skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's assume we're playing the Kevin Bacon game. We've got actors, movies, and roles. Here's some sample data:

INSERT INTO actors (id, name) VALUES (1, 'Kevin Bacon')
INSERT INTO actors (id, name) VALUES (2, 'Frank Langella')
INSERT INTO actors (id, name) VALUES (3, 'Cameron Diaz')

INSERT INTO movies (id, name) VALUES (1, 'The Box')
INSERT INTO movies (id, name) VALUES (2, 'Frost/Nixon')

INSERT INTO roles (movie_id, actor_id) VALUES (1, 2)
INSERT INTO roles (movie_id, actor_id) VALUES (1, 3)

INSERT INTO roles (movie_id, actor_id) VALUES (2, 1)
INSERT INTO roles (movie_id, actor_id) VALUES (2, 2)

Given the above data model, it's not possible to select all the actors that are within 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon with a SQL statement.

(Data from the incredible Oracle of Bacon, which uses custom graph traversal to serve up results: https://oracleofbacon.org/how.php)
That can only query for a depth of 1. It doesn't let you query for friends of friends at an arbitrary depth.
architecture is political because an architecture (or a system) always ends up mirroring the organization that produced/operates it. A well-known fact in OB, and one reason why one wants to engineer (i.e. architect) the organization simultaneously with the system, otherwise you create silos or disjoint systems that can't talk to each other.
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When I was in high school (in the late 90s), we only had a C programming class. I took this class with 10 other students, who were all in the top 10 GPA of our school. I was the only one that wasn't and the teacher, who was also the calc teacher, would constantly think that I was cheating/copying other students because I couldn't possibly write code better than his top calc students.

One time, I helped one of the students in class (I had been writing C code since I was 12). The student decided to outright copy my work and just change the variable names (they were so lazy, they couldn't even bother to change anything).

I didn't know this until after everything had been turned in and the teacher confronted both of us. I told him what must have happened and I got a C and the other student got a B. The other student was one of his calc students. I would have gotten a perfect grade otherwise.

I also remember I would get negative behavior scores (we were scored from 1-5), from this teacher. When I asked why, he would tell me it was because I didn't ask him enough questions. He spent the entire class flirting with the girls and was pretty much useless when it came to help.

I realized high school was bullshit after this.
> "Just write novels in your second language, bro" comes off as extremely ignorant.

Just as a note, it is not common but it does happen.

Not to mention other forms of cultural production like songs (where adherence to grammatical norms is not as important as other forms of cultural manifestation).

Which one is the "least correct" one, "Hotline Bling" or "I Want it That Way"? One was written by a native speaker, the other isn't.
according to wiktionary [1], this is indeed a possible meaning of the verb "to ignore", but it is marked as "obsolete".

This is a case of false friend when translating from french, where this meaning is the first one [2].

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ignore#Verb

[2] https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/ignorer#Verbe
SPARQL suffers from Not Invented Here Syndrome.
The theoretical basis for SQL is relational algebra. I wonder if there is a similar calculus underlying graph query languages?
> The primary drawbacks from their perspective are that they need to request shows and movies to be added

Have you heard of Ombi? I've never tried it, but sounds like it could help with this issue.

https://ombi.io/
I would go futher and say that Agile exists for the particular constraints of UI software development. User stories, Product Owners and Agility break down if you're building core infrastructure
> If that was the case, I'd never have been able to get this plan, right?

Not so! The pressure helps people who aren't even technically covered by competitors. That's the beauty of it. :- )
ya know... it's past time that they declare internet access a utility (like water, power, electricity) and tell garbage companies like Comcast to shove it.
Wow, such a long article in what probably could be condensed into 1 a4 sized page if you really are just about answering the question posed.

Who actually reads articles like this? I am genuinely curious. Comes off as information overload to me and it's hard to know what to believe.
Ridiculous advice. You MUST be a millenial.

My advice to you is to shut the fuck up and stop pretending to be a guru.
Good observations. I think a more accurate portrayal of the author's experience would be "Clear and simple Architecture is underrated".
I would like to have my username added to the whitelist. Thanks.
Your website JavaScript was ruining my browser history. I had more then 10 entries and could not go “back”.

Just a friendly heads-up.
This looks really nice but I'd like to see a more complex example with several complex functions and updating at least 500 fields at the same time.
Then we see how fast it is...
This was my opinion too until I read it. Definitely well worth a read if you're at all interested in running, fitness and human evolution. The autobiographical story parts are great reading, too.
"As of June 2016, .xyz was the fourth most registered global top-level domain (gTLD) name on the Internet, after .com, .net, and .org." -- Wikipedia.
For what its worth, average salary in Lithuania is around 10,000 euros per year.
Yeah, I think the person who made the cultural imperialism point was trying to say more or less that: that there are a lot of countries that speak English because English is the culturally dominant language. Personally I think there's a less sinister way to phrase that than "cultural imperialism," though. And I'm not sure it's caused by cultural dominance so much as economic dominance and pragmatism. I don't think many people learn English to watch American movies or wear American blue jeans.

Further, I'm not sure to what extent it affects the market size for books. I would guess, not being privy to any actual information on the topic, that the vast majority of English books are consumed by majority-English-speaking nations. There are probably exceptions for outsized blockbusters like Harry Potter.
If you knew the bank and the account, you could assume that people login to their account atleast once a month. So every month you could try a combination. Known passcodes could be tried first. If a dump also has the person Birthday then their birth year is a good Guess for a 4 digit pass code. 2 failed attempts reset when the user succeeds their login during the month.

There’s so many things people could do. Limiting passwords is a bad idea :/
"If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself." - Dr Joseph Goebbels.

My god, the PR on behalf of Boeing by The NY Times is embarrassing. The accidents were the result of various actions which increased the risk and decreased safety. All beginning with moving the engines forward and up which changed the flight envelope, requiring more complex systems. Followed by not informing pilots of said new systems, and additionally selling as an add on (for profit reasons) indicators which would have informed pilots whether this system was activated.

Imagine your cruise control automatically was turning on in your car, but you had no idea, and hitting the brake pedal did nothing. This is what those pilots were experiencing.

Planes aren’t hard to fly if you follow basic principles, take appropriate safety measures, and know the physics.

Responsibility for these deaths rests with Boeing.
Finally, one lone voice cuts through the hysteria and garbage and speaks the unpopular truth.

The good old boy culture of training men inadequately so that they can, at best, monitor an aircraft's systems, and then pretending that they are pilots is what killed those people.

You don't like it, but it's the truth.
So? Journalists do this with whomever they wish, and it's lucrative enough to be their full-time job.
Russian Government owned Aeroflot Airlines still uses SU as a flight prefix.
Google the universal service fee which is collected on every usage of title 2 telecom services and has been for nearly 100 years.

People in the US pay for universal service.
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We do have aptitude tests and a selection system in the US: the SAT/ACT. You can't get into competitive schools without not only doing well on that test but also doing well in high school and often outside of high school. Obviously, only people who pass and are admitted would get the free education. One can't just simply go to say Berkley and start studying anything. They have stringent admissions criteria. So I don't really see what point you're trying to make. There's absolutely no reason this couldn't work in the US. For people who don't test that well there's still community colleges and lesser state schools. Little about the testing and admissions process would have to change. Only the funding and cost would need to be reworked. That's far from impossible if we want to invest in future generations rather than using them to make a short-term profit.
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It's an interesting thing to think about.

In practice people with "a lot" of data tend to put it on a NAS.

On the other hand that's only a single hard drive's worth of data. Somehow it's become almost weird to have even one big drive inside your computer. Even though an 8TB drive (the best price per byte) is only $150.
Could you explain what you mean? 14 km/hr is about a 3 hr marathon pace, which is definitely on the faster side.
I already started buying used DVD's & Blu-Rays for use on Plex. Too much fragmentation and the risk of having your favourite shows and movies pulled for some other service.
More info about the underlying technology: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/smart-camera-portal-advances

More info about the privacy settings: https://portal.facebook.com/privacy/

Disclosure: I work at FB, my team developed the underlying MaskR-CNN technology.
> However, I still think waterfall is the only approach when trying to design a hardware product.

You can still use some agile ideas when working in electronics, thought it might look quite differently than in software.

For example, if you are a startup and your plan is to create a super duper wireless speaker with bluetooth, wifi and AI, you could first build a wireless speaker with only bluetooth, and sell that. That way you build experience with producing speakers, sales channels, manufacturing, sourcing etc., and build a customer base.

Then you could ask your customer base if they'd prefer wifi or AI in the next model, and iterate accordingly.

This is not the same as doing one-week sprints in software, but it does iterate that you can start small, build and sell small, viable products, and work your way up to the intended product.
i solved this problem by setting a clear goal in what i am interested in. anything that doesn't fit my interest gets discarded easily. i will occasionally watch stuff that doesn't fit my definition, but i never need to search for something because i can always pick from my list. and if the list is empty i will spend an hour deliberately looking for things to add to that list.
Trying to get everything under the sun grandfathered in from the old air-frame (from safety requirements and type rating) is what brought it down. Oh and being in bed with the people who could have slowed them down and said hold up here....
Shiat.su.

Shih tzu unfortunately doesn't work, but shit.su does.
This is dealing directly with the government. I doubt we ever hear of this again if the government screwed up.

No way coalfire would embarrass a client if they can avoid it.

I feel bad for the contractors who now have arrest records. They are the victims here.
so they are not storing the energy produced there.. That is a huge fluctuating energy source in their grid huh?
The author has done a great deal of thoughtful investigative work and that's always a good thing. However, in his attempt to reach conclusions and assign blame he has diluted the effectiveness of the article. I'm very interested in this topic, so I skimmed through it (a very long read) and get a sense of whether it's worth further study. I decided to move on.
Yes, I'm surprised that more shareholders and more of Congress haven't been calling both for Dennis Muilenburg's head and the end to self certification.
Why?

A subscription to Netflix already grants me access to way more than I can reasonably watch. If my tastes were perfectly aligned with what Netflix offers (or Disney, or Amazon Prime, et cetera), I could live this exact scenario of everything I could want for less than $10 a month (and some people do).

But if my interests are even slightly more eclectic, I get to pay for each service separately, which is silly if we assume that the production costs are equal for the sake of argument. And even then I would miss out on lots of content because it is being kept in a vault until copyright expires, or because it is geoblocked because the content owner is fishing for exclusive deals, or some-such nonsense.

So economically, $10 a month seems perfectly feasible.

Also, keep in mind that the outrageous costs of the US traditional cable package are very US-specific. In many countries cable television never got that expensive and broad. For those consumers the notion of paying more than $30 a month just for television (no internet included) is absurd.
I do agree with you. There's an advantage to having an interface remain predictable. At the same time I wish you had the ability to dynamically re-arrange the UI with plugins. It'd be very cool to have a Sketch-emulating layout for Inkscape, as a plugin.
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What is that list of changes relative to? I'm using 0.92.4 myself.
I think you're right, but Ad blockers complicate matters and make it necessary to have organic more than ever. Google adwords works but my previous employers standard issue install, blocked ads, including on Google, which for a b2b business especially is bad.
It’s precisely due to the fact att destroyed competitive telecom equipment and infrastructure at every turn for the last 150 years that we have exclusivity agreements. Att has threatened to break domestic telecommunications over and over again if they couldn’t have monopolies (although now Comcast exercising those same monopolies is hurting att).
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I think you're conflating the historic etymology around the word mile, versus the US mile conversion rate to SI unit (metre).
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Additionally there must be 'big fish' within their market. People who spend $1,000s on consuming viewing entertainment and would go whatever the 'preferred/legal' way to do it was.
How much does it cost to have an "article" like this posted on NYT?
I always forget how close space is. The ISS is only 400 km up, they actually only see 3% of the Earth's surface.
according to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_num... , German does not even make the top 10 ...is 12 just after "Urdu". I would not call German a "widely spoken" language.
The raw text of the article: https://pastebin.com/SLkqQXfb
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Two hundred and thirty dollars? Per month? Bloody hell.

I'm on the highest consumer rate that BT offers and that costs £45/mo.
domainhost.su (you can add an insovietrussia subdomain to help people get the joke).
I got to build algorithms for Novix's successor, the RTX2xxx family at Harris Semiconductor. Holy cow, it was fun teaching customers how to wrap their heads around a fully stack-based instruction set. :-)
We need like 1000x more cell sites working in coordination. Think slightly bigger than picocells.

There are a bunch of proposals on how to do this (I think Artemis networks is one if I remember the name). The problem is that existing roof rights don’t map well to a bunch of microcells.
That's likely cause of exclusivity agreement between KaiOS and Jio. Besides, Reliance (the parent of Jio) is an investor in KaiOS, so is Google.
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But then, to avoid that, you can embrace the concept of copyleft (free software) instead of open source.

So, you can make your software free as in 'free speech', and obligate other companies to keep the products they construct above yours still free.

Better than to make them free as in 'free beer' where they can just consume your work and not give back to the overall movement.
If all the ISPs are using the same infrastructure how do they compete on internet speed?
> But if the toilet is already dirty, you’re not going to be the one cleaning other people’s pee, so you just add your own and leave.

Good analogy, but in code it's more than just disgusting to clean up after others. Changing code that was poorly written by someone else may cause bugs, bugs that now become your problem.

The goal of every programmer faced with such a codebase—as in the dirty bathroom analogy—is to get in, do his business as quickly as possible, and get out. Iterate this over time and the problem just keeps getting worse.

It's like the tragedy of the commons, where each programmer pollutes a common resource because the incentives are set up to reward that kind of behaviour.

This leads the codebase to become a 'Big Ball of Mud', the most popular architectural pattern in the world: http://laputan.org/mud/
you will probably need to hire someone to do that
> The number of congress people should be large enough to assume population level statistics

It's not a uniform sample. In fact, it's not even sampling from the same population - it's a set of samples of size 1...
The censorship of ideas the majority dislikes is pretty repulsive.

This is one of the reasons it took so long for homosexuality to become accepted.
"visible from space" to me means visible with a naked eye to an astronaut orbiting earth.

This seems like it will likely meet that definition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_structures_visible_...
> I think upfront planning is almost always a good thing.

Agreed. I think some people think agile means no plan, whereas I think it means frequent scheduled review of the plan as work is completed and more is learned.
There's a talk well worth watching by Kevlin Henney called 'Old Is the New New' [1], where he points out that waterfall was initially conceived with design iteration in mind and yet that part was just essentially forgotten and replaced by something overly-simplified in common understanding.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbgsfeGvg3E
I suspect .va (Vatican City) is up high on the list.
Yeah but everyone in Ft. Collins is a cow herder so this town label is still appropriate.

(sorry this is a bad intra-Colorado rivalry joke, please ignore)
Quite. Legality is really not that relevant when you look at the problem from pure market theory.

The legality aspect does mean the piracy as a competitor has a weakness that can be exploited by other competitors — e.g., by lobbying for stricter laws or suing individuals, or by appealing to morality — but it is a competitor nonetheless, and acts as one.
That's not architecture, just standarization.
Its a proper way to design software as well. I get the purpose of agile but inevitably agile code has the tendency to become a giant mess.
What demographic is this intended for?
Did you type the number wrong? I'm not finding an 8770. GSMArena.com is the place to look for specs, in my opinion.

https://www.gsmarena.com/res.php3?sSearch=nokia+8770
I really dig this sentence in the FB press release masquerading as a TechCrunch article:

"If you can get past the creepiness, the new Portal TV let you hang out with friends on your home’s biggest screen."

Lets see what else we can apply this kind of logic:

"If you can get past the creepiness of having that weirdo look at you naked, he can give you cookies! You do want cookies, right?"

The real fun, however, will be when some 5 year old is naked in front of that thing and Facebook employees and/or contractors end up watching it in the name of machine learning followed by the record of it showing up on Pornhub. Though maybe at that point "think of the children" finally gets some people to go to jail. Maybe by that time we get someone like Warren ( regardless how misguided she is in some other aspects ) be the POTUS and push through the jail time for executives.
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I'm sure lots of smart people spent a lot of time and effort working on this, but unfortunately my answer is: Hell no!
Great work, i like what i see in http://asciicker.com/ too :-)
It's unclear which you ascribe to but it's curious that you don't take offense to either being compared to Evangelicals.

In either case, they're both almost a Cult of personality. The fans are so adorant of their object that they often overlook glaringly evil deeds. At the same time, the level of manipulation exhibited and the devotion demanded by the personality is extreme to the point that outsiders see it as absurd.

Idk, maybe it's just me but I find fanaticism to be very off putting in general. When the idol asks fans to make sacrifices to stay it in their favor, that's when it crosses a line into creepy.

Disney walks a fine line where it expertly cultivates that culture while simultaneously pretending it doesn't exist and remaining open and accessible to everyone.
It may not be obvious, but it should be possible. It's relatively easy to get those within 1 degree of separation, put that in a view, then repeat that, but instead of hardcoding Kevin Bacon do "within 1 degree of those within 1 degree of Kevin bacon". Repeat a few more times and you have your query.

Of course if you want to know the degree between two random actors, or all actors within n degrees of Kevin Bacon (where n is unknown ahead of time) then it becomes really difficult (potentially still possible using common table expressions though).
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I'm in the same boat. That phone looks physically perfect for my needs but I don't use WhatsApp, Facebook or most of the Google ecosystem (the exceptions being gmail and calendar for work). I would pay more than what they're asking to have a build without all of that.
funny, comcast tried to do the same thing in longmont, CO and lost. we've had fiber unlimited 1gb up/down for $50 (i think $70 for new customers now) w/ no contract for over 3 years.
Been in agile team for about a year now, the only good thing I feel is the stand-up meetings, that reminds everyone to stay on track, and update the status each morning(also press you ahead, can not be too lazy due to this daily update thing, especially for old lazy engineers like me), also, a quick exchange of ideas in the standup can make a day more productive once a while. This is the major if not the only thing I'm going to keep for the future.
I wish they did the same for human prisons.
Also an interesting TED talk by the author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-iGZPtWXzE
i don't even understand the product after reading the article. what is the value of this?

its an always on teleconference with my facebook friends? no thanks.