skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I both agree and disagree with the premise that programming is a creative process. Donald Knuth calls programming “an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or painting.” The most creative work can be done when it's not clear if something will work or not, that is it might fail, and it requires the ambition of a mad scientist to succeed. The individual programmer must have autonomy and not be micro-managed or ruled by a committee, otherwise they will resort to being creative in ways that are petty and insignificant, like naming conventions, syntax formatting, arbitrary rules, etc.

99% of programming jobs are not creative jobs. Most problems aren't that unique, and most programmers work within well-established boundaries and frameworks. Step out of line or take unconventional risks, and you may find yourself unemployed. This is not necessary bad, it brings stability, but also stagnation (it is why enterprise IT culture is so soul-draining, from first-hand experience). Not only enterprise but many startups operate this way. There is overwhelming cognitive bias towards doing what other people are doing, which will only lead to the same results.
Dutch here. We also have huge debt, on average. But if we lose our job and don't find one within 1 year (of unemployment benefits) and welfare after that isn't enoughh you can still sell your house. You can't really sell your degree to make up for the debt.

That being said, someone in the US also easily earns double salary compared to Europe and has lower taxes.
ING had one in Australia, 2% cashback on all purchases. They stopped it a few months ago.
I just tried to use a non-anecdotally counterexample.
> far superior

Exactly! Instead of strikes and whining, the taxi drivers should have a hard look at themselves why people like Uber better besides money. Because those entitled drivers are not providing quality of service compared to Uber and they should be out of business. I hope Uber continues as even legally (aka more expensive) they would beat regular cabs easily.
Interchange isn't 2.7%, take a look: https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/download/merchants/visa-usa-in...
Mhee, We built a rest API with Laravel, after a heated conversation with a junior dev about PHP-Laravel being slow.

+20k petitions average a day no problem at all. Digital ocean bill is like 20dlls/month ; )

Kids these days need to stop watching "The Social Network", chill out Mr. next Zuckerberg, you ain't scaling anything but a headache
Are the homeless in Stockholm Swedish or Roma?

EDIT

> EDIT: Almost all the homeless people you see in Stockholm are Romani people. They are one of the five officially recognized national minorities in Sweden, along with Jews, Sami, Sweden Finns and Tornedalers ...

Please refer to my post below replying to this same assertion from another poster.
> Nobody outside of NA are scared of loosing their jobs, is what you believe, because of how enslaved to the system Americans are?

I didn't say nobody, and I didn't say everywhere outside America. Don't exaggerate what I said.

I used an example that Australia Vs. America is a vast difference.

In my experience (and that of my brother), Americans not having maternity leave, sick leave, decent holidays etc. and having student debt and health care tied to their work means they are treated much more like slaves than in other high-performing OECD countries.

I'm curious about Sweden now.

- When one does lose their job in Sweden, what happens when you break your leg next week? or get cancer?

- How much student debt to those in Sweden incur for a 4 years bachelor degree?

- How many weeks of leave does Sweden mandate by law from full-time work?

- How about maternity leave and sick leave?
In India slightly over a quarter of the population are illiterate.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_India

The World Bank, in 2011 based on 2005's PPPs International Comparison Program, estimated 23.6% of Indian population, or about 276 million people, lived below $1.25 per day on purchasing power parity.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_India
Thanks guys!! Specially to Alex and Christian..
Gnome project just got one more contributor ;)
That's amazing :D

I browsed the source code and found a lulu tag (?)

<lulu url="http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/computer-programming-using-gnu-smalltalk/7746227" />

Apparently it's declared in www.canol.info/xsl/default.xsl

<xsl:template match="lulu"> ... </xsl:template>
> Italy -> advanced economy -> lol

Besides the fact that you phrased that like a 10-year-old, are you serious? Italy is the 3rd largest economy in the EU.
You have a door: there's your 50% productivity boost.
Twitter is not exempt. They focused on the product before scale. They were regularly overloaded in the early days.
You seem to imply that Postgres isn't stable when in the fact the very opposite is true. Postgres is one of, if not the, most safe and stable relation database systems to ever exist. The fact that they keep adding or improving features does not take away from this, it only means that you have the option to upgrade if you want the new features.
I could claim the same about medicine. Why can't you sell medicine? Why do you need to have a license for that?

If there is a law, you can't simply break it and claim that the country is too old and full of lobbies (both may be true, still you are not entitled to enter a country and break the rules just because you are "cool" and "the new"). This is not how this world works.
But these laws (same as in Spain where I live) are there for protectionism and that is, very visibly in these two countries, not a good thing for 'the people'.
Having working on an app that we just throwed more hardware at, to the point where the azure subscription cost could be lowered by my whole anually salary, by 3 months work of optimization.

I believe performance does matter. We where a 4 person team and could have added a fifth if we had a cheaper design.
This sex trafficking law could ruin the internet as we know it
Apparently a series has been in the works under a number of networks for a while now, with SyFy and AMC failing to produce and currently Spike TV working on it. From the reporting it seems it's not exactly a sure thing yet, and given the nature of the books, I'll be surprised if anything other than a bastardized good-vs-evil story every comes out in moving picture format.
You're trying to be even handed but you can hire Enterprise DB or 2nd Quadrant to fix Postgres issues if you run into them so I don't think the benefit for MySQL is there.

The benefit of MySQL is that partitioning the database is much easier to do than in Postgres. There are also cons to mysql in how it handles data by default (silent coercion, not checking for invalid data like invalid dates, strings too long get truncated, etc.)
How is it uncompetitive to sell at a loss to provide cheaper services to customers? How is that a bad thing for customers? It looks like it's only a bad thing for taxi companies (a tiny percentage of the population) while it's a good thing for the majority of Italians, this law protects and favors corporations instead of the people, this is the textbook definition of Fascism.

Edit: About price dumping, this is a myth. When has this ever happened and tell me how could Uber remain a monopoly if its prices are too high? Competitors will show up because there will be good money to be made. The only monopolies that can last despite being overpriced are the ones protected by state violence and state laws that make competition illegal, a good example here would be, I don't know, Italian taxi companies?

Also see on how accusations of 'price dumping' are always used as a disguised for protectionism https://ideas.repec.org/a/ags/ecjilt/23876.html
Why is the surge pricing "nonsense?"

It's basic supply and demand and it prevents shortages. If it's peak hour and I must get to a meeting and someone else is just going shopping, I would be willing to pay more so I am not late. I think the shopper is willing to pay less to go on the trip at a different time.

Supply and demand. Impossible to ignore. Either high demand leads to high prices or high demand leads to shortages if prices were constrained.

Since you said "you can keep that stuff in US," I have to ask: does supply and demand work differently in your country? It would seem, based of the state of many European economies (France, Italy, Spain, Greece, as examples,) that perhaps they need more of that free market competition "stuff" and much less government and taxes.
Yeah, a full OS with a GUI, drivers and a userland on a floppy. That is pretty darn small!
To me saying "maybe, maybe not". "substance abuse" "gender dysphoria" "sorry sorry sorry" tel me that is was all BS. To me it was admitted between the lines.
What kind of "superior" quality? It's easy when you don't need to buy a license whose cost can go up to 200'000 euros and you need 15-20 years to pay it off, and when you have no rules to follow.
The Reith Lectures by VS Ramachandran can be downloaded from

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00729d9/episodes/downloads?...

Scroll to bottom for the sequence
s/damping/dumping/?
I watched the videos and this lighting system seems very nice. Why does the gateway need an a internet connection though? For firmware updates and supporting the mobile app? Since it says local only, I assume the mobile device has to be on the same LAN?

If so, I guess they are saying that the API between the app and the gateway is currently closed (according o the IKEA website) but they are working to change that. So what is speaking COAP? The gateway?
Programming ARM Cortex-M Microcontrollers with Rust
Laws get _applied_ by judges, they're not always black and white.

There are many, many sentences that apply a law in a different way given a specific case, that create a precedent that can then be used in the future to regulate something. You don't need a new law.

I am not a lawyer, but I'm not sure judges weren't allowed to choose to do that in this case.
> The court ruled in favour of a suit filed by Italy's major traditional taxi associations.

This is going to replay in many other countries. It may look like a clash of the Anglo-Saxon model of unbridled capitalism with the European model built on top of cross-subsidies and tighter regulations to support all kinds of safety nets. But it's not. To me it looks like a shift away from capital assets (e.g. annual licenses) toward per-per-use economics. If you think about it, there is nothing that prevents the Italian authorities to levy mileage-based fees on Uber to level the paying field.
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He connected to and bridged a secure government network with an unauthorized device this was what triggered the whole thing.

The FBI was involved before it was even discovered who it was or what was the purpose of the device.

When an institution discovers such an incident when an unauthorized device is plugged to a secure network and in a covert manner their hands are tied.
Well he does like python which is above them both in popularity.
Is it available OTC in India? I've tried a few places in Bangalore, but all of them asked for a prescription. Even online, NetMeds requires a proof of prescription before you can buy it.
Seriously, I just don't understand how can you described the benefits of CBOR and claim that they are its drawbacks.

Yes, you have to read the documentation of your encoder/decoder to understand what tag values it maps to your programming language's objects, but if you need to encode or decode those same values with MessagePack you'll have to define your own format for them and document it. You just moved this problem up the stack, but with an ad-hoc format.

Separation of "null" and "undefined" is for full JavaScript support. Before C99, C didn't have boolean type, but you wouldn't complain if serialization formats had them, would you? Same thing "undefined": while it's useless in most other languages, it's useful to have it for JavaScript.

I don't like float16 too - they took 19 lines of decoder code to support (no need to support it in encoder) — but it's the same situation as with "undefined" — some people need it.
20 hours sounds right. I don't think I could gain more actual productivity forced by someone even myself to work long hours. Often time, when it feels right, the code just spills itself like charm, and after that my brain just turned south for distractions.
How much would a VPN actually help?
> In India slightly over a quarter of the population are illiterate.

Most of them still aren't homeless. They somehow have a house to live in. Most illiterates still don't go for a loan to educate their kids, they try to educate with hard cash although they do not get very good education but loans are a big no no(mostly)
What's your point? They are talking specifically about students a.k.a people who are literate and have a degree. How's citing literacy or poverty statistics relevant?
Kayak's new travel site is a...spreadsheet?
Possible but not that simple since a new CC is also tied to your identity and billing address.

Paypal does do checks to ensure that blocked accounts are not easily resurrected.

Netflix has less incentive to perform such a costly operation but it's more than possible, this is what every credit and background check agency can do.

Sure if you want to get a completely new identity, credit history and address you can probably fool most of these but you are going to be violating a few laws in the process and it would be probably be cheaper to purchase the entire Netflix library on DVD/BR at that point.
What's it like to eat at the best restaurant in the world?
The whole installation was more like 20 floppies back then, though.
Source: copied and installed dozens of internal use only betas of 2.0 up to Warp.
Could you provide some links to the scientific studies that led you to your conclusions?

I'd be very interested in reading them.
512 karma ought to be enough for anyone.
Innovation almost always sidestep regulations, by definition. It offer a better way than the current way which is regulated according to its current specificities, and to offer this better way to do thing is to sidestep regulations to show how much better it is. Forcing innovators to "respect the law" squarely is basically killing innovation and why we see so little of it in the EU compared to the US. Note that regulations are also growing in the US and it keeps getting worse too sadly.
Reporting to the app controlling them.
heh, yes, just wrote this too early in the morning. Editing, thanks!
It's a bit sad that things need to end up this way.

Eventually things will change. However, things could have been handled differently, let's say with a proposal to these new companies to offer rides and adapt with the taxi-system in the country. Meaning:

- taxi drivers need to have the highest priority and be sponsored as such (most of them paid for their license, and they MUST exist by law, because it's an essential service)

- all drivers need to pass some screenings and keep it up-to-date (police, etc.)

- all drivers need to pay taxes (because what they are doing right now is simply black-work)

- security on Uber needs really to improve if you want to offer a public service, because as it is now, people can impersonate drivers (there are stories about this)
This comment screams KISS
Oh, "trådlös" is probably the most common one actually, now that you mention it. Completely forgot about that word for some reason.
Please beware Italy is not a common law country so legal precedents are not binding, and you do need a new law here to future regulate something.
The superior OS that was eventually killed by the inferior Windows 95. OS/2 did a lot right. The integrated Windows-Environment was initially better than native Windows: better process isolation (remember Windows 3.1's cooperative multitasking aka "hangs one hangs all"?), more DOS freespace.

The next thing I liked and adopted was Windows 2000, the less-sucking NT. We have come a long way since then!
Yeah, "trådlös" is more common than "sladdlös", just forgot about that word for some reason.
Yes, but all Android Phones come with a pre-compiled binary distribution. And as long as it's pre-compiled, it's kind of hard to know what is going on under the hood. Compiling and installing your own Android almost always is a pain..
In a way we all come from the sea :)

Lets not be pedantic, sea salt is refering to the way that the salt is being extracted, if it is extracted from the sea or not (from the rock).
> Many cons have been fixed.

it would be easier if you listed what you mean by "cons". Postgres is much much more powerful than MySQL if you are really into SQL and exploiting an RDBMS, MySQL administration is simpler.

This question is a bit too vague to warrant a specific answer.
Also I don't use non-standard SQL features so the criterias for me are really familiarity, ease-of-use, speed and here MySQL is certainly good enough.
1MBOS
It's bad because as soon as the competition dies out they can jack up the prices..
Forget coding, we need to teach our kids how to dream
> Italy is the 3rd largest economy in the EU.

"advanced" and "largest" are related but not synonymous

I don't want to defend the parents barb any further, so I'll just say this : there's a reason so many highly educated Italians - particular from the south - emigrate. The country suffers from brain drain on an epic scale because the local economy doesn't offer sufficient opportunities.
It's not about the amount of the money. It's more about the nature of the money, liquidity and risk.

One of the ways to look at it is that banks pay to attract stable, low-risk customers. They're losing money on each individual cards, but they gain money in the long run buy attracting high-income people who will continue to spend during an economic downturn.

Most of the modern economic system is not about making money out of thin air, but about managing risk.
Who is paying taxes here? Isn't this a loss for citizens?

Taxi-drivers willing or not have to pay taxes. They definitely do also "black" money, but at the end of the month they'll have to declare X euros in / Y euros out.

Do you have to do the same if you are a driver for Uber?
I feel like you did not get the point. I'm criticizing exactly this rule which does not make any sense, imho.
I am not comparing the two countries.
Uber switched from mysql to postgres in 2013:

https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/53683323/migrating-ub...

but switched back to mysql in 2016 which generated a lot of discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12166585

There were a lot of followup posts afterwards arguing both sides if you search for them:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12216680
> Not implementing TLS because you're worried about attack surface is a bad idea.

[citation needed]
Politics Is Lying and Producing Economic Inequality
> America and Russia

Remember that even naming these two countries is a bias unless there is specific evidence. America and Russia are obvious suspects, but other countries (and even non-state actors).

There is very little actual evidence and far too much time spent on useless - and distracting - speculation.

> Even HN seems to have a "of course it's Russia" bias these days.

I suspect a lot of people are still using cold war era standards for how propaganda works. The modern methods[1] are a lot more subtle. A potential example might be this very thread where a lot of people seem to be wasting time speculating about the leak's origins instead of looking at the actual evidence that is available: the software itself.

[1] e.g. Russia's "non-linear warfare" methods that introduce as much confusing/distracting chaos as possible, or the psychological wedges JTRIG (GCHQ) uses to split communities before they grow into larger "problems".
If you need something stable and reliable, then MySQL might be a better choice.

In my experience, this is unfounded. The Postgresql project is far more careful about data corruption and correctness. A few examples:

Mysql used to truncate records silently (I think this was fixed a while back with strict mode)
Mysql used to let you insert nonsense like 'notadate' into dates (now fixed I think with strict mode, is it in default?)
Data corruption - I've seen data corruption in Mysql when a server was rebooted which led to the server being unable to read the database data, and required a repair before it would restart. I've never seen something similar with Postgresql.

Postgresql have added features at a steady rate, they've been quite measured in their approach to new features, particularly in point releases. 'Break-neck' is not a good characterisation of that process.

For stable and reliable I'd recommend Postgresql over Mysql without hesitation.
Sorry, how do you distinguish between regulation that's 'overly burdenous' and regulation that's fair and sensible?

Also, how do you measure innovation?
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Here are some issues that I've seen becoming important when scaling to a higher traffic with both MySQL and PostgreSQL (we're running both for different kinds of databases). Some of this is second-hand from my colleagues, so it might not be exact:

* Thread-per-connection (as opposed to process-per-connection with PG) means much lower memory overhead with many concurrent connections; with PG you might need to use something like pgbouncer, which doesn't come without its own issues.

* Logical replication; the MySQL format is compatible between minor release versions (e.g. between all 5.x releases), which enables upgrading individual replicas or master without complete shutdown. With PG this often a becomes way more complex.

* Better caching/buffer management. Essentially, InnoDB has its own implementation of LRU cache while PG relies on kernel page cache. This generally allows finer tuning on the database configuration level and you don't have dive into kernel page cache tuning (which will be always OS-specific).

EDIT: most of this stuff is probably even better described in the Uber article, linked in other comments here.
>I read people saying things like Spotify and Atom are "unusable" and slow because they're written in JavaScript when they have plenty of happy users.

Well there isn't exactly a choice of what spotify client to compare it to is there - so users have to use it by default rather than be 'happy' about it.
अशोक के सिर्फ 7 पत्तो का ये उपाय बना देगा आपको करोड़पति Astrology in Hindi
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5 Reasons Why We Switched from MySQL to Postgres

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While I could possibly sympathize a bit with the parts of the post dealing the frustration of dealing with German bureaucracy, after having experienced the Italian health care (having experienced both personally), I don't understand the sense of privelage.

As a non-eu immigrant in Germany things are far worse and IMHO one just trades health care issues for other issues if one were to move the other way (Germany to Italy)... Or for that matter anywhere else in the world.

Seems like the apt scenario for the quote "When in Rome..."
As with all "why we changed from technology X to technology Y", the story is that there was this or that perceived shortcoming in technology X and technology Y will be our savior and fix all our problems, or conform to our software ideology/dogma.

I used to read these things but given that I've read one, I've read em all.

The only reason people keep writing these things is blog filler to promote their company or do indirect recruiting. Surely cannot be cause anyone cares why you use a blue pen instead of a black pen.
Use VMWare workstation?