skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue that we're more an oligarchy than a democracy. Yea we technically allow for a democracy but the reality is that someone with good ideas and no money is going to lose vs someone with bad ideas but a lot of money.

Especially with our first past the post voting system and the two parties ignoring the plebs whenever they decide on a candidate, ala the DNC pushing Hilary over Bernie. Trump getting picked when the Republican establishment didny want was probably the most democratic part of the previous election, but it wouldn't have happened if he was not independently wealthy
Pretending that cultural differences don't exist on this planet is just plain silly. It's sad to see this level of virtue signalling on HN.
At the risk of being trendy, I'd wager the credit bureaux 2.0 (3.0?) involves blockchain.
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Seriously though, the existence of nocturnal animals kinda puts that argument to bed. While there might be selection pressure to specialise within day or night cycles, it's simply not plausible that no animal, in the vastness of the biospehere, has not generalised to do both, without some critical and fundamental flaw.
It's been a while since I used it, but Revel[0] is almost within the same family as Rails. The developers of Revel say they're inspired by the Play Framework.

Another option that looks nice is the Buffalo[1]. It's a collection of libraries that are built to play nice with each other, but you don't have to use all of them as a bundle. You can use only the layers you want.

[0] https://revel.github.io/

[1] https://gobuffalo.io/docs/getting-started
Review increases German acid attacks.

Then review increases Swedish acid attacks.

Focusing on just the UK as if it was some mystically isolated scenario is intentionally skewing the statistics and the discussion to allow for demographic plausible deniability.

I'm not here to assert the correctness of my position, for the record, especially since I've already pointed out one only has to look at similar cases from Germany and Sweden. I've already placed my bets on the inevitable rise of European private prisons within the next ten years.
What's the basis for that presumption? Are you arguing humans evolved during that period to be less affected by the natural chemicals? Are you invoking some kind of gaia hypothesis? A chemical is a chemical whether it's natural or synthetic, there are plenty of natural chemicals which will easily kill you. If anything novel synthetics that have been through a rigorous regulatory review process should seem safer than natural chemicals whose toxicity has been less well studied.
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What's to debate? There's a perfectly reasonable explanation for why product grouping was observed, and that explanation is far more plausible than imagining terrorists are ordering supplies from Amazon. Something something Occam. All we're left with is what you've observed.

Or did I completely miss the point you're trying to make?
>The american media were bad before Trump, and they have remained bad as far as I can tell. They completely fail to disentangle the serious from the merely ridiculous.

The issue here is, you paint too broad a brush saying this.

I don't want this to seem like I am aiming this at you necessarily, because I am more just piggy backing a comment to write about rather than aiming this at you so take the rest of the comment with that in mind.. but..

You can follow particular journalists that have a high reputation, and disregard ones that have a bad reputation without disavowing all journalists and the media in general.

Similarly, you can treat bias in journalism the same way you treat a review - you know what journalists see things particular ways and therefore view their slant on things as a bent on an already established world view. Some journalists are so unbiased that you can almost ignore this. Some journalists are so biased you can use them as the canary in the coal mine for how a segment of a population is likely to view the issue etc etc.

There are majority mediocre people in every profession, media is an industry that has picked up a huge proportion of hacks and automated articles in the past 10 years, instead of viewing it as an overall industry - look for the good ones and the interesting ones, not just "all media bad".
What happens if I try to insert into a master partition table, and there are no child tables that can store my data?

For example, data is partitioned by month, and I have no table for the month in the data I'm trying to insert.
And yet, I'm not aware on any current cryptocurrencies that implement bounded estimator-based stabilization - not trying to be snarky, but stablecoins will indeed be pretty useful, if you think bounded estimator-based inflation would be "good enough" for stabilization, fork bitcoin (or build it on top of ethereum, idk if it's possible) and you'd have produced something valuable
Yup - I totally agree with your point.

It has been entertaining watching the points on my comment slide up and down between positive and negative territory. As you can imagine, "men" and "women" are heavy descriptors. Heck, I can imagine someone taking issue with "grown".
Sometimes people do a conference talk or just share the screen, and it's easy to take picture of that URL.
The Obama administration spent taxpayer money to try to knock out Netanyahu in the Israeli elections. Doesn't anyone care about that?
I appreciate the ruthless design choices behind Go. Crafting a language so there are as few ways as possible, and preferably one, to solve a problem must be beautiful at a large scale organization. In my experience java codebases in big companies are nightmare factories because of the freedom you get from more similar languages. The Go dream of having a single decent solution to a problem instead of 20 that range from bizarre to really clever sounds like heaven.

I wish I had more time to take a serious stab at learning it.
Oh, I am not saying it's a good practice at all. I was just answering the question.

I still think it's a low-friction solution. But a secure one -- hardly.
No -- you've got the roles reversed: the claim is that he will be imprisoned if he assaults the insulter, claiming that the insulter provoked him with "fighting words"
Accredited by who? A group of corporate employees pretending to be journalists handing each other accreditation is meaningless.
I'd take some of their claims with a grain of salt. The OISM appears to have many crackpot types associated with it.
> async/await, classes, arrow functions, etc. However, despite the fact that all modern browsers can run ES2015+ code and natively support the features I just mentioned

What is everyone's cutoff for de-supporting a browser? According to caniuse.com[1], >30% of browsers don't support the mentioned feature-set; that seems like … a lot.

(<script type="module"> is listed at 60% unsupported, which seems very high, but his point that if you allow it, you should allow everything else mentioned seems sound. I also heavily agree w/ his point about delivering modern JS, and letting end consumers transpile as needed.)

[1]: https://caniuse.com/#feat=async-functions
just wikipedia
Think a little more broadly here. If he thinks that someone would be justified in throwing a punch if he insults their mother, then he presumably thinks that he would be justified in throwing a punch in the opposite situation.
True. I am not saying it's the best idea around, only that it's low friction. I'd probably approach it differently but I can see why they did it like they did.
> Why do people still choose MySQL/MariaDB/Oracle over PostgreSQL at all?

Oracle: because the enterprise is its own unique beast. Companies frequently stick to what they know and have invested into, so long as it still works. Enterprise customers buy/adopt software in a very different way than everyone else.

MySQL: if you've got a history with the product and it works well for what you're doing, there is absolutely no necessity-based reason to switch to PostgreSQL. You should switch from MySQL to PostgreSQL if there's a very good reason/s to, a meaningful gain to be had, it's that simple. Otherwise, it's unnecessary optimization. There are a vast number of considerations when operating a business, upgrading to the latest & greatest (speaking very broadly) just to do it, is not a good reason most of the time. There should be a specific prompt to action based on a gain/s or capability that PostgreSQL provides you, in/for your use case, over eg MySQL.
I don't understand your point - the thread is about the issue in the UK - it could be completely different to the issue in other places. Your assertion that it has to be the same is, quite frankly, naive - existing crime levels, media exposure, existing acid attacks could all make the situation massively different.

Sounds to me like you are saying you have no evidence for that claim.
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I have the same one. It's been great w/ crouton (although crouton chromium is noticeably slower than chrome from the "native" os). It's a great, slim beast for $500, I paid the higher price to get it earlier as my primary "home" laptop, and I love it. It's bridging me quite nicely until apple either zigs or zags on their laptop line.
I'm Matt Kroll.
I can confirm I was never Head of Sales at MongoDB.
And I can confirm (as anyone can see on LinkedIn.com) that I departed MongoDB for Google to continue to work as an Enterprise sales rep.
> Compared to Mysql and Postgres, it does have an out-of-the-box partitioning scheme,

Both MySQL and PostgreSQL support out-of-the-box partitioning. Are you referring to sharding?
I miss XtraNormal, the videos have a special deadpan quality to them.
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Mmm, but it's the same for MySQL, no? Whenever we change a column in one of our tables (pretty big), the whole server hiccups for several seconds. We're using Google's Cloud SQL.

At least PostgreSQL allows you to wrap schema changes in BEGIN/COMMIT/ROLLBACK transactions, unlike MySQL.
The US political alt-right narrative doesn't translate well to the UK, there were many news stories about the acid attacks and the TL:DR; was that these attacks used to be directed towards women in conservative muslim immigrant communities but these days it's just a convenient weapon for gang activities and jealous or vindictive lovers - immigrant or not.

Why it is a convenient weapon? Cheap to buy and readily available, easy to carry around in a bottle and completely legal(I think that part is changing).

Some Immigrant neighbourhoods being poor is nothing new, and poor neighbourhoods suffering from criminal activities is again nothing original. Again, these neighbourhoods are not new and the immigrants hadn't moved there recently. So it doesn't look like some kind of immigrant critical mass was reached and they start throwing acid.

So no, you hadn't uncover a mystery or spoken the words that nobody dares to.

My guess would be that someone used acid for their criminal activities and had positive(from offender POV) results and it spread out as MOW.
Additionally, they will have to wait until January to get your bitcoin cash from the fork!
Did you actually read the article? It says that two-thirds of the victims in Britain are men while, globally, most are women. It's not about women in the UK.
I don't remember the source but a quick search of distribution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_London#/media/File:Is...

and acid attacks:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/hd-map-a...

Again - I'm sure you could locate the source or find much more recent maps to show the correlation. The borough with the second highest Muslim population currently has the highest number of Acid attacks.
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"The global pattern is very much males attacking young women and girls, relating to rejected sexual advances or marriage proposals or dowry-related attacks," he says.

But most of the attacks in the U.K. are random and are often connected to robberies or gang violence. Many of the perpetrators are in their teens."

I don't follow how we can lay the responsibility for this increase in attacks at the feet of people from the Middle East coming to the UK if the motives are so different. The method is the same but the motivation is fundamentally different.

Perhaps the simpler explanation -- that it's a method of assault that is easier to get away with, has lighter sentences if caught and is not illegal to carry the weapon -- is more likely.
Also, self-interest is involved in maintaining the minimum wage, since people may imagine that if wages are dragged down at the lower end, it may pull them down at higher levels too. Minimum wages in other countries don't matter, since they have no intention of working in those countries.

Do people care if wages are higher than they should be, according to supply and demand, and causing some underemployment? Even economists don't seem to agree on the effect of minimum wages. Generally, I'd guess people want more pay for themselves, up to the point that they genuinely fear their own unemployment. It seems that both employees and employers prefer to keep wages a bit over the equilibrium level.
I wonder if they are considering weather as part of the equation? DFW has very nice summers and the week of winter is pretty nice. Lots of land, plenty of wind power, great highways system, lots of talent. Seriously, why would they even consider any where else when more Companies on the S&P 500 call Texas home then any other state.

It's their loss if they go anywhere else.
I think you're the person that sold a startup for a lot of money; I recall the SN.

You realize that flying charter is well out of reach for most, right?

Let me explain.

Let's take your example of flying first. If I booked a first-class ticket right now from DFW to ORD, it will likely cost me $2,000. My fiancee and I are going to Barcelona in a year (BCN), and I wanted us to fly first/business round-trip. Doing that without miles would have cost me >$20,000. Very few people can drop that on a flight. (It's also not worth it, but that's neither here nor there. You are better off booking at least a week in advance and buying upgrade tickets, since hardly anyone pays for first class outright anymore, which is why its a dying product.)

A similar charter flight on something like NetJets or any fractional broker would cost >$6,000/ticket in the domestic example and probably >$30,000-$50,000 for international travel. You can reduce that cost by knowing folks with jets (not many own one, given that they cost at least $30M, hangar, maintenance and fueling costs notwithstanding), but even then, it's an uneconomical proposition for most people.

With that, let's talk about the "hassle" that is TSA.

It's been a long time since I've waited more than 15 minutes in line for security. Most of my jaunts through these lines take 5-10 minutes, tops. How?

1) Sign up for Precheck. It's $89/5 years. It's very little money for a LOT of convenience.

2) Sign up for CLEAR. It's $139/year, but comes in handy in a BIG way at airports that have it. (The Precheck line at BWI on a Thursday is exceptionally large most of the time, but having CLEAR lets me cut it and save me at least 10 minutes.)

Admittedly, this only really works if you fly a lot.

3) If you know what to pack, you won't get stopped. TSA makes these guidelines very, very clear. The only time I've gotten stopped consistently was when I brought a bottle of Tend Skin that leaked all over my duffle (that I had to throw out). I got stopped today because I had three laptops on me and forgot to take one out, but getting through that took less than five minutes.

Also, I would imagine that unless you have your own jet and aren't Ubering it out, flying private has limitations of its own given that charter airlines don't have the capacity the bigger companies do, so you're beholden to hoping that you can get a flight out that day on the aircraft that you want.

Despite having said all of this, when I can afford it, I'll fly charter one of these days just to say I did it. However, I really enjoy the song and dance that is going through the airport at peak hours and airport food tastes good, most of the time.
I think that's a great comparison. Some people love Perl and some hate it, but there's no denying it was a tremendously important language in the 90s. The duct tape of the Internet.

(I don't happen to like either Perl or Go myself! But I think I can see why others do.)
Out of curiosity, what is your take on clojure then ?
Best thing would probably be a lot of water. Here's a video of someone willingly pouring 98% sulfuric acid onto their hand, they just wash it off: https://youtu.be/XeVZQoJ5FdE?t=284 . Plus, if someone pours a random liquid onto you, it's kind of hard to know if it's water, acid, lye...
Having dealt with enough spaghetti code over the years (just a few of industry experience, and some more years of academia), I understand what Go's strengths are. It's an opinionated language that stops users from being too clever or writing code that's too complex.

That said, I've always hated the trends that have brought Golang into popularity. The engineers I've felt who could benefit from Golang the most could also benefit by getting a better handle on their fundamentals and taking a moment to design their codebase more. 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. It's a great alternative to JS (again imo), but not something I'd like to write.

We shouldn't need to treat the developer like a toddler to get them to write safe code. 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.
Yes, and that is the only part that is accurate. If you look at my LinkedIn profile, you will see that I was NEVER Head of Sales at MongoDB.
Jumping to conclusions that fit your anti-immigrant racial prejudice, pretending that it’s actually about “cultural differences”, complaining about “virtue signalling”. It’s like playing a game of alt-right bingo here.
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AGW is happening now, so unfortunately we're getting the opportunity to test the models. And carbon levels, and climate, have both varied in the past, albeit a lot more slowly. Those variations can be used to tune some aspects of our current models.

It's a valid point of discussion, but unfortunately almost everyone opposed to climate action is anti-scientific and political in their motivations, and usually duplicitous about it. Which causes people to lose their cool.

Most actual climate scientists, on the other hand, are more than happy to entertain honest skepticism. It's integral to science.
Fair.

But most schools aren't, and they aren't going to roll out those procedures unevenly.
No, down the wells and things, in the cracks, where you expect to find things, not just lying around.
tourism seems the obvious answer.
This argument has no foundation in logic. There is a subset of people who are fine with paying those taxes and do not care how the intermediary recipients of those funds spend them.
You can't bake this into NumPy without a compiler or JIT. Python calls don't "know" about each other. The only way to do it would be to have a function that returns both the max and the min.
Matt - you posted on linkedIn that you left Mongo for Google a few weeks ago. What part is false?
See this discussion also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15258166
>because of the freedom you get from more similar languages.

Is this lack of freedom a good thing?
JDK9 brings a C1 and C2 JIT compiler for ARM targets without needing an Oracle licence (IANAL). Should be able to get much better performance on ARM now - previously it was interpreted unless you used a custom build with the AArch32 project's C1 JIT.
If their goal was to be innovative and bring new ideas to the programming world, you could argue that they failed.

But their goal was to make it easier for people to do large scale distributed system programming. In that, they succeeded.
True, but I suspect they wouldn't be buying it on Amazon. The retail market means you need to look at hobbyist uses, not industrial.
> the 49% are building on both their blocks and the other miners' blocks, whereas the 51% are only building on their blocks.

They are building on some of their blocks and some of the other miner's blocks. This doesn't make them faster.

Whenever a 49%er mines a block, there is a temporary fork. The 49% and the 51% start mining on two completely separate branches, both of which progress at half speed. Eventually the 51% branch is longer, and the 49% discard their previous work and switch to it. So the 49% were using their blocks, and now they are using the 51% blocks, but never both at the same time.

The canonical blockchain does not progress at full speed. Half the blocks that get mined eventually become orphans.

It would be impossible for the 49% to build on everyone's blocks, because the 51%-created blocks are always mutually incompatible preexisting 49%-created blocks.

> This, of course, is assuming that the 51% doesn't create blocks considered invalid on the other chain.

Yes, of course.
> Google software is practically a non-starter

And what was chosen instead that had a significantly easier uptake for "seniors" ?
it's just for fun.
Cetaceans (dolphins and whales) have a complicated arrangement for sleep, where they sleep one half-brain at a time.
>What are the best use cases nowadays for Mongo?

Prototyping apps with little relational data.

Logging.
If you don't care about reliability, you can't beat the speed of /dev/null.
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Is there some reason that a bank safety deposit box isn’t the gold standard?
Roulette tree (rtree): a data structure to speed up evolutionary algorithms
The sitting President of the United States is a fringe movement? How does that make any sense?
Really, the solution is just to make cross compiling as easy as any other kind. Compilation is basically a pure function, so by rights compilers with different targets should be drop-in replacements of each other.
Back when I ran a larget critical mongo setup, developers had all sorts of problems due to bad poor transactional support.

Why wouldn't you just use postgres with jsonb data type?
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Of course, but the overriding self interest here is wanting to not be inconvenienced by seeing the poor, not some altruistic idea that everyone who works a full week deserves a wealthy Western-style "living wage." Just starting with the notion that 70% of the world's population lives on less than $10 per day should shine some serious light on how silly the idea is that there's enough resources and money on the planet for everyone to live a lifestyle commensurate with Western "living wage." There's a lot of talk about the 1% lately... if you're in Australia, or America, etc. you're almost certainly in the global 1%, even if you're relatively "poor."
This generic handler turns out to parse the unsanitized user input as OGNL markup

The article is pretty dense and I don't understand this point. I can maybe understand why you'd want to parse the output of an exception message, but why would you ever want to be executing what you parse?
>Jumping to conclusions that fit your anti-immigrant racial prejudice, pretending that it’s actually about “cultural differences”, complaining about “virtue signalling”. It’s like playing a game of alt-right bingo here.

You forgot to call me a "Nazi" and "bigot" and "facist" and all the other things you ANTIFA folks call those who have different opinions than yourselves.