skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a separate note, could we have a web-rule, like Godwin's Law, to address a certain tendency to comment on the logic of peoples' comments, in the abstract? Sometimes I feel like I'm in the Stoa debating Socrates, not on a web board exchanging opinions with some dude/s/s, the way I'm told my "argument is illogical" or my "statement is incorrect" etc.

Here, I'll make a stab at it myself:

YeGoblynQueenne's Law of Debugging Arguments: as the length of an internet conversation approaches infinity, the probability that someone will mention the words "argument" and "incorrect" (or their cognates) in the same comment tends to become 1.0.
Thank you for your helpful and thoughtful reply!

Potatoes and spinach are two of my dietary staples, so it is alarming to see them on the "dirty dozen" list.

Would scrubbing, washing, peeling, cooking, etc do something to the "pesticide residue" found on these vegetables?

Occupational exposure is real and serious, and shows what might happen with chronic exposure. There are documentaries and videos that show the hands of field workers in California. They bubble and peel and blister and discolor, all from pesticides.
There's a reason they're called Sky Pesos :)
The Startup podcast[1] has an upcoming series about Friendster

1 - https://gimletmedia.com/startup/
The vendor SDKs are the weak link, not the compiler or language. Development could go 4x smoother if the vendor code were solid. Every single project I bump into sdk bugs that make it clear they have shipped code that was not tested. Its like they expect us to debug their code that they had developed on the cheap. Lately my philosophy is to just take the vendor header file and write my own low level drivers because it takes a more predictable amount of time. Our industry could use 3rd party SDKs.
Mezzano – Common Lisp OS: Demo 3 released
I've tried moving one of my projects from Django to Go before. I must accept that I had to wire a lot of stuff in Go, that Django handled for me like a cake. I'm talking about configuration, patterns and common features.

Others who've been where I was: how did you cope up with this? Would you be ready to move another project from Django to Go, without the mental fatigue?
What did JPMorgan use for their next project?
> One bad click and you engineer a psychopathic superhuman Hitler who does not share our morals but is able to manipulate, as a sociopath, all of our systems

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!
I was only answering the parent question: they limit the supply in order to control the price. That goes against laissez faire ideology for sure.

In my opinion, the most important point is that the Italians have the right to do so if they choose. Or to change their minds in the future.

" I am pretty sure the appeal will allow Uber to operate again."
OK, good for them, in that case.
Waiting for the new new thing
Got you something faster than go, in python...
switch back to python :P

https://magic.io/blog/uvloop-blazing-fast-python-networking/
Changes to Find with the Upcoming Release of GCC 7 – Phoronix
America owes China $1tn. That’s a problem for Beijing, and Trump knows it
Apple would've gone nowhere with their pricing with NeXT. NeXT station was basically a Silicon Graphics workstation for developers and cost 8000, about four times as much as a high-end gaming PC that would run Win31 Word and Excel with no problems. So not a computer for the masses. I see the pricing problem happening to OS X at the moment.

MS has excelled in getting price, (backwards) compatibility and system requirements correctly. That's why they moved slowly at the time and still do in some regards.

OS/2 was merged into Windows NT which is what almost everyone is using on desktop these day. IBM even tried giving OS/2 for free (Warp or 2.1, can't remember, you could get it by sending a coupon to the publisher), but the lack of compatibility and system requirements killed it. I remember booting it on a 486/33 + 8MB, yuck. Contrast that to almost instant startup of DOS and the requirements of an ordinary user.

Also, IBM sold PS/2 (or something like that) with OS/2 preinstalled... It booted like forever and there was zero software available for the home-user.
This is not an anomaly.

It's the norm for all government projects, and most projects started in established companies that already have millions of users.

To be working in these domains, the "doesn't need to scale" mentality" is very inappropriate and I find it to be doing a lot of damages.

The guys at healthcare handled most the scaling problems, accounting for the means at their disposal and the time frame they had, judging by what was published in the news. That it took a few weeks to smooth showed that they handled scaling beforehand. A launch from 10 users to 10 million is always a bit bumpy for the initial weeks.
> The dirty secret is that most of us are building software that doesn't really need to exist.

... and won't, after some small number of months or years.
Are you kidding me? Multi-billion dollars companies losing customers because their prices are too high and resulting in more competition happens _all_ the time. Just one example, linux (redhat) on the server vs Microsoft Windows Server. Low cost airlines vs regular airlines etc. When a company starts pricing their products too high, competitors will appear (unless you make specific laws like this one in Italy making competition illegal) simply because they are attracted by the money that can still be made with lower prices. That's market economy 101. Why are so many hackers so bad at basic economics?
Find an industry you care (or like at least) and go vertical, that is to say use your skills for that field. You will still have bad days at office, but faith losing more probably not.
We're getting into the territory of "Guns don't kill people, people kill people with guns".

If someone has Epilepsy this might be a concern, but as the story around the gif sent to Kurt Eichenwald, which you reference, points out gifs don't hurt people, assholes do. It's not IKEA's responsibility to ensure that every product they sell cannot be used in any destructive manner. People have to take responsibility for purchasing and introducing new components into their home, much like I as a software developer have to take responsibility for every line of code that I write which has the potential to have a bug that compromises the system I deploy it on, or enables someone to leak the database the application is connected to. IKEA sells knives, for christ sakes.
>and now try to view "US Dollars" as a Government run loyalty program

This is a very deep and totally novel perspective, and you are really onto something. So, if we view it from this perspective, the Government's loyalty program sucks! You get nothing if you accumulate ten thousand, a hundred thousand, or a million points. There is zero Government reward of any kind for any use of points: the value of the points is ENTIRELY in their market value (what you can buy for a dollar) and as a 0.0000% component, any direct or indirect acknowledgment, praise, plaque, or even stuffed animal.

While it MAY be silly that the government would give a teddy bear with a manacturing cost of as little as 80 cents in exchange for using its loyalty program, and paying taxes on it, in the amount of tens or thousands of the same, in fact private industry proves this is not at all so!

Obviously the US government is not a private enterprise, the social contract (and constitition), and general good taste gives it some powers but not others, but some considered steps in this direction certainly might well end up a net positive for everyone.

(As I wrote this comment I felt that it's so unusual and counterintuitive, even absurd, that it might sound like a satire/parody, so just to be clear the train of thought I expressed above is serious/in earnest.)
IDK the exact wording but think those two options can be a bit hard to see when you have an eager sales representative on the line.
Yes, all of those things will help.
You need to be thinking of a career of 30+ years rather than a 3 year sprint.

It's cool you're spending your time producing, but don't forget you need to take care of yourself and hone your fundamentals (linear algebra, data structures, algorithms, your field).
Side note, gluten intolerance and diabetes type 1 often go hand in hand. When my kid was diagnosed, they tested both of us for a whole bunch of things. I came back gluten intolerant and he, luckily, did not. Celiac is another thing that often coexists with T1D.
http://timonoko.github.io/jemma/xkcd-Regular.ttf
I would highly recommend getting something with very high resolution.

I bought a refurbished XPS 13" (top of the line, insanely high resolution) for a $950, when it would have been over $2k new. The seller was the.laptop.shop[1]. I had an issue with the screen, but they gave me a warranty with the laptop, so the next day I had a Dell repairman come to my house and repair the screen right in my kitchen. I didn't spend a dime.

All in all, my best experience buying a computer in my life.

1. http://www.ebay.com/usr/the.laptop.shop
I was not aware it syncs, they should market this feature a little better.
Unsurprisingly, insect-resident crops. If you're in the US, there's a good chance you're already doing it.

Farmers generally use less insecticide when they plant Bt corn and Bt cotton. Corn insecticide use by both GE seed
adopters and nonadopters has decreased—only 9 percent of all U.S. corn farmers used insecticides in 2010. Insecticide
use on corn farms declined from 0.21 pound per planted acre in 1995 to 0.02 pound in 2010. This is consistent with
the steady decline in European corn borer populations over the last decade that has been shown to be a direct result of
Bt adoption.

--Fernandez-Cornejo and Caswell, 2006; NRC, 2010
In other words, MySQL is the PHP of RDBMSes.
Editor’s note:

New information has been reported since publication
of this story that raise significant doubts
about the veracity of the initial accounts on which it
was based. The story relied on reports by the Associated
Press and the New Indian Express quoting local officials
who came upon her, and a video interview with the
physician who treated her. These versions of what
happened to her are now being questioned by other
officials quoted in the Guardian and the Hindustan Times.
While the girl appears to have been abandoned near the
forest in question, according to these new reports,
these officials do not believe she had been living
among monkeys. The original headline has been changed,
and you can read about the new developments here.

Whoah! An editor cautioning against sensationalism, I dont get to see that often.
That might be true, but the number of transmitted packets per unit of time betray the bitrate of the video being watched. When an attacker is monitoring a transmission coming from Netflix CDN, the nature traffic is a given.

edit: clarity
https://db-engines.com/en/ranking

It seems like Everytime on HNs people say postgre is so much better. Why is MySQL so much more popular?
I've only spent about 6 hours in Germany, so I can't speak about Germany. But in many places - the US and UK, for example - it's often quite difficult to get medical work done simply by paying money.

For example, in the US many doctors refused to treat me - I was later told by a doctor that this is for regulatory reasons. US hospitals are famous for not providing a price before treatment, and often trying to sneak non-insured items onto the bill. Compare the expereinces here (https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/us/drive-by-doctoring-sur... ) with mine (https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2015/medical_tourism.html ).

I've had similar difficulties in the UK - it's mostly NHS or get out of town. (My issues in the UK were minor, so I decided to just wait until I reached India to get them fixed.)
Not to mention dozens of hours a week of unpaid overtime.
Maybe we could place that government parking on the sides of existing roads; we could automate the payment process with small devices mounted on posts that could take coins (or in some places, cards or mobile payments). For people who don't pay, we could have city employees walk around and issue fines for non-compliance...
1. There's a reason high margin businesses are so rare- generally, competition will bid the prices down to more reasonable levels of profit. I understand each airline has their own branded credit card, which they have pricing power over. But besides branded cards and direct mileage purchases, why would mileage margins stay so good? Surely the mile buyer would have negotiation power between the airlines. Why can't these mileage buyers (banks, rental car companies, etc) get lower prices for the miles, given the high margins? Is it possible there is mileage price collusion among the airlines?

2. How do airlines account for the cost of mileage seat redemptions when calculating their margins? Do they just use their marginal cost of carrying that passenger (very small)? In my mind, the cost of selling a seat with miles should be at least as much as the lowest price they charged other paying customers. If a plane flies 100% at capacity with mileage redeemers onboard, certainly the airline could have sold the mileage seats for at least about the same as the lowest ticket price paid onboard. I'm skeptical that this how they account for it though...

3. Like others have mentioned, the miles game really is fun for many people. It's fun to collect points, to win things, and get the satisfaction of free travel. In general for me psychologically, the price of airline tickets is the bar for whether a trip is worth taking or not- regardless of the other trip expenses. When you get a vacation with free redeemed airline tickets, it somehow feels so incredibly satisfying.
Only they would have the data to be able to determine that, if anyone would have that data at all.
Public keys without certificates have no meaning. Certificates bind public keys with information like identity and permissions. That's pretty important for cryptography.
If Steve Jobs hadn't left Apple, NeXTSTEP would never exist.
Airline miles are fascinating.

For instance, I fly over 100,000 miles per year with one airline alliance which puts me in the highest earning category for earning award points. Essentially they give you a an 11x multiplayer of award miles for every actual mile (domestic, overseas is more complicated). At lower levels it may be be 9x or 7x, etc. That means the difficulty of earning miles scales significantly with frequency, which if course changes the value.

Now, rather then trying to figure out the price of a ticket and comparing it to #of miles spent, which is difficult because of black out dates, variable pricing, destination/date premiums, and a ton of other factors, I found out you can just buy gift cards.

Specifically, you can buy Amazon gift cards at about 15,000 points per $100 gift card. While not as fungible as USD, given my spending habits and Amazon's large selection, it becomes a pretty good stand in. That means for me, a mile is always worth around 0.006 cents at a minimum. At around 250,000 award miles a year that's around 1,600 dollars per year which isn't that bad. At the very least it's better then some random blogger picking a number based on ticket prices.
Amazing, thanks for sharing!
The write! macro would be the equivalent here. Something like this:

use std::io::Write;

static mut S1: [u8; 17] = [0; 17];

fn main() {
unsafe {
write!(&mut S1[..], "Hi: {}", 5).unwrap();

let s = std::str::from_utf8_unchecked(&S1[..5]);

println!("string: {}", s);
}
}
Actually now, 46,72% is the highest marginal rate, see http://www.smartepenger.no/faktabank/skatt/635-marginalskatt....

You have earn over NOK900k to pay that, about USD105k.

Tax on capital gains is now down to 24%.

I should have looked those numbers up earlier.
I'd say the author is way off on this one.

Millenials are the convenient whipping boy for this. As a much-maligned group (e.g. [1]) many adjectives are attached e.g. Entitled, narcissistic, lazy.

This is of course a generalization that leads to the inevitable fallacious defense of disprooof by counterexample but honestly this cliche isn't without cause in my experience.

The education system focuses a little too much on creativity and not at all on developing skills or any kind of rote learning. I remember seeing an English documentary about students who got As in GCSE French that couldn't conjugate avoir (to have). As a side not the British government tackled the grade inflation problem by creating the A* grade above an A because too many people were getting As.

There's been a ton of research showing how it's damaging to tell people they're inherently special rather than complementing they're effort ("you're smart" vs "you worked really hard on that") e.g. [2].

So I really don't think that overall the ability to dream is a problem. Just look at how many think they're going to be movie stars, music successes and startup billionaires despite the chance of success in any of these being incepredibly low.

How is this not dreaming run amok?

[1] http://time.com/247/millennials-the-me-me-me-generation/

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/06/the-s-...
Unless the childishness is also intentional to mislead. The whole post is bizarre, I would take it all with a grain of salt.
I have a friend who works in admissions at a top 10. The stupid extra-curricular and AP class suggestions is not what they target. Admissions officers often see through this type of resume stuffing, and reluctantly use these candidates to fill in space after they selected their top candidates.

Baseline requirements: near 1600 SAT and near 4.0 unweighted GPA taking the hardest classes. To the school, this proves you'll be able to survive at a top 10. Again, this is a requirement for consideration not admission.

What gets you in: curiosity, creativity, and passion. The most compelling candidates have a narrative and a drive that speaks through the application. Say your kid loves botany, dance, travel, music, or engineering. Foster those interests and enable them to achieve in what they love. An admission officer would swoon over a kid with a passion for biology and husbandry over the directionless one who took every AP science class in the books and joined umpteen honor society.
The de Havilland Comet changed aviation for good
A Note on Setting Up a Raspberry Pi 2 as an Off-Grid Server – Earth Notes
GCC 7 Release Series – Changes, New Features, and Fixes
I have a bit of a hard time understanding why so many people think this is written by Russians. Obviously the grammar is not correct, but it would seem very strange to think this has any significance, and it seems more plausible that it was done in an attempt to hide the authors identity. (My spontaneous feeling was that it was written by Jar Jar Binks, and not Russians, for whatever that's worth.)

I'm not from the US and have not followed the news from there recently, but from what little I have seen much of the actual contents of the message does seem to reflect the feelings of Trumps "base"? Or would people more familiar with US politics say this is incorrect?
Class action claims Windows 10 causes hard drive failures and other problems
You act as if the US isn't an equal player in that game.
How quitting my corporate job for my startup dream f*cked up my life (2014)
Legacy systems, tooling + operational experience, better clustering (for now).

PostgreSQL wins at everything else and the gap is closing fast.
For the majority of my career I haven't worked on greenfield projects. I've been debugging, modifying, and otherwise maintaining pre-existing projects. As a result I've grown to really dislike frameworks that autowire things together. The very same features that made it easy to get started make them harder to maintain going forward. It turns out following the code in your own codebase is easier than following the code in the framework.

Django isn't as bad as some in this respect, (cough, spring, cough), but it still exhibits some of the same issues regarding maintainability. Go front-loads some work so that longer term maintenance is easier. And the vast majority of code work is maintenance not greenfield development.
With bt, use is down but the plant itself is producing it! I think that's more likely to cause exposure.
While I agree that new MBPs from apple.com are way over-priced, I do think that Apple Certified Refurbished MBPs are more reasonable: http://www.apple.com/shop/browse/home/specialdeals/mac/macbo...

For example, if you want 2.7GHz, 512GB, and the Radeon Pro 455, it costs $2799 brand-new from apple.com, but only $2379 for Certified Apple Refurbished. I bought a refurbished MBP almost a year ago from Apple and I haven't had any issues with it.
I came across this [0] yesterday while looking for STM32 stuff for those cheap ass $2 STM32F103 boards. To your point, however, it's still just writing values directly out to register pointers. That entire repo can be boiled down to one little C program like this [1].

0. https://github.com/jamesmunns/bluepill

1. https://gist.github.com/uxp/35c9d5d51b2229f5c4c2e5b11c3341e5
"over 200k Euros each in major cities"

Yes, you see that there is the problem (also in Portugal, and perhaps in other countries in EU). You have a local taxi mafia running a black market operation right there.

Those licences cost less than 150 euros! (not thousand euros, just plain one hundred and fifty euros) when you get them from the city hall, then some taxi mafia gets to buy all those licenses when they are issued (in their, sons/spouse/cousins/uncles/etc name) and then they go around selling them to the people that actually work in the taxis by those absurd prices.

I think Uber must follow the rules, but don't ask me any sympathy for the Taxi drivers and for the mafia behind them.
PyCharm does support type hinting now which should help: https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2015/11/python-3-5-type-h...
I'm not sure that's true. We can't say if or when a BS will happen, but we can predict where.
And apparently ClickHouse out-performs MemSQL: https://clickhouse.yandex/benchmark.html

Has anyone here experience with ClickHouse?
Yes but what is the economic argument for doing so? Does this make Italians better off? How does it affect the cost of living? Why not double the limit? Why not half it? Should people even be employed to do this? What about when self-driving cars can operate as taxis?

Why not do the same thing to fast food workers? Why not commercial truck drivers?

My point is to ask what research and thought has gone into this policy. Somebody mentioned that it was "a democratic decision" when I highly doubt anybody voted on this issue, let alone discussed it with the public. It seems at first glance to be mindless bureaucracy, but I can't say for certain.
Yes, you are of course back to the same problem: the VPN provider, and their ISP, can now see all of your traffic. Just like your ISP could, without the VPN. So you're just choosing to trust the VPN and its ISP rather than your ISP.

Even so, if you and your ISP are in China, Russia or Iran, for example, it's probably better to trust a VPN/ISP in the US. And if you and your ISP are in the US, maybe it's better to trust a VPN/ISP incorporated in Malaysia, Sweden, Italy, Gibraltar, the Seychelles, etc. Maybe even in Russia or Hong Kong.

Also, you can use nested VPN chains, with all but the first one purchased anonymously with well-mixed Bitcoin. So the exit VPN doesn't know who you are, unless you give yourself away. Perhaps you could be de-anonymized through traffic analysis, or through successive court orders. But that'd be a lot of work, and most folks don't warrant that much attention.
Meh. Whatever one calls "real", "incompatible with everyone else" was the real point, and it's a strong one.
Except lots of eggs get broken today as a matter of course. If a technology saves lives, losing them to get it quicker might be a matter of balance.
If you use IntelliJ, you're already using DataGrip - it's the "Database" plugin.
Fast ODBC with Python – turbodbc
Sure. If you require performance, C is the optimal fit, in my opinion.