skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not "bankruptcy protection". The WSJ writer is thinking of the US's lenient Chapter 11 bankruptcy procedures. Hanjin is going into receivership, with a court in charge. Ships and loaded containers are stranded all over the world.[1] Two Hanjin ships are anchored off Los Angeles, unable to unload because there's no one to pay the port fees. Railroads and ports are sending unshippable containers back to the shipper.

This isn't a big deal for trade generally, because there's huge overcapacity in shipping right now. Hanjin is only 7% of Korea's export shipping. But it's a huge deal for businesses with product stuck on Hanjin ships.[2] It's also a big deal as US retailers stock up for the Xmas shopping season. Spot container shipping prices just shot up. That won't last, but it may last through the Xmas runup.

The court in Korea will probably authorize funds to get the ships unloaded and get them to some storage location, but it's not clear when. That's the biggest headache. The shutdown is not being handled well.

Historically, big firms in Korea were protected by the government, and bailouts were common. That's declined, and attempts to put together some kind of rescue deal for Hanjin have already failed. There's no big reason to rescue Hanjin; Korea alone has excess shipping capacity.

[1] http://www.seatrade-maritime.com/news/americas/hanjin-shippi...
[2] https://theloadstar.co.uk/forwarders-dangerously-exposed-by-...
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Hey cool, SimCity had the Heartbleed bug.
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It's a good piece.

On the one hand there does seem to be an opportunity for more efficient shared transportation in (somewhat) spread-out areas. I know that near where I live, there's a "regional" small bus service but I assume pretty much no one uses it besides the infirm and poor. (Because anyone who can owns a car.) In general, I've seen more casual and lower overhead small busses in places like Russia than in the US.

That said, I also appreciate the concerns raised in the article that if you create something better for the top 50% case, you may make the bottom 50% case totally untenable--however marginally usable it is today.
Absolutely nothing. Baltic Dry only covers bulk carriers. Hanjin's fleet of bulk carriers consists of only 22 vessels.
Do you think South Korea will intervene ?
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> Unfortunately, the "move fast and break things" attitude doesn't work with rockets.

Rocket technology has never advanced without catastrophic failures. "Breaking things" is the only way forward with it. Rockets, of necessity, have to push designs to their limits, or they'll never lift off the pad.
I would think of any system where users can store additional 'custom fields.' In these cases, it is impossible to include columns for these as they aren't known yet.
For the record, I am an idiot who couldn't figure out how to click and drag.
Remembering the Time America Nuked Spain by Accident
Your queries are executing different plans. The first one is executing a nested loop join which filters out 1,246,035,384 intermediate rows. The second one is executing a index join which doesn't filter out any intermediate rows at all. This seems like it was caused either by the scientist_labs_pkey index not being there in the first trial or just random luck due to a difference in statistics.
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Gotcha.

I've usually heard Moby Dick referenced to mean something elusive or borderline impossible to catch -- which is not necessarily the same thing as rarity, but has a similar outcome I suppose.

Of course, as you point out, the ultimate point of most Moby Dick metaphors is caution: chasing the white whale leads to your doom.

That latter point, even though it isn't the thrust of Andreesen's metaphor, nevertheless comes through in the article. So the whole "Moby Dick = unpredictable" thing doesn't quite hit its mark, but "Chasing Moby Dick = fruitless and possibly self-destructive" still does.

I'd love to see someone reference Solaris in a post like this, but yeah, it's just too obscure for most audiences.
You're going to need citations for your unsubstantiated claims. I've brought forth a highly prominent expert opinion in 2007 that computer Go would be dominant by 2017.

And not media reports from present-day that just repeat this meme that almost everyone believed Go wouldn't happen for decades.
> it leaves a bad taste in a lot of employees' mouths.

So it should. I worked for a CTO who signed off on getting rid of a vendor with the rationale that the last-ditch radical license cut they offered, to keep the business, was adding insult to injury. "You've been screwing me for five years and now you want to make it better? You should have given me your best price from the start."

Why would employees be any different?
Because losing the payload amortized by the chance of its loss is less expensive than the 100% dead expense of a test rocket.
> Why would high performers stay in this environment when they could leave to work somewhere where pay is tied to performance and not seniority?

Because most places that claim "pay is tied to performance" actually don't tie pay to objective measures of performance (or even know how to objectively measure delivered value), they tie pay to either:

(1) an objective measure of something, but something often not tied to your performance of the duties of the job,

(2) a subjective ranking of "performance" that can reflect a decisionmaker's biases and/or your effort and ability in deploying social manipulation unrelated to your nominal job function on the decisionmaker.

If you're not a commissioned salesperson [0], ties to an objective measure of performance are hard to find.

[0] And even there, there are some problems, as even getting the base right for a sales commission to really measure performance and not an imperfect proxy that becomes an incentive to acts which make the measure look good but are detrimental to the real goal of the job is harder than it looks.
We're talking spread-out, low-density areas. Trains are great for moving people point to point where there's a certain level of density. But, guess what, even in Europe and Japan, there are a significant number of places that you can't get to by train.
..and the very effective cover which the former affords the latter.

This is an argument against web proxies, VPNs, all encryption, safes, door locks, window blinds, tamper evident tape, and just about every other privacy/security technology ever invented.

Why is economic value transfer so special a use case that we must hamstring it in the name of crime prevention?
Building Composable JavaScript Forms
> the purported health effects of smoking are almost all mental or neurological in function rather than physical

Don't you mean 'purported beneficial effects'? Damage to the lungs is most certainly an 'effect', albeit a negative one. The way you wrote it, it reads as if something like lung damage is all in one's head, imagined (and I'm sure that's not what you meant?).

While I don't condone smoking, Wikipedia[1] summarized certain physical benefits of nicotine from specific sources (and I cannot comment on the reputation of the sources themselves):

>Nicotine is frequently used for its performance-enhancing effects on cognition, alertness, and focus.[40] A meta-analysis of 41 double-blind, placebo-controlled studies concluded that nicotine or smoking had significant positive effects on aspects of fine motor abilities, alerting and orienting attention, and episodic and working memory.[41]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine#Enhancing_performance
It won't make a difference. Your data has been shared[1] ("Facebook and the other companies in the Facebook family also may use information from us") and will be shared more aggressively as time passes.

Facebook bought WhatsApp for $19.3 billion[1]. That's $19,300,000,000. Among the companies that least respects user privacy, Facebook spent this money for a reason.

WhatsApp is just going through the expected process of amending their legal policies for clarity and to more closely mimic Facebook's business practices[1]: "We may amend or update our Privacy Policy. We will provide you notice of amendments to this Privacy Policy, as appropriate"

[1] https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/#privacy-policy-our-global-op...

[2] http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/19/technology/social/facebook-w...
Human society revolves around getting, trading, saving, and spending money. I think that money is a primary motivator for many, many, many people. Including myself - why else would I show up to a job every day?

I show up because I need money. I perform at a high level in order to ask for more money. I use that money to do things that I want. Money is a great motivator - I care about trivial things because I am paid to care about them. I would never care if I weren't being paid.
I was also wondering about this one.

This may make sense if you have custom fields, i.e. the set of keys is user-defined and ever increasing.

Apart from that, there is no reason to do this. If it is all about avoiding having "too many" columns and/or "too may" null values, then I'd say: Don't worry. Just use as many columns as you need.

I would even go one step further and say: It is a common anti-pattern to introduce generic key-value stores (through a separate table, JSON structures or XML structures) without a compelling reason.
By the way, another related anti-pattern is the introduction of an additional table that has a 1:1 relationship to the original table. Because the original table was "full" of columns, or something, so a second table had to be opened to contain the remaining columns.

This is an anti-pattern because you can't model "1:1" that way. Instead, it will be "1:0..1", and now you have some nasty corner cases when the first table has an entry whose counterpart in the second table is missing. Also, when using a column now you always have to think about which table had it - the first or the second table?

I had to work with such a design in a real-world project and it was really annoying.
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>It turns out that they couldn’t. And the answer to why they couldn’t came from a totally unexpected place. The American’s with Disabilities Act.

I wonder how much this act has cost society. Just in this particular instance, let's say keeping this chip on PC motherboards adds 5¢ to the cost of each motherboard. Multiply by a billion PCs sold in the last 10 years (The actual number is higher, but maybe some don't have the chip. Macs and stuff.). Did having the PC beep provide $50M worth of utility to society over the last ten years? I doubt it. $50M of research into e.g. sight restoration technology would also likely have been more useful to blind people in general.
Most of the volume on exchanges seems to be Bitcoin <--> Monero. According to 24 hour volume rankings [1], volume is:

1. XMR / BTC .. $11,500,000

2. XMR / USD .. $ 65,000

[1] http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/volume/24-hour/
At Heap, we allow users to send custom event properties through our API. Since we don't know what properties users will send in advance, we need to use something like JSONB to store them.
I'm in a country where everyone can easily find out everyone else's salary. I find it weird (because I'm American). Also, unions are more common, but different because management will also often have unions, so they are the ones that do the negotiating. This means the process and facts and figures are much more open.

And while I find it weird, this does also mean that pay scales are more appropriate and fair. You can have seniority plus merit based pay, for example, so long as you are honest about what qualifacations people need to meet to earn more pay, and also lessens the gap between women and men's pay.

Some of the gap between women and men will take societal change, and most likely take laws and such to force people's hand to do it.
You should try self-destructing cookies.
Many of these discussions seem to leave the elephant in the room of what is 'enough'.

If your company can only extract 50K per employee, and a home costs 500K in the region, then I don't think you have a legitimate business, and I don't think it should be surprising that people leave for pastures new.

I've spent far too long trying to improve companies' profitability to the point that they can actually afford to pay my mortgage - it's looking likely that I'll be lounging on 10 hours / week for the indefinite future.

Burn my youth so I can rent a fancy apartment? No thanks!
Petition to prevent DEA from designating Kratom plant as Schedule I
Cash can be and is tracked. This takes it a step further. I won't be surprised if governments outlaw the use of tumblers or go after everyone with tainted bitcoin (which given a possible high percentage of dirty bitcoin would make them unfeasible). Otherwise, you've given for-profit cybercriminals the last piece to routinely execute perfect crimes.
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> Fourth, beware bad deals.

> I am thinking of one high-profile Internet startup in San Francisco right now

which specific startup is being referred to in this section of the article?
So? By what moral reasoning is money laundering actually wrong?
My guess would be that if they intended to do so they would have done it earlier.
We live in a society built on the rule of law. Money laundering is illegal because it subverts society's ability to enforce its rules.
Yes, definitely.

I don't think there has been much progress in his work though. :-) I asked him a few months ago if he saw some promising inroads to embodied cognition, but it didn't seem like it. Still it's a part of AI that's neglected on the moment.

PS: Of course there is research, just not mainstream. Der, Parisi, Tani, Bongard, Prokopenko.
Oops, will fix it. Thank you.
Blank’s Rule: Craziness Leads to Innovation
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His comment had the most actionable help of thread
That's for leaving your old job, not for negotiating with your new job.
Termination of YouTube Service on 2012 BRAVIA TVs
Which part of the world is that? Driverless, 24/7 train networks are relatively rare. The only one I can think of (outside of the ones that run inside airports) is the Copenhagen Metro. And being automated/driverless certainly doesn't prevent union strikes from shutting the system down.
Fun fact: The top 3 largest container shipping lines are all family controlled companies and are all European based (Denmark, Switzerland and France)
Wow, this is phenomenal.