skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't there a lot more more to being a citizen of a country than paying one's taxes? Nothing about integrating into a community? A country is not an economy.

Let's put it this way... if I were a (white) billionaire, and a few hundred of my richest friends and I moved to China and started buying up real estate in a major city and flaunting our wealth all over the place, how do you think the locals would receive us?
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This is exactly the sort of argument made against Italians, Irish, and numerous others that have come to the U.S. It's pretty gross.
Hm, this is one of those ideas which (like daily fantasy sports) seems to be in a gray area around online gambling. I don't know if what you're doing is currently illegal, but it definitely is one of those things that (e.g.) the NY Consumer Finance people don't tend to like. So I think that's a big risk for the business. Maybe you can get around these somehow but is it really how you want to spend your life?

If you want my advice, I'd encourage you to work on something that makes the world a better place somehow. Then you can have the world (and the regulators) on your side, and that gives your business a higher chance to succeed in the long term.
Since two replies to this comment suggest the underlying cause might be " less toxic environments, better ecology (less polluted, less crowded areas - less infections, less harards, etc)" and " better health care", the answer is no.

According to the original paper, life expectancy in the lowest quartile "were not significantly correlated with access to medical care, physical environmental factors, income inequality, or labor market conditions."

https://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2513561

The big correlates seem to be income and behavior (e.g. smoking, obesity).
By "stored procedures" the author seems to mean what is more usually described as "prepared statements": https://docs.voltdb.com/UsingVoltDB/DesignProcAnatomy.php#De...
gmail is sufficiently good at blocking spam that a lot of spammers don't bother with it.
I went to school with kids from HK who arrived and didn't speak English very well. After a short time their English improved substantially, and after a couple of years, frankly, many of them could write essays with better grammar than many of the caucasian native English speakers in the class.

Instead of criticizing immigrants for being different, how about we welcome them, support them, and make a better home for everyone.

Part of the reason it appears that they don't want to "integrate" is because so many people around them are instantly hostile.

Be welcoming and you will be surprised at what you will learn about the world (and about yourself).
I think for Vancouver dwellers the problem is taxes need to be land value tax not income tax.
Personally I think it would be reasonable to censor what gets displayed in a public space that are hard to avoid when a large proportion is against it.

Preventing them from plastering large gore pictures is very different from preventing them from showing those pictures to people who voluntarily comes to a meeting, or after asking someone if they want to see.

To me, the latter is what is deeply problematic. Especially considering that a lot of issues that are now accepted by the mainstream would have been in the "deeply offensive" category when the movements started out.

E.g. imagine a student union today denying a platform to advocates of gay rights. It's not that long ago that such speakers would have been considered extremely offensive in the UK, and were routinely denied a platform.

The moment student unions and the like sets themselves up as arbiters of what views are acceptable, they are no better than the many people who over the years have fought to deny platforms to gay rights advocates or advocates of womens suffrage, or civil rights regardless of race, or in favour of interracial marriages, or to end slavery. Yes, someones views may be vile to you, but if there's one thing history has shown us, it is that the majority has been on the wrong end of a vast number of issues for a long time before things changed. And it's easy to assume we're on the right side.

The problem is that everyone believes they're on the right side, which means a substantial proportion of us are wrong no matter the issue. The moment it becomes acceptable to censor, that means a substantial proportion of us will want to censor views that will put us squarely on the wrong side in retrospect.
That's strange because that's the first link I clicked on when viewing that site. I also found it interesting that these were the positions available.
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A possible reason for bringing MSSQL to Linux that was not mentioned in TFA at all: customers requesting it.
Companies really like people doing it as well, as it locks you into their platform.
I’m pretty sure this is Mike’s GlueCon 2010 presentation verbatim. Not sure why it says 2015.

Plenty has changed since 2010 about VoltDB. If people have any questions I’m happy to answer.
The moment you give people a little bit of power they'll find a way to abuse it. People can be really petty and spiteful.

What happened at this university is no different from a secretary deliberating forgetting to book a hotel room for the person they like least in the group. No different from the clerk at the DMV sending you to the back of the line because you made a paperwork mistake.

Where is the moral panic about this type of petty nonsense? Nowhere! Because we recognize it's petty nonsense, and not worthy of hand-wringing commentary or a national conversation. But when it comes to students and free speech and safe spaces every news channel and every major magazine is talking about it like it signifies the end of Freedom itself. It's totally absurd.
> No-platforming someone is exactly the same as not inviting them into your space. That's what it means -- not giving them a platform to speak. They can still exercise their free speech rights on their own time and their own space.

No platforming began in universities and is still mostly confined there because the tactics necessary for it would get the police called almost anywhere else. The university is not solely the illiberal left's space. When they try to no platform someone they're almost always trying to get the university administration to ban the attendance of someone another university club or society invited banned. Fuck that. Other people's safe spaces aren't their safe spaces. If they want people gone or want to make their attendance impossible or unpleasant let them use violence and incivility and suffer the consequences.

> Inasmuch as there is a real point of debate here, and not just the whinging of butthurt right-wingers who are used to having a platform given to them whenever they ask, the question is whether students have a right to control who the university gives a platform to. This is an area of legitimate struggle (students say yes, administrations say no), but it's overshadowed by the bogus argument that this is actually about censorship.

Some students say yes, others say no.
We could possibly test that.

If we could prove we were running in a simulation, perhaps we could guess the purpose of the simulation, and interfere with the results in a manner that might catch the attention of the simulators?

"This is the third time in a row that the weather simulation has produced rain only on prime numbered days."

Better hope the simulators don't fix that problem by re-imaging the universe.
Financing makes that grossly higher price more palatable though.
This looks very nice - I've been looking for something like this for a future project.
You mean the kids are suffering from affluenza?
Pointing out that some of these students - not only limited to Chinese - do not integrate is not the same as being racist. That's quite a hyperbole.
According to the original article, life expectancy differences "were not significantly correlated with access to medical care, physical environmental factors, income inequality, or labor market conditions."

https://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2513561

So in fact doing something about the "divide between the rich and poor" is unlikely to help. It might even be counterproductive if it reduces income (which is highly correlated) and if this effect is causal.
“really bad idea” seems too strong for me – I don't think it's good general advice, at least in that simple a framing, but I'd focus on the actual downsides: you're writing a lot more logic in SQL and that means you need to manage it in two places while maintaining test coverage, deployments, etc.

Many places do that terribly – no version control / copy and paste from a separate system, different groups own the code and the database, etc. – but that doesn't mean that you wouldn't have a far better existence if you followed modern practice, used a good migration framework, etc.
This article is part of a worrying acceptance in the popular media of xenophoboia and hatred of the wealthy.

> China’s rapid economic rise has turned peasants into billionaires. Many wealthy Chinese are increasingly eager to stow their families, and their riches, in the West, where rule of law, clean air and good schools offer peace of mind, especially for those looking to escape scrutiny from the Communist Party and an anti-corruption campaign that has sent hundreds of the rich and powerful to jail.

This whole article breeds condescension. Peasants? "Stow away their families"? Not to mention the the fact that Canada is one of the least corrupt countries in the world. Perhaps they are fortunate enough to seek a better life for themselves and their families free of political oppression.
This is naive. We don't have a free market in real estate at all:

1. banks can create credit at will and do so primarily against land

2. planning is tightly controlled

3. taxes on land are insufficient to counteract 1 given 2

4. the state underwrites land prices via subsidies

Land is finite (even in Canada) due to constraints on infrastructure / topology. Not controlling ownership of a vital resource is IMHO nuts.

We don't have a free market in anything.
Don't forget the pink matte sticker paint job to go with new new BMW or Mercedes. The worst is one someone goes for a gold or chrome paint job on a Ferrari, they are always parked outside of Gongti night clubs in Beijing.
This seems suspiciously like a marketing presentation for VoltDB more than debunking myth about SQL.

Tl;Dr; SQL is too slow ? No, VoltDB is Fast !
Related story, different content:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11478361
People with weak immune system, autoimmune diseases, bad habits related disorders (almost everything, including depressions) etc, would be outperformed by top achievers (outliers), but they would be in the "average" region. It is the same model as IQ, where wast majority are average.
They make BMWs in China?
I realize it was a tongue in cheek comment (at least interpreted that way), but that was a serendipitous opportunity for the young lady's boyfriend. I know I've had several such opportunities with my now in laws. Regardless of the differences of opinions, nothing wins over people more than just helping when help is needed.
no I mean the kids are suffering from instant hostility due to some combination of (a) racism (b) more general zenophobia (c) hatred because of their family's wealth

it's unfair to treat these kids badly

be welcoming and supportive and you will be surprised at what you will learn about the world and about yourself
> I don't understand how the caucasian-looking US population can claim to be the real Americans, ignoring that the US has been one of the richest mix of immigrants.

You can't be serious. American history did not start in 1980. The vast majority of the US population throughout its history has been European-descended.
If it's going to take decades to become profitable then you're already doomed and it doesn't matter who you hire first.
It's all to easy to declare a pox on both your houses and wash your hands of things.

Would it change anything if the left were 1/5th as guilty as the right? Or 1/50th? Or 100x more guilty?

If your views don't change, then you give more power to those who are most guilty. As another example of sarcasm, "Look, one person on welfare once bought drugs so it's okay for big banks to illegally foreclose on mortgages!"

I'm certain that you do want people to be fired for saying some things. If a geology teacher at a public university were to only talk about Young Earth Creationism then they should be fired. No?

If a professor or reporter should plagiarize - plagiarism is NOT illegal - then they should be fired. No? If further investigation shows a 20 year history of plagiarism across scores of publications, do you seriously propose there mustn't be the functional equivalent of a blacklist which prevents that person from working again a prestigious institution?

If an invited speaker for "How to be Moral" is accused in federal court of sexually abusing boys when he worked as a wrestling coach at a high school, then he should be de-platformed. No?
The author quoted Shuttleworth:

> The native availability of a full Ubuntu environment on Windows, without virtualization or emulation, is a milestone that defies convention and a gateway to fascinatingly unfamiliar territory.

"Ubuntu environment" is the key there. Microsoft doesn't need "Linux" unless they're planning on replacing their own kernel with it. Microsoft here is depending on the software running atop of the kernel: in this case, the GNU operating system---which is more than just a set of GNU programs[0]---which brings all of this software together.

Granted, all the talk has been primarily about GNU Bash and other GNU software.[1]

Yes, they're running software compiled for the kernel Linux by providing translating system calls; they could also do that for any other kernel that hackers want to compile their software for, should it become immensely popular. But the rest of the Unix stuff is separate.

[0]: https://gnu.org/gnu/gnu.html

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/
VoltDB supports prepared statements AND stored procedures. It also supports ad-hoc SQL and will cache auto-parameterized intermediate representations.

SQL is only slow if the system has never seen it before and needs to plan/optimize, which typically happens rarely in an OLTP system that does the same thing over and over.
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Actually, being Chinese they will probably like you alot ...
I could barely restrain my excitement when I first saw the green-screen scrolling visuals in the Matrix, especially the scene at the end where Neo looks underneath the surface of the world. It was the first time Hollywood's cinematic license had created something that looked the way my internal experience felt, and that was a powerful moment after years of eye-rollingly ridiculous movie computer cheese.
Is it still stored procedures only?
> a) a generation that was conceived after a period of widespread crime and social uncertainty, leading parents to coddle them and try to protect them from the world [see 'helicopter' parenting'],

I think that's making the phenomenon a bit more rational than it is. Growing up in american middle-class suburbs in the 90s is easily the safest childhood any child every had.

I think a big factor is that the baby-boomers in the west was the first generation that were able to focus on individualism and self realisation in a first-class way, and in passing that excitement on to their children, they created a generation of parents who perhaps over-indexed on those values. When everybody is a unique snowflake, the "everybody else is doing it, it's probably going to be fine" approach to decision making get tempered in favour of "oh, maybe that's how my parents approached things and I almost fell out of a tree that one time, and they could have done more to make me practise the violin, but luckily I'm very smart and I have read a lot of books and I took a lot of classes and my child is very special and unique and so I need to work out, from first principles and with great care, exactly under which circumstances going bicycling in the street will aid the specific, carefully laid out plan I have for my child" -- and that's where you end up over-indexing on the dangers and rationalising over-protection, and you remove the mechanisms by which kids learn to make decisions and mistakes for themselves.
Um, that is essentially what happened about 100 years ago. A few differences though... The europeans brought along lots of armed guards and demanded China's laws didn't apply to them. Obviously, there was some friction.
Yes. And they are all discussing beneath a 'Show HN' link with 500+ points. I am wondering if that show HN simulation demo is in JavaScript as well? Hopefully in WebAssembly by now (or by then, based on perspective)
> Claiming that blacks are a different species, not even a different race, is some next level Hitler / KKK / etc. shit.

I may be missing something, but the claim I've read around the Internet is that "Africans" are the only pure Human group, and are a different species from Neanderthals, while other Human groups have a small percentage of Neanderthal genes.

Whether that's true or not, it seems like a far less problematic claim than the one you mention.
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So, perhaps a silly question...but if Ford is going to be competing for the best talent Silicon Valley has to offer, will they establish a stronger presence in the region?

I am not trying to knock Detroit or Dearborn, but it seems like they would need to do this. Maybe I missed it in the article. I think it would be kind of hard (even given the cost of living) to get top talent to migrate from, say Cupertino, to Dearborn en masse.
Looks nice, and the payload is impressively small. I'd be happier if there weren't 4 separate downloads of JQuery on the demo page though
This quote is completely wrong!

He told: ", well, we put junk food in front of them and they ate that, so that must be what they want.”.
Yes.. all foreign automakers must have a partnership with a chinese company in order to setup operations within China. So you have Chinese built VW, Buicks, Audi, BMW... etc.. The rear badge would have some chinese characters to indicate the city where it was built or the joint parternship http://cdn.bmwblog.com/wp-content/uploads/brilliance_new_ene...
20 years ago, CPU performance was doubling every 18 months or so.
How much would you charge me to do teardowns / tests of a few chargers?
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There wouldn't be, if that were the case.[3]

As the article mentioned, many individuals are 'gifted' items from family members still residing in China. How do you tax somebody that has no official income? (aside from the tax one purchase itself, which isn't what I think you're referring to). Such tax avoidance schemes aren't unheard of[1].

What adds the contention and frustrations of residents is the foreign investments in real-estate, which, in Vancouver and Toronto specifically, are driving the costs above what they can realistically afford. Again, it's not unheard of for the foreign investors to be using the real estate as tax avoidance in their own country[2], at the cost of the local citizens quality of living.

[1] - http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/kpmg-offshore-sham-deceived-...
[2] - http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/a-crisis-in-vancouver...

[3] - ninja edit - I'm not trying to categorically say none of those mentioned in the articles pay taxes! Of course that's not the case! What I'm trying to communicate is, those who aren't and are avoiding paying taxes, are the ones causing issues for local residents and what the focus of these articles I've mentioned.
That's the problem. They're not [1].

In fact, refugees are paying more in taxes than millionaire immigrants of the now defunct investor program [2].

[1] - http://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/the-market/foreig...

[2] - http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/refugees-pay-more-income-tax...
All well and good, but on my Linux box the need for an equivalent to BSOD is just not needed, never mind having a QR code on it.
Well, this is definitely one way how to aggregate it. Next time will contact you to craft a catching headline for the article.
On the other hand cloud sql is 400 micros from web servers. 10 round trips is like 10ms.. Not even visible to an end user.
Most of the hate comes from people who got left out of the real estate price appreciation over the past 10 years in Vancouver.

There are a lot of Canadians, however, who benefited from a disproportionate increase in wealth over this period of time as well.

In fact, many people who have bought multiple homes in Vancouver have now amassed a fortune which would make any startup founder who just got bought out by Google blush.

It's sort of like being in the right place at the right time. Like if you just so happened to have owned a hardware shop and sold shovels when the gold rush happened.

Toronto will probably be the next to experience the insane price increases we've seen in Vancouver as the housing inventory there becomes more scarce.
Of course, no (..) university is obligated to give them a platform.

For public universities, why not?
This is great work, but any scrollbar adjacent to a draggable divider isn't usable :(
Are you describing Hong Kong?
I've never used SoftICE, but my first thought was that it looks a lot like MacsBug.

I've always felt grumpy at the amount of work I have to do to convince gdb to show me anything useful when I'm trying to debug a program; it feels like debugging through the wrong end of a telescope. This screen shot feels like an immediate shot of relief - "oh THERE it all is, whew". I don't know if I'd even use all that information very much, but the sense that "all the context is right there in front of you" is a powerful one.
It seems incredible racist to assume that all Chinese money is dirty money and/or money laundering. Sure, some of it is, but China is also the world's factory - we pay them to manufacture stuff, that provides them with money legitimately. It might not be evenly distributed among the population, but that isn't the case in the US either.
I'mma just leave what eevee said the first time Fry got all offended about people being offended

>I love Stephen Fry, really I do, but this oft-repeated quote is bullshit and he is perfectly demonstrating why that is. What he’s really saying is this: everyone else’s feelings don’t matter, but his do, because he frames them as universal rules of discourse rather than feelings.

https://eev.ee/blog/2016/02/15/everyones-offended-these-days...
Your examples are good, but to be accurate to the argument at hand you would expect it to be okay for all car roll simulations to be banned, or optional for anyone and for all glass walled elevators to be covered up everywhere. It's not the fear or the offence that's being debated, it's the change in society to accommodate the fear or the offence that's the point.
Okay, so Bucklescript is intended to become the next generation of js-of-ocaml, right?
No, it's actually a camera that really does capture and store "light field" data:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-field_camera

which links to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_field
> The only way to reduce fear is exposure to its trigger.

This is true.

> To confront it head-on.

This is not, and can often make fear and phobia much worse.

There's a difference between a carefully structured plan of therapy that gradually exposes an arachnophobe to spiders in a controlled environment and someone throwing a bucket of spiders at someone and yelling "Feel the fear and do it anyway"
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Nope, a real company hosting an event with the Harvard Business School Club of New York this month. Whether it should be parody is entirely a matter of opinion.