skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
White House to mandate deletion of irrelevant private data
Yep, clicking the Sign Up button doesn't seem to do anything.
I'll Be Back: The Return of Artificial Intelligence
The differences between mongodb.com and mongodb.org are striking.

I was confused about why there was no links to documentation on the .com, until I stumbled onto the .org, which lists actual features right on the home page.

Also striking: no mention of 3.0 on the .org home page at all, and on the downloads page, you have to scroll down to "Development Releases (unstable)" to find any reference to the 3.0 builds.

https://www.mongodb.org/downloads

Quite the split personality between the two sites.
Hadn't heard of Titan before. tl;dr from: http://thinkaurelius.github.io/titan/

"Titan is a scalable graph database optimized for storing and querying graphs containing hundreds of billions of vertices and edges distributed across a multi-machine cluster. Titan is a transactional database that can support thousands of concurrent users executing complex graph traversals in real time."
Datastax Acquires Titan Graph Database (Aurelius)
That may be true, but not matter what you say and how little I trust my own government based on what I know, I trust the Chinese government far less in spite of a fare more shallow understanding.
I wouldn't be surprised to see the big car manufacturers put a self-driving car on the market before Google. For instance, the car in the video looks much more like an actual product than the Google car, with it's spinning radar on top.

Google's spent a lot of money in a lot of different areas, but I haven't been terribly impressed by their output. Google glasses seems to be a good example about how they can excite people before release and then stumble when the product actually comes out (though this is an issue with a lot of tech companies).
So what is this? I love the idea of contributing to something like this, but they don't make the process clear. Is this a job? Can I work part time on specific tasks? There are people willing to leave the private sector to do this work, but that's not always an option. They need to find a way to leverage people's spare cycles. They also don't mention anything about security. The skill gap in security is MUCH larger than development. They are missing an opportunity there...
I've been looking for a long a time for a good PM software that is standalone (personal use) or can be self-hosted (easy setup a must). Cloud hosting is a show-stopper when you're in a large company.
> That said, the objections I'm reading here are centered around supporting a government that actively tortures political activists and captured enemies. I think the phrase "if you [disagree] with their political views" trivializes that position.

Unless you're designing some kind of torture software, I think you're massive reaching to make one apply to the other.

Nothing about doing better e.g. tax software, road planning, or similar is going to help the US Government torture detainees.

Realistically there are millions of US Government connected jobs, it is just unrealistic for everyone to boycott them because another part of a massive government did something ethically and morally wrong.
Good find! All fixed :)
I actually donate on a regular basis (not part of OpenBiome) and can answer any questions people have (a sort of AMA). Edit - this isn't a joke comment, I actually donate stool weekly.
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>> "The thing is you don't have to decide there isn't a God, you don't have to change your religion at all, if you have any, to be a good person."

Of course. My comment was made as someone who 'doesn't know' but leans towards theism. And you certainly don't need religion to be a good person but as with any writings/teachings there can be value there. For example some people find the guidance of the writings by the Stoics useful. If we took the element of God out of the bible and distilled it down to useful teachings on life I wonder how useful non-religious people would find it. Would it be useful in a similar way to the writings of the Stoics for example?
Not in an election year.

If it's either a failed public project, or spending millions of dollars (that can be spun as creating jobs), what do you think they're going to take?
Is the long game here to have self-driving cars everywhere so that the driver can spend more time on their phone and therefore clicking on their ads?
I was only taking what he literally wrote at face value. I'd expect a Perl programer to be more careful with punctuation that that. ;)
Don't you mean "go beddy-bye"?
Here is translated author's statement:

VLC is Open Source and I was irritated by how long they waits with their release - I've spent some nights on this and convinced Apple to approve it. And I succedeed. At first they returned it to me, because of violaton of copyright laws. I was expecting it, so I sent them links to MIT and GPL2 from VideoLAN webpage, where is stated, that you can use source code for whatever you want. Well, they approved it today.
75% of the US used to be farmers.

(Not all of farming is menial, but a lot of it is and it was much less sophisticated than it is today).

(Edited 90 --> 75.)
Vikings [1]. I haven't watched it, heard mixed reviews from friends. Critics seem to like it though, and it gets good viewership numbers.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings_(TV_series)
It's a holdover from when people who made web browsers imagined them being used for browsing web pages, not as an application run time.
It gives me an uneasy feeling too. It's slightly better than calling a library Vomit.js.
That's not this team.
JavaScript runtime environment for Python
Looks promising. Seems vaguely Trello-ish. Can you compare and contrast? Specifically, why would I pay for this when I get Trello for free? And Trello has a really good API. Anything comparable here?
isn't there already a movie called "underwater dreams" about the same thing?
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What, did they get hit by cars? It matters why they died, to make such sensationalist blanket statements as that article did.

I.e. people jog to increase their fitness and perhaps to decrease obesity. In as far as that is achieved, and increasing your jogging time per week marginally improves that goal, then no its not right to say that more jogging kills you. If its the marginal increase in exposure to accidents that is at issue, then perhaps a better article title would be "be careful where you jog; your bad route choices could endanger your health"
That is interesting!

I like the way you present the Chipotle/buffet as a set of choices too - it seems to make choice into almost a data structure issue. Like Chipotle are succeeding partly because they're presenting people with a binary search tree rather than an undifferentiated cluster of choices.
The previous model already had 4 USB ports.
First thought: you've priced it quite ambitiously. A 10 user team would be $90/month, compared to $20 for JIRA + JIRA Agile, $42 for Asana premium, $50 for Trello business (or free for normal trello), $35 for Pivotal Tracker, ...

(Which isn't to say it necessarily should be cheaper, only that it seems surprising to see that price without any attempt to compare or justify why you believe that e.g. it's already, at launch, worth 3x as much as Pivotal Tracker).
H2H and Technology a Perfect Match?
Could you elaborate on this point? I'm curious as what the new architecture will help with, other than the porting issues mentioned in the article.
But if this was the reasoning ending in .01 would surely make more sense.

39.06 = 6 items

79.59 = 59 items
Using the code is fine, but the name is trademarked and should be enough to block it from the app store.
Just sprinkle some remote coders among their states, and they'll double down. Works for Lockheed Martin.
Funny how it's as slow as the first modems

Of course, the channel adds a lot of noise and attenuation

(I'm not sure the rate they mention is the effective ratio or before Error Correction Codes)
1- Why not communism? Does the average worker in a communist country live worse than a sweatshop worker?

2- Why not aid? Bill Gates, someone who I'm not particularly fond of, claims it works: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023041494045793245...

Note I'm not necessarily advocating either of the above options. I'm just surprised at how persistent this belief in the properties of Free Trade is.
Already heard about Collabtive? Very easy deployment on your own webserver (or via Debian sources), FOSS:

http://collabtive.o-dyn.de/

Disclosure: I'm one of the lead devs.
It's not. We've just received a new project which forced us to redo our whole company IT and go back to Selfhosted Solutions in a ISO 27001 Datacenter. (luckily the company that datacenter belongs to is in our building and provides our internet, so we have direct network access to the servers)

Atlassian is so successful in a big part due to their self-hosting option.
> Without getting into a 'does God exist debate' it would be interesting if people who were, for example Christian, that decided there was no God took the good parts of the religion (peace, forgiveness, some of the rituals etc.) and created a branch of it.

Without getting into a "does God exist debate", I think there is considerable evidence that the inclusion of the belief in the existence of God and other similar aspects of religion that are distinct from (but part of the justification for) the behavioral elements you call "the good parts" are an important part of the memetic glue that holds the whole structure together.

But, sure, you see things a lot like that in, say, some Unitarian Universalist groups, and even some overtly atheist groups who have similar practical morality to what you call "the good parts" of Christianity, and consciously have adopted ritual structures mirroring those of Christian Churches -- without God -- as ways of maintaining community and venues for organizing charitable, etc., work.
I don't have any expertise in this, but off the top of my head:
- wind power would be tough because of sand in the wind. I imagine that would make the tech break down often. Guess it depends on what kind of desert you're talking about.
- Bedouin/Saharan peoples are probably a good reference. They had/have cisterns throughout the desert to preserve water between rainfalls. I think they were largely nomadic but I don't know the motivation for that (trade vs food supply vs ?)
- Bill Gates reports drinking water from human waste tastes fine, you could probably get your hands on the tech his people are developing.
I always felt like long-haul B2B deliveries (e.g., from warehouse to supermarket) was the most sensible starting point for actual use of self-driving vehicles on the roads. No worries about convincing customers to give up control, the extra equipment overhead is probably relatively small when you're already working with a massive truck, no stopping to sleep/eat, no tired drivers...
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I'm excited to see 3.0, but from what I've seen on JIRA, there might still be some issues with WiredTiger (fair considering how they moved from RocksDB to WT in a short period). Will be interesting to see if they'll close out those issues before they drop 3.0 in March.

A few months ago they closed up some of JIRA (comments and a bit epics/sprints), so some issues would be created and have no comments exposed. I thought they were working on transactions in this release (while they were still around 2.7.3 or so), but I guess that's not the case.

Lastly, I wonder how this will impact TokuMX, both positively and negatively? Really whether they'll be making their crown improvements into a pluggable storage type/engine, and if users would be able to take that and plug it into Mongo without patent issues on their fractal tree indexing.

Nonetheless, exciting news for some of us who are building on web-scale, MVCCABCD databases which operate at the speed of hype and web-scale :)

EDIT: saw that Tokutek has created TokuMXse, only after my post
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As a funny quirk of history, Michael Cahill, the founder of WiredTiger (and now a MongoDB employee), is the primary author of "Serializable Isolation for Snapshot Databases" [0] the paper that introduced Serializable Snapshot Isolation (SSI). SSI is the concurrency control mechanism used in Postgres [1][2].

[0] - https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse444/08au/544M/R...

[1] - https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/SSI

[2] - http://drkp.net/papers/ssi-vldb12.pdf
I see nothing about integrations or an API. Thats a bit dissapointing
As much as I am also inclined to jump on the bandwagon to chastize Google for having approaching zero capacity to compete with Uber in this space, I know that they are moving on this for the same reason that Uber is working on developing their own autonomous / self driving vehicles.

As fun as the Uber-jerking is, the future, if not sabotaged by all the many different interests that have high stakes in doing so, will be one where there are few if any real competitors to one monopolistic offerer of autonomous transportation services. Obviously Uber wants to be that one monopoly and I expect they will continue with their dirty tricks to get there, but others will also try to knock the king from the hill before he can complete his castle. Lyft, Curb, now Google, they will all try to beat Uber to the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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It is easy to use. I've not reviewed v3 yet, but based on my experience with v2, my question remains, why would I select MongoDB over a relational database for (as they seem to be suggesting) any and all database applications?

For some, sure, okay, maybe, but nearly everything I've done with databases falls quite nicely into a relational model, which doesn't seem to be MongoDB's strongest point.
I live in South Europe. Here we want the best of both worlds: the best of Marxism and the best of Capitalism. IMHO, this is the root of our problems because this mindset is not sustainable. Just have a look on Greece. Tsipras (the Greek people) wants to follow both. This indecision will undermine them.

It's not just Capitalism that has good things, Marxism have good things also (I have lived in East Europe where you can still feel the marxist mindset presence and believe me, some things are MUCH better than in the West). But I am not even arguing which direction to take, it's just not possible to follow both.
"I read they recommend to use the both (adaptive hashing and "local parameterization")."

I read their text as recommending A or B, based on the intro where they state "Two approaches facilitate this, each imperfectly."

"As even if you utilize separate device (HSM for example) for encrypting the passwords (I'd encrypt instead HMAC), you should indeed not give up on adaptive hashing."

Right, this is the sort of thing that led me to hedge by saying I MIGHT be convinced if an HMAC were involved; it still gives me pause, for sure.
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I see this a lot with bidding for government contracts, it's a known trick. There's a sign near me describing the new pipes going into the ground replacing the ditches, it says the contract went to some company for something like $12,345,122 (not sure what the real number is, just an example). I've seen similar numbers on signs at my university describing contracts for new buildings.
Indeed. Although my experience has been that without a common theological dogma holding a congregation together, UU's end up substituting political dogma for the same purpose. In other words, church services are basically MoveOn.org rallies with hymnals. If you're not a radical leftist then you will eventually find yourself lonely and burned out, because the worship of radical leftist political opinion IS their faith.

I'm not entirely sure that you CAN have something like a church congregation without some "glue" for social cohesion. I don't think that "Just be nice" is sufficient. Whether it's a shared dogma, or some shared activity, or (perhaps most effective of all) a shared enemy... groups seem to need a strong purpose in order to endure over the long-haul.
Has there ever been a working system where this wasn't the case? I think I agree with you on this, but I lack of data points to back the argument.
You got your chance, Mongo, and you screwed it up.

I tried getting the most out of you. I treated you like a princess, I indulged you, your wishes became my wishes and your thoughts were my thoughts. I stopped listening to all that criticism around you and thought of you as of a misunderstood child, even as you would refuse to do even the easiest tasks one could imagine.

I gave you everything there is to give, but you broke my heart. You left me in the most critical moments. I trusted you, but you would go your own way. Tears were shed and countless sleepless nights were to follow.

Remember that night you disappeared without leaving a sign? I sent you messages which got a response only after many hours. You didn't give a damn about my needs. One you told me: "it's not me, it's you". And I believed you, I truly did.

It's over now. It's been some time without you, and I'm getting better. I have discovered, that not everyone is like you. Some DBs care, they really do. You can trust them, they give you their everything.

I'm still struggling falling in love again, but it's getting better. Don't write me back. Goodbye.
even when they raised $90k of money from donations after their story was in Wired, two of them went but both dropped out. I think they work at a catering company now? it is a very american story.

and of course, most likely the team from MIT they beat are all now working at high tech companies or in graduate schools.
It's funny to me that the same HN continually bashing Google for being evil, Uber for being sexist, and startups in general for treating workers like slaves, is the same HN that generalizes and rationalizes this type of behavior.

We complain that minimum wage workers here aren't paid enough in the US, and yet we're OK with people making $3/day, pushed to their limit by a boss that might as well be a warden.

This may not be slavery, but it is indentured servitude.

And I say this as someone lacking a single liberal bone in my body.
We're just finishing up the documents for the API, the whole API is going to be open.

Also Slack integration is coming in the next few days
The free market wouldn't outlaw slavery.
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It does not, although it has a hardware RNG. However ChaCha20_Poly1305 will yield excellent software performance as it's ideally suited to NEON.

It could perhaps go even faster, given the VPU is a vector processor.
I have a copy of the original VLC App on my iPad, but since I've bought my new iPhone 6, and restored it from iCloud, the official VLC player was missing when the restore was completed, I'm guessing this us to do with it being pulled from the App store at the time.

To my surprise, I was looking at the purchased app section on the App store on my phone, and under the area where it lists Apps not on my iPhone I saw VLC Player, with the cloud button with a downwards arrow on it, so I quickly download it. Not too sure what happened, but I now have the official VLC app back on my iPhone.

It says the developer is VideoLAN and version 2.4.0 and not the one by Jiri Volek
There's a solid chance the browser you're typing comments with has a JS engine called SpiderMonkey, Nitro or V8 :)
Does anyone think that our whole economic meta-model might be overcome by 3D printing, permaculture and sufficiently efficient solar, etc.? (combined with sufficiently efficient energy use.)
Has anyone read Clifford Simaks' City?
There are technologies that automatically accrue the power to live in the other direction, or at least more widely and uniformly. Perhaps it's time to focus on those.
We can have a economy in which the true currency is only ideas. And the money economy is only for luxuries. And in which we are all a lot more free.
To me, the big problem with globalization is not the conditions of the sweatshops in India. $1 a day and the chance of burning alive in a garment factory (happened just the other day in Bangladesh) is better than subsistence farming, probably.[1] My problem with it is that of the $50 a day that comes out of an American pocket by exporting that work overseas, $1 goes to the Bengali garment worker, and $49 goes into the pocket of some shareholder. And when conditions become "too good" in India and Bangladesh, as is already happening, they'll just move over to Vietnam or Laos.

[1] There's also the issue that the negative externalities of industry make the other alternatives worse. My dad grew up in a village in Bangladesh. Before run-off from industrial farming killed them all, the rivers were teaming with hundreds of different kinds of fish. The existence of industry makes the lives of farmers harder.
I've deployed a local OpenProject instance for a smallteam. But I think it's too much for single use.

www.openproject.org
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I doubt they're acting maliciously too, but it's not as rosy as you paint either.

The patent grant is automatically lost if you argue "any right in any patent claim of Facebook is invalid or unenforceable". Notably, this applies to all patent suits, whether or not you're right, even if you're the person being sued, rather than you vice versa.

In effect, Facebook can revoke the patent grant at will just by bringing an onerous patent lawsuit - you can either agree to their arbitrary terms (e.g. never to use React again and pay X billion), or you can argue their patent rights are invalid or unenforcable and lose the patent grant. That onerous suit might be over the very patents this grant licenses; it really doesn't matter.

At best, this is a promise not to consider past patent infringement, since you'll receive warning that your license to React patents revoked.

The fact that suing over usage of OSS would damage their reputation is irrelevant: even without a patent grant it would be perceived as extremely untrustworthy to sue over submarine patents. The patent grant doesn't really change that (it might make the commentary even more snarky should such an event occur, but that's about all). Also, realize that if this ever does occur, it's unlikely to be in a world that looks at Facebook like it does today. This is typically something you'd expect of a company in decline: they're not after good PR at that point, but after extracting maximal rents from others. And of course it wouldn't need to be Facebook itself that filed the lawsuits; they might sell off that intellectual property to some patent troll and claim (somewhat reasonably, I might add) that it's not really their responsibility what happens later on. Actual events have repeatedly shown that large firms have no qualms in making somewhat shady IP deals if that can give them a competitive advantage (e.g. the lawsuits surrounding android). In short: I don't think bad PR is a very effective disincentive for a patent lawsuit.