skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect there are degrees of fluidity: that some people have a flexible orientation largely driven by choice and experience (I know at least one person who reports this is how it is for her), but for others, orientation is largely fixed and even significant conditioning efforts don't make much of a difference.
Craig - great post. I think you missed a few huge benefits that drive the "NoSQL movement." Specifically, sharding and aggregation.

Most devs don't need the power of sharding, which is why that benefit can never be felt. But the reality is this is probably the #1 characteristics (huge benefit) of NoSQL databases. Google and Amazon definitely paved the way for this movement, primarily b/c they dealt with tons of data. Its simply cheaper to scale out (distributed) than scale up.

You can't aggregate data with a relational database. But you can aggregate with (most) NoSQL databases (exception is graph dbs). Instead of building relationships, with NoSQL you're building composites. The huge benefit here is enabling sharding while, having your data all in one place.

Lastly, a relationship db is made up of tuples and sets of tuples. With a NoSQL DB you can have complex data structures. I think this is the point you we're trying to make re: Documents.

I still love relational databases. It's cool to have options though. Before, relational was the only way.

The question is how do we determine which db to use (or use more than one)? Ah, the beauty of polygot persistance...
She's talking about more than that, about the inability of Yale students to talk about and get help with their problems, perhaps before they escalate and become more serious.
Yep, I'm seeing what should be NXDOMAIN results returning the IP 198.105.254.11 which brings me to a page like http://searchguide.level3.com/search/?q=http://198.105.254.1...

Does anyone know if actual Level3 customers see this page, or is it only for off-network requests? Up until the end of last year, my employer had a Level3 internet connection and we legitimately used 4.2.2.1 as our DNS recursive resolver. I'd be pretty pissed if they returned spammy results to their customers, but to non-customers, well, I don't care: That's what you get. Use a DNS server that somebody says you're allowed to (8.8.8.8, maybe)
> In the real world the only person who always has your back is you.

When suffering from mental illness, this belief can be simultaneously helpful and devastatingly incorrect.
I heard years ago that Level 3 were trying to encourage people (non-customers?) not to use these DNS servers. I guess this is one way to ask people not to use them.

Having said that, 8.8.8.8, Google DNS, has been planted firmly in my memory as my go to "is this machine up?" IP.
When their DNS seemed to go down a few days ago I also noticed this behavior and immediately switched to a local independent ISP's DNS that namebench spit out.

Doesn't seem too out of character, if they're returning this for actual customers, from the company that most likely allowed the US government to tap into Google and Yahoo's fiber lines.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/26/technology/a-peephole-for-...
There is a huge area between being "surrogate parents" and being outright inhumane.

> For more than a day no one had any idea where I was — not even my parents.

The rest is equally horrifying, but this boggles my mind on top of all that. Is it too much to ask to at least inform her parents? What could be a sane justification for not doing so?
Do you not develop software with it?
Seems reasonable. Those servers were never intended for widespread public use, so they may as well make back some funds for upkeep, and maybe encourage some more-technical users to switch away.

Here's a blog post with some background on these servers: http://www.tummy.com/articles/famous-dns-server/
iOS apps cannot be targeted in this way because they don't have the JavaScript bridge.
just to throw some figures at you about how big st. louis is or isn't:

> As of the 2010 census, the population was 319,294, and a 2012 estimate put the population at 318,172,[6] making it the 58th-largest U.S. city in 2012. The metropolitan St. Louis area, known as Greater St. Louis (CSA), is the 19th-largest metropolitan area in the United States with a population of 2,900,605.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis
Nicely written. Why is it that we only look for what is important to us when we realize that we don't have long to live? Don't people realize that this is true starting the day you're born?
* if they find out
Why does this even access a server (i.e. the hosted zinc api)? This could be done purely on the client side (= better privacy, security and performance), so I assume it's because zinc wants to add its affiliate id and earn a commission.
Yes, well, unfortunately but realistically, this is just standard admittance practice for psych wards (per the article this all happened at Yale-New Haven, not Yale itself).

I'm sure it's horrible and humiliating, but a) it's not torture (a word another commenter used), and b) you're admitting known-unstable people into very close quarters with doctors and nurses who will care, feed, and bathe them over the next several days/weeks.

So, yes, hospitals have decided this safety check is warranted. "OMG covering their ass!". Yes, exactly. They're probably covering their ass because sometime ago, someone did get something in, and bad things happened.

If I were a doctor/nurse working in a psych ward year around, I would appreciate the safety check.

The author says, sarcastically, "I was here for my own good" (with various dangerous items removed). She was actually right. They take precautions for a reason, not just to be assholes.
Yes, I am friends with Dr. Mark Nelson at University of Arizona and he is doing a startup in that area. http://pathology.arizona.edu/faculty/mark-nelson-phd
It's not really visual vs. word it's recognize vs. memorize. If the mac had no icons but simply had text labels (which was pretty much Raskin's design) it would still have been revolutionary (modulo stolen from Xerox etc.)
> And what scares me is that I seem to be doing better than those that went through the real system.

How so? What happened to them?
I never type website addresses in browser :) I just type phrases like "gmail", "hacker news" or "stanchart india" in Chrome/Firefox omnibox and then click the first/correct search result. I kind of use Google search as way to avoid typos in addresses that may lead of phishing sites.
Hey Dave, what's your opinion on Buzzsumo for finding influencers and influential authors for outreach purposes?
This here is the crux of the issue. Young, impressionable people believing what the school is selling. And you can argue till the end of the Earth about who's fault it is, but the reality is that the world is full of people who are in turns impressionable and opportunistic.

I loved my alma mater, but I also never for one second believed that anyone outside of the few professors I was close to and still keep in touch with, actually cared about me as a person.

The author's experience with mental health issues was a perfect shit storm of being cut down after taking their warm-fuzzy message hook-line-and-sinker, AND a broken health care system in general.

I would also argue there are no easy answers. It's not my place to suggest reforms, but if you're admitting someone to a psych ward and you know that at least one time they slashed their thigh open with a pocket knife, how can you possibly take their word for it that they aren't going to use the drawstring on their pants, or the plastic cover of a notebook to try self harm again? It's a no-win situation, and those are the worst.

The best case would probably be to abolish psych wards and give everyone one-on-one access to a counselor 24-7 so they can hang out and be 100% sure they're not in danger. But I'd also note the world has moved "forward" a lot in terms of stigmas and treatment of the mentally ill. Is their room to improve, hell yes. But to ignore the almost death-camp like environments of the homes for the feeble minded just a century ago, we're doing okay.
"Biased" is probably a loaded word. I think I may have implied intent without meaning to.

But basically, the placebo effect only exists for subjective measurements. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo#Mechanism_of_the_effect) If something exists only in subjective measurements and not objective measurements... I'll let you draw your own inference.
You will probably find you're paying for all the redundancy and backups.
I was hooked when I saw cheetos
Because there's a lot of "unimportant" stuff necessary to sustain the important stuff.
It's not as bad as you think. The submitting member only gets the submission upvotes. The comment upvotes go the individual commenters. So d1egoaz only got 791 points.
Gay men, maybe. Lesbians, probably not so much.
Why is it all hash and merge joins? No indexes? I think I know another way to speed up your queries...
The logical person inside of me wants to say that there is no meaning to life. But of course, that is not how I feel.
Meetups are a good start
Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't a whole shit ton of Snapchat users passwords and the like stolen in 2013/2014?
Yes, basically Bill is very bad at chess.
Is this only affecting Level3's 4.2.2.x nameservers (when it happens), or are their 209.244.0.x ones doing this as well?
An institution does not have emotions, just like a corporation does not have morals. It's not capable of being an asshole or your best friend. That's what they meant.

In order to call Yale a dick, you'd first have to personify it, but that's a literary trick and not reality.
Apple's Tim Cook: 'There's No Backdoor. The Govt Doesn't Have Access To Servers'
> when you all crowd into the same tiny city and bid up the rents into the stratosphere, your available dating pool shrinks to a puddle (yet another consequence of the skewed gender balance in tech. sigh.)

Women don't live in SF?

Or are you just talking about women in tech? They're rare everywhere.
Define "fair". People upvote a thread/comment when it is something they are interested in or agree with. What's "unfair" about that? It's a measure of popularity, not inherent worthiness.
I'm one of the guys working on this.

We don't add an affiliate ID. A totally client-side solution would be really cool--we're thinking about making one but it does present a few more challenges. If it wasn't clear, this is more of a proof-of-concept than a practical solution.

If you have an idea that requires a fully client-side library, let us know and we can help!
from earlier discussions the conflict is with maintaining the current chainability/api
Read the community rules please. Comments should add value. Nobody cares whether you agree or not. We want to know why you disagree.
I wonder if startups should offer a last resort re-relocation signing bonus. Although the signalling is counter-intuitive, this way everybody at least acknowledges the riskiness of a typical startup.

Worst case, the employee really needed the cash and used it for something else, but nobody could say that the startup didn't try to soften potential hard landings.
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Software randomness and complexity made OS 'bloated', tapping into the immense resources. Up until linux 2.4 computer still had a smallness feel, there was not many abstraction layers to cross, short response time[1]. Now even with systemd fast boot, v8 jitted javascript and performant machines you notice a slight delay.

[1] of course pushing compositeless full screen cga or even vga doesn't require the same architecture complexity
Actually, in the Debug podcast, it was revealed that they were going to go with Mozilla's effort and all that held them back was that KHTML was so much simpler to explain, though the simplicity was something it lost in rewrites. WebKit, regardless of original License, was likely going to be open source either way just as Darwin was even without the License requirement. The point here is that non-free uses inside OS X helped rather than hindered the development of KHTML software. By non-free I refer less to the availability of source code as to how copyright around branding forces a schism for normal folks between Chrome/Safari and WebKit/Blink projects. Few will download or trust a silver WebKit experimental build or blue Chromium over their official variants, particularly if functionality is crippled because of the lack of proprietary extensions that would normally ship or easily integrate. Sometimes FSF users simply aren't "the rest of us," which is why it's normal to have competing licenses. I hope this encourages both projects to become more active developing end-user appreciable features, though perhaps I'm more pragmatic that way.
Comcast also did this to me. Not one of the several tech support people I talked with seemed to be aware of Comcast's non-hijacking DNS servers at 75.75.75.75 and 75.75.76.76.
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Have my HN page load times been gimped for being an asshole?
If I load pages on HN in incognito mode, my load times are the same as they always were: fast, generally under half a second. On the other hand, if I load a page while signed in, there's a consistent delay of between 2-5 seconds before the page even begins to load. This started very recently, just after a discussion I had with multiple users where I acted like an asshole. Is this HN's way of keeping the riff-raff out? I can't find anything about gimping load times in the FAQ. If it is, it's an interesting policy. Just curious.
Are they or is it.. ?
The decisions of "Yale" the emotionless institution are made by people. I don't want to get involved in discussing this particular case, but I am very bothered by the common sentiment that groups of people should not be held to the same ethical, moral, emotional standards as the individuals within the group.
The character was refering to LA in the movie!
OK, but how did they decide on Mongo before you got there?
Looks fine for me as well
One thing that I didn't fully appreciate till I had kids was some of the hobbies I did before weren't really that important to me. There's a difference between the things you do because you truly want to and those that are just filling time or you're doing them because you feel like you have to.

Once you identify and remove the time-wasters, it gets easier to make time for other stuff, and I still get away with spending time with friends and some tv here and there.
> In the real world the only person who always has your back isyou.

In context of this post, from personal experience, I can tell you only one thing: This is almost never true.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy

Modern technique is slightly different, but the outsome / goals essentially the same. And this historical record is elighntening both in the origins and the evolution of the clinical treatent. Today, the preferred method is to drug children in schools.

Evolution surely hasn't increased the error rate in replicating "normal" DNA sets over the past 50 years, but the data indicates something like 1/5 of them are now "defective" enough to be eligible for the happy treatment.[1]

[1] In US, 20% Of Children Have A Mental Disorder >http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/260697.php
dovecot+postfix is all that is to it, but to ensure it doesn't land in spam you'll have to do a bunch of things (like contacting your ISP) http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/04/so-youd-like-to-sen...
I was able to read the article without logging in. Try this link:

http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/SB10001424052702303...
Every once in a while, though, it does something really cool. The declarativeness is cool, IMO; I always appreciate inline conditionals. That's something I would want to be carried over to a replacement.
Why Am I Here?

The Example Net Web Helper has been enabled to provide helpful searches from web address errors. You entered an unknown name that the Example Net service used to present site suggestions which you may find useful. Clicking any of these suggestions provides you with Yahoo! search results, which may include relevant sponsored links.
Why should I use this?

The Example Net Web Helper makes finding what you are looking for easier and more convenient. The service uses the entered non-existing website name to determine useful search results. Often, you will see a desired website or page that meets your needs.
Do you track my Internet usage?

No. The Example Net Web Helper simply redirects queries to non-existing domain names to a useful search results page instead of a cryptic error message page or browser-defined page.

The "Example Net" huh?
I read this before hearing the 5 min interview, I expected a totally different personality or even voice. He sounds a lot more calm and non threatening than what the women experienced ... weird.
don't use L3's 4.2.2.x resolvers, as they aren't meant for public use, unlike google's public dns
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I think there is a lot true in that. It took me a good few years to get to the point of being able to focus on what is important for me. But, it do not think that the journey was wasted. Indeed it feels like everything/most what I have done up until now has put me in the position to do what is important, much more effectively and with some actual impact.

I learn slowly, so it took a while, but the journey is what was important in the end not the goal. So now I look at every step along the way and make sure it is both useful to my surrounding world, fun and gives me experience to do something bigger, better, funner for the next step. It probably sounds like a cliche, but it is nevertheless true for me.
no, vendor lock in through having a better product
How will nanobots change medicine?
'plain site' rather than 'plain sight', and this is a website. I guess.
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I've been living in Palo Alto for the last year, and I'm moving back to Toronto next week to bootstrap my own startup. The weather has been making me think twice!
Another tough one is englishcountrytune [1] from stephen lavelle

[1]http://www.englishcountrytune.com/
I really don't get the aversion to cold weather either. It is part of the reason us "northerners" read so much.

When it gets to -24F out, aka you can get frostbite underneath clothes, you tend to say well lets just sit inside and do stuff or read/etc...

Cold isn't bad, cold+wind, that is the killer. I met a woman from socal that moved here recently. It was about 20F out and all I had on was a sweater. She looked like she was going to go for a recreation of Shackletons expedition. Granted I might be a bit crazy but cold really isn't that big of a deal. Look at the Buddhist monks that dry off wet towels on their shoulders in subzero weather.

But, if it keeps out the riffraff eh, I'll keep it.
Relevancy is all wrong. I searched for spark and the top result is from two years ago. I want the most recent result first, like email. Relevancy should be a function of tf/idf, comment count and recency, biased towards the latter.

But the instant search and screenshot is good.
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tl;dr: “I disagree with the core principle of the FSF and the GPL”.
To be perfectly clear: It is not hijacking when you are sending them queries for which you should have no reasonable expectation that they service. If you are actually a Level 3 customer, call your sales rep, but I believe this is only for non-customers.

EDIT: By the way, this is the actual company operating the "service" behind the scenes for Level 3 http://www.xerocole.com/searchguide/
It's more typically called Panini, which is Italian for "$9 grilled-cheese."
> I'm sure it's horrible and humiliating, but a) it's not torture (a word another commenter used), and b) you're admitting known-unstable people into very close quarters with doctors and nurses who will care, feed, and bathe them over the next several days/weeks.

In theory you are right. In reality, you run a huge risk of triggering a bigger problem if the patient have a sexual abuse history.
Going on now: protesters in Ukraine Kidnapped From Hospitals And Executed:
Honestly, I keep forgetting that Google owns Blogspot, mostly because I keep forgetting that Blogspot still exists.
Not exactly. iOS 7+ introduced Cocoa<->Javascript bridging capabilities in the public APIs. Before that, similar iOS APIs had existed as "private" ones (so, very uncommonly used outside of apple's own apps).

iOS doesn't bridge Javascript to _Java_ which is why this particular attack wouldn't work. But the JS<->Cocoa stuff is still pretty young, so wait and see ;)
To me it seems like using NoSQL simply to avoid the hassle of creating a schema is not really a good reason to choose it over a relational DB. Each solution brings it's own pros and cons. It's helpful to understand what kind of tradeoffs you're making when you choose one over the other.
Yes, this exactly. The assumption of uniform distribution is not one to be taken lightly.
That quite nice, simple and clean. But you've missed the currently signed in user and points.
Lack of coffee + autocorrect = typo.
That is a pretty big, and very uneducated, accusation.

Since the 1970s the CIA has been installing taps on undersea cables using specialized submarines. This is well documented, and it is well known that the NSA prefers to use methods that involve the least amount of interaction from uncleared individuals even if it is at a much greater expense.
I like the video a lot and am glad Apple continue to make these kinds of high budget videos, but it started out with the claim that in '84 a computer with pictures and not the size of a mainframe was something new, but I had been using a zx81 for 3 years by then, drawing pictures, writing games and playing "music" (albeit very CTFTPA)

I found this also annoying reading iWoz, it was as though there were no other computers out there at the time, but the Tandy Trash80, the Pet and Sinclair's computers were all doing very nicely when Woz was "inventing" the computer.
There's an early windows game Bug Brain which sounds quite similar. You're building brains of various insects and worms from single neurons to perform various tasks.
Speaking of fairness, "Google [is/]was down" is/was about 500 times more interesting to hackers than this thread.
Not really, now you just have to have a unique image URL for each email you send. How could they possibly tell they are the same image before downloading them?
Fantastic! Several of these had me laughing out loud.
How Ed Tech Draws Parallels to "The Tortoise and the Hare"
Technically incorrect, the AMA was announced right before the downtime occured, but answers weren't scheduled until awhile later. A common tactic to let the community post questions and vote on them when there's potential to be quite a few of them.

Four SREs showed up. Two answered 4 questions each, another 8, last one 12.

Pretty poor to be honest.
As Jtsummers wrote (before it was zapped), it's an issue if you ever want a clearance. Also, they're free to ask, giving you the opportunity to either tell the truth and risk being passed over -- good luck proving discrimination -- or lie and put yourself in a position to get screwed later.
Well, of course, that's the trick: to acknowledge a lack of objective meaning while seeking out your own subjective meaning, something that transcends the banal logic of the everyday. That's the tough part (or at least, it can be for many, myself included).
Also LA and NYC.
I think it's actually being used for years. That's how they calculate click through rates for organic results. The kind of report you see in Webmaster Tools.
It's unusable on IE but looks interesting none the less.
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I agree it seems more like a Google Search glitch. The title should be updated.
well. I could make a decent argument that reproduction is a serviceable meaning to life if you like.