skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The rule is for cutting edge technology that is not available locally, which is a key stipulation.

We're talking about device manufacturing, which isn't exactly scarce in APAC. Apple already manufacturers chargers and other items in India.

IKEA applied and lost. LeEco and Xiaomi have also applied, and my guess is they won't get it as well on the same grounds.
The word new is very detrimental.
There are basically two Indias: India has an educated middle class of significant size and a much larger (and much poorer) lower class. They exist side by side, so you get some contradictions if you try to treat India as one homogeneous population.
Well, sometimes other things matter than developer ergonomics.
Your platform for offering advice
Columbus was wrong. While the grandparent posits a hypothetical where there was no land in between, that's not what Columbus critics suggested -- they suggested that the known size of the Earth was such that a more economical route to the Indies from Europe sailing West was not a reasonable thing to expect.

They were correct, and Columbus -- who insisted that he had reached the (East, now, because of the confusion he caused) Indies -- was wrong.
You don't get to define that "colored" isn't offensive. It's widely known that the historical usage is pejorative.
YES.

Finally someone understands what really annoys me when I say that docker isn't 100% reproducible if you aren't using version pinning or something similar.

If you have 2 developers, and one of them does a build the next day, you could have them with two different versions of a package when the version went up.
"when people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together." -Asimov

http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm
Most important piece of the following post? http://www.zompist.com/jacobs.html

I'm not an economist, but I've gotten the impression from reading lots of articles like this, that it is net negative overall, as in, world wide. But I have never, ever seen a source claim that it is net negative on a national or local level outside of very, very narrowly defined parameters. I have, however, read academic papers that state the opposite.

Let's use NAFTA as an example as the canonical example. A corporation that makes tires moves to Mexico. As a result, tires for everyone in America are now half price, people who had no jobs in Mexico before now have jobs, which helps build out Mexican infrastructure, 20k people across the US no no longer have jobs; but the US economy is healthy, so those people will hopefully be okay and the US economy will likely not even notice such a slight change in labor demand.

Net result: 320 million people have cheaper tires in the US, Mexicans get better jobs, infrastructure and technology, 20k us lose jobs, the corporation saves money, and hopefully reinvests in something to stay competitive.

Using the above scenario, it is easy to see why any legislation against this behavior is seen as damaging and a net loss.

Lets further assume, that the US passes legislation that trailer hitch manufacturers have to pay an import tarriff from Mexico. Using the above scenario, an economist would say not only are you damaging what should be a net positive economic change, and artifically manipulating prices, but chances are Mexico will pass a law adding a tarrif to rubber imports, which will hurt your tire corporation in retaliation. And now the whole thing starts falling apart, with economic losses.

The counter arguments start with the following:

1) The above scenario assumes that those 20k people can find new jobs. If they can't, the math now becomes something along the lines of: 20000 people * 30000 $/year income >?< 320000000 people * 1000 $ saved for a set of tires * 1/6 (once every 6 or so years) + 20000 people * democracy destabalizing factor * wealth inequality factor

2) Before NAFTA, let's say there were 6 tire making companies in the US, one in detroit, one in newark, etc. Then one of them moves to Mexico City, and helps build up the local technical knowledge and infrastructure needs to support that industry. When the next 5 companies choose to move to Mexico, they will have the choice between also moving to Mexico city, or spending the money to do that same work elsewhere. So you may very well end up with 6 companies operating out of mexico city. While these firms will now be competing against each other, what you've also done, now is replace all of the economies that used to support those industries across the US, with one centralized economy around Mexico City. That's going to be a massive decrease in competition, job growth, etc, overall. Read this for more information: http://www.zompist.com/jacobs.html
> "It's hard to challenge yourself and others to go beneath the surface, but the rewards are great."

The author of the post seems entirely reasonable and I'd love to have a discussion with him about this type of stuff.

The problem, at least for me, is that it's difficult to tell upfront who's reasonable and who is not. What I mean by reasonable is someone who will put forward an honest effort to have a discussion, as opposed to deliberately trying to insult the other party (like the CEO from the article), or deliberately trying look for unintended missteps and immediately paint the opponent as some kind of racist monster (like some POC).

I used to be quite honest about these things; now with more experience I think I am less so.

This seems really sad, and like a step backwards, but I don't really see how to solve it without somehow being able to guarantee the other party will cooperate. Of course, if it is your wife, I'm sure you trust her a lot and she trusts you as well, which facilitates the discussion. However, realistically the vast majority of these discussions will be between people who not only don't trust each other as much, but they might even see each other as foes/adversaries.

In that scenario, I'm not sure it's a good idea to "challenge yourself [...] to go beneath the surface".
Why bots won't replace apps anytime soon
It sounds like you're saying the effect is more apparent because TFA is bad. But the effect you claim is that people pretend (to themselves or others) to like works that have a brand or franchise or cult following behind them. And you admit that the prequels have that too.

But then we would expect people to either like or pretend to like the prequels. And we don't see that. The prequels are widely disdained. And you haven't explained why the prequels don't get the same pretense as TFA.
You dont owe anything to a group of people because they share your skin color. Understand this.

Right. I don't think one really fixes racial discrimination by engaging in more racial discrimination.
https://medium.com/@danrschlosser/linkedin-dark-patterns-3ae...
Europe’s staggeringly large telescope project takes a step forward
Two other potential influences I thought of:

1. Self report of crying might be reduced by those in more hostile environments as they are conditioned not to show weakness.

2. The behaviour of crying is learned as a way to get support from others(this is not fact, just speculating). If that support never comes, crying would not be reinforced.
I would not want to write that if statement.
In 2016 I've found that this strategy — "hey, I found a really bad security thing, and a pattern of really bad security things" or "hey, I did something 100x better than what you're doing and people know it, here's my stuff, let's join forces" — doesn't work like it used to.

In fact, any advice often falls on deaf ears and feels like pandering.

I'm looking at you (however among many others), YC's favorite payment processor.
I doubt that or else you wouldn't see the same stretch, and grade of road get two different speed limits depending on what side of the state border that you are on.

Additionally, on the intrastate highways, the speed limits are set by local districts so local districts who like making money will often change their speed limit for any highways that go near by them so they can speed trap people.
Angry customer files class action suit against Theranos
>It can imply middle eastern,

In America that's pretty stupid, considering the American census counts MENA as "white".
An interesting note:

>In October 2012, Walgreens sent two executives and Paul Rust, a retired executive from clinical-lab company Quest Diagnostics Corp. , on a trip that included a review of quality-control data at Theranos.

>“It was a very strange situation,” he recalls of the one-day visit. “The results were actually really good, but I was never allowed to go into the lab. I have no idea that the results I saw were run on the Edison devices or not.”
> feels that it is a dead end, and another that sees it as a practical way forward

Until the Wh/kg ratio of batteries improves significantly, it will be a huge problem to have electric planes. Look at the energy contents of 1 litre of Jet-A or avgas compared to the same weight in batteries. Hydrogen + fuel cell systems to achieve the same energy density require very costly extremely high pressure tanks and fueling systems, and that is before you get into the argument of whether hydrogen is a terrible use of energy.

If your hydrogen supply is coming from an electrolysis process an IMMENSE amount of kWh has been consumed to fill your hydrogen tank, which should be considered for the total environmental cost. So unless your electrolysis plant is hooked up to a massive PV array or a 4GW nuclear power plant, the economics are questionable.

for comparison:

lithium ion batteries 0.36–0.875 MJ/kg

Jet-A: 42.80 MJ/kg
For now, and at this level of automation (level 2) it is the drivers fault. When cars reach higher levels of automation (that generally means deciding more things like lane changes, target cruise speed, etc) it then becomes the car's fault and by extension the manufacturers.
This is kind of par for the course in non-profit AI research. OpenAI's spiritual parent MIRI also has something of a problem with lots of press releases and credential waving with few impactful papers or research.

That sounds a little harsh and I don't really mean in that way. Commercial AI/ML projects, since they have a clear goal they can measure against (play Go, drive a car, get better search results) tend to make meaningful progress that we can see, whereas the more philosophical and research-oriented non-profits don't have a yardstick like that, and probably won't until we have an inkling on how to actually make "strong AI". So this organization will probably seem like vaporware for some time, but hopefully it will prove its worth in the long run.
This is a major reason I'd love to own a Telsa (or car with similar features). Right now I have to avoid driving long distances at night because I have a hard time staying awake. While I would have no intention of taking a full-on nap while on autopilot, it would make sitting behind a wheel a lot safer during long hauls between cities.
Shipments of SSDs Up 32.7% Year-Over-Year
Was it necessary, prior to LinkedIn acting on your advice, to provide proof the person had died?
> There are some great lesser alternatives like AppArmor, grsec,

Lesser? grsecurity is actually a far superior alternative to SELinux: https://grsecurity.net/compare.php

It's unfortunate that their stable patches are no longer available publicly: https://grsecurity.net/announce.php
Adidas Shifts Production – But Robots Get the Jobs
Not sure what you're paying for in the electric car. Charging at the Tesla stations is free. If it can plug itself in to the charger, it's completely feasible to drive itself across the country.
Why IQ matters more than grit
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11557166
Ask HN: What did you pay for firstnamelastname.com
just curious what a reasonable figure is for a domain like matthewsmith.com or davidrandall.com, guess it probably depends if your name is common or not?
Foxconn cuts 60,000 factory jobs and replaces them with robots
What I find interesting is how drug preferences change over time. Back in the 1980's and 1990's it was cocaine (powder or crack), then it shifted to methamphetamine in the 2000's and now there is a big shift to heroin.

Methamphetamine (amphetamines in general) was big back in the 1960's and 1970's, kind of went away, then came roaring back 30 years later.

Heroin was a major problem back during the same time period, kind of went away (at least the amount of attention on it), then came back in the late 2000's.

I think blaming the current popularity of heroin on prescription opioids makes sense, but I'd be curious what drives drug preference in other instances? Price? Availability?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11770463
Ah, Washington Irving. One of the greatest minds of his time; what he didn't know, he made up on the spot.
I've also read some autopsy reports that showed many patients had Lyme's disease.
Automated Multi-Channel Sales Follow-Up (Email, SMS, Facebook and Twitter)
Link to the complaint:

https://www.scribd.com/doc/313828583/Theranos-Complaint
Hi, I am the project leader of Eyecatch. We are currently accepting users in our private beta,
and would love to have your feedback.
Let us know what you think!
What about your tax dollars being spent embedding digital markers in public roads so that the roads will become much safer and more efficient?
Wikipedia also has https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolibertarianism which is essetially the same thing but might appeal more to the traditional libertarian hacker demographic.

In German we have Silvio Gesell and his Freiwirtschaft.
the reason for putting everything in json in one column is because alter table on a large database can take days. the only sql database i'm familiar with that doesn't have this problem is tokudb.

> Serialisation time makes returning large JSON/XML objects expensive when you only need a small part.

the expensive part of reads is finding the row on disk. once you've found the row the cost of reading part of the row vs the whole row is negligible. amount of data sent over the network doesn't matter either in 99% of cases. these days network bandwidth is orders of magnitude greater than random IO bandwidth on a spinning disk and still greater than random IO bandwidth on a SSD assuming you're using 10GbE.

> Overwriting a whole object to increment a counter is an unnecessary source of IO.

there is no way to write 4 bytes to a hard disk. disk io is performed in multiples of 4096 bytes, so it doesn't matter whether you just update the counter or update the whole blob. only incrementing the counter may allow you to write less data to the write ahead log, so you may save some IO there, but most databases put the whole row in the log anyway so it doesn't matter.

> Duplicating JSON keys in every record bloats the size of your working set, making it more difficult to fit into memory (or the fast part of your SAN).

this is definitely true, it's better to use an extensible but compact format like protobuf or thrift if you have a significant amount of data. or you could use a better database and not have to worry about the cost of adding columns.
I agree, and I certainly wasn't trying to promote the idea of striking up such conversations with someone you barely know just for the sake of personal development.

I've had far fewer such discussions with friends and coworkers, though I've had some. Mostly they have turned out OK, but I've been burned a few times too. And I didn't actively seek the conversations; rather, they always occur when something happens in a shared environment and usually later one of us makes a comment about it that leads to a discussion.
Ask HN: Which email service do you use for multiple custom domains?
I've taken advantage of Zoho's email service for a custom domain. I now have new side project (different domain) that I'd like to add email to, with another project coming in a few months. So, I'm trying to figure out what my options are with respect to setup and cost.

I'd prefer not to pay $5/user per domain if possible. Should I run my own mail server? Any advice is much appreciated!
> Because that tells me you probably see me

Thats the main reason I do it, as well as to be polite and leave you a bit more space.
Open-Source Software Companies Try a New Business Model
Comments that provide no information or insight are generally downvoted.
Add javascript to the search. Sometimes I do that with random searches just to see the crazy things people are doing with Javascript
> Protectionist laws are a legitimate tool for social and economic progress.

Just not technological progress.

The auto manufacturers in the U.S. are a prime example of how protectionism stagnated industry development.
Its the reason I wont vote for/ support her. Clearly incompetent
Why is it hard to believe that a country where a certain class of people has gone up in wealth and opportunity, other people are still stuck? What notahacker says its correct. There's more to India than just living in the urban centers of Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, etc.

Sure if you have an American middle class salary/savings and go to India you'll live a very luxurious life (by Indian standards). You'll have AC in your house, servants to come and clean and cook for you. You can hire a driver for road trips. However your surrounding environment will be worse off than compared to the US (pollution, smog, corruption, inadequate infrastructure)

The servants however are still living in poverty or close to poverty. Go outside a major city to the countryside and its still very underdeveloped.
Hey Dylz,
Thanks for your feedback! It's awesome!

We are testing everything. The video background sounds relevant for us because it's all about traveling. We are going to build our own video really soon, but we want to test the video topic first.

We are not incorporated yet. That's why we do not have any information about the company at the moment. It's coming :) We need to close a deal with a card provider manager to write it down too. If you have feedback about one of them, feel free to shoot me an email at vincent@bfree.io

About social media posts, it's all about jokes with famous people. Do you feel any offense from it? If yes, I am truly sorry.

Just to let you know, we want to offer you a debit card for your next trip. All you have to do is order the BFreeCard, top up some dollars/euros/whatever on it and start to use the card everywhere you go. We exchange at the market rate. You do not loose any cent during the transaction. It's all free for you.
Actually, you can test the first version of the application if you want. On Android, it's here: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/io.bfree.app If you have an iPhone, shoot me an email (vincent@bfree.io) I will send you the private beta.

Have a wonderful day man and thanks again for your time!
no, because:

lithium ion batteries 0.36–0.875 MJ/kg

Jet-A: 42.80 MJ/kg

quick googling says a 747-8 has a 239,000 liter fuel capacity, so the energy stored in full tanks is 10,229,200MJ

I don't know of any battery or hydrogen fuel cell type technology that can approach anywhere NEAR ten million megajoules stored in the same weight.
Old storage media (floppies, CDs) have a big advantage over new ones (SD cards, USB sticks, hard drives) - they don't have firmware. Most people didn't notice how over the last decade or so we've moved from having a computer read out data directly from a removable medium to having two computers talking together over a low-level, high-privilege protocol. While there are many benefits to this evolution, it also opens up many serious attack vectors.
Don't worry, we can and will do better than that. Please hold us to a higher standard!
They implemented racial quotas to prevent ghettoization.

>Sure, build a bunch of concrete high rises for tech worker

I guess SF's bus drivers, restaurant servers, etc. don't deserve somewhere affordable to live because it might spoil the "aesthetic"?
I'm not sure Vice should be too concerned about a 17% drop in visits due to less link-bait.

1) they are doing very well as an alternative news source.

2) they are looking at the long-game. It takes a while to build credibility, and link-bait isn't going to be helpful

I have personally been amazed at what they have accomplished and how good compelling and punchy much of their content has been.

Shane is very smart. He's looked at the problems with the existing news media and has created a very compelling business for those looking for an alternative. At the same time, he hasn't (I don't believe) gone to far to as to put off the mainstream audience.
If the NSA can run its own semiconductor fab, then I'm sure the US Gov't can pony up a few million annually to manufacture floppy media for something as critical as its nuclear arsenal.
It's not new; it's the same terminology that's been used for the past few decades.

You could buy "soft white" and "daylight" incandescents, too.
"I'm looking forward to future posts that show how Nix is better than Homebrew or MacPorts, because that hasn't been demonstrated so far."

Homebrew is downright dangerous (I've written about why: http://inthebox.webmin.com/homebrew-package-installation-for... ).

MacPorts is fine. Not wonderful, but OK. Not reproducible in the way Nix is.

PkgSrc is also pretty good. Also not reproducible the way Nix is. But, the packaging policies are good, the packages tend to be well-thought out, and the technical solution to stuff like dependency resolution is pretty OK. The people building and maintaining PkgSrc know what they're doing.

Nix is clearly superior to all of them, however, in being reproducible, easy to roll-back in a predictable way (try going backward with almost any other package manager, even RPM/yum and dpkg/apt can't do that...I love'em both, but recognize that we now have better solutions to package management). Nix is just a fundamentally better tool.

Flatpak is another really promising packaging technology with some of the same benefits (but it's tackling things in a different way; I think I still have to consider Nix a better overall solution; it is certainly simpler in both implementation and usage, for packagers/developers and end users).

But, don't use Homebrew. For now, PkgSrc is probably the best method of getting a lot of reasonably good packages for Mac OS X. Nix will be the better option eventually, once there's a lot of people packaging for it (assuming people get over their bizarre love affair with Homebrew and start working with Nix, instead).
Linked lists are slow as shit, most of the time. Even things that looks like they are linked lists, i.e. C#'s List<T>, are really dynamic arrays, akin to std::vector. Cache coherency matters.
See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

Rallying the crowd for up-votes (even for another user's post) falls pretty much in the same ballpark.
Wait... binaries inside a ~homedir/.dotfile/? Why on earth?
> But I have never, ever seen a source claim that it is net negative on a national or local level outside of very, very narrowly defined parameters.

Adam Smith already (and lots of other economists since) have argued for unilateral free trade.