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mdellabitta

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mdellabitta··on Why Libraries Matter (2014) [video]
People have reacted fairly strongly to the threat of defunding organizations like the NEA and the NEH, but haven't really recognized the threat against IMLS, which is the Federal agency in America that funds a lot of this.

Worth a look: https://www.imls.gov/

mdellabitta··on Making the Internet Archive’s full text search faster
Hey, I'm wondering why you didn't consider using stopwords to prevent bloated inverted index entries fir words like 'the'?
mdellabitta··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)
Digital Public Library of America | Frontend Developer | Boston, MA | Full time | Remote | $80k-100k

http://bit.ly/2q84JVC

The Digital Public Library of America empowers people to learn, grow, and contribute to a diverse and better-functioning society. We do this by maximizing public access to our shared history, culture, and knowledge.

DPLA connects people to the riches held within America’s libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions. All of the materials found through DPLA—photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents, and so much more—are free and immediately available in digital format. The cultural institutions participating in DPLA represent the richness and diversity of America itself, from the smallest local history museum to our nation’s largest cultural institutions. Our core work includes bringing new collections and partners into DPLA, building our technology, and managing projects that further our mission through curation, education, and community building.

Information about how to apply is in the jobs listing at the bit.ly link. Additionally, you can feel free to ask me any questions!

mdellabitta··on Ask HN: How do I gauge the value of stock options that I have been offered?
> Hopefully your salary is enough to be able to afford ~$65,000 worth of option exercises every year, should you be interested in purchasing them!

Just dropping a quick clairification: OP should not assume it's necessarily a good idea to buy the options as they vest, and should not assume that they'll have to put up cash to excercise them in the future.

Probably covered by your link, but I wanted to point this out explicitly because people have been burned by these assumptions in the past.

mdellabitta··on What Future Java Might Look Like
Have you looked at Truffle & Graal, which are going to be introduced in Java 9 to some extent?

https://medium.com/@octskyward/graal-truffle-134d8f28fb69#.h... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graal_(compiler)

mdellabitta··on Show HN: Go-odbye – Twitter Follow/Unfollow Reporting Tool Written in Go
> They get over it, eventually.

Someone tell that to KDE!

mdellabitta··on IBM model-M keyboard sound emulation to annoy co-workers
Pissh. A sufficiently sophisticated keyboard is capable of playing arbitrary music of the user's choice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG83krAsXO8

mdellabitta··on What Google Learned from Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team
"The story of computing begins roughly 4000 years ago..."
mdellabitta··on CHIP $9 Computer
Only problem is the Pi Zero has pretty poor availability.
mdellabitta··on Toronto is poised to become a producer of tech startups
I'm not sure any comparison would ever really be fair simply because SF is much more hospitable in the winter as compared to Toronto. That has an effect on homeless populations as well. Compare Vancouver and Toronto and you'll see a similar difference.
mdellabitta··on Scaling to 100M: MySQL Is a Better NoSQL
But is it likely that they are? I would imagine no.
mdellabitta··on Search Bangs
On Google, "dragon book amazon" lands me on a Google page.

On DDG, "dragon book !amazon" lands me on an Amazon search result page.

Very different. By adding one !, I saved a whole page load and render, and having to click on a result.

I guess you're arguing that Google's search is better than Amazon's. In some ways, assuming that you're looking for the compilers book, it is. I'd argue that it doesn't show cover thumbnails and stuff like that, so it's a toss up. But this is one example out of many. I think the wikipedia bang is very useful, for example.

mdellabitta··on Search Bangs
Just FYI, !gm works the same as !gmaps
mdellabitta··on Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur
> I call bullshit. Can you spell datamining?

Pretty sure you just suggested they make money by datamining cat gif and dank meme traffic...

mdellabitta··on Scaling to 100M: MySQL Is a Better NoSQL
Do you think it's more likely that they invented a unique id scheme that requires 50 bytes, or that they're using an overly wide datatype for ordinary UUIDs?
mdellabitta··on What is the best part about being a Software Engineer?
Don't forget about the threats of cave ins and poisonous gas...
mdellabitta··on Urban Myths about SQL (2015)
I see, I was reacting to the slide that mentioned ODBC and JDBC are slow.

It makes sense that no matter the context, forcing the DB engine to parse and plan SQL it hasn't seen before could be quite a bit slower than parsing/planning it once and swapping in new parameters for each query.

mdellabitta··on Urban Myths about SQL (2015)
You say JDBC is slow, but what if you're using PreparedStatements and PreparedStatement caching? Isn't that similar?
mdellabitta··on Mutations in Y Chromosome made us separate species from Neanderthals
> Claiming that blacks are a different species, not even a different race, is some next level Hitler / KKK / etc. shit.

I may be missing something, but the claim I've read around the Internet is that "Africans" are the only pure Human group, and are a different species from Neanderthals, while other Human groups have a small percentage of Neanderthal genes.

Whether that's true or not, it seems like a far less problematic claim than the one you mention.

mdellabitta··on Blizzard shutting down Nostalrius, popular WoW private server
It would be pretty hilarious if this was a ML problem.
mdellabitta··on People with names that break computers
Yeah, my last name has a space in it. For a while, the NY DMV's computer couldn't handle that, so my license had a hyphen in my last name. Talk about insulting.
mdellabitta··on FTP Must die the technical explanation
Sounds like Microsoft has to up their game, then...
mdellabitta··on Why I Did Not Go to Jail (2014)
The point of the story is that social proof isn't enough when it comes to legal matters. The author contrasts his behavior with Michelle's to point out what can happen when you use social proof rather than direct legal advice.
mdellabitta··on Why I Did Not Go to Jail (2014)
The over-incarceration problem unfortunately does not extend to the white collar sector very much.

EDIT: rather, there's generally a problem of underages, not overages.

mdellabitta··on DigitalOcean lost our server
Hey, anybody remember LeafyHost?

http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=238085

mdellabitta··on Ask HN: How do you manage Facebook/Whats App/Twitter/Email/Etc addiction?
I assume the discussion around how to manage HN addiction will be conducted elsewhere?
mdellabitta··on How we use Slack in our family
That's awesome. You're lucky she didn't just elbow you in the face from adrenaline.
mdellabitta··on Super Mario Wallpaper Maker
Reddit itself was not like Reddit is now less than a decade ago. It itself was more like HN, although clearly not the same.
mdellabitta··on A Tesla in Every Garage? Not So Fast
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Insight
mdellabitta··on Trade-Off Gets Tougher Between Security, Convenience
Irony?
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