skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The suspect took a docking station, three Lenovo laptops, an Apple desktop computer and two monitors, and an Apple MacBook Air."

Sounds more like an opportunistic grab for hardware rather than software/data.

Assuming there was any stock crypto at all on the systems, I don't think they have much to worry about their secrets falling into the wrong hands.
What are the size limits on a collection? Docs mention transaction support is offered only within a collection. Is a collection essentially limited to a single physical machine in the background or does it span across machines? It looks like in Standard Preview, the max collection size is 10GB.
Good question: Claims that is is the burial cloth of Jesus Christ are fraudulent.

If its only 'claim to fame' was that it was a very old shroud or painting, then I would not make that claim (and, indeed, I doubt very much I would have heard of it).
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Just wait for the "but Finland is homogeneous" racist counterargument.
Apparently that one isn't the most correct one though, this (very long) article is a nice read about a guy who recreated the inner details of the two bombs. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/12/15/atomic-john
Off-topic: Could the admins change the link to point to the final, redirected url - https://www.spotify.com/us/arts/serendipity/ ?

Anyways, fantastic execution! Great visualization. My only super-minor complaint is the fade in/fade out could be a little less abrupt when the songs change :)
Are you proposing an alternative?

Currently, we have two situations that have been done empirically:

- State-run insurance (seems to work)

- Free-for-all (disaster is an understatement)

Removing regulations is not the answer, since we've had to add regulations to make it cheaper. Things were worse before.

If you have an alternative, propose it. But all the evidence points to a collective system making more sense and being cheaper.
It appears that AmisaDB is in-memory only, only supports read committed isolation, and has limited transactions semantics (no arbitrary JS). This is pretty far from what DocumentDB seems to offer.

http://www.amisalabs.com/AmisaDB_Docs.html
At that scale, money isn't fungible. You couldn't double cancer research by making the total $180 billion. At least, not in the same way that you could double the number of televisions you own.

There are only so many biologists, labs, etc. You can certainly entice more into the field with money, but I expect costs increase non-linearly with the number of scientists.

(I am not saying we can't do it. I'm saying it would cost much more than we expect from a linear extrapolation, especially in the near term. Imagine trying to use money to double, say, world food production – it couldn't be done, at least not in the short term.)
Why is it taken as a necessity that everyone needs to work?
And if I wouldn't? Why should your philosophy trump mine to the point where you forcibly take my money to fund it?
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What we do now bears little relationship to "a representative random sample of the population". We deliberately rule out everybody who has any relevant knowledge or preexisting opinions about anything related to the case or the legal system, thereby making the sample far from random.

(I believe in Jury Nullification - meaning I think the jury has the responsibility to judge whether the law itself is unjust and if so refuse to convict under it - and I object on moral grounds to a fair number of existing laws. As a result of having these views, I have never been able to serve on a jury. I would only be able to serve if I lied to the judge about my beliefs.)
http://cloudinary.com/ has a similar auto-detect feature but sells it mostly as saving space with webp for chrome
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Whoever would like to improve that list at gutenberg.org can follow directions on the site to get access to edit it. I hope they will.

I was glad to see that some like that page. I was actually the one who grabbed that list of contents from Wikipedia, requested access to edit Project Gutenberg's "Bookshelves" wiki, and added the links there to the Project Gutenberg versions of many of the selections. It was fun and not hard.
For a nice description of doing this in 3D: http://paulbourke.net/geometry/polygonise/

I used that in the 90s to do a Lisp implementation: http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~wiseman/3D/marching-cubes/
Hmmm based upon a suggestion above I looked at SpeakerBlast and it looks like they got audio playback synced up on a tablet, laptop, phone, etc....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAnEFOr1lP4

hmmm, so i guess it can be done!??!
You could also just export from each of the requires in that manifest.js file you have there.

Although there's no real benefit of doing that over using the manifest other than it's kinda cool :)
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"As of 2011, one of the most popular flat file database engines is SQLite"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_file_database#Contemporar...
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Fascinating subject, title seems a little baity, though. There were 1500 investigated reports of leaks, most of which were more along the lines of a guy saying a little too much to family, store clerks, etc. Foreign spies, not so much.

Still, that's an amazingly small number of leaks for such a huge project.
> if property rights were a good idea, you wouldn't need fences, locks, laws, police

And indeed, only in crime-ridden communities you actually need to lock your doors and fence things. And who made most of the things illegal that produced those crime-ridden communities? You guessed it, the state. Besides, which places are usually most secure and locked and fenced? Again, it's state property, not private property.

> They're created through legal process with the consent of the population

Population is a very abstract collectivist term. First of all, even if the majority thinks something is a good idea it by no means should lead to other people being forced to comply. If 90% decided to shoot the rest of the 10% in the head, would you still argue it's okay to do so? Second, saying that force is required so that the rebellious minority complied is inaccurate: if you remove that threat of force, I guarantee you (and I believe that after careful consideration, you would agree with me), the majority would stop paying. Therefore, the threat of force is the major factor, not just some minor necessity.

> requiring unanimity will get you nowhere in terms of having a functioning society. Some decisions are hard but necessary.

That is a statement, not an argument. Why do you believe that only through taxation a functioning society is possible? Why is it a necessary thing? Why do we need unanimity and why can't people spend their money each as they please? I guess, a great way to try and at least think of an alternative solution would be imagine a world where having any kind of state is practically impossible (say, anyone who proclaims itself a government employee dies of a violent diarrhea on the spot) and try to think of ways a society would organize itself. I believe if you try to do it, it might lead you to some very awesome conclusions.
Most trained biologists leave the field due to lack of job opportunities.

Labs are not hard to scale horizontally, and likely aren't even at capacity now due to lack of funded researchers.
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The term "flat file database" conventionally refers to a database that is serialized to a single file, whether it is plain text or a binary. The emphasis here is on the single file aspect: it's really easy to transfer the entire database between machines.
With Duo you can actually have multiple versions of the same Javascript dependency. And then you can use the CLI to figure out what duplicates you have if you want to slim them down.
He's getting all kinds of press and going viral again.
There is more than plenty of water for human consumption. Restrictions like forcing restaurants not to put water on the table are conservation theatre. A serving of California grown rice represents 20-25 gallons of water. If there are to restrictions on restaurants it should be to serving produce and livestock sourced from the arid west.

What California needs to do is reform its outdated water laws to move from the incredibly inefficient prior appropriation system to an auction system. Let the farmers and ranchers bid against the cities for their acre-feet of water.
> Good question: Claims that is is the burial cloth of Jesus Christ are fraudulent.

Maybe fraudulent is a little bit strong. The different analysis done (not the C14 one, which proved to be unreliable) indeed show it may be around 2000 years old or so. Now, we have no way of proving that the person who was wrapped in the Shroud is actually Jesus or not, while there are some similarities in the injuries described in the Bible and the blood stains locations on the Shroud. I think even the Church itself does not recognize it as being 100% authentic.

So, "we don't know", is probably close to the truth than "fraud".
No but in general you tend to get serious and learn a lot in difficult and pressing situations than other wise. It ends up being stressful, but good things come out of it. This is not a long term strategy, but works for a few weeks/months.

When I started my career, I went into a very famous IT firm here in India. Being from a non-CS background they put us through a grueling training schedule. Which together with the course work, assignments, project work, tests, interviews and exams put us on a 20 hour schedule for around 3-4 months- Failure means getting fired, and in this country where getting jobs is quite difficult for a fresher that was not even an option. We stayed in the campus hostel, pretty much training and occasional recreation is what we did.

Guess what even after 7-8 years later, the biggest edge I hold over my peers is that training. Basically because we went through every thing there is about out there. At the end, we might have gained what one would gain after 2-3 years of working in a few months. Needless to say that set a new bench mark for us, knowing we had absorbed the difficult and come out strong- You change into a different person.
That is a pretty cool idea! I wouldn't have even thought to do that
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ChuckMcM, you are absolutely right. Nailing down QPS rates are an incredibly tough thing. Not just for Azure Search but also for most Search engines that I am aware of. Things like #'s of facets, complexity of queries all play a part in what a search engine can serve up from a QPS rate. When we say ~15QPS we try to point out that this is based on an average index of the ones that we have seen from our typical customers. Certainly some customers may see way more QPS on a single search unit and others will see less.

The main markets (or scenarios) that we target with Azure Search are eCommerce Retail, User Generated Content sites (such as a recipe site or Hacker News) and internal organizational apps. The interesting thing about internal organizational apps is that we are seeing more an more users are finding that search is a natural way to navigate and explore their data. Users are typically far more knowledgeable of using search to explore their data thanks to engines like Google and Bing then then are with say SQL.

We actually don't have an official SLA yet for this preview. That is one of the goals of this public preview which is to really determine what we can realistically promise for our v1 release.

Yes, privacy is a thing for sure. It is interesting that you say lawyers because we have had a number of companies in the law field that have wanted to use Azure Search. Things like indexing of case documents is quite popular from what I have seen. In many of these examples (and also with Helathcare especially), privacy or more specifically encryption at rest as well as compliance (such as HIPPA) often become critical. As of today we don't have either. We don't have encryption at rest and we do not have HIPPA compliance for Azure Search. Of course, this will be a goal and I guess we need to start somewhere. The encryption as it relates to search is actually going to be a really hard thing to do properly so that will be an interesting thing for the future.

By the way, WikiPedia is one of the datasets we often test with our service. Feel free to ping me as we have a loader for the WikiPedia dataset that I could look into sharing with you if would you like to play with it and Azure Search. My email address is my YCombinator username + microsoft.com.

Liam
Let's end fuding for the massively more expensive wars of amusement before we fret over funding for health care.
Likewise, I don't know that I believe this, you just triggered a half-formed thought:

The basis of this discussion was that everyone should be provided as much free education as they want with no qualifications. If we acknowledge that Torvalds' contribution is greater than that of a regular working person, aren't we shooting ourselves in the foot?

If that's the case, then what argument can we make for subsidizing, say, a History degree? I know several people who have them and none of them are doing anything remotely related to the field. In that case it would seem that the education was unimportant (given the vaguely quantifiable criteria we've established), so why should we have paid for it?
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Yep. A BS in biology provides virtually no job prospects. At all. Advanced degrees are only marginally better.

Thank god I started programming when I was ~10 and was able to fall back on that after I decided against going to medical school, or I really have no idea what I would have done with my life.
intelligent, thoughtful and serious people don't stand much of a chance of making it onto a jury - I think that was the point of the NYT quiz.
Slavery was also prevalent in most of the world until the 19-th century. Was it a good idea too? The difference is in quality of the heist, not the nature of it: both slaves and taxpayers are robbed off the fruits of the labor. And how did you calculate exactly that potential benefits of any new ideas would be outweighed by the cost of experimenting with them?
Wow, what an awesome project. Would be cool to read how it was made.
> I'd say it's also true of the overwhelming majority of office workers too.

Most definitely. But they have jobs, they're paying taxes, and they still have the ability to take on side-projects if they are so motivated and inclined.

> I didn't start side projects when I had jobs. Everything flipped for me when I discovered entrepreneurship, and I just did it full time once that happened.

Well then you took the Bill Gates model, so you kind of screwed the whole Torvalds argument anyway...
You don't learn facts well. But you learn how to cope with extreme stress. Apparently the medical field values that. Some life-or-death surgeries are many hours long, so it makes some sense that this would be the case.
The FAA thing didn't actually affect Amazon or their plans for Prime Air: http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/techflash/2014/06/fa...
This process INCREASES bias in jury selection.

Suppose you're accused of, say, marijuana possession. Far more than 1 in 12 people think marijuana should be legal, so an actually RANDOM jury would almost never convict - that jury pool would correctly reflect the sentiment in the populace at large that this law is stupid and shouldn't be enforced.

But a jury in which everybody who seems "biased" on the issue has been removed by the judge or the prosecutor, leaving only people who "had no opinion" or are willing to accept the law exactly as the judge interprets it...is hugely MORE biased towards conviction than a random group of 12 people would be.
Or the crime is on pike/pine because the densest area where the most people live, and poore people always live in smaller homes which means denser population.

Or it's a conspiracy, I guess.
Hi Billy,

Founder of imgix here. The comparison image is just meant to be moderately informative. We will be following up with a detailed performance outline as more data comes in. You can compare the progressive JPEG image against the WebP or JPEG XR to get a sample of what the ratios might be for a standard JPEG. Besides, a surprising number of websites still serve wildly uncompressed and unoptimized imagery. We help websites that are serving uncompressed JPEG and PNGs all of the time.

Furthermore, what should be understood (and I will clarify in the post) is that apart from the example image, which is designed to show the comparative compression ratios of the file formats, the data we report is based on the images that these companies are ALREADY serving. We analyzed our logs for what the image size is that they are currently serving as JPEGs and PNGS at the same size and simply enabled content negotiation for those same sized images.

With regards to the Vary header. You are right that the cache fragmentation of varying by Accept or User Agent would be extreme. This is why we do not do this. Instead, we perform normalization on the request and generate a specific "content ID" that takes into account any number of input signals that should be normalized and varied on. We can expose this as a separate header to folks who want to Vary on if folks want it. Finally, if you are serving directly out of us, none of this really matters. There is no web server involved. We handle all of the hard work on our end.

I disagree that content negotiation is the wrong approach though. The fragmentation we see across all of the input signals (e.g. format support, device pixel ratio, user agent, etc) is already so extreme that the best answer is to serve dynamic responses for images. If you want to stay within in the browser prefetch stage, which is critical for front-end performance, you have to make decisions about the content you want to serve at the server. This means potentially serving variant content under a single URL. We serve targeted responses for text content all the time across the web. It is not clear from your argument as to why this same treatment should not apply to imagery.

Happy to discuss further,
Chris
I didn't say that if you doubled the money that you would double the research.

In a $15 trillion economy, you'd think it would be possible to spend 10x on research. More private funding?
>- Free-for-all (disaster is an understatement)

If you mean the US system in which insurance companies and government were always in bed, and in which the FDA regulated the shit out of the drug market, making it necessary to spend billions to release a new drug, then I would actually agree, public healthcare is somewhat more humane.

But nowhere in the world do you have a completely free market. And I would say that's something that should happen fairly soon with the advent of Bitcoin.

To understand why regulations always make it worse for the consumer and what the alternative might be, try to imagine how a society would work without a state. That is, imagine there's no way a state and government can ever emerge. How would society organize itself. Come up with solutions. And surely you will find ways that are much more elegant and humane. These days, people see problem and their first reaction is apply government to it: "we have poor people that cannot afford healthcare, therefore government!", all the while every possible example in the world points out that only in places where government was less pervasive, poor people had more opportunities to rise and climb the ladder.
Ahh, but if we ended all those wars and cut taxes to reflect the massively-decreased spending, how many more people could just afford their own healthcare?

The US has trouble paying for everything it does already, so something's got to give. Until it's one, it's got to be the other.
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Depends on the password you still have to worry about that being cracked by brute force.

http://derflounder.wordpress.com/2011/11/23/using-the-comman...

http://derflounder.wordpress.com/2013/06/11/decrypting-filev...
"Foreign spies, not so much."

The Manhattan Project (along with many other portions of the US government at the time) was in fact plagued by Soviet spies.
We deliver images out of a CDN where we already have handled the proper request normalization. There is no support cost to implementing content negotiation in this case unless you want to put us behind a proxy. At that point, we can work with you to vary correctly without incurring the complexity you are focusing on.

- Chris
The sensationalist assertions made in this article (particularly in the headline) don't follow from the results that the article describes.

Part of the blame for this sensationalism seems to fall at the feet of the original scientist himself (Bosch). He makes an unfounded leap from the biological result that cancer seems to be an intrinsic property of genetic processes in cells (and the statements "You have to interfere with fundamental pathways", "It's a web of interactions" and "It's very difficult to do") to the assertion "will probably never be completely eradicated". Difficult is not the same as impossible.

He follows with more sensationalism: "You carry a time bomb in your body when you're born," he said. "It can explode early in life, or middle age or later."

I suppose it's understandable; he's probably just trying to get some publicity for his team's long-running research on hydra. And even he admits "that doesn't mean that, with a patient who develops cancer, there's nothing you can do."

But then the hedging of "probably" and "completely" was discarded by the article writers for a more sensationalist article and headline.
Surprisingly good read. I will be looking more into the study showing that folks with no estimation had a higher productivity. I can say from experience that the Herculean task of estimating my own work adds to my stress significantly. To the point that I have no doubt that it hinders me.

Oddly, just having a deadline is nowhere near as destructive. So, coordinating with folks is a lot easier if they tell me when they'll need something, rather than asking when I can have it for them.
It is the default nature of human existence. If you do not work to find food, you starve. The things we work to "find" ("buy", now) have changed, but the imperative is the same.

I think the real question is why do you think it is not a necessity for you to work, while others do?
Also, consider that $90 billion was over 40 years so we weren't talking short-term.
Mandatory rationing of drinking water may be a step, but should definitely not be the next step.

Despite California's attempts to "crack down" on the ALS challenge and such, there are still companies sourcing bottled water from the state that should likely be dealt with first.

Agriculture is (obviously) the largest source of water consumption in California as well.

Beyond that, there are some wacky laws (and logistical issues) complicating the import of water from places like Canada, but in my opinion, the next step should be to curtail (or impose costs upon) the alfalfa hay being exported from California to China.
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Both of Richard Rhodes' books were (but are no longer) on the STRATCOM reading list (http://militaryprofessionalreadinglists.com/authors/richard-...). It's been a while since I read them, but although it was heavy going at times there were plenty of good bits.
Strange how this author mentions the FAA about ten times without researching Amazon's official statement on the matter.
Is it? I haven't heard anything about it, could you share a link?