skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lets not forget the rebuttal, too.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2012/01/25/w...

Edit: maybe that source isn't as good as I remember, but other sources seem suspicious over the factual accuracy of Buffet's claims.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2011/sep/21/...

http://www.factcheck.org/2011/10/shes-no-buffetts-secretary/
Postgres is the last SQL DB thing mentioned?

No mention of RethinkDB (https://rethinkdb.com/) ?

SQL is good if your data is "unchanging"? Schema migrations happen, SQL can be sharded and scaled to multiple servers, and the fact is, unless you're facebook or google, you probably won't even need it. Didn't reddit run postgres since it began?

Glad I skimmed this.
Last winter I even paid the neighbor kid to shovel my sidewalk with a card. I have no idea how a 13 year got a square account, but.... it's a thing.
Theranos shuffles leadership; president retires
I'd prefer to pay a higher price than tip.

When I book a service I want the transaction to be as straightforward as possible. I want to know the price at the time of booking, and I want that to be the price I pay.

The problem with tipping is that people take it extremely personally, they also try to encourage tipping through awkward conversation. I don't want to have to deal with that.

Plus these kinds of apps/services allow me to review the experience directly. I don't have to use money as a way to review the quality.

If they absolutely insist on tipping, it should all be in the app, with pre-set amounts that I can just mash without too much thought, and that I can calculate into the cost before the car even picks me up.

I really really hate American tipping culture. Even after living here a while it just seems so pointless, is completely arbitrary, and makes simple transactions more complicated.
No, he's correct for many schools. I had to attend a few of these schools when I was young (this was back in the 80s BTW). Even in one of the top-ranked and best-funded middle schools in my state, I had an English teacher who just gave us some busywork and watched soap operas on her portable TV. In the crappier school I went to before that in the poor part of town, most of the classes amounted to babysitting.

I don't know how it's changed since then, but I doubt it's gotten any better, though this was before the days of Common Core and statewide testing and all that. From my perspective of what I saw as a kid, some teachers were good and really tried to teach kids well, other teachers were terrible and did the absolute minimum, if that. There was no consistency, though the schools with poorer kids did seem to have more bad teachers. So from my perspective, the problem seemed to be two-fold: incompetent administrators, and crappy teachers who couldn't get rated on job performance and fired. The good teachers hung in there despite the institutional and systemic problems.
New tax code: Every time money changes hands it is taxed at X percent.

Admittedly it is pretty simple example but my point is the loopholes are not on accident, it's by design.
IPFS is largely the reason for me battering F5, on this thread, this afternoon.

I've only briefly looked into it, on its website, upon originally reading about it. I will definitely give it more attention, have a deeper read, and have a go at running an instance to see what can be done.
You can argue that Lyft, with it's tipping function, is the better option. I almost never leave a tip on Lyft, but my driver has no idea if I did or not so my rating isn't affected. When tipping happens well after the trip is over, both sides are sort of happy. The pressure to tip is lessened since you're not interacting with that driver after the tipping decision is made. Drivers are apparently happy with the arrangement as well.
It's not safe standing anywhere near a 60ton vehicle with a 120mm cannon that has huge muzzle blast. Throw in shitty visibility for the driver, so dismounts end up being a bit crunchy. The ironic thing is dismounts are necessary for protecting tanks from hunter/killer teams.
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It doesn't support a procedurally generated world like you are asking but there was a game for Sega CD called Third World War that I loved to play that had a good balance of diplomacy, trade, and war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_World_War_(video_gam...

There's a Paradox game I played a few years ago called Supreme Ruler that I got excited about thinking it was similar but it tends to get bogged down in the military in my opinion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_World_War_(video_gam...

I haven't played Victoria II but know it also fits this mold. It is set in the colonial time frame so not quite modern but close.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_II
Well seems like people are leaving SV because the rent it too high. And I think that "Why bother making money here, when it will only make my landlord richer" is the driving attitude for people to leave.
I'm having a hard time deciphering your idea - do you have a minimal snippet/gist to show what you mean?
You don't need composer on the server you are running it on to still benefit from package management. You just do an install then deploy your vendors director.
I agree with that. If you are working on a small, niche technology business living somewhere cheaper is a solid play. Moreover, those people have been raising capital in the last few years and attempting to do pivots to shoot for the moon when they could have a successful business, and this often ends up in disaster as the company is not a unicorn.
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This reminds me of Zappa [0], only Zappa actually runs on AWS Lambdas. Although they readily admit it takes a lot of hacks to get WSGI working within a Lambda function.

0: https://github.com/Miserlou/Zappa
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There is an interesting conundrum here actually. So-called 'Western Philosophy' through most of its history has been largely concerned with the discovery of (perhaps just the discussion of) so-called 'transcendental' or 'absolute' truth -- truths that by definition are supposed to transcend culture. From a certain perspective, this is just a bias of this particular tradition of philosophy. However, to call it anything else but 'philosophy' -- say 'western philosophy' -- would be to, in an important sense, admit defeat.

To respect diversity, I think you really do have to respect each tradition as distinct. I think mixing different philosophical traditions would end up failing to respect any of them. It'd be like having a dinner party meant to celebrate cultural diversity but throwing all the chinese, indian, and thai food together with burgers and ketchup and calling it 'diverse'. Western philosophy is it's own thing, as are other traditions. It doesn't need to let everyone in to respect them -- perhaps the contrary.

Also I really don't like the way this article ends: “The Fates lead those who come willingly, and drag those who do not.”. The tone is threatening and has no place in a discussion of this nature.
Game of Life in Redux and ES2015
Lanewatch doesn't replace anything - the mirror is still there, you just get a different/possibly better view on the internal screen to accompany the mirror.
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I think Mike Rowe's foundation[1] is really a good idea towards solving this disconnect. He's putting scholarships together for the training necessary to do "blue collar" work. Heard about it on the Tim Ferriss podcast. Be nice if the government was doing this instead of supporting more degrees in subjects that don't allow the recipients to provide value to others.

[1]http://profoundlydisconnected.com/
I've become very fond of the Blendle news site (www.blendle.com) since discovering it on HN. It's still the beta version and might not be currently taking new customers, but it's definitely worth a visit.
I agree, you can spend almost an entire years worth of office rent from the midwest and spend it in a month in Silicon Valley/SF. Sure some people may benefit from the high density of funding but if you're just working on product... why burn through so much? Also off topic but being outside the echo chamber is valuable for most products.
Uber's stated reason to block tipping. But really, it means passengers don't need to care about working out the tip, feeling bad if they don't leave one or don't leave enough, don't need to carry cash, etc etc. It lowers the friction of taking an uber and means more business.
stop doing that, one of the main draws of Uber is not having to deal with the ridiculous tipping system with cabs, once you introduce tipping there are incentives for the drivers to get paid less and a whole host of negatives are added and we're just back to a less regulated taxi company.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2325502/Map-shows-wo...
Agreed, and at least with the black car service it makes the experience feel much more professional.
Good advice. It doesn't matter whether it's right, no one wants the headache of lawyers or a name change.
This seems trivial to circumvent by (1) tying into New Mexico's database or (2) cross-sectioning license plates + facial recognition databases the first time you drive through a traffic light; so trivial that the time and expense of the LLC seems moot.
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Not possible due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
> passengers will now feel a “Tony Soprano-like veiled threat” from drivers: “Pay up or I’ll give you a poor rating.”

Is that really a problem? I honestly didn't even know Uber drivers rated the passengers! I would imagine a driver getting a bad rating for being forceful about a tip would be much worse for them than a passenger bad rating would be for me. I can take a Lyft, bus, tube, etc if I can't get served with Uber. Heck, in a lot of cases I can just walk. A driver can only drive for so many companies before they're churned out of the business

I really doubt that is, or would become, a thing.
Inductive reasoning is how the scientific method works, however.

"I've run 10,000 experiments that show toy bricks are green, therefore I can say with great confidence that all toy bricks are green."

Knowing things with absolute certainty is super hard.
The hoi polloi has voted: Sam in fact has never carried cash or tipped any drivers!
First eukaryotes found without a normal cellular power supply
Apparently, the Nikola Motor Company is a Utah-based startup. According to [1]:

"The company is run by Trevor Milton, a former executive at dHybrid Systems, which developed a CNG system for tractor-trailers that’s now owned by Worthington Industries."

[1] http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2016/05/11/nikola-motors-slee...
and how exactly is that ad-hominem attack a rebuttal?
I wouldn't be surprised if the "car" part is a commodity, and the interior/exterior are where Apple builds a better vehicle. The qualcomm chipset that powers an iphone is pretty much the same thing powering an android phone.
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Right way to include an URL in a plain text sentence?
I like to be careful about correct spacing and syntax while writing plain text. In an English sentence, there is no space before the final dot. But if my sentence is:
"Hey checkout this website http://example.com" I can't add the dot since it will change the URL. What is the correct way to write this? Is there any standard on the subject?
If Uber is not going to allow tips, but drivers are going to pressure for cash tips, I might as well take a regular cab.

At least in a regular cab, tipping is expected AND I can add the tip in on my credit card. So with Uber, now my choices are either to tip make sure that I am carrying small bills so that I can do so, or not tip and risk getting a "low rating" (whether I should care about that is another question.)

No thanks. Uber should either crack down on tips, or just put them in the app. Of course, cracking down on tips would probably require that Uber actually allow drivers to make decent money, which they are not interested in.
The rents are high here compared to most places in the world, but the opportunity is greater here (if you are starting a company or joining an early stage one).

What I have tried to convey is that for those people the times aren't as bad as they think they are and that they should stick it through.

If you aren't taking advantage of that unique eco-system leaving is fine move. The people I have chatted to before I wrote the piece were people who were/should be taking advantage of that eco-system.
How about taxing net worth of an individual? Calculated by market participants like they do today.

Tax 0,1% of net worth of those whose net worth exceeds say $10 million. Such people have to get assessment of their net worth and then pay their tax.

Of course they have incentive on doing slightly funny things with their net worth, but it is difficult to race them to the bottom in view of very large fines for crossing the line.

Of course people will skip citizenship then; but as long as they do business within country it is solvable too.
I find that most Valve games run much better on Linux than they do in Windows. Whether any given game runs better in Linux or Windows is a coin flip, however I will grant that there are not many games that run well in Linux but are unplayable in Windows. The converse is definitely true; there are many games whose framerate drops over 50% when run in Linux. Some games even perform better running in WINE than they do using the native port, which is somewhat baffling.

Overall I'm somewhat surprised by painless gaming on Linux has become. I switched back to Linux on my personal computer after a number of years of primarily using Windows because of gaming. I thought it was going to be a pain point for me, however a few months later Steam announced the Steam Box and promoted Linux gaming heavily.

I (finally) have a beefy rig though, so perhaps Linux ports get bottle-necked more easily. I haven't measured input latency or anything that would be relevant to the competitive CS scene, but the framerate is higher on Linux than it was on my (now gone) Windows partition.
They do work?
https://news.usni.org/2015/12/10/aegis-ashore-scores-in-firs...

Why would the Russians use it if it doesn't work?
Good counter-argument at the time from Michael Arrington from TechCrunch:

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/15/screw-the-rich-heres-how/

"Buffett calls for an increase in all types of taxes – income, dividend and capital gains. That would be a nice triple layer of protection against any newcomers, and still preserve all – 100% – of the $47 billion he’s accumulated until now."
> Why? Do you often tip other random working-class people when it's not expected, like cashiers in grocery stores?

Generally you tip when someone provides you with a service, and especially when they've gone above and beyond the base "experience".

A cashier isn't really providing a service... they're collecting money for the store.

Baggers, however, provide a service, especially if they walk the bags to your car. Servers in restaurants provide a service, as they are in charge of your dining experience. Handymen that fix things in your house provide a service, etc.

In theory, you tip because you got an excellent experience. The chance of a good tip is, in theory, what motivates service providers to go above and beyond the bare minimum. If it's a repeated service (like you dine at your favorite restaurant often), and the service provider knows you tip well for good experiences, it provides a good incentive to keep providing excellent experiences.
I also love the "Reasons to use SQL":

> If your business is not experiencing massive growth that would require more servers and you’re only working with data that’s consistent, then there may be no reason to use a system designed to support a variety of data types and high traffic volume.

This whole article seems heavily NoSQL biased. I don't know what qualifies as high traffic volume, but Postgres has been known to handle 500,000 transactions per second, and there is stuff in the pipeline that is only going to make that faster.

http://akorotkov.github.io/blog/2016/05/09/scalability-towar...
What I'm reading is that the cave is like a 5-million year old micro brewing process, and as with many microbrews there are some nightmarish scorpions and spiders and scary creatures associated with the cave's brand. If that allegory is correct, then by exploring that cave we have essentially opened the cork and stuck our finger in, haven't we?
Yeh seriously RethinkDB is the perfect hybrid of "NOSQL" document storage, with SQL like relationships. Been using it for all my projects the past year, and I love it.
9Gag.com. More addictive and time wasting than HN.
Generally I think it's a bad idea to mix tipping and customer ratings.

If you buy a $4.50 coffee with a $5 bill and don't put the fifty cents in the tip jar, the worst that happens is that the barista looks at you uncomfortably for a second or two. Then you get on with your day. If they rate you along with other baristas (or coffee shops) you'll have a reputation before you set foot through the door.

Growing up in America, I didn't understand how absurd our tipping culture is until I visited Europe. There, wait staff don't bother you every five minutes to "ask how you're doing," you call them over when you need them, and if at the end of the meal you enjoyed your service, you can leave a few euros as an extra, not a semblance of a living wage because the employer refuses to pay it.

Still, if it's really that important to you to tip your Uber driver, use cash.
CNG turbine. The truck is a hybrid.
How about Curie or Lovelace
Google Tops Apple as Largest Company in America
Chuckling at:
Your data is structured and unchanging. If your business is not experiencing massive growth that would require more servers and you’re only working with data that’s consistent, then there may be no reason to use a system designed to support a variety of data types and high traffic volume.

SQL Databases support a variety of data types and high traffic volume, they just dont allow you to change things without thinking a little more deeply on the problem.

This article is just fluff.
Why not just always pick UberSelect or UberBlack instead of UberX?
Uh, what do you think "granatomyot" means?
Isn't the pointer a zero size array?
If its nonsense and they are taking money (which they try to do, but they don't filter test cards before it hits the processor) a better term for it is "scam".
Manhattan District Attorney Wants to Put an End to Apple’s Default Encryption
That's interesting, because I get maybe 1 fake Facebook friend request per year?

I think a lot of the problems people have with Facebook are based in how Facebook gets used. If you have 400 friends, you're simply not getting the same experience out of Facebook as a person with 60 friends is getting.
Will HFT be affected?

Such people don't have to work in "money", they can pass shares or bonds or IOUs.

Edit: fix stupidity
pg_upgrade is a pretty reasonable compromise, but it would be nice if an upgrade didn't require your entire database be taken offline for the duration. I can install a new MS SQL Server instance, attach a database from the old instance and be going in under a minute of downtime - this is literally the only pain point I have with Pq, but considering I don't typically upgrade EVERY release (I still have 9.4 instances that have no reason to be upgraded to 9.5 since the applications aren't in-house) it's not typically a huge deal.
Same setup as the Volt fourwheeler, different turbine fuel, no plugging in.
I will never, ever tip my Uber driver. It's one of the banes of Western living and I'm so happy that Uber doesn't include tipping in the app, if they did it would make it far less valuable to me. Feel free to not drop prices so aggressively, but please do not add tipping.
Does anyone know if parallel query execution just happens by default or do you have to tell PG that you want it?
It can still be an issue. It would still be a disaster if in the first year, the database got corrupt or hacked?

Lone developers might tempted just to setup database without setting up a backup solution and HA. Amazon has that at click of a button.

For a developer/infrastructure guy probably 1/2/3 days if you know what your doing. If you don't know what your doing for your specific brand of database, you might not set it up right which is a big risk which only shows up once it's failed. There's a reason DBA's can get paid a lot, because there's a lot to know.

I think as a startup, you need to take all the shortcuts you can grab. Getting it out, and time to market is very important. Focusing on price at first can cost more than its worth.

It depends on if you want to pay more for having quick setup and having amazons engineers looking after backups and HA or do you want to pay less, spend more time doing it yourself and getting the skills to make sure its setup correctly.
Yeah, except certain changing of money is considered unfair (ie: do you really want to be taxed if you give your friend a $50 in cash as a gift?), while other exchanging of money is considered good for the economy (ie: tax breaks on education-related expenses).

The loopholes aren't there by design, but the complications of the taxes are in there by design. We wish to encourage education and business (both education and business expenses are deductable). We want to encourage renewable energy (solar taxes, net metering, etc. etc.). We want to encourage home ownership (mortgage deductible), charitable giving (church donation deductibles, etc. etc.).

Taxes aren't complicated if you just fill out a 1040EZ. Taxes become complicated when you want to make sure you got all of the money back from deductibles and credits.
I was developing something similar with effe[1] e effe-tool[2], the idea is similar.

You wrote your service in go following in such a way that it expose 3 function and it get compiled down to a single binary, then you can dockerize your application (images usually are smaller than 6MB) and deploy it, wherever and whenever you want.

Of course everything is open source.

I explained it a little better here: http://redbeardlab.tech/2016/03/05/effe.html

[1]: https://github.com/siscia/effe

[2]: https://github.com/siscia/effe-tool
Should robo-advisors save for Millennials?
That's how physicists describe it. So it is the best way.

I am not sure that this is correct. I think the usual statement is that it does not allow Alice and Bob to exchange information, not that no information exchange is involved. When Alice looks at her card and sees that it is red something happens, i.e. red as a possible colors for Bob's card is eliminated. The wave function collapses if you want to use that picture. The state of Bob's cards changes instantly from maybe red or maybe blue to definitely blue. One can now argue whether that change should be called information or whether the term information should be reserved for things that can be exploited by Alice and Bob but that does not change the fact that a non-local instantaneous effect changed the state of Bob's card.

The thing to remember is that information (in physics) means "particles".

That is pretty vague and might or might not be true. Do you mean every information exchanges between two spatially separated parties necessarily requires the exchange of (real) particles?

That's the issue with QM. You would like to think that something happens.

Something happens, the wave function changes.