skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really?

http://www.loper-os.org/wp-content/sovcosm.png

Although the manned moon landings were American, they probably wouldn't have happened if the Soviet Union hadn't beaten them into space. NASA were US Government funded. All manned launches since 2012 have been on Russian and Chinese rockets. No manned SpaceX launches yet. So it appears that communism has done more for manned space flight than private enterprise.

There are numerous other major government funded science and technology success stories: Manhattan Project, Concorde, CERN, ...
You have a lot of gull saying what is important to 99% of users. And if battery life was the most important factor, people wouldn't use Linux either.
What are your actual numbers?

Correction: similarweb shows 540K visits in August.

> 15% week over week

For how many weeks?
Most startup stock is not liquid. You'd have to sit on the stock until there's some sort of 'liquidity event' - usually the sale of the company or an IPO. Beforehand sale of stocks is generally very difficult, usually not possible. I haven't really heard of companies buying back employee stocks (I guess they did it in 'Breaking Bad'? ;).

If you get fired, and you don't want your stock options to expire worthless, assuming that they do expire, you'd have to exercise. And most likely you won't be able to sell that stock until a sale of the company or an IPO. The stock itself may also become worthless (bankruptcy).

Note that the strike price really matters, some employee stock options are basically for free to exercise, because the strike price is very low. Sometimes the strike price is close to market value. If the strike price is low there may be a lot of taxes to pay, if it's high then you need to pay a lot for the stock itself.

I'm not quite sure about silicon valley companies (I'm in Canada...). I've seen stock options expiring after 7 years or so. I've also heard of stock options that expire 3 weeks after the employment relationship.

You should also be aware of the 'cliff period'. Most jobs won't give you proper stock options right away, but only after you have worked with them for a year. So if you quit after 10 months, you won't anything.

Again, read your employment contracts (including stock option agreements), talk to a lawyer, inform yourself etc. Don't get burned by this stuff.
The fraud: the government is using its advantageous position to aggressively market a get-rich-quick scheme that has a virtually zero chance of ever getting you rich. You could play a million times and not win. It then benefits from direct profits and taxation of winnings. This all has demonstrably negative effects on public health in the form of addiction and exacerbation of poverty.
It's not the allusion that bothers me, it's the childish way in which you make it.
On the other hand, we may never know how many Shakeaspeares never got a chance to write, because they were poor and died young. If you think it takes big investments to "change the world", you're wrong, the combined efforts of millions of people may be less glamourous, and harder to quantify, but that doesn't make them less real. The future of our species depends more on how we treat each other than anything else. Private enterprise won't be able to stop war for water and resources. The incentives will be more aligned with arming those wars, and then we'll be burned out.
They have a long history of not getting along and the chains of hatred from the past have continually bound new generations as grudges transfer from one generation to another in the form of prejudicial actions.

We can only hope that these chains loosen over time as people reject the prejudicial treatment of others.
Game soundtracks, game soundtrack remixes, film soundtracks (less often these days), anime soundtracks.

Typically I will enqueue a whole genre in Winamp then play it on repeat shuffle. Also good when mindlessly browsing the web.
This is exactly what has happened: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/mega-...
It's just as much within his rights to call someone out for it as it is for someone to write as he likes.

Clearly the post was written for an audience. Being needlessly inflammatory could certainly turn the audience off, and/or undercut the author's credibility. Ansiton's advice was both helpful and valid.
The Current State of Machine Intelligence
That's why we developed the "Boundary Forest" algorithm which is a fast nearest-neighbor type algorithm with generalization at least as good as K-NN, while being able to respond to queries very quickly.

It maintains trees of examples that let it train and respond to test queries in logarithmic time with the number of stored examples, which can be much less than the overall number of training samples. It thus maintains k-NN's property of very fast training time, and is also an online algorithm, and can be used for regression problems as well as classification.

See our paper that was presented at AAAI 2015 here: http://www.disneyresearch.com/publication/the-boundary-fores...
> other investigators politely but publicly disagree

Could you name investigators that disagree with Hersh's version of events about killing Osama Bin Laden?
Security interns find 6 bugs in Oracle ERP in under a day
> Even just having simple master/slave asynchronous replication functionality built in would help a lot.

Check out [0], or the docs on the same topic for the latest version at [1]. It looks like built-in async master/slave replication has been available since at least 2010-09-20, in Postgres 9.0.

[0] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/high-availability....

[1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/high-availability....
Files you backup with Arq are only visible through Arq. This application seems different:

> "No proprietary encoding of archive descriptions. No proprietary encryption or compression features that would make it complicated or even impossible to use other clients."

That makes it different and more usable (at least for me), even if its behavior isn't "Time Machine" alike.

A trial or a demo would be nice.
If you look carefully, it's not actually called "American cheese". It's usually something like "American slices (pasteurized processed cheese product)" instead.
Sometimes I wonder why I even bother to go to HN anymore.
Why IoT Security Is Critical
Nobody has a problem with finding and researching group differences.

The problem is when you find them claiming they are genetic and innate while being completely blind to all the other things that can cause those differences. The bigger problem is when you go looking for differences specifically so you can "prove" the group is inferior. Usually inferior to the group you belong to.

It's like finding that null pointer and coming to the conclusion that the pointer is null due to nature and that's just the way it is. Nothing I can do about it.
I'm not sure I'd want to use one of these as my primary tablet, but these look like excellent candidates for DIY projects that need a touchscreen interface, especially with the discount for buying 6 at a time.

For instance, I'm thinking of adding an in-home video intercom system by mounting a bunch of these on various walls around the house. Just hoping that someone figures out rooting to make the software side of creating a single-purpose tablet a bit easier.
It makes it easier to have assurances about the behaviour of the program, even in error cases, https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/560#issuecomment-6999...
Yeah, that or label the axes....
Isn't it still beneficial to the folks walking home that there are fewer drunks on the road? May not justify the full subsidy but certainly would cover part.
I'm not saying that Government can't do great things, but it should never be the only player in town when it comes to innovation on a large scale. Denying private citizens the ability to have great wealth basically gives the Government a large scale monopoly on far out projects.

These are the types of projects where a single billionaires great wealth can inspire other investors to come along. If Musk couldn't pour millions into his ventures, it's unlikely the average investor would have followed him into space.

In addition, the USA invested in the internet, space and atomic weapons solely for the purpose of war, even the hubble is based on military technologies. I am again concerned that people are arguing for a future that's dependent on the needs of politicians or the military.

Even China was smart enough to see value in the capitalism model. Allow for the ability of great wealth, allow the private citizen to decide how to deploy the fruits of their work and something good might come out it.

Also, the Government has taken over a billion dollars in tax from Mark Zuckerberg, so the Government has plenty to play with. Remember, it's always easier to play with other people's money, hence the inefficiency regarding the use of tax dollars.
It helped a bit, but I'm uncomfortable with the idea when a text editor uses up almost 90MB just to open a text file when Sublime Text opens much more in 25MB. Especially since the benefits of Atom just don't seem to be much more than ST in most, if any, people's use cases. Just seems like inefficient technologies off by a magnitude.
Sounds interesting, but I can't see the results with Firefox 38.2.1.
Is the information provided by

explain select ...

insufficient?
Looks like original author is a David Wybiral http://davywybiral.blogspot.ca/2015/10/visualizing-popular-m...
The Median Rent for an SF Two-Bedroom Hits $5,000/Month
Title of the article is missing an important prefix... "Reported". We have no idea if pot use has doubled. In fact, we know that it hasn't doubled. The real question is has it actually increased at all.

The majority of the article is about how the studies between 2002 and 2012 are difficult or impossible to compare to each other due to the changing attitudes towards marijuana use and the wave of legalization effecting participant reporting. This not drug testing results showing an increase in failures, this is face-to-face surveys with government officials, and people confessing to illegal (vs potentially now legal) drug use.
Actually since 9.0, but the addition of pg_basebackup in 9.1 made creating the slave easier.
I agree. It puts things into perspective when you consider just how many similarities are shared between yourself and your cat or dog, or even rodents.
So it's okay to conduct research so long as you like the findings? Read the books mentioned in this thread and others. IQ is 60-80% heritable. Of course there are environmental effects (consider, say, fetal alcohol syndrome), but for the most part intelligence is strongly heritable, and intelligence (or whatever you want to call g) is strongly correlated with life outcomes. These are facts. If you think that facts go on to "prove" the "inferior[ity]" of certain groups, that's a problem with your interpretation. It's easier to just deny the facts, isn't it?

I do have high hopes for what we can "do about it". These hopes rest on genetic modification. There's no reason in principle that the next generation, or the one after that, couldn't be made all geniuses. It'd solve a huge number of problems. But first we have to recognize the fact that intelligence is largely hereditary!
Apple Hires an Artificial Intelligence Expert from Nvidia
> [The article is] just highlighting features Postgres has that MySQL/MariaDB don't have. [That's not a fair comparison.]

I disagree. If one project has a significant, useful feature that another project does not, it behooves someone who is comparing the projects to mention this fact.
Time measuring units are a mess, and there's no way out of it. (At least while we want them to reflect astronomical events.)

Do not complain that people who were handed a mess of a problem to solve got a bad API out of it. That's how things go.
The End of Software Versions
Folks interested in splines should check out Raph Levien’s Ph.D thesis, http://www.levien.com/phd/phd.html

He made splines out of piecewise “spiro” curves (aka clothoids, Cornu spirals or Euler spirals), for which curvature changes linearly with arclength. This makes much smoother-looking curves than naive use of e.g. Bézier-curve segments, which he found made it much easier to trace or create nice looking letter glyphs for font design.
Hoping for CyanogenMod to be available for it ...
Perhaps. But "pretty sure you're making this up" is not an appropriate tone or argument to question validity. Especially when the basis for your argument is your singular person experience. Your never having heard the argument in no way counters the original assertion that their instructor had students make that statement, unless you attended every single course and class the original commenter refers to.

Next time, perhaps phrase your argument around your experience. "While I don't know where you're from, I never experienced this. Where I grew up in XYZ, people were quickly corrected regarding their misconceptions."
I've recently gotten into deploying postgres with replication and the support for async or mostly async with one "floating" synchronous replica on the current release is pretty solid.

There are some parts I'd like to see smoother like checking replication status without DB superuser creds, but the general built-in replication seems fine.
Japan and Korea share a long and unfortunate history[0,1,2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koreans_in_Japan

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Korean_sentiment#Japan

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_issues_in_Japan#Korean_...
Agreed. The article implies that PostgreSQL has everything the other open-source databases have, plus these additional hot features. If that's true, the author should make it explicit.
Having many indexing features allows PostgreSQL to be useful for more types of users. Many of the indexing features are primarily useful for the GIS community, where they are used by PostGIS. BRIN indexes on the other hand will primarily help for data warehousing workloads by trading performance for reduced disk space.

And GIN indexes allows fast indexing of JSON documents and for PostgreSQL's full-text search (mostly useful for quickly adding search to simple applications).
> Chlorophyll absorbs blue light the most which isn't emitted from most lights that are used for indoor lighting which emit yellow, red, and infra-red light the most

Nope, LEDs emmit mostly blue. And the bluest ones are the cheapest.

But yes, one'd need a lot of LEDs to get the luminance of the day.
> missing an important prefix... "Reported"

Ok, we changed the title to a sentence from the article that makes this clearer.
Facebook paid £4,327 corporation tax to the UK Government in 2014 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34504474).
Texting reduces need for pain medication during surgery
I was looking for trial period too.
Being an employee is a super tough way to get
financial security. Really, the theme in the
US today is to be a business owner, in part
or in whole.

On the Internet, no one knows if
you are a dog, a man, or an old dog or man.
So, if you have a business that is
in tech, say, a Web site or an app,
the users/customers need not know
anything about the owner's age.
"Dead."
For sure. One line FT with auto fail over would make PG so much more useful for me. I can't have a DB be a SPOF in an app. But the current PGpool etc situation is not ideal.
Almost any biological race discussion is taboo. No doubt there are people who are going to cross these lines but it's not a common argument and not one biologists are comfortable venturing into. A good discussion here on what is taboo in biology http://www.nature.com/news/ethics-taboo-genetics-1.13858

.. And any type of race/iq inquiry is something that has to be taboo and outside of the scientific community. For a society that values egalitarianism there are some questions that we need not try to confirm or deny
Maybe it's because spaces are unicode characters and they are worried that their password system isn't unicode compatible.
Willful ignorance of the natural world has never led to anything good for humanity. That we have to ban certain lines of inquiry because we might not like the answers is positively medieval. As a technologist, I find the idea abhorrent.
Dude, chill.
Run 1,000 Docker Redis Containers in 15 Mins on a Cluster of 5 2GB Servers
Why not? What's the main difference? Are you saying you would find a white person saying they're really black normal?
Handing off day-to-day management: We explored this option in depth by speaking with as many founders as possible who had attempted this. Ultimately, the consensus was that unless you have an employee who is positioned to and interested in increasing their role, finding a good candidate to assume leadership is extremely difficult (a 9-12 mo proposition). Then there's still pretty decent odds once on the job they'll fail or leave, forcing the founders back into the business. When the team is so small, it seems the founders cover so much surface area its difficult to replace them. Of course, this could be our failing to train, delegate, and operationalize the business.

Thanks for the perspective, really appreciate it! Good to hear experience of running a profitable business may be sufficient.
Given the resistance to equate increased earthquake activity elsewhere, it is interesting to see fracking stopped due to earthquake concerns at the oil reserves. I suspect this could be a strong argument to use in other cities experiencing previously-rare earthquakes, like Plano, TX.

http://earthquaketrack.com/us-tx-plano/recent
Arq's backup format isn't a secret. It's fully documented [1]

[1] https://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/s3_data_format.txt
Two things:

* As rdancer mentions, you must always fully understand printf-style format options before you use them. To do otherwise invites disaster.

* What would you have chosen for the four-digit-calendar-year format specifier and the four-digit-week-of-year format specifier?

Edit: Notice also that you can add more "y" or "Y" characters to get greater precision, so the existing format specifiers already solve the Y10K problem.
Good thing you're not in Hollywood! :)
It is a great idea though.

I have been known to lock myself out by accident so this would be very useful for me. Many of those type systems have emergency codes (i.e. dial #0911 or #9110) that will also automatically unlock the doors for the fire/police.

On the other hand, I could think of emergency or family uses where combined with a PIN code something like this could allow emergency access to a family member's apartment and also notify authorities at the same time. Or for a hack to have the system notify authorities while entering the building without alerting someone else.
Mostly opportunity cost. We think finding a good candidate to hire and run the business is likely a 9-12 month proposition, which could still fail after the hire (bringing the founders back in).
Should I attend a coding bootcamp or learn on my own? Why?
My Dark California Dream
Oh I pay for my utilities as well, those aren't payed by the government. And as the downvotes rain upon my karma, so be it. Yes, $20k per man, woman, and child is plenty for the government to have. And if you think the problem with the Federal budget, you need to take a closer look at how much we're paying in entitlements...
> This isn't a valid comparison

Care to give us an explanation why? let's have a debate without name calling and insults, maybe you can enlighten the people who do not "get it".
Or one of favorites. "Beef. It's what's for dinner."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10436908
Some of the problems we thought we'd face moving management to someone else are well outlined in http://jacquesmattheij.com/sell-it-or-run-it-there-is-no-mid..., posted earlier this year on HN.
The Rules of Zombieland and Programming
In most places, to bring conspiracy charges, there has to be an "overt act" in furtherance of the conspiracy. So they'd have to do something to further a murder plot in order to be charged with that in those places.

Conspiracy: http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=432
Overt Acts: http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=517
I have a problem almost like that, not as severe though.

I was born in Brazil, and I am mixed race (about 2/3 mediterranean european and 1/3 black, with a tiny bit of native american somewhere in my black ancestry)

No group of people consider me one of them.

And I don't think of myself as truly brazillian either, I don't like things most brazillians like, and I don't do things that most brazillians do, and I don't feel physical attraction for the average brazillian either.

It kinda suck, to have no nation, despite having a legal citizenship.
Is this really a threat to egg usage? If you make mayonnaise at home, you need 1 egg yolk per half cup of oil. With industrial equipment and science, you can use 1 yolk to emulsify 1 or 2 dozen cups of oil. (By law, mayonnaise is 65% oil and must contain egg yolk, but not a specific amount of egg yolk). Egg is the third ingredient in Hellman's, after oil and water.
I just purchased Postico a few days ago. It's already money well spent. Obviously Postico needs time to ripen, but it's already been a huge productivity boost.
> It’s worth noting that in my experience, the drivers who
most blatantly refused me service have never been white.
[...] 84 percent of New York City cab drivers are
immigrants (the vast majority are “of colour”)

This doesn't come as a surprise to me. Eastern countries in general have stronger group-identities, and as such one group being less tolerant, or ignoring, if not downright hostile of the other group is prevalent.

I think it would be far more productive if people looked at these issues as group-based conflicts (instead or race-based ones). Then you have a wide range of group based identification to be aware of, to the point of successfully mitigating it.

For clarity, here are some groups that we identify with (leading to all sorts of conflicts):

- as ‘employee’/‘employer’, ‘worker’/‘pensioner’, ‘junior/’senior’ and so on.

- as ‘English’, ‘American’, ‘Australian’ and etcetera.

- as ‘white’, ‘black’, ‘brown’ or whatever.

- as a ‘Hindu’, a ‘Muslim’, a ‘Christian’, a ‘Buddhist’ ad infinitum.

- as a ‘Capitalist’, a ‘Communist’, a ‘Monarchist’, a ‘Fascist’ and etcetera.

- as a ‘Democrat’, a ‘Tory’, a ‘Republican’, a ‘Liberal’ and all the rest.

- as ‘son’/‘daughter’, ‘brother’/‘sister’, ‘father’/‘mother’ and the whole raft of relatives.

- as ‘boy’/‘girl’, ‘man’/‘woman’.
I can't see the results either. Chrome 46.0.2490.71 (64-bit)
That was my first thought.

Let me queue up a set of actions and tell me what those actions will cost. Also, track my daily/weekly/monthly cost and tell me what the new rate will be after a given set of actions.
When something like this happens, take out your phone and record. People shape up real quick.
Ah but if "pretty sure you're making this up" it is read from the perspective of someone completely bored watching college football with his friends then it sounds much better :)

My rebuttal actually appeals to shared experience that the readers can all agree or disagree to. A personal experience like his is generally considered an ancedotal fallacy. https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/anecdotal
nice tech article
What isn't a national security threat now?
I'm looking at it as a rpi + lcd + battery + case .. and it's not bad.
That matters and helps little to a regular user. If you want to access the data from the AWS web interface, or any other client (Transmit, etc.), you are out of luck if you use Arq.

Not being proprietary is an advantage. Freeze is as simple as it can be.
This reminds me of the studies that show playing tetris lowers anxiety.
And it benefits everyone by keeping the roads safer.
Oracle deserves to die in a fire for everything they've done, and more importantly not done, to the open-source movement.

Not to mention Java and especially Sun - buying a competitor to destroy them and screw over their existing customers is a monumental dick move. I hope they get exposed for the pile of shit company they've become.