skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Harmonia format would be pretty awesome applied to nonfiction, I think (e.g., crowd-sourced marginalia). Closest application I can think of is Fermat's Library [1].

I was initially skeptical but found
Wattpad's tap stories pretty awesome in practice [2].

Generally though, you're right, the "killer app" hasn't been discovered yet. But I certainly find the innovation exciting!

[1] https://fermatslibrary.com/s/bitcoin

[2] https://taptaptap.co
One alternative is to not use them. If your target website actually is simple then prove it by not imposing a slow bloated architectural failure.
Abstractions strike again!
My english teacher in high school said that some guy from Apple came to talk to them and said that soon AI would be able to write stories. That was 15 years ago and as far as I can tell, they cant use bots to write anything like an original story that anyone would want to actually read. Good luck making "entire movies."
Reading that post indicates that he regrets the existence of hidden files, not the existence of '.' and '..'
Out of those 6:

- 4 have already been transferred, so it's only free if you have a time machine

- the other 2 are dead links
You used the term "specifically" but nobody is nitpicking the meaning of that word to elevate a non-generous interpretation of what you mean. Sometimes people are just not that careful with the words they choose and don't expect others to jump on their word choice as indicative of some highly nuanced intent.
I think you misunderstand how the prize money is allocated. They both got 400k for competing, and the winner would take 200k. Since they went to tiebreaks the winner only got 150k while the loser gets 50k. So in this sense Magnus didn’t really split much of the prize with Caruana.
> I just jumped back into freelancing, and for now I actually have too much work.

What would patio11 say?

Charge more.
Meilleur lave linge
...though in this case it's still the reviewers job to help understand what the code does and if the reviewer doesn't know for sure which arg comes first then they still can't easily check that the code does what's intended.
That's a terrible thing to say to someone.
c) Socratic method where an instructor guides inquiry using incisive questioning but never provides answers outright.

You'll always need "a)" for basic reading, writing, and arithmetic, and for providing basic facts and principles. "b)" doesn't even require a school as it's something kids should be doing, anyhow. It's also expensive, especially when you get to more abstract concepts, which is why this is a type of education typically only enjoyed by the privileged, both inside and outside school. And it can't accomplish the depth of understanding that "c)" can, nor cultivate more general analytical skills.

"c)" is the most important, but it also requires the most skilled teachers, especially in middle and high school. It could easily be applied more widely in elementary school, though.
$60 a night is not cheap. I traveled (cycling) for 3 months in South East Asia and my average hotel bill was $8, some of them brand new hotels.
> Writing complex commands, needless to say scripts in bash is such a headache...

For shell scripting, I cannot recommend the linter, shellcheck, enough. With editor integration it's abolutely glorious. Shellcheck will point out all kinds of gotchas and even tags each warning with a uid, so you chech out the rationale and extra info on the wiki.

https://www.shellcheck.net/
Taken from your link:

> When something isn't good, you needn't pretend that it is. But don't be gratuitously negative.

The comment you replied to is accurate and not gratuitously negative.
Thanks for the kind words. :) Glad Rust is working out for ya!
There's Google Cloud Vision and Microsoft Cognitive Services that act as competitors to Amazon Rekognition, but AFAIK there's no offering from a FAANG that competes with AWS Textract.

It looks like it's competing with ABBYY (FlexiCapture) and Kofax.
It's not to save space. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utfbE3_uAMA . There is just plastic sitting in its place and it is possible to add headphone jack, without making it thick.
I bet the adjunct whose english was so bad that she would just answer a question kind of close to what you asked, as quickly as possible and try and move on would too.

She also answered any questions asked in Mandarin, in Mandarin. When asked to translate an exchange for the rest of the class, she blushed and said 'it was complicated'. At the end of the semester, the class was so far behind, 1/3 of the materials for the course exam were delivered during an optional study session.

And so would the electrophysiology professor who spent over an hour of a grad seminar explaining how to use a floppy disk. Because he had trouble with computers.
I think visual novels are an interesting example of this. The non-textual elements are very limited, yet that tiny bit of interaction totally changes the experience.

And they're usually weird anime porn, which makes them completely unpalatable to almost everyone. It's a shame, since I think the medium is cool.
> Using tear gas at the border is an American thing, not a Trump thing.

No one above thread claimed any individual was responsible. The apologetics of inserting that statement is unnecessary. I do respect that you added citations.
>Amazon can claim it is both centralized and immutable, provided you trust Amazon.

No it can't. The second it is hacked and somebody alters the ledger, it is no longer immutable. Centralized security models eventually all get hacked. What you could however say is that the application you need to have immutable isn't super mission critical, and thus you can afford a very low probability - but not 0% of getting hacked.

>And this is what it comes down to: most of us live in a world where trust can, and does, have to root out somewhere. So much of our society is built around this.

And this is where you might be a bit out of touch. From China hacking US IP, from Banks world wide manipulating markets, gold, Libor, frequent global election fraud, government mis-spending of funds, corporate & government accounting fraud, Fukushima lies, Fakenews etc. The trust people have in institutions and governments world wide is in an accelerated decline. We are constantly asked to trust, and we are constantly let down. Properly decentralized blockchains are 'Trust machines'. They aren't alone going to solve all the issues I mentioned, but they do have the potential to increase trust in many processes related to these various issues. The key requirement is decentralization though. A blockchain managed by a single entity is nothing more than a dumbed down over-marketed database with limited use cases.

Google: Decline in trust: https://www.google.com/search?ei=WEv_W6DfIe2x0PEPxe6AmA4&q=D...
Even if I chose to ignore the fact that you're being a downer for no good reason, that's not true for all demographics.
Hi! I work for PingCAP, the company behind TiDB and come from previously working on MySQL.

The gap of features missing is documented here:
https://www.pingcap.com/docs/sql/mysql-compatibility/

I would rate compatibility as actually pretty good: all but one SQL mode is supported (which is a feat in itself), and most of the SQL functions are supported.

There are some exceptions though, some which are addressable (missing functions) and some that are not (often a property of being an optimistic system).

We try to be as transparent as possible on this, which might be part of the reason why you feel there is a lot missing?

If you have specific examples, I would be happy to clarify. We also have a course designed for MySQL DBAs, which is designed to make the adoption easier: https://www.pingcap.com/tidb-academy
Saying that trust can be abused and thus it should be eradicated entirely from social systems is cynicism, not realism.

There's a spectrum of social system development with regards to trust that has yet to be fully explored - centralized/federated "trusted" authorities in the middle, Bitcoin and most blockchains/tokens to the left (i.e. no trust at all) and some other form of p2p money or credit to the right (i.e. p2p, completely decentralized trust).

That the Bitcoin community doesn't even recognize that an entire half of space for innovation exists is what makes this mindset "destructive."

edit: grammar
Thanks, we changed the URL to that from http://fortune.com/2018/11/12/quantum-compass-m-squared/.
Would love to see this open sourced!
They posed that it may be one possible interpretation, which was the fair part.

I think all totalitarian and contested land should be delisted, but this might be a "testing the waters" act.
Debt: A Love Story
We all know that there's a 100% chance that you're an asshole. Just saying...
Congrats!
Thanks to this I made happy mood from morning.
Noomph: Post Journal (Diary & Journaling App)
Thanks for working to incorporate it in Linux.

FreeBSD has moved to be compatible with the proposed Linux O_BENEATH as well[1]. We're hoping this helps write portable, capability-restricted code between FreeBSD and Linux.

[1]: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=33974...

(We already had very similar functionality for Capsicum-restricted directory fds to piggy-back off of.)
What about wiki-based storytelling, like the SCP Foundation database? It would fit the "hyperliterature" label in the sense that you discover the world and setting through a non-traditional hyperlink-based medium, and although the visual elements are limited, they are present (images, redactions, presentation of the content as a document...).
How much better is the jury trial than the alternatives for those who are not, uh, a "culture fit"? For example, those that are "highly melanated", or of "mestizo persuasion (and Mexican extraction who 'no speaka da English')" or covered head to toe in burka or limp -wristed homosexual or, again, Boris who is fresh off the boat from Belarus with the thickest of accents and broken grammar...how do they fare with the jury who I am assuming will be made up of those who represent the opinion and culture of the majority for who those listed above are not always the "most respectable of people"? I guess one could argue this is NY, not Alabama, but then again, NYC is not synonymous with Upstate New York.

I apologize for my own grammar. Asking the question for my friend :)
I'm a big fan of western/piedmont of NC for remote workers. It's not the absolute cheapest compared to the midwest, but the weather is better if you don't love snow, and it's still extremely cheap if you're in some non-hip parts (Greensboro, High Point, Winston Salem are very affordable small cities that have universities, and other less-connected mountain towns like Morganton/Wilkesboro/Marion/Hickory are even cheaper, but less vibrant), and there are plenty of roads connecting you to airports and bigger cities with more robust economies (Atlanta, Nashville, Charlotte). Asheville is probably the nicest remote work city in NC, and would definitely beat Dayton culturally, but it's nowhere near as cheap.
Server and App monitoring tools in alphabetical order
Upvoted.

This is precisely what I have been thinking while reading all these comments, but unable to express so succintly.
The quality of people?
Matches with my experience. One guy was thinking about creating a google ads alternative, as according to his thoughts, google overreports the clicks, and blockchain will give accurate number of clicks.
Lenovo to pay $7.3M for installing adware in laptops
http://www.paulos.net/teaching/hcc/papers/informing_ourselve...
They both get paid 400k for competing. That's payment, and maybe a prize for reaching the championship, but not a prize for the winner of the championship, so I ignore it.

The winner gets 200k in prize money. In the case of a tie the winner gets 150k, the loser gets 50k. That is to say the winner gets 100k, and they split 100k, which is half the prize, which is what I said.
I think the previous poster was referring to sportsball/handegg type physical team sports, where there are a lot more changing variables (team composition, physical condition, stadium, weather, ...) than in chess or StarCraft.
The technology to submit and receive votes on proposals is only trivial until you think about the details, especially those required for security and authentication.

And your picture of humam behavior is all too rose-colored glasses if it's having all members of a minority vote just go along out of solidarity when it's non-binding. I've seen unions vote on issues, and it's often contentious with emotions running high on all sides. If the losing side in any of those could have just said "nope" to accepting the result, they would have. Sometimes they try to anyway.
If you think 35 mbps isn't enough to spare a couple megabits for hosting a personal website then your personal is entirely different than mine.

Are you slipping back out of context to talk about business again?
Class action suit alleges iMac and MacBook lack dust filters
Twitter’s Kafka adoption story
Rust Quiz #18
It would be easy enough to normalize for those trends right? (seems like a solvable problem)
In "classic" Unix, isn't ".." really just another file name, created by default as a hard link to the parent directory?
I'm kind of stunned we don't have more medical non-profits here in the US, developing healthcare software and giving it away for free.
Great post! In my own experience of working with NFS version 4 servers, we discovered several bugs that have been actually fixed in latest version of kernels. The unfortunate thing is that most enterprises still run old CentOS / Redhat release kernels that although are stable, but yet lack several of these fixes.
At $25-50+ a head for food and alcohol at reception alone, that is a huge number unless you come from wealth... However I think I read somewhere the average cost of South Asian wedding is $100-150k in California. Ouch.
>Even when I'm eating by myself, I still find the music in some restaurants both annoyingly loud and not what I would consider pleasant background music for a meal.

This is by design to get you out of there quickly to free a spot for another paying customer.

I vote with my wallet and suggest you do too.

If a restaurant has music I don't like, which seems to be a trend nowadays, I get the message that they don't want me to be there and leave immediately.
Population correlates directly with some economies: food, housing, etc. I think most of our measures of an economy (GDP? VTI?) aim to get as many people in as many human-only productive jobs as possible. (I apologize for leaving "productive" open-ended)
Well, it’s Re:Invent this week (AWS’ major annual conference), so this is fairly typical. Expect another handful or so of announcements tomorrow during Werner Vogel’s keynote as well.
It might become a full-blown quasar when the Andromeda Galaxy collides with the Milky Way ~4.5 billion years from now. We'd better take that into consideration when we start planning for the death of our Sun ;)
Highly recommend this book for anyone interested in this line of thinking:

How mathematicians think
William P. Byers
The winds of change for startups
You sound like a "get off my lawn type of person"... let's take a look at the dependencies:

"animate.css" - as the name would imply, this is for css animations.

"font-awesome" - provides icons for vector graphics

"waypoints" - a easy way to trigger a function when you scroll to an element

This doesn't seem like "bloat". It's not like they used a full fledged framework like React. And, I think it would be pretty hard to replicate this site with "just one html file".

I'm sure its possible to make something similar without these 3 dependencies, but it would

1] be a lot harder

and

2] probably not look as good
Shameless plug: I work on custom solutions that do this locally, shoot me an email if interested.
It's America's lax immigration policy toward third worlders, and leftover cultural enrichment from the slave trades.
There is something to what you are saying but it is also true that many many aspiring teachers wash out because they can't even get their first job after getting their teaching degree. It _is_ a competitive market in many places but the market _isn't_ functioning as it should because of dysfunctional relationships with unions and tenure.
Interesting.

>Piagetian gains at the bottom of the curve should not be dismissed
as simply a phenomenon that offsets losses at the top. Consider the
British results for Equilibrium and Pendulum. The decimation of top
scorers means that by the age of 12 to 14, fewer British schoolchildren
attain the level of formal operations. This means that fewer could think
in terms of abstractions (without concrete examples), which limits their
capacity for deductive logic and systematic planning. However, the fact
that these losses are made up by gains over the rest of the “curve”
means that far more of them are at the concrete generalization level.
They are better at on the spot thinking (e.g. in playing demanding
computer games). Their understanding of the physical world is limited
to simple causation between two variables, but they can draw inferences from observations to make generalizations.

[...]

>The Piagetian results are particularly ominous. Looming over all is
their message that the pool of those who reach the top level of cognitive
performance is being decimated: fewer and fewer people attain the
formal level at which they can think in terms of abstractions and develop their capacity for deductive logic and systematic planning. They also reveal that something is actually targeting that level with special effect, rather than simply reducing its numbers in accord with losses over the curve as a whole. We have given our reason as to why the
Piagetian tests are sensitive to this phenomenon in a way that conventional tests are not.
Questions We Should Ask About Facebook’s Smear Campaign Against Its Critics
I agree, max damage was the wrong term. I was envisioning the temperatures to melt steel structures that exist closer to the detonation.
I mean, it is their money. So they are certainly entitled to something.

That something that they should be entitled to is a good education.
Evaluations are one of the extremely few levers students actually have to pull when dealing with a terrible teacher. I'd expect that given an entire class' worth of evaluations you'd be able to strip outliers and get some genuine useful responses.

Schools by and large reward research, not teaching (https://jakeseliger.com/2010/09/26/how-universities-work-or-...), and, even if they do reward teaching, it's not clear that students on evals do more than reward grades.
That's well done.
Nobody is being accused in a FISA court.

A warrant is a warrant. An expression of the governments investigative powers.

The police aren't required to inform you and give you a chance to argue your case in court for why thy shouldn't raid your house for the drugs they're pretty sure you have.

Cops don't need your written permission to point speed radar at your car.
Great writing effortlessly makes you feel smarter. Great story
You can’t possibly expect a highly developed nation to have comparable prices against south east Asia.
The OP said they wanted to cry and crying is reserved for pretty sad things. Seems over-the-top negative to me
oh, wow, can you open source for this
"3. Calling back into Lua is."

Dear God, the suspense is killing me!
The Case for Greatness in Classical Music
It'd be great if "software engineer" == "real engineer" (well, for some - for me it'd suck, because I don't even have a good degree, let alone any kind of background or education for engineering certs) - but imagine if that were true...

...you could basically kiss every kind of cheap software, home computing, mobile phones, etc - goodbye.

Because nobody would be able to afford any of that. No one in business would pay the money for thorough design and vetting of business software, let alone consumer-grade code. Ordinary consumers would find any such software prohibitively expensive (on the order or worse than trying to buy a license for a commercial Unix back in the 1980s - assuming you even had the machine to run it on).

Heck, the amount of time alone it would take to carefully design such systems, then build, debug, test, verify, etc - it would be insanely and prohibitively expensive.

I'm sure you know this.

Which is why you only ever see this kind of effort applied to software used in aerospace and medical fields (and probably to a lesser extent automotive, as well as commercial software used for engineering - like CAD/CAM, FEA, etc).

Even there, costly (sometimes deadly) mistakes can and do happen.

Regardless, though - the cost to create that software is phenomenal (and the cost to maintain it even more so - every single minor or major change has to be carefully considered and researched, then if put into place, carefully tested and vetted to ensure nothing else is broken by it).

It ultimately comes down to money and the market; if all software were held to the standards of say aerospace software, nobody could afford it, nobody would sell it, and nobody would buy it. The fact that only a few particular industries have settled on such reliability being important says it all. Had all industries and concerns wanted such reliable software, we would see it today. Since we don't, it is likely because it was deemed too expensive for little gain overall.

...and so here we are, for better or for worse.
I am reminded of the blade shape of quiet computer fans --- although designed to work in a different fluid, I bet a lot of what applies to making a quiet fan blade also applies to propellers in water.
SQS-FIFO should let you process task once & only once. Just make sure you configure timing parameters correctly.

DynamoDB has triggers that get fired upon changes. That would strongly help with eventual consistency implementation (which i strongly recommend). But with this you should write Lambdas. Check how well is Lambda Java supported.

Are you sure you want to use EC2 directly? Why not to use ECS? This would let you focus more on the business and less on infrastructure
It is 2018, these patterns are _easy_ to detect. Honestly at a fundamental level bailing on optimizing teach performance and student outcomes through feedback loops seems nuts to me. This is how all high functioning dynamic systems work (ok maybe not all).

You just can't throw out the baby with the bathwater here just because there are things to figure out. Most of the reasons people have cited here seem like lame excuses, all easily addressable if you could get sane people to get aligned behind a well designed system. Unfortunately not everyone involved in these conversations is acting sane (or objectively in the best interests of the community) and therefore getting everyone aligned in practically impossible.

This whole conversation, BTW, reminds me a the similar debate around public access to doctor and surgeon outcome data where some doctors are amazing and others have horrendously bad success rates for specific surgeries but if you go to that doctor for that surgery you almost never are given access to that history. A large portion of the medical community is very hostile to the idea of things being otherwise which, IMO, is indefensible from a public health POV and only makes sense if you are a crappy, unscrupulous doctor seeking to avoid accountability.
The answer to your question is that the class in question is a bad class, and needs to be fixed.

If 45% of students are failing, then either the class needs to be changed, or more effort needs to be made to prevent students from taking a class that they are likely to fail.
SE Asia is a completely different economy though. Japan is a first world country, and the third largest economy in the world. Its not going to cost the same as someplace in SEA.