skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, I'm a software engineer on Cloud SQL.

Cloud SQL isn't a compatible reimplementation, it's the same vanilla MySQL that you know and love, but with a few tweaks (such as removal of SUPER privileges so you can't bork your backups, which is rather important as a managed service).

Second Generation instances should have better uptime than First Generation, as we now have live migration ala GCE if the host machine requires maintenance, and we can upgrade much of the infrastructure without restarting MySQL as we used to.

We do have failover capabilities for Second Generation instances if a zone goes down, so we're hoping between failover between zones and host migration we should have some really good uptime.
Magellan was in orbit from 1990 to 1994 collecting radar images of topography.

There are several clever missions to Venus proposed in the decadanel planning. But Mars and outer moons have priority.
An Event's Lifecycle: The Highs, the Lows, the Silence
Robert founded tech law firm, tech entrepreneur/adviser and is in hospitality
`data = sys.stdin.readlines()` in their Python script. Is it common to not check return values of functions in Python land? I might be too disciplined coming from a C background, but what if getting the data fails?
Meanwhile, in Sierra Leone...
Arlington is a Jane Jacobs nightmare. With the exception of places like Clarendon, it's all tall buildings with enormous lawns surrounding them at every angle. It makes walking almost worthless, even in a huge metropolitan area.

Contrast with Manhattan: much taller, much denser, with a greater concentration of shops and services per area.

It's not that change or densification is bad by any means, but there are ways to do it very, very wrong, and fixing those changes takes decades, if it is ever even done.
> If landlords are free to set rent to whatever they like, it's easy to see how that could lead to all sorts of terrible situations.

No, it's not. I'm not a landlord, but the logic is pretty simple: if the market rate is $1k/mo and I charge twice that, nobody will sign a lease and I make $0. If I charge $1,250 I might very well get someone. Why should I be forced to rent for $1k or $1,050 or something just because last year the person happened to be paying me $1,000/mo?

There should be plenty of notice if a landlord intends to raise the rent on an existing tenant (I don't think even 6 months is onerous on the landlord), but if I want to double rent that should be my prerogative.

To be clear, doubling someone's rent to $2k because they're a minority so they leave then renting to someone else for $1,100 who isn't a minority is a specific thing[0], and it is and should be illegal (in the US). I'm not talking about that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining
COMPare: Tracking switched outcomes in clinical trials
MIT develops device that can see people through a wall using Wi-Fi
A sensor artifact most probably. Should have been cleaned up before publishing.
I believe in the very beginning they started by using the free public-domain artwork. And it caught on, so they wanted to continue, but frankly anybody can substantially copy their cover by just using the same artwork.

So it makes sense to create new artwork each time that has the same look but can be protected by copyright.
> This is such a common flaw that Moxie Marlinspike, a co-author of TextSecure/Signal, which you should use in preference to Telegram, named it "the cryptographic doom principle".

He also wrote a good post explaining it:

http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/the-cryptographic-doom-prin...
I think you're reading too much into the name - it's simply a site that collates job offers that align well with European time zones. It doesn't actually say you have to have an EU citizenship, anyone can apply to the ads collected by it.
Hell’s code kitchen
We've considered this option, but not for our immediate future. Although we do aim to make Luno as extensible as possible for the developer, we haven't got becoming a Shibboleth service provider in our roadmap.

We would love to hear your thoughts on the benefits of this integration. Please drop us a line on hello@luno.io
Not for me! They are pretty much comparable. Google's sustained use discounts mean no lock-in, lower price and flexibility too! Considering the fact that Google Cloud's disks are way faster than AWS's disks, your overall price is much lower with Google Cloud.
Thanks a lot @Schwolop - will do!
Give them livestock, which is not as seasonal as farming, and produces about 2x the hourly income. Teach them how to care for the livestock. This generates more income, and allows them to start using Micro financing, whereas before the livestock, the community deemed them worthless and would not allow them access to it.

Its a very expensive (relative) program to initiate, but yeilds very positive results.
The Joy of Getting Hacked
The problem is in conflating weight with overall health, which most media reporting does. Weight is primarily controlled by the quantity of food you eat (it is not "100% due to diet" because there do exist conditions that cause people to carry too much weight even with a "normal" diet), but to assume all problems are purely a result of weight is reductionist and incorrect.

Being obese is neither necessary nor sufficient to develop metabolic and other health problems. Those problems arise from lack of activity, diet composition, and other factors beyond simply weight. Those problems are also the core plague of the "obesity epidemic", so it would behoove society not to focus so narrowly on weight and to focus on overall health (of which weight is a component).
In my opinion, any regulatory scheme which starts with "anyone can drive a cab if they have insurance + driver's license" is going to be worse than Uber.

One of the major advantages of Uber is the rating system. A bad Uber driver typically won't last long in the job. There isn't much that will get a bad taxi driver to stop driving. Eventually complaints might filter up to their boss or regulators, but it's a much weaker mechanism.

I think the existing regulations were mostly put in place to compensate for information asymmetry. People get into a taxi unfamiliar with the driver, the car, reasonable costs, and the area. To ensure a minimum level of competence, drivers are regulated. To ensure people don't get ripped off, fares are regulated. To ensure people don't get driven on artificially expensive routes... well, that doesn't seem to have been regulated very well.

Smartphones solve this better, though. Rather than some broad regulatory regime to ensure minimum competence from a random unknown driver, you can use an app to find out about your specific driver. To ensure you don't get ripped off, you can use an app to get a fare estimate to your destination before you book. To ensure you don't get driven on artificially expensive routes, you can just compare the route you take with the route your phone thinks you should take.

I wholeheartedly agree that we need an open market, not just another monopoly. But in doing so, we should take the lessons from Uber, not just the lessons from the past. The present looks a lot different. Any system which looks like traditional taxis and doesn't take advantage of the easy flow of information is going to be inferior.
Kindle: $143!!

This is so, so annoying. The Kindle version should never be higher than any dead tree version!
I guess it’s possible on a jailbroken device. (Perhaps even on a non-jailbroken device…?)
There have been Navy SEALS who have died because of this: http://www.13newsnow.com/story/news/military/2015/04/24/inci...
Sure, I've heard the same thing but how a driver views their relationship with Uber is not the same thing with how the law views it.
I wonder if there are any risks to spending a cumulative 20 hours in a MRI machine other than the loud noise he mentioned?
You can do even better than a bowl of cereal. Eat something fatty, and even eating a little will significantly reduce your hunger. These days fatty food, such as cheese and creamy yogurt have been a staple of my diet: I can go by for a lot longer without eating much that way. The fruit-fat-nuts diet is _completely_ doable (of course, I eat 'normal' food too, for a more balanced diet, but only in the weekends, etc.)
Respect Competitors and Capitalize on Your Strengths
Some people like having concrete evidence of where their dollar was spent?
> Because of that they don't rise to the atmosphere

Funny choice of words. It reminded me of the classic sketch,

Interviewer: So what do you do to protect the environment in cases like this?

Bob Collins - Australian Senator: Well the ship was towed outside the environment.

Interviewer: Into another environment...?

Bob Collins - Australian Senator: No, no it's been towed beyond the environment, it's not in the environment.

Interviewer: No but from one environment to another environment...?

Bob Collins - Australian Senator: No it's been towed beyond the environment, it's not in an environment.
If you use it so often, it only makes sense to buy it and keep it, instead of paying the same thing over and over.

Not necessarily. I might listen to one album very frequently, but also other albums, including new ones as they come out. In that case, I'll be paying $9.99 for streaming no matter what, so there's no need to buy the album.

Making one return it and pay over and over for unlimited resource is simply a rip off.

Yeah, it's a business. It's the entire model of the business. If you don't like it you are welcome to not use it.
I never said Uber was operating in free market or that they wouldn't turn around and become rent seekers themselves (as they already have), but the reality is, Uber is subject to more market forces than yellow taxis were/are. Those market forces--not government forces--are what has enabled companies like Uber to improve on the status quo and deliver more value to consumers.

Also, how do you suppose Uber would become predacious monopoly? Certainly not by being subject to the relentless competition of new market entrants seeking to take their customers on a daily basis. Predacious monopolies (e.g., cable companies) exist in markets where they are heavily shielded from competition. When competitors arrive, their behavior changes.
Well, eBay and AirBnB sellers/hosts are not really selling their labour, but their assets. As for the Mechanical Turk, well...
Then the function throws an exception and the program terminates, since there isn't anything useful it can do about the situation. What would you suggest it to do if it can't read from stdin?
Classifier for what task? You'd need to be more specific.
ESA's Venus Express orbited Venus from 2006 until January 2015 when, its fuel spent, it burned up in the atmosphere as planned.
I also think that his obsession with the kinds of inverted reasoning, such as "anti-inductive markets" is serving an interest of his: by planting this meme in your head, you'll subconsciously apply it out of context, when his qualifications of reputation come up. He'll say "Oh but even if I had qualifications, you'd probably reject my claims, so I don't need qualifications". They (and his earlier co-author Robin Hanson) also like to reduce things to signaling, basically saying that education is just to show off and raise one's status by acquiring pieces of paper, but if you really want to get things done, it's more efficient to self-study and concentrate on the really important things, skipping all this mess that is education.

So if you eat these ideas at the right time, you won't find anything suspicious about him lacking any reputation, any qualifications. He's trying to sell you the idea that he's so much above the ridiculous ideas of the mainstream that he doesn't need to go among them an get tested by them, he tries to sell you that this is just signalling, the way a really rich person doesn't need to show off expensive items, or a big dog doesn't need to bark as much.

Another thing about the anti-inductive meme is that seeing the world thought these glasses makes you kind of paranoid. Because how can you know if the thing you conclude shouldn't be the exact opposite? You know, maybe the system figured out what you will think, it simulated you and now you are supposed to outsmart that system, etc. When in reality, the overwhelming majority of everyday things are straightforward and inductive and rarely go deeper than 1 or 2 levels of "simulating the other". But his focus on the superintelligent being makes you think subconsciously that this is the nature of the current world as well, and a lack of qualifications should actually be seen as a proof of skill, not as a counterevidence.

Maybe you say nobody would think that, but I did, some years ago. I got sucked into his writings and I was gullible. Since then I have learned a lot from other sources and can see much better how he rips off previous ideas, repackages them and creates a crazy ideology.
I'm not sure that's a very good test. I certainly have bargaining power but I'm still an employee.
I am interested in trying this, but if I don't eat breakfast, I am sometimes so light headed by 11:00am that I am literally almost falling over and my brain doesn't function. Any advice or articles you'd recommend?
There's a distinct difference between those "marketplaces" and Uber, and that's that Uber sets the price, not the member. When I Ebay something, I set the price. If I request a HIT on MTurk, I set the price. If I put up a room on Airbnb, I set the price. If I hop in my car and turn on Uber, I don't set the price. Uber does. I would think that setting my own price is a significant test for being a "marketplace".
Last month I heard a McD employee tell me: "Ohh haha, I'm not an all-out McD employee. I'm in just for the spare cash". The same employee also worked in Dairy Queen across the block.
Nope, nope nope nope. This keeps coming up again with "we just need the right tools".

The thing is there's a good chance the people you're working with aren't very technically inclined(which is why they're such awesome artists, they have other focuses). Anything more than the simplest scheme is going to fall over at production scale.

It's been tried many times, the tools that you are talking about(Maya, Photoshop, ZBrush, etc) don't even consider merging with their large binary workflows. The closest you get to this is referenced scenes in Maya and that requires a good technical artist to set everything up and police things so that people don't touch things they don't understand.
If we are discrediting nation by a single incident, are you sure about the Japanese? The 2009–11 Toyota vehicle recalls didn't really help to keep the trust, did they?

In anyway, this kind of thinking is really harmful to the global economy and welfare. Please evaluate the companies on their own.
You'd be correct. http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2015/03/wealth-i...
No Laptops and Phones During Meetings
> The real reason findstr is not improved is because Bob left the company and probably took the source code with him.

Did you actually read the article, or just skim it to find things to complain about?

>When Bob gave the findstr project to the Resource Kit team, they got the source code, but there was no knowledge hand-off so that somebody on the Resource Kit team understood how the program worked, in case they needed to fix a bug or add a feature. Not that there was anybody on the Resource Kit team available to receive said knowledge. The Resource Kit was primarily a book, so the Resource Kit team consisted mostly of writers and editors, not programmers.
Letter to Readers of South China Morning Post, from Alibaba's Chief
> Courts frown on rules lawyers

Isn't that the whole business of lawyers - interpreting the laws as they are written, not their intention?
It's probably just the equator.
Central Banks have been pumping it out with near zero interest rates on and off for the past 14 years. The US Fed alone created about four trillion during quantitative easing. This cycle doesnt seem to have caused consumer inflation, but asset inflation: unicorns, high stocks, high houses.
Many thanks. What automation tools do you use, and how have you found them? If you've already written about this I'm happy to be pointed elsewhere.
That is simply not how it works in the US civil court system. Ask an attorney.
That's like saying "smoking is neither necessary nor sufficient to develop lung cancer".
All those points can apply to pizza delivery drivers. Are they contractors?
Your example of United States v Silk[1] doesn't actually help your argument in relation to Uber drivers. Yes, the Supreme Court reclassified the "unloaders of coal using shovels" as "employees" but the majority opinion agreed with the lower court to leave the drivers as "contractors". Relevant excerpt of the decision:

"... But we agree with the decisions below in Silk and Greyvan that, where the arrangements leave the driver owners so much responsibility the investment and management as here, they must be held to be independent contractors.[14] These driver owners are small businessmen. They own their own trucks. ..."

Also, your comment about "The drivers' "businesses" are so integrated into Uber's product that there is no meaningful distinction that can be drawn there" is not a consistent litmus test since many industries depend on people "integrated" into their product. Movie productions hiring freelancers such as stuntmen, soundmen, actors, etc -- who are all "integral" to the product (the film). Or hair salons providing booths to freelance hairstylists. Those hair cutters are "integral" as well.

There are better arguments for reclassifying contractors as employees other than the "integral" test.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v_Silk
> Free market capitalism is often advertised as just giving people what they want,

They should also know what they're getting to make an informed choice. Sadly, most ways of selling or advertising are about lying through omission.
I presume the communist mode of production is one in a stateless, money-less society where factors of production are cooperatively owned by workers and where the production process is based on some definition of "use" rather than "profit". Profit would be the surplus employed by workers to create more use value. Goods would be traded "in kind" as is without a lubricant of exchange like money.

The canonical argument against this is "Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth". There's generally been two ways socialist thinkers have tried to get around this: a) calculation in kind, which essentially reverts us back to unscalable barter where there is no reliable unit of account, and b) the Lange model of a Central Planning Board, which immediately brings all the issues of public choice, bureaucracy and "state capitalism" as you derided it earlier.
The rule for shopping in the grocery store is simple: stay out of the aisles, stick with fresh produce and lean meats.
It seems like fraud would be really hard to prove for a policy like this.

My very first thought is - why wouldn't the policy holder make some anon accounts and "bully" themselves, lose their "job" (twitch or youtube broadcaster for example) and claim the money.
Nuclear power was widely used for surface combatants in the Cold War-I think they were victims of the general cost cutting of the 1970s. Certainly, in a peak oil centric world, having more nuclear powered ships might seem to be more of an asset. The last surface non aircraft carrier nukes were the Virginia class CGNs, launched in the late 70s.
Looks like they ride on the Notifuse successful initiative: "Free dev stickers, worldwide shipping" https://notifuse.com/stickers
> I'm wondering why these ships aren't nuclear powered. I suppose it is the cost.

Cost is certainly a factor, but safety and non-proliferation are also huge factors. Nuclear reactors are amazing pieces of technology, and we definitely don't want to give them out as freely as we do diesel engines.

You're a former navy nuke technician - do you think you have more expertise than the average roustabout on a freighter? Is that expertise important? Is there an opportunity for disaster if an untrained everyday joe successfully bluffed his way into your job?
#GOPdildo
I'm guessing the downvotes have nothing to do with MatLab and more to do with your choice of phrasing (regardless of your actual intent).

It reads less like you are asking a question, and more like "well yeah, duh, of course that's why they did that".
This means population control requires poverty once again
It's worth emphasising that the OME (the main engine) and the RCS (the attitude thrusters) both run on hydrazine fuel, but the OME also has a separate tank of oxidant. So, the OME is a bipropellant engine, while the RCS is a monopropellant engine, which is why the OME is more efficient.

(Aside: that's actually a really neat trick, and this is the first I've heard of it being used.)

After the OME engine nozzle broke off and the engine became useless, the tank of oxidant became useless mass. (65kg.) So they dumped it overboard, simply venting it out the broken rocket nozzle. (Yes, the did point the vehicle in the right direction so that they could get some momentum change out of it.)

Making that decision, to dump irreplaceable fuel overboard because of a conclusion you've reached by looking at some telemetry graphs, is one that I am very glad I wasn't the one to have to make.
That takes this from 'damning' right into 'criminal' territory. Wow. That document should get a lot more visibility. I will update the article to include your link.
Since being an employee v. a contractor is largely a tax concern, it's not necessarily your decision.
Problem is that effectively if you spend that money you wind up devaluing any capital you already have invested in. So, why risk the devaluation? If I were Apple or Microsoft I would just quietly hum to myself and pretend it didn't exist. Or that I'm saving it for occasional dividend payouts. But beyond that, I'd stay as far away from active investment as possible.

In many ways this is akin to a mathematical singularity where all economic models break down. Can't tax it out of the economy or deficit spend it, both will cause misallocations from the speculative markets as they'll assume the dead money has worth which incentivizes them to spend it which again devalues existing capital invested which causes the markets to collapse. So, what to do? I assume at this point we're heading into a situation that's similar to a post-scarcity economy, so it's inevitable that prices will have to collapse whether we want them to or not. And that means certain norms such as property rights go away (along with the State institutions that prop it up). We'll get a Star Trek future, but only after the Mad Max nightmare between now and then is my guess (purely speculative and not of substance imo).
Yup, perforce is the de-facto solution to this. We had a similar setup where the art-sync was ~600GB(once again views are fantastic for keeping on-disk repo size down).

I haven't had a chance to use git-fusion "in anger" yet, but I hear lots of good things for treating a p4 like a git endpoint to allow devs to work in a DVCS manner while keeping all the good parts of Perforce.
The Internet of Things is about to reshape e-commerce
The shipping industry has been able to keep costs artificially low by treating air pollution as an externality. Eventually that loophole will be closed through a combination of emissions taxes and outright bans. I expect the long-term solution to be a combination of: larger (more efficient) ships, lower cruising speeds, biofuels, and auxiliary sail propulsion.
There is a lot more to come from the ICE when it comes to manufacturing processes and the electronics. Work like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bch5B23_pu0&list=PLHa6PXrV-y...

3d printing a whole engine must surely enable some impressive things. I remember watching a little demonstration using machine learning for the engine timing once you can get the belts out.