skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How come it's impossible to properly escape user input? I get that it's hard if the format is complex, but I don't see what makes it categorically impossible, especially for a simple format like an SQL string. You just double every single quote and then surround the whole thing with single quotes.
it did hack the election although still your moronic president would have won
To paraphrase Bryan Cantrill, don't fall into the trap of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison. Your lawnmower doesn't care about community goodwill either.
Just wondering, at what point could the Solaris name be reused for another Unix distribution?
If your company is party to an agreement, you are party to that agreement.

"Its impossible to agree to such without being aware of it."

Same goes for laws. You do not need to aware of an law to be subjected to it. Especially tricky in foreign countries.
Ideally this should be the flow in having a job conversation. This will clearly lead to better fit for both the employer and the employee. Unfortunately, most of the real world jobs ask for some kind of number as experience, even though they know that the number does not directly translate into anything meaningful.
Just go right to the source material and read Marx..to hell with all his imitators and wannabes.
It already gained that much value in a week so effectively nothing happened. The technical traders might believe we've hit a big ceiling, but ceilings could be just temporary. The article is mentioning bitcoin price just for drama.
Juicero (juice start up) shutting down
from developer perspective, that's far from true. oracle was a polished product, DB2 was, well... IBM product, PITA in various forms (toolset, easy to use etc.)
> we should just roll over and let them do whatever they want because empowering the user is hard?

We're talking past each other. Your "them" is Google. My "them" is every company, many of whom do not announce the extent of their data collection.

If breaking up Google means going after every company that collects too much data, then I suggest we first (a) take a look at how much data companies are collecting and then (b) consider where we draw the line. Doing (b) before (a) would be acting uninformed and rashly.
Eggs are pretty easy to prepare. So are various dairy products.
I would use a bigger font, and probably another font face as well -- maybe Avenir (although it's paid). I'd also make the 3 bullet points bigger since they are the only textual representation of how to use your product.

Outside of that the website is pretty good and serves its purpose!
Placing a windmill behind another one would be stupid. So, when you have a farm, you still capture a maximum of 50% of the energy that flows through the farm - only, you cover a bigger area and thus you get <= 50% of a bigger mass of moving air.
"The book I want to read." - that's a rather odd testimonial.
That's FUD. Apple actually did have a ZFS port for the Mac they were working on. And they successfully ported DTrace way back when as well (you can still use it today). I expect that the lawyers wouldn't have allowed anyone to work on a port of a project with an "IP shadow". The most likely reasons were probably either NIH, or worries about the greedy resource requirements of ZFS.
It's advantage practically everywhere else except on a suddenly windy day in Germany.

https://www.energy-charts.de/power.htm?source=all-sources&mo...

Consumption naturally spikes, when you add the natural volatility of wind power, you have greatly increased need for quick adjustment. Germany is using practically everything else than wind and solar to adjust. They also sometimes have to sell power with negative price. As a result even nuclear gets pushed into a role it's poorly suited to.
As always, you should compare with other sources of energy. As long as windmills replace CO2 producing energy sources, it's a net gain for wildlife - not the mention the other pollutants you're displacing, which are usually much worse in the short term.
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German here. The second we were allowed to use ballpoint pens, I stopped using fountain pens. The same goes for writing in cursive. As a result my cursive looks like a fourth-grader's.
One of the only complaints about offshore wind is it "spoils the view". A 250m high turbine can be seen from about 30m away - dogger is twice that distance.

Current plans are for 5GW of production, that's about 15% of the UK's current electricity demand, and more than is produced by the UK's wind farms in total.

If successful I can't see anything stopping expansion to the initial planned 9GW, other than capital funding.
Neither are most unikernels. Especially the weak points are file system and network handling.
Generally the security of VMs is enforced by hardware and improved by limited attack surface - few drivers to audit, limited communication APIs.
You can do the same with general purpose OS by cutting options.
If the Google teams are just focusing on what would get the largest marketshare, then why did we never see Firefox-only launches of Google products?

For many years Firefox was the largest browser that wasn't IE, yet no such launch happened.

Even when Chrome's marketshare was below 5%, Google always launched Chrome-only.

Your argument is nice, but ultimately invalid: Google never cared about providing to the most users first, but only about giving an advantage to their own spyware browser.
1. Large farms have already reached peak mechanization.
2. Robotics is for automation, not mechanization.
3. For large farms, drone technology, precision application of pesticides/herbicides/fertilizers are areas of opportunity.

Smaller farms can never hope to achieve the economies of scale that the big farms can easily grasp.

Smaller farms need modular solutions. The knowledge to grow diverse market crops in a small acreage is an entirely diff skill set.

Small farms don't need 'intelligent' systems. We need automation to reduce labour costs.

Robotic solutions for small farms may reduce our labour costs and we could generate higher profits.

AI and robots for larger farms might make the operations more expensive and not increase profit margins.

AI and robotic systems for large operations will be integrated with existing big tractor companies. Maybe licensed.

Which opens another can of worms. Farmers will never own the proprietary software or algorithms. Farmers generally don't like to use anything that they can't understand.(already happening with John Deere and DMCA). This is mostly because harvest/planting/feeding windows are seasonal and varied every year. Because of perishable nature of our products, even a slight error in timing will ruin that year's income. And you can't wait for someone to debug your tractor or trust that it will be fixed.

One area where large farms are suited for both intelligent systems(AI..suitable for large farms) and automated systems(robotics..suitable for smaller acreage farms) are those working in vineyards. It's almost like a warehouse environment and it's a premium product. It can handle it.
Unfortunately the industry just doesn't work that way.

Accessibility is one reason why css-themeable native widgets would be a win for everyone, their look will match with the branding (customer happy) and behaviour will be consistent (end user happy), and standardization would make developers happy.
I genuinely hate that I'm going to say this, but...
A 2x4 is 1.5" X 3.5"
It's not _approximately_ 2x4 or _slightly_ smaller than 2x4.
Not that this adds critical information regarding the article, but if you set out to work with 2x4s and assume they are 2" by 4", you'll be sorry. And yes, I have made that mistake before, but it's a mistake you only make once.
It's probably not that relevant anymore but we did try creating a more educational podcast where we focused on a specific topic each episode, about the Meteor JS framework:

http://discovermeteor.com/podcast
> left anarchists know the state grows out of the conflicting class interests of the working class and capitalist class

> Propertarians believe that if you got rid of the government, the free market will sort things out because it's the gov. interference in private enterprise that causes societies conflicts

I think you've just given a slightly better summary of the magical thinking of each, rather than fundamentally disagreed with me.

Right-anarchists believe that destroying the state will finally allow capitalism to thrive, while left-anarchists believe that destroying the state will destroy capitalism too.

Partially this disagreement is simply about the meaning of the word "capitalism", though, which both sides chuck around unexamined without bothering too much about the fact that they have completely different definitions of this word, and that neither definition really matches what the man in the street means when he uses it.
From the article:

The free and open internet as we know it is under attack.

Yes, not only from those agencies listed, but from Doxxers, Spammers, RevengePorners, and various other online trollers.

We will never have a 'free and open internet' until humanity grows up and people like the above evolve into more socially-inclusive human beings.

Unfortunately, I can never see that happening. What will happen is the slow loss of anonymity across the internet, where all new signups require id verification or the use of a 3rd party 'trusted' authentication provider.

On one hand, I think this may be a good thing - regardless of where you do it, you should be liable for any offensive behaviour you do that upsets other people. However on the other hand where do all the whistle blowers and free speech advocates go? It's a tricky balance, but one things for sure, anonymous online trolling is the reason why we can't have nice [internet] things...
Maybe they could present kids with timetable After showing them more variate and interesting concepts, so that at that point they have both the spark of interest and the maturity to understand multiplication is important and the attitude at learning that makes it not a torture.

I'm just making things up tho
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The amount of gibberish you just produced is astonishing.

You're absolutely unable to give a rationale despite your claims. So reading your posts, I'm still unsure if we should we all get the cheapest option we can get for anything because money can be "better spent helping others" or not. Is buying a car that is not the cheapest one available also a "farcical, individualist act of petty self-congratulation." ? Is it impossible to fulfill altruistic as well as personal goals ?

Also, why would money be better spent on "those who actually need it" (no definition is provided, from your stance and hate of wealth I'd guess people that can't afford 4000$ pens) than on elite craftmanship ? Do these craftsman, who produce something you're actively interested in (creating some kind of bond) not deserve money for their art ? Better give it away to something you have no emotional bound to ?

>To be frank: I am interested in alternatives to capitalism, and a great deal of the existing order of things bothers me profoundly.

Oh, really ? What a surprise ! A sadly common trait amongst hateful and judgemental people who show blatant inconsistencies coupled with a compulsive need to press reply.
When the jet stream dies we have bigger problems than a small drop in electrical production.
You also forgot about security in this IPC which is very much not a priority for Linus. With good reasons - security community has no consensus there.
This is a burner account, so take it with a grain of salt etc. but I used to work at Oracle in a senior management role and honestly the culture was horrible and very incompatible with me (I stayed there for a few years trying to 'work it out' though because I thoughts I was maybe just me and that I was soft etc.).. I worked in middleware and we were over selling average software, people were cut throat horrible to eachother, we spent more time internally competing against other departments and arguing about who'd get which slice of the customer's money rather than working with the customer, providing value and beating the competition. Nobody knows the company mission and its quite a cold and hostile place to work. That was my opinion but most of my colleagues and friends who left felt all the same things. I would NEVER recommend working at Oracle to anyone I cared about even if it paid twice what they earn now.
And bird deaths from cats and skyscrapers will be many orders of magnitude greater. This is well-reasearched, and it's not hard to find the journal articles on this topic. We need not guess.
And yet able to capture the server and phone market so completely. Best isn't always best.
Is that with the terrible IoT security practices?

The truth is, many developers cannot be trusted to write secure code much less provably secure. Kernels enforce some measure of security by design.
I think this is one of the most sensible replies. You only need to look at a HN 'who is hiring' thread though to see these kind of companies are pretty nonexistent.
Lecturing=Bloodletting, so why are we still doing it?
Soundlcoud link: https://soundcloud.com/benbenandblue/bbb-2-lecturing-bloodle...
Sounds about right, I'm always reminded of this gif that explains why and how to calculate the circumference of a circle : https://kaiserscience.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/when-radiu...

and suddenly a cryptic formula from maths class is made clear through the visual display of a wheel turning.
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That is ridiculous. A lot of us are middle class people who have rented our house and we have to pay mortgage. It makes perfect sense to demand rent for the month.

This "lock the people up I dont agree with" is called fascist attitude.
Podcasts that have helped improve my technical skills:

- Talking Machines
- The O'Reilly Data Show
- Software Engineering Radio
- Software Engineering Daily
- AWS Re: Invent series

Podcasts that have helped improve my general thinking:

- Econtalk
- Conversations with Tyler
- Waking Up with Sam Harris
could you lay the shape out flat first then pull it all in.

i would have 3d printed (or laser cut) something first.
> Wind has low operating costs but the maintenance and depreciation are huge, so looking at it from an operating cost perspective completely undermines this.

Source? I would expect inshore windmills to have very low maintenance costs.
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> Stopped reading at this point.

It's scary to challenge your beliefs isn't it
"may be". Or may be not. We don't know for sure yet but we sure want more clicks.
It's a pretty damning point against MySQL that there's a default setting that you have to know to change, or else the DB will happily throw away your data.

A lot of the evangelism against MySQL is rooted in a deep skepticism against letting a DB that would even have such a feature, much less leave it on by default for years after sort-of admitting that it's probably a bad idea, anywhere near your data. I loved MySQL back in the day when it would work straight out of the box on both Windows and Linux (and god knows not a lot of web software did back then), and Postgres was always, frankly is still, a bit opaque to actually get from zero to one. But I also remember discovering the varchar overflow and the users being pissed at me for losing their data. Luckily it wasn't a really important field and we discovered it reasonably fast, so fallout was contained. But the same app actually dealt with payments, it could have been much worse.

It's basically a country song: MySQL is the kind of guy that's tons of fun, always the centre of the party, but used to disappear for multi-day benders without a word, but have now cleaned up and is disappointed that his high school sweetheart prefers the boring guy who went to college, got a job and was never late for a date.
Some reasons:

- (lack of) political will

- abundance of cheap natural gas

- lack of US expertise (compared to Europe, where offshore wind has existed for decades)

- hurricanes
Interesting:

Python3 #5, Python #6, Pypy #439 ...

Go #22, Scala #78, Elixir #83, Rust #141, Typescript #584 ...

Groovy #150, Kotlin #195 ...

Go #22, Ruby #33 ...
Those tend to be tiny realtime kernels, single core, limited memory size etc. The solutions used there tend to not scale to bigger hardware.
Loaning out money at 1-2% isn't great either, once you've accounted for administration and defaults.
> they can't imagine that views which seem (to them) so wrong and dumb could possibly be coming from others in good faith.

When asked about the motivations and perspective of a smuggler, Quark explained[1], "No one involved in an extra-legal activity thinks of himself as nefarious."

Bad faith would apply to a "PR team" involved in some sort of premeditated, intentional fraud. That isn't necessary, and I don't believe I've seen that type of accusation. I'm sure both the posts from various known Google-employees and a hypothetical "PR team" are acting in good faith. Is there even any significant difference in what a random "true believing" engineer and a PR agent would say?

Google probably hasn't ordered a team of PR specialist to post on HN, but self-motivated employees defending their business may be functionally similar.

[1] DS9 s06e25 "The Sound of Her Voice"
Surprised not to have seen this aleady - https://twimlai.com/ keeps me sane when the metal-boxes stop moving.
Everything the Soviet party told the people about the Soviet Union was a lie.

Unfortunately everything they said about the United States was true.

Things aren't changing.

When I (Russian-Canadian immigrant) visit my family back in Russia they will spout endless bullshit about how Ukraine shot down that airliner to make Russia look bad, how the Ukrainian government is fascist and represses the ethnic Russians, how the US helped the Syrian rebels fake a gas attack and blame Assad, and so on.
And I can argue and bring up counterpoints, but they just shake their heads and say I'm a naive fool for believing the "Western propaganda".

But they'll also point to articles like this and ask "What exactly can the FSB do that the FBI/CIA/NSA could not and have been PROVEN to be doing with Google/Windows/etc? Should we stop using all American software because the FBI/NSA may intercept the information/data without a warrant?"

And I have to agree with them saying, yes, the US Government is deeply myopic and hypocritical.
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You should read this:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pro...

Patrick may have a skewed view of reality because of his experience but this (and his other posts) brings you in the right mindset.
I think the problem is more or less that we're at a breaking point where it's getting quite obvious that we should move away from higher-up standards. The browser should worry about low-level interfaces only, high level abstractions should never be cast in any standard and that is exactly what the extensible web manifesto said.

WC break this in half again and all of the sudden they're again trying to shovel more UI stuff into the dom. What they're trying to fix hasn't been a problem for years. Their entire spec was thought out in a meeting room maybe 10 years ago, but almost nothing of it has relevance today. It would simply make it harder again and block applications from leaving the browser behind.
In this vein this talk from Raph Koster from this years GDC is great, it's VR/AR directed but widely applicable beyond as the lessons are drawn from long experience with MMOs and it's really about designing societies:

https://vimeo.com/208372546
The messaging system got a massive overhaul between R5.03 (R5 was code-named "Maui") and the leaked R5.1 (aka "Dano".) They did a lot of stuff to improve it. Dianne Hackbourne wrote a massive post about it on OS News[0] around the time the OS was leaked.

[0] http://www.osnews.com/comments/7057#236889
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Takeoff: A rapid development environment designed for hack days
Title from: https://flowingdata.com/2017/09/04/most-frequent-how-tos-we-...
But Windows IS a threat to national security.
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Start watching Countdown, the UK numbers and letters game. You will need your times tables for the math part. There is even a comedy version (same games with added silliness) to keep the interest of 'younger' audiences. Youtube search : 8 out of 10 cats does countdown. It's fun and funny.

Here is the 2017 final of the 'proper, serious' Countdown, also on YT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-VdiufVWrw
Why would O_DIRECT make checksums any cheaper? You always update the checksum at the same time as the data so I cannot see how O_DIRECT could matter.

I am pretty sure the real reasons for checksums being off by default are two:

1) That you need to WAL log hint bit changes if for checksums to work. Hint bits are part of PostgreSQL's MVCC implementation and that you do not need to WAL log them is a clever optimization. This extra WAL traffic can at least in theory hurt some workloads.

2) Probably most importantly: nobody has provided the benchmarks necessary to show that the cost is not too high.
How will you describe it?
I kind of disagree with you. Working in data science myself, I get that scientists, engineers and business people are not on the same page. Scientists like python hacks, engineers like big data architecture, business guys want reports. So to me databricks says it's an infrastructure that combines all of that.

Then there's a Learn More button right there, which explains all that in more details.

It's certainly complex and has a large ambition, but it's not like they're advertising that they're making the world a better place while selling todo lists.
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Fair enough, I suppose I should have read the guidelines at some point.
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Aristotle speaks at length about this in Politics.
Not just Windows.

There have been government sanctioned backdoors in many softwares and hardwares coming out of American companies. This is known.

Intercept sites for Cisco equipment (this was 7 years ago at least, maybe they're inside Cisco now). Backdoors in Windows- not to mention backdoors in CPUS (Intel ME, AMD PSP)

We have a history of ill-will regarding the US government interfering with US technology companies, we should by all accounts consider them hostile.

What's worse is that the USA has a monopoly on most technology (x86 CPU, search, mail etc;)
or start a way are roll back to communism by enabling near nation state to stir things up via war route.
Tbh, hosting it as a .US domain was bound to cause a problem at some point. Unless this is exactly what the site author expected, and is using the expected outcome as a platform to bash the US Government?
Not yet proven, but there are a remarkable number of people around Trump with ties to shady Russian businessmen.

It may not have been a direct hack of the election either, more the use of Russian intelligence bot operations running an extremely effective social media campaign.
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I'm confused

So its agreeable that the building pipeline of NPM calling some packer does replace any-other-language calling any-other-packer, but what is the point in replacing the role of `npm build`, with a makefile that just calls what npm would of called anyways?

replacing make with npm with make-calling-npm?
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The other dude is crazy because no reasonable person would call for jail time in such a case. However, I also do not support a landlord asking for rent in a place that isn't fit for human habitation. A good contract, in my opinion, would stipulate that the landlord loses the rent on a pro rated basis till they fix the place up. I sympathize with their mortgage obligations, but I'm sure that's an added incentive to get the place in shape quickly.