skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their tablets are primarily sold as e-Readers. The app store isn't a primary need, and they don't really directly compete with Android tablets, even though they're similar.
You get it.
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One of my favorite little know facts about how much has really changed with medical treatment...

Only 90 years ago, President Calvin Coolidge's 16 year old son died from a foot blister he got while playing lawn tennis on the White House grounds, something that would have probably been easily treated with an OTC anti-bacterial or a quick trip to the doctor nowadays.

We hardly have the get "medieval" to see the radical advancements in health and how we all greatly benefit from it.
"Legalize" means it's fully legal to produce, distribute and buy. It may be regulated, so you may need a license and follow certain rules, but other than that it's like any other product on the market.

"Decriminalize" means it's still illegal to produce, distribute or buy, but it's not a criminal offence. So you may be fined, etc., but you can't be arrested or go to jail for it.
In some ways we're similar to Redshift in others we're very different. At the core we both have Postgres as a foundation, though Redshift's roots in Postgres are from some time ago. Citus works with the latest Postgres release and is an extension which doesn't fork the underlying database. Both us and Redshift work with large scale data, from there we diverge a bit.

Redshift very much focuses on data warehousing, so commonly large batch loads and then complex queries and analysis which run over a longer period of time minutes and up commonly.

Citus focuses more on real-time analytics. We support real-time ingest so you can insert directly into it, or of course bulk load as well. And then on a query side because we have high parallelism customers typically are doing more with real-time analytics, so queries that operate in the second or lower range. An example is CloudFlare, which is a customer, uses us to power the dashboard you see when you login as a user.
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I wonder how many people actually adhered to much of this. Just because some authority says something about food doesn't mean everyone believes it or follows the advice.
By the way, so you know, I'm at the Wall Street Journal. You can see I'm legit here: http://www.wsj.com/news/author/6578
Thanks for the input, we're very much considering other infrastructure providers to run on. All input and requests for specific providers is helpful input for how we prioritize.
A wine distribution startup. That's a "hardware startup?"

This fits the criticism that startups are focused on the problems of rich people.
Actually you could do that.
First your user needs the right to create roles and then you can switch the current user via: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-set-role.h...

It's not really the use case for RLS, but its possible.

START TRANSACTION;
SET LOCAL ROLE rating_role1;
SELECT * FROM ratings2;
ROLLBACK;

Works just fine.

Edit: Updated
The vibe I got from reading the "why" section was "yeah we had some fun making this, and yeah we think this syntax is a bit better, but isn't it ridiculous our boss thought this was a good idea!" Like a wink at anybody who think this isn't needed.

So to the extent I think its a joke, I think its intentionally a joke --- and whoever made it I respect their comedic talents.
I've never used a 'desktop' vape like the Volcano, but portable vapes only use 0.1 - 0.15g (you couldn't fit in any more if you tried).

With some you do need to draw on them a lot, but they definately make your herb go a lot further, which more than makes it worth it, I think :)

Tinctures are actually an 'old' product that's sort of becoming more popular again.
> and you have a way to ship those orders separately from Amazon ones

What do you mean by this? How likely would it be for a seller to even be in a position to ship orders from multiple websites in the same box? And how would Amazon find out without buying things on competitor websites and checking return addresses?
Actually, Android would probably thrive if it was unprofitable. It'd end up in the hands of the open source community, instead of a greedy corporation controlling it with secret contracts.
You'd be really surprised. In a theocracy such as Saudi Arabia where individuals are born into power, the hubris is overwhelming. They believe they are above all consequences (which has shown to be true thus far), and have little concern for operational security.
Independent of whatever trojan-horse message you want to read into it, the humor clearly comes from saying something shocking and offensive: that children could be sexually attractive in some circumstance. This is obviously much more shocking and offensive than someone being fat and ugly or Jay Leno's jokes about Monica Lewinsky. There are lots of other places where we might "push the bounds of empathy", e.g., "What would it be like to be an ant? Should they be angry we step on them all the time?". But that wouldn't be shocking and offensive, and consequently it's not nearly as funny.

I encourage everyone to watch the bit and see where you think the humor comes from:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crjrWF-RRlg

It's funny, but it's not deep or intellectual.
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We expect products to get better and people to learn from public ideas. For customer's it's a good thing.

But this really does burn developers of those original products who were originally brand partners.

I don't think Apple "owes" them anything, but I think they would help themselves by treating it as if they did. Especially where it's obvious that the OS-bundled app will win simply by virtue of being bundled. It's probably a legal issue where if they gave someone anything they'd open the door to being sued for a fortune, but it's horrible PR towards their developers.
This is the right way to frame it; or perhaps try the counterfactual: by not taking action, we are choosing to allow 0.1 Holocausts/year of deaths to occur.

We wipe species off the face of the earth regularly for as little benefit as increasing the land available for soy farming in the Amazon; averting a holocaust per decade seems like a no-brainer when measured on that scale.
Most of products from these "disruptors" are nothing more than laughable. "Changing the world" with electric wine bottle with proprietary bottles inside? They complain about barriers to entry? They should be happy that they're not locked in psychiatric clinic after these "inventions".
>we will see this article now in all the outlets that published the previous one

Don't hold your breath
Easily gather pictures & video into an online gallery by text message
No app install needed.

https://www.picshareparty.com/
I've heard environmentalists say that one advantage of mosquitoes is that it keeps humans out of tropical forests. It's a view of humans as the pest. Which isn't that preposterous when you consider the vast ecological damage we're doing as a species.
Great service. I wish you all the best and I hope to see many more of your summaries and corresponding analyses. Godspeed!
This reminds me of GEM Mosquito control. I believe this is the only real eco friendly solution for mosquitoes menace. But corporates milking money out of mosquitoes control devices, won't let this be mainstream.

> GEM technology is a process of achieving sustainable mosquito control in an eco friendly manner by providing artificial breeding grounds utilizing common household utensils and destroying larvae by non-hazardous natural means such as throwing them in dry places or feeding them to larvae eating fishes.

Process in short -
http://www.appropedia.org/GEM_mosquito_control#Modus_operand....
Exactly. We owe the present universality of 'peer review' to the post-WWII expansion of government-funded military-industry-university science (see also Vannevar Bush):

> The idea that any legitimate scientific journal ought to implement a formal referee system began to take hold in the decades following the Second World War...The very phrase 'scientific community' dates from this time. Researchers wanted to preserve autonomy while holding on to the massive government funding that had come their way since the Second World War. Allocations for basic research in the United States, for instance, swelled by a factor of 25 in less than a decade9. 'Peer review' was a term borrowed from the procedures that government agencies used to decide who would receive financial support for scientific and medical research

'Peer review', like citation counts, is essentially bureaucratic: it is the scientific form of 'no one was ever fired for buying IBM'. ('But I relied on a peer-reviewed paper!' goes the cry. You also see this excuse often said by authors of rubbish papers: 'you can't criticize my paper, it's been peer-reviewed!') It is an attempt to resolve the principal-agent problem (exacerbated by the huge increase in numbers of researchers and the prospects of power and wealth now offered by science) by serving as a stamp of 'scientific quality' which is easily externally verifiable by ignorant outsiders such as funders.

As such, it is considered indispensable by governments/universities, and it helps build barriers to entry by established publishers like Elsevier. This is why 'peer review', despite the lack of any real evidence and the occasional study showing experimentally that it is an atrocious filter which frequently discriminates against the best research and select for the worst, has throve over the past century.
>There was mutually-authenticated SSL, but the required key distribution seemed too hard, especially at scale.

>There are several open source security services out there. Use them!

Something like https://www.vaultproject.io/ would be a solid foundation for either running your own CA with narrowly scoped / time limited TLS client certs, or managing secrets for generating signed identity assertions, e.g. a JWT.
Just wanted to say this is a fucking stupid idea.
As with most corporate law issues, there are plaintiffs that requested this investigation. Microsoft and several other companies complained.

But the reality is, what Google is doing IS illegal. It's illegal in the US too, but Google bought off the FTC Commissioner and fabricated some academic studies and donates to a large number of our current elected officials re-election campaigns. Aka: Our government won't touch them.
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Legalized = "you are not prohibited from doing this"

Decriminalized = "you're not allowed to do this, but we won't treat you like a criminal if you do"

Rather than years in jail and a criminal record, the punishment would be more akin to a speeding ticket - pay a fine, go on your way.
The main problem is how do we actually eradicate mosquito's without introducing other severely risks?

For example, one of the popular techniques is releasing genetically modified mosquitoes that are sterile. The problem is we don't know what could happen if/when these modified genes spread into the wider environment

It's a very serious concern, whether or not eradicating mosquitoes will introduce more severe problems
Understood. I think one of the problems is that (fill in the blank: society, parents, students, guidance/admissions counselors, et al) seek to categorize and create blanket answers, whereas the correct answer is highly variable relative to the application. Boolean vs bayesian.

As a mental exercise, I'm imagining a product that would, given a number of inputs, produce a bayesian curve of the applicant's possible outcomes, and then selects the best school for that applicant. While developing this product sounds like a fun side project, I can't imagine it gaining traction, because the aforementioned groups would get upset (read: not pay) that Prestigious U is not the best choice for Johnny, rather, Mid-Atlantic Middle College is. It would be difficult to get the secondary actors in the process to pay as well, because there is value generated for them by maintaining process homeostasis.

Current thinking would suggest that I should have gone to, say, Bucknell over Penn State (again, I understand n=1 here, and I am not measuring my level of selective perception), whereas I am very happy with the course of events and think it produced the best outcome. I have to believe there is some grain of truth to my line of thinking and a potential for value generation in the decision aspect of college admissions.
That might be the best analogy for prions I've ever heard. (At least for this audience.)
Not really a problem; if everyone is convinced it's safe, the Gates foundation would probably pay for it.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601213/the-extinction-inv...
That's when being in good terms with Vinnie Nine-Fingers and Tony Fatso begins to pay off.
Yes.

It would be more interesting to hear from the victims. This is the same kind of self-indulgent crap that the perpetrators of atrocities always put out, once they have the sense to realize that opinion has swung against them. We got the exact same thing from Speer and the other "reformed" Nazis.
Could just be bad/ignorant writing where the author doesn't know/consider the distinction?
Instead of asking for credentials, just think a little harder. If "airborne malaria" could possibly be a thing, it would already be a thing. Plasmodium isn't a work crew responsible for killing a given number of people every year, after which they relax for a bit, only getting really creative when they fall behind their quota. It is a reproducing species that will reproduce and thrive as much as possible. There is no intelligence guiding mutation. If flying were an option, Plasmodium would be flying.

Your question is like asking, "if we rounded up all the lions in Africa and put them in pens, would they evolve wings to escape?" Yes it's that silly.
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Evolution requires the human population to go through epidemics in order to get stronger. Unfortunately what is best for the planet and species is not always the best for individual humans.
Never seen a library without a computer onsite. Most of the time you can use it only to search for books etc.
What browsers don't allow people to visit a site, or use certain features, without HTTPS? I've never run into such an issue but I only use Firefox forks these days.

I agree with the problems of LetsEncrypt and other CA though. That's why I run all my sites on self signed certs. I don't need to prove my site's identity securely. I just need to put in a speed bump against easy sniffing.
In the long run this isn't good for customers because it de-incentivises innovation. Why should I develop a new product when amazon can make a ripoff and use their scale to undercut me?
You can already charge your EV for less if you let the utility modulate the charge rate to match their demand/supply.

http://www.emotorwerks.com/index.php/component/rsform/form/1...

In areas where the utility is not set up to do this, you can programming it to monitor the grid and prefer charging when the grid is less carbon intensive.
I've seen that reasoning as well, but who is doing the telling, and to whom?

Ain't English fun?
Porn must flow...
It will be legalize, not decriminalize. The party has majority, they could have passed a decrim on day one. They have no intent of decriminalizing.
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Really? Seems like it would be pretty easy to recreate a population of wild type mosquitoes. Just freeze a bunch of eggs.

But that probably won't be necessary. Mosquitoes are too successful to be that easily wiped out. Probably best we can hope for is to get rid of 80-90% of them.
Pigeonhole Principle
If you are selling data, you will need to be extremely thoughtful, quantitative, and specific about the statements you put out, and be prepared to back them up.

There is a market for doing user submitted comp analysis, but the real value is building trust, which takes a very long time and is expensive.
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How do sterile mosquitos spread their genes?

(Genuine question! I don't know what the risk is)
Mentioning two different facts about their recycling programs on completely different pages of a holistic report about their environmental responsibility now constitutes "misleading the media?"
That is nice to know actually. Thank you. I still think I'm right though. Many UBI opponents simply dismiss it as socialism/communism. Sorry if I jumped on you.
You know that it's used for unlocking the phone, right? It's nothing like the use case you're describing.

You have to get a phone with one and use it for a week or so until its use becomes routine to really understand how big of a game changer it is. I subconsciously unlock my phone now every time I pick it up. It's amazing. Every day it saves me probably 60 seconds in total typing in stupid PINs, and those savings add up real quickly.
Maybe i was not clear enough: i wasn't talking about why EV are impossible in Germany (they are not), i was talking about why the specific Tesla strategy of starting with a fast-looking luxury sedan (or a roadster, if you want to nitpick) and slowly working down from that would have been disastrous for german car makers. The main purpose of a luxury sedan is to project status and that just won't work so well if you have to get in line with the weakest of bread-and-butter cars on a cross country drive (which is a major use case in Germany, because there are no distances long enough to really get used to the american pattern of domestic flight + rental car).

> very few people will drive their vehicle at top speed even if it is possible

It's true, you rarely see a car in the Model S price range anywhere close to their top speed. They are just too fast for that, the lanes are starting to feel so damn narrow when you are approaching 200 km/h. A seasoned "business class" driver would rather put the car on cruise control at 180. But whenever traffic and local limitations are permitting, it is just as rare to see a really expensive car lurk along anywhere close to as slow as those 130. And depending on which part of the country you are driving in, these situations are far from rare.
The article you linked to is talking about "Substance abuse", but there's a big difference between drug use and drug abuse.

I know many drug users (some legal, some not), but only know of one person who has had a substance abuse problem, and his problem was with alcohol.
You should definitely checkout - GEM mosquito control - if protecting environment is your real concern.

http://www.appropedia.org/GEM_mosquito_control
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Its in most content publishers interest to have headlines which give out enough information to make one curious but not so much that it make clicking through unneccesary.

As a reader with limited time it is in your interest to get as much info in as few sentnces as possible (best case, just from the headline).

Headline: "Trump Calls megan kelly bimbo" okay so now I know enough and don't need to actually readd a 800 word article. No need to click through; as a reader this is what I want.

Headline: "You won't believe what donald trump just called megan kelly": now I'm just the right amount of curious, i'll click through, read the artcile and then wonder why couldn't I just get it in one line. But the publishers gets the adviews. Thats what he wants.

This is a situatuion where inerests of the consumer and business are mis-aligned that's what WiseGuy is trying to fix :)

It was in my interest to have a headline that'll make HN users clickthrough (but not an inaccurate one) and read, so I did exactly that.Hope you get me now and understand how WiseGuy is solving a real problem. :)
Agreed. Most library systems I've come across have their catalog servers located elsewhere, except for very small community libraries. (Granted, this is the worst type of data: anecdata).
The FBI claims that the valuable information is that Farook did not have communication with others, because there is no evidence that he communicated with a third party using his work device.

From my perspective, this adds very little. We already assumed that he did not contact ISIS members, and rather than this being evidence to back up that claim, all it does is not refute it.
The Gates foundation funds efforts to eradicate polio and malaria.

He's written about it:

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/Eradicating-Malaria-in-a-G...
Thanks. The video was quite fun to make, I might write up the process in the future. Essentially I made a surface mesh in Matlab, exported to .stl format, which is then importable in Blender.

The city names are text objects with a rotation locked to the camera normal during the flythrough.
Because they will be destroyed in either case? (See how Wal-Mart treats its suppliers and grinds them into the dust.)
My favorite parts of the article:

"I'd started the research for my wife and after 18 months she left me!"

"'The irony is, after five-and-a-half years I get a call on my mobile - the voice huskily says: Remember me?' It was his wife, Shanthi."

This dude is a real hacker!
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Truth. Most of the comments here made me realize that a significant amount of HN readers are less intelligent than I thought.
Does it? If someone had SQLi and could execute statements then couldn't they do "RESET ROLE;" or "ROLLBACK;", then do "SET ROLE admin", or am I missing something?

I'm talking about something in-between having 1 database role per user and 1 per app, a configurable string/ID/etc that can be set only once per connection, right at the start. That way a SQLi could only pull records from their user and not all of them.
Why can't we just put great american's on our money vs trying to shoehorn someone just because of their gender. Our currency should be a celebration of great people regardless. I understand Tubman's contributions to a very dark time in our history but I think if we were to celebrate equality, Susan B Anthony would be a better choice.

FDR would be the biggest missing person on our currency in my opinion.
let's give mixomatose to all rabbits to try to eradicate them all....
Well, long story short, Australia is still full of rabbits and this disease has been introduced in Europe by an idiot and it is still harming the ecosystem.
Adaptation sux.
Hey, can you cut it out with the summary advertising crap?
Wow. Another self imposing post making its way to #hn (sigh)...

On to other news ...

How about #Microsoft releasing and open sourcing .NET Core http://docs.asp.net/en/latest/conceptual-overview/dotnetcore... and https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2014/11/12/net-core-...

(?) Where has our community gone :/
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AutoCAD is computer aided drawing software (like MsPaint)
FreeCAD is computer aided designing software. But buggy as hell ;-)
Thanks for your interest. I'd like a map of earnings by postcode, then I can plot as a function of average yearly wage which would reduce the height of the London mountain in this dataset. There are a lot of goodies in the data provided by the gov.uk website, I'll be sure to have more of a poke around in the future.
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My father spent every night of his 30 year career researching semiconductors with a deep belief he would be fired next week if he couldn't bring in enough grant money. He is an amazing scientist and you wouldn't be on the internet today without his spadework but he couldn't give a rat's ass about funding.

One day a former grad student showed him some pictures.

"That's my lab!" He said.

"No, that's the replica I built of your lab in China for 1/100 of the cost."

Science is such a noble pursuit. If only it were separable from humanity's endless supply of greedy pricks.
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