police report in hand they will go through.

I'm suggesting you should not pay upfront to help curate this data, to pay to micromanage access to a credit report to protect other lenders.
Like with any other issue, there are always be haters and supporters. You assume all googlers oppose this ? I'm sure there are still many googlers that are fine to work on this. I'm not googlers but I would have no issue on working with something like this.
It may, but if your customer can't tolerate/afford 5-10 minutes of downtime you're already into "big league" territory. I could see a case if you're rolling out gradually, but with only 3-5 machines you're not really going to notice any subtle problems in a 1-vs-2 or 2-vs-3 situation.
Comment about stopped clock, including unnecessary quotation marks. Using political label as a meaning-free pejorative. “Connecting” it all with yarn on an old National Geographic map and a bit of swearing to indicate This Is Important.

Discourse in the year 2018.
Who cares what you prefer?
What is nasty about the way the human body stores its energy?
> How about we hear from some Chinese people about how they feel about the developments?

How open do you think a typical Chinese person is going to be with you about how they think about their government's censorship? Unless they know and trust you really well, they're probably not going to criticize it to you even if they hate it. There are strong Chinese cultural taboos against criticizing your in-group in front of outsiders. These taboos operate from the level of the family up to the level of the country. See:

https://cn.nytimes.com/world/20170524/chinese-student-fresh-...

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

> The outrage seems to be coming entirely from people with no real stake in this news.

Everyone has a stake in this news. The Chinese government has shown increasing willingness to strong-arm Western companies actions in the West by holding their Chinese operations hostage. See a notable example in its recent actions over the treatment of Taiwan on airline websites (https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/25/news/companies/taiwan-china...).

Totally ignoring the morality of enabling authoritarian censorship in a foreign country, non-Chinese still have an interest keeping the domestic influence of that censorship regime to a minimum.
Let me expand on an example issue that comes up.

Nomulus is software that runs a domain name registry, including most notably the .app TLD. There are three fundamental objects at play here; the domains themselves, contacts (ownership information that goes into WHOIS), and hosts (nameserver information that feeds into DNS). There's a many-to-many relationship here, in that contacts and hosts can be reused over an arbitrarily large number of domains.

The problem is that you can't perform transactions over an arbitrarily large number of different objects in Cloud Datastore; you're limited to enlisting a maximum of 25 entity groups. This means that you can't perform operations that are strongly consistent when contacts or hosts are reused too often. This situation comes up a lot; registrars tend to reuse the same nameservers across many domains, as well as the contacts used for privacy/proxy services.

These problems don't arise in a relational SQL database, because you can simply JOIN the relevant tables together (provided you have the correct indexes set up) and then perform your operations in a strongly consistent manner. That trades off scalability for consistency though, whereas in Spanner you give up neither.
Referred by thousands and available since 2004 without one single bug reported in the last decade: http://users.telenet.be/AphexSoft/

It is not yet on Github.
Worth noting: Kenneth Snelson wrote a letter in 1990 claiming he invented/discovered "tensegrity" and Bucky had taken credit for it.

http://www.grunch.net/snelson/rmoto.html
I wish this had keyboard event handlers.
I think we can only genuinely care for 20 or 30 people tops. Like as in really really care.
The "worst regimes"?

Oh my sweet summer child.
Sure, but it's not about "being productive", it's about maintaining self image/identity.

Google proclaims itself as a moral thought leader of the world, but actions speak louder than words.
I think you might be an environmentalist. My understanding is that if you think the environment is something we should take care of, that's basically it.

I guess you're probably just saying you don't identify or maybe agree with some other environmentalists, which also makes sense. The straw ban is a great example. Sometimes you can agree on what's important but disagree about what to do about it.

I think this is the same complex process the word "feminism" gets put through. It's hard to find people who will outright say, "I think women should still have to ask permission from their husbands to seek work," for example. It's easy to find people who are quick to add, "... not that I'm a feminist or anything."

I don't know. Words are funny. At the end of the day it probably doesn't matter whether you qualify as some kind of *-ist, but those words are one way we get convinced that other groups of people are opponents, instead of peers. (... one way that unscrupulous people intentionally convince us, depending on your level of cynicism.)
From the same time period come the manually operated and far less complex Napier's Bones. Still pretty neat, and more likely what the 'average' person needing a calculating device would have used.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napier%27s_bones
But arn't you more likely to be screwed, and have to request an investigation in the case of id theft, if you do nothing?

Freezing credit also may lead to people less likely to open up lines of credit as well. I got a credit card request for temp unfreeze, and I've never gotten around to it.
> If the code is written in a distributed fashion from the start then it can be designed so it's one python/node/R process per core.

That's a really glib dismissal of how hard the problem is. Python and node have pretty terrible support for building distributed systems. With Python, in practice most systems end up based on Celery, with huge long-running tasks. This configuration basically boils down to using Celery, and whatever queueing system it is running on, as a mainframe-style job control system.

The "shell scripts / xargs -P" mentioned by chubot is a better solution that is much easier to write, more efficient, requires no configuration, and has far fewer failure modes. That is because Unix shell scripting is really a job control language for running Unix processes in parallel and setting up I/O redirection between them.
Really curious why the Intel part numbers are different between the XS and XS Max
Why don't job descriptions explain what the company does, and how?
Reading endless job descriptions is painful. Lists of tools and technologies are followed by phrases void of meaning.

Why don't companies articulate what the candidate is expected to do? Like... «You will be maintaining a 10-years old codebase of a high-value low-traffic website built on JavaEE and EMF with guice and Lombok all over the place. It's a no-frills job, but we pay well».
Hackers stole customer credit cards in Newegg data breach
AirNow also has a national map for US air quality:
https://gispub.epa.gov/airnow/
And justice for all. Technology can be horrifically negative when in the wrong hands.
how good of a swimmer do you have to be. I learnt swimming lat in life so i am not good.
Probably often but there is no way to tell really because the controller has a mind of its own and they are all different.
Really sad to think that a 12,000 year old forest is slated to be cut down just to dig up an obsolete resource that will be burnt and help destroy the environment even more, while there are other alternatives that aren't used simply because they cost a bit more.
I have one niggle on schema-less. The fact is, the database probably shouldn't care about the shape/schema of the data in some cases. That's what application logic is for. If you want to support multiple payment gateways, do you REALLY want to create a half dozen or more connected tables to store the transaction details? Oh, this table is for transactions from Paypal. This one is for Authorize.Net. Or add a Transactions table with the common bits as typed columns and a json field NVARCHAR(MAX)?

There are times to pragmatically make choices. Joins, and subqueries have costs, and they become more so at scale. In the end it's frustrating to have to debate/fight for a simpler solution because the lessons and positive points of the last decade were never learned.
I honestly suffer the same thing. I think deep down, it is a character flaw for sure. Something egotistical and asshole-ish.
Just because Magic Leap hasn't really delivered on a mind blowing consumer product doesn't mean they can't create something great for military use.

Google Glass just wasn't cool enough or useful enough to become the next iPhone but it did very well for certain applications.

If Drone Pilots could use Magic Leap headsets to pull in ANY useful information to their field of view while flying a mission it would be a step forward the military would be happy to pay for.
Rather than paying less per hour or less for lumber people would end up with smaller homes. A 40k down payment on a 200,000$ house already pays for a significant structure. Not marble countertops, but perfectly livable if small.

Further, as the buyer would not have a mortgage they could upgrade from a ‘starter’ home. But, only if they actually felt the need and saved up even more cash.
The point is, you are describing the outcome not the mechanism. Capitalism is a mechanism and so you must replace it with another mechanism, not a list of goals.
Totally fair, but then what use is the data? If we have totally different digestive reactions / problems, then can you really tell much of anything from the microbiome data?
Americans need this technology to gain widespread military application in order to make all of the Tactical Flashlights we bought on the Internet useful as a countermeasure.
Only Microsoft's seems to be part of the operating system.
I agree with others here, re: “Tab” … this is a grid.

Some improvements that would be cool to see:

* keyboard shortcuts (up, down, left, right & esc to exit)

* the arrows behave differently when using the up & down vs left & right, up & down repeats grid items in the same column while left & right seem to shift to the previous or next row depending on where you are

* there’s a lot of JS on the page (it’s not just toggling classNames), maybe using CSS Grid or Flex could reduce some of that

* the HTML could probably be more semantic, less div elements, and maybe an actual list (ul or ol element), which could help make use of arrows more consistent
On the contrary, it works even better if you regularly use your credit report because you don't have to deal with the absolute pain in the ass of freezing and unfreezing it constantly. Time is money and that's a guaranteed loss of both.

The kind of identity theft involving use of a credit report (as opposed to a stolen bank instrument) is relatively rare. Most identity theft involves a stolen credit card and freezing one's credit report offers no benefit in that scenario.

I am absolutely not wrong, the vast majority of people take a passive approach and are fine.

I don't know why you're talking about "getting your money back," this kind of fraud doesn't involve any loss of money from anyone other than a bank. There is no way at all that I can put my own money at risk by not freezing my credit. No one is talking about totally ignoring fraud and allowing a default judgement to occur -- I am talking about not paying upfront fees to micromanage access to pull credit.

It does not matter very much at all.
Truck traffic in LA is by far the problem, not so much the car traffic (though that is horrible, based on the population).

Ships come into Long Beach, the containers are offloaded, the trucks begin a lumbering journey to points East. Belching all the way.

I'm not making up the claim. California rules put in place over ten years ago had trucks retrofitted or whatever, and this change to TRUCKS ONLY was like removing 30 MILLION cars from California roads. There are not 30 million trucks in California, though sometimes it appears so.

http://4cleanair.org/DieselTrucks.pdf
Soul crushing, dangerous, unsustainable
Making $35,000 Bonsai Scissors
That sounds like a suspiciously confident prediction given the nature of the internet.
Actually, Hypeman is using this correctly in my opinion. We all knew the code would be good, it was only him that doubted it. So its not surprising to us, the reader, that the code is good.
Does 'Physically Based Rendering' count? It's a book... which is also source. It was written as only the 2nd work of true 'Literate Programming' that I know of. I believe Knuth wrote a book about TeX which was the first example. But basically it is prose interleaved with source, readable as a book.
These ideas were considered dangerous. The Inquisitors knew about the Streisand Effect. If they killed him for praying incorrectly they wouldn't be publicizing his physics theories. Besides authority is enhanced when it kills people for arbitrary senseless reasons.
According to NASDAQ's website [1]:

> Able to consistently sustain an order rate of over 100,000 orders per second at sub-40 microsecond average latency

[1]: https://business.nasdaq.com/market-tech/marketplaces/trading
So what? God forbid a tech company not based in SV contribute to the defense of Western values!
And this time we actually have legitimate, real, censorship to fight.
To be clear, your headline and description disagree. Do you care more about what the company does, or what the job will be?
> 7. Don't have multiple people editing the same piece of code.

Do others find this pretty crucial? We do this at my org and I’m interested in knowing if it’s detrimental.
The mobile site has fewer ads than the desktop site. Ads only appear in the footer on mobile.
I know plenty of Chinese people who aren't a fan of censorship, and none of them have anything bad to say about Google.

> The Chinese government has shown increasing willingness to strong-arm Western companies actions in the West by holding their Chinese operations hostage.

If that's the real reason everyone is angry, then they should support Trump's tariffs and boycott everything manufactured in China.
That's unclear. Google hasn't launched, so they haven't done anything wrong yet, as far as users in China are concerned. This is all internal politics, which seems to be getting increasingly nasty.
There is a difference between 'published' and 'available', especially in China.
Why? You really want to spend all your time fighting someone who gets a hold of your information? It is not a one or two times thing. Go talk to people who had their identities stolen. It is not fun and it can take years to fix everything. I know one person who is still having trouble after 15 years.
Since Sessions ended an inquiry into obvious junk science being used in courtrooms (which itself seemed to be moving pretty slowly given the scale of the problem), my prediction is that nobody will do anything whatsoever about this finding.
Source research: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30183512

"The Liking Gap in Conversations: Do People Like Us More Than We Think?"

Abstract:

Having conversations with new people is an important and rewarding part of social life. Yet conversations can also be intimidating and anxiety provoking, and this makes people wonder and worry about what their conversation partners really think of them. Are people accurate in their estimates? We found that following interactions, people systematically underestimated how much their conversation partners liked them and enjoyed their company, an illusion we call the liking gap. We observed the liking gap as strangers got acquainted in the laboratory, as first-year college students got to know their dorm mates, and as formerly unacquainted members of the general public got to know each other during a personal development workshop. The liking gap persisted in conversations of varying lengths and even lasted for several months, as college dorm mates developed new relationships. Our studies suggest that after people have conversations, they are liked more than they know.
Fits for many use cases but not all. Upload speeds and data caps mean there’s a very specific way you can use this type of internet.

I’m glad that this is actually starting to look like real competition. That’s ultimately what we need.
Sorry but- after the JSF debacle- is this not already a dead duck? Honestly- on a battlefield, everything in addition you want has to be unobtrusive, totally intuitive and non-view obstructing. The last thing you want after a IDE has blown up, to see MS Clippy hoping through the wreckage, producing friendly fire.

Just take the integrated battlefield promised with the JSF, generating more Noise then usage. Im sure, you could add something similar in theory to a FPS, basically estimating the position of a retreating shooter.

But why bother and risk - when some well placed mortars will do that?

Just because it looked good in scifi movies, doesent mean its good in reality.

Only parties that could benefit from this, are specialists- meaning, drone-flights, commanding officers and upgraded personal- (medics in need for direct instructions by a doctor) - even those could usually be easier given without the AR.

And thats from someone who is a huge AR fan. Maybe im overlooking some benefits- i would really appreciate some usecases - if i missed them.
Are there major Chinese companies currently investing in the development of systems specifically tailored to help total surveillance of US citizens by the US government?
Why would anyone call a puzzle Isis.