skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's exactly what they do in Vancouver, actually. To various degrees of effectiveness.
Great move especially compared to downtown palo alto/MV or increasingly downtown Los altos.
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That goes for a large proportion of adults in such places, by all available evidence, such as electoral results
Severe Vulnerability in GE Multilin SR Poses a Serious Threat to Power Grid
Postgres is not hard to use correctly and the implication is that Uber didn't make an attempt to clear up certain misunderstandings, not that they wouldn't have been able to. It's not moronic to succumb to using talking points or FUD you've seen in blogs or incompletely-informed personal bias in making decisions. It's just human. Since people are going to keep looking up literature on the topic here's a new higher-quality piece of literature.
That actually came up in the comments (http://chris.improbable.org/2014/8/25/adventures-in-unicode-...)

Apparently the Unicode consortium chose to exclude those characters because they weren't encoded in a contiguous sequence so they're defined as Numeric_Type=Digit rather than Numeric_Type=Decimal. They've apparently realized that this is not helpful but chose to apply the updated policy only to new ranges.
"EthicsFactor is 1 or 0. There is no in-between."

I can't wrap my head around how naive this sounds. You've never come across morally-grey situations?
Unless you actually saw it being squeezed, I wouldn't consider it "freshly squeezed". This is also the first time I've seen anybody, outside of advertisement, describe Minute Maid as "premium" orange juice.

Over here some supermarkets have juicers pre-filled with oranges in their produce sections, you just put an empty bottle into it, push a button and you can watch live as it squeezes the oranges into your bottle.
There's replication, but I mean that all the data is in one pg instance, whereas there isn't a single mysql instance with all the data.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.4504
quantum computation complexity prevents hawking radiation from being decoded before the black hole evaporates!
Call me when you support increased military spending. Because that's what it'll take, and that's one of the few things Canadians universally don't think is all that important.
Ask HN: Are there working content models where price is linked to quality?
Ie We pay the same price for crappy books as we do for classics; same goes for movies.

Are there any models where price paid by the consumer is attributed to quality rather than distribution?
I think it is an emoticon, but I am not sure! Or are emoticons always sideways? Hmm...!
Assuming this change (a) lasts hundreds or thousands of years and (b) doesn't spiral out of control and kill us outright, at some point in the next couple of hundred years we're going to have people denying there ever was ice in the Arctic.
How would you spend a $5k setup budget?
I'm have $5000 to setup my desk at my new engineering gig. I already have a mechanical keyboard and noise canceling headphones. Besides a new MacBook Pro and a big monitor, how would you spend the rest of that budget?
Your digraphs and trigraphs make my head hurt...

Translation: Lovely concept. You could even try using an even more distant language, Hungarian that is. I wonder how much of this is comprehensible to others.
The Engineers Order was established after a very public bridge failure with loss of life, where engineers signed off plans that should never have been approved.

Things got better, in the Western world bridge and building collapses are rare. But software on the other hand - data breaches are a common occurrence, and those who signed off on the weak security are never held accountable.
Apparently Cupertino uses overcapacity at schools as a reason to limit housing development, especially high density.

It certainly has a good intent ring to it, though i suspect there are additional reasons for using that party line.
I do not like living in high-density areas. I like being able to drive and park wherever I need to go - work, the grocery store, restaurants, etc. One of the things I like about being in the South Bay is that it allows me to live this way.

I welcome additional investment in our transportation infrastructure - both rail, bus, and road - but I take issue with the idea that everyone would prefer to live and work in a high-density environment. I don't see why we can't accommodate both preferred lifestyles.
Would anybody please like to recommend a good sql schema (that makes sense) for storing emails (possibly downloaded with this fine piece of software). Also a hint about a maildir -> sql import tool would be interesting to see.

If you have already made your experiences with storing email in a sql database, it would be very appreciated if you would like to write about the pitfalls to avoid and the problems that occured.

Thank you very much for your attention!
The overwhelming response you'd receive is "we don't want to be Rome". At this point I'm rooting for the tech industry to declare bankruptcy and found a new city somewhere ala NYC and the transatlantic trade.
I worked in a lab where we had a similar problem reconstructing 3d images from manual sections via the same procedure.

Not only is it a painstaking process, but some slices are lost due to human error while sectioning and the tissue is mechanically distorted when placed onto the slides (squished between the glass and the cover slip).

The solution was simple, albeit much more expensive than sectioning: just MRI scan the organ.
The path of least resistance should lead to quick and obvious failure rather than a false sense of security that the system is working. Careless development creates a price that has to be paid one way or another. You can't get something for nothing.
Why is it a false sense of achievement? When I do TDD, I have demonstrably working code. What doesn't give me a sense of achievement is writing a ton of code with no evidence that it works or is bug-free.

Heck, even before coding, I like using Cucumber as a form to think about code behavior and responsibilities. I don't really enjoy fully automated Cucumber in practice, but the format is terrific.

If all you see tests for is "mandatory bureaucratic paperwork", maybe you should be concerned about overconfidence in your ability to do flawless design and implementation. Writing tests is one of the best tools I've found for making sure I actually understand what it is I'm trying to do (and if what I'm trying to do is actually wrong).
Sure, I wasn't making a claim about how easy to use postgres actually is. My point was that these slides give the impression (I assume inadvertently) that postgres is difficult to use by making fun of Uber engineers' alleged inability to use it correctly.
I've had to do it a few times, because I do that same thing. They usually respond with exasperation and say something like, "No, sir we need your security answer not your password." Then it's my turn to be exasperated and say, "No, check again, that's the answer." Very fun.
Do they have a serious publication? Have you heard of them before? Have you read a few old editions to get an idea of the articles?

Are they going to pay you? Are you going to pay them (editing fee, or something)? Or it's free for both?

(If they are going to pay something now and more money later, assume that you will never get more money. Are you happy with the money they offer now?)
In Canada, software engineers are bound by a code of ethics that are shared by all engineers, and you can't use the label engineer without it.
I know PostgreSQL meant to defend themselves, but it just made the matter worse.

1) I didnt even know Uber switched database, now I know. I also know the reasons.

2) Comes across as unprofessional, you don't see Microsoft defending MSSQL this way. They let the users see it for themselves.
This is probably one of the best articles i have read on Hacker News.Just straightforward.Keep it up.
The Torygraph is known for printing a lot of shoddy data-illiterate denialist articles (Christopher Booker is one of the main culprits), so I'd take this article as if it were on Fox or even Breitbart and fact check the s[now] out of it, if you're inclined to believe it.
Uh, 1hr each way to work is entirely standard for $150k tech professionals when they have families (my senior colleagues, manager, and his manager), and for entry-level engineers when they want their own 1-bedroom apartments and cars (me).

Commute times for the actual poor are going to far exceed that.
Thank You, Yakkers
It's easy to make ethics binary when you just stop at what is legal and isn't. If you're the kind to jay walk because you know there's no car so it doesn't matter your ethics are probably a lot more nuanced though.
1. They would own everything by default from the point you join the company. Even if you do not declare past projects in the form, they cannot own it if you can prove that those were past projects from before you joined. Declaring just makes things easier. One company asked me for proof of prior existence of these projects; their proposal was to keep my pre-existing source code in an immutable vault that both parties could access in case of a lawsuit, just before I join the company.

2. "New" side projects may not be covered by such declarations, which are about the past. So if you want to continue some side projects, you should read the language of the agreement carefully, and/or, reach an agreement in writing with them that you are working on the said side projects and this is OK with them.
Because that lifestyle​ conflicts with being an economic powerhouse and if you fight against it lower income people foot the bill. If that's the lifestyle you want, why not move to the midwest?
Ah, the old "Schrodinger Defense".
> IMAP's main downside is that you have to trust your email provider to not lose your email. While certainly unlikely, it's not impossible. With OfflineIMAP, you can download your Mailboxes and make you own backups of your Maildir.

A professional mail host ('professional' as in 'someone that somehows makes money by hosting email') is way more unlikely to lose data than most of us are.

Making backup is great by the way, but for such task I'd strongly recommend the good old fetchmail or the newer (and better) fdm (https://github.com/ft/fdm). Both support imap(s). Both can save to either mailbox or maildir.

If you need a local copy, go for fdm and a local copy of your mailbox, plain and simple.
No, no scientists have ever considered the multitude of factors and variables that make up climate in their approach to trying to isolate what might be causing changes. Not even for a split second.

Someone just coughed on a passing car's exhaust fumes and blamed it for the warming earth, and we all just went with that.
They were spying on Russians.

"The alleged conversations were picked up by chance as part of routine surveillance of Russian intelligence assets."
Predicting the limits of friction
> And just the other day we had a link here where a retired physicist was saying fusion is not likely to work, and if it does it will produce radioactive waste much like fission.

He didn't really say it won't work, he mostly just said it wouldn't be as clean as people think it will be. But you are right, it does put news like this one into perspective.

Link to the HN discussion from two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14202488
Thank goodness they finally developed San Antonio shopping center. Been going there since I was a child when there was a Payless drugs store (I think?) where the Safeway now is, and it had been basically dead for a decade between 2003-2013 or thereabouts.

Of course there are many many more places like this along El Camino, and Vallco is probably never getting redeveloped due to resident opposition against mixed use develeopment including high density housing.
Can you provide a link / info for the stadium tax decision? Interesting behavioural news
#FakeNews alert.

The author of this article fails to point out that sea ice extent is about the same this year, as it has been for the past decade or two. According to NASA and NOAA data; not mine.

Also, Greenland is blowing away records for ice build-up, this year. Further, total ice mass for the year is above the average for the past four decades. https://www.dmi.dk/en/groenland/maalinger/greenland-ice-shee...

Sincerely, I would recommend that the Economist editors take a long, hard look at the environmental crap that is published, here. The data do not support any part of this story.
Buy a gun if you're a responsible individual. If you aren't, then take solace in the fact that the odds are low that your house will ever be broken in to, let alone while you are there
"Be the change you desire"?
Sorry, I always take books into the bath and the bottom bit gets soggy. Which seems far worse than just dog earring the pages.

Between that and the dogs my house is where books go to die.
"Better than LA" is an incredibly low bar though.
Is it just a coincidence that Musk's main competitor in the space business is called "The Boeing Company"? I don't think so.
How do we square this statement from the article "In the past 30 years, the minimum coverage of summer ice has fallen by half; its volume has fallen by three-quarters. " with this chart of global sea ice -- http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/global.daily.... From the chart, looks like sea ice is down a little bit, but not only by a few percent, not by half. So are there massive gains in sea ice elsewhere in the world, areas where sea ice has nearly doubled?

Also how do we square the statement about the decrease in volume with this statement from a year and a half ago? "However, very little ice thickness information actually exists." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015GL065704/full How do we actually know how much volume has fallen in the last 30 years if two years ago "very little information on thickness actually exists"?

I don't really understand the appeal of this article when it doesn't link to any sources. The article doesn't tell us what the actual new information prompted the article and where that new information came from.
Paying a 10% surcharge to get something today vs in two days isn't terrible. I wouldn't have been shocked if Best Buy was 2x the cost.
question: how is mu/mu4e at handling multiple email accounts?
Did anyone else notice that cars being lowered leaves a giant fucking hole in the middle of the street?!

This is a marketing fluff video untouched by engineers
No. The truth is desperation you describe is faced everyday by many and they still don't commit crimes. What you do is choose to keep working at what's right.

We can certainly justify stealing a loaf of bread during hard times to keep your child from starving after you've tried everything else you could, but not making a career out of turning back speedos. One speedometer, maybe, but not one a week. That's a racket.
Hopefully there is a Stargate in there
I'm currently in the car, but I will come back with online resources to answer this.
Just a readme change in 3 years, are you picking back up on development?
The number of cars on freeways is only a problem that needs to be addressed when they are causing significant negative externalities.
If you're a licensed engineer and you break ethics rules, be prepared to pay fines.
But you don't. You live in a low-density area, then drive your car to the high-density area to get to work. The high-density inhabitants end up paying for your car habit.
That's a very good point. Unfortunately, it is not the meaning of "¯\_(ツ)_/¯" in any language that I know of.
#FakeNews alert. 98% of "scientists" don't actually agree on human driven climate change. Google it. It's a myth that started when some wing-nut published the unfounded assertion and everyone glomed onto it...
The greater lesson here is to ensure employees don't make a habit of strictly following computerized procedures such as the random number generator that insisted on this particular passenger's seat. Human dialogue and creativity can provide a better solution to problems like these.
Nobody ever says "When in Cupertino" do they?

It is surprising to me how in one dimension one can take so much pride in their work (tech etc) and in another way be so satisfied and desire such mediocrity (civilization, architecture, quality of life for all).
well if my system spwans new database connection in an open transaction, than you have more problems than just your database.
they even had another talk where they let their master die, but just ignoring "free space left on device" messages.
Well even Skype could've handled PostgreSQL and they probably had a smaller pool of engineers.
What I'm trying to say is that it's unlikely that clause is enforceable under California state law.
If you want cars to be more closely packed, travelling at higher speeds and controlled by computers, you probably don't want individual car owners to be able to bring the whole thing to a screeching halt through sloppy maintenance or shutting the engine down

(See also: Channel Tunnel)
If you want your product to succeed it has to be easy to get to work. That means having insecure defaults etc. When a product is in production, people will go through hell to make it work a little better; when they're trying out a product they'll drop it at the slightest inconvenience.
Indeed, congratulations on their great PR work.
Or how about moving trains on rails?

I am of two minds about self driving cars. From a technology point of view, I think its great, but I don't really see what problem they solve that would not be better solved by ubiquitous public transportation (trains, mostly). Now, Musk wants to carry cars on sleds through tunnels under LA? Why not just build some damn trains?

EDIT: the real news is that he wants to improve boring machines which is not a bad goal. There will be more and more tunnels regardless of what you actually put in them, so faster, more efficient boring is a worthwhile goal.
Agreed, and I've worked in such environments. However, its my thesis most "dark matter" engineers in "the enterprise" are in an environment I originally described. And that's not accounting for Government organizations which I imagine are even worse.
> A professional mail host ('professional' as in 'someone that somehows makes money by hosting email') is way more unlikely to lose data than most of us are.

I think their point is not that you're less likely to lose it yourself, it's that the probability that both you and the provider losing it at the same time is extremely unlikely. I.e., two points of failure required to lose your data.
Also .Net: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040309-00/?p=...

… and, yes, that was definitely something I tried to find when I first noticed it.
Another train line would be a waste -- take the window seat on Caltrain and look how utterly empty it is the second you leave SF. The whole way down the peninsula the train is flanked by flat, low-density construction spotted with breaks of wide open space. You don't see any real high-density housing until you get to San Jose.
>> a 'factory on demand' of arbitrary size

I can imagine a versatile manufacturing technology that has 0 setup costs(maybe 3d printing), and in the digital world it should be possible to create the same things from different people.

But even with those technologies, centralization/clustering has some advantage: buying in bulk, cheaper labor, closeness to distribution, access to talent - and especially access to better technology.

But what are the advantages of the SmallVille entrepreneur ? why should he invest in that business ? and how could he survive long term ?
Having a car means you are more likely to die in a car accident. The question is if the risk is worth the benefit. If you follow simple gun safety techniques and don't have any mental health issues, your odds of harming yourself or an innocent with a gun is greatly reduced.
https://twitter.com/xargsnotbombs/status/858068758379868164

"PRO TIP: To hack the account of a network security engineer, call support and tell them your mother's maiden name is a bunch of hex digits."
This is literally right from your link:

>"Bob Ward, of the Grantham Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, added: “Peter Wadhams has made predictions of the imminent disappearance of summer Arctic sea ice which have not been fulfilled, but the evidence still shows a rapid decline."

One guy missing a prediction isn't reason to dismiss the entire line of thought. All the evidence in the article shows the trend pretty clearly. Wadhams being aggressive in his prediction is not the story.
Side note/tangent: I think this is closer to what "flying cars" look like in the future vs. what's being attempted lately (which are really just increasingly small lift-based aircraft.)

Replace the underground rails with above-ground "rails" (perhaps electromagent based, when there's enough power to do so.)
A partition of the rationals into sets U and V such that every u in U is less than every v in V?
It reduces the complexity of the tunnel needed for combustion vehicles (most cars today) by not needing more complex exhaust infrastructure, and thus makes this idea more immediately viable.
> trying to save the world

The world wont end, it will just change... happens all the time. Seriously 99.9% of all species that have walked the Earth are extinct. Humans are not exempt from that process, there is nothing to save here, the Earth will continue on just as it always has.
The fact that the idea is that most cars would be able to use the system, not just ones from a certain company. Additionally, 130mph is pretty sporty to maintain for all vehicles using the system! Most cars probably can't even achieve that speed all out, let alone safely (even if self-driven).
Steam initially, but effect ways of converting all that heat to electricity are pretty limited at the moment.

One way to convert the heat from radioactive decay into electricity is through thermocouples (typically found in RTGs used on deep space probes and Mars exploration craft). They're incredibly inefficient though, less efficient than simply turning steam turbines.
Thanks for the response.

No money involved (free for both), the biggest of the publications is Startup Grind, if that helps at all.

It would mean removing it from my own publication (maybe Medium doesn't allow it to be in two publications simultaneously?).

Not really sure what to do, not something that's mattered until now and I don't want to shoot myself in the foot, so to speak.

I should mention that the publication is currently on my own domain, and Google is already showing the article pretty high up on search results (Coding on a Chromebook), so I'm reluctant to give up any link love that's getting built up there.
a quick Google shows that royalties from patents are taxes as ordinary income.
I'm not a big fan of Uber as a company and I don't necessarily think that their engineering team is the shit (I really don't know). But my heuristic here is "any problem that Uber engineers aren't smart enough to avoid is a problem that I might very well face myself".
It allows the entire system to be controlled by one system - e.g., no need for each car to have its own LIDAR system. ATO is way easier than self-driving cars. You get all the benefits of being able to group vehicles together, have all stop simultaneously in response to hazards, etc.

Plus, like with most rail systems, you get the big benefits of having a custom right-of-way. No need to contend with pedestrians, people parking in the traffic lane, vehicles that aren't as fast as others, etc etc.

Of course... if you want to build a new underground right of way, what's the best way to use it? Is a big open question in my mind. You could go for electric BRT, for instance, or big-dig style freeway.
Back in the dark, dark days before LetsEncrypt, I had some StartSSL free certs. At one point, I was logging into their site using a certificate. I assume it was quite secure, but it was a complete PITA to set up. Especially when I wanted to log in on a different machine.