skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why collectively? Did the finance people need anything collective?
Nothing in my comment implies anything close to thinking that there are databases that are don't or flawless or don't corrupt data. I'm not sure how a comment about poor query optimization could possibly be interpreted that way.

Regardless, MySQL by default silently eats data in common situations (truncation of VARCHAR) and returns flat-out incorrect results due to PHP-style "helpful" coercions (SELECT 0 == "banana"). It implements UTF-8 incorrectly, but fixing it would break existing apps, so we're forever stuck with "utf8" encoding that isn't.

There are a million more of these, and while some of them have workarounds (strict tables, utf8mb4), many of them don't (automatic coercion, boneheaded query planner, creating implicit temporary tables without indexes even when present, etc.).

A comparison of MySQL to PHP is apt, honestly. The fact that PHP is a blight doesn't mean other languages don't have their own problems. But PHP (like MySQL) is in a league of its own here.
An alternate explanation is a woman was protecting her child from a threat --real, perceived or otherwise. Poor choice? Probably. But I think you've only explored one side of the story and a lot more information has become available in the last 12 hours.
How much should a startup spend on a domain name?
I got excited about this, as I live in MA and seriously considering a change, until I read the part that it doesn't go into effect until July 2018.
My fault for not being clear. I was responding to "But this isn't too broad." I agree this case is not directly important, but it will have a fair amount of indirect impact based on the award size if nothing else.
Speaking of minitel and walled gardens isn't that what Apple is doing with their app store.
They probably are, and in part because of reassuring BS such as at the top of this thread. Just because something seems safe from a completely rational perspective or that of someone highly educated doesn't mean real people in less privileged circumstances won't suffer from it. Theory and practice are only the same in theory.
What??? You can plead the fifth whenever you like, not only when you're guilty.
Your missing a few important factors like:

1) Advertising/promotions budget

Microsoft and Google can both easily outspend Mozilla in TV and online advertising as well as pay companies to bundle and promote their software.

2) Network effects of related protects

Microsoft and Google are able to leverage their control over their own products (Windows, Google Search) to promote their software. All Mozilla has is a browser.
It's a bit harder to do for a fresh grad in the middle of nowhere that's not already in Silicon Valley or even the same continent.

However the information problem for employees isn't actually all that bad, as you say. The problem for employers trying to figure out whether people can actually perform is much, much harder. (But luckily they can usually diversify their bets amongst more than one employee.)
People know how to have sex instinctively. You don't need to do a lot of hooking up to figure it out.
No clue. Haskell for Mac is pretty solid—although keep in mind that it's proprietary.
This exactly. Print is everywhere, and so long as folks can write print on paper and get ideas across, that is all that is needed. Motor skills can be learned by arts and crafts and cooking and other such things, which have the added benefit of teaching new skills, overlaps with needed skills (art and music both can incorporate some math, for example) and new forms of enjoyment or stress relief.
I wonder if these numbers would change if one included sexting. I have a feeling that a growing portion of both relationships and sexual activities are being held over the internet.
Unreal Engine 4 is not open source.
In fact, an electron does not have a precise location. We can, however, detect electrons' presence based on their observed effects.

There are no equivalent "observed effects" of some hypothetical "just" amount that Facebook should owe to the IRS.
Will Apple enforce it? That sounds like a lot of work for them to check. Apple is really strict about some rules, but others they just don't care. Push notification spam, for example, is a constant problem even though it's against the rules.
That can work fairly well. If you finance the government largesse with a land value tax, you can even untax capital and labour and remove almost all distortions to the economy.
> widely used in the Middle East, including by the Islamic State militant group

I understand the risk associated with rogue people using such a service, but is not the ability to determine who exactly is using the service counter productive? I.e. for journalists and personas non grata under oppressive regimes.
You can get good subpixel rendering from a single bitmap using a larger prefiltered glyph: https://github.com/nothings/stb/tree/master/tests/oversample
You're completely off base here. Many times more people die of alcohol than heroin and prescription analogs put together. Also, there are tons of people who use opiates responsibly and in moderation--I'm one of them. Finally, lose the anger, it's a symptom of alcoholism ;)
I suppose it can only run along routes that aren't crossed by flyovers, or other bridge-like structures?
I actually think that's not a bad way to write! Whatever gets you into the zone or flow. Of course, you have to have the discipline to go back and edit with clear eyes later.

There is a famous (mostly misattributed) quote to that effect: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/84190-sometimes-i-write-drun...

Though Hemingway didn't say that, he was definitely a merciless editor of his own work. I dropped in on this (http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/ernest-hemingway) exhibit recently that had early drafts of some of his most famous stories and books and it was remarkable how many whole pages and chapters he chopped out just prior to publication.
> I understand that now crago becomes somehow part of the language as the extern declarations will become "optional"/deprecated.

You are incorrect on multiple fronts - 1) there is not even an active proposal to this effect, its just an idea that was passed around and not even really discussed, 2) the idea did not involve making rustc depend on cargo at all. It would be shocking to me for the Rust community to ever accept a proposal which required rustc to depend on cargo.

In general, please try to avoid contributing to the spread of misinformation by not stating as facts things you are not very confident are true.
"Telegram breached", "Hackers break into Telegram", "Iranian Hackers Just Cracked Telegram". I didn't think any of these nonsense titles would reach the first page of Hacker News.
You create money by borrowing. You win money by risking money(). You earn money by being useful in what you do.

) In Icelandic, "win" means "work".
I see your point, but they don't leapfrog Chrome in privacy when the browser is pwned and leaks its entire process state to an attacker.

Any browser is a massive, rich attack surface with bugs, but Chrome has been cutting edge in its sandboxing, privilege separation, and overall security.

True, Chrome is and has always been a Google marketing vehicle, where the user is the product. But has Mozilla always been at the forefront of privacy, even? Something as basic as private browsing, let's see:

April 29, 2005	Safari 2.0	Private Browsing

December 11, 2008	Google Chrome 1.0	Incognito

March 19, 2009	Internet Explorer 8	InPrivate Browsing

June 30, 2009	Mozilla Firefox 3.5	Private Browsing

Apple, Google, and Microsoft all beat Mozilla to the punch.
In my reckoning, we lack the policy to grow dense and sustainable cities.

When cities become attractive, as the Bay Area is now, they don't respond to the right signals to grow, and when they grow, they grow in unbalanced ways.

I think the solution is through a fundamental overhaul of land-use policy, which is unlikely to happen anytime soon. In the meantime, we'll have failed cities with a ceiling for growth.
> dig and dig until a feed thinks a particular post is important, etc.

Can't you just go directly to that friend's timeline?
Tragic and unfortunate, all around.

I wonder what FB's policy on this will be going forward. In many ways, these livestreams are a public good and provide transparency and additional accountability in these situations. If people elect to stream them, it seems wrong to shut it down. On the other hand, perhaps there is a public good in not showing an ongoing live police operation?

I think I'd lean toward not agreeing to shutdown such streams, unless perhaps it's a hostage situation or terror event of some kind. (Getting into squishy definitions there, I'm sure, which is why I qualify it provisionally.)

As to this particular incident... I wish the deceased hadn't resisted. It seems in this case the police exercised much more caution and restraint than has been the case in many other recent examples of shootings. And I think one thing generally stands: if you threaten to kill a police officer and especially if you do so while holding a weapon (or certainly pointing it at them), you're likely to be shot.
Not everyone under the sun knows that.

Her negligence is worthy of disciplinary action, sure. If this had been discovered while she was still Secretary of State, she may have been fired. But she wouldn't have been sent to prison over it.

Lots of relevant discussion here: https://www.quora.com/Are-Republicans-right-to-be-outraged-t...
That doesn't make a lot of sense. If you know the octal numbers, you don't forget them when reading the value.
The chasers will only drag your salary down, if the business can't distinguish you from them when hiring. Luckily, it's pretty easy for you to signal that you are not a chaser.

Getting paid more than other folks mostly means you are better at interviewing and negotiations. (Or, if you are a lifer, that you are good at your company's promotion process. If your company is sane, that might even imply something about how well you work.)

I don't think shaming or not makes a difference. It's just irrelevant. (Or are people really going to ask for less in their next negotiations because someone on the Internet 'shamed' them? Really?)
In the scenario of "What a company owes to the IRS", the outcome of legal procedure is the absolute source of truth. There's no definition of that amount outside of any legal context.

OJ killing his wife is an event that occurred independently of the existence of our legal system. A company owing taxes to the IRS is a matter that literally only exists within the context of the United States legal code.
It is just binary IL. Doesn't matter what it is expected to do. You can do anything to it.
The state management is a primary focus for us right now, and I think that's evident from this release: state management CLI tools as well as the beginning of import (which is primarily dealing with state in this iteration).

> ... it still breaks the second anyone ... bypasses Terraform and touches the world directly, so Terraform simply isn't resilient by design.

This shouldn't be true. If you create a new resource that was never under management by Terraform, then yes, Terraform will ignore it. This is by design so that you can use Terraform to manage infrastructure and use other processes to manage other infrastructure that perhaps isn't quite migrated yet OR doesn't fit Terraform's model for whatever reason.

However, if you change a resource under management or even remove it, Terraform will notice this. It is very resilient to detecting drift.

> I never understood the purpose of the state file.

The purpose is to map your resources to what exists in the world. There must be some way to make a mapping there to be able to do diffing, drift detection, etc.

Some cloud platforms provide interesting ways to work around this (AWS tags are often abused for this) and we actually experimented with that approach early on. Unfortunately, not everything supports tags and there was no way for us to separate what was Terraform managed and what wasn't.

One of the features we actually have planned for Terraform in the future is the ability for it to tell you what IS NOT under Terraform management (by comparing local state to global state). For companies that have everything under management, this will be a great check to find any rogue resources. For companies working on adopting Terraform, this will help find things that still need to be migrated/imported.

So, hopefully our state improvements in 0.7 and in the short term will help sway you. They're definitely a top concern. But I also hope I explained my way through some of the design here!

Thanks for the feedback and we hope to see you in the community soon!
I learned block writing in drafting class. In high school. Sadly, with CAD, drafting is a skill that's out of date and with it goes block writing.
There's a little bit of terminology overloading going on here.

In Noms every value has a type. It's an immutable system, so this type just is. The type of `42` is `Number`. The type of `"foobar"` is `String`. The type of `[42,44]` is `List<Number>`. And if you add "foo" to that list, the type becomes `List<Number|String>`.

We don't try to infer a general database schema from a few instances of data. We just apply this aggregation up the tree and report the result.

That all said, we do want to eventually add schema _validation_, by which I mean the ability to associate a type with a dataset and have the database enforce that any value committed to the dataset is compatible with that type (following subtyping rules).
two step verification would be guard of this Achilles' heel
Whether the FCC issues a clear and direct edict or if they merely intimidate the vendors into blocking third-party firmware, the effect for consumers is the same and the blame rests in the same place, so I don't think it's inappropriate to use the word "ban" to cover both cases. Until a large-scale commercial vendor of wireless routers stands up to fight on the side of open and hackable routers, the distinction is of no consequence.

Fortunately, the FCC might be backing down due to other sources of resistance and outcry. But that's not yet clear.
I've used both. I like Terraform better as a pure CLI tool. If you like UI driven configuration, CF may be a better choice.

Even if your project only expects to use AWS can you say that for certain of all your projects?
What about the linesmen who provide the power for your computers?

What about the road workers who make it possible for you to get to work?

What about the African miners who dig up the rare earths for your components to run your computer?

What about the guys soldering all this crap together?

I bet you'd say the road worker creates hardly any value, but in reality the economy just ceases to function without roads. Or sewage. Or power lines. Or gas stations powered by truck drivers. Or a million other things.

Developers create a portion of a valuable system, they're not water-walking god-kings. I know, I'm one of them--and my code is probably faster and more reliable than a very large proportion of that created in the rest of the industry, but I don't kid myself thinking I'm doing it all by myself or creating something that has a stand-alone value and operates outside of a larger system; we're all cogs and together we make an amazing machine.

I'm glad I can watch Silicon Valley on TV instead of having to live around those characters. Delusions are detrimental.
Tax law is so complicated and vague that there isn't even an objective measure of what an individual owes, let alone a corporation. There's a lot of discretion in the deductions. I believe over the past ~10 years the IRS has really been cracking down on home office deductions, for instance, and it was all interpretation of existing laws, not new ones. And that's just one example.
The examples in the article are atypical because they are monopolies. Restaurants are typical because they are not monopolies. Academic research about a typical case is high-quality evidence.
There are successful day-traders: members of congress
There's a few more companies paying well than that.

But, yes, the limitations of popular knowledge are part of the reason why we wade through lots and lots of applications from people who have absolutely no clue at Google. (The most clueless just haven't heard of the less well-known companies that also pay well.)
I just wanted to offer the other side. I do devops, we use Terraform, and we've had times when Terraform took action that was not present in the plan generated before applying, in production environments. We've also had times when it'll fail mid-apply, be stuck in an inconsistent state (IAM profiles and autoscaling group configurations, specifically), and require manual recovery through modifying or removing resources via the AWS console (although this might be better in the latest version).

We'll continue to use Terraform at my day job, but I don't recommend it to colleagues nor clients if they use only AWS resources. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication, and adding yet another abstraction does not contribute towards that philosophy.
actually, yes! Can you ping us at hello@amium.com and mention that? It'll help us prioritize and make sure we reach out when it's ready.
Considering her followers were encouraging her to not give in to police demands, this was entirely justified.
We're taking the invocation of Constitutional rights as evidence of guilt, now?
On Primal Productivity: we’d all be better off behaving more like cavemen
What does general purpose mean? It means I get to do what I wan.

Anyone who complains that they can't do something that Apple won't let them is a candidate. Anybody who jailbreaks is definitely one. There are plenty.
Ask HN: Stay or move out?
I am currently working as an engineer in a high growth tech startup in SF. I am in a team with superb+senior engineers, which makes it harder to stand out. There is learning, sure, but fewer opportunities to make a lot of impact. Should I move out to a different team that might be smaller, with fewer old-timers? What is a better move career wise?
Road test for homegrown transit elevated bus
Google and Facebook etc often give 'restricted stock units', ie stock that vests over time. That's almost as good as cash, since you can sell them anytime after they are vesting.

Stock in startups and options in general are a gamble, of course.
I can also concur. My dealer cares more about me than anyone except my mom.
Sonic is the best utility of any kind I have dealt with. It's like getting internet out of some guy's garage back in 1991, in a good way. The one time I had a technical problem, I called tech support and someone picked up the phone and actually fixed my problem. Amazing! I mean, that shouldn't be amazing, but it was.
Yeah, that seemed crazy to me too. It'd be extremely disheartening to spend a fortune on legal bills, finally win the case, then have it thrown out months later by a judge on a whim.
> The article lost me on the first line, "The U.S. is running out of places for people to live."

Which was followed by:

> land-value taxation...is basically just the idea of giving property tax exemptions for urban buildings.

That is almost the exact opposite of what LVT does.
119,756BTC stolen from Bitfinex
Isn't "one commit per independent change" common advice in git tutorials? Each file can be changed independently of any other, so taken literally, exactly how you're supposed to do it.
It's been my experience over the past couple of years dealing with ugly web-apps that abuse JS, have huge DOMs, thousands of tiny images etc., that such abominations (hacks) will run reasonably well on Chrome while verging on unusable in Firefox. This is from someone who was ideologically wedded to Mozilla for years, and more or less refused to use IE regardless of how good it got; I switch to Chrome basically solely on the basis of performance; secondarily the strength of dev tools and the impressive security model.

It's freaking sad that Firefox is stumbling out multi-process in 2016. This has plainly been the way to go for years. Multithreading is a disaster, it's just not a workable model for browser-scale applications.

But hey, if they could recover Firefox from the ashes of the bloated disaster that Mozilla Suite became, I have hope that the community can catch up eventually. Maybe.
What's the difference between a tech lead and an engineer?
You know, this is exactly why we should not have software patents. Company A invested nothing in the R&D, they simply did it first. The reason for patents is to promote the public good by giving inventors who discover a reason to release the details of their invention, rather than to keep it secret. But this isn't happening with software.

Instead, things progress and something is needed. But, rather than an open standard being developed which everyone can use, the first one who patents it wins. Everyone else is hurt and the patent is sold to a troll who then abuses it.
That's just flat out wrong. I know people who were formerly software developers and who stopped their careers to become stay-at-home parents. If you offered a salary of, let's say, $300K they would be happy to reenter the workforce. It's not that hard to catch back up.

As for past investments in different careers, those are sunk costs and irrelevant to decisions made now.
As if there aren't many on the other side of the 1D political spectrum as well.
Service fabric is stupid fresh. Ive really enjoyed playing around with it.
We consider these kinds of issues the highest priority and always work to resolve this ASAP. The resolutions very often include not only the fix but protections to ensure that unintended actions don't bypass anything in the future.

It's really unfortunate you had these experiences and I can't back up the statement when I say that this isn't normal and every release certainly does improve stability in a big way. Terraform is a very, very heavily tested (unit + acceptance) project and we fight very hard against regressions with multiple tests per bug in many cases at different levels.

I'd encourage you to continue giving future versions a shot and if you experience anything like this again, let us know and we'll react to that quickly relative to other types of issues.
Seriously? Explain that to the 500 person company that I'm writing an app for.

We have to pay $299/year to Apple just for the privilege of putting software on our own fucking devices. That's some bullshit right there.

The free option is worth exactly shit for such a large organization.

The $100/year is to get in the public app store where your app must obey every arbitrary rule that Apple invents. They actually have a clause that says they can kick you out of the store for any reason they want without justification.

Why does anyone defend that sort of behavior?
There Is Little Evidence That Daily Home Flossing Is Beneficial
There's a lot more to terraform than just infrastructure providers. You can use it to render templates, generate certificates, setup datadog monitoring, add users to a github organization, configure a Postgres database, ... and then use those things as part of your infrastructure definition.

Also, HCL is way more readable than JSON. You can actually do a code review on a terraform plan.

And terraform as a CLI tool is pretty easy to use and expand. On top of this, you can write your own providers fairly easily and it's a more 'standard' tool as in, you don't get vendor lock in.

On top of all this, terraform is an open source Go project: you can easily make your own tools and import it's internal packages to hack things to your needs (caveat: internal packages =P).
Something to keep in mind: Quora users, especially ones that respond to political discussions, trend towards liberal intelligista, so you are not exactly getting an unbiased discussion when browsing any topic which may be influenced by politics.
Is keystroke dynamics a reliable security mechanism for MFA?