skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pachyderm does a ton of data deduplication, both for input data that's added to pachyderm repos as well as for output files.

Pachyderm's pipelines are also smart enough to know what data has changed and what hasn't and only process the incremental data "diffs" as needed. If your pipeline is just one giant reduce or training job that's can't be broken up at all, then this isn't valuable, but most workloads include lots of Map steps where only processing diffs can be incredibly powerful
> He probably should franchise.

That assumes that whatever it is that he was doing before things blew up can be scaled. I think it's quite possible that it can't. Particularly as, according to Alexander, the things that pushed the place over the top were intangibles about atmosphere, which isn't reproducible.

Also, "scaling" assumes that the owner wants to scale. If he's only interested in operating a neighborhood burger diner, he probably doesn't.
This is going to be horribly slow compared to say computed goto
There's definitely more to the story, as the information we have just doesn't add up.

Investigation of the wreckage should clearly show what position the stab trim was at. It's a large nut on a jackscrew, the disintegration of the airplane should leave that intact. The nut/jackscrew is built out of incredibly strong steel.
Go to lockdown and get the arson burger with the whole slice of habanero on it.
But it's only three pages long :(
> There are plenty of holes to poke in his arguments, so have at it.

1. You're not going to truly release the social value of a monopoly unless you socialize it, either through social control or regulation. Without that, the monopoly will mainly serve to benefit its owners.

2. Monopoly R&D expenditure will likely be less than the excess profit captured by the monopoly's owners, and mainly motivated by potential regulation. IIRC, the main raison d'être for Bell Labs to exist as it did was to convince regulators to not break up AT&T. Without that threat it would have likely been more focused on AT&T's profit motive and less on generalized scientific advancement.

3. Monopolies (socialized or otherwise) will more likely end in stagnation.
There is only one value a kg could be in that example, everything else is constant. The question I think you're trying to ask is "why 6.62607015×10−34 instead of some other simpler value" and the answer is a bit longer.

Original 1 kg was the mass of a cubic decimeter of water at 4 C at 1 ATM. Why a cubic decimeter at 4 C? Water is densest at 4 C and a cubic decimeter of it is a weight that people can work with on a day-to-day scale. Unfortunately this was a bit hard to measure so they made the IPK (international prototype kilogram) which was a lump of metal. Fast forward 100 years and the lump of metal proved to be too unreliable for modern standards as it kept losing very small amounts of mass, also it Earth's gravity isn't even so it requires you average it out and then calculate the local offset and a whole bunch of other weird things that can mean a microgram or two. This is inconvenient but we still needed a way to say "1 usefull measurement of mass" but unfortunately in the universe 1 Planck's constant is far too small to ever use daily. Thankfully it has become easier to accurately measure Planck's constant against the IPK so now we have solidified 1 kg to be exactly what we measured.

The nice thing is 1 kg will forever be the same thing now and is easy to measure to extraordinary accuracy. The downside I think you're asking about is 1 kg by itself isn't some significant relation of the physical world, it's just a useful-in-daily-life multiple of mass as defined by Planck's constant.
Ah, I see. So it's more a preference for a richer standard library, like,

lua_newtable(L);
luaL_setfieldi(L, -1, "five", 5);

rather than having to roll your own. Part of the function of the stack protocol is to minimize the number of unique functions needed to load and store values across language boundaries. So there's a single [low-level] function for communicating a number value in a type-safe manner, rather than a multitude of functions--one routine for setting a number value for a table string key, another for a number value for a table number key, another for a string value for a table number key, etc. The permutations explode, and unless the host language has some sort of generics capability then it adds significant complexity both to the interface and to implementation maintenance. (See Perl XS.) Alternatively you can reduce the number of permuted interfaces by using printf-style formatting strings and va_lists, but that's not type safe. (See Py_BuildValue.)

Notably, Lua 5.3 removed lua_pushunsigned, lua_tounsigned, luaL_checkint, luaL_checklong, and many similar routines as there was never an end to the number of precomposed type coercing, constraint checking auxiliary routines people demanded. They decided that the only way to win that game was to not play at all. But with C11 _Generic and a dash of compiler extension magic you can actually implement a richer set of type agnostic (but type safe) numeric load/store interfaces in just a handful of auxiliary routines. For better or worse, though, Lua doesn't target C11 nor wish to depend on compiler extensions. "Batteries not included" is a whole 'nother debate in the Lua universe.
There may be a difference but they’ve tied their cloud branding so close to the Google brand that the reputation of Google consumer bleeds over completely, good and bad. I’d say they made a mistake in not having a clear branding differentiation from the parent company like Azure and AWS do.
In most (US) states, you can be fired for anything not specifically protected. What makes this case anymore interesting?
David and Kathy Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for their exposes in their newspaper The Point Reys Light. They wrote a book on their experience: The Light On Synanon, and they were the subject of a made-for-TV movie.
Not everything is in a library, I remember writing off to all many of companies and organisations asking for literature about their products and such like.

It took ages. Of course all of that can be done almost instantly with webpages. Although now I'm drowning in broweser tabs.
Wonder and awe are well and good, and certainly the world is awe-inspiring and wonderful. And certainly, the deepening of our understanding of it is can lead us to marvel at it. However, the problem with the article is that it doesn't really get into the meat of the matter of mechanistic materialism. Mechanism is a metaphysical position that we often today take for granted and do so unthinkingly and tacitly, that is to say, without recognizing it for the metaphysical position that it is. As a result, it is confused with empirical science as such. To make matters worse, there are very serious problems with the mechanistic view of nature, and despite our tacit acceptance of it, the destructive consequences of a consistently held mechanism evade us.

It is important to remember that when explaining a fact, it is important not to negate the fact in the process of explaining it. To do so would result not in an explanation, but something else. That something else may be useful, but explanations are not first and foremost about being useful. An explanation is about accounting completely for the causes of a fact as it actually is. The mechanistic philosophy, in construing the world and things within it as machines, destroys whole classes of facts, not least of all because what machines are is observer-relative. Their components are arranged according to human ends that are extrinsic to the machine itself and not according to some intrinsic tendency of the machine. Thus, to construe all of reality in mechanistic terms necessarily forces us to make these broad denials. Furthermore, these human ends (as well as the awe, wonder, experience of mystery and whatever else the author invokes and beyond) are facts which must themselves be accounted for. A mechanistic materialist, when confronted with these facts, is left to either deny their existence (eliminativism), posit a non-mechanistic mind-or-something-else where these facts exist (dualism and its variations) or to reject mechanism. While we need not resort to mental phenomena to criticize mechanism and reductionism, perhaps nowhere else is it made more obvious how defective mechanism is as a metaphysical position.

Since Descartes, mechanists either swept broad classes of facts under the rug of the res cogitans or attributed them to God (think Paley). Mechanistic materialism, having denied both the res cogitans and God, is left to deal with these facts on mechanistic terms. Unfortunately, mechanistic methods are here in principle incapable of explaining them, at least not completely.

Ultimately, mechanistic materialism must be rejected in favor of a richer metaphysics.
The risk is people are more likely to commit suicide when they are mildly depressed than severely depressed. In a deep depression you lack the motivation to commit suicide.
Pachyderm pipelines can be run in a massively distributed fashion with data being sharded across many workers. Pachyderm also offers much better failure semantics than Make + CI. For example, if one shard of data of your pipeline fails such as a node or container dies, Pachyderm will automatically make sure that the data get rescheduled to another worker.

Each pipeline can have separate resource requirements (e.g. GPUs, lots of memory, etc) and gets scheduled by Kubernetes.

Finally, Pachyderm is versioning all of the intermediate steps in your data pipeline so if a downstream step fails, you don't have to restart from scratch, you can pick up right where it left off.
I should hope so.
The article talks about him actively considering franchising. And: I doubt there's really anything to the burger here that can't be replicated. Further: he doesn't have to replicate it perfectly, just enough to serve the local customers he wants to serve while the foodies queue up at the original shop.
Intro to Logarithms Big O
Cryptocurrency chill causes mining speculator Nvidia’s stock to plunge
Ummmm... no.

Most non software firms consider technology as a cost center. Most don’t care about the technical merits of the platform; all they care is cost and support.

This is why IBM cloud is seeing adoption despite not being as full featured as aws or gcp.
Due to wealth genetics. More money = better living conditions = less environment negativity
React/JSX as a server-side templating language
How we measure simplicity to make sure users can do more with less
In our company in China, we had few admin staff who first touched a desktop PC on their workplace. Ubuntu Mate worked flawlessly for them.

Few others in marketing and business development who were protesting the lack of usual Windows, got along well after being pressured to actually try it before complaining

We have nearly windows free work environment. Ironically, the only workers who have to use Windows are engineers. There is simply no alternative for Solidworks, Vivado, Cadence, FEM/physics modelling and gazillion of Windows only SDKs for microcontrollers
Advantages:
* It looks very pretty (arguably). The window theme is aesthetically very good looking. Some might prefer Gnome's look.
* It is "fast". I found it to be faster than Ubuntu in terms of normal actions like opening apps, power off, power on etc.
* Hassle free for the most part. If you don't do anything crazy, it works smoothly and is very low maintenance.

Disadvantages:
* Tons of bugs. A lot of bugs have not been fixed since a long time. So, if you find a bug, be prepared to fix it yourself.
* eOS devs also make their own Code editor, Mail app, music app, videos app, photos app, calendar app. Some might say that this is a waste of time.
* No minimize button. And this is a little frustrating. The devs want you to use the workflow they recommend to the point that they went through the effort to hide the key and make it so that you can't enable it.
DevOps Ethics: The Danger of Unethical Code
Very cool project - thanks for giving me the background. Just clicked around and enjoyed checking it out. Sounds like you learned a lot and built a valuable tool, well done!
> By this law, that gas will have a larger volume at the same pressure.

It will have larger volume, but that is not implied by Avogadro's law. That law is about the surprising property of all gases: no matter the chemical nature of the gases, if they all have same T and P, they all will have same number of molecules per unit volume.
$ echo -n 'dW5kZWZpbmVk' | base64 --decode
undefined

Many JavaScript-based applications break when the user-input is the string “undefined”.

All of the entries in this repository are encoded using Based64, for obvious reasons.

If the reasons are not obvious, read the header of the repository here:

> Also, do not send a null character (U+0000) string, as it changes the file

> format on GitHub to binary and renders it unreadable in pull requests.

To prevent unintentional breaks of GitHub’s UI, the author decided to encode the strings.
I used to own a domain monohedron.TLD - but the bad math joke wasn't really appreciated, ever :/
My trust of Google is so low, whenever I read a HN thread which is mostly supportive of them I assume they're using paid shills. Even on HN.
We should deprecate cookies
Perhaps not required but instead prohibited from abusing their role as a middleman in interfering with another's treatment.
Avoiding Programming burnout: lessons learned from a 19th century philosopher
Wait, is he really dead, or just _mostly_ dead?
Yes. They probably wanted to benefit from the "Google" brand name for technology but unfortunately it carries too much consumer and adtech baggage.
Thoughts on Creating a Better Hiring Process?
It hinders collaboration and the development of an ecosystem. One nice thing about ggplot2 is how there's a growing universe of things to support it -- packages to extend it or to add themes or what have you. Having more options means that effort gets split.
Did you actually try to read it? It says so right there:

Apparently, after my story came out, crowds of people started coming in the restaurant, people in from out of town, or from the suburbs, basically just non-regulars. And as the lines started to build up, his employees -- who were mainly family members -- got stressed out, and the stress would cause them to not be as friendly as they should be, or to shout out crazy long wait times for burgers in an attempt to maybe convince people to leave, and as this started happening, things fell by the wayside. Dishes weren’t cleared quickly, and these new people weren’t having the proper Stanich’s experience, and Steve would spend his entire day going around apologizing and trying to fix things.
Same here. I've never seen one on a system that has hundreds of additional packages installed and has survived a number of upgrades.
Uhhh... you can disable log ingestion by Stackdriver. And send your logs anywhere you want really.
Ah ok. Well, I'm sure I won't be bothered doing that. (And to write fake comments I don't believe in doesn't seem....ethical somehow.) Also, I suspect your "Supporting Assange" and "expressing skepticism about the Russia narrative" are massive euphemisms. Maybe you could give links to the comments you're referring to?
Alphabet's Verily shelves glucose-sensing contact lens project
Two reasons:

1. Google saw their infrastructure as being a key competitive advantage, not something to be commoditized.

2. More importantly: Google's core business has ridiculously high profit margins, which made them institutionally incapable of seriously pursuing low-margin business opportunities.
Reminds me of the Air France Flight 447 crash, where a unexpected manual mode leads to confusion and cognitive overload with no time to recover.
InnoDB versus MyISAM: no comparison
Wouldn't that just be a dependency graph?
Which kid were you in the board cast?
I find that very hard to believe given the close proximity of NJ to NY. In particular, Newark is literally just across the river from New York City.
Does it support snaps as easily as Ubuntu does?
Thanks, I think I might check this out. I have been toying with the idea of getting back into leadership. I hate seeing all of these people with terrible bosses.

All of my leadership experience is 1) outside of tech, and 2) not remote oriented. Now that I have some experience as a coder under my belt (~5 years), I'd love to get some training on remote leadership styles and perhaps lead a team and make something useful.
>The taxpayer in NY ends up better off after this deal; even critical articles like the OP acknowledge that the subsidies are dwarfed by the increase in tax revenues that the state will gain.

Maybe. But what if all the other cities/States collude - or independently - for the benefit of their taxpayers, decide to give Amazon a “personalized tax deal” like NY/NYC gave Amazon...only to Amazon’s detriment?

If other states/cities are going to take the good employers with custom tax deals I think everyone else should make sure those subsidized companies aren’t also eating up their local economies/businesses.
Now can we redefine 1 pound to equal 1 kg?

(the opposite of https://xkcd.com/2073)
MacOS is an inferior version of BSD!
Feather, based on the Apache Arrow format, is a lot faster than CSVs, and there's good support in both R and Python for it, maintained by Hadley Wickham (who has developed Almost Ever R Package You've Heard Of) and Wes McKinney (who is the BDFL of pandas) respectively. It also involves less inferring of data types using heuristics.
NYT:FB says supports Sen Intl Cmte while paying political oppo firm to undcut it
Isn't that just toilet paper? (long ass-papers)
I don't think we should conflate telemetry with general user data that can be sold. Seeing HOW a user uses an app (re your Spotify example) is useful for the developers of the app. That is not data they are selling to other companies and IMO isn't a privacy issue and shouldn't negatively affect user experience.

What theme you use or what buttons you click most often, isn't sellable; what is sellable are interests, consumables, and demographic distinguishers.
Map isn’t loading for me at the moment.
In n out is good, but it’s still fast food. That is true. Also, people act it’s Exclaburger instead of a good meal.
Again, you're just comparing burgers in isolation, but that's not how it works. This isn't delivery. People pay extra for ambiance, for service, for exclusivity, for visuals, etc. The fact that people are standing in line for 5 hours means that they don't view it as just another cheap burger. They're willing to pay more. I'm half convinced that people in NYC will pay more BECAUSE they stood in line. How else would you know if it's good if there's not a bunch of New Yorkers validating your choices by waiting in the freezing cold too?? :)

And you don't need to charge $30. Charging a few extra bucks probably solves this problem without the downsides you're talking about.

Finally, I'm also not convinced those problems you suggest would be caused by charging $30 are actually problems. Maybe people feel like it wasn't worth it, but so what? Word gets out that the $30 burgers are overpriced...does that mean people will stop coming? There's an entire class of overpriced crappy restaurants that stay busy because of former glory, or location, or whatever. Like almost every big restaurant in a tourist zone of major world cities.

And if they DO stop coming, then doesn't that solve the original problem? Crowds dry up, you drop the prices back down, life goes on.

Just seems like almost anything would be better than throwing your hands up and shutting down the restaurant. Which ironically isn't even what happened here!
You might also consider posting this to /r/cscareersquestions or /r/learnprogramming on reddit.
Super interesting answer thanks!
Even if they hadn't shut down Reader, there's still Hangouts (v1), Talk, Chat, Messenger, Wave, Buzz, Plus, Hangouts (v2), Orkut, Helpouts, Inbox, Knol, Video, Nexus Q, Spaces... The list just goes on and on and on.
is Amazon (AWS) really bad at selling to the F500? What are they doing wrong?
So restaurant reviews can be weaponized now, huh?

Hey everybody, tell all your friends and Yelp and foodie blogs that the BLT Prime by David Burke restaurant in the Washington, D.C. Trump® International Hotel has TOTALLY UNBELIEVABLE hamburgers!!!

https://dc.eater.com/2017/9/19/16330572/trump-dover-sole-dav...
Do you have a cite for how well they anonymize? Is it as strong a position as Apple (e.g. differential privacy)?
"Most importantly, they were able to finally find a way for devs to get paid, so that they can continue working and debugging their apps."

This is the most exciting part of elementary IMO: it is a model for free software to bring in some cash and fund full time development.
IBM already has a cloud called Bluemix, and they bought/merged Softlayer into it. It's not great.

Compose is just a managed database service which IBM also acquired. I don't see how that alone would put them ahead of any cloud, especially when they're already lacking in infrastructure and software.
RIP William Goldman, Creator of Beloved Film, the Princess Bride
> Speaking of circles, SI hasn't fixed Hz vs rad, have they?

I don't think so.

Anyone who hasn't heard of the Hz/radian issue should see the "Hz" definition in the units definition file shipped along with Frink - if you like finding interesting rants in unexpected places, it's delightful:

https://futureboy.us/frinkdata/units.txt
Wait, how do you know that they don't have permission? I would assume that the owners of those copyrights are just as capable of using the contentID system as any of the rest.
I feel like the main thing to work on here is the frontend, given the "debug." library built into Lua(JIT). ZeroBrane has a frontend, for example.
Yes, and drawing a dependency graph would be a useful exercise too, but I rarely see managers drawing either a gantt chart or a dependency graph.
This could be sleep apnea. Do you snore a lot or have people noticed not breathing for periods during your sleep, causing you to wake up? Ask an SO or something to keep an eye out if you can and tell you if they notice it.
Elementary is a fine distro, but short off being pretty and not afraid to ask for money what does it i really achieve that I can't get on other bigger distros?
They definitely have the option to say no.

I empathize with the regular user and lack of time/skill to read complex legal text but you cannot say that the only option is to say yes when anyone can just not use the service.
I was looking through some of their sources, and that was the first encounter I’d had with Vala. If anything, it makes me more interested in potentially contributing.

Now, whether the tooling is up to snuff is another question. If it’s not, then the language choice could still end up being a turn-off, if not an immediate one.
On top of that, how many people working in NYC actually commute in from NJ? Meaning... they're actually living in NJ in the first place.