skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ehhh, most of the UN wants to really talk about a different approach than prohibition, historically it's been Russia, China, a few smaller countries and the US that has taken a hardline on it. Now the US is starting to back away. Will be interesting to see if anything new comes out of hte next UN drugs summit.
It's also possible that like many intelligent people he doesn't operate from fixed, rigid positions, but enjoys kicking mental footballs around that test out all sorts of contrary positions,
While merb provided a workaround, RLS is not intended for web applications that uses a single account for all database communication. Your application should be enforcing this and be written in a way that SQL injections are impossible.

This is more for scenarios such as:

- a DBA needs access to work on a database, but perhaps he/she should not have access to certain financial information which would enable them to do insider trading.

- or perhaps SaaS allows for their users to have direct read access to their database (probably not smart anyway), but want to make sure an user can access information about different users.
The Google proprietary stuff, and some of the free parts in Android are also already spyware. But adding an additional layer of proprietary software is just no good for the user :-)

I mean, I can also rant about CyanogenMod using oCLock (or whatever it is called) that sends by default your exact GPS locations over HTTP (not HTTPS!) to Yahoo.

Allowing Samsung to put their own stuff on top will just not improve anything for the user, it will improve stuff for Samsung, but I don't care about that.
I don't think you can stream iPhone's microphone from Safari with WebRTC.

The plugin I mentioned is http://skylink.io/plugin/ , but it only works for Safari on Mac.

You'll need to build a native app

https://webrtc.org/native-code/ios/

or try Bowser

http://www.openwebrtc.org/bowser/

(I haven't yet).
The Kloster solution[0] solves it in a more direct way, by showing that for each action the devil takes the angel can take a counter action by limiting it's own moves.

In the one proof is the realization that sometimes it's easier to solve a smaller problem then prove equivalence to a harder problem, and in the other is the realization that sometimes voluntarily reducing the number of actions can lead to a simpler solution. Both are pretty good tools to have under one's belt.

[0] - http://home.broadpark.no/~oddvark/angel/kloster.html
Fair points. Paul March of Eagleworks has claimed that a peer reviewed paper is under review for publishing currently, but who knows what the rigor of this publisher is. I badly, badly want this to be real, but I've accepted that it likely isn't.
> I don't think there's anything we stand to lose from this happening to products so simple and generic. Or is there?

The thing you stand to lose is the original making of that product.

While making the laptop stand is "simple" (and I object to that statement as manufacturing anything is rarely "simple"), getting it in front of people, marketing it, and selling it is not. Amazon sits back and looks for any products that now sell over $X million dollars and then simply walks in.

So, now if I'm a manufacturer, I will do several things:

1) I might avoid Amazon. Ever. Decreasing choice on Amazon certainly hurts the consumer, no?

2) I might make a shitty product specifically for Amazon to sell so it doesn't cannibalize my good product. I hope you like wading through even more crappy products on Amazon. That hurts the consumer, no?

3) I might simply not make the product. If I think that Amazon might clone me, I either might not develop the product or I might artificially restrict the sales if I know that Amazon flags products above "n units sales or $m total revenue".

This is not new. WalMart was the offender last time.
http://www.fastcompany.com/54763/man-who-said-no-wal-mart

Note that Snapper got bought by Briggs who then decided that Sears and WalMart were just fine. Quality seems to have suffered, as expected.
Nintendo's Family Computer (aka the Nintendo Entertainment System in the rest of the world) was released in 1983 and only discontinued in Japan in 2003. Even after that they still repaired consoles until 2007.
https://www.civilized.life/despite-treaties-justin-trudeau-c...
This bit:

"If your product is easily cloned by Amazon, and you cannot afford to sell it for less than Amazon, then you do not deserve to have the dominant market position."

This is exactly how people should view it. If you want to compete in a competitive market, then you have to be prepared for competitors.
Yes, how dares he provide an interesting service while pitching his startup on a startup related news aggregator.
Vanhawks (YC W15): How a small company is mastering global logistics
For me, Jackson is in a weird place between "effective president" and "bad person". Monroe, Teddy Roosevelt, and Eisenhower all seem like more deserving presidents.
So I hear the washing machine story a lot. And it is true, insomuch as a 1970s washing machine would last for 20 years, and a 2010 washing machine will last for 6 years. Good read here:

http://vancouversun.com/news/staff-blogs/myth-or-legend-the-...

The 1950s washing machine cost the equivalent of $5000. A modern one can be had for $300, and wash clothes far far far better. You can buy one every 5 years for the rest of your life, and come out way ahead.. so why not?
The difference is that invasive species are considered harmful to the ecosystem while naturally spread species are considered part of the ecosystem.
UN is meeting one of the next couple of months to hopefully start to get rid of all that idiocy. Hard to justify the US's position now with 4 states and DC legalizing it and many countries have been waiting some time to get rid of these stupid treaties and the war on drugs that's literally killing some of them as we speak.
as already said your application connects with user 'xyz' this guy needs the 'CREATEROLE' permission.
Than this guy could Create Roles and Switch to them:

loki=# CREATE ROLE demo CREATEROLE LOGIN PASSWORD '123';
CREATE ROLE
loki=# CREATE DATABASE demo123 OWNER demo;
CREATE DATABASE
loki=# \q
schmitch@SHANGHAI:~$ psql -h localhost -U demo -W demo123
Password for user demo:
psql (9.5.2)
Type "help" for help.

demo123=> CREATE ROLE hase123 WITH ADMIN demo;
CREATE ROLE
demo123=> SET ROLE hase123;
SET
demo123=> SELECT CURRENT_USER, SESSION_USER;
current_user | session_user
--------------+--------------
hase123 | demo
(1 row)

demo123=> RESET ROLE;
RESET
demo123=> SELECT CURRENT_USER, SESSION_USER;
current_user | session_user
--------------+--------------
demo | demo
(1 row)

So inside a Connection / Transaction you could easily switch users and create them.

Also you can't switch to a Role you aren't admin, the only odd thing is, is that they could DROP roles and that they could create roles with more permissions than they have.
NYC tech catching up to Silicon Valley, while Seattle flails
The issue is not what customers can do, it is what OEMs can do. OEMs cannot disable all that on Android and use other services and apps.

> The MS situation was similar in case that no-one used Windows just to use Internet Explorer

Microsoft did a lot of shady stuff. One example is the "per processor" licensing that said, if you ship Windows on one computer, you have to pay Microsoft a royalty for all computers you sell, even the ones that don't run Windows. That's obviously very anti-competitive.

Google seems to be doing something roughly analogous with its requirement that if you ship a Google service, you can't also ship a different, separate product with your own changes. They are trying to use their leverage to prevent competition.
Screw the treaties.
This article speaks to me and what I've been preaching to others for a while now. I got high speed internet in 1999. I was 13 years old. I am now 29 on the cusp of 30 and I think that this experiment has been detrimental to me rather than beneficial. I am currently in the process of doing what Fry talks about. While I can not be absolute and still want to visit some sites and some communities, I am trying to treat each website as if it were a magazine subscription or something I have to buy and own.

I like to live a minimalist lifestyle at home and prefer owning as few things as possible. I know many others feel this way too. However, with the internet and computing, ownership is abstract. I become overwhelmed and anxious under the deluge of files, apps, notifications, settings, and upkeep required for it all. I know I am not alone in this. Below is a quotation I loved from Deep Work by Cal Newport:

"These services aren’t necessarily, as advertised, the lifeblood of our modern connected world. They’re just products, developed by private companies, funded lavishly, marketed carefully, and designed ultimately to capture then sell your personal information and attention to advertisers. They can be fun, but in the scheme of your life and what you want to accomplish, they’re a lightweight whimsy, one unimportant distraction among many threatening to derail you from something deeper. Or maybe social media tools are at the core of your existence. You won’t know either way until you sample life without them."

Newport, Cal (2016-01-05). Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (p. 209). Grand Central Publishing. Kindle Edition.
It's a fundamental constant of the universe. Comforting lies spread faster than inconvenient truths.
Amusingly, there's a large California company, Frank-Lin Distillers Products, which has found a way to use the three-tier system in a profitable way. Usually, there are distiller/bottlers, who make and bottle alcohol products, distributors, who operate warehouses and fleets of trucks, and retailers. This results in three levels of markup.

Frank-Lin buys ethanol in bulk, from industrial-scale distillers in the Midwest. The ethanol is delivered in tank cars to the railroad sidings at their plant in Fairfield. There, they take tap water, run it through a deionizing plant to remove dissolved solids, mix it with ethanol, add flavoring, bottle, and ship it out to retailers in their own trucks. Most of the bottom-shelf booze on the West Coast, and some of the expensive stuff (they used to make Skyy Vodka, until Campari bought out that brand) comes from their plant. They make over a thousand different bottled products, but admit that there are only about a hundred different recipes. There are still three tiers, but the markup on ethanol when you buy it by the trainload is very low.

They use a huge number of different bottles, with elaborate designs and labels. Their plant is conveniently located next to a Ball bottle manufacturing plant. They have automated bottling lines which can switch from one product and bottle to another without manual adjustments. This allows them to feed customer illusions about liquor while keeping the manufacturing costs low.

Frank-Lin is moving into wine production.They make "Maestri Chianti", which has decent scores from wine snobs. Same concept, just different bottles and flavoring. Who needs vineyards and wineries when you have an industrial plant and the right formulas? Now that's disruption.
I don't really drink wine, but couldn't you use something like https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vacu-Vin-Vacuum-Bottle-Stoppers/dp/... instead of a proprietary bottle.
From the article: Complainant FairSearch said Google was hindering the development of versions that might lead to new operating systems able to compete with Android, despite launching it as an open source project.

Is this the basis of the charges? That Google, by requiring the bundling of its own (free) apps and search engine, is preventing some obscure company from potentially developing a potentially competitive OS?

EU seems to regard Google's insistence on a uniform OS with certain basic services common to every device that calls itself Android as "harmful to the consumer". Even though more forking of Android would lead to more fragmentation, which most of us would agree is bad for the consumer.

I fail to see what crime Google has committed, other than to run afoul of a bunch of bureaucrats who have nothing better to do than regulate, tax, and sue private companies for being too successful, at the behest of tiny competitors who are unable or unwilling to succeed through innovation.
There's a fun little Roman bedtime story about a determined man who cuts down an important god's favorite forest for firewood and is cursed with insatiable hunger that eventually drives him to sell all of his possessions and even his daughter into slavery before he eats himself to death.

Needless to say, people were a threat to forests long before industrialization.
That isn't going to happen.

See: Walmart's Great Value brand products. Walmart has used it for a long time to hold consumer prices in check. If Nabisco attempts a large price hike, Walmart deploys their Great Value brand right next to said Nabisco product and undercuts them down to a price they regard as reasonable. Despite Walmart's extreme size and market dominance in traditional retail over the last ~20 years, they've never used - at a wide scope - their Great Value brand as an opportunity jack up prices or destroy competitors.
> Independent of whatever trojan-horse message you want to read into it

Well, someone wasn't an English major! Didn't know their was anything dastardly about trying to parse the context of any particular text.

Like I said, we disagree about what he is doing in that bit.
Speaking as a 360 owner, I think it had more to do with a really good selection of launch exclusive titles that kept people coming back. The original gen 1's were not of great quality at all, even beyond the RROD issues the console felt cheap and poorly made, the power supplies were insanely large and generated a ton of heat, etc. Microsoft sold the 360 with good exclusives, which is what Sony then did with the PS4 while Microsoft bumbled around trying to be the center of your living room, like Sony did in turn with the PS3 (and why it had similar issues the One now has).

To be fair: The Elites that came about later on were a MASSIVE improvement. The originals were the low bidder manufacturer and it showed, and I think M$ learned from that. Despite it's software issues (which I've gone to at length in other threads) the One does feel like solid hardware and good build quality.
Speaking to the reason he's writing this, if a vacancy is asking for jQuery, it probably means they're using jQuery (obvious). The author mentioned other stuff you can use to get specific jQuery functionality, but I think it should be emphasized that if you just got a job where jQuery was a requirement, you should look into implementing alternatives ASAP. One good recommendation I have is to use MinifiedJS:

http://minifiedjs.com/

It has a lot of the things you would need jQuery to do and is tiny and cross-browser. If pure JS isn't an option, MinifiedJS is the next best thing. For now, most web developers should still learn jQuery, but they should transition stuff off jQuery so one day it's not as widespread a requirement.
If the board is infinite, can't the angel just jump in one direction forever?
You see this problem in the energy market. The system is owned by private companies, but the government still have all the control. They get to set the rules and then blame evil big business when prices go up. The effect is to shut out smaller producers and lock in the bulk suppliers.

Ironically state monopolies can be very good for small business. The land registry support an ecosystem of companies that help people navigate the arcane system. A private company could just absorb a lot of this and kill variety and competition.
Plenty of politicians and their partners own small portfolios of but-to-lets. Pretty corrupt if you ask me.
Why this is Europe's best work-and-play capital
I don't know if Postgres can do what you're describing but I know Oracle can and it's called Pluggable Databases (PDB) and it's designed exactly for this use case.

(Now I just hope I don't get flammed)
I'm a vegetarian for spiritual reasons and also because I don't agree with causing suffering to other species.

If there's a fly in my room, buzzing on the window, I would open the window and let it fly away. If there's a big ant or a spider or a bee on my foot, I'd wait for it to explore me and then go on its way (although I'm scared of spiders and allergic to bee stings).

But even a hardcore flower sniffing fly kissing hippy like myself has his limit. And that limit is called The Mosquito.

I've sent so many bad vibes towards this species that they'd stopped biting me years ago. Even so, I still hate them for the sleepless nights and for the crazy, bad, aggressive thoughts that they've spawned inside my mind with their evil buzz.

One of the worst things about them is that it takes just one slap - 50 ms - to transform a living, buzzing mosquito into a bloody spot on the wall. They don't even have time to understand wtf has happened to them !

One moment she's like "Yeah! Who I should suck next?!" and next moment she's mush.

No pain, no regrets, no suffering. Nothing !

Yet I have to live with the memory of the suffering it has caused me my entire life.

Maybe we should design mosquitoes with more advanced nervous systems - optimized for feeling pain and suffering - and make their bodies more resistant and stronger, so that humans can torture them properly.

This "let's interbreed them with sterile males" sounds like a really soft and humane (?) punishment - give them lab grown mosquito studs so that those bloodsucking bitches can have a good sex life ? What kind of revenge is that ?

No! They must suffer !

Oh my, you see what thoughts they've spawned in me ? Otherwise, I'm pretty peaceful..

/humor
1 million is a really big number, which is what makes the certainty easy. That's even bigger than projected deaths from climate change.
The Wall Street Journal is getting less so. Being a Murdock owned publication it was/is bound to happen. After the purchase, the political coverage has taken a decided more conservative leaning. I wouldn't be surprised if it's also infected the financial reporting.
Many years ago I started out as a Chem major. After 3 years and many hours I quit.

My grades were swell, I still loved science - but I couldn't be honest with myself that I was going to be a real scientists in the end.

So here's what typically goes wrong: You get a lab assignment. Somewhere along 4th hour or second week you screw up and grab the lab ass for help. He says "sorry - just keep going."

You won't get a do-over. You can't afford to start over because the expected competence requires immediate good results.

Your lab time is limited and resources are scarce. If you want the grade you'd better "learn from your mistakes" and "be more careful next time."

What about the results? Well you already have a pre-conceived notion of what they should be. Maybe you get them from your mates, or look them up.

Learning from our mistakes is "science code language" for pushing small known nudges and data "massaging" as an acceptable method for passing the course.

Perhaps at one time students really did learn and grow from these mistakes - but the modern concept of failing is simply a quick exit from a highly competitive major.

All the while my own scientific rigor which I was supposed to be enforcing on my own results was slowly corrupted.

I couldn't truly say that my practise in the scientific method was honestly the truthful result of my own observations and methods. Perhaps I was just too anal at the time - so be it.

I worked in an environmental testing lab and the sloppy procedures practiced were sometimes much the same.

Circumstantial? Yes. Take of it what you will. But if my experience is like that of others - such corruption as reported here doesn't surprise me.

Science should be about failure as much as it is about success. Failure is a valid result - but we often fail to oblige real and honest failure as scientifically and (most importantly) educationally valid.

That was my draw to CompSci. Our very embrace of failure as a tool for learning. I absolutely love it.
It de-incentivises innovation that isn't worthy of a patent. Patents (ostensibly, in their original intent) exist in part to allow innovators to know that a competitor can't just go off and clone what they did, but has to license from them or counter-innovate a novel alternative.

In practice this won't stop all possible competitors, specifically those that flaunt patent law, but I don't think Amazon is one of those. Amazon could likely buy a license to the innovation from the patent holder for less than dealing with the courts would cost, in which case the patent system would be working as intended.
And interestingly, Chris Kohlhoff (asio author) is currently working on an executors library / c++ standard proposal.

Other question: how would wangle compare to Cap'n Proto (as the post mentions that wangle is an RPC framework, and is zero-copy)
Native species are just an invasive species 10 000 years later.
Ctrl+F "browser support" - 0 Results Found

jQuery comes with built-in browser support for a million different issues I'd never know about until I ran into them. A quick browse of the jQuery source will turn up hundreds, if not thousands at this point, of browser support hacks/tweaks.
They could just instruct banks to sending payments to DO. I don't think DO would want to lose all German start ups and customers because of a few stupid coupons.

Germany probably could not stop people from visiting their website, but stop payments would be just as worse for DO.
It says what has always been true, but what we're only now having the ability to regularly publish: FOLLOW THE MONEY.
You wrote the following in a previous comment:

> I am a former Amazon employee. I worked there for exactly a year. I assume I was doing well, I was offered increase bonus and base after my initial year. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10413966

Just to clarify, did you work at Amazon for 1 year or 3.5 years? It seems like these messages are contradictory, but perhaps I've misunderstood. In the message I'm replying to now, you wrote:

> I worked in retail (1 year), new businesses (1 year) and AWS (1.5 years)
The article mentions NASA tested it. Is that untrue or less true than it sounds? Genuinely curious.
"We've invented the wine bottle version of an inkjet cartridge or Keurig plastic k-cup, give us money".

VCs: HERE HAVE SOME CASH
WSJ has floors of smart, trained, inquisitive journalists who assemble real original data and break real original stories, and who try hard–through single, double, and triple verification–to ensure the accuracy of every single figure and fact they report.

Which is why it's sometimes annoying to see people treat paywalls as though they were moral disgraces.

Source: I help invest for the chairman of the company.