skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A large portion of my rep comes from questions I wrote that were (considerably later) marked "closed", for various reasons. All of them continue to accumulate thousands of views and the occasional point or two... that's never made much sense. Kind of a statement on how nonsensical StackOverflow's become.

It feels almost like the variables in their little machine are out of tune. If they scaled back the free privileges and hire some trained moderators they could probably clean things up a bunch.
I usually answer the difficult questions because I've been googling how to do the same thing, found an unanswered SO question and eventually worked out how to do it myself. May as well post the answer.
It is a confusing story, and not well supported by actual facts or studies. So I wonder about these things, who has it in for street lights? Crooks obviously it makes their life harder (and it mentions in the article that police are getting better witness descriptions under LED lights). And presumably the folks who made the old Mercury Vapor lights. Which happen to have about 1/10th the cost to make as LED lights but seem to sell for the same amount, so perhaps their margins are getting squeezed uncomfortably. Power companies of course, who could depend on the electricity load coming from inefficient street lights finding that one of their biggest consumer at their lowest utilization time is cutting their power requirements by 33% or more. That has to hurt you really don't want to turn off base load during the night. And of course people who liked the look of their street before and now are sad because it looks different[1].

[1] When people switched from coal fireplaces to gas heat a common complaint was that it didn't smell like home any more.
You can live 10mins away in East Palo Alto and pay less. The big issue is schools. Same with Oakland and San Leandro.
Look at Scandinavia. Generous welfare, not exactly known for high crime.
Would love to see this person's face when (if?) later in life she has her pot-kettle-black moment.

I chose to stop reading after this:

It was a poisoned package wrapped up in arrogance and delivered with condescension.

If I was a more motivated prankster I'd love to send this person a mirror.
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I don't know what you are on about. I am not pissed off with SO, nor do I know anyone who is, and I certainly have no intention to go somewhere else, especially since there is no saying the same problems will not occur there
If ICANN charged $5 a month for all domains perhaps it would not be so lucrative to sit on domains.

Though it would still be profitable for some domains.

The money could pay for ICANN or whatever.
Blues News? You mean you didn't finger his account directly from a shell prompt?
If that's possible, I'm sure you'll have no difficulty finding a public source to cite that states the same.
Show HN: Jumble – Essays on the go #PaulInYourPocket
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How is this any different from "Vote for me and taxes go down!!"? At least we'd have a different choice.
Demo video: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8oi3hbhFCrpZEhtMEZSSm9wLV...
Essentially, someone who asks continual questions and who seems unwilling to do any work, research, or to put any effort into learning on their own. Overview is here:

http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19665/the-help-vampi...

A common variation is someone who asks a reasonable question, gets an answer, then repeatedly modifies/extends the original question, or who asks a long series of follow up questions n comments. This variation is described here:

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/258279/1441122
Well, competition has a way of motivating people to do better :)
And ultimately, remember that the biography is just one person's version of the story of another human being. You don't necessarily know what was left out, or left in.
Uninvested cash does nobody good.
RSA and Ed25519 only, in my opinion. Don't use DSA or ECDSA.
I'm curious, and this may have been discussed elsewhere, but how would that work in a country like the US (both in terms of size of population and capitalistic greed)? For instance, when student loans became ubiquitous, universities raised their rates. Now there are many theories as to why that was but I feel the simplest explanation is that a) it created greater demand, and b) easy/cheap money (look at ITT). What's to stop rents/mortgages from increasing, cost of goods increasing, basically the cost of everything going up b/c a) people have guaranteed money and demand more goods, and b) simple greed? In my mind it wont be long before that "basic income" isn't enough live on at all. Now I know this seems to be a difficult problem to solve, but I don't think throwing "free" currency at it is going to do anything but drive the value of that currency and it's buying power way down. Im most likely very wrong ( i have zero knowledge sady enough of money and how markets and economies work) - I would just love someone to explain to me how this is even an option - I want to understand?!
I just wonder what generates so much rejection here.

Yes, I've seen it happen. And yes, I've seen it in person, not only on the net. No, I don't think it is the case here, because evidence points other way - not because of this stupid canned thought.
Be Like the Hummingbird- Inspiring Short Story
SF transformed technology into a cancer.
While those telling the user who posted the question wer correct about deleting the comma, this question would have had immensely more value if they had simply said "don't build your query that way". There are many ways to mitigate SQL injections in Java - I would have up-voted any answer that responded with (e.g.) a parameter used query. So to me, this question's answers could in fact make it interesting and valuable.
There is a tax: it is the domain renewal fee.
I disagree on the sane part.

Make a simple search on google on "how to resize a partition on linux" and you get ten tutorials, all of which give different steps, none of which work.

There are at least 7 different tools for managing disks on linux most of which vary by distribution and version: fdisk, mkfs, partx, parted, growpart, mdraid, dmcrypt...

Little story: The auto extending of partitions on boot (i.e. a critical thing in cloud environment) has been broken in debian stable for more than 6 months.

It's calling "growpart" that is calling other tools, one of which is "partx". Some flags are changing between versions and it breaks the whole toolchain, unless all software versions are carefully selected.

We could continue on why do some of the tools only accept cylinder and block counts as size??? or why is gparted a terrible GUI for managing disks.
Yeah, it's awesome having neighbors that leave garbage everywhere, don't mow their lawns, smoke copious amounts of weed on their porch, are constantly calling the cops, revving their shitty Civics with the exhaust cut off at 4AM on a Sunday, and park 4 rusted out cars on the curb outside their home.

You might say "So don't buy a home there" or "So buy a home in an HOA". The point is that there isn't housing available in those areas nearly as much as there is most everywhere else, meaning people start to gentrify crappier blocks because they house the want at the location they want just doesn't exist.
Monocultures, almost by definition, encourage groups to think alike. That means the group doesn't invent anything new, and has a strong tendency to work towards the lowest denominator. While that's sometimes valuable -- not everything needs to be revolutionary -- it does mean that true innovation is harder to achieve, because nobody is thinking outside the box. In fact, most of the team isn't even aware of the box.

Step back from the color- and gender-counting varieties of diversity for a moment, and just think of the notion of diversity itself: a variation of backgrounds and viewpoints, which can contribute to a wider view and, when done mindfully, more opportunities to serve the community (the same community that buys your products).

Surely you've had that wonderful feeling when a teammate comes up with an idea, and you respond, "Wow, what a great suggestion! I'd never have thought of that!" With attention to diversity (by which I mean, "attracting people of different viewpoints"), you encounter that sense of discovery far more often.
Haven't people been asking this for the past few hundred years? And yet we're better off in life than we ever have been.

Robots do things cheaper. This allows prices to fall.

Also, if a business has nobody to sell to, then they themselves are in trouble. That they remain profitable is a sign that things are fine.

Humans are adaptable creatures and we find other things of value to do.

People from some industries will experience short-term pain. But pre-empting that with politics runs the risk of creating socioeconomic cruft that unnecessarily and inefficiently drains more resources in the long run.
People who cannot be bothered to cover the simplest basics of a topic on their own. It's usually hard to explain anything to them because anywhere you try to start from they will need you to explain that topic first, and on, and on. If you ask them "what do you understand" in an attempt to join them in some common frame of comprehension, they look at you with a blank stare and reply "what do you mean". That's how they drain you of your life energy. Help vampires.
A truck has quite a lot of kinetic energy, accidents involving trucks tend to be lethal. I wonder how long it will take until self driving technology will be save enough for this application.
I miss .plan and finger :(
What a sweeping generalization. Perhaps. But it's certainly easier to master portable C than portable C++.
I stopped reading "Why I stopped..." articles
Much like email, finger was a service usually hosted by your ISP/university/workplace. The daemon did not run on your own machine.
In my hometown there is a building that was built in 1529 and leans more than the tower of pisa. It was intended to be taller than our rival cities tower, but it already started sagging during construction. To counteract the sagging the builders actually made kinks in the construction so next layers would be level again, but obviously this didn't help. They never got further than the base of the tower, which still stands and is a fun place to visit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldehove_(tower)
That's how ticket scalping works.
Hate both.
That's just another target among many in the broader class of XSS attacks, and there are protections that router manufacturers (and anyone else hosting a website) are able to build in to protect against it.

Unfortunately, this belies the meat of the issue with IoT. After you've bought the router, there's no reason for your router's manufacturer to keep updating the firmware and fix bugs that allow an XSS attack, and even if the manufacturer does upgrade the firmware, there's no no way for the manufacture to force the firmware to be updated on all of the devices that have been sold, hence installed devices with older firmware that's been exploited and is now part of the botnet used to attack Krebsonsecurity.com
That was an amazingly capable bit of software, sold as a games cheat but the best debugger for RISC OS. I learned so much ARM assembler with it, and also how floppy disc copy protection worked :) It was like having the whole OS in a a virtual machine.
Would love to see this land in Amazon RDS's list of supported extensions!
Some people will be giving back. Point is not all can and want. For some a job might even be a luxury.

Your role in society now becomes: not being a problem because you have no job/money. That is why they give you money.
I have not used 2ndquadrant's BDR extension. Anyone comment as to how easy it is to setup?
Agreed. Quote from the original article:

> The consequence thereof is that many good questions not only get closed before anyone is able to respond, but that many of them end up vanishing into oblivion for eternity after merely 9 days.

Yes, any cutoff time has the downside that you lose posts. But it's not like SO makes rules for no reason. Where's the discussion of the problem that that rule is solving? How do we know they're not worse than this problem?
The late Marc Rich was a commodities trader who founded Glencore. He got into trouble for tax evasion and striking oil deals with Iran during the US hostage crisis there. Lived as an international fugitive in Switzerland for many years, surrounded by armed guards. Was pardoned by Bill Clinton. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Rich
Really? I thought one of the major advantages to LED street lighting is that it is much more directional, so it leaks less light into the sky.
"I suppose that is why he is making $125,000/month running this business and you aren't."

We have no idea how much he is making. Especially since if he is saying he is making that, he attracts attention and is therefore incented to say it - he's probably lying.

People are not upset because it's a 'single purpose' thing. They are upset because he's not creating value - in fact - he's not even playing in a zero-sum game - he's actually shrinking the pie by introducing a transaction tax where none should exist.

He's an anti-capitalist. For every $1 he makes, $1.02 is being drawn out of the system.
Google Deceleration Is the Most Final Dicion
I'm not sure if I quite understand this. It's like a database GUI tool but for spreadsheets with some structured data inside the cells? Is it for researchers? Is the idea that you'll generate an underlying explicit schema for the end user?
> Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors, (1968)

Actual title is less clickbaity than HN's. (copied when 5 hours old)
Will self-driving vehicles really make cities safer?
Regarding production use, why won't version numbers work in combination with releases?
The reputation engine built into Ebay seems to be taken very seriously. OTOH as someone who has avoided joining Prime, typically waiting until I have enough purchases to qualify for free shipping, I've experienced constant nudge (the increase in free shipping sale amount moving from 35-50, the obvious skew towards Prime in search results) shopping at Amazon in the last two years. I'm just suggesting that for me, having a philosophical reason to support Ebay over Amazon (democratic, bottom up, vs. top down) will help assuage the nuisance factor.
The title is misleading, the replication is not coming to stock Postgresql 9.6.

A replication extension got the patches it needs to run into Postgresql 9.6 so you can use the extension without patching Postgres.
An LA man who has built dozens of tiny houses for the homeless
Why bother with that if you feel perfectly self-entitled, judging by the comments, to be aggressive and yell crude language at people who are just trying to make a living in a manner or cultural context you don't understand or want to have anything to do with?
So, to cut a long story short, you're pointing to the early 1960s as a point of generous welfare payments, yes?

If so, what factors do you believe contributed to the gang culture and drug use outlined in that story? Do you believe decent welfare payments were the cause? An enabling factor? A coincidence?
Respect – Simon Peyton-Jones
I second this. It's hard to find a city comparable to SF in terms of what the city has to offer (tech, weather, outdoor activities, picturesque terrain, food). That said, many cities are beginning to improve significantly. In the last four years, the area where I live has seen a drop in the number of fast food chain restaurants and an increase in family owned restaurants with locally sourced foods that are unique to the region. The newest generation seems to want less suburban sprawl and more of a soft-urban lifestyle — instead of a big house, a car, and nothing to do, it seems people are trending toward smaller homes with more interesting nearby activities. The previously dead downtown areas are beginning to revitalize (at least in the southern US).
How exactly does one go about warming Elastic Beanstalk?

I thought part of the value add was Beanstalk making it so you don't have to think about these things for bursts.
UC campuses scramble to make room for thousands more new California students
You know when the tax bracket was above 75%, and 91% there were rich people that basically paid nothing in taxes? This was the result of existing exemptions in the laws.

You know the Rothschild? Rockefeller? In what period they made most of their money?. In those with the higher "rich taxes".

In fact that basically meant in practice that only a few could hold all the power, with no competition, by law.

It is very similar to what happens in Cuba today, when you can't earn more than 30 USD a month or so, no matter how good you are or how much you provide for the state. You could be the one responsible for the famous Che Guevara photo or a baseball player, you will earn millions that the State will take, and give you 30 USD.

An exception has been made recently for small business to this law, but of course some people in power are the gatekeepers to it(and you better pay them a significant part of your profits under the table for getting permission).

Of course the communist in power will spent lavishly your money because they can decide who spends what. No rich people in the country officially. Fidel officially has no money, extra officially it has billions outside the country.

Basic income means most of your money being taken away from you in taxes for someone else to spend for you. This has been already invented and tested before.
The author conflates biographies with autobiographies, makes strange claims about the purpose of biographies (to learn how to succeed?) and generally doesn't have much of interest or clarity to say on the topic. Why this is here completely baffles me.
Well, if this video [0] is anything to go by, most of the other jobs will be automated as well. And although I have no foresight to know how it will pan out, it looks like advances in technology (which have produced previously unimagined jobs for humans - hello, Android dev), advances in technology in this new age will only create new jobs for automatons, not for humans.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
If I understood the intention of the programmers, they simply want to store "everything that can imitate to the server the continuation of the current session" even after the new start of the Firefox (like the restart never happened). The images were sent by Google, but probably remain in the DOM tree which is then written as the "session data" or something like that.

Like you, I also observed that exactly the people who depend on the tabs to "remain" after the restart are those who are hit by the bugs in the "restoration" and as I've said, I believe the users would more prefer to have "stable" tabs and URLs than the "fully restored sessions in the tabs" when all the tabs fully randomly (for them) disappear. Maybe saving just the tabs and URLs separately from "everything session" would be a good step to the robustness (since it would be much less data and much less chance to get corrupted) and then maybe, pretty please, an option "don't save session data" can be in the about:config too)?

Once there's decision to store just the URLs of the tabs as the separate file, the file can even be organized in a way that just the URL that is changed gets rewritten, therefore making the "complete corruption" of the file impossible and also removing the necessity for Firefox to keep N older versions of the big files (which then eventually still don't help the user like you).
Some operators have it as default - that's how I got one before. I think operators have stopped doing this now, at least where I live, so it's not a problem anymore.
Some info from 2nd Quadrant on what BDR is: https://2ndquadrant.com/en/resources/bdr/

Bi-Directional Replication for PostgreSQL (Postgres-BDR, or BDR) is the first open source multi-master replication system for PostgreSQL to reach full production status, developed by 2ndQuadrant and assisted by a keen user community. BDR is specifically designed for use in geographically distributed clusters, using highly efficient asynchronous logical replication, supporting anything from 2 to more than 48 nodes in a distributed database.
Yes only 1 million. It might just be worth him getting put of bed.
Well, for some countries being an ambassador actually means being a rude, obnoxious asshole. They're just doing their duty and sharing their cultural values.
Exactly, which is why the asking multiple is too high. Fragile model with declining future revenue
If I understood it correctly, you're saying that RSA requires the two numbers to be big AND random, otherwise the algorithm isn't strong? Therefore Ed25519 is better because it's strong regardless of the key?

What I don't get then is how can a short key be secure, that goes against what I was taught in college. Aren't shorter keys more prone to collisions and bruteforce attacks?
For me its different in a few ways. For one the amount given will never go down, people would flip. Second by the sales pitch of "taxes goes down" the government does not get more control over and of the money. Vast majority don't like the idea of taxes being raised on them no matter who they are.

The sales pitch of "get more money" will also be used to hide and justify taxes going up etc. They will do things like only talk about how you get more money and not mention things like they will tax more. Its an easier more manipulative sales pitch that it becomes capable of.

Also over the course of time tons of changes, additions, etc will be added to it. I am not completely against the idea, it sounds great in practice but I just see way too many things that can go wrong.

I also don't think its wise to put too many eggs in one basket.
> In such a case, would using a traditional library by spawning threads to run any blocking operation be a good stop-gap solution(until an async replacement comes along)?

For the record, asyncio provides this ability out-of-box using the AbstractEventLoop.run_in_executor coroutine.
500k is still over 20 years of working full time at target.
Thank you for this articulate and reasoned comment. This type of information is so much more interesting and thought-provoking than a bleak newspaper story that contributes nothing new to the conversation.
"(Ironically, Iran under a secular government would be a far more preferable ally than Saudi Arabia)"

Why does it have to be secular as a prerequisite? Saudia Arabia is not only not secular but its not democratic either.
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