skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on the church. In the LDS church each congregation covers a specific geographical area (everyone that lives between main street on the north and elm street on the south and maple street on the west and beach street on the east will to go such-and-such congregation). Almost nobody goes to a different congregation than the one they live within. The boundaries never have to do with where the rich and poor live, but rather how big do they have to make the boundaries to encompass enough people to achieve a minimum sustainable congregation. If too many people move into the congregation's boundaries, then it is split. If too many move out than the boundaries of surrounding congregations will be realigned until there is a sufficient number in each congregation. The result is that rich and poor are in the same congregation. I am LDS and the south half of our boundaries are multi-million dollar homes and the north half are low-income apartment complexes. In between are middle-class neighborhoods. Probably about 1/3 of the congregation comes from the three different areas. We have people that are CIOs of major corporations and people who are very poor all meeting and serving together.
I spent too much of my studying effort on being a programmer. Mastering C++11 features, writing SIMD assembly, reading Agner Fog manuals to learn the x64 ABI and instruction timings. Implementation stuff.

Those things are important, but I focused on them too much. I should have spent some of that time on higher level math-y skills like machine learning, numerical optimization, vision, NP hard approximation algorithms, computational geometry, control theory, etc.
If there's an ultimate explanation for the existence of the universe, the explanation has to stop somewhere. From a cosmological point of view, the properties of God are just the properties that any such terminus would have to have in order to be a terminus. Anything that comes from something else isn't God, so the question of where God comes from is moot.
Right, and when I'm a developer with a high end workstation laptop having resource problems, you can guarantee most users are going to have problems.
"Mayor #{city_official} wants to raise YOUR TAXES to line the pockets of their friends at #{local_construction_firm}. Call your alderman and tell him to vote NO on Proposition #{proposition_id}!"

"Mayor #{city_official} wants to pass JOB KILLING REGULATIONS that could put #{comcast_employees.count} of your neighbors out of work! Sign this petition opposing Proposition #{proposition_id}!"

"Mayor #{city_official} wants the GOVERNMENT to take over YOUR INTERNET. Vote NO on Proposition #{proposition_id} to keep your internet free!"

It's not that hard if you don't care about fairness or accuracy.
I was interviewing for PhD programs after working in an neurosci lab all through undergrad. I skipped the 6 years of 20k/year poverty and joined a tech startup instead.

Several of my friends are in PhD programs, work far harder than me, and are most likely going to be floating around in post-docs for years after. I wish we had a congress that better prioritized science funding - basic research is the foundation for a lot of the advances we make as a society, and it's so stressful to be in academia right now that a lot of extremely talented and skilled people burn out and take industry jobs.
Offtopic: What's with the hyper narrow width on this page? Looks like this on a 1440p monitor (ubuntu, chrome) http://i.imgur.com/m9YWcNj.png
"forgot"
In the US only about 1 out of every 70 deaths is from an auto accident. As a single cause of death, it's not even in the top 10.

Less than 1 in 3 accidental deaths is auto accident related.

More people commit suicide (42,000) than die in auto accidents (40,000).

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/282929.php

Deaths per mile driven have plummeted over time. From 24 per million miles in 1921, to 7 per hundred million miles in 1950, to 2.5 PHMM in the 1980s, 1.5 PHMM in early 2000s and now about 1.1 per hundred million miles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i...

They are set to plunge further as automated braking and collision avoidance become standard features over the next decade.

Edits: Corrected to deaths per 100M miles, not deaths per 1M miles.
Turbocharged cars (exhaust driven) are more efficient partially because they capture waste heat from the combustion process. A manufacturer can tune the engine and gearing to have a really good "sticker" EPA economy rating, but that generally doesn't translate to a good "actual" economy rating (because people are always gunning the engine to get that sweet boost).

Unfortunately small turbo engines have higher emissions (forget the specific component, the other advancement of direct-injection has higher NOx emissions I believe) and manufacturers are now moving back to larger-displacement naturally aspirated engines because people don't drive like the EPA test works.
Cool idea! Very much needed in this industry.
Congratulations to the team that shipped this! CI / CD is something I welcome to comoditize and turn into an integrated feature. If any Heroku team members are out there, please consider reducing the minimum price for encryption at rest for your Postgres database so I can use you for my startup.
In Rust, it does (in general) make the value immutable. Most mutations of values in Rust are done through mutably borrowing the value, which you can't do when the value is defined with `let` rather than `let mut`, the exceptions being things like `Mutex`, which gives you a value that can be mutably borrowed when you acquire the lock.
Really? I don't mind learning, so please point to me the data centers from major cloud providers in these countries.

If there are any, they're super recent.
... just to use a CI tool?
Or often managers who are very concerned about doing the right thing but don't have an expert that they know/trust and so rely on their understanding, which is probably based on the horrible finance sites they use.

I once spend several weeks having meetings where people tried to develop a login management process on a whiteboard from first-principles — in the federal government where the right answer was “We'll follow the central security group's required process” – because they didn't have a security consultant but knew security was a Really Big Deal and didn't want anyone to think they weren't thinking about it.
I agree completely with this post but want to provide some additional insight that I've gained:

Learn to enjoy your work as that's the only way you'll make it long term. If that means spending a little extra time to write an efficient algorithm or structure your code efficiently v.s. just "getting it done", then do so for your mental health, not for the company.

You see, we're craftsman at the end of the day. We all want to feel like we are contributing quality work, and often that conflicts with the business's priorities. Take pride in your work and you will find it easier to show up at the desk each day.
Marketing hack
While unions are a great thing I wish they they responded and did what they were created to do more efficiently.

More than a few times in the past year (probably 5-10 grivances have been sent in, and nothing has been done to solve the issue. (This is the USPS - not me but a relative)
Apcera announced a similar service today; "migrate three apps from on-prem to any cloud provider without rewriting it for $70K." Except now you're likely tied to their solution post-migration...
Ask HN: Business model for a search engine
Are there any viable alternatives to contextual advertising?
Gentle reminder to future language designers: whatever else you decide to take from C, please, please don't take declarator syntax. This thread showcases why.
On the other end, with a mesh network, your packets are less likely to go through the whole state/continent to reach a node in the same town as you.
May i also say that the 'feature' of not allowing clipboard pasting on the Mac Os X to decrypt a hard drive is one of the most conspicuous interface decisions that I have ever seen
U.K.'s May Opens Door to Facebook Tax in Push for Safer Web
The labs don't employ many life scientists compared to physics and engineering doctorates. The article is focused on biology.

Not that we don't generally need more staff scientists, but the national labs are probably the best gig along those lines available, and due to their mission, they are very focused on CS/Engineering /Physics

In my limited experience, the life sciences are much more depressed in terms of wages.
Asking the question is fine. Saying "God did it" is just a cop-out though. It's not a real answer. It's basically equivalent to saying "I don't know". Except it's worse, because it means you stop looking for the actual answer.
Well, most people that I've come across (online or otherwise) that wave that "Men's Rights" banner tend to be at the extreme end of the spectrum[0]. If they are the people that are the most vocal, they will be the ones that end up representing the group.

[0] If they are to be believed, all claims of rape by women are false, and should be taken with a enormous grain of salt. Also it's actually better to be a woman in society right now than a man because there's no downside to being a woman and a huge downside to being a man.
>Science in general needs more staff scientists

Science needs to be better funded with fewer strings attached to dollars. How much of the abilities of our best scientific minds goes to writing grant proposals?
Where does one buy this "Toyota Civic" of which you speak?

The Fit has done a pretty good job - 10 years and 2 generations, and it has only added about 100 lbs to the curb weight.
Trump, Tomahawks and the Trouble with Targeted Tools
Sure, the incident that caused the FCC to write the Net Neutrality rules.

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/186576-verizon-caught-...

Basically the ISPs held one service for ransom by slowing down the traffic enough to make it run poorly until the service paid the demands.

We can probably expect to see more of this in the future. Amazon and Google should probably start setting aside a warchest for the inevitable shakedowns.
U.S. Government to Research Role of Virtual Currencies in Terrorism
Google’s AMP now powers 2B+ mobile pages and 900K domains, loads 2x faster
>And nothing stops a tenant from vandalizing your home and skipping town.

Landlord insurance covers this.

And if they violate their lease, PMC lawyers can help.

But so far no one I know had to deal with this. All the headaches I've heard come from people who did not use a PMC: They found tenants themselves, so their vetting was poor compared to that of a PMC. They get repair calls at all times of day - not an issue with a PMC (tenants do not know your name or number). Tenants stop paying: Doesn't happen because the PMC vetted the tenants. But if it does, the PMC deals with it.
Another "hidden" weight adder is the dreaded "NVH" (Noise, Vibration, and Harshness). Basically car manufacturers add "heavy stuff" to make the car quieter and ride better.
The Audi A8 thing, is that because A8 is an expensive car? Or because it is comparatively smaller? If it's the second one, I've seen horse trailers pulled by smaller cars (even Golf, I think).
They were there:
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/26/internet-firms-are-winding-up...

Just as they were last time:
https://www.theverge.com/2014/5/7/5692578/tech-coalition-cha...

It's just that this time, it simply wasn't enough.
To make sure that resources are compliant I would suggest using AWS Config Rules as they allow to specify for example that tags need to be applied. Validation of resources is done in a lambda function which should in theory allow to terminate the resources if they are not compliant.
I'm similarly surprised we haven't heard of a AI augmented fuzzer that's been unleashed on random domains to just "try shit out." Seems like a good way to find weird little bugs. Then again, the scope of the "problem" is so massive, and the "rewards" (shit to flag as "yea check this out more") so vague, I don't even know how you'd begin.
Over ~2 decades...

Join a lot of startups that ultimately fail, but which were doing the right sort of things...
Some of them didn't fail...
Repeat with ever-increasing ability to detect bozos...
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/how-to-page-r...
I am interested and I appreciate the thought and link, however these appear to be the slides to a talk without the actual talk. If so they are of limited use because the slides never have all the information the presenter has, and that information is often just a summary.

Is this the correct talk: https://youtu.be/dwMQXLOXUco?t=5380 ?
Looks like a purely cosmetic change. Scroll down to the bottom of https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10.0/static/sql-update.html to see the only related difference from https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/sql-update.html .
Granted OP is obscure but this is a very harsh assessment. Such comments can be hurtful to hear when you launch. Why not give some positive and constructive feedback?
Google Cloud Speech API v1.0 GA
Yes!! Ditto on the weirdness of not allowing to paste from the clipboard to decrypt a hard drive on OS X.

It's like it's on purpose to make you save the password on the keychain or to make it more predictable somehow. I think that's either a very bad decision or evidence of NSA/CIA infiltration/influencing of Apple's software
Sadly, they sort of figured that out already: http://www.storenvy.com/shop/category/home-furniture/. (Yes, that's their furniture category. Who knew ugly, amateurishly made dolls were considered furniture?)
I'm not entirely sure I understand you. Do you find it bad that there are several options?

I had the feeling that YAML is the one that addresses your criticism ("I like YAML as configuration file language, but it's terrible for DSLs.").
And yes, I do use the python one and I am very happy with it.

> The YAML is the default, and it's what you find examples and support for (Stack Overflow and so on)

Pro tip: if they are YAML on StackOverflow, you don't have to copy-paste them, but more rather translate them to the representation that satisfy your high requirements.
He could have an encrypted digital copy somewhere else
A nearly perfect car. I say "nearly" because of the slight torque dip in the mid-range. It's too bad no one is buying them because they don't have "enough power". I am waffling on either a BRZ or a MX-5. I'm leaning towards the MX-5 because it seems like the BRZ/GT-86 may not be around much longer.
Conveniently, a comparison of two companies such as that can ignore all counter-examples. After all, it's a case study, not a boring statistical survey.
I would love to see a sample vulnerability report.

Also, why is this flagged?
> Your tests run immediately, every time on dedicated Performance dynos.

Huge.
I don't mean to suggest that you can't get great opportunities while self-taught, only that a sizable portion of opportunities will be closed off without a degree. There happens to be a glut of developer work at this time, so the consequences are dampened, but that won't be the case forever, better to get the degree when you don't need it rather than wait till the time when it makes a bigger difference.
Also, I'll add that getting hired by an elite software firm is absolutely possible without a degree, but you have to be considerably above average intelligence and skill to get in the door, whereas a degree will give you an opportunity to get in the door even if you're not a star, providing you with the environment and resources to become one.
First, you have to make sure the page sizes for the FS and DB match. That's a critical requirement. But yes, you'll get write expansion twice.
Learning about the history of RSS should alleviate your concerns. Brent Simmons has been working in the space for 15 years, writing one of the more popular clients and working at a company which provided sync and syndication services:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetNewsWire#History
Ahh ok I see the distinction, good info. However, I know for a fact that AT&T does not count directv streaming as part of its data limits and therefore it is never throttled. I did a little more research based on your explanation and from what I can discern, it's technically against the law, but companies like T Mobile and AT&T continue to push the limits until someone confronts them. It still seems to be a very gray area.
I am now in Telco

The only place where I've seen IT being highly respected.
Hi, this is a very culturally insensitive and ignorant question but I am very curious: Why do adult Indian people, in India, sit on the ground or floor? It must be a cultural thing, that can't be comfortable or (dare I say it) clean.
I got a bug bounty once because I reported a bug in Chrome that someone else was complaining about in the comments section of a tech blog.

If instead of just complaining that commenter had taken the time to fill out a bug report they could have easily gotten the bounty instead.

Sometimes it just takes a tiny bit of extra effort to go from noticing something's amiss to actually doing something to get it fixed.
Well... feminism is something that has been around for a while. On the other hand, the "Men's Rights" banner (at least to me) seems much more recent, with most of the charges being led by the denizens of places like /r/TheRedPill (where they advocate some sort of extreme version of "every man should be a dudebro alpha male").

While it might not be entirely fair, if the majority of the visible "Men's Rights" proponents are the extremists, then they will end up being the ones to claim the banner for themselves as the term isn't as well established yet.
So it looks like PostgreSQL will finally be web scale ;)

(ducks and runs)
Open access rules like the ones that exist on phone lines could do the job. The problem is that we got those rules on phone lines by having the government heavily subsidize them back in the Ma Bell days. The cable and fiber networks were much less subsidized so it's a hard argument to make.

The ship has already sailed on treating broadband as a utility like it should be. Muni broadband projects can help, but they're few and far between, plus they suffer from tremendous political pushback from the well connected incumbents.
> Blatant sexism and rasicm against white males might be okay to idiot millennials

This breaks the HN guidelines, which ask you not to introduce classic flamewar topics. This sort of ideological ranting is never interesting, never goes anywhere good, and is plainly off-topic here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
I have an electric _bicycle_ that routinely dusts off ICE cars at stop lights. It just takes a while for all that machinery to start rolling.
I've never seen any religious person who was seriously interested in the question of the origin of the universe stop at "God did it". It's unfair to imply that this is all that theologians have ever had to say on the topic.
Which may be exactly why Nvidia is creating a Fortran compiler for LLVM, which can target CUDA.
Maybe it's time we stop labelling password reset links as "Forgot my password." Implies you're supposed to have it only in your head.
It's amazing the lengths people will go to to justify not using a password manager.

Use a password manager. KeepassX is free, cross-platform, works on phones, does all that work for you, secures even your least-valuable accounts, does things right, doesn't store your passwords "in the cloud" and you'll get to keep applying your scheme to your master password.
Ask HN: Do startups still focus on obtaining patents nowadays (2017)?
Cost of the fees can be $10k+. Typically one has no $$$ to actually execute and enforce a patent. It looks like to have a startup with IP protected by some legal paper, but realistically it's useless. Do patents even increase the valuation?

In other words: is it still worth to bother about thinking about patenting in a startup?
vtddtrjeb
I agree with your sentiment. I also think of TDD as a way of trying to overcome confirmation bias. I actively try and write tests that might prove my code has bugs. When they don't fail I feel more confident about what I'm shipping.

For me that's the craftsmanship in software development - shipping something I'm proud of.
It does not work on Sierra yet.
Similar in SF with Monkeybrains -- for a one-time setup fee of $2500 about two years ago, I've been paying $35/mth for 600/600 microwave internet. They're also super pro-net neutrality. They even peer with SFMIX, a not-for-profit hipster internet exchange. The normal rate is $35/mth for 50/50.
> Where "this industry" is "startups plus websites".

Well yeah, only in the startup world are software developers offered equity instead of liquid compensation.
my favourite talk until now, a lot of practical advise, and it's fascinating to see the pivots.
https://github.com/arkhipov/temporal_tables seems like a good option?
> 2-ton hideous mechanical equivalent of a horse

This phrasing makes me curious: how did "horse-related accidents" rank among the causes of death for people who rode horses everywhere? Or people who rode in horse-drawn carriages everywhere?
"Etsy’s general and administrative expenses amounted to 24 percent of total revenue. (EBay and MercadoLibre.com, the Latin American online marketplace, each spend about 10 percent of revenue on such expenses.) "

I should have said G&A (general and administrative expenses). Essentially the cost of your workforce, the offices, benefits, etc. Etsy's is huge compared to any reasonable comp, and nowhere has anyone explained why it must be so.

Ebay has bigger economies of scale, so maybe Etsy can't really get to 10% with their smaller sales, but it should be in the 10-20% range. If it's "correct" number for G&A is 14%, they are essentially taking 10% of every sales dollar to spend on a party for the employees.

It also means their total compensation per employee might be as much as 70% higher than market. Total comp is pay, payroll taxes, benefits such as medical/dental/parking/mass transit/etc. Probably not, since it also includes office expense such as the cost of the CEO's merry band of office decorators. But it's not hard to imagine that they might be 40-50% over market in employee comp, plus spend way too much on office costs.
Users flagged it. Hard to say why, but it might be because they don't think HN is able to sustain a high-quality discussion about this topic.
I don't think people should generally be driving day to day, but as a passionate driver and motorcyclist, it does make me sad to think that I won't be allowed to tear rubber up and down, say, Highway 1 sometime in the future. Tracks are great and all (and where the real speed belongs) but nothing beats bendies next to the ocean.
I believe you, but it doesn't necessarily follow that Amazon is filtering them out; perhaps no single harlequin title had enough sales to break into the top 20.
Heh, how much world-changing did Sculley end up doing after all? One always need to keep one's wits when making decisions influenced by charismatic personalities.
Science is very well funded in the U.S. Requiring selling your ideas is important to put funding where the good ideas are.

Some are better at selling than others though.

It's a competitive market as it should be. To weed out the ideas that shouldn't be funded.

A better way to very ideas?
Ask HN: Smoothest e-commerce checkout you have experienced?
Share your experience from a consumer point of view (not a dev/designer).
You can't compare diesel and petrol cars on a fuel-volumetric basis. You have to use mass because diesel is more dense. There is 15% more fuel in a gallon of diesel than in a gallon of petrol.