skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was my favorite mouse for years: http://imgur.com/xPu3pl1

Currently using a MS Optical Mouse 200.

I don't game (apart from Minecraft) so I don't need a $150 gaming mouse with adjustable weights and extra programmable buttons.
Behind the Scenes of the KDE Phone HIG – Part Two: The HIG Creation Process
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I expected the link to be this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o_WF7N73Kw
The Disruption Cycle – A Dime a Dozen
Wordpress on a Wordpress hosting service, probably.
Some entertaining bits:

Each drug dealer, each mugger, each killer, and each felon with a gun had his own lawyer, his own case, his own time before judge and jury, his own sentencing, and, in many cases, an appeal or other post-sentencing review.

Then again, it's pretty common knowledge that public defenders are woefully understaffed, overworked, and underfunded.

The young men dying on street corners all across this country are not committing suicide or being shot by the cops. They are being killed, police chiefs tell me, by other young men with guns.

Except when, you know, we've got a lot of documentation where they very much are being shot by the cops. Pesky fact, that.

Lives are saved when those potential killers are confronted by a strong police presence and actual, honest-to-goodness, up-close “What are you guys doing on this corner at one o’clock in the morning?” policing

How much of this sort of policing happens nowadays? How much is cops intervening without throwing the book or calling in reinforcements?
Html emails or Text emails?
You're barking up the wrong tree though - iphones and TVs are fixed costs. I'm willing to bed vast majority of the poor spend vast majority of their money on housing, food and clothing, although a small minority might actually spend it on crack. And of course, a small minority will attempt to keep on welfare for as long as possible.

Would you feel better if they do not have iphones? After all, they should know their place in the system, no?

Do you even know the actual figures? How much does a single welfare recipient get per month?
Given the number of criminals I see on the streets, I certainly wouldn't call the US's current situation "mass incarceration".

I would say the US has a shockingly massive crime problem.
Here's What Really Happened at That Company That Set a $70,000 Minimum Wage
Brainstorming the Future of Bitcoin Apps
Not a huge number, as of Postgres 9.5 (which isn't out yet, to be fair, but I think the only thing it adds that MySQL has already is upsert). Easy-to-configure failover is the obvious one. Index-organized tables are another (it doesn't have non-index-organized tables, though :P). It also uses direct I/O instead of going through the OS, so it can be considerably faster for some types of queries in InnoDB (I've seen over 2x better performance for something like raw insert). It also has a pluggable storage engine (though Postgres sorta does too, in the sense of multiple backends, most of its functionality is closely tied to the default one). InnoDB's MVCC implementation is different from Postgres's so it probably has advantages in some situations (though I don't know what those might be). It uses a thread per connection, rather than a process, and doesn't have to allocate the majority of the per-session memory up front, so it can support more connections than Postgres by default (aka without using some third-party tool like pgbouncer to create a connection pool).

There's probably more stuff? However, Postgres has a ton of other features that weren't mentioned in the article... I think the general response from MySQL developers on this topic is that in practice companies don't want all the features Postgres has. I can't comment on the general developer, but I can say that for me virtually all of its features have been useful. And BTW, the list of "stuff MySQL has but not Postgres" used to be a lot longer.

I'd be happy for people more experienced with MySQL to correct me or add anything I was missing. But I think in general the notion that this article is super biased and MySQL has a ton of stuff Postgres doesn't is incorrect.
Thanks in advance to all who reply.
"If a pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you probably have a very easy job. The kind robots will be doing soon."[1]

"You can do anything you set your mind to when you have vision, determination, and an endless supply of expendable labor."

"Because nothing says "you're a loser" more than owning a motivational poster about being a winner."

[1] http://despair.com/collections/demotivators
I took a technical entrepreneurship course, and the professor forced us to come up with startup ideas very early on, and then iterate and convince everyone to throw our original ideas out. After a couple months every group had startup ideas that were clearly much more sound than the originals.

"First startup" ideas are very easy to identify, and are the majority of what you see in college entrepreneurship. The close, but often not scalable problems in competitive markets: food delivery. Textbook re-selling. Better course scheduling. Some way to make profit off of nightlife and parties. And then the large, technically unfeasible ideas: Solve X with drones, 3d cameras, machine learning.

The startups that keep going are usually not in either of these camps, but often start firmly in one and move towards the center as far as complexity.

But your last point is also spot on - a campus food delivery startup from my university got into a good accelerator and raised some money. Seems to be doing well.
You are absolutely correct that markets merely service demand rather than create it. However, the market may surface demand that was previously inert.

My favorite example is "collectable computers" since I lived this during the late 90's and early naughts. A lot of people wished they had that old computer they learned on, or wanted desperately as a kid, but circumstances had kept them from it, and they had largely resigned themselves to never owning one. And then Ebay happened. And it created a market that allowed sellers from everywhere to put what ever crap they wanted to "online" to a wide variety of possible buyers. And suddenly, people had a way to actually service their desire for an old computer.

Altairs, IMSAI's, PDP 8's and PDP 11's. Stuff that was "worthless crap" could find someone who would cherish it and pay for it. I found myself buying pallets of stuff from SRI's "junk" sale for $50, only to sell the 10 HP calculators in a box on that pallet for $2,500 on EBay, old PDP parts to collectors for $300 - $500, and just playing with a really nice set up custom built instruments.

So did Ebay "fuel" the demand? It certainly felt like it from a non-economist point of view. It was the only thing different now than before. But no, the demand was out there and Ebay simply made the market for it.

The Ivory market is the same way, its constrained to legal sources but the demand exceeds those sources. If there was no market for ivory the demand would remain boxed up, with people who wished they could having something of ivory but won't cross the line of legality to get it. That demand would go dormant. And many times it has been proposed to do just that, ban all ivory sale and transport. And that would hurt the poachers, but it also would hurt the folks who have "legal" ivory and could benefit from converting it into cash. The solution to both problems simultaneously still eludes us.
Markets can very well fuel demand, new products, advertisement and artificial scarcity can fuel demand rather well. Much of modern economics revolves around not only fulfilling demand but also creating it.

If there was no way to acquire legal Ivory and all forms of Ivory would be illegal and culturally unacceptable people would want it less, if it will be viewed as morally abhorrent to have an Ivory statue as a center piece in your living room less people will want it.

If artists could not get their hands on Ivory they will result in using alternative materials, most people don't want a block of Ivory they want a masterfully crafted art piece again driving the overall demand for Ivory down.
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Once again, HN surprises me with its open-mindedness.

If you read this and feel strong emotional disagreement, one way to manage that emotion productively is to imagine yourself in the room with the speaker, and try to express your perspective in the way you'd find most likely to convince.

Another way to say that: the way to productively disagree is to talk to your opponent, not at your opponent.
Cool. What's that middle grey portion like a finger pointing to the right? A button of some kind?
[0] includes a segment about Richmond, CA's program to reduce violent crime. I wasn't particularly interested in the ethics of "paying criminals not to commit crime", but rather how such a small group of people were responsible for so much of it. If I remember the segment correctly, the first group of participants (few enough to fit around a table in a conference room) were believed to be responsible for over half the crime in the city.

[1] is similar. A single handgun is believed to have been used in ten shootings in Seattle (and I think there have been more added to that number since then), so SPD were investing quite a lot of effort in trying to find the possessors of that one firearm.

0: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/555/t...

1: http://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2015/07/16/police-looking-for-...
Take a bow, species: from polio to poverty, we are winning
The main feature seems to be that you're letting me use the same command in different environments, to do different things?
What does it turn out like when designers design?

It usually contain all the latest fads (Flat design? Custom fonts? Lots of white space everywhere?)

It usually leaves out a lot of functionality that users already expect. You can only have so much functionality given the amount of white space and padding required by modern design!

Of course you can iteratively make them produce useful result. Same is true for engineers.
That should definitely be on the author using the WYSIWYG, not the editor being used.
I never said all of them; I said "welfare professionals" for which I don't have a count. If you want a count from my anecdote, let's say 15. I can't even guess a percentage because I didn't sit at the welfare office all day observing and counting people, nor following them around to observe their public lives and behavior. I'm sharing my own anecdote so you can see how it might be impossible to find actual data on this phenomenon.

Certainly there are people who "conspire" to do bad things. Sometimes the "conspiracy" is one guy. Sometimes it's a small group. The only thing I can say with absolutely certainty is that the system will be gamed. How much depends on data that you're just not going to find.
We don't regulate "things the free market doesn't deal with well", we regulate "things the politicians can get votes and/or fat donations out of regulating.
Or more specifically: Misleading/clickbait title. Hopefully someone changes that.
We are in deep trouble if this is the kind of simpleton that makes policy at the FBI.

Although we have come far as a nation, we still have weed-choked neighborhoods.

Lives are saved when those potential killers are confronted by a strong police presence and actual, honest-to-goodness, up-close “What are you guys doing on this corner at one o’clock in the morning?” policing.

NYCs stop and frisk was found to have zero correlation to crime outcomes.
Thanks JupiterMoon!

Yeah I agree with that point they made. I just didn't explicitly say it. I should have probably.

What I focused on was the idea that it often boils down to a feeling. And I agree with that too, but I wanted to point that it is important how people arrive at those feelings.

GP showed some example, but I didn't find those convincing. I think a lot of what people believe and think gets acquired and filtered through 3rd party sources (media, friends, parents, teacher etc). And even though a lot of people have strong feelings about welfare, they might not have gotten those from their own experiences.

And then of course there are whole industries (marketing, pr, propaganda) whose goal is manage feeling, perceptions and ideas in others.

Anyway, to recap I didn't disagree with their main idea, just wanted to expand on one part of it.
Why did Microsoft ship Windows 8? It probably yielded more frustration, hour-wise, to the people in the whole word than all the engineer-driven failures combined.

Stop blaming wrong people.
Writing an OS in Rust
>Nicely said. I am always sad when I hear someone I know say "I knew how to do this in the old system, this new stuff has so many bells and whistles it is impossible to get anything done." I cringe inside. I don't doubt for a minute that there are a lot of gratuitous features, but that the person has lost the ability to see the heart of what is inside, that is a sad thing to lose.

"Lost the ability"?

How about sometimes they are indeed right and the new system IS an over-engineered, overthought, and messy piece of crap?

Is there any logical law against this happening? (and all two often, e.g. see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month#The_sec... ).

I don't buy that newer technology is by definition better and what's missing the "the ability to see the wonder inside" -- sometime it's just plain crappier. And newer doesn't mean "more innovative" either...

Consider someone who was doing great with Smalltalk in the mid-nineties getting forced into J2EE in the 00s...
This is an egregiously editorialized title.
As a Washingtonian, I'll be voting yes on 1401, but I have a general question for the crowd here.

Paul Allen has donated millions of dollars [0] to make sure this initiative gets through, which I think is great in a vacuum because I agree with what it accomplishes. However, in general I am against the concept of one individual person driving the success of an initiative because they feel passionate about a specific issue.

Is it more acceptable when the issue is seemingly benevolent?

[0] http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/paul-allen...
Does this only apply to philosophy or do x degrees of separation allow you to substitute any other topic?
Engineers build products, period.
Almost all ugly products and certainly all beautiful products are build by engineers, usually with the assistance of people who are proficient in design.

Engineers from time to time build beautiful products by themeselves, but most people don't care to understand the beauty of an underlying complex system. The mathematics and design behind a bridge or traffic lights are immense, as is the number of different engineering disciplines involved.

The site that everytime you visit throws a javascript popup and make the experience on your mobile horrible? Yeah, it isn't built by an engineer and probably whοever build it didn't decide upon the popup himself.
Techcrunch's site loads assets from 93 different domains. I don't know of a single engineer who would build something like that.
We account for ~4% of the world's population and ~25% of the world's prisoners.
Where do you live? What kind of criminals committing what kind of crimes are you seeing on the streets? Or are you speaking of what you see in the media?
None of the conclusions/inferences drawn from this exercise are unexpected or counterintuitive, but the magnitude of VC-backed public company spending - 82% of all R&D spend of public companies founded after 1979 - is pretty stunning. And this number doesn't factor in private VC-funded R&D spend which would probably bring the figure closer to 90%, if not higher.

Also interesting to note how the VC industry became the powerhouse it is today:

In 1978, the attractiveness of venture capital received a shot in the arm that transformed the industry from having lived on life-support for seven years to a robust institution. The 1978 Revenue Act reduced the capital gains rate from 49 1/2% to 28%. The flow of monies into venture capital funds jumped from $68 million to nearly $1 billon. Then in 1979, Congress passed the ERISA “Prudent Man” Rule that allowed pension funds to invest in venture capital. Again, venture capital benefited. By 1983, new commitments exceeded $5 billion. [1]

Also interesting to note that the largest source of funding for VC firms is now pension funds, meaning that poor VC performance could affect the money that states set aside for retirement. [2] But equally important is to note that the average pension fund allocates less than 1% to VC funding, so it wouldn't be a huge deal if VCs were to fail in a vacuum.

[1] http://www.historyofcomputercommunications.info/Book/7/7.10-...

[2] http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-09-23/are-public-p...
Maybe it would be great to know, why the US (the richest country of the earth) has such a massive crime problem.
Totally agree with the author. In high-school, I was interested in physics more than math and whenever I took interest in math it was because it would help me understand some specific aspect of the physics better. As I got into engineering, my interest in math again were only in areas where it was directly useful to me (like signal/image processing, operations research etc.) As a CS engineer, I've used very little math I was forced to learn by rote to write exams. Only use that came of it I think is training my brain muscles to do pattern recognition and fast memory recall.
And everyone else just curses when they open a Wikipedia article for smth that is supposedly (and actually) not that complex, but is explained in those terms, still :)
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This might be an Appeal to Dehumanization (I just created a new fallacy), but I consider about 75% of the people on HN to be legitimate people. the remaining reek of sockpuppetry. I felt the grandparent was a sockpuppet, and am treating the account as a dataset for future encounters.

I should be more mindful of the fact that there's (potentially) a human being behind the account I'm treating like an astroturfer. I can see why you considered this a personal attack.
What a slimy piece of crap:

"People hate because they think I'm charging people $750 per pill even though it costs patients less than $10 out of their pocket"

No.

People hate because you ARE charging $750 per pill. They may only have to pay $10 out of pocket immediately, but one way or another, through co-pays, deductibles, premiums, opportunity cost when employers pay premiums, patients ARE paying $750 per pill.

I highly doubt Shkreli is stupid enough to think that there's a magic pill-paying fairy conjuring $740/pill out of thin air for his benefit, and patients aren't inconvenienced.

But... he DOES think WE are stupid enough to fall for this.
How are you identifying all these criminals in the streets?
Walgreens halts expansion of Theranos blood testing centers
> Can you name a few?

I know SAP has internal tools that do that. Can't remember the name right now, but you might be able to find presentations on it online.

> Not if software can adapt to its user's needs.

I haven't seen a forum software that was switchable between threadable and linear in which both views worked well, simply because they are used differently and you miss context if you use a different view.
Government engages in mass surveillance against its citizens and the only one getting in any trouble whatsoever is the whistleblower who made it publicly known. Checks and balances at work.

How anyone can say with a straight face that Snowden should've stayed and challenged the system via the legal channels when even after the whole thing came to light the "system" shows no sign of remorse much less willingness to change?
Unfortunately python doesn't use a tagged pointers optimization even though I believe pointers are always aligned so there are some spare bits that could be used to indicate pointer vs. int.

I think the only reason they haven't is the legacy C interface; it's a shame they didn't do it for Python 3, but I guess it could have delayed conversion of c libraries even more.
Shkreli says if he could do things differently, he'd have explained things better instead of being a flippant jackass. But I'm not sure that would have worked: very few people know or care about how the pharmaceutical industry / drug research works. "Pharma bro screws over AIDS patients" just rings too many of the right bells, zeitgeist wise.

I have a hard time believing this isn't all part of some plan. Stock shorting?
I suspect that the real reason for the raises is the dispute with his brother: by paying profit out to employees, he doesn't have to pay it as dividends to his brother.
Where to put the toolbar? The medium editor has a toolbar that only appears when it is really needed.
Where? To me it seems that all the article is about is how some people are getting hard data to support the very intuitive idea that being in a natural environment is good for you.
I wrote this several years ago if anyone is interested:

http://xefer.com/wikipedia

It's not perfect but I enjoyed working on it
I spoke to officers privately in one big city precinct who described being surrounded by young people with mobile phone cameras held high, taunting them the moment they get out of their cars. They told me, “We feel like we’re under siege and we don’t feel much like getting out of our cars.”

Even if this were true, it wouldn't mean the blame lies with those holding the video cameras. If you, a police officer, are scared of being watched by those you police, of having your actions with those citizens recorded, maybe the way you approach your community needs to change.
It's funny you should ask because last night my son and I were looking at the periodic table of elements. He said "boy, I bet you just by clicking on links we could get to pumpkin"; and we did.

Not quite the same but fun nonetheless.
> and Reddit does not count as reading)

This is the key point, honestly. Hacker News and other online forums are fun and all, but ultimately they waste so much time.

About film: If you have Hulu, watch the Criterion Collection films on it. Criterion is a company that releases and remasters some of the best films of all time (from all countries!), and about 600 of them are on Hulu[1].

[1] https://www.criterion.com/library/expanded_view?m=hulu&p=1
The problem is that the side effects of rent caps and hard development limits have produced so many poor results.

Rent control in New York has worked poorly. The result is a few select people pay a fraction of what everyone else pays. Development difficulties have created San Francisco's crazy, crazy prices.

In Australia restrictive planning has contributed substantially to making the Sydney median price 1M AUD for a free standing house with 10km of the CBD.

In London restrictive planning has contributed to crazy, crazy prices.

Meanwhile in Houston, with vastly fewer rules, houses are affordable for low income families.
Hi! Dataflow team member here.

On maturity: Dataflow is built by the people who over the past 12 years created MapReduce, FlumeJava and FlumeC++, Pregel and Millwheel, based on the sum of experience obtained from all of these. It shares most of the back-end stack (work scheduling, pipeline optimization, fault tolerance etc.) with FlumeJava and FlumeC++ for batch jobs and Millwheel for streaming jobs, all of which are extensively used inside Google for data processing, and it shares a lot of the Java SDK with FlumeJava.

On usage: the blog post that announced General Availability of Dataflow lists a few public customer testimonials: http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/08/Announcing-G... . Quite a few blog posts by other users can also be found via https://www.reddit.com/r/dataflow .

Happy to answer additional questions. If I forget to check on this thread, feel free to ask on dataflow-feedback@google.com or on StackOverflow with tag google-cloud-dataflow - we constantly monitor these and usually answer everybody.