skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lol!

Don't tell me this is for this company http://www.dataweave.in/home/about_us

A company being the specialists for handling cost efficient way the accumulation of data for business decision.

There is a eat your own dogfood problem here at least :)

And that we are facing the Product -python charmer- manager... measuring big data with a mere ruler.

Don't be fooled, I am not the real troll here. Hahahahahaha!

Look at product description;

How does this Work?

We run large-scale crawls on the Web, extract and structure relevant data, and store it. The crawler and extraction engines work in a distributed fashion helping the system scale

(Well semi public data, like seeing you autopromoted colorweave, and your github pointing to DataWeave + DataWeave pointing at you back in a nice circular reference tells me I hit the target)

Fellow readers, don't you see they put in their software description (scalability of their solution) something entitled to this guy, that is supposed to be the famous "tech guru" and that in turn leak business info to the web about one of their weakness.

So fellow HN, you should think twice of posting a stupid question when I am the mood for trolling with a nice sun outside and a nice coffee in my hand. My schedules for avoiding my HN morning time slot is 9/10:00GMT+5 and more on week end.
Particularly since the confounding issue is really enormous in science. And sits at the core of the example the article gives in introduction... That would be an achievement in itself to build an experiment without confounder(s).
F# is quite fast (I've written a good deal of F# code) and it has seen a big uptick in adoption over the last couple of years.

I had a look at the F# code and it's not all that efficient (there are a number of intermediate data structures being created that don't need to be). I'll have a go at optimizing the code to see if I can improve the performance.
What sort of argument is that? If the Duet Display author wasn't able to find the GPL license for CocoaSplit, how could he assume that the code was available for any use? Furthermore, the ISC and BSD licenses of PeerTalk and GPUImage are rather permissive, yes, but they do require attribution that is not given by Duet Display.

The big deal here is that licenses matter, especially when you're profiting from others' work.
It's like all statistical tests -- it works really well (provably well) when the assumptions it requires hold. However, it's usually impossible to know if those assumptions hold without holding the desired answer in the first place. That's why nonparametric tests are so popular (not saying they have much to do with the article at hand, but people are definitely willing to get less definitive results in exchange for making fewer assumptions).
The impulse is to only speak up when you contradict the story, so here's my evidence: I'm 21, I've been a salaried software engineer since I was 17, I have never owned a car and barely know how to drive (even though I spent two years in Los Angeles). I don't spend all the money I make, but I do spend quite a lot on things I _do_ value. I'm not sure if I am a trend, but I also don't see how that would change any of my decisions, so I guess I don't care?
I am sad to see this answer moved so far down the page. I wish others would upvote it. I worked with MongoDB for 2 years, and more lately with PostGres. I feel like PostGres is underestimated. It is the only software in the world that offers such a powerful combination of SQL and NoSql. More people should try it.
This algorithm does not work as stated. In the insertion example, the numbers were cooked so it would work. Change the 1 to a 3 -- now at the end the last column is 3-2-3, so it is no longer a Young Tableau.
>> I'm not sure NK even has the computer skills to pull it off, for that matter

Ugh, it pains me to see people get this so wrong. Let me state this as plainly as possible: when you're attacked by a state, whatever encryption or security you have in place doesn't matter. They'll go after your weakest link, and exploit that until they have access to whoever controls your security infrastructure. It could be as simple as bribing an Ops guy, or it could be as complex as planting a spy, or secretly threatening someone with access. Once you're up against a state, all bets are off.
before or after you make links not expire?
Gen Y isn't cheap. They just don't want to own a car or a house cause they think of better uses for their money.
>Obviously temperature is one of the causes of the total amount of snow rather than the other way round.

Can someone explain how this is 'obvious'?

How can this be a claimed scientific way to tell cause and effect and then drop a sentence like that in the middle of the explanation?

Even if you accept that it's true that temperature determines snowfall, it seems there is likely some feedback loop in there. The fallen snow doesn't just disappear, wouldn't it affect later measured temperatures? Remove a bunch of (cold) snow from an area and the average temperature of the area should increase faster than if you had left the snow, no?
I've been writing software for 20/years, and had I learned the concepts brought forth in these papers years ago, I would have been much better. Hacking is not writing software.
It's understandable that you think that I'm a core contributor, but I'm really just an informed community member. I have no vested stake in Rust, and I'm not afraid to criticize the core team when they make baffling decisions (example: the tone-deaf new syntax for fixed-length arrays).

And just because Rust has a focus on pragmatism doesn't mean that it's not blazing new territory. Neither Ada nor Cyclone can boast such extensively useful statically-safe references. And figuring out how to do unboxed closures memory-safely in a language without a garbage collector is, as far as I can tell, entirely novel (though you'd have to ask a PL researcher to be certain). I expect aspects of Rust to show up in all future systems programming languages, including future revisions of C++ (as well as brand-new efforts such as M#).
Sony Pictures Presents: The Propaganda Model [pdf]
im really not one for conspiracy theories but this one just seems so obvious.

* sony gets hacked.

* a few news articles about it.

* cia torture facilities get leaked and admitted.

* news coverage all over about it.

* US federal government does something its never done before and calls out a specific nation state as the attacker for the sony breach.

* news coverage of sony skyrockets and cia stuff disappears from media.

* us government goes on to say that they need to increase their "cyber defense" by having more control over the internet to protect individuals and companies from other nation states.

edit: oh also wasnt it just earlier this week that there was an article on hn about sock puppets?
The domain of Dr Oz's advice is also going to be different from a lot of general practitioners. While most doctors will spend most of their time giving out standard advice for routine conditions, Dr Oz will jump on a new fad each week, because he is producing entertainment and routine is not entertaining. Dr Oz will launch a campaign about how apple juice is poison, while most doctors will be giving out advice like "Your blood pressure is too high. You should try X, Y, Z to lower it."
It sounds like you are getting very low CPM from google adsense ($0.50 ecpm?). Are your visitors from the USA?

You should consider DFP (doubleclick for publishers) and than run some competition for adsense. Rumor has it that it will drive your CPM's up. competition can be any ad network like Matomi, DSNRMG etc)

You can also contact companies such as the Rubicon project and they will do this work for a commission of about 15%-20%. They claim to do better than adsense in certain markets.

My last advice is https://buysellads.com/ where you can post your inventory and ask for more than what you currently get.

Oh, you can also contact adsense help desk and ask them to advise you on how to improve the location of your ads (if your ads are currently on the bottom of the page, you won't get clicks or $$)

good luck!
Does including the license in the distribution satisfy the requirement?
Walled garden issues, to state it more bluntly. You live by the sword, you...
Hence the simplicity of the MIT license, which is mostly just about getting credit for your work.
Meanwhile everything else at the Great Walmart is tariff free from China.
No idea. Have no idea what this software does, why anyone would find it useful, or who is using it.
You certainly have already lost the argument when you have to make that kind of a ridiculous emotional implausible supposition, trying to whip everyone up into a patriotic frenzy, in your sociopathic attempt to justify torture.

There was NO ticking time bomb. And even if there was, torture STILL would not work, for all the same reasons, and it would just waste precious time.

You've just demonstrated that you're not thinking rationally, and that you're just reacting to and parroting emotional pro-torture propaganda.

That doesn't win your argument, it just shows what kind of a person you truly are: a war crime apologist, who panders to people's worst fears and emotions, to support ineffective torture, as a means to your actual ends: revenge.
Right, the standard allows it, but GCC hasn't yet extended its type checker to give you the help you'd want in this case. The warning effectively says "The standard says this is fine, but in most cases this isn't what you want". Which, in nearly all cases, is correct.

If I pass "void g(int a)" to "f(int func(struct foo f))" the standard says everything is fine, but it's almost certainly going to blow up. GCC helpfully notifies me of this.

The only case where this warning isn't what I want is where some of the pointer types have been replaced with void. That is, passing "void g(void a)" to "f(int func(struct foo f))" should work just like "struct foo f = (void *a);" and output no warning.

The proposal from the article supports this case and other similar recursive cases.
There's also the added bonus of timing, as the torture report seemed to only be gaining steam up until this.

Also, the concept of "cyber-terrorism" being a thing seemed kind of ubiquitous to me, but from what I've been hearing, it really wasn't on the minds of the populous until the 24 hour news networks started drumming it up in relation to the Sony hack.
That's completely, verifiably wrong.

The Senate report has a revealing passage saying that
the statement of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed ("KSM")
"during his first day in CIA custody included an
accurate description of a Pakistani/British operative,
which was dismissed as having been provided during the
initial 'throwaway stage' of information collection
when the CIA believed detainees provided false or
worthless information". KSM was later water-boarded
(simulated drowning) 183 times, leading him to make
frequent confessions that later turned out to be false.
Another section of the report says that "KSM fabrications
led the CIA to capture and detain suspected terrorists
who were later found to be innocent".

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/torture-it-didnt...
Oh man this is my biggest peeve from startups. As someone interested in other peoples' projects I sign up to a lot of mail lists like this. Please just hint as to what it is you do if your first email is over a couple of days after I've signed up
As an example, consider a video player with a codec plugin system. The player ships with a noop plugin, a proprietary plugin for MPEG-1 video, and a general plugin that leverages GPL code. It is my understanding that the video player can still be non-GPL, but that wrapper to the GPL code must be GPL
I'm just surprised half is correct.
I think I disagree with you here.

I can easily see the American government blaming NK because that would (and has) generate media attention and push the torture report out of the spotlight.

That torture report is one of the best gifts they could have given the terrorists. They now have undeniable proof that America tortured people. Even if we put that aside, torturing people is what America prosecuted other war criminals for, and here they are flaunting their own rules. Consequently, they've lost all credibility and moral high ground.

I think being wrong about blaming NK is much easier to brush off than being caught red handed violating the ethics that your own country established just decades prior.

Think about it, if they're wrong about NK, everyone who suspected that is just going to go "I knew it." and everyone else will wonder how they could have blamed NK without being certain. Repercussions? None. Benefits? The People have forgotten about that whole torture thing. Win Win for the WhiteHouse.
I wouldn't say he's a quack -- that implies incompetency. Dr. Oz is actually one of the best heart surgeons in the country, it's rather just that he sold himself for money.
Behind the scenes at one of the world’s largest model railways [video]
That strange assertion leapt out of the page for me as well. I suppose it depends at what altitude you are measuring the air temperature.
The last time I checked using it in producing wasn't even recommended by the authors http://rethinkdb.com/stability/
Despite the controversial topic, I think it is interesting to see what one can conclude about a country from freely available information (even though the nmap'ing might have been illegal, I'm not sure about laws regarding nmap anymore).
Threats mean nothing if there is no possibility that they'll be followed up on. As unfortunate and dark as it is, we have to be willing to torture for the threat to be effective.
Has anyone zipped up the data sets referenced in the paper in a handy file at all? Just before I start right clicking...
I wouldn't think so (you'd need wording like "I agree to distribute source code to you on request to <address>"), but I doubt it's been challenged - it's an obscure use case of the GPL.
The article reads to me like hinting as much as possible into the direction of Booking.com being hacked without risking a libel suit. The only thing that doesn't fit into the picture is the last but one sentence:

A spokesperson for Booking.com told Money Box the firm
is working with police on how to prevent future phishing
attacks.

Who was the victim of a phishing attack here? Booking.com
or their customers?
So about two months ago, on about my two-year anniversary with the company, I switched from "Software Engineer" to "Solution Architect" (aka "Biz Dev Engineer"). It means that I now go to a lot of meetings (frequently with clients), where people draw on my knowledge of how our things work, and build a few things on the side. Mostly marketing material.

It's a crazy different experience from actually writing the code, and some of what I've learned and noticed has to do with "just being yourself". Part of that learning process has definitely involved being placed in high-enough stress situations that I was put off internal balance: by gaining familiarity with not being myself, I got a better idea of where myself was and how to stay centered there.

The first realization was that I could label my activities as reactive or proactive. As a software engineer, basically all my time was proactive. Now, most of my time is reactive. But... the original phrase I used to describe the reactive activities, and the way I try to approach them, is "to go be myself at things". The desired outcome is secondary to the experimental juxtaposition.

Another way to put it is, I think: I (like everybody) am a unique snowflake. The point of including me on anything and of sending me hither and yon is to have that uniqueness present and available. Well, part of the point.

It seems to be working. I think (although it's a little early to tell) that I'm more successful at this job than the last. At the least, I'm happier. Your mileage may vary.

As a final note, when applied to personal growth, I think this attitude ends up something like this: Don't aim for results, aim for experiences. Your "higher-self" (whatever that means to you) can't just rewrite your "lower-self" (the thing you're being when you're being yourself), but the former can aim the latter at particular experiences. Go find out what it's like to be yourself at that thing, and you learn a little bit about who you are and who you are changes a little bit. It's an explorative act.
Google cache? http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ucpR8Gc...
We had similar issues with MongoDB on btrfs. While the snapshot features were nice, the write performance was abysmal. We moved to xfs at some point and got a massive increase in write throughput.

So far I've worked at two separate companies deploying MongoDB into production and we've never had any real issues, mostly because in both cases the lead engineers really knew what they were doing, had read the manual front-to-back, and they knew exactly what kind of OS and filesystem setup to use for maximum effectiveness.
Phatak ,what is with the oddly spaced punctuation ?
Ask HN: Where do you go for intelligent discussion on general topics
HN is great but its focus is limited. Where do you go for intelligent discussion on current events, books, art, history, politics, video games, cooking, etc., etc.
Bedfellows: Python library for finding political action committee relationships
NetworkManager 1.0.0 released
And then you think about these people: http://sonybank.net
Namely paying off their ridiculously expensive student loans. When you have more debt starting out than any generation before you and have trouble finding work, is it any wonder they don't want to also buy big ticket items?
you seriously think the US is looking for a war with NK?
How I Went from “No-Idea” to “Profitable” in 15 Hours (including 6h of sleep)
I think it depends on the variance of the temperature across the entire space. If a place has been very cold (below freezing temperature of the water content) for a long period of time, then you might expect all of the water to have precipitated.

However, in many real situations on earth, the temperatures often fluctuate right around the freezing point of the water in the space.
The temperature can go down without there being snow but it cannot snow without the temperature going down.
here's the product: http://www.traction.vc
hope the story helps/inspires some people.
If you're distributing them all together, all of it would have to be under the GPL. If you're distributing them separately, otoh, only the GPLed bits would have to be under the GPL.
That is a straw man question. Meanwhile drone strikes are run from europe and whining with no action is considered good form there.
I feel that if I had produced an open source library, I'd be less interested in having my name anywhere near a project that I didn't actually produce.

BSD's non-endorsement clause comes close to what you want:

Neither the name of the <organization> nor the names of its
contributors may be used to endorse or promote products
derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
Seems like the fear of Apple monoculture is now less of a concern. Android marketshare is larger now then Apple's.
Most of his recommendations are probably binary (eat red meat / don't eat red meat). Given that, 50% is what you'd expect from a random medical advice generator.
"Booking.com has estimated that about 10,000 people were affected."

I'm wondering why Booking.com allowed this happening on such a scale - they probably got tons of customer complaints to react upon?
Soft costs are a huge problem right now in solar. They accounts for 64% of installed cost[1], which is crazy. Luckily, there is a big effort to reduce these costs[2].

[1]: http://www.nrel.gov/news/press/2013/5306.html

[2]: http://energy.gov/eere/sunshot/soft-costs
You forgot to mention the "warming" of US-Cuba relations and the deepening of Russia sanctions and the fact that Putin invited Kim Jong-un to visit Russia [0]. It is so obvious that Obama is trying to press Russia into a corner and that corner seems to be the Far East. We have a fully-blown Cold War 2.0 scenario going on, I guess, the military complex didn't like the idea of Russia not being an enemy anymore and small threats like ISIS don't justify the huge military budget, so, we're going back to the convenient for some Cold War, unfortunately. The more enemies, the better.

[0] http://www.smh.com.au/world/vladimir-putin-invites-north-kor...
This histrionics-filled article is a waste of time. There is far more to software engineering than building mobile apps for either iOS or Android. Even back in 2010 it should have been abundantly clear that mobile was not going to subsume all of software engineering.
Having moved from Mysql to Postgresql in 2005 and continued with it up to the present, I'd say it's a superior database for OLTP, enterprise workloads. Mysql's traditional mode with a transactional engine can work too; though, I've found Postgresql to be a solid, consistent performer for my use cases. I've also used it at home after running into trouble with Sqlite: https://paulrrogers.com/2014/10/self-hosting-owncloud-review... .

Postgresql's excellent documentation made the move much more practical than it would have been using a clearly less documented tool. (One such as MonetDB circa 2005: http://www.monetdb.org/ .)

Similarity to standard SQL and Oracle are also nice if one happens to work in an heavily regulated industry where one may have to migrate to certified platforms.
Don't let the door hit you in your way out.
Dr Oz's incentives are different. He's a day-time television talk show pundit. Fad diets that inspire false hope and supporting big time health/vitamin company brands directly translate into him making tons of money. I don't think most doctors are compensated for this type of behavior.
Oh, come on. There is a simple theory that "all oversimplified/naive theories are wrong" (this is, by the way, a consequence of "all mental theories are wrong, but some of them are useful).

The theory that North Korea was upset about a crappy movie and hacked Sony is such a naive nonsense, it cannot be considered seriously. In is HN, after all.)

Less naive could an idea that some guys hacked Sony (for money, what else?) and used this as a "cover story". How does this happen? By a chance, like most events in Universe.

The hack itself, probably, was due to neglected security, like WEP hot-spots, unpatched Windows crap, everyone has Administrator privileges, updates disabled - everyone knows how it is.

And in order to "save the face" everyone jumped on that naive story - it is highly sophisticated hack by foreign intelligence, not an "admin" (or "fuck") password on some hotspot or Windows domain. It was a media division, btw, not a "techie" department.

I am exaggerating a bit about passwords, but the idea, I hope, is clear.
I'm sure that your thoughts are interesting, but the lack of grammar, punctuation, and spelling in this article makes it very hard to read.
It was one of my first posts. I kept it just to remind myself how I evolved over time.