skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's just not true. I've seen women online, women I know irl, who have said things along the lines of, "If you see a woman alone in a coffee shop, don't talk to her." Meanwhile, the same girls will complain about how men never talk to them. I see this more and more often within the latest wave of feminism.

I see women on Twitter complaining about "creeps" all the time even when they aren't doing anything I'd consider creepy.
People on treadmill desks perform tasks nearly as well as those sitting
Too bad he chose Mercator projection. Gall–Peters or Robinson would be my choice.
It will be interesting to see how the industry picks this up. The amount of vulnerable libraries (and many of them) in software, even in security software, is rather mind boggling.
I noticed that the author is comparing the size of the executables. Dunno about all the other MLs but in Ocaml the executables can blow up in size if you statically link them instead of let them be dynamically linked as is the default. The presence of debugging symbols also matters a lot.
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perhaps, but he was referring to the GPL, and this particular discussion started because one poster asked roughly "wasn't he being accurate"?

And the answer is yes.
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Try here: http://www.mapsales.com/world-wall-maps.aspx

I think marketmaps.com landing page is pretty focused on the US, but they have a pretty extensive catalog, and you could also design your map with QGIS from OSM data and send them the PDF.
I've also experienced this since childhood. Being an only child and having two working parents, I had to find something to amuse myself all day. My imagination ran wild and I was able to create entire universes in my head. But it was never a problem, I never felt bogged down by this imagination, rather I felt a compelling urge to continue developing it. Perhaps it's because I never considered it a "condition", but rather a gift that I was given that other children didn't seem to have. They were forced to derive amusement from others or external sources like video games or a television, things I still loved but didn't feel dependent on. I think this early urge to create things definitely spawned my interest in both music and programming.

I would urge anyone who also experiences this not to take the OP's advice, instead, learn to embrace the gift you've been given and learn to control it with your own willpower. It is possible. Keep your imagination in its place, and don't take drugs to diminish it.
White House wants Silicon Valley to create backdoor into your phone
Look into the openstreetmap based tools mentioned in other comments. They allow to customize a lot about the presentation.
There are of course the ordinary people do what they do reasons: familiarity with the language, consistency within a project, opinion and deep insight into the problem and dumb mistakes.

Static typing offers some advantages in regard to tooling. Entire classes of errors can be caught by the editor/IDE as the programmer types code without waiting for compile time...or in the case of dynamic languages perhaps runtime.

ML languages are particularly suited for the classes of problems for which they were developed, e.g. fault tolerant high reliability systems, because they can efficiently express state machines via pattern matching semantics and the SOME|NONE construct.

So a person might choose to write a web application in F# because they are thinking about the problem in terms of a state machine. With code generation, a stack similar to Microsoft's can provide a lot of the Presentation and Storage layers in Javascript and SQL respectively.
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I wasn't sarcastic! It's actually very good practice...
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You can update the software without pulling it down. In order to use the update you need to restart, but there's a large difference between restarting a service and restarting an OS. It isn't really analogous.
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As somebody working on postgres, I don't find the comparison to be done in a particularly fair, or helpful, way. MSSQL is a pretty good database and deserves to be fairly evaluated.

Don't get me wrong, I have 'political' problems with MSSQL, but those shouldn't be disguised as technical ones.
I was skeptical about the Navajo claim, but you're totally right. "Bił Nijoobałí" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzwupgNm0GI
Multi-core addresses parallelism, concurrency is a whole different can of worms.
Tried travelling in a third-world country where you don't speak the language?
Can you drop a recommendation for your favorite startup-friendly ETL tool?
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Ugh, that was my first thought when I got to the end too. After all that work and expense, I was hoping he'd installed a ferromagnetic backing and was going to use tiny magnets as markers.
you and me both =)
CloudFlare Timing Out
Since about 9am Cloudflare sites are loading excessively slowly and most eventually 504 timing out. Experiencing the same at Cloudflare.com as well in North East. Appears other countries are reporting similar issues on Twitter.
Assertion. Platitude, assertion. Rhetorical question.
...which is why I use uBlock: https://chrismatic.io/ublock/
p-value testing and confidence interval testing are not interchangeable?

also, p-values are used to determine the number of effects in a mixed model, or the number of factors in an ANOVA, etc. Sometimes confidence intervals on abstract parameters can be a bit less useful.
I asked a Vietnamese friend whose grandparents had been interned in one of the mentioned camps why the South had lost the war. He explained that the soldiers from South Vietnam had shown a suprising level of cowardice and nepotism.

There is perhaps another story, that of a soldier fleeing with expensive military equipment in the moddle of a battle, I bet he is laughing at his collegues who died fighting for their country. In this way it is a microcosm for everything wrong with South Vietnam.
I get the feeling this guy hasn't had to deal with CSV in-the-wild. RFC4180 is a false prophet. I've never had a client give me CSV data that was actual, good CSV, thus I've always had to write a custom parser. Every. Single. Time.

Well, not anymore. Now I just refuse to do shit. "We can't change it" turns into "we contacted the original developer and made him fix his broken shit" when I turn into a complete pain in the ass.
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"While they found the walkers showed slight decreases in processing speed, attention and typing words per minute—tasks that require fine-motor skills or heavy concentration—the overall drop was not enough to warrant major concern."

"perform tasks"

I guess those tasks would mainly be browsing the interweb
I'm confused that why would someone spend several thousands of dollars just for networking?

For one, for the people who can pass the socioeconomic component of MBA school admissions, the costs are a rounding error. For the middle-class students who get in on merit, the connections are worth it.

Two factors amplify the strength of connections. One is nostalgia. There's a reason why college connections run deeper than grad-school connections, which run deeper than work connections. People tend to want to be around those who were with them back in the "good old days". The second is what I call "soft extortion", but that term might be too cynical since it's always implied. If you went drinking with someone on a regular basis and tried to run game on the same women, you both know things about the other that create a bond of "necessary trust". If you ever tried to pull something out on the other guy (i.e. hard extortion) in order to get a favor, you'd lose his trust and friendship. However, the fact that this capability theoretically exists tends to create bonds, due to peoples' aversion to cognitive dissonance. ("I trusted him enough to get piss-drunk with him back in school, so I should trust him on a $500-million deal.") Soft extortion is an extremely powerful force; it's why fraternities use humiliating initiation rites.
Notebook interfaces are proliferating.

Here's the one I work on: http://BeakerNotebook.com

Note that we are hiring, especially front-end engineers. Do open source fulltime in NYC.
I'm wondering why he has a skull for a bookstop :)
Also repost https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9464728
Hurd is a bunch of servers on top of Mach (there were attempts to get it ported to L4, Coyotos and some other kernels, but they all sadly fizzled out), so it is dated in many extents.

The main deal is the concept of translators, which are similar to 9P file servers and namespaces, and how all the Hurd servers are implemented. This design also enables easy persistence.

There is no trend between "object-oriented" and "interface-oriented" design, they're both terms with lots of meanings. The actor model is a form of object model. It's not necessarily bad.

The Hurd actually has its own system for running multiple concurrent instances of itself, subhurds: https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/subhurd.html

Application containers still depend on a host OS. In fact, they're basically a way to partition the OS resources and library namespace so that you can get around its deficiencies by limiting each logical software bundle to a sub-OS. Each individual container is not any more malleable than what the host OS provides. It's quite the hack, really.

Unikernels/libOS are great, but they're just another technique that harkens back to the old days of writing code to initialize the machine, except it's now reusable through virtualization and library linking. Full OS deployments can still be useful.
The GO statement is an artifact of SQL Server Management Studio. It's not an actual T-SQL construct. So if you are executing scripts in an automated way (like a continuous deployment scenario), you have to have some way to manually split up the batches.
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Nice.. with Goldman Sachs backing and FDIC insured USD balance, this should get a lot of people started on Bitcoins. Jeremy Allair is awesome once again :)
> Using GPL code ... can still be a huge strategic misstep ... that could also mean a big drop in your value in the eyes of a potential suitor.

Yes, I think this explains the dearth of GPL contributions from recent startups.

I didn't mean to imply that GPL was ever the perfect way to license code that you also intend to use commercially. It's mediocre at best for that purpose, and intentionally so. After all, why would RMS want to facilitate production of proprietaty software?

What is undeniable is that the cloud and the startup scene are leading a new trend in FOSS licensing. The recent Github statistics show more MIT/BSD/Apache licensed projects than ever before. This shift will have far-reaching consequences on the FOSS ecosystem in the long term, and I'm just not sure whether those consequences will be good or bad. We've got too many idealists and too many VC-chasers in the same room here ;)
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Not sure what you're point is.

(a) Not all vendors are the same, (b) Not all situations are the same, (c) Open source isn't exactly world renowned for porting back fixes to older releases.

Making broad generalisations is never helpful.
I may be missing something here, but it seems like this solves only half of the problem. Sure it's helpful to cover the earth in 3m squares with unique names, but in order to actually deliver something you need to be able to navigate to it.

The advantage of a (building number, street name, locality) address is that it identifies some point on the edge of a graph, and that the edges and vertices are well-known.

I'll grant that within any locality, people generally know how to get from point A to point B (and frequently don't know the names of the streets), but it seems like what you really need is a way to map the unique 3m squares onto that knowledge.

Even with that problem solved, another problem comes up with planning deliveries efficiently. There's no information embedded in the what3words address that encodes any notion of adjacency or relative distance. I realize that this is probably intentional to reduce the likelihood of errors in addresses going unnoticed, but it means determining nearness requires access to the whole mapping data set (or at least enough to determine that a what3words address isn't in the set of ones you care about).
You can just generate one from OpenStreetMaps
The closest thing to SQL Server Management Studio I've found is Navicat. It's not as solid as Management Studio, and it's incredibly expensive, but it is much better than most of the other tools out there.

If you can expense the cost of the license you should definitely check it out.
Depends how you define it. O'Sullivan hasn't been consistent enough and simply attending enough Championships to win that many titles. But in terms of talent, no one really competes. O'Sullivan in his prime would have beaten Hendry two times out of three.
Not really. Postgres' planner is also statistics based. Yes that approach has problems, but the contrary, where you still use a plan that was appropriate for three rows with a couple million isn't good either. It's just a hard problem.
As a Brit, it seems funny to see Ronnie O'Sullivan profiled in the New Yorker. Who are they going to cover next? The Crafty Cockney? [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Bristow
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SI unit symbol for gram is "g", not "gm". For kilogram it's "kg", not "Kg".
Pentaho if you have no or little money or SSIS (comes with SQL Server licence)
Yelp Forecasts Revenue Below Estimates; Shares Tumble
Well, once he killed it with his pins, he can print a new one with a different projection.
If the future is wireless then it will be full of interference.

We have a tech event here in Brazil that attracts about 8k people. Its impossible to use wifi reliably during the event and sometimes even bluetooth suffers.
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WebRTC p2p radio broadcasting
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GO is also recognized by sqlcmd, so you're (potentially) still good with automation. I did actually run the above script in SSMS, but I ran most of the ones at my old job automated.
> but as a means to protect against unlawful government tyranny.

We're at that point.
I mean you have a point on the OS, being in the cloud is a definite bonus. However caring what OS it's running on comes down to something he was brief about in his article. For me, I can manage an Linux server no issue with just a bash prompt, I can't honestly say the same about a Windows Server. Other people might argue Apache and running that on a Windows server is kind of pointless? I don't know, just spit-balling that one.

Obviously Windows would be IIS, which means overall the OS choice is a nice one. The fact that you can choose which one to host with, which means you get something comfortable.
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But wouldn't it be more efficient to calculate the velocity on the client side then only send changes to the vector?
"The Drunkard's Walk" and "Fooled by Randomness". TDW, in particular, kind of "tricks" you into learning statistics, in order to read the book.
Unknown hackers have stolen €4.6m from Ryanair bank accounts
I love creating software that helps people or improves some process.

Then do those things. Pursue work that facilitates doing them. Count helping people and improving processes as the measure of success. Avoid working for and with assholes. Find people who share your values.

The "moving up" competition is over. Bill Gates won.

Good luck.
Isomorphic Templating with Spring Boot, Nashorn and React
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9460628
Dev here. Client side is javascript, no frameworks or anything. Server side is C++ with libuv for abstracting networking (I test it on windows but the actual servers are linux).
Huh... a person who compares databases with regards to analytics and doesn't mention OLAP. Doesn't mention ETL. Doesn't mention reporting. What kind of comparison is that? I often read reviews of databases which dismiss MSSQL completely. And that's fine when it is about building applications. HOWEVER, MSSQL comes with very featurefull ETL tools, very featurefull MOLAP and HOLAP and very featurell reporting suite. It also comes with some data mining algorithms for which I am not qualified to talk, but I've heard the functionality is pretty nice for a starting point. It also comes with an IDE for the people who do those things and a DBA tool for people who administer the databases.

Out of those things, postgres has a DBA tool out of the box. Yeah... nice comparison.

I find it particularly funny that he cites Dunning-Kruger. DK effect is not meant for others. It is meant for self-evaluation.
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How important is performance for an offline testing tool, when compared to flexibility? How many bugs will mucking with intercepting syscalls introduce? More importantly, how many bugs will be obscured since the tool is running Nginx in a decidedly non-standard and complex way?
Expired last night. Looks like they're deploying now - site's been down occasionally, so I think the ELB (where's your normally install the cert in AWS) is having a new cert installed.

If you can't see it:

http://imgur.com/9wvSEcS

Also SSL Labs: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=instagram.com

And they're back: http://imgur.com/rWN7BmA, with 167 days left on their new cert, which still has a SHA1 signature. Their ELB also allows RC4.
> Remember the likes of Facebook and Twitter didnt have a "revenue model" at start either, look where they are now...

Facebook's doing OK (they have the advantage of not locking themselves into being a simple 140 character messaging service), but Twitter's quarterly results were fairly abysmal.
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If you know PL/SQL, all you need is an example of the boilerplate that goes at the top and bottom of a PL/pgSQL procedure and you are good to go.
That it does! Glad you're out of there.
Instagram.com's security cert expired
went to check a pic on instagram and their cert was expired lolz
Thanks for spotting my mistake. I have amended it in the article.

Definitely not nitpicking when it's a fact :)
> For me, I can manage an Linux server no issue with just a bash prompt, I can't honestly say the same about a Windows Server.

Have you seen Windows Core and PowerShell? An increasing number of admins are doing just that - it's how we work at Stack Overflow, for example.
I tried Pentaho, but our ETL tasks are being written by engineers (at least right now), and it seemed much clunkier than just writing ruby scripts. Is it worth it in the long run?
If you haven't played with AFL I recommend spinning it up for a night and trying it out.

My experience was pretty fun. The setup wasn't that difficult if you RTFM. I rebuilt OpenSSL from source the way AFL wanted and started throwing test cases at asn1parse. The test cases it was coming up with were really cool. Got one or two hits in my hour or two running it but they ended up being false positives.

For a side project, there is really just a ton of work that has gone into it. lcamtuf is doing a great job.
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It may be more efficient. But sometimes you should not trust the client ;)
VS can debug processes on remote machines with only a small helper process running on that machine, and while you shouldn't deploy PDBs onto your production servers, there's no reason not to generate them for your release builds.
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If you are on Mac check out https://eggerapps.at/postico/
You can. I just drag the arrow that appears on broken execution "upwards" to a previous line of code. There might be another way to do it.
I'm just thinking of SimCopter, where as a copter pilot you could get missions of all kinds popping up on the screen, and you could choose to take a delivery, passenger, fight a fire, and more stuff I can't remember.

Not a bad model really. Uber is a distributed worker service.
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reddit discussion here: http://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/34e438/instagrammc...
I must admit I now need to go figure out what a "notebook" is in this context. I don't really get what Zeppelin -is-.

But I'm curious.
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Not really, Apple makes the best Apple products in the universe. How dare you question the legacy of the late Steve Jobs?
Even better, I say. People talk about "trolls" as if they are some group of people that can be pointed to, but often it's just a way to dismiss someone who doesn't see things the way you do. Think how much easier it is to call this guy a troll than engage with the viewpoint presented in the Guardian piece.
WhatsApp uses decent end-to-end encryption but you can't depend on it
I'm from Melbourne, living in Boston. There's an entire middle class waiting to explode. There's rampant underemployment, rising credit card debt, and my entire generation has given up on the notion of ever fully owning a home. There's many many reasons why I moved to the U.S.
Yes, and while we're add it, can it really be hard to add syntax highlighting? Now let's all keep adding one small feature until we've specified a fully-featured editor.
Germany will get it again, with a newspeak rebranding.
I don't see the point of the joke/sarcasm. UDP has its use if you want to have real time stuff and more granular and fine-controlled data. TCP is just for larger batches.

Of course UDP is useless in many cases, but it does have its uses.

It looks like this is just mocking people who can't follow the "don't reinvent the wheel" rule, but why assume that all types of wheel are already invented? P2P networking needs fine control. Bare metal is not here for nothing.
Postgres is better than SQL Server because with Postgres I always have the "awesome edition" : http://blog.codinghorror.com/oh-you-wanted-awesome-edition/

And I don't need a certification to understand the crazy MS licensing (I discovered recently that yes there is a MS certification program for their licenses as it's so byzantine).
The last time this article came up the consensus was that the author was pretty biased towards Postgres and had little to no experience with actual MS SQL Server use.

Also, the lack of author identity was frowned upon.

Lastly, the conjecture and attitude towards Microsoft lacks some substance.

Conclusion: The author is free to write whatever he likes, but take this resource with a pinch of salt.

I use both Postgres and MS SQL Server professionally and whilst philosophically I prefer Postgres, for practical reasons I truly prefer MS SQL Server, if only because of its excellent development tools.
it's crazy, isn't it lol. (I am Taiwanese, who is actively using PTT
To be precise it's by Churchill and goes:

"If you're going through hell, keep going."

Which does it a bit more justice.
How much data? Well, data rates have the potential to be multiple petabytes per second. The main concern is gathering, transmitting, filtering, processing, and storing this data (or enough of it) quickly enough while staying within budget.
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