skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So? An equivalent line in such an article might say "Anti-vaxxers claim that vaccines contain poisonous amounts of the chemical mercury" then if we continue analogizing it to the article at hand, the NYT would go on to show how the amount is in fact not dangerous (like they've actually done).

It doesn't change the fact that they said it. You have to report on the facts, and the fact is they said it contains a dangerous amount. The report can then go on to show how that's a false premise, but newspaper writing purposely doesn't make bold claims like "ANTI-VAXXERS LIE ABOUT POISONOUS AMOUNTS OF MERCURY IN VACCINES" because people call that sensationalist and biased.

They assume their readers are smart enough to connect the dots. If the writer's intentions were truly "sinister" as you say, then they would manipulate the facts into an argument that supported the idea that vaccines have a dangerous amount.

The analogy also fails because it truly is a fact that this would increase the amount of pesticides used. Whether that is a bad thing or not is entirely up to the readers to decide.

Again you just seem to be spinning some narrative about the NYT having malicious intent here (especially by analogizing it to vaccines) without anything but a sly deferral to "poor writing". It's just an excuse for you and others to confirm your dislike of the NYT when they're writing in the same style every newspaper reporter is taught.
I haven't seen any data for video content, but I imagine some content is pay $$$ to steam to as many users for a limited time, but much of it is probably pay $$$ to be able to stream it, plus $ each time it is streamed. And I imagine some deals are based on a share of revenue. I wouldn't be surprised if content was significantly more expensive than bandwidth.
I worry that a lot of developers who have been using languages like Java or C# see Go and immediately feel the need to point out that Go doesn't support language features that they've come to rely on, and so they see that as a weakness or a flaw.

With Go, you're getting a lot of high-level language features like anonymous functions, while also gaining the control that you're not able to get in higher level languages like Python or Ruby or Java.

I think this works out great for cloud computing, where performance is a major requirement, but the technology is expanding rapidly enough that a step up from C or C++ is very necessary.

A lot of the complaints I hear are related to abstractions, too, and I understand those to an extent. I also think that if you're complaining about the lack of generics, maybe you're not thinking about interfaces correctly. A perfect example is the beautiful simplicity that is the [`io.Reader`](https://medium.com/@matryer/golang-advent-calendar-day-seven...).

So, whenever someone says something like the OP:

> As a simple language to wire pieces together, Golang is fine, but it really doesn't give you the tools (imo) to be productive for anything more complex than simple apps.

I take that as meaning, "I've never seriously used Go beyond writing a hello world app. It doesn't have the features I rely on to be productive, therefore I don't think it's a capable language for larger projects."

I will say though, dependency management in Go is hell. I wish Go had something like Cargo.
Yes, actually. I am quite pleased by this fact.
This is what I'm finding too. I'm suffering from what I suppose one could call "issue fatigue" (or perhaps "drama fatigue").

This characterization is not pejorative[0], it's just that inarguably real and serious events (hurricanes, earthquakes, and other disasters, whether natural or man-made) are presented with as much gravitas (or excitement) as merely scandalous (or, more likely, scandalized) news.

One gets so tired of perceiving this, one could be forgiven for throwing one's hands up in disgust and sheltering from the torrential wordpour.

[0] A favored phrase from, IIRC, the original K&R 'C' book.
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My bad. As the child of farmers it's never been used this way where I'm from
Even older VW campers cost an arm and a leg. [1]

[1] http://www.ebay.com/bhp/vw-camper
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The title is a little misleading. The article itself acknowledges that there was a tulip fever:

> That’s not to say that everything about the story is wrong; merchants really did engage in a frantic tulip trade, and they paid incredibly high prices for some bulbs. And when a number of buyers announced they couldn’t pay the high price previously agreed upon, the market did fall apart and cause a small crisis—but only because it undermined social expectations.

But it implies that it's not all that notable because it didn't collapse the entire economy:

> But the trade didn’t affect all levels of society, and it didn’t cause the collapse of industry in Amsterdam and elsewhere.

Personally, I don't think I'd ever made the assumption that it had. Likewise, if Bitcoin were to implode, it would be similar — some people would suffer, but it wouldn't be all that widespread of an effect.

Tulipmania still makes a great historical anecdote on speculation, and I for one, will keep using it as one.
Here is a talk about it at JVMLS'17: https://youtu.be/n5DCg6M2MDM
http://linuxgizmos.com/ is usually pretty good.
Meh, that's only a CAGR of just over 3.87% over 100 years that he's talking about. Nothing special.

Stocks also tend to split before they hit 4 digits, so this may never happen anyway.
Interesting pattern - Reamde also provides an example. Of course, in Cryptonomicon there is also a literal Nordic Voyage, from the coast of Norway to the Swedish coast, but he skips over it entirely, only giving the highlights retrospectively from the perspective of his least reliable narrator.
We can do modern agriculture without Roundup.
No harm, no foul! Growing up in a farming community myself was one of the reasons I spoke up, and I'm sure there's variation in how these terms are used. I definitely knew what you were getting at. Language is pretty interesting!
People say this every time the price has a sharp increase, but after seeing this happen repeatedly, I'm convinced its simply a price correction that swings too far into an overcorrection and eventually comes back to the intrinsic value.

But, perhaps I'll be wrong and the price will one day come crashing down to zero, I've just seen literally zero evidence of this happening.

Edit: s/actual/intrinstic/
The three criteria mentioned are designed specifically to avoid confusion with general metabolic factors like you suggest.
Go's HTTP server handles each request in its own goroutine, and any panics encountered are automatically recovered from. Nothing special needs to be done to prevent a panic from taking down the server.
Those are each cloud native (lock-in solutions) rather than software, let alone open source software... That's a huge difference.
>Covering yourself with coat or blanket could be the difference between being completely incinerated and surviving unharmed

I don't think this can be right. Surely it takes far less energy to vaporise a blanket than a whole person.

It might protect you from surface burns caused by the infrared pulse, though. And flying shards of glass.
Looking at the ones that have hit my account, they are not qualifying miles.

Though it would take a silly amount of Lyft spending to have this noticably impact your status, anyway.

It's just a nice little bump. 700 miles since May isn't world-changing, but it's nice (the to/from airport bonus seems like the biggest part of the deal).
I guess this is the usual "hate the game not the player" situation. I wish there was more local products. I'm willing to make sacrifices and vote with my wallet to make that happen. (And I do when it's a realistic alternative) But I can't do that naked - and living in a smallish town, I'd be surprised if I could buy a full set of clothes here which is not produced in China/India/Pakistan/Thailand. (Without going a few hours to the nearest city)

Yes, everybody who works full week should earn enough to make a living. The fact that I'm wearing a t-shirt made in China is mixed up in this in complex ways, but it doesn't change my position.
That's fine. That would be better, obviously, but backups are still encrypted in transit and on the server. There's no way for someone to download and decrypt those backups without access to a device that's signed in to iCloud and, as has been said repeatedly on here, if someone has physical access to the device, there shouldn't be an expectation of security.
Dynamic SQL in Postgres is really frustrating. I understand why. It's because you shouldn't fucking write SQL that writes SQL.

On the other hand, sometimes you just have to. SQL Server . . . I won't say it makes it easy, but it doesn't make it so goddam impossible.

If I lived in a world without Postgres, I would use SQL Server without thinking twice. MySQL/Maria I'm not fond of, and I kind of don't want to touch them. Oracle has some cute features and language extensions, but you have to deal with Oracle.

I can't think of a use case where Postgres falls down compared to other RDBMSs.

What we are seeing is Postgres competing with NoSQL and Mongo-type stuff. With full-text search support for JSONB types, we're looking at Postgres moving into ElasticSearch territory with a vastly more simple deployment model and still carrying ACID guarantees.

It's pretty remarkable.
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Delta miles don't expire.
Sounds like regexes. Now you have two problems.
> I'm a much bigger proponent of languages such as Rust or Haskell which give the developer the _tools_ to ensure their own data integrity, but I guess that says something about me as a developer and why I don't like Golang.

This is a little smarmy, don't you think?

You seem to come ever-so-close to hinting something like "Go isn't fit for writing real applications." Without getting into what exactly a "real application" is, I'll just say I think this suggestion is wrong, unhelpful, elitist, and just generally irritating.
The irony of course being that all the existing social programs which are "nearly impossible to remove" will have to be removed to fund the BI.
Yes, a multi-sig wallet is more secure. With the multi-sig wallets, even if someone infiltrated Coinbase's offline coins, the hacker STILL would not be able to steal the coins. With these new "multi-email" wallets, the hacker would. This is all assuming that the user can manage his two keys better than two email accounts.

In fact, the multi-sig wallets were nice too because you could retrieve your coins even in the case where Coinbase went away completely. e.g. if they pulled a Cryptsy or a BTCe
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Technically not only C anymore, not sure about the C++ frontend specifically, but there is C++ in GCC since... 5? 4?
wow those things look incredibly unsafe
You get a bump from flying more expensive fares for MQMs too, not just straight distance, but not as much as you might like if you're paying 3-4x for a fare...
Would love to use it. But I get this error in Chrome when I try to connect:

> Disconnected from PostgreSQL (Error: Too many result rows to serialize: Try using a LIMIT statement.)

This is on my console (my credentials replaced with ellipses):

~> npx franchise-client@0.2.2
npx: installed 140 in 12.533s
franchise-client listening on port 14645
opened connection
received: {"action":"get_postgres_credentials","id":1}
received: {"action":"open","db":"postgres","credentials":{"id":1,"host":"localhost","user":"...","database":"...","port":"...","autofilled":true,"password":"..."},"id":2}
received: {"action":"exec","sql":"SELECT table_schema, table_name, column_name\n FROM information_schema.columns \n WHERE table_schema not in ('pg_catalog', 'information_schema', 'pg_internal')","id":3}
Error: Too many result rows to serialize: Try using a LIMIT statement.
at Object.query (~/.npm/_npx/736/lib/node_modules/franchise-client/response.js:128:23)
at <anonymous>
at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:188:7)

I ran the SELECT query in Valentina Studio and got 11000+ rows in 4s. Maybe raise the acceptable row count to 100,000?
How come when it comes to the environment/global warming, the predominant approach is "we believe in science", but when it comes to organic foods, GMOs, and vaccines the "science is questionable"?
The json annotation is optional, but very powerful since it allows you to set the mapped name of the field to any name you like, allowing you to map json fields with snake_case, CamelCase, kebab-case, etc.
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I believe the commenter refers to “overnight” as representative of his transformation into a wide national figure, amplified by the explosion of technology during his tenure.
Assuming low-radiation devices can be used, if things get dire then it certainly beats the alternatives.
Safari 11 just came out this week, so you can drop 9.x soon.
> Currently the copyright system has run amuck and become far too creator-centric

That’s not even quite the case. The current system is strongly in favour of the middleman — publishers, music labels and the like. Whether this is a better or worse state of affairs than being biased towards the authors themselves is unclear, but it’s a sufficiently sourced different problem that the solution must also differ
The answer is: they don't care about science in either situation, and to think otherwise is probably to kid yourself.

That said, there's basically no mechanism by which GMOs would be dangerous to human health if the final product does not contain anything unexpected under test.

None of the topics you listed have equivalent conclusive evidence to eachother. For example, the evidence to support the safety of contemporary versions of common vaccines is overwhelming; but when it comes to "organic foods", it depends entirely on the exact specifics of any individual product, from the shape and surface area of the plant, washing practices, specific tendency to absorb or repel specific chemicals (naturally or artificially present) which may not have even been applied to the land for decades (for example, arsenic-based pesticides from old cotton crops leeching into rice crops), the qualities of the soil.

Science isn't a belief, it's a method, and not all conclusions are equally conclusive.
Your entire response seems to be about why you chose document storage instead of relational data. Relational data makes sense most of the time, but not always.

The question, again, is why you'd use MongoDB even for document storage when there are so many alternatives that are safer and better-engineered. Even Postgres has a JSON data type that, by some reports, works better than Mongo and is much safer to use.

Another thread here[1] has gone into some detail about alternatives.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15308214
Aside from those reasons, are there technical reasons for Oracle over Postgres? My coworkers and I want to move our data warehouse over to Postgres and my boss has been warming up to the idea. (I know switching databases with that much data can be complex and troublesome, but those concerns are outside the scope of this question)
I have a Baytrail based Chromebook running GalliumOS (Ubuntu + XFCE) that is good for about 10 hours of usage (in an 11 inch form factor, a larger laptop could accommodate a larger battery). Apollo Lake is rolling out now and should be even better (~30% performance increase should lead to more time idling with the same workload). I'd expect firmware/software support for running generic Linux on it in 6 months or so.

Probably wont hit 20 hours, but I could imagine 12-14, which is pretty respectable.
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isn't the screen the biggest consumer of power for any laptop nowadays? I wonder what's the theoretical maximum battery life you could get out of this sort of setup if you had (say) the current macbook pro battery but the beagleboard
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Sure, but you included Trump himself in that, and with ~63 million votes, he's definitely not a fringe movement.
You may like PostgreSQL Exercises: https://www.pgexercises.com/
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I don't fully get why you seem so upset about it. The OP seems to have made a faithful mistake and it doesn't seem to impact your reputation. Maybe the opposite. Why caring?
MemSQL has in-memory rowstores and disk-based columnstores. Every columnstore table has a rowstore to aid in fast data ingest. Rowstores are meant for access of individual rows, lots of data updates, and smaller reference tables while columnstores are for the bulk of data requiring large scans and analysis. We have tables with 20 billion rows that take up < 10gb of memory.

BigQuery streaming ingest also uses in-memory buffering into BigTable until it's written to disk, just like Cassandra with memtables flushed into on-disk SSTables.

Citus is more manual work than MemSQL and doesnt support columnstores native, although you can use it with their cstore extension to get both. It's just a different design giving you a postgres database that automatically shards vs MemSQL's many optimizations around HA, replication, and very fast analytics performance.

Try the features page: http://www.memsql.com/features/
It's disappointing that pgsql has no index-organized tables aka clustered indexes. They are quite advantageous for a variety of workloads.
Back in 2007, this paper reported that about 20% of US crop production was owed to herbicides: https://croplifefoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/we...

We probably won't get to multiple-resistant weeds in a day, or even a decade, but the path towards stronger weed control measures is going to be a very painful one.
> You get a bump from flying more expensive fares for MQMs too, not just straight distance, but not as much as you might like if you're paying 3-4x for a fare...

Hm, maybe if you're flying first class/Delta One, but I'm pretty sure you don't get any bump from any of the various fare classes that comprise Basic Economy/Main Cabin/Comfort+, even though some are more expensive than others for the same seat.
Nice! But the knobs turn the opposite way the vast majority of music apps do...
Why are you assuming the same person is making both claims?
Another issue with broad bipartisan support among the American people which is yet politically unthinkable. Because freedom? I forget these days why the people can't have what we want.
The vast majority of people I meet who are heavy proponents of organic food and heavy opponents of GMOs don't even go this far. It troubles me how much money is thrown in the trash over this assumption. Interestingly, I also find that these people aren't talking about climate change. However, I suspect that experiences may vary because the GMO/organic people in my life are vegans.
The stream will start today (Friday) somewhere around 10:30 Pacific Time, or 17:30 UTC, or 19:30 Paris, or 02:30 Tokyo (Sat.!).
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The relative velocity's what?
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Users are (almost) always at fault when a car crashes. Should cars not ship with seatbelts or airbags?

User error is a guarantee, and great software minimizes the paths to an error and also eliminates classes of error that are easy to eliminate.
Strontium-90 is, but carbon-14 is formed when nitrogen in the air absorbs a neutron, which could be from either fission or fusion.
Resubmit when the link works.
Here's a perspective from the Austrian school:
https://mises.org/library/truth-about-tulipmania
You can get 80% of the way to Diamond status from AMEX bonuses alone. That’s a bit more than a token gesture.

In my own case I’m approaching Platinum status but wouldn’t have even qualified for Silver if not for the bonus.
I was going to make the same comment. I never heard that the Dutch economy collapsed from the tulip trade. But everything else was confirmed. And just like when the bitcoin bubble bursts, I don't think there will be a collapse in the economy either, but it will definitely be a phenomenon that will be talked about decades later.
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Comfort+ (W+ fare) gives a MQM boost.
What is the "actual" price?

Can you point to a day in the past when bitcoin was at its actual price, instead of in a swing?

How about today's price? Is it in the swing, or is it actual?
Even discounting the possibility of a catastrophic crash bitcoin is a pretty risky investment because it's relatively new and unknown compared to most ways that normal people invest. Nothing wrong with some bitcoin as long as it's only a part of a larger investment portfolio, though.
I believe that NPRs Planet Money did an episode on this a few months ago.
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> Could be just hardware. Could be variables and methods. Could be some form of ontology.
...

> more easily and cleanly dealt with using the idea of "objects".

OK after this sitting in my mind for a bit longer something 'clicked'. What I'm thinking now is that there are many types of 'computer algebra' that can be designed. Data structures and procedures are only one such algebra - but they have taken over almost all of our mainstream thinking. So instead of designing systems with better suited algebra, we tend to map problems back to the DS+procedures algebra quickly. Smalltalk is well suited to represent any computer algebra (given the DS/procedure algebra is implemented in some 'objects', not the core language).

> created large fragile bodies of legacy code that requires experts in the old methods to maintain, fix, extend

If I understand correctly you are saying that better methods would involve objects and 'algebra' that perhaps don't involve data structures and procedures at all, even all the way down for some systems.
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Yes, you have to add the repo, the same as if you wanted the latest postgres bits on any distro. You also have to edit configs for both and you can also choose to install extra tools for both.

I'm surprised at how many people seem to have taken issue with a simple comment. Postgres is easy to install... and now so is MSSQL compared to the complex slow GUI installer they had before. Maybe it'll help the original commenter, maybe not. Let's just leave it at that.
I think all of those services are cloud-based, yeah?

Cloud services are a great option to have available, but there are many reasons organizations choose to manage their own instances... pre-existing infrastructure investment, flexibility, data location and control, cost structure, regulatory requirements, etc.

I read here that Mongo has started a cloud-based offering, but the core of their business competes against other self-managed storage software like MySQL, Postgres, Hadoop, etc.
I'd say the title is absolutely misleading.
what makes it a bad language? have you written much in it? what didn't you like/couldn't you do?
>-Nuclear winter" is a discredited myth propagated by de-nuclearization supporters.

That it's been discredited is the myth actually. Most models indicate some level of global environmental impact. And a large scale exchange of thermo nuclear weapons (hydrogen bombs, not just atomic) would be pretty severe, probably leading to large scale global starvation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter#Recent_modeli...
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goroutines are definitely unique to go.

I'm sure the approach/style has been done before but this implementation is pretty unique to Go.