skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take a look at Greenplum, which was open-sourced recently. It's an MPP fork of Postgres: http://greenplum.org.
> There was no "conclusion"/assertion that flour > rice.

In your original post, you say "... but that rice is much more healthy than the vitamin-fortified substance made out of bleached, white flower that we call bread nowadays."

So, perhaps not a conclusion, but an assertion then. Semantics aside, I believe a statement like that should be backed up by data, and I've been unable to find any data that backs up your claim. So again, I ask to know what you're basing that assertion on.
> If I work 70 hour weeks and make only a bit more than some guy working 20, why would I bother.

You just answered your own question. In a world with better income equality you wouldn't be getting fucked over so hard you have to work 3 times the number of hours as someone else to make a living wage.
It's always going to be a sample, and brevity prevailed.
So... it's Second Life as a service.
I can give a specific example of that happening:

The "Kaminsky Attack" from 2008 was an extension of a well known attack from the late 1990s (Kaminsky's innovation was to combine the two best-known attacks from the 90s: request ID prediction and authority record poisoning).

When he announced it, Kaminsky's attack impacted BIND (the de facto standard server) but not djbdns. That's because djbdns randomized ports and request IDs, making the attack difficult (not impossible, but not practical). Djbdns started out randomized that way.

Back in the 1990s, when request ID attacks were first being demonstrated, it was suggested on NANOG that BIND randomize ports as well. IIRC, Vixie even claimed to have performance numbers for a "scoreboarding resolver" that used randomization. But he objected to the deployment of that software, because the "right" solution was DNSSEC.

(I was on NANOG at the time because I had written exploit code for both sets of problems).

Fast forward a decade and Kaminsky has "broken the Internet", forcing BIND to finally fully randomize (a countermeasure that more or less killed his attack). The irony is: Kaminsky's attack was seized on as a reason to deploy DNSSEC!
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Sony is finally killing its ancient Betamax format
It's already here in the US; Wisconsin has proposed both drug-testing welfare recipients – already demonstrated by other states to be a colossal waste of money – and limiting the kinds of food that one can buy using public assistance funds (e.g. an explicit prohibition on using the funds to buy shrimp).
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That is certainly true, but it's not clear to me if that effect is better than just creating [some] 3BR+ apartments as part of this. Regardless, there's no debate that this development is a good thing overall.
Can you provide any links to more information on "imitation logos"? I'm completely fascinated that this is even a thing, because the entire point of a logo is to communicate the identity of a company visually to a consumer. The idea of a logo that visually communicates "In-N-Out" but isn't technically In-N-Out is super bizarre to me.
Probably not, but I don't personally want to see "unofficial" delivery services like these for reasons of quality control, food hygiene, and a desire to have a single point of responsibility for the product. If I order a Pizza from Dominos, the dude who delivers it is paid by, and represents Dominos. Therefore he is motivated to deliver quickly, to respond to any complaints I may have about the food or service, and to not spit in my food. The same is not true for a 3rd party delivery service. I can see that In-n-Out might be concerned that their brand image could suffer at the hands of substandard delivery services.
Yes.

Assuming it's only because they are doordash couriers, and not for any protected reason (race, gender, etc. In CA, even unconventional dress is protected).

Note, however, that if companies conspired together to refuse service to doordash couriers, that would be an antitrust violation known as "concerted refusal to deal".
A basic level of income is just cutting out the middleman. "Make work" jobs are just a moral fig leaf that governments put on top of basic income because an unconditional basic income inevitably causes an uproar. "Why, I got a degree that interested me and am working a job I enjoy and making a lot of money, but that guy? He gets a trifling amount of money a year just to sit on his ass! Why, the indignity!"

Most economists agree that directly handing money to people is completely effective economic policy. For cultural reasons, though, we have the fig leaf.
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What does "ESR" mean?
Mac owners have trouble using apps after security certificate snafu
I heard that. Employees need more data to evaluate job offers (especially in this economy where the big guys are offering a lot of cash, and the small guys are offering a lot of cash too but also equity of sometimes dubious value).

If you take equity, you are not only subject to dilutions, but also to other investors getting much more preferential terms to you.

I'm not saying to don't take a job because of shares, RSUs, or options offered, but one needs to take a hard look at these things to figure out what their true worth is. And in most cases, you may only be able to compute a confidence interval and not a point estimate.

Fidelity's disclosure makes this seemingly intractable problem a bit less intractable.
I am bemused that you think the source of inequality in our current system comes from people working 70 hour weeks versus 20. Sure, the Liberal criticisms of economic inequality are mostly ineffectual because they presume the inequality comes from some incidental source, like poor government policy, rather than the structure of capitalism. The fact is, the vast majority of the inequality in our society is between people who make money because they own lots of capital and people who need to work to survive.

I also find the idea that inequality is what motivates success abhorrent, but whatever floats your boat.
Side chain transactions aren't fulfilled until they're broadcast through the blockchain.

Most people and merchants do not want to be paid in arbitrary I.O.U.s that take weeks or sometimes months, which is essentially what side chain is.
What Happens One Hour After Drinking a Can of Coke
So, instead of increasing demand we decrease supply by having people work and thus produce less?

Simplifying that, we will gain more by producing less?
Has anyone noticed how fast Firefox is compared to Safari?
Perhaps, but Chrome's configurable search engines are all unacceptable. As Firefox has DuckDuckGo as a configurable option and DuckDuckGo doesn't track you (so no HTML5 local storage issues to deal with), it's a great workaround for that limitation.
The delivery person would need a shirt. And shoes.
brb, digging along the highway to lay my fibers.

srsly, it depends on the medium. With Citizen's Band radio, the government only had to step out of the way. With Cable public-access, the government had to require cable companies to give access to communities to equipment such as a cameras, studios, video players, etc. Public access internet's needs are much closer to those of community access television than Citizen's band.
Off-topic/meta:

"Oh, and it seems that other people wrote a detailed text about this issue in 2008."

Well ... yeah. We've known about this. And yes, we need to keep making people aware. I'm also amused by all the young people and their containers: always doing things in a root shell. I'm waiting for that to implode in a few more years.

My point here is that maybe it's time we started designing some curricula around these things that people keep rediscovering: Why you do indeed want a relational database manager and probably not a 'NoSQL' store; and when you do want a NoSQL store. Multiplexing existing systems with VMs; how your VPS works and why it worked so well on mainframes back in the day. (and oh, btw did you know that you can just pull hardware, including CPUs, right out of the mainframe and it'll keep doing its job?) Dangerous things we've all done at some point and prime (hands-on) examples of the failures that might ensue...

And no, I don't mean (necessarily) to teach in schools. Maybe an online collection. "So you wanna 'do computers' without getting hacked and without re-inventing everything..."
I'm not understanding this approach. Cat is for files. How would you use it to protect against this trick? Do you mean you pre-typed "> /dev/null" and then pasted his git command where the cat is?
Nothing new under the sun - this sounds just like Ab Initio Co>OS (https://www.abinitio.com started somewhere in 1995 and I would say the best piece of software code I've seen in my 20 years - not working for them anymore, so it is not advertisement).
Most terminal users these days are intelligent enough not to download a random executable from a google result and run it locally under root (without researching it). We've been well inundated not to ever run sketchy programs that you've never heard of.

However, a huge portion of people (who this article is targeting), will freely copy and paste a terminal command from a random google result. That makes it a great attack vector for, say, intro to CS students who just want to make this linux thing work right.
Generally I take a "Trust, but Verify" approach to most everything, and luckily, modern browsers have a nifty "search google for..." context menu option that lets me check anything that I highlight out on google (what a wonderful world), so the second I right clicked on what was highlighted the 'hidden' content was revealed.
I'm not saying parents are programmed to fall over and die exactly the moment they have sucessfully reproduced, clearly in those species incl us only the offspring of caring+longer-lived parents have survived to reproduce themselves --- past that prime age we just lose that comparative youthful invincibility against "environmental stress and accumulated damage and the resulting ever-accelerating degeneration" (incl "western diet") because there never was selection pressure favouring people who thrive well into old age and age in supreme health on any chow or fodder without suffering severe degeneration and disease.
Love this. Especially the part where you don't spend time building yet-another-dashboard page. Once you've settled on the graphs you want, you could then integrate them in your product admin directly if you want.

It sort of reminds me of feature requests for sorting/filtering/highlighting data in HTML tables -- instead of trying to rebuild a crappy version of Excel in a browser, just add an export to CSV button :)
There's inequality, and there's Inequality. You work 3.5x as much as he does. Should you make 3.5x more money? Probably. That's probably non-controversial. Should you make 35x more money? Maaaaaaybe. Not all work is created equal but that does seem like a big gap. But in today's economy, we're talking about closer to 350x more money. You can rein inequality in from that extreme without abolishing all inequality.
This is not always correct. LLC can elect to be taxes as corporations.
Works with FF on Ubuntu latest stable.
Financial loss to whom?

Productivity is not just what people do. It's mostly about the economical environment around them. Same number of similarly-capable people will have one productivity in SV, other productivity in China, entirely third one in Kenya.

There all "kinds" of work around us. Maybe you get access to better work that far outweights the tiny decrease of time you dedicate to it.
I agree with you.

Inequality is only a problem today, because the poor are suffering. If everyone has basic level of living standard (which probably increases as we approach post-scarcity), inequality would seem much less of a problem.
Chrome's inspect element found a `.span2.hidden-phone.hidden-table` element, which is styled with a media query from a CSS file called `bootstrap-responsive.css`.
Lawyers for In-N-Out say DoorDash's delivery vehicles aren't compliant with the California Retail Food Code, and In-N-Out would never authorize DoorDash "or any other entity to deliver its food products to consumers without the necessary food handling licenses and food safety procedures in place."

This, to me, seems like a valid concern. The folks at In-N-Out take the freshness of their food very seriously. If someone gets sick from an In-N-Out burger delivered by DoorDash, it's not unreasonable to assume this will have negative consequences for In-N-Out's reputation, not just DoorDash's.

Related: How is DoorDash getting away with delivering food and not complying with California's retail food code? That seems like a really bad idea.
“Enteric Dialysis”
I wish we could declare HN a hyperbole free zone.
Something to consider is the effect growing will have on the power grid. In Portland there have been some blackouts caused by grow houses:

http://www.oregonlive.com/marijuana/index.ssf/2015/11/mariju...
>The problem is that there's a lot of software out there that expects you to install it this way - particularly by piping into sh or bash or the like.

The real problem is that this is nothing different than trusting a binary download -- which many more millions (billions) do.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/

Extended Support Release

They're released on a much slower schedule (once a year) and get security fixes backported. They're intended for big organizations that don't want 6-weekly updates and are willing to live with outdated software.

But obviously its also handy if you want to fork and can't deal with re-basing every 6 weeks. Especially if you don't intend to update your fork a lot. You still get the free security fixes.
Just read the original source, it's linked at the top: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/column-can-cure-eco...
How to centrally issue OAuth tokens for API access management
>You tend not to hear from us because... we don't use iOS.

Seriously? we hear from the non-iOS tech crowd all the time about how locked down iOS is.
The problem with bundling popular scripts into web browsers is that they evolve too fast. Also there would be inevitable politics (e.g. Microsoft and Apple invent and bundle their own equivalent to Google Polymer) and lack of standardization.

On the other hand, organizations like the W3C move too slowly with respect to deciding new standards for widely-and imminently-needed features (hence band-aid solutions and meta-languages, whether server- or client-side, like jQuery, SCSS, CoffeeScript, etc.). HTML still doesn't have an standardized <input type="slider"> and it's 2015. So having these popular scripts, frameworks, and their ever-evolving versions is often a necessary evil, because new technologies and their markup necessities will keep appearing constantly into the future, and standards bodies will never catch up.

Checksums for caching would solve the problem, while effectively achieving this "bundling" in a dynamic and democratized fashion, by "bundling" (=caching) whatever is encountered by the user at any given point in time into the future, and without having to update the browser software itself.

Also, this strategy can be applied to commonly-used webfonts, images, icon sets, and so on. For example, although there are attempts to centralize fonts, such as Google Fonts, I'm still forced to use a local server copy in order to maintain site accessibility in China. Checksums would solve the same problem while decentralizing the whole initiative; as long as someone got the same font from Google Fonts or even another site's local copy, as long as the checksum matches, the browser wouldn't actually waste bandwidth fetching my local server copy.
I love writeups like this. Its great when you see that companies like facebook and instagram have the same problems that you experience but at a much more massive scale - but the premise of the problem, and largely the stack involved, can be very similar if not identical.

The part about read-replicas falling way behind... had that happen last year. The thing got more than 700 hours behind. So we just killed that guy and had to build a new one and do it more timeley...

With that said; what would be a great next step for such write-ups would be slightly more technical details of how X was accomplished.

"We ran a second streamer as soon as the box came up" --> LINK TO HOWTO bullets steps on doing this, would be awesome...

Although I know thats asking a bit much of any regular eng team to do so, but would be nice to have so that people who face the same issues, with only a couple engineers in a small environment can actually learn from and implement best-practices found by at scale orgs.

Thanks for the post though! -- The VPC migration post from back when set me up with a lot of VPC info I needed when I also went to VPC-->HQ-DC with overlapping CIDRs.
I think the argument is that open source is based on the fundamental ideal of trust - I put this software out into the world so that people can better it, tweak it, make it their own. If those people don't trust you, and have to audit everything they install, the model breaks.

Re binary blobs - honestly, for me at least, if I'm installing a blob it's probably because I purchased the software. Maybe it's naive but I more or less assume no company is going to actively screw over a paying customer
No, this is basically just a way of increasing headcount without increasing production.

They're basically arguing that e.g. instead of 10 workers producing 10 widgets, you have 12 workers produce 10 widgets with each of them taking more vacation. Labour costs go up, some more wealth gets shifted back to labour, and this increases aggregate demand without changing supply.
Most things we need people to do are not enjoyable. There has to be a way to get people to do the work that sucks.

The two methods we have found are physical coercion or financial coercion.
Ugh.

I was going to link you to the doordash version of the logo, but they pulled it all from their site.

The purpose of the logo is mainly to make the site not look weird. Since they use logos for everything else, having this huge blank space would look odd. So they shoved something there.

As for the legality, under things like nominative fair use, doordash can only use as little of the trademark as necessary to identify to consumers. In this case, that is likely the words but not the symbol.

So if they actually used the symbol, they would be in trouble.

(In essence, in-n-out will argue this both ways.
They will argue using a fake logo dilutes their brand, and that doordash can't use their logo if doordash tries)
My original comment was poorly phrased.

Companies would squeeze more work from their labor pools if the government mandated longer vacations, especially from homogenous/low-wage workers due to the mismatch of labor supply and demand that points in the firms' favor at the moment. I don't think people would necessarily feel motivated to work harder for the rest of the year after a long vacation, but I think many would feel like their job security threatened by someone who was willing to put in more hours than them to make up for this new government policy.
On Firefox on my mac, triple click and drag onto a notepad gave me the entire thing, including the echo lines.
> money equals power

If (legitimately earned) money is how society compensates people for providing things we value, why wouldn't influence (what you call "power"?) come along with it?

If you are concerned about "power" being used to violate the rights of people without it, there are systems of law which criminalize such acts without preventing individuals from earning more money (i.e. possibly expanding the "wealth gap").
Sure I've followed the issue enough to know (some of) the jargon. But labeling it doesn't solve it, that's my point.

That's all fine theoretically. But in the end, a theatre showing films of interest to a minority will close, if they haven't got enough population to support them. Markets squeeze folks out all the time. All the laws in the land won't change that.

Training, oversight, education can all make a difference.
I'm with you on what's right. But its tilting at windmills to try to legislate much of it.
Advocating war in order to improve the economy is the ultimate broken window fallacy.
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Up until a couple months ago, it had an O(n^2) marking algorithm that kept iterating until it got to a fixed point.

Thanks to the hard work of Steve Fink, these days it has an O(n) marking algorithm. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1164294 for the details.

Edit to address your questions more directly:

> how aggressive is Firefox in holding on to weakly referenced objects?

They are just collected at the next GC slice where they are no longer retained. SpiderMonkey doesn't do anything to try and eagerly collect them. GC slices generally won't happen until either there has been enough pressure (allocations) to trigger one or the user is inactive for N amount of time. There are tons of GC triggering heuristics and some are probably not optimal. It is on the GC team's TODO list to revisit and clean these up.

> does Firefox always continue to allocate memory from the host OS, or is there some threshold where it starts to let things slip?

The threshold of how much is allocated before triggering GC grows as the retained set's size grows. This is bounded by available memory.

Aaaaand I have a meeting I need to go attend.
Modern countries today have fertility rate around 1,4-1,9 (children per woman during all her life).
USA has it aroud 1,7 for white people, I believe.

There would not be any new people. They're barely replenished with all the set of tricks you can pull.

Any soldier who falls in battle means, since wives need husbands and since it's customary to let youth fight, your nation is smaller by two. Permanently. That's what we have today, anyway.
Has DuckDuckGo as a configurable search option too.
Works in Firefox 42.0 as well.
At first glance, me too!
And so what?
It can't possibly because plants don't scale like information does. They don't move as quickly and they don't make use of meta-information like data does.

I'm sure there's a good deal of money to be made, but it's not like we're going to have family marijuana plans or access to full-speed marijuana all-day long at your desk at work as we do with information services.
Intuitively, that makes sense, but isn't it also pretty well-accepted for a retailer, reseller, or other "middleman" not to disclose their costs?

If you go to Walmart, you don't expect the price labels to say "$0.50 Kellogg bulk unit cost, $0.80 retail storage fee"; you just expect "$1.30", and the store's costs are their own concern.

It would certainly be a nice thing to do, but we generally don't expect retailers to facilitate you buying from their supplier.

On the other hand, retailers also probably have explicit permission from vendors to resell the good, which DoorDash doesn't.
This is maddeningly wrong. Case in point: The US Small Business Administration approved $19b in loans to small business in 2014, or less than half what the Obama Administration loaned just one company - General Motors.

This is less than 1% of the increase in US depository institution (Bank) excess reserves since 2011.

The SBA 2014 amounts are only half what the US provides in foreign aid to other countries.

It represents only .25% of the total value of QE2.

The US can only claim it is serious about economic recovery when it redirects its misguided intervention into its economy, to the sector that creates the most jobs and individual wealth - small business. Until then all the liquidity the USGOV and Fed has and continues to manufacture will be sequestered in large company balance sheets, in offshore tax havens, and on bank balance sheets typically on deposit at the Fed.

Insanity.