skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. A lot of habits that make people ill, also make them poor. I'm well-off but in relatively poor health and don't see how I could "buy" a significantly better life expectancy at this point. Sure, a shorter organ transplant list helps in some cases (not mine though), but that specific advantage can't explain 15 years on average (while smoking alone counts for 10 years or so).
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If by better you mean "less cold", sure. Not everyone is afraid of cold.
Build vertically?
"The more people see that they're currently the fiercest opponents of a free society the better."
Didn't say it was new, but I think it does prove that you can increase longevity with money. I'd say being alive is a proxy for happiness (lets say at least 51%).

>If money could buy happiness, they there would be zero cases of rich people killing themselves.

Man that analysis is just incredibly faulty. As far as you know they killed themselves months or years later than they otherwise would have. I have way more experience with suicide than I would prefer and can tell you that money troubles are a SIGNIFICANT factor for suicidal ideation and attempts [1].

[1] Wang, Y., Sareen, J., Afifi, T. O., Bolton, S. L., Johnson., E. A. (2012). Recent stressful life events and suicide attempt. Psychiatric Annals, 42.3, 101-108.
Paper-Pushing Flight Controllers See Future in Canada's System
New robot-biped from another Google owned company, japanese
But do they have to learn the local language when they don't plan to stay there indefinitely?
I know – sorry for making fun of that wording. Comment threads like this just get the worst of me. Having worked in journalism, I don't quite understand the disregard (hate?) for the profession, esp. considering how reasonable HN usually seems to be.
You can also solve this with prepared statements which for example Active Record does for you for free.
No, you can run arbitrary SQL. You can even send it over an HTTP/JSON API.

If you want a multi-statement transaction with logic, you still need to use a procedure. 1TXN = 1RndTrp is still true.
TLS and SSH security scans with remediation reports
A little dark hypothesis:

I've seen some (intertwined) hypotheses in the news lately of why there's no neanderthal Y chromosomes: the mixed-race-neanderthal-Y boys didn't do so well for some reason, the human Y chromosome had advantages, or the neanderthal-Y wasn't compatible genetically.

How about the more obvious guess: homo sapiens invaded and conquered neanderthals, killing all the males (and their Y chromosomes with them). It's speculative, but it would definitely not be the first time in history that such a thing has happened. And the neaderthals live for hundreds of thousands of years, then disappear just tens of thousands of years after homo sapiens show up in their neighborhood. So it's likely one group wiped out the other. And it's not hard to imagine keeping the women when you decide to kill a whole neighboring tribe.

I actually came up with the hypothesis about how the two groups most likely interbred just a few days before I found out in the news that the neanderthal Y-chromosome disappeared. I don't know if I should be excited or disgusted that the evidence might support my hypothesis.
Not sure why this was down voted without a lot of explanation... In theory it makes sense, and it's not like we couldn't do both.
I'm still pretty firmly in the camp which believes that a lot of logic ('business rules,' if you like that phrase) should reside in the database. IMHO DBAs are useful, in much the same way that ops folks are useful: they have a different skillset and point-of-view than do developers, and are a necessary component of any team dealing with data.

Playing fast-and-loose with one's data is as bad as playing fast-and-loose with one's processing of that data.
If you have PTSD you should be in therapy, not dictating what others can and can't say in a public forum committed to the ideals of free speech.

I knew a girl in college who had been violently raped and it obviously had a profoundly traumatic impact on her. She needed help. However, the solution was not to avoid teaching about The Rape of Lucretia.
I think it's also unfair to completely ignore the social impact that this growing and highly wealthy immigration (and subsequent disproportionate spending) has had on the generations of people who have lived in Vancouver and now find many important things getting more expensive and out of reach in the span of a relatively short period of time.

This has nothing to do with race or ethnicity, but more pragmatically has to do with "outsiders" arriving and disrupting the local economy and social structure. I'm not saying it should be prevented, but you can't just say it's benign either.

If 37,000 rich people flocked to Vancouver from another part of Canada, and were mostly white, the majority of the issues being raised would remain the same.

Your anecdotal story about growing up around some of these kids is not invalid, but it ignores the larger social impact of recent events that have nothing to do with kids, but more to do with their parents' money.
The demos don't work on my iPad Pro...

1. Long pressing on a window title brings a smaller window under my finger and when I let go the window disappears.

2. I can maximize the window, but when I try to restore/minimize I get a new CodePen window opening.

3. On a stack, when I tap a tab, it highlights, but I can't get it to activate. Long pressing does the same as (1) and also appears to rearrange the tabs.
do you have a citation? This seems like an incredible result, and I would love to hear more!
But life expectancy in many countries that are poorer than the US is higher, so it's not absolute wealth that matters either.

https://data.oecd.org/healthstat/life-expectancy-at-birth.ht...
How's this better than links? http://www.aboutlinux.info/2007/02/links2-cross-platform-con...
These people have a massive amount of money that they basically stole from the rest of the country (and its environment) and now are trying to get it out while they can. China's GDP growth looks great until you realize how unevenly that growth occurred, and what the real cost was. And now they will basically use the west to protect those gains from being reclaimed when everyone realizes how bad the damage is. That sucks.

I have no problem with immigration. I'm almost an immigrant (ironically enough, in China). But I see the things that make life here so hard (unfairness, corruption) exported back to my home, you are damn right I'm not going to be happy about it.
1) Wealth cannot be "stolen", it doesn't belong to the country, it belongs to the individual. Unless it's the Government's money that's just called "spending."

Edit: I'm referring to the idea frequently spoken by Trump supporters, that somehow wealth created in a given country must be kept in that country. It's nonsense. Wealth (tied to individuals anyway) should be as free to move as those individuals. It isn't tied to any given country or state therefore they have no sway in what happens to it or what it's used for beyond the obvious legalities such as importing contraband, smuggling, that sort of thing.

2) Relativistic standards in different places. This is Xenophobia at it's finest. "You didn't spend your money like I would, therefore you are dumb/scary/silly/stupid."

3) As if any parent in the West wouldn't try to do the same damn thing for their kid if they got in trouble in a foreign country. Hell I've seen parents defending their children in courtrooms in the same country. It's a lot harder to condemn your own offspring to jail time than most people think.

4) Who cares? It's not your money, they're paying stupid tax to send their children to universities they can't complete and possibly spending enough of it to get some stupid piece of paper telling them how smart their kids are. Not going to help them when mom and dad are gone.

This whole article and topic reeks of people who haven't heard the phrase "mind your own business" enough.
Pointing out that there are issues with integration
is not the same thing as being a racist

It's interesting to note that @plg didn't use the word "racist".
If you have strong negative feelings about a car rollovers, glass elevators or 9/11, that is something you have to manage on your own. You have to accept your feelings or do something to change or tolerate them. But you cannot put that burden onto other people. People should not be afraid of speaking or acting in ways that may hurt other people's feelings.

I uderstand the purpose of safe-spaces. And, to a degree, I feel people are free to build them and use them. I just think they are counter productive. You have nothing to gain by shunning and blocking ideas and concepts. On the limit, for extreme responses and feeling, you should probably seek help to manage them.
There's just no content in that article at all.
Most VoltDB customers have no DBA. DBAs can sometimes be pretty hostile during POCs because with VoltDB and many other non-tradtiional systems, they often have a smaller role.

Some DBAs are great though and bring experience that can be really valueable when building an app. Depends on how open-minded they are.
They need a downvote button or similar. That's a big part of how the Mail deals with it. Even with the Mail most readers aren't that racist so the upvoted comments are not so bad.
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As if someone is able to simply decide to be Steve Jobs, as wealthy he was, etc.
Then you add value without taking up more space. This would reduce the cost of a human requirement: shelter.

This is what LVT is for. Our present system is about maximising the availability of credit to absorb all spare capacity. This is why we are working full time despite massive productivity improvements. This is why when women entered the labour force it was all absorbed by land prices.

The 1% in the main don't want to "build vertically". They want to do nothing and have you work and give them a cut of their income. I'm fine with people making life better and getting a cut.

ps this may be the last comment I can make as HN hates LVT and any criticism of rentiers
> I wouldn't be surprised if most of the difference cited by this study was due to walking. I know that I've had to exert extra effort living in SF to be more active than I had to when I lived in NYC.

Wow I find this kinda surprising. I walk more or less as much in sf as in NY, if only because roughly 100% of the time, the weather is comfortable enough to enjoy walking in (as opposed to Manhattan in the summer.... Or the winter).

Then again, I think my house is unusually well connected to transit, so maybe where you live transit+walking isn't as feasible an option.
I think it's more appropriate to say that if the individual can have a $150,000 car at no cost, why on Earth would he/she give a shit what you think of him? I'd take the car and wouldn't hear your opinions of me or it over the engine.
That may be due to Don Hopkins. He did the pie menus for NeWS and latter for The Sims.
I like your approach sometimes. When dealing with people, I find it best to take positive changes in behavior at face value. I'm sure people could hang their past behavior over their head and treat them as though nothing has changed, but that seems sociopathic. Judging people more harshly based on past behavior is a pretty good way to keep yourself from harm, though. If it weren't unfair to others I would consider doing it.

With companies, I have no need to weigh their positive behavior more heavily. No one's feelings are at risk of being hurt; no friendships are on the line. If a company burns me with bad practices, it's safe and prudent to hold their mistakes against them. It should take a very long time for companies to build back goodwill, once lost.
> "Use stored procedures instead" - in most use cases this is prolly a really really bad idea.

Of course, so when I need need to do operations on large sets of data lets pull it all into an app, operate on the data and then push it back. I would not be no snarky if I had not seen it done because someone didn't like stored procedures.
There's no "increasing tendency".

Pick a random decade and you'll hear exactly the same things.

Christopher Hitchens in 1994, for example, defended David Irving when St. Martin’s Press "de-platformed" (to use the modern term, that is, canceled its contract to print) Irving's edition of the Goebbels diaries.

Look at the generations of people who insisted on the "right" to not hear certain racially charged slurs in casual conversation. Just watch 'Archie Bunker' episodes if you want a reminder of what that was like in the 1970s.

I propose that it's only "increasing" because things that are recent, and which affect us and challenge us most directly, appear more important than things in the past. Even more so where we implicitly accept the views of the winning side - eg, woman's suffrage - as being correct, and don't think that those on the losing side also thought themselves as being correct.
That does not help you avoid a land tax ;)

We will know the 0.01% are losing the class war when a serious land tax is introduced. I personally don't see it happening anytime soon.
Sounds like the Boxer rebellion
That's often done once and cached.

It is worth keeping one eye at those things. They can slow your program down badly, and go unnoticed a lot of times. But most of the time they don't slow you down at all, and when they do it's often much better to solve the problem by rewriting your queries into something that batches more data.

Yes, once in a long while it makes sense to create a stored procedure to deal with it. But this is the exceptional situation that deserves explaining - not the other way around.
Sun: "We want to become a software company". It didn't go well
American Air: TSA is our #1 problem right now, and it’s only going to get worse
I'm not sure I've ever seen one, and I've run exclusively *nix on my personal machines for about 8 years. Yet I've seen a lot on the Win10 laptop I just bought a few months ago (mostly due to a broken windows update -- updating again fixed it).
No doubt some of the tax evasion needs to be caught (where possible while maintaining a free market, I'm aware that may be a false dichotomy). However, there is little hope of anything being done in regards to the real estate situation given the state of Canada's current economy[1]. There's no incentive for the current governments (federal or provincial) to curb the trend.

[1] - http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-29/canada-s-o...
I'm interested in knowing what subset of SQL MapD supports. How does it handle expressions on strings and complex data types (tstamp zoned, dates?), etc.
Please reread my last paragraph. My comment has nothing do with putting that burden onto other people. I objected to the conclusion that beaker52 draws.
> Not to mention, stored procedures mean having a DBA,

Not anymore than writing SQL requires a dba. If you have developers writing SQL that cannot handle creating sprocs, then you already have a huge problem.
If you need to hold a lock for 10ms in order to ensure things are transactional, it can have a bigger impact.

Also, if you get a slow delivery even N packets, where N seems large, you’ve just incresed your chances of hitting that issue 10x. This is brutal on long tail latencies.

But no, not all systems need this.
Sure, but some have suggested the reverse as well.
Actions as an employee are another issue. The problem with de-platforming in the public sphere (rather than the private) is arrogance and condescension.

De-platformers presume to be protectors from ideas that they find bad or dangerous. The reason why it won't survive as a strategy is because it seeds resentment among the people who have to go along with the platforming choices of their 'betters.'

It's becoming obvious that not everyone agrees with PC/call-out culture, but they don't feel comfortable saying so. We're in a preference falsification bubble now. It's going to pop.
Here's one in Python, for those who want choices: https://github.com/donnemartin/haxor-news
Is this news to anyone?
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theo is canadian, and lives in calgary
This is what made me use aws as well
Isn't one of the main reasons to move logic into the database is so that you have a dedicated DBA handling everything in the best way possible ?
It's not SQL that is slow, but when you try and distribute a relational database you lose Referential integrity, Transactions, Unique Indexes and other such key features which are why you actually chose a relational database in the first place.

I'm yet to see a database which does all of that and still is truly distributed.
Certainly looks promising, but add your github url on the front page prominently! i had to google it to find it.
It also kind of goes against the national mythos in the case of the US, which compounds the difficulty.
SEH was there before C++ was fully standardized (first standardized version was C++98). In this sense one can argue that the definition of RAII is leaky since it "forgot" that SEH was already there and not the other way round. A proper solution would have been that functions where RAII is used must not call functions that can throw an SEH exception.
What does "deciding" have to do with it?
Money cannot buy happiness, if you don't know what you need, or what you need cannot be bought.

I am not saying that all cases of human suffering falls into that category, but a lot of them do.

>As far as you know they killed themselves months or years later than they otherwise would have...

That means, they tried to buy happiness, but failed to do so, right?
JDBC doesn’t have to be slow. VoltDB actually caches ad-hoc SQL plans so even they run pretty fast these days. You can use JDBC and get good performance.

The biggest thing you lose with JDBC over the native VoltDB clients is better cluster awareness. In our native client you can get callbacks when servers fail, when backpressure is triggered, etc…

Now Hibernate over JDBC is another issue.

Edit: As merb points out JDBC is synchronous. This is true; if you have one client and one thread, this will be limiting fast. It's not a server-side issue though. If you have enough clients and/or enough threads, then you can still get very high throughput.
Native Australian trees are the most salt-hardy trees on the planet. The non-native species you listed would most likely not even survive in "normal" Australian soil conditions.
"Sometimes though, when I really think about the inevitability of dying it's still hard to go to sleep."

I totally understand this sentiment. Thinking about death in life's quiet moments is almost like thinking about an absurdly complex problem set, for which there is no one right answer, and maybe one that needs no answer.

I have never tried psychedelics, but my idea of death was altered recently when a friend was diagnosed with stage IV throat cancer. He went from relatively healthy to "weeks to live" within a span of days. It shook me, obviously and shifted something in my perception.

This is why I steer clear of psychedelics...I fear that I could lose my ability to attempt to reason about such events. It is also why I don't drink. I feel like I need to be able to "control" such shifts. Sometimes though, I feel that this idea of control is a total illusion, or a coping mechanism.
This is sadly anecdotal because I can't find a reference online, but there was a story a decade or two ago about someone who sold completely inert blotting paper tabs at a festival.

No LSD, nothing at all. 100% placebo.

And people still tripped on them - to the extent that some of them came back and wanted to buy more, telling him how amazing the LSD was.

Perhaps the science is a little less straightforward than it seems.
While it is clearly propaganda for VoltDB, it does a good job of adressing some of the myths of SQL-slowness that we don't see very often.

Usually a lot of people saying SQL is slow is because they don't really use it well. He doesn't talk about indexing and statistics [1] for example.

But he talks about ODBC/JDBC because, while it is usually fast enough, a lot of people overlook the fact that these interfaces hold transactions externally.

Besides, the presentations comes from Stonebreaker himself; of (Turing prize, Von Neumann Medal, ingres, postgres, cstore, vertica, hstore, SciDB, Tamr, Streambase)-fame.

[1] http://use-the-index-luke.com/ is a very good resource for this.
>money legitimately

You're completly ignoring the massive subsidies and currency devaluation to keep this scheme going. If we didn't have import tariffs all our local industries would get destroyed because nobody can compete with someone who sells their goods below manufacturing costs for decades.
And together with fungi, we're classified in the Opistokonta clade in the article's tree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opisthokont
Yes, after I published that post Fredrick patch the Emacs package on Termux so it wouldn't need those workarounds. I've updated the post accordingly.

Sadly (maybe it's my pronunciation), but voice typing isn't that perfect for me. It works alright for regular sentences, but it refuses to understands things that are not plain english (like apt).
The ACC. Brains are squishy and evolved from fish, especially the basal ganglia parts like the ACC. They don't have fail-safe parts. Whatever gets 'routed' is going to synapse regardless of if it is 'real' or not. You cause a neuron to fire and it fires and sends it's signal onwards, it does not care why it fired.

Caution, hand-waving abounds in this comment.
> I suppose I don't consider the ex-citizens of one of the European royally rules countries to be the same, but there's surely some unifying traits like Christianity.

I don't either, but you did say "Caucasian-looking"...

A mass migration from any foreign culture (that is, highly different from the host culture) would be treated with alarm by the locals anywhere, in any country. It's not a phenomenon specific to the US. The US just happens to provide a particular historical instance of it. Vancouver seems to be providing us another.
Correct me if i'm wrong, but it looks like Cloud VPN went down, not all of GCE.

FYI I run about 15 servers in Asia, USAEast, and Europe on GCE with external monitoring and didn't get a peep from my error checking emails during that timeframe.
Money alone cannot make you happy, sure. But it does not follow that, therefore, being rich isn't so great, which is often what people are trying to suggest by trotting out that old saw.
I completely agree. People early in their careers have often not yet realized that data is king. That flashy web app written today will be thrown away tomorrow, but the data gathered by that app will live on in other apps for as long as the company is in business (and maybe longer depending on the type of data).
It does to an extent because you are taxed on the land not the improvement. You are not taxed more for having more living area.

I agree with you LVT and it's over for the banks and the rentiers. We will have to fight them to the end for this, it is the end for them so they will throw everything at it.
> If the overall complaint is that it's not built into the OS, well, welcome to UNIX, island of isolated, uncooperative, and sometimes broken toys.

> I like UNIX, don't get me wrong, but some of the API design is truly appalling.

I guess this is time for my annual post on Plan 9, which is basically Unix Done Right™. It really does feel like a coherent operating system, where all the parts fit together, feel well-thought-out and are well-finished. Every time I play with it (and really, at this point that's most of what it's good for) I want to cry at the lost potential. In that way, it's like SmallTalk or Lisp: something better, ignored by the world.

Sadly, while it offered built-in stack unwinding, it looks like the functions involved were different depending on RISC vs. CISC, and they could unwind at most 40 levels deep at a time (!): http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/2/debugger
in other words, just installing cygwin.