skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This actually happened to me in 1991: I was a few months from defending my Ph.D. so I was already under a lot of stress. I came home from work after dark to an empty house and saw that the light we kept on a timer wasn't on (it turned out later that the bulb had burned out). I entered the house and caught some movement out of the corner of my eye. I shouted, and the burglar who was on his way out the window took a pot shot at me with a 038. The bullet missed me by about a foot. I had nightmares about strangers in the house for years. None of that was my fault.

There is an epilogue to the story: after the incident I crawled to the phone and called 911. The police arrived a few minutes later, and a few minutes after that told me that they had caught the perpetrator. The put me in the back of a police car and drove me out to where they had a hispanic kid, maybe 15 years old, sitting on the curb in handcuffs. They asked me if I could identify him and I said no, it was dark, I couldn't see anything but a muzzle flash. So they let him go. I have no idea if I let an armed robber back out on to the street, but I've never lost a minute of sleep over that decision.

You own your actions, not your feelings.
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Hopefully the work on better indexing of partitioned tables will also apply to inherited tables. I regularly work with tables with over 1000 child tables, using single value lookups which would be trivial in an index. But having to query 1000 indexes makes the inheritance useless and we have to jump hoops to query the right child table instead.

That this is a serious limitation has been recognized for many releases. But the limitation is still there.
Sling TV now lets you watch with Chrome on Windows and Mac
What's the link with capitalism ?
Hmm I think it's probably better to get the lump sum and operate off interest. Even 1% of $50 billion yearly is $500 million. I think the foundation could manage to exist off that.
Uber debuts new Uber for Business with custom travel programs and rules
How to Get Your Team to Embrace Test Automation
That is probably at least two grand if you want something decent, so that is still 100 trips, plus you run into the issue that you can't get new movies anywhere but the theater, even if you were willing to pay the same price.
Super interesting! I also work exclusively on open source and am somewhat nomadic. My family and I are currently camping in the Masai Mara, and moved to Kenya a year ago from the UK. We have no Kenyan clients so it was purely a personal decision to move here. I don't see us moving away from Kenya by choice, but we will almost certainly move around within Kenya (we already have once within a year). We're less flexible because we have employees, pets (dog and cat came from UK), and will never abandon them. Overall we've found this lifestyle to be liberating, extremely hard work, but so rewarding in terms of personal fulfilment and opportunities for moral fulfilment that it is unequivocally worth doing if you can create the opportunity.
NASA studies CubeSat mission to solve Venusian mystery
No one would care when that kind of emergence happened. People are used to only thinking of things that they can do and have positive consequence for themselves.
App makers should charge more if they want people to buy subscriptions
Coal Power plants with trees are better than just coal power plants.
Thanks, that looks much nicer and more in-line with what I'd expect from an example intended to demonstrate how easy a simple task is in a specific language.

As an aside, Ruby doesn't have a built-in function for printing arrays either (unless you count .inspect or .to_s, which let you print _anything_). The code I gave formatted the array as a string using some simple data manipulation functions before printing it; it was intended to match the output of the program you provided.
That's actually completely consistent with what I was trying to say. I guess I just didn't phrase it very well. It's a difficult concept to render into words.
The number of people employed is also at an all-time high.

https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=z1ebjpgk2654c1_...

Automation may change that in the future, or people may insist on dealing with humans, or new jobs may emerge. Who can predict the future?
That doesn't make any sense. Visa & MasterCard are the intermediaries, not the actual source of the cash. They sell their merchant network, and recreating it would be hard (not impossible, but a lot of work not in Amazon's wheelhouse).

Chase or Citi or Wells Fargo or whoever is the bank that needs reserves and fronts the cash to the merchant, and earns on the interest rate and fees and takes the risk on defaults.
Pakistan can build nuclear reactors instead. They have the technology.
cops in EU are not targeting black people, that's why we don't need groups like "black lives matter".

I come from Italy, parents in Italy are upset even if you ask them what they think about their children marrying someone from the village 2 Kms away from theirs

But then they won't shoot anybody who does it

It's not really racism.

it's old people being old
Suricata 4.0 Released – Open Source IDS / IPS / NSM Engine
> I deliberately use the bathroom 1 floor down to force me to go up and down the stairs

This is such a good idea that I'm stealing immediately.
How much does it cost you to make a single pie? How big is it?

I also make my own pizza and it is very tasty; however, I find it incredibly difficult to beat the $6.99 2-topping medium pizza deal for pick-up.
I get this if I spend too much time programming. You just need to get up and take breaks, for example after every task you complete. Go do stretching or read a book, let your mind unwind, then get back to it after 20 mins. Not all offices allow for this so if yours doesn't consider changing job, for your own health.
Personally, I'd go for an undergrad CS degree first. uopeople.edu might be a good place to start. I'm currently working through that program, and I intend to continue to the GA Tech masters program when I'm done.
> should be debated and refuted

If you have even a passing acquaintance with the subject, this has been "debated and refuted" for hundreds of years.

Should "did NASA land on the Moon?" also be debated and refuted? Why or why not? If major TV networks ran hour-long specials, where each side gets to present their case for/against moon landings for 30 minutes, would this be beneficial to the world?
Oregon State University has an online 2nd bachelor's program if you already got another undergrad degree. Not sure how 'good' the program is or anything though, and it doesn't look nearly as inexpensive as the GA tech program if I'm not mistaken:
http://ecampus.oregonstate.edu/online-degrees/undergraduate/...
Rust has an explicit goal of zero-cost abstractions, while Go will allow more expensive abstractions in the service of simplicity.
The sick blue whale game thats causing people to commit suicide
Unless you care about resources other than memory. GC doesn't help to make sure mutexes don't deadlock and files are closed. As far as I know there is no general purpose algorithm for those.
I suspect that will be a very unpopular opinion around here.
Yes. I prefer to order online mostly because it minimizes the chance of a mistake. Speech isn't the most accurate form of communication. But, I've never ordered from facebook.
Please get checked out by a doctor. Anytime you have really weird symptoms, it's best to be sure it isn't something serious.

Short answer: No, I've never had anything like that.

After concentrating for an extended period, I'm slightly out of it when switching to talking to someone. But it clears up quickly and has never been anything so bad that "I wouldn't drive."
UK National Lottery's Twitter PR Disaster
Windows 10 now uses the first person plural ("we") to talk to users, which I always thought was an interesting choice. Things like:

We're setting things up for you
We can't sign into your account

Etc...
Department of Justice Uses Search Warrant for Visitors to Anti-Trump Site
Ask HN: Favorite blogs?
- Coding Horror by the guy who made stackoverflow

- Melting Asphalt was sooo good but he's not writing much anymore

- Farnam Street is always pretty solid

What else do you guys like?
Seems like a fairly non-sequitur paragraph to me. Hundreds within the first few hours could mean 210 pizzas in 5 hours because of novelty factor, then tailing off.
Back a decade ago I did all the tech setup to host a presidential election debate viewing at the Kobuki Theater in SF. I don't know the legality for sure, but I was lead to believe as long as it was invite only and you didn't charge for attending, it was legal. Again, IANAL, but I think as long as it's truly a private event among friends, I think you should be ok.
The join one is particularly bad as it can make your query run much slower as running multiple queries is almost never a win. A check for the opposite (multiple queries when one is needed) would be better as then the query planner in the SQL engine can do a better job and you have fewer round trips.

While the tool is a good idea, there need to be some proof that each of the patterns it's looking for are actually bad.
World Fintech report 2017 from Cap Gemini [pdf]
We actually do know that drugs that are considered "psychedelic" tend to have a dominant 5-HT2A agonist effect (serotonin targetting), actually. Chemical compounds are often not terribly specific, so other receptors get tickled as well... and there are other hallucinogen classifications that do not target serotonin receptors. But pretty much all of the "classic" psychedelics (ergolines and tryptamines) target 5-HT2A quite heavily; many phenethylamines also target 5-HT2A as well (although there is more receptor variety in that class of compounds).

I believe you are right that much of the overall effect on the brain of these compounds is poorly understood.
Glad to see you like reading. I don't know, which category you are care about. But i think books talked in hn, stack overflow and reddit may help you. Check out it here.
http://toptalkedbooks.com/
It's an interesting idea and an interesting story, but I'm frustrated by what the personal narrative approach does to it. And I'm frustrated that the author didn't take a class or otherwise push Blanton on some deeper questions than "did I do good?"

The standard social norm is "people think some amount, and say less than that". What's being changed is "say less", but an audience that doesn't know that might expect "think more". The comment to the nanny isn't just weird because it's inappropriate, it's unnerving because it raises the question of "if he's willing to say that, what must he be thinking?"

So the consequences seem very different between people who are prepped to expect radical honesty, and people who don't. The second group has far more reason to be disturbed than thin-skinned-ness - they think they're talking to someone who's operating way outside normal limits. I'd like to hear Blanton's take on that, though it might well be "screw em".

And, of course, I sort of get the sense that the author was an asshole about the whole thing. Radical honesty is radical, but honesty when things inconvenience you is just "being a jerk". And we get... honesty about sexual urges, honesty about wanting to flake on stories and events, honesty about anger at an editor. There's very little that's confessional here, and quite a lot that's demanding.
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If we're bringing European politics into a US discussion, then we should arrest everyone displaying Nazi symbols or using the Nazi salute, and we should probably also ban displays of the Confederate flag as well. Also now the Democratic party is far-right extremism, and the Republicans are banned by law.

I'm loving my new single-payer healthcare and free college tuition, though.
That's likely true, although with legalization has come the popularity of - and even preference to - vape pens and edibles, which weren't as accessible.
Why are the items in Amazon boxes? That's waste.
The Mongols were having trouble in Europe before Chenggis died and there is evidence that they turned around before they heard of his death.

It's easy to mythologize the Mongols, but when they tried to move on castle builders in the levant and Eastern Europe they got their asses kicked. Repeatedly.
> You know, in Seattle there is a rather grand looking statue of Lenin. He was a rather evil guy.

The Seattle Lenin is privately owned, so not parallel to the Lee statue in Charlottesville.

> Who gets to decide which statue stays and which goes?

The owners of the statues?
The surprising breadth of "public performance" is the basis for the famous Girl Scout copyright royalty demand

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/17/nyregion/ascap-asks-royalt...

Movie theaters are familiar with risks in this area, so they might have their own rules about what you can and can't watch when you rent out a theater.
I don't know whether you are some miserable provocateur or just an idiot. Either way, that was a very bad analogy. And I don't say 'bad' with a moral connotation. It was just stupid, really.

I see that you maybe were alluding to the fact that blind people can't SEE the page, but you ignore that they can READ it with assistance of software/hardware in a variety of ways. The article goes in detail about that.
The rate you quote is not a good indicator of overall unemployment - it only measures the dynamics of layoffs in the last 6 months.

The more realistic measure of unemployment, the Civilian Labor Force Participation Rate is at about 63%, back to where we were in 1977. And a lot of women have joined the workforce since then.

https://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutputServlet
The first estimate google found for carbon fixing is new growth fixes ~0.7 lbs/tree-year and old-growth is ~1.5lbs/tree-year[1].

So 0.7 billion pounds, or ~300k tonnes of C/year

Global carbon emissions are around 10 billion tonnes annually so that's about .003% of annual emissions.

1: http://sustainability.tufts.edu/carbon-sequestration/ (note that the per-tree is CO2 weight, not C weight)
They are in process. According to Wikipedia[0] "Pakistan plans on constructing 32 nuclear power plants by 2050"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Pakistan
Are there any discussion forums on Atom/Slack ?

Are there any blogs?

Newsletters?
Please don't bring accusations of shillage or astroturfing without evidence. It always weakens the discussion terribly.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15017451 and marked it off-topic.
Years ago when I was just getting into the film/EFX industry, a grizzled old vet told me "when you're in production, drink lots of water because otherwise you'll never get up from your desk"
> Even if all you say is true and the guy is an odious anti-feminist, the points he made should be debated and refuted, not silenced.

I strongly disagree with your "even if" hypothetical.

Dialectics are a process for arriving at truth, not the source of truth itself. I think this is something hard-core rationalists often seem to forget.

In terms of time, emotional energy, and so on, evaluating arguments is very expensive.

Ignoring an argument because its source is "odious"ly biased is the political equivalent of using heuristics to prune a huge search space. It may not always give you an optimal answer. But then, climbing every ant hill to the bitter end may not get you to an answer in your lifetime anyways.

And remember, in an argumentative setting, the search space is adversarially constructed. So you can actually be pretty damn certain that without heuristics, you'll never find the truth.

> this is not reason enough to assume the worst

The degree to which people are "assuming the worst" seems to be one of the major sources of disagreement.

FWIW I don't think many of Damore's detractors are "assuming the worst" from the outset. Complaints about the essay tend to identify specific claims, specific phrases, specific arguments that serve as heuristics for choosing not to continue evaluating the argument in good faith.

You can argue against those heuristics all you want, but I don't think that this argument is even possible to have without some heuristics. Case in point: Damore uses his own set of totally unsound heuristics (see e.g., the complaining about "political correctness", the graphs that are actually just pictorial representations of prior assumptions, and so on).
It's easy to talk big about what people should do when it's not your family on the line.
This goes back to that old adage "the enemy of my enemy is my friend."
just wondering, is the admission process similar to other graduate programs? do you need GRE scores? letters of recommendation? what has been people's experiences around these requirements?
grep -i secret/token/phrase/key/etc and you'll often find hard coded defaults =(.
Yeah, but they build nukes instead.
I see bots being extraordinarily effective against this type of automated scoring as the sophistication of the scoring bot seems like it will always lag potential creator bots.

Given that scoring bots in mass use will necessarily decrease the dimensionality of the data into fewer, more tractable features, and thus creating bots need only to target the dimensionality-reduction step, rather than reproduce "human behavior."

Which seems rather simple given the variance in natural language and normal human social interaction.
It's folks like Dingo_bat that remind me as frustrating as libertarian capitalists are, I should just be grateful they aren't the authoritarian capitalists. Private industry rights are more important than your rights is substantially less terrifying than private industry and government rights are more important than your rights.
So you didn't start meditation or something at the same moment?
Possibly eye trouble, bad air in the place where you work or a latent health issue.

I used to get incredible headaches after long bouts of coding, it took me a long time before I realized I needed glasses.
It's also "inefficient" to build elevators. I wonder why people do that …
Me too! It's kind of been done, but not in a great way.

https://www.amctheatres.com/movies/game-of-thrones-the-imax-...
Making wheelchair ramps and wide doors for the physically disabled sounds a lot like 'making music for the deaf'. It can be done and people are doing it, but it just seems like the most inefficient thing to do.

/s

We design buildings with accessibility in mind, why should we not do the same for websites? Blind and visually impaired people have just as much use for the internet as you do.

Edit:

'Making music for the deaf' is a poor use of simile that doesn't really represent the reality of the situation. A more realistic and illuminating analogy would be websites for the visually impaired are like subtitles for the deaf.
I did a masters an Johns Hopkins and completed it all online. It's a similar style program where you can do it all online, on campus, or as a combination.

Still cost me slightly over 40k even though Innever stepped foot on campus.

It's a total rip-off, but only in the sense that I couldn't get a decent paying job without a masters (work in biotech).
Working fine here on Android Chrome 59.0.3071.125.
I feel like there's room in the world for a kind of locally-owned-but-Amazon-franchised brick-and-mortar store. It would probably be named, advertised, etc w/o oversight from amazon, and pick their niche and character in the local market, etc, but source supply from Amazon's network and additionally play the part of a pickup/dropoff site for local deliveries. This is assuming Amazon could trade off some of their margin for the batching of goods (for the shop) and the oversight of their pickup site.
https://github.com/jarulraj/sqlcheck/blob/master/docs/logica...

Strongly disagree.

Table columns should always be prefixed with table name. So users.user_id is one of the most hated patters for me. user.id looks so much cleaner. No one in their right mind should ever write the column name by itself. Especially with queries that use more than one tables.
Instead of using the money to research renewable or more efficient energy production, reduce pollution etc his foundation uses the money for vaccines and health services which surprisingly has as target, as he says in a ted video (link below), to decrease human population which he sees it as the major problem of today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaF-fq2Zn7I&t=278&cc_load_po...

"The world today has about 6.8 billion people. That's headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by, perhaps, 10 or 15%"
Consistent with the software’s role as an agent and voice of the firm creating it.
The U.S. government penalized Uber for misleading customers on privacy practices
"Earning the interest rate" is the key phrase here. With that and paying 2% in fees Amazon is leaving money on the table.
Why not become the next Citi?
Blockchain could fix a key problem in X
The startup is changing how you can search places 'near me'
They needed to make it available within 24 hours - does that mean public profiles are now scrapeable like any other page?

I tried a year ago and obviously it was impossible.
Rocket Fuel patents address third party cookie restrictions
He may be many things but weev is not stupid. He knows enough already. Security through obscurity never works. I fully expected him to move his shit to the company in Ukraine he works for now. Maybe having to move their base around will leave a trail. Ultimately we want actual hands on these douche bags.
Coincidentally, he was also the first one who left (edit: not fired). Trump got around to tweeting angrily about the others after you posted this: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/15/trump-hits-ceos-who-left-man...
Original headline: The U.S. government has penalized Uber for misleading customers on its privacy practices 8 characters too long for HN.

Techmeme summary: Uber settles with FTC over misleading customers on its privacy policies, will submit to 20 years of privacy checkups by outside auditors
How 4G/LTE technology work
I've had the spaced out feeling after work as a recurring problem for over a decade. Most days I am OK enough, but others the only thing I want to do is go home and stare at a wall as all cognitive abilities are exhausted.

I run 10 miles a week and bike long distances, make all of my own meals, and have been working with various doctors for years. Nothing seems to help 'fix' the issue altogether.
Linkrot is a real problem. Especially for those sites that disappear before the archive can get to them.

On another note, the more dynamic the web becomes the harder it will be to archive so if you think that the 1994 content is a problem wait until you live in 2040 and you want to read some pages from 2017.
HN loves nuclear power.

Or is this a comment about subcontinental international politics?
the hard part is keeping everything clean once youve inoculated
everyobe is very excited about nuclear energy as long as the plant is on the other side of the continent.
For the kind of numerical code here, it's not going to be significantly faster.
On the relaunched site today it says the restrictions are:

You can see one movie every day.
You can see each movie one time.
You can see only standard 2D screenings.

It even points out you can go on opening night and the T+Cs point out there is a month to month plan now, but it's a bit confusing.

I do think it's a good offer for $10/month. Cineworld in the UK offers something similar for about £20/month (~$25), but also has an annual commitment and is restricted to one chain of cinemas, none of which are close to me.
They take carbon from the atmosphere as they grow, so they are most effective when they are young. When they die they tend to release most of it, but an established old-growth forest in China was estimated to sequester 9 tons of carbon per hectare per year. http://www.co2science.org/articles/V14/N15/EDIT.php