skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to transhumanists, all we find there are running server farms.
I used google's svg charting library [0] this week and I have to say it's really improved a ton in terms of customizability. Data in, chart out... only had to do a bit of custom html to fix up the legend but: https://www.openlistings.co/near/googleplex

That said, my feeling is that the hard part of dataviz is figuring out what to visualize. If you're working with big datasets, it's always going to be aggregate statistics that you're looking at (unless you're one of those people that can see blondes and brunettes in logs of the matrix).

[0]: https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery...
What the article fails to mention is that this is an example of Apple's form over function mentality. Powercords used to have reliefs around the bendy bits so that the abused connections could handle being bent. But Apple decided it looked nicer to not have the reliefs and went with a straight cord. Sure, it may look more minimalist, but it is massively less effective. They don't care because the customers they want to attract won't blink at spending $100 for a new power-supply (Macbook).

I'm saddened mostly that the copy-cat nature of the industry has let most other manufacturers to copy this flawed design.
But you are much more expensive than S3 & CloudFront when it comes to request pricing

Cloud Storage considers retrieving an object through its HTTP url is considered a class B XML request type which is priced at
$0.01/10,000 ops. This is 1.3x-2.5x more expensive than cloudfront and s3 respectively. This is also not well documented and caused me some trouble. I didn't expect HTTP GET requests to be counted as XML API requests.
After all of that discussion of very Postgres-specific limitations, they blame SQL? SQL is just a notation for relational algebra. It is not the problem here. There are better, distributed, scalable, write-optimized implementations of real SQL out there. Disclosure: I work for a company that makes one.
I think the fundamental lesson here is speed. What took Paige 3 weeks or more to accomplish took YC 10 minutes, and then they said yes and signed the paperwork. Remember, this was unheard of before YC came along (granted, there's more money involved in Paige's side of things, but even that doesn't matter). Founders recognize this and respect it, and it's going to be what distinguishes the good future dealmakers from the bad ones.

Thanks for sharing this Paige. Excellent write up and valuable lessons learned.
A Model IP and Open Source Contribution Policy
Indian Attorney General: Right to privacy is not a fundamental right
Optimizing CRISPR: Sub-second searches on a 3 billion base genome
But are they doing silent updates? Any update that requires a reboot is not silent, and as far as I can see there's been no progress in silent updating since Windows 7. It is definitely possible to patch vulnerabilities in memory without rebooting my computer; heck, most malware will silently patch the vulnerability it used as part of the infection process; Microsoft just can't be bothered to do it themselves.
It doesn't seem to say whether he had any further success with that approach, other than predicting one event which may have been a coincidence.
Startech.com sells 15cm micro USB cables, they work great with my Pis.
Wildly deceptive title: the author of this blog post is not the same Paul Allen as the 62-year-old cofounder of Microsoft.
This might work on a baron world, but any place with a developed ecosystem would likely see these things out competed very quickly do to the massive overhead of needing to survive in space for a long time.
for large-scale EDA time-series viz, `gnuplot` has served me well, even understanding ms.
I hope they were recording the whole time and upload the videos to YouTube. I can't wait to watch Hannibal on the Pyrenees From Space.mp4
HTTP and Error management in Go
> Anyone who's been here before and has some insight?

Armin from Sentry here. We talked a bit about where we could scale with postgres and part of our problem is that we're quite write and also delete heavy which means our vacuum takes very long. A potential option would be to partition some of our time based tables and make a rolling window view over it. Then we could throw entire tables away after the hold period and our vacuums should be faster at least. We could also move some tables to another database which might help, there however we then need to deal with higher connection counts unfortunately.

Downside for us is that we also want to keep the setup straightforward for our on-premise customers so we need to be careful with not introducing unnecessary complexity.
Bad traffic was mostly limited to a few large cities such as LA then. In most of the US, it was not nearly as bad.

It was also believed that traffic was a fairly minor infrastructure problem that could easily be resolved by widening the highways, adding a few more lanes here and there. (Turns out that when you add lanes, it just causes that many more people to drive on that road, but this was not yet widely apparent at the time.)
Growth Hacking is BS – A talk by Intercom's growth team
RMS missed LLVM's offer to assign code to FSF
Machete is a good one!

https://www.machete.io/beta
To the author: Way to contribute to .NET's image problem with your negative title. If your point is to get more people using .NET then you should have gone with something positive that reflected the last section of your article.

To the mods here: Didn't think to change this one, did you?
Perhaps government funding for their space exploration programs dried up, industry regulations interfered with commercial space exploration programs, and they all just gave up and shifted technology resources to making games for their mobile phones.
Is finding that an app used 2 gigs of data when it is supposed to be an offline experience considered "protecting the user experience"?
It's fun to think about all of the things that could prevent a far more advanced civilization relatively nearby in the cosmos from making contact; it gives us a better perspective on how lucky or fragile our own development is and where we might be focusing on the wrong things.

Perhaps no civilization of any sort has ever developed there. Maybe conditions on the planet are inhospitable, perhaps evolution simply never went that way. I think people tend to assume that evolution naturally leads towards more intelligent creatures, but that's not true. Humans are a very very recent development on our planet, in geologic time scales, and our early existence was pretty improbable.

Perhaps civilizations have existed there, but never achieved technological advancement. There are still tribal civilizations on Earth that are using 50kya technology; there's no guarantee that a civilization must develop science and technology.

Perhaps it has had civilizations with similar technological advancements to our own, but they have been destroyed or set back by any of a number of things: extinction-level impact events (could easily happen to us), disease, warfare, or resource shortages. Maybe, for some reason, they never developed easy access to a high density fuel; imagine if humanity had tried to go directly from steam engines to nuclear or solar power because oil didn't exist or wasn't easy enough to find or its significance was never understood.

Perhaps they reached a level of technological advancement far, far superior to our own, but they never made an effort to explore the cosmos. The vast majority of people on Earth right now don't see any point to even exploring other worlds in our own solar system; that mindset could easily dominate for the rest of mankind's existence. Maybe we assume that there is some kind of shortcut around the speed of light and there isn't and, no matter advanced a civilization gets, there simply aren't enough volunteers for a 10,000-year journey to another tiny little planet that may or may not harbor life.

Perhaps all of these are wrong, but they simply visited Earth a million years ago and found it to be entirely uninteresting and haven't been back since. Maybe their civilization has even ceased to exist, and our civilizations will never ever cross paths because we missed eachother by a few minutes in geologic time.

I'm generally optimistic about the chances of advanced civilizations elsewhere in our galaxy, even relatively close by, and entirely pessimistic about our odds of ever being able to interact with those civilizations in any meaningful way.
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If there is a intelligent live form millions years ahead of us it's most likely AI that doesn't want to make the contact.
Fun and learning. Is that so bad?
I'm going to re-post a comment I wrote a few days ago here. Your last paragraph really struck a nerve with me (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9894670)

> One of my best memories was Christmas 1985, waking up to my dad fiddling with the A1000 in the living room. He learned enough from the ComputerLand salesman to type `dpaint` at the `AmigaDOS>` prompt and launch the coolest thing[2] I'd ever seen.

> That computer was my only machine from 1985 through 1997, when I finally got a secondhand 486DX2-66 to replace it. It wasn't until well into the 2000s that I had a computer that could do the things I could do with that Amiga.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9894641

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deluxe_Paint#/media/File:Amiga....
Reducing the autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay seems to have helped in my case. The autovacuums just run too slow.
Are they diminishing your role and pay, eliminating your job or ?? It is always an ego hit to take a lessor role, but it doesn't damage your career necessarily. What makes you think it will damage you?

IMO, the advice and issues change depending on if your role will be eliminated and they are offering you a "new" lesser role or if they are letting you keep your role but lowering your pay and responsibilities. The way in which it is transacting really matters, if you have doubts find an attorney to talk over the details, it won't cost more than a few hundred bucks generally. And just because you are asking an attorney doesn't mean it needs to start an adversarial relationship with your employer. The two parties likely will have no reason to ever meet, unless your employer violates labor laws, which from the sounds of what you are saying isn't super likely; given they have done this before and provided what sounds like reasonable severance.

I would really sit back and think about if what they are doing actually will hurt your career or not, a lot of people (myself included) have taken lessor roles at a company after being in a more senior role. Of course if you initiate the change it feels different then when the employer does, but either way our egos still take a hit.

If you just want out period, you only get one opportunity to get a severance for your senior role, so you have to make it happen before your role is changed generally. But do not let them know you want out as then they have all the leverage and can just reduce your position and let you quit in which case you likely won't get any severance.
The issue with this whole argument is you should use the right language for the job instead of trying to recreate the wheel over and over again. Look at Erlang and Elixir if you need highly scalable fault tolerant systems. It doesn't mean you have to re-write everything in it, break up the application into what makes sense. I guess not everyone thinks like I do.
Thanks for the clear answer. Hopefully biotech communications with the general public will become easier to parse once people stop seeing genetic modification as some kind of dirty, unhealthy, dark magic.

Congrats on the successful round!
Armin from Sentry here.

> they blame SQL?

We did not mean to blame SQL more PostgreSQL specifically. However in our case though we want to build our infrastructure on Open Source components since we are an Open Source project and provide on-premise installations in addition to our cloud hosted environment, so we do not want to depend on commercial databases.
My favorite thought is that they've sent probes millions of years ago and we could send a request to watch some HD surveillance of dinosaurs roaming the Earth. It'll just take ~3k years to receive the requested footage.
It's so weird because of how involuntary it is. I notice that on signs in languages I can sound out, my gaze will stick on the sign until I can "read" it, without me wanting it to happen.

The first few days in a new country can be kind of exhausting simply because of this effect.
The worst thing about BER is that it's designed to replace Tegel, which is easily the most sensibly built major airport in Germany. Space-efficient, cheap to operate, high-throughput, built very quickly with limited resources to solve a specific problem.
I'm sad that they don't have executable bodies. That was a key feature of CoffeeScript classes for me, and not having it makes ES6 classes considerably less useful/interesting.
As a photographer, he is doing it wrong.

You should never ever ever store every shot you take. Your job as a photographer is to delete 95-99% of the shots. Select the best, delete the rest.

The exception to that is the commercial client photos, but that's not what he is talking about.

If you're going to save 275GB of photos per trip, it's guaranteed you will never look through them again. Look at his photos - I don't see a single shot I would have saved (well maybe the fisheye one from Hawaii). He has 3-4 nearly identical copies of each shot. Tons of boring stuff.
A type-based solution to the “strings problem” (2006)
For interactive exploration of huge and out of core datasets, python Blaze/Dask has data manipulation with OOC parallel dataframes , and python Bokeh has interactive webGL and downsampling for visualization for said dataframe.

http://blaze.pydata.org/en/latest/
http://bokeh.pydata.org/en/latest/
http://dask.pydata.org/en/latest/
Costs for the tax payer are actually more than seven times (789M EUR) the original estimate at the time construction began (114M EUR in 2007). The initial estimate in 2005 was even lower, foreseeing costs of below 100M for the tax payer with donations supposed to cover the difference.
I think in most VCs minds, there is no middle ground (ie everything not highly valuable is effectively written off as a disaster).
I am disputing that I broke the rules.

The OP had said that tptacek was a shill. I defended tptacek by saying I didn't know that he was paid or whether he was just in the circle of security contractors (he is) or whether he merely bought into and was regurgitating their propaganda.

I did not call tptacek a shill nor make a baseless accusation. It's absolutely true that tptacek is a stalwart defender of public narrative. This is the base of OP (not baseless) of his calling tptacek a shill. I entertained the possibility that he wasn't paid or anything like that.

Anyway, this isn't really interesting content any more. I think the real shame is that the main topic was downvoted to oblivion where people will not see the comparison to the US. The information about Binney (that tptacek clearly showed he was noncharitably and polemically engaging) and Risen and others won't be seen.

That's okay. One battle at a time.

Thanks dang, for your help and attention.
One can perhaps take comfort in the fact that a civilization advanced enough to be aware of us would likely be aware of the fact that we were more advanced than what they could see at any given moment (or they had found a way to narrow the perception lag).
Yeah, some politician got some "duh, stupid engineers" points out of that sentence. Completely ignoring the fact that the original design also pulled smoke down and was considered to be fine. Since these systems are active and suck the smoke out up or down doesn't matter all that much.
You'll have to wait 6000 years to see it on YouTube: 1500 for them to hear about YouTube and 4500 for them to upload (assuming TCP)
Maybe they are here and it IS us?
It hasn't gotten a lot of attention because Orleans forces you down implementing odd boilerplate and static interfaces which feels very un-actor like.
That's the 'clog' (commit log), not the xlog (WAL, for durability).
I just hope they are really keeping the pricing on current levels. I am running couple of legacy apps there, but I guess it is better to prepare for migration.

Any suggestion on similar services?
That's very interesting. What did Emcas offer you that Vim could not?
I keep everything, cull down to the best and post those online. I still like to keep the original set. Maybe down the line I'll be more rigorous here but sometimes I will make little movies out of every individual still, so that's where it comes in handy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fR4MjImSU0
I think it's because of the mindset "I can revisit what I have taken and make my selection later. I don't want to lose any memory. Storage is cheap."

Over time, it becomes a burden to maintain all that.
> We talked a bit about where we could scale with postgres and part of our problem is that we're quite write and also delete heavy which means our vacuum takes very long.

Is this still a problem after you tuned vacuum to be actually aggressive? It sure isn't perfect but you can go a long way with with just adjusting a couple settings.
Oh, you mean it that way. Anyway, I’ve already said that it should rather applied to large movements instead of interactions of individuals. The current ideal of free speech can’t possibly realized to its fullest extent either/anyway.
Who are you migrating to? I've been happy with Mongodirector (scalegrid)
The stupidest addition to JS ever.
Essentially a large volume of sensor data. Tons of inserts. Some updates in other tables.
Google is offering 100 petabytes of free storage to switch from Amazon
Hey, just a heads up - your website is completely unreadable on mobile. http://imgur.com/2VD1grY (can't zoom)
It's voluntary because they can chose the second best option: Farming, fishing... And the second best option would have nothing to do with F21 or any other company that uses sweatshops. If you look at it from that vantage point, F21 is giving them a new option that they didn't have before. However, that's not the point I'm trying to make, since I believe that sweatshops have negative externatilities that I haven't accounted for.
The army is telling gun-toting civilians to stay away
From 2014-11:

“Networking is a red alert situation for us right now,” explained Hamilton. “The cost of networking is escalating relative to the cost of all other equipment. It is Anti-Moore. All of our gear is going down in cost, and we are dropping prices, and networking is going the wrong way. That is a super-big problem, and I like to look out a few years, and I am seeing that the size of the networking problem is getting worse constantly. At the same time that networking is going Anti-Moore, the ratio of networking to compute is going up.”

http://www.enterprisetech.com/2014/11/14/rare-peek-massive-s...
The psychedelic experience is the most intense experience anyone can have on this planet, and it cannot be compared or described by anything else one has experienced in his/her life.
Surely there's no good reason to assume anything but you do assume and in the most cliche way. Maybe first you should chuck 5 gramms of dried mushrooms with some lemonade and come back and tells us what you think after that.

I'm not sure if the parent was advocating or saying this. It was in reference to Terrence Mckenna's view of the present assumptions that mankind has about what aliens should look like and how one should go about contacting them (and that DMT and mushrooms are probably an alien artifact).

And certainly one can lose the plot and spend his entire life tripping. Noone is saying thats a good thing.
They originally tried competing for years by offering their own AppFabric, until finally they conceded to recommend Redis after having ported it on Windows so you can use it on Windows Servers/Azure.
They rarely get built, and everyone involved wants feathers for the nest.
It's more reliable to install patches as part of a reboot because you know what's loaded and where it is.

When you have 1.6 billion users with such disparate hardware and software, even a small improvement can help tens of millions of users.

I expect Microsoft has lots of telemetry on this....
Not as shiny/pretty, but I've used MongoLab (http://mongolab.com) for remote backups and never had any issues.
How long until someone creates a little service to export your contacts via the LinkedIn API? One might even exist already.

The especially annoying thing is LinkedIn is simply trying to increase the barrier to leaving by adding inconvenience rather than adding value to the service.
What did you expect GET requests to be counted as then? As an aside, I think it's fairly well documented: https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing#operations-pricing (lists "GET Object" under class B) [but disclosure: I work for Google]
> Is this still a problem after you tuned vacuum to be actually aggressive?

I need to check how long vacuum takes at the moment, but I think it's in the high hours.
This is so good!

>12) Being asked to create a favicon that looked like a secure SSL lock because our cert provider didn't work on some mobile devices.
Yes, let's not celebrate human achievement and think about the positive possibilities, let's focus on the negative at every turn.
But they did seed the planet, but the stargate got buried and we forgot all about them, until just a few years ago when ... Oh wait, sorry !
Having worked at IBM briefly this is only partially true.

The way I understood it, IBM has a system called "blue dollars" or "blue bucks" I forget which one. Basically, groups within IBM are given an allotment of credits they can spend to "buy" other IBM products.
"SSL added and removed here! :¬)"
The Story of the Mexican Fisherman
CRISPR makes it easier to edit genomes in a targeted fashion especially in organisms where engineering the genome has traditionally been really hard (plants, mammalian cells). We work in microbes that are a lot easier to engineer out of the gate so it's a little less of a game-changer for us. Still it is amazing technology -- I'm sure we'll make use of it along with most everyone that does biological engineering in the future. Though the synthetic biology crowd is currently poking fun at Wired's over-hyped CRISPR issue, check out #CRISPRfacts
WooCommerce is not the only one doing stupid things with HTTP_HTTPS: https://github.com/search?l=php&q=HTTP_HTTPS&type=Code&utf8=...

Has anyone actually confirmed the problem on a non-WooCommerce site? or a site without bad PHP code?
I don't know anything about building an airport, but I guess you could try something. We tried to compare software to buildings for many years, maybe in a case like this the learnings from failing software projects can be somehow useful.
Addicted to antibiotics, Chile's salmon flops at Costco, grocers
Introducing Partner Analytics
The Profound Weakness of .NET OSS – Really Well Written Sitrep
InfluxDB CEO here. I've already forwarded to our lawyers to ask. Reading through the patent there are some key differences between what they describe and what we built.