skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is the lottery was only one aspect of the athenian republic, how laws were voted, how leaders were held highly accountable were also important corner stones.

There appears to be a lot to like about the Athenian democratic process (again, not an expert). However, your argument about elections vs lotteries literally had only one thing to say about the Athenians which was "The Republic in Athens was based on the lottery and it lasted literally for centuries.". I find this a weak argument specifically because it's not really true (for the reasons stated above). After all, Athens the Republic (as a democratic process after the reforms of Salon, as compared to just Athens the city) was already 86 years old by the time the first lottery was in place. This reduces the power of the first part of the statement ("was based on the lottery"). How could it be based on the lottery if the lottery did not exist at the time the Republic was formed. Then, the lottery only lasted for 186 years (close to, but not quite "centuries"), but that too loses it's effectiveness as an argument because the US (based on elections) is about 227 years old (counting from the first Presidential election).

So in the end, the argument (as presented, and specifically with regards to Athens), was something to the effect of "Elections are worse than the lottery. The Republic of Athens was based on a lottery. The Athenian lottery lasted for centuries. This should strengthen the initial point that lotteries are better than elections.".

However, in analysis, the statement about Athens is not good evidence for that argument because the Athenian Republic was not based on a lottery, and while it did last for nearly 2 centuries, it still lasted for a shorter amount of time than the system the US is currently using.
While I might be able to afford this luxury, I think networking in Silicon Valley directly relates to OP's question. What he's missing out on is the interaction with the VC's here, the incubators, the work spaces, the hackathons, etc. Participating in all that and interacting with other self-promotors because you also want to self-promote can be exhausting and what can lead to the 'toxic' referenced in the parent comment.
Fix for LogJam bug could make more than 20,000 websites unreachable
In trucking, a little automation saves a lot of money
Disclosure, I am a committer on the Apache Drill project.

Traditionally Hive has been focused on batch processing, it started as a SQL query engine built on top of map-reduce. Unfortunately many operations in the SQL model are not well suited for map-reduce. This is a problem that is being addressed by the Hive team with their vectorization/tez work, which is a completely different execution engine from map reduce. Around the time that this work began a number of new projects were trying to solve similar problems, making queries more interactive, providing more flexibility and greater coverage of the SQL language (Hive has supported a healthy subset of the SQL language, but not full support). It is true that this new Hive engine is solving some similar problems as Drill, as is the case for Impala, Facebook's Presto engine and a few other projects.

Drill is focused on providing standard SQL support, instead of the SQL-like HiveQL language. This allows it to be used to hook up to the analytical tools and ecosystem that has been developing around the SQL language for the past few decades.

Drill also has no requirement to define schema ahead of time when querying. This is best illustrated by the JSON read support, you can write a query against a bare file, and Drill will discover the schema as it reads. This is the case for simple files stored on a local or distributed file system or even for document stores like MongoDB.

While there will certainly be cases where schema will need to be known ahead of time, many users of Hadoop and semi-structured datastores are having a hard time with the overhead of trying to fit a wide variety of datasets into a traditional DB modnel, which is what the Hive metastore provides. In cases where the number of schemas in your data is manageable, this can give consumers of the data useful meta-data and structutre. For this reason, Drill has support for reading from Hive tables for these types of use cases.

However while this model has its place, our discussions with current Hadoop users has validated the design of Drill. Analysts want to be able to gain insights from data in Hadoop, and there are cases where the overhead of managing this data like a traditional DB is too resource intensive. Drill enables these types of users to explore raw semi-structured data as it enters the Hadoop cluster, instead of waiting for IT driven ETL.
> Well I mean, they're all relatively enthusiastic about technology, and generally affluent, but aside from that I don't see anything particularly unusual.

The culture of the bay area in general can be very toxic for a particular type of individual. If you're religious or lean to the right in any way, you'll be met with open hostility. The culture of the bay area is also passive aggressive. Nobody wants to offend or confront, so if your manager doesn't like you, you probably won't know it. You'll just get the shittiest tasks and won't be sure why. It's a particular kind of hell for someone who values honestly and blunt talk, like a new yorker, for example.
Oh, I bet someone writes httpd in vhdl or verilog... Unbeatable header parsing time I'm sure.

Or maybe in CSS. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9567183
To avoid overhead people implement specialized compilers suited for the task at hand. If anything, going down to C, and especially assembly will hurt performance as low-level code is much harder to optimize for obvious reasons. Above all of that real-world performance comes from proper system-level design, not micro-optimizations, and using a low-level language (be it C, C++ or assembly) will prevent one from quickly iterating over different ideas.
Nice talk. Given how you end the talk, have you looked at Elm? If so, what are your thoughts and do you think it satisfies unifying HTML, CSS and JS? (Putting aside the uphill battle of gaining adoption as a static typed, FRP language)
Why web design is losing its soul
Programming without any access to the Internet is pretty difficult these days, you'd have to find something completely self-contained to work on.
I've got "Columbus Ohio" listed right in my twitter bio (as a location rather than just included as text) and GMaps went directly to some swimming related retail business in Valencia, CA, weird.
The Inexplicable: Inside the mind of a mass killer
People aren't going to stop playing chess or go, after all.
I guess a binary tree is not necessary. Just separate them in bricks by the first few digits, and sort them inside too. Then, just put all the bricks that start with 1 in the kitchen, the bricks that start with 2 in the bedroom, ... People is fast scaning a few items and select the right brick from the vault.

(Disclaimer: I didn't try this at home.)
Sad, but not surprising, to see one of the liberators being rather openly racist in his letters. There's a reason why all countries surrounding Germany were slow to denounce the Nazi party -- much of the hate they were spreading was accepted as fact. Not entirely unlike the current fear of the Middle East, and Muslims.
I think you're being partially blinded by a complex definition of science. A more intuitive notion of science is that the strength of an idea is based on evidence alone. The philosophers will hate you but science will make more sense.

> There's no particular reason that you've got to be able to build an isomorphism between a class of evidence and a numeric type in order for that evidence to be valuable and scientific.

As you hinted at, the experiment has been unofficially done many times and the evidence suggests the quantitative approach is better. That is the particular reason as far as I can tell. (Numbers may not be technically essential, but measurement and comparison are. That leads to things like everybody agreeing that a piece of metal in Europe is exactly one kilogram and everybody talks about mass in reference to that one object. It was a qualitative decision to choose which kilogram became the standard, but from then on measuring mass was quantitative and easily communicable. Fields that can't establish conventions for their observables in this way are generally not very scientific.)

My argument was that when holding the field constant puts qualitative and quantitative science on the same footing, it's a bad sign for that field. Take chemistry: when qualitative arguments were equal to quantitative it was called Alchemy. When quantitative approaches took over it changed the world.
Tech Giants Press Senate on NSA Reform
With digital financial products, would they be governed by securities regulations? Insider trading, front-running, theft, money laundering, fraud, etc. are all real concerns.
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You've never met someone with a stunningly sharp technical mind, but the social intelligence of a gnat?
Venture capital – Disrupters disrupted
It's not "very real". If a survivor knew their captour was shot, run over by a tank, put in prison immediately or on the run for years, but eventually captured the survivor would feel about the same amount of resolution as their personality is disposed to synthesize. Nothing special happens in human consciousness if the resolution is extra gory.
Start and Finish
Ask HN: Why are phones getting larger?
You can not even fit them into your pockets properly. I thought phones/computers getting smaller was the way ahead.
"What makes the Go license different than the BSD under which Intel has published their code?
"
The go license is not different than the BSD license. Both the intel and the go stuff is bsd licensed.

However, the BSD license requires you reproduce the copyright notices attached to it the top of the license.

If you do not, you are in violation of the license (which in the US, is usually copyright infringement).
By using "the go authors" as the copyright notice, go ensures you only ever have to reproduce one notice.

If it says "copyright intel", now you have to reproduce

A. The go notice when you use go without the stuff that is copyright intel

B. The go notice and the intel notice when you use go and the stuff that is copyright intel.

C. The intel notice when you use the intel stuff without anything else that is copyright go.

Now, when 3 other companies decide they want their notices in there too (after all, if intel is special, why isn't broadcom, or whoever), and only add it to some files, imagine the fun that results for users.

There are other issues, too, but succinctly, you don't want to live in this world.

It leads to shipping things which reproduce 100's of pages of notices in documentation.
You could be stupid because you spent months developing an in house framework instead of shipping, and smart because you developed a framework.
Create your first biological construct on the cloud
MathJax – LaTeX rendering in browser
Only 36 votes to go! The Ubiquiti AC access point is in the lead.
US regulator orders PayPal to pay $25M in refunds, fines
The Elements of Style - W. Strunk Jr. and E.B. White

http://faculty.washington.edu/heagerty/Courses/b572/public/S...
This is awesome, surprised the author isn't using libopencm3[1] rather than ST Micro's pretty horrendous library. But the awesome thing is that between this and Zinc I expect there will be a lot of interest in Rust on "high end" embedded platforms.

[1] Disclosure I contribute to that repo when allowed to :-)
> I'm curious, what do you think will replace FM NPR in cars?

Time-shifted listening, like e-books, podcasts, etc. The real question is, why listen to Prairie Home Companion on their schedule.

By the way, that's the killer app for FM in mobile phones: Time-shifting shows that are not available for downlaod.
AMD confirms 4GB limit for first HBM graphics card
Have you heard of 'mindfulness' or vipassana meditation? at it's core it's about developing your ability in "pre-symbolic" thinking ie before narrating the situation inside your head.

There's tons of books on the subject but read both parts of this:

http://www.medialens.org/index.php/current-alert-sp-29853922...
> Preference != condescension.

"Not being happy using X" is preference, for sure, but is also not equal to condescension.
I think maybe the parent comment is wondering "Why Glimmer and not React for the rendering library?"
I think you misunderstand what I'm trying to say.

WordPress is great for them. They want WordPress because it makes them comfortable to know they are on a "standard platform". They can hire someone else to maintain it if I get hit by a bus. So it's very easy for me to sell, and hosting companies like Flywheel (https://getflywheel.com) make it very easy to maintain. That was the point I was making - Wordpress is great for business. But, compared to other systems I have used, I find it technically very clumsy.

Usually, clients don't really realize they don't want to touch the site until it's in front of them. If I were certain that they would never want to edit before I started, I would be far less inclined to use WordPress, but might anyhow just because of the hosting/maintenance situation and the brand. I get tired of getting emails asking if I've updated the site for the latest high profile security patch. With Wordpress, I can pretty much ignore them with a quick "got it covered" response, because the (good) hosting companies fix this stuff before the clients are generally aware of it. At worst, I log in and click a button. That's great.

So really, I like WordPress, but only because it makes me money and saves me time. Everything else about it is fairly awful to me. I hate working with it. I hate developing in it. I hate that I have to wade through a sea of crappy plugins to find one that is suitable. And, easy as it is for you and I to edit, it's just too complicated for many of my clients. Sure, some of them are fine with it. But more often the CMS winds up being for me, not them.

This is all just my personal experience slogging through this stuff for the past several years. Milage may vary.
This line of reasoning feels similar to that which says AGI will never be possible.

It's also a bit unclear to me, how one can justifiably hold this position with such confidence?
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The Elements of Style is both dated and largely self-contradictory. Vonnegut judged his own work by slightly different metrics:

1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was

2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.

3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.

4. Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.

5. Start as close to the end as possible.

6. Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.

7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
Thanks for posting that.

It's good to know that data is somewhat protected after bankruptcy if a company's privacy policy is in favor of it.

Here is another good article on that particular subject: https://www.turnaround.org/Publications/Articles.aspx?object...
"“I missed the world in general. Seeing things move, seeing cars, dogs, the sun. My colleagues were amazing, and I couldn’t have picked better people to be locked up with, but you start missing meeting new people on nights out, the social variety,” he said. “For me, that was the trickiest part.”"

This seems to be a recurring theme in isolation experiments and have shown up in movies recently. In the movie, "I Am Legend" its clear Will Smith attempts to keep himself sane by using his imagination to create some kind of human interaction. I found it to be a profound theme running through the movie.

I think above all, this is a primary factor with the human condition. It's the need for social interaction. Without it, we don't seem to do very well.
There is a documentary about the incident called "Big Bucks: The Press Your Luck Scandal" on Youtube:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFEBCve-3Cw

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzNMCXWCZzQ

as well as the original episode itself:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h07eO0SKtUI (better quality, split into parts)

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkM10SxmmwU (lower quality, whole episode)
Reminds me of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasubi
I don't care about application development personally (although I'm sad that the dominant programming environments are much worse than they were 20 years ago), but I do care about the performance of the applications that I use every day. When you consider what my browser actually does it uses a tremendous amount of resources. Computers are so fast but yet most applications feel slower than the ones I used on my 100MHz Pentium in the 90s. That's broken.
> It's just impossible to match it with the number of extensions

It's almost precisely because there's very little uniformity between anything.

It's often much more efficient to just install a new wordpress, migrate some content over and start 'fresh' than it is to modify an existing theme with new functionality; just find a different theme that does what you want and migrate your content and images over to that.

That said, I seem to remember drupal's CCK impressing me some time ago - if that was a default option (IIRC at the time it was a separate plugin) that might have done more for Drupal's "configurability ease" story early on. But.. I may be misremembering with rose-colored glasses.
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Apple announces new 15-inch MacBook Pro with Force Touch and other upgrades
I am sorry but I find it hard to be productive in a crowded and noisy NJ Transit train.
Ember's New Glimmer Engine, and Chrome Dev Ships on Android – LazyWeb #6
ZFS has support for block-level deduplication and it comes with heavy memory and performance requirements. File-level deduplication with hard links is lightweight and requires no special support (besides a filesystem which supports hard links, obviously).
I don't know if they implemented it like React. There are a bunch of virtual DOM implementations out there who are faster.

Also, for the most part, it's a drop in replacement for the old rendering.
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Yes. Chinese Americans earn on average 30% more than other U.S. adults. http://www.pewresearch.org/daily-number/asian-americans-lead...

While regrettable, the loss of some technology does not compensate for all of the advantages to the States of highly skilled immigrants from China. The top ranked comments on NYTimes are ignorant and do not describe the full picture.
https://talks.golang.org/2013/bestpractices.slide#1 might be a better place to start
some sort of hashtable/BST hybrid - where each entry in the table points to a BST, and the hash function just returns the first base-10 digit off of the bill.
I heard a really outrageous example of that the other day. They were doing a piece on migrants from Africa traveling to Europe. The NPR reporter brought on a British professor of international studies for an interview. The professor says, "There is a perception that immigrants hurt wages. But lots of studies now show that is not true." This statement went completely undisputed, it was reported as fact. No person of an opposing viewpoint was interviewed. I have looked at some of those studies. Lots of fancy math - but math only reflects the assumptions you put in. One paper I read stated as one of its assumptions that economic growth would be proportional to the number of migrants, and then based on that assumption proved that immigration would not hurt wages! It is pure intellectual dishonesty to cite that result out of context as proof that migration will not hurt wages, since the assumptions on which the paper is based are completely unproven.
Plenty of times. Heck, I used to be a lot closer to that end of the spectrum than I am now. That's how I know that there are plenty of words to describe that, because I've been called a number of them ;)
I have, and I'd call that person smart. He could be unobservant, insensitive, socially awkward and all nine yards but he's still smart.
I had to laugh at this: "to be used as little as possible" People will buy it of course... just like they did the Talkase (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nanosmart/talkase-the-m...).

I have to give props to the good design and marketing though. They've done a terrific job at that. I mean, how else would you be able to sell something that is probably worth $12 at $100? (google "Gonkai phone"). If they do end up succeeding, I hope they can provide as good quality and customer support as Pebble have. That said, I still think the idea is silly. I mean, why not just buy a very cheap phone like a Moto E2 or a Lumia 635 as your backup? Or why not just turn data/notifications OFF on the phone to avoid interruptions?

Now, if someone made something as elegant as what these guys have made but for the wrist, well, then THAT would be really something. I'm really hoping Pebble Time's smart bands will turn out to be awesome. I'd love to forward calls to it and leave my phone at home for runs.
Perhaps I don't understand your thought process, but how could anyone have a matching bill that way? If the DJ was reading off a serial number, the only person to have a match would be the DJ himself, since they are unique.

Afaik, the only time serial numbers get reused is when a bill is reissued because it is damaged or worn, in which case they would shred the old bill (also, the new bill would get a neat star next to its serial number).
Full disclosure: I do staffing, but I'm also a 20-year software developer and 15 year manager, so I'm an outlier. Assuming you're talking about regular staffing companies, but here are some general reasons.

When you're hiring, you're often too busy do recruit yourself. What can hinder your chances further is believing you don't have time to educate the recruiters you've hired, and I've seen that, too. Of course, you may believe that spending time with a typical recruiter will not help your cause.

You may not have a good network, either. Whether the typical recruiter has a meaningful network depends on them, but it doesn't happen overnight. Most recruiters are very friendly and extroverted, so at least face to face it's a pleasant interaction.

You may be poor at marketing your company/open position to developers. This I see a lot, in the same way I see great developers who don't market themselves well. I recently came across a job description where the first three paragraphs were about the company and the parent company - a very big name! Even at the hiring company, there can be a disconnect about what developers care about.

Finally, there are a lot of good developers who have no problem with recruiters. What prompted me to enter staffing was the number and quality of developers who came to me for help with their job searches, but I wasn't in a great position to help. Truth is, job searches suck and if you can find someone trustworthy to help with that, it's a relief.
I'm not quite sure. I went to an iPhone 6 (6, not 6+) and want my iPhone 5 back. Companies responded to consumer demand but I think this is largely a case of consumers not having a clue what they actually want.