skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd assume I'm getting downvoted because I made a comment about my trepidation towards nuclear power.. If you lived within an emergency evacuation zone for a nuclear plant you may feel the same (disclaimer: I don't, but I lived close enough to Indian Point to feel unsafe, and everytime I take Metro North and see it fly past my window, I think what a risk it is)...

Indian Point is a liability to the people and the ecosystems of the lower Hudson Valley. New York State / Cuomo recently denied Entergy's certificate to continue using the Hudson River (1), which they are battling in court. Terrorism risks aside, this is not a state of the art nuclear plant. It's over 40 years old, the bolts are (literally) starting to break (2), and there was a recent radioactive leak (3) into the HUDSON RIVER. How can this not be worrying? It's been shown that NY can maintain energy levels at a cost of 20-30% higher without nuclear power (4), a number I hope will decrease as NY improves wind and solar (mind you, this report is from the Manhattan Institute, a think tank that vehemently supports fracking). This comes down to an increase of $76–$112 per residential customer. Personally, I'd be willing to pay twice that if it meant shutting down IP.

1. http://www.riverkeeper.org/news-events/news/stop-polluters/p...
2. http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/ops-experience/baffle-...
3. http://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/indian-point/2016/02/0...
4. https://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/economic-impacts-cl...
The middle get the least benefits.

The Alt Min Tax should be repealed or at least indexed for inflation.

That would be a good start to helping out the middle.

The standard deduction is another issue to consider. Not all places in the US have an equal cost of living, yet the standard deduction does not consider this.
Ask HN: DB Arch, partitions in a relational model or norelational?
Hi there!

We have several stores in a system with their respective customers. So, we want each of the stores to be in different tables. Is it good to use a no-relational way like customers.store1, customers.store2, etc...? Or what is the best way to do this?

Thanks in advance!
Do you think that everything can be divided into "evidence" and "anecdotes"?

There is at least a third category: Outright lies. The speaker in this case is incentivized to lie to increase their listenership and make more money.

If this is a lie, it isn't an anecdote:. "A short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person."
Inside Apple's 'Secret' iPhone 8 Production in Israel
Was the title "Docker for Dummies" already taken?
Yes, because some purely functional approaches cannot beat imperative ones when it comes to resource usage.
I was very recently looking into physically secure computing solutions, and the "industry standard" seems to be the SafeNet Network HSM, formerly Luna SA Network-Attached HSM (for example, it's what Amazon uses for their CloudHSM service: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudhsm/), which costs like $30,000. With that number in mind, the ORWL price of $700 is quite enticing!
It's not just criminals though, the police can stop anyone with reasonable 'suspicion' and they do. It's legalised highway robbery. Canada issued a travel advisory to their citizens over it, and the police in New York don't even keep records of what they steal.
Exactly, what I mean by doesn't add up is not sustainable long term. I really wonder in 1-2 years from now when all these EVs flood the market. 3 year old Leafs already sell for 6-7k, crazy!
Absolute marketing trash with almost zero technical value.

If I linked an old style "HP Whitepaper about Success with Customer X" it would be downvoted to hell - but that's exactly what this article is, but by Google instead of HP.
> Why not all go to Charity?

Without getting too political, several charities only benefit the people who set them up and picking charities is a major political exercise.

> I am fine with taking a car used in a crime away

I'm not, per the story that's exactly what they did.

> but you can't give the money to the person who took the car nor the court that decides

Any money received by the government as a result of someone doing something illegal should not be in the hands of the courts or police. I'd rather it not be decided by anyone and just used in some fund.
I'm really reaching here to recall, but the short version is that actual searches never took more than a second. All I really cared about was how noticeable a delay to expect, and it was never more than that.

On a bulk import of 1,000+, it took a couple minutes to ingest them. This was all on a $20/month VPS.
As a first generation college student who is now an adjunct professor, I woulds extend the tightrope metaphor:
many of those who grow up rich have known about the tightrope their whole life, have seen how everyone around them has managed it, and have been trained to do it. Many of us who grew up poor grew up not knowing anything about tightrope walking until we were thrown on it, didn't have anyone to teach us about it because no one we knew had ever done it, and didn't even know how to get to the other end.
How about a subscription charge delivery service? A Chevy Spark on a fast charger reaches 80% in about 20 minutes. A Nissan Leaf is about half an hour.

You subscribe and the service sends a truck every night with a fast charger powered by a big battery bank to your street and charges your car for you while you sleep.
When it doesn't matter, like probably with the inventory of a small grocery, SQLite can be a beauty
By the way, making other people secure is big business. For that reason I can see a pointy haired decision maker buying loads of these for the functionaries to use. I wouldn't really want one of these for myself though.
Samsung is having a bad year. I really wanted to get a Note 7.

They need to ramp up their QA teams.
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That was more of a slow adoption and consolidation that some dramatic spike.

Numpy (renamed as such around 2006) has been around for like 20 years, and has been quite popular in the noughties too for those doing numeric stuff in Python.
I find the opposite - I'm deeply ashamed about growing up in poverty and rarely admit it. When it comes up, I find it creates distance between myself and my co workers. They get uncomfortable and I always feel like they think I am judging them somehow.

I don't seem poor anymore: thousands of dollars on dental care, I dress OK, I have a fairly polished accent now. I don't talk to most of my family. My old friends live several thousand miles away and their world of drug abuse, poverty, and dysfunction is now one I only experience via the occasionally post I read on my Facebook feed.

The PTSD remains -- the anxiety attacks in the middle of the night when I think I hear yelling, the flinching and heart palpitations when a co-worker sneaks up on me as a joke. I feel ashamed to mention this as well, because PTSD seems to have become a fashionable affliction to claim to have, like Celiac disease. I look for all intents and purposes like a normal 20something white girl. The few times I mentioned PTSD I actually saw someone eye roll. They don't know about flashbacks to homeless shelters, finding people OD'd in bathrooms, being attacked for just existing.

I think the social circles I now move in have made all of this unmentionable. I am glad the author of this piece is at least bringing it up and talking about it. The isolation I feel among co workers and friends now is often very intense.
Yes, and I can tell you even though I spend every day working with extremely large scale systems I wouldn't have told them "you should expect 10x larger", yet alone 50x. Their initial estimates would still have been an very large launch.

The Niantic team did incredible things given the instant historic success that became Pokemon Go.
It is unreasonable. It is legal to own cash. It shouldn't matter how it was obtained. Cash should only be confiscated in the process of executing a criminal or civil sentence against a person after a guilty ruling.
the scaled from nothing to the size of facebook almost in a few weeks... i'd say it's pretty impressive even with the speedbumps.
For those like me that don't know, MIR is midlevel intermediate representation

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/04/19/MIR.html
Please, no pointless language flaming:

“Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> First of all, passing parameters in functions is "dependency injection". And what you're describing is a really good thing.

It's only injection if the parameter is passed automatically by a framework. Otherwise, it's parameter passing.

And it's only a good thing if you value referential transparency over ease of testing and encapsulation. Not everybody does (and personally, sometimes I do and sometimes I don't).
Deeper than that, I don't think Niantic has shown any real interest in either Pokemon itself,or the game mechanics behind its longevity.
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I can attest this problem is insidious and pervasive through-out society. Not just in the U.S., but globally. Separate from the moral issue of children growing up in disadvantaged environments, this is an economic problem, and a problem for the advancement of humanity. There is so much hidden value in masses of people that have no way deliver this value due to circumstances. I know anecdotally, you can point to individuals who made it despite these setbacks, but this is not the norm statistically by far.

What would happen if we found a way to lift these people up?

How much better off would everyone be economically by the value these hidden 'diamonds' create? (and by everyone I mean even the wealthy)

How much faster could humanity be advancing in general?

From a practical and factual perspective, ignoring this, or just waving it off as 'the best rise no matter what', is so damaging and counterproductive that it is actually holding back everything.
I guess ... Once you realise that you don't want to be a senior or a developer at all.
Did the class have a book?
They didn't have a challenging time, they just paid some hackers to do it[0].

What they wanted was to set a legal precedent[1] which would allow any law enforcement agency to force manufacturers to subvert the security of their devices on demand.

[0]http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-encryption-fbi-idUSK...

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/25/fbi-direc...
> I don't trust the goodness of human nature, I trust the legal and financial system that we've collectively built over the past millennia.

I don't like X, I love X.

Your distrust of human nature has caused you to double-down on trusting human nature. Those elaborate systems to counter human nature are built on, get this, more human nature.

> the future of the financial system be controlled by an "algorithm" that is built on a technology (non-quantum crypto) that could be dead in less than 50 years?

Well, it's only one coin, with one algorithm, and people are pricing that into its value. But show me a better system. Not even the USD has a 50-year guarantee. Not only are your dollars likely worth 10% of their current value in fifty years, but there's an even chance that something has wiped their value out completely.

You're just irrationally afraid of crypto risk and irrationally accepting of human risk.

> Why should I sign up

Oh, I see your issue... Don't worry, nobody wants your permission any more than they do with USD. You don't need to, and can't, do anything.
Ask HN: How often to you learn a new skill?
Life seems to pass by at an accelerating rate as we grow older.

I try to keep on top of learning some new skill or something of value. Last week I learned how to install a new lawn.

How often do you learn a new skill?
The human brain uses up 20% of our energy. There may be easy ways to increase intelligence, that evolution avoided because it costs more energy. But in the modern world constraints like that don't matter.
It may not be science but it's not worthless. Where do we get our testable hypotheses from?
They really like making things that explode!
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.

The only way some people will learn to listen is by failing on their own.
I've always wondered why we don't just get rid of private lawyers and legal teams. That way, no one has an advantage or disadvantage. Even the wealthiest get one guy chosen by the court and no other assistance whatsoever and we see lots of rich kids going to prison as a result.
John Greathouse’s Article Exposes the Sexist Underbelly Still Present in Tech
I should be more open minded. If you enjoy articles about baseless arguments, you'll love "The Disaster that is Bitcoin" by RogomonZ. It's highly uninformative and irrelevant to just about everyone in the ecosystem. If you enjoy the refined writing style of an angsty teenager with summaries like "Fuck Bitcoin and all the fee earning services around it" - this one's for you!
We need to stop finding lost diamonds and start giving poor people in general more opportunities. People talk about rising tides lifting all boats, but ties flow in at the bottom and lifts things higher.
> dreadful DVD player apps of yore, that mimicked physical DVD players, making us push the same inconvenient buttons we hated on the physical devices too.

Yes! But you see those were "bad designs" even in physical world and those were copied over to apps. It's isn't a fault with skeuomorphism per se, but in the design that were referred from.
Google has its fingers in many many pies. Software, hardware, transportation, OS, media, mobile, biology, genetics, algos, etc.

LinkedIn is a rolodex.
I do some searching with pgsql with tiny datasets and ts_rank, on a 10GB dataset of 11 million rows (mostly chat data), and get response times for ranking over all of it around 10-100ms on a cheap OVH 5€ VPS.

Query: https://paste.kde.org/pcxyg0fay | Explain: https://explain.depesz.com/s/jN3V (101ms)

Sometimes queries end up even a lot faster, for example the same as above, but searching for "c plus plus", runs in this plan + runtime: https://explain.depesz.com/s/NPOc (11ms)
But, as discussed, this article is about feelings not truths.
I'd be careful with that claim. Looking at the nutritional info on the In-N-Out website[0], I wouldn't say the macros are pretty good at all. Let's take the Double Double which clocks in at 670 total calories, a decently sized meal as the parent comment would suggest.

Double Double Total Calories: 670 [520 Protein® Style (lettuce for bun)]

Fats: 41g (18g from saturated fats) * 9 = 369 calories, ~55% [~68%]
Carbs: 39g * 4 = 156 calories, ~23% [~7%]
Protein: 37g * 4 = 148 calories, ~22% [~25%]

For comparison,
Cheeseburger Total Calories: 480 [330 Protein® Style]

Fats: 27g (10g from saturated fats) * 9 = 243 calories, ~50% [~68%]
Carbs: 39g * 4 = 156 calories, ~32% [~13%]
Protein: 22g (a normal Hamburger is only 16g) * 4 = 88 calories, ~18% [~22%, total calories using my crude calculations adds up to 341]

Now, I realize arguing about ratios is about as good as arguing about editors, but, for bulking, I'd rather scarf down some milk and I still think that's a tad extreme (its ratios come to about 30% fat/45% carbs/25% protein even at a quarter gallon for a comparable 632 calories)[1][2]. As for cutting to preserve lean mass, it's definitely not something you can easily put into your day without some prior planning or fallback options. Personally a Double Double would put me at only slightly north of 1kcal allowance on a cut, and I'd need to get another >~100g protein to come near my goals. Obviously I'm not saying someone can't enjoy a burger every so often, but I wouldn't suggest they compose model macros for most purposes.

0: http://www.in-n-out.com/nutrition.aspx

1: https://fitness.stackexchange.com/questions/3967/weight-gain...

2: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1/4+gallon+milk

tldr: amateur bodybuilder (me) doesn't think fast-food burgers are particularly great on their own, even for gaining mass. If you're a non-bodybuilder/don't care about macros, just watch the sodium and saturated fats if anything.
oh, I see. the "make room for alcohol" diet :)
My reply is intrinsically in the domain of scientific code. It is not intended to make sense in the general context.

In that global context... Go's type system is about as simple as they come. It's actually hard to come up with a statically-typed language that, in practice, is simpler. The type system in C itself is technically simpler, but with preprocessor macros I'm not sure if it's simpler in practice. I'd say that's why it's generally labeled as "lacking"; on the scale of type system complexity, it's near the bottom before you get into dynamic languages.

If you'd like to learn why that might be a problem for people, I recommend jumping in the deep end and learning Haskell for what strong type systems can guarantee.

There are certainly times I find myself unable to say things in the type system that I would like to be able to say in Go's type system, even given that I am in fact writing network servers with it. I take the tradeoff because in the context I'm working, the simplicity of code tends to win out even so.

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10208075#10208636

And I would fully agree that a non-trivial amount of Go hatred (but not all) occurs from people picking it up and trying to use it in a context they should never have even picked it up for. (That said, I tend to consider scientific programming one of those, and a burgeoning community seems intent on proving me wrong, so shrug.)
When society becomes too rigid for social mobility then of course it becomes a huge problem, but at the same time, if you do become wealthy - wouldn't you want your kids to have it easier and give them any advantage you possibly can?

Grants for entrepreneurs/basic income could be a good idea to boost the chances of those at the very bottom, but it probably won't come to pass. First, who would willingly part with their own money to funnel it to those programs, except perhaps for very wealthy philanthropists, and second big business will never support it as their costs will skyrocket and retention will drop like a stone as desperate employees will be able to get the .... out. In Switzerland with direct democracy, something might happen, anywhere else - doubtful.
>Mentality: I'm one day away from being homeless.

Exactly that. A while ago, I had to move. I just collapsed. It brought back too much about being kicked out over and over again. And yet, I can't seem to stop moving. I've lived in four states and two countries and I'm only 25. I think after being homeless so long I am just eternally homeless.
> Going from $0 to $1M is almost impossible--going from $1M to $2M is almost inevitable.

I know plenty of people who inherited money and blew it all.

Very, very few people, even children from ''rich'' families, have an ''infinite money cushion''.

People who come from poverty or communities rampant with discrimination often times have to work harder for opportunities. But hard work is hard work, and there is fierce competition at every level, no matter who you are. I hesitate to take anything away from anyone's success.

And if you think making your first million from scratch is ''almost impossible'' you should look around any suburb of Silicon Valley at the many, many immigrants who came here with nothing and have saved up that amount, or more. Lots of luck, to be sure, but lots of planning, discipline, deferred gratification, and hard work too.
"Civil forfeiture" is theft. It's also plainly unconstitutional.
>"There's no system that could prohibit you from looking up your ex-wife's new boyfriend, because your ex-wife's new boyfriend could come in contact with the criminal justice system,"

It is within the capability of current AI to be able to flag searches after the fact though. A particular officer does a lot more searches for people with no criminal background at all or other patterns that could be identified.
Consumers trust the economists who designed it, the same way you trust the engineers when you step onto an aircraft.
Too fraught with risk. Police should be treated like any other government agency -- windfalls or other revenue go right to the general fund.
> I was really surprised by how low their their worse case scenario was.

There's no Y axis on the chart, so we don't know exactly what their estimate actually was. Regardless, I'm pretty sure Pokemon GO exceeded any reasonable expectations of popularity, even accounting for the brand and marketing efforts behind it.

From my own experience, lots of people that never engaged with mobile games before started playing Pokemon GO within days of its release. My entire extending family was playing the game. Local bars have become arenas for Pokemon fights. The adoption of this game was absolutely crazy.

So even given the scaling problems, the features they had to remove from the game, and the bugs they introduced, I think this is still a solid win for Google CRE.
Looking into this, it seems that pilots were hired to drop bombs on the miners during the uprising.
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ORWL will go in stand-by if the user is further than 10meters away from the device, if moved when away, it will shut down.
If the hardware is tampered with, or chilled, the SSD encryption key is deleted within milliseconds. iPhone or any other consumer product at this point have less or no physical protection. The physical level of protection is taken from the payment industry standard and applied to the consumer device.
The scanning of RAM content and possibilities of EM scanning, side channel attacks are all covered in the secure section of ORWL by the Maxim Secure controller. Nothing is impossible, but we tried to make it really really hard to get hold of the SSD encryption key and what we refer to as the Root of Trust.
Qubes is really helpful with many other attack vectors.
California's medical use law is a little special, though, in that it has language allowing usage if it will alleviate suffering from any condition in any way. Everyone has something, however small, so it ends up being a de facto legalization with a hoop to jump through.

That said, I fully expect the upcoming initiative to result in recreational legalization. It was a near miss on the last shot a few years back, and the political climate is significantly friendlier now.
some sources for slouch's post

http://www.businessinsider.com/surprising-things-that-could-...

https://www.hrw.org/news/2007/09/11/us-sex-offender-laws-may...
What are your goals?

It seems like all of them offer a huge opportunity based on how you apply yourself.
I don't know if "worked at Google" is as valuable as a resume item as it used to be. Google churns through tons of employees, and from my understanding, the biggest issue is that even their most capable hires will likely be given mundane tasks. A possible note with what you say of LinkedIn, is that you see improvement potential. If you can be part of that improvement, people will notice, moreso than just maintaining an existing success.

All four companies obviously look great as a resume item. I don't work for a well-known company personally, but the biggest thing is that I enjoy the crud out of my job, even when it's stressful and I have to put in too many hours and such. Personally, a top perk at where I work: People thank me for the work I do pretty much daily, which is kinda incredible. Worth more than salary for that, right there. Work with who you think you'd enjoy the work for. This is gonna be half your life until you leave. And I absolutely recommend against working for a company you wouldn't be proud to say you work for.
> Knowing how to use the product is the user's responsibility

Not all products are the same. It's irresponsible, but maybe good business strategy, to presume a complicated computer, which runs software that no human can hold in their head is the same as other products people are accustomed to.