skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
De-funded science? Not to any dramatic extent in the US, at least. AFAICS US science funding has roughly plateaued or declined only shallowly since about 2003, after decades of post-war increases. The main problem with salaries, career opportunities and so on is apparently that the number of people pursuing careers in science has risen to meet, then exceed, the increased funding. (Plus probably that an increasing share of the money is being funnelled off into university administration salaries, Elsevier and Bertelsmann and so on.)
Are you sure you're not exaggerating the benefits of an automatic formatting tool? I'm thinking that a large number of libraries, usage by multiple high-profile companies, a killer app, etc. would be better for Rust at this point.
Agreed about ad-hoc queries. It would have been nice to have them but couchdb-lucene[1] or even an integration with elasticsearch helps a lot if you need them.

https://github.com/rnewson/couchdb-lucene
> those of us who actually work in IT for a living expect downtime and architect for it.

Does Verizon not work in IT for a living? Why does their architecture not allow them to switch over to a backup despite having many days of warning?
Someone is inevitably required to lead any large organization. The concertmaster could probably do it, but it would look funny if he sat on a pedestal (for visibility). Plus, his direction might distract from his playing. So, they have someone else, typically more experienced and without an instrument perform that duty.

I think soloists in concertos sometimes conduct.
If the majority of the modules are already stable, why not wait until they are marked as stable, with a more realistic set of #[unstable] in the standard library for the alpha release?

Anyone using the alpha now is being smashed with pointless unstable warnings until they add #![allow(unstable)]

...which basically negates the point of having the lint at all.

Surely a better approach would be; if 'we have no idea where it's at at the moment', don't tag the api as unstable. Tag things which wont make it into 1.0 as unstable, so people start getting meaningful warnings about using api features that won't make it into 1.0.

Seriously, what tangible benefit do 90 warnings about every single api have when you run a compile?

Even if that number slowly drops over the coming weeks, it's still going to be entirely meaningless as an indicator of what will or will not be broken once the beta hits; you're also going to be getting a lot of rubbish feedback from people asking for certain apis (which will be stable for 1.0) to be stable, because of warnings that they're unstable; for example std::fmt.

...while anyone using say, std::raw::TraitObject, or say, alloc::heap::allocate, needs to get a heads up now that they needs to say something and get involved if they want those apis to make it into 1.0

Practically speaking, it feels like you need to roll back to 'unstable' and 'experimental' tags, with the lint warning about experimental, and ignoring unstable.

ie.

'unstable' <--- Probably in 1.0, not final yet, don't lint these.

'experimental' <---- wont be in 1.0, lint on these
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The relational data model is not perfect for every use case. I use Cassandra for high volume, time series data, MongoDB for documents, Titan/Neo4J for graph data, ElasticSearch when I need better indexing. I pick a different technology depending on what I think works best for the use case.

At no point have I thought so condescendingly as you do that MY choices are the best for everyone. They aren't. And I promise you that picking the one technology/approach for everything doesn't work anymore. It's a heterogeneous world out there.

And that link you posted is pathetic. MongoDB is not suited for social network style data neither is many other databases. Doesn't mean they are useless for every use case.
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"Now that I think about it"

This is one of the best phrases ever invented.

By the way, I am not meaning to attack. I completely understand the frustration of watching completely unqualified assholes run the country. I live in the UK.

However, to see what happens when qualified assholes run the country, look to China. They are the world's most successful technocracy. There are more people with engineering degrees in government there than anywhere else I know of. (if anyone cares to correct me on this, please do)

The results of this are nicely mirrored by your respective space programs.

China has people in orbit.

India found water on the moon.

Just so you know my biases, I like what I see as India's democratic openness and China's secular practicality (being a stereotypical Brit who goes around stereotyping stuff so it will fit into all the neat little display boxes).
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I think the Earth gets cleaner at largely the same rate. The drive to compete on prices forces 99% of the cars sold to be optimized towards lowered emissions (accounting for the increased price of those optimizations).

I don't find your subsidy argument persuasive. There's never been (to my knowledge) a government subsidy for buying cars (outside of cash for clunkers, which was stimulus disguised as subsidy), and I don't see a carbon tax affecting that.

As for college being expensive, like many things that's an American phenomenon. The rest of the western world seems to get by just fine with affordable education and healthcare. Even here in Canada, where education is far more expensive than in Europe, our tuition is pretty reasonable (~$2500/semester). I graduated with a BSc in CS and $38k in student loans, and I took my sweet time about it.
Its cool, but the bar to enter is a bit higher than twitch. Ill give it a shot though.
if the orchestra planned behind the back of the conductor and ignored his signals, and instead played on their own, would anyone notice?
relevant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovEghdXC4tE
Or look at it this way: if Verizon's service functions perfectly for the next year, they'll still only have 99.4% uptime over that period. That's pretty bad -- even most commodity web hosting providers do better than that.
Not stupid, but there are different perspectives that reduce the scariness.

With are relational model, your working set needs to be joined together from pieces, so you want ACID to ensure that everyone sees a consistent set of pieces.

But with a document model, you can 'pre-join' your working set into a single object that has everything you need. And that object doesn't have a fixed schema, so it can grow and evolve over time.

While Mongo doesn't provide ACID across documents, it does guarantee atomicity, consistency, isolation and eventual durability for SINGLE documents.

IF your application can live with a universe that consists of a single, arbitrarily complex object - then Mongo is as within epsilon of being as safe as a regular ACID transaction system.
Blowfish? Really? Do you know what you're talking about?
These blind ladies certainly don't:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR6ptUemCwk
If you want to go to "brand name" universities, then yes $100K easily. But if you want to seek an education, state universities are much cheaper.
This sounds a bit cynical and negative to me. Probably if your company is too big then these are quite inevitable. But at least at where I work now I feel free. There's enough transparency, candidness and equality among all. Don't know whether things will change in the future, but a relatively "clean" state is certainly possible, at least according to my current feelings.
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A 1980 Teenager's View of Social Media
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According to the second law of thermodynamics the entropy of an isolated system never decreases; such a system will spontaneously evolve toward thermodynamic equilibrium, the configuration with maximum entropy. Systems that are not isolated may decrease in entropy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy

An isolated system obeys the conservation law that its total energy–mass stays constant.

Because of the requirement of enclosure, and the near ubiquity of gravity, strictly and ideally isolated systems do not actually occur in experiments or in nature. They are thus hypothetical concepts only.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolated_system
>Frankly, everything about the career, the business of science, is constructed to impoverish and disenfranchise young scientists, delaying the maturation of their careers beyond practicality.

That's because way, way too many people want to be scientists. Lots of people want to be actors, too, and most of them end up working as waiters for the same reason.

I've never run across such a smart group of people who are so dumb. Even if you win the lottery and get that coveted tenured position you're not going to be doing much in the way of research - you're going to spend all your time filling out grant applications and managing grad students.

You may as well get an MBA instead.
This is like saying that all the programming jobs are going to go away because of some visual programming language just over the horizon. The fact is we are generating more and more data every day, and there are infinite ways to formulate and look at it. The tools that C-suite can use will never be powerful enough to do what a data scientist does because of the variety of data that exists. You can only dumb it down to the lowest common denominator, and the LCD will not be very useful unless the scope is extremely narrow.
Alternatively, if you bother to have proper exit codes for your backup scripts, you could verify exit != 0, and alert on that.

I have cron on all of my systems email STDERR to me, STDOUT is redirected to the normal logs.

One you clean up your crons, you really only get email once a month or so when something breaks.
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This is an article for people that like to drive, and he is correct: you want a linear response in turns. He is not dictating requirements for the general public --- he is describing reality.
My response:

A 1980 Teenager's View on Social Media
https://medium.com/@brianstorms/a-1980-teenagers-view-of-soc...
Air bags are the biggest safety-related weight contribution. Maybe reinforcements for rollovers, but in most non-convertibles this isn't that big a difference.

Airbags make a huge difference to safety.

Much of the weight increase has come from luxury features.

I agree that road design needs addressing too, but I think you are creating a false dichotomy by making it seem you do one or the other.
I've seen people use placeholders to label form fields. If something got auto completed, it might contain incorrect data.
For professional orchestras, a conductor is not a metronome, but an artistic director.

So yes, they can add quite a lot.
I like Riak and Cassandra.
Extensive discussion 1.5 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8648737
It's not just about the performance, it's about leading rehearsals, listening to what needs to be worked on, and having a vision for the stylistic direction.
>Was that sincere or was it part of the show?

I'm certain that part was sincere. There is a certain level of naive honesty among most of the North Koreans (similar to that of sheltered fundamentalist Christians). I could clearly detect this by seeing that some of them naively did or said the "wrong" thing a few too many times whereas others were clearly much more canny. The canny ones lied all the fucking time and probably knew they were lying. The naive ones let slip a few gems.

The 'dating' website is probably more like a website for arranging arranged marriages, incidentally. Just in case you were wondering.

>I haven't been, but from what I've read/seen the tours are almost like an orchestrated front aimed at changing foreigners' perspectives.

The tour is orchestrated and it is clearly partly aimed at changing foreigners' perspectives, but the parts which are just for show and the kernels of honest truth are actually pretty easy to distinguish.

Sometimes propaganda is embarrassingly terrible (e.g. just taking the number of actual US casualties in the Korean war and doubling it. facepalm).

I'm sure the years before I went were even more blatant and terrible, actually. I didn't see any fake shops like in the interview but I suspect they may have existed in the years prior to my visit. I think they probably figured out that that was an abysmal idea.

The North Koreans have very unsophisticated domestic propaganda compared to western domestic propaganda. They are NOT good at it. Getting better, but still terrible.

Interestingly, western propaganda about North Korea is equally facile. The isolation makes it easy for outright lies to be believed on both sides I guess. Provided you haven't experienced both.

Also there are certain things both sides refuse to talk about that the other side talks a lot about - propaganda that serves a purpose that is based in truth. North Korea doesn't talk about prison camps but every American knows about them. America doesn't talk about atrocities committed by GIs in the Korean war, but North Koreans schooled on them much like we are schooled on Nazi atrocities.

Weirdly, North Korea was pretty open about the famine in the 90s. I expected them to gloss over it. Western media glosses over the fact that it actually ended, of course.
Passed on a career in science when I was 17 and noticed after interviewing professors that it was mostly full of politics and money stress and precious little science. Fact is there are a lot of fields that are "desirable" and enjoy and endless supply of willing young and talented recruits. These fields always pay terribly for all but the elite and offer tremendous competition. Publishing seemed to be another one. It was common knowledge or at least patently obvious to me that you should not attempt a career in publishing (editing and evaluating manuscripts for major publishing houses) in NYC without a trust fund and or a magic credit card paid by daddy. Science is like that. I hope my children can do science.
Sure, and for that reason, it's also important to consider priorities. Governments build infrastructure and car companies build cars.

If both entities stuck to what they did best, both would get done, and one would think they'd get done optimally.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8862441
Average passenger car weight has steadily increased in the last 25 years or so. From 1987's 2805 lb curb weight to today's 3239.

http://www.nhtsa.gov/cars/rules/CAFE/NewPassengerCarFleet.ht...

Some of that is due to the addition of steel safety cages, airbags, ABS, and other safety equipment, some of which is mandated in new cars. A small increase is related to emissions equipment like catalytic converters (they only weigh like 8-10 lbs, though). Not nearly all the increases in weight come from safety and emissions requirements, though.

Part of the increases are due to manufacturers adding more bells and whistles to even their standard models. In 1987 there were more cars with standard transmissions (autos weigh more), AC wasn't always standard, cars tend to have nicer seats that are heavier, and even things like power windows and power locks weren't always standard. Also cars have tended towards more powerful and heavier engines. Also Americans for whatever reasons like big cars, gas prices were cheap enough for a long time, and car makers were happy to keep bloating them up since people liked buying big fat cars.

There's another factor - the government did play an unfortunate role in the bloating of vehicles due to CAFE regulation loopholes that give businesses tax breaks to buy SUVs and other bloated vehicles that classify as trucks, and the ways automakers have abused the standards to keep bloating up their lines:
http://jalopnik.com/5948172/how-the-government-killed-fuel-e...
There is a widespread problem I see - not particular to PayPal or Starbucks - that many companies feel they make enough money, so they don't need to do better.

I expect PayPal could promote itself to brick-and-mortars, but PayPal's marketing people don't feel that they need to, because PayPal makes plenty of money.

Most brick-and-mortars make enough money for their staff to be happy, so they don't look into how they could increase their sales by accepting other payment methods.

This might seem OK but "making enough money" is one of the factors than enables the lean and hungry to come from out of nowhere with a disruptive technology.
See my comment above to nl. I edited it to add numbers regarding modern vehicle weight ratios, and how they've gone up over time in part because of safety regulations.
The problem is that there's also a very large pool of people who could be grad students who are currently unemployed or underemployed. If some grad students get tired of the conditions and decide to seek higher wages in private industry, the universities can easily recruit more grad students in short order for the exact same wages as they were paying before. Therefore, there is no incentive to improve the conditions to retain their existing grad students (or post-docs, or assistant professors...).
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I hadn't seen this before, but now I've subscribed to the youtube channel so I can watch the videos as I get time. This entire project sounds amazing :).
My dad's 1991 Honda CRX got 49mpg.
>Sure, if at all possible you want your military to be able to handle all scenarios. But truth is that the budget is not unlimited...

True, but we're spending less on our military as a percentage of GDP than we have since before WW II. We can afford the F-35B.
"The all-too-few of us already thriving online now and who’ve seen the future, find it hard to explain to the multitudes who haven’t yet what this all is and why it’s really important."

Some people are well-aware of what computers are, but they choose not to use them. It's not because they don't have the money or the expertise to use them; I know a sheriff's deputy who uses computers in his work, but he doesn't have a computer at home. He never uses a computer when he's off work.

From time to time I suggest to people where they can get free computer training; there are ways to obtain actual hardware either inexpensively or even free of charge.

But few who I offer such suggestions to, want to use computers. The reason they don't use computers is not because they cannot, but choose not to.
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http://www.kuro5hin.org/
AWS 8xlarge servers have less RAM but are just as large otherwise. You can get two of those for less money than this Azure VM.
Take a look at Riak, http://basho.com/.

Disclosure, I have recently joined up with them as a Solutions Architect.
True story. Amazon is all about telling people to plan for failure and building around it in your architecture.

Also, nearly nothing will give you 100% uptime. That's fault tolerance and almost nobody has it.
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On the off-chance that you read this I apologise for not delivering, I wasn't able to speak to ID but will on Monday so if this thread is locked by then then shoot me an email
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Bigger, fast, more open, more secure. Where does that leave Azure, given where it started? It means it's still small, slow, closed, and insecure.
Those are the pre-requisite for the 400-series exams. I had to pass all those just to get into the 400-series classes. Then you have to pass the exams and then do a project for each part of the platform. I did all that.
I transcribed a part of that talk for another thread, where he mentions the 10KLOC system from Parc:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8860680
Often:

Reddit (various news subreddits /r/news /r/worldnews + some local)

Sometimes:

New York Times (financials, economy)

News not related to Middle East : Al Jazeera

News not related to Eastern Europe : RT

[notice the pattern...]

Very rarely:

Local news on TV in the evening
This is probably the most studied question in music ever. The topic even has its own wiki page.

And the answer is definitively "yes".
> No new "Common Core" tests are going to help that child learn if they are afraid they might not eat dinner that evening

Perhaps the test will help such children learn by identifying excellent teachers.

Imagine three students who regularly go hungry are taught by three different teachers: Teacher A doesn't even find out that her student is going hungry. Teacher B finds out there is a problem and calls the parent once or twice to explain that it is the parent's responsibility to ensure the child does not skip meals.

Teacher C discovers the problem and visits the parent at home to explain in person why it vital for the long-term outlook of the student that the student not go hungry. In addition: (a) The teacher tries to understand the root case of the problem - is the parent on drugs, or has to work 3 jobs, or has an abusive husband? (b) The teacher investigates government or charity services that might have an impact on the problem. (c) The teacher visits the student's household regularly and tries various ways to motivate the parent to correct the problem. (d) The teacher contacts other members of the student's family to explain the problem and try to get them engaged. (e) The teacher celebrates any academic success of the student with all members of the family and links this success to their efforts. (f) The teacher gives the student her phone number and tells the student to call with any questions about the homework - this gives the teacher the opportunity to find out in real-time if the student is going hungry at home, giving a deeper understanding of extent of the problem and perhaps allowing the teacher to tackle the problem in real-time.

Now tell me: Which student will perform better on Common Core tests?
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I don't like Ayn Rand either and I think libertarians are complete morons.

I'm a socialist.

I just think anyone who would consent to such unfair job conditions must be an idiot.
Another difference is that OpenNTPD appears to only implement the less accurate SNTP subset of NTP.
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Even assuming all those things are complete, it's not necessarily the best fit for your typical consumer web application. Not unlike how you wouldn't generally turn to C++ for one.
>Because they have ample means of tracking users aside of sneakily and under false pretences

eyeroll If they were above being sneaky and operating under false pretences they wouldn't have blatantly ignored "do not track".

I'm sure they will never feel like they have enough means of tracking users, either. Every means they develop helps improve their targeting, puts them ahead of their competition and has a direct impact on their bottom line.
There seems to be a strong myth with my friends in graduate school that somehow everything you're forced to do in "industry" is terrible boring busywork and could not possibly be interesting, and that a career in research, while tiring, means you can work on what you want.

Truth is that so long as somebody is above you, it's very possible to have to work on things imposed on you, and in research that can mean working on topics you disagree with, along with all the office politics that come with it.

I think someone who has done both industry and research can comment, but my impression has always been that they're mostly the same thing if you're between 20 and 40.
That's exactly one of the cars I had in mind when writing my comment.

It was BETTER than the CRZ that we now have 2 decades later!
You don't buy a Ferrari to replace the engine. You buy it because you don't need to tune it, it's already been done for you.
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Woah, that's like a list of what not to do with standard libraries, particularly python. Have you seen the datetime module? httplib? Even go has it's weird databases module.

I think <stdio.h> is a good example. It gets the job done, its minimal and simple. That's what a standard library should be.