skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you can't trust people to understand that Facebook promoting the post of a peer in your network, which you curated, isn't as popular as you think it is (Facebook doesn't generate content; the people you accept do)...

What does that say about what we think of their judgment capabilities, and whether they can take on a more serious democratic challenge like a policy debate on Brexit, or the Californian initiative process? I view the judgment necessary for Brexit or other public policy as more than a magnitude harder than judging whether peers or posts in your network are as popular as Facebook wants you to think.

Your response again makes me ask whether we have esteem for the clarity of our peers. Is there even faith that people can manage their own click?
Your opinion vs millions of data points on their end. You do you.
I know it's against the rules here to insinuate that people haven't read the article, but I don't think anyone commenting has read the article.

This isn't about the anti-vax movement as it is about the toxic relationship that the ultra-Orthodox Jewish enclaves in New York have with their surrounding communities. They are used to abusing religious exemptions in order to have everything "their way". Hopefully this is the beginning of the end of their ability to operate like this.

The outbreak in Rockland County is largely concentrated in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, the New York Times reported. It is believed it could have spread from other predominantly ultra-Orthodox areas around New York which have already seen outbreaks of measles.

Mr Day said health inspectors had encountered "resistance" from some local residents, which he branded "unacceptable and irresponsible".

"They've been told 'We're not discussing this, do not come back' when visiting the homes of infected individuals as part of their investigations," he said.
I was talking to a database teacher, and I tried arguing about ACID on an in memory database, arguing that there was a minimal window for database corruption in a transaction system, since the worst case scenario would seem to be a loss of very few transaction.

He was not really listening to what I was saying or my arguments, because a system like redis seems like a more than acceptable compromise.

It still seems a few people are reluctant to an in-memory database.
"Used in corporate environments" and "Shipped" are two completely different thing. You will find GPL software all over the place in the enterprise because there is no risk.

You won't often see GPL software in shipped commercial products, because when you ship stuff you might need to include proprietary components you don't want to have to open up. It still does happen from time to time though.
I suspect that it's just too difficult, possibly next-to impossible for them. Tracking is (I assume) baked into every aspect of every system they have, and carving out an exception for one small country is just... exceedingly high effort. Given a large and complex codebase, may well be close to impossible even assuming years of significant effort and cost ("Are we sure we got all the places...?") the only outcome of which (from FB's perspective) would be to reduce their profits very slightly.

I'm not trying to excuse their unpardonable behaviour here, just trying to think unemotionally about what might be going on behind the scenes. Personally I wish they'd stop tracking me - and I have no FB account. I may have to emigrate to Belgium. Good beer an added incentive.
fake news... if there was a rise to dart, it went about as high as a pita bread. If there was anything google should obliterate, it should be dart
If you're arguing that you'd be fired because you got sick in the US, that's not likely accurate -- certainly not accurate in terms of any professional job. Every company I've worked for has short term and long term disability insurance along with health insurance as well, and while most of the US is right to work it's also not normal to fire someone just because they have medical issues.

Yes, as we've seen in the last few days, nearly everything you see in the "news" reports from the US is heavily biased. There are no longer any unbiased media who report facts -- they all report the bias they want to push, and this particular bias is very popular among a large sector of those who want the US to convert to a socialist economy (which not coincidentally lines up with most of the US media's political views).

Don't base your ideas on wikipedia. Here's the source: https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/eligibility/index.html. Bottom line, if you don't have the money to afford medical care you will almost certainly be covered by medicaid -- now even including pre-existing conditions. In that regard, the US already has the socialized medicine system people want -- those who want it changed simply want all private insurance removed because they don't like its existence. It's not properly socialistic enough that some have good private insurance and others have public insurance. Of course those arguing this the loudest are congressmen and women covered by one of the best insurance plans in the country.

Your experience -- treatment by top experts and such in a socialized medical system is highly a-typical. You would likely not get that anywhere else on the planet, including all the other socialized medicine countries. It is not normal for socialized medicine to provide that level of care anywhere.

There are a lot of caveats to all of this, it doesn't all work perfectly. None of what I'm arguing is meant to claim the US has a perfect health care system -- we don't. There's a lot of room for improvement, but let's have the discussion from a foundation of facts instead of left-wing talking points.
>Estes model rockets still offer a little bit of that wild freedom

Until you get arrested for trespassing launching or retrieving, or you take out someone's drone and they sue you, or it lands on someone's property and they sue you, or someone calls protective services because "a couple of yutes were playing with 'explosives', no parent in sight".

Sigh. :(
I’m pretty sure we’re already starting to do this.
Actually, I wonder why we dont have yet a programming language and runtime which, after a shutdown, reload exactly like it was.
This looks really nice and the landing page is great. I love that they have code demos right there.

I currently use and love https://ipdata.co/ which is very similar in terms of features and pricing so I see no compelling reason to move, but it's great to see more entrants into this space especially if it causes more innovation and data types to be added.
But why wouldn't you just use MongoDB instead?
Well, except for Daraprim which has been off patent for 62 years.

It went from $13.50 to $750 overnight because it only has one producer that decided to raise the price 5500%.

https://www.vox.com/2015/9/22/9373557/daraprim-competitor-tu...

And there's no generic insulin sold in the US, even though it was discovered 90+ years ago.

https://www.npr.org/2015/03/22/394634923/90-years-after-its-...
All I heard is more people are going to be using high-speed VPN services.

Also, how the hell do they think that they're going to be able to enforce this? They do seem to be doing this for the right reasons, but I have no clue how in the world they think that they're going to be able to A) enforce it, and B) do so without breaking into user's privacy.
Log synchronously. Either exploit the POSIX propensity of buffering lines, have an explicit synchronization on your IO routine (that doesn't need to stop the business code), or log each thread to a different stream.
When I began reading C&H, I fully identified with Calvin. Now I fully identify with his parents and it has become an entirely different body of work.

Hat's off to Bill. That was really something.
So, escape rooms?
I didn't consistently try that only a few times.

But maybe this is the solution indeed, so the small breaks like every 30 minutes have to be inside the building and I'll have to settle with getting air every longer periods. like every 4 hours.

At first I was fascinated by moving to such a tall building with such nice view, but then I understood that smaller buildings are much better as you can actually go out with so much less hustle!
Which is why the US government cannot be trusted on the matter
The Vietnamese government probably sees this as progress

I'd like to hear one way or another from a Vietnamese person rather than speculate on this.
What I am saying is that this idea is totally obvious, but until somebody implements it to show it works, nobody dares to try it because it sounds like a bad idea.
Amazon to Abandon Its “Guinea Pig”–Third-Party Sellers, Starting from China
Several of our production users do give back developer hours. Some have asked to give money, but we don't have a way to do it yet. We're working on it...

> The third wave does not recognize the tremendous costs associated with giving away productivity to corporations.

I think they do, and that's where the unrest is coming from. This realization has come after, not before, actually contributing.
There's more than just the risk of immediate death. It also partially wipes your immune system and opens you up to a host of other illness, which can also be life threatening or cause various forms of morbidity.
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> This sentiment is one of the reasons anti-intellectualism is thriving at this very moment.

One hell of a feedback loop that is...
Regarding the need for a tool, I can't say enough good things about [lnav](https://lnav.org). It's like a mini-ETL powertool at your fingertips, w/ an embedded SQLite db and a terrific API. As of mid-2016 when I first used it, querying logs was extremely easy, and reasonably fast (w/ up to several million rows). Highest recommendation.
I’m calling out some serious disease-enthusiast bullshit here. The CDC does not state what you claim. From their website:

“We learn about a vaccine’s safety during clinical trials before it is licensed, and monitor it continually as millions of doses are administered after it is licensed. We also know there is not a plausible biologic reason to believe vaccines would cause any serious long-term effects. Based on more than 50 years of experience with vaccines, we can say that the likelihood that a vaccine will cause unanticipated long-term problems is extremely low.“

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/parents/tools/parents-guide/par...
NYPD revealed Patternizr, an AI-based system to track crimes
If you want something more simpler you might want to try the Anno 1701. It has a slower relaxing pace, with rich visuals. But like factorio(I think) it is fully deterministic ie(crops once planted will never fail, crop yeild is exactly same in all farms at all times etc, etc..), which I do not like.
Von Neumann thought about artificial neural networks too: https://ia800800.us.archive.org/4/items/TheComputerAndTheBra...
as anecdotal evidence everyone I saw use "openoffice" in the last 6+ years was actually using libreoffice and calling it openoffice (it was in italy, so language can be a factor. openoffice has a more natural sound than libreoffice)
Health insurance, despite the name, isn’t insurance.

Insurance is paying small sums, at EV negative cost, to mitigate the risk from a rare but very expensive cost.

Health insurance isn’t underwritten and pays out for routine expenses. It isn’t insurance.
Because a "large enough to cause problems" minority of people think they know what's best, science and statistics be damned.

It's the same reason people are still clinging to the war on drugs, pushing gun control, fighting densification (yes I know that's not a word) of cities and denying climate change.
True, using a library to hide the limitations of a DB smells bad. It is fixing the problem in the wrong location.

I may have misread your comment but rarely do more than one client application access a database. Especially in today's often Microservices architecture. So using a library as mentioned is fine. And as the app evolves/gets rewritten you can keep the library or replace it with a similar one.

Over 10+ years ago I did join a few projects with existing architecture that had evolved to multiple applications accessing the same database. And they were a nightmare but that is rare to encounter these days as most people have learned that one app = one DB. (Data warehousing is a possible exception, but mostly those datasets are exported instead as well as streams for machine learning).

Probably preaching to the choir but multiple clients mean feature freeze/deadlock, no DB refactoring and spaghetti architecture.
What happens when you need to do something like "Select browser user agent from all users who filled forms for a particular set of clients after a given date." ?

This would fit in a single SQL query which is expected to perform reasonably well, with an unstructured database optimizing this query will take months of work.
Wanted to understand if there was any "business model" behind building such website
There’s nothing stopping you from creating tables and indexes on the fly using SQL but it requires explicit commands.

> What would an RDBMS have brought us?

It would probably work using a forms table, fields table, submissions table, and values table.
Absolutely this.

I never fully realized it until you said it just now but as a father of a two year old I often find myself thinking back to Calvin's parents, after spending my childhood identifying with Calvin.
Drugs are tweaked during development. The initial candidate compound is more for proving that a particular class of drugs has promise. But tweaking for toxicity, effectiveness, etc. can only be fully done in clinical trials.
Agree, I'd miss lots of features even though it's a bit quirky at some points.

I made a dark theme for it:

c:\Users\...\AppData\Roaming\GHISLER\wincmd.ini

[Colors]
InverseCursor=1
ThemedCursor=0
InverseSelection=0
BackColor=2105376
BackColor2=2763306
ForeColor=12632256
MarkColor=255
CursorColor=1028084
CursorText=-1
ActiveTitleText=0
>This is speculatively projecting a lot of thoughts and feelings on the brother-in-law, which is quite patronizing.

The most powerful and influential communicators/connectors I've encountered in my life essentially only ever do this. I suppose the nuance is that they treat every person as an individual, so (on a semi-subconscious level) spend their first interactions profiling the individual so they understand their motives. I liken it to boxers learning their opponent's range and rhythm (only less combative).

I suppose what might be patronizing though is projecting thoughts onto a stranger from afar (like on this thread) though presenting some projections as an example of one possible thought pattern that may need to be handled can be useful IMO.
As everybody likely knows, a significant part of McDonald's's revenue is operations with realty, which they have plenty. I wonder what else are they leveraging from their position of a huge company with a truly global presence.

I mean, Amazon also sells books as it used to, and selling stuff is their core business, but they are not limited to that.
I do worry about the loss of jobs at this level though.

Is it right to think that $300M investment + time to turn it into usable product for the restaurants == Loss of many minimum wage (or slightly more) jobs to make back that $300M

My local Wal*Mart now has 25 self checkouts and only 2 people manned registers.
Should the cost of CPUs be separate from the cost of CPU research? I understand it seems distasteful to place a cost on health and life, but isn't that just a reality? Everything has a cost. As long as the cost of drugs were reasonable, we wouldn't need to have these conversations.
Because:

1. I tried to write the article without mentioning anyone's name.

2. I didn't like it as much as when I quoted from particular sources, so I started putting names in.

3. Personally, I am more sympathetic to RMS and more biased against esr. I really, really struggled to actually link to esr in this piece, but in the end, decided it was right. But I just didn't think about Stallman. My desire to work against my bias ended up just biasing my work.

Writing is hard.
I don't know if I could draw an analogy to pizza here. It's a different type of purchase. You know it's going to take 15-20 minutes to make and more often than not it's going to be delivered. It also survives the delivery/pickup process with better quality. Have you ever eaten MCD french fries that were more than 5 minutes old?

From my interactions with their people, the mobile app is the conduit to the future but there are a lot of kinks still left to be worked out.

For example: you order on the app, but when exactly do you start the food? You might be 30 seconds from the store or 30 minutes. The initial idea was to geofence the store and trigger the kitchen when you're on the way. Perhaps that's still going, but maybe the ML is an assist on that data. You also get a ton of marketing and demographic information out of that. There are also the usual privacy concerns.

Remember that there's also a ton of data being generated in the other direction. Predictive analytics on the equipment (everything in the kitchen will be an edge node in a few years), POS/cash accounting, real-time sales data, store traffic, crew work history, etc.

They're also experimenting with dynamic pricing on food, like it or not.
NIMBYism in metro Atlanta keeps the mass transit lines from expanding. They're afraid more consistent buses and trains will bring inner city drugs and violence to get in the way of good, wholesome suburban drugs and violence. Way too many people grew up on and internalized '80s movies. Real life cities in 2019 USA are not like Robocop, but try telling that to the people around here.
> I don't even know what "data flow analysis" is and I've been involved with computer programming and data analysis for 15 years.

You probably haven't been involved with compiler development in these 15 years; data flow analysis is one of the techniques used by optimizing compilers to reason about the code. Given the context (not only there is a compiler converting Java source code to Java bytecode, but also the Java Virtual Machine acts as a "just-in-time" compiler from the Java bytecode to machine code), everyone involved most probably already know what "data flow analysis" is. And by "simple" the author most probably means that a basic data flow analysis, with no extra bells and whistles, would be enough for the described purpose.
An HIV treatment cost taxpayers millions But pharma is making Billions off it
1. Gender is an extremely complex topic, "github made more devs" is not.

2. I didn't say that "gender!!!" was an answer; I said that the answer is complex, and that things like gender play one role in it.

3. I didn't give any answer here, explicitly, so it cannot be a lazy answer.
Academic trends are ruled by money. In theoretical physics, computer simulations is where the money is. For the students, that means they are doing computer science related work, frequently the physics part is lacking. The route to leaving physics and using the data science capabilities is then a straightforward one.
Agreed. I'm 34, I quit scouts at 13 as my father died just before I Turned 13 and everyone was treating me like a leper because they didn't know what to say or do BUT scout camps were:

- stamping pre-cut leather and using vinyl cord to 'stitch' it together to make wallets

- shooting splintered fiberglass bows at targets 5 feet away

- shooting bb guns older than my father 5 feet away

- singing cadences about "Uncle Dougie" the head of camp Belzer

Scout meetings were:

- carving soap into eskimos

- painting pinewood derby cars

- making a toolbox from pre-cut wood

- making model airplane from pre-cut wood

- doing idiotic skits that in hindsight were wildly innaporpriate like when I had to stand in front of everyone and go "When I grow up, I want to be a baker. Don't, eclaire turns and grabs butt buy my buns!" while others said things like "Be a surgeon. Needle, thread, stab him in the head" and "Be a girlscout, Heya mister, hiya mister *pretends to raise a skirt and show leg" wanna buy a cookIEEEE"?

God. I need therapy don't I?!

Camping trips were:

- Dads that have never camped, trying to drag full kitchens into the woods and burning every meal (my father refused to go on scout trips because he was a proper woodsman and they'd all be like "Mark can you help us with our tent/where's the bathroom/is this poison ivy/oh my god is this a tick/can I eat this/how do I start this fire, where's the gasoline"

- Visiting the visitor's centers in state parks

- Walking on, often paved or drastically improved, par trails

- Group trips to the general store to buy ice cream and candy
Thank you for saving me the trouble of having to write the same thing.

We programmers often seem to forget that we spend far, far more time reading code than writing it, therefore readability should be a (if not the) primary consideration when engineering it.

That said, I do understand where Whitney's terseness impetus comes from: I have always lamented how little of my code will fit on the screen, with the number of vertical lines being the limiting factor; that is precisely why my taskbar is on the left-hand-side. (And don't get me started on monitors designed for watching wide-screen movies -- 1600x1200 FTW!)

As such, I can't really fault his intention as much as his execution, and I feel that ultimately the solution to his (really, our) problem is that all our code (not just his) needs an IDE that can expand such terse definitions as per the current programmer's preferred style. This has been my perspective for many years, especially after wrangling various SQL dialects and the mostly awful formatting preferences of my peers.

As I see it, the ideal solution is to store all code files as its token stream and have a default format that can be customized by each programmer in the IDE. As a result, each program will be stored as its pure content (which would help with version control (so long as whitespace is ignored)) AND each programmer would get to work with their preferred perspective. Of course the problem with this methodology is that the tokenizer and formatter better be flawless or you're f*ed, not to mention the fact that there are various IDEs that people like to work with.
Did you have significant legitimate China business? These days it's probably not as effective a technique, but back in the mid 00s we ended up just banning entire countries at my company because well over 50% of transactions from those countries ended up being fraudulent.
I just looked through all settings, how do I turn AMP off in gmail?
If there was a shortage of competition, I would start getting worried. They are just one actor among thousands.

With power comes responsibility. Google has earned our trust with every new product they develop. If they misstep, they will hear it. In fact, they have to keep listen to keep being at top.
Boundless Immigration Raises $7.8M in Series A Led by Foundry Group
Not for the lack of trying. Google and Apple are trying to cut into payments from the platforms they own: phones. Amazon has been offering a payments service for a long time iirc.