skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Researchers are now arguing about what this tells us."

Don't we have like tons of history showing us that police doesn't actually exist to fight crime? Not much to argue about, unless you believe in government propaganda.
It would be interesting, but perhaps not terribly useful, to see how sickness absence varies between contract and permanent staff. In the past, when contracting, I have dragged myself to work when feeling dreadful.
> The nihilistic implication that nothing can be done is maddening.

THIS. And in this case we have blatant evidence of negligence- There is absolutely zero excuse in this day and age to not keep operating systems patched up with security patches. There is no financial excuse, there is no logistical excuse, and given the sensitivity of the data, there is no ethical excuse. Take the responsibility seriously, or please just go off and die in a fire. (Or, if you're an Equifax executive, retire at the height of your incompetence.)

Which is why I shamelessly say: Fuck Richard Smith, fuck Equifax, fuck Susan Mauldin, and fuck their entire IT management staff. What the fuck is wrong with you people?

Disclaimer: I was recently hacked/had my identity stolen, and although I was fortunate to only have to wait 2 weeks to get back access to everything, I may be a little sore about stuff like this.
That is a nice looking web page!
> If not, why not?

First most important question to answer: in what way MS SQL Server would be
better than PostgreSQL? Fields to consider:

- Easier to install? (apt-get install postgresql-server)

- Easier to use? (initiating the Sybase client library used to be terrible)
(EDIT: it was installing the client library, not initiating it)

- Easier to manage? (Postgres is excellent in this field)

- Has important functions or features that PostgreSQL doesn't?

- Works significantly faster than PostgreSQL?

Going out of one's way to use third party software needs to give some benefits
to offset the cost of doing so.
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When evaluating risk, I like knowing the absolute consequences, not relative consequences. The abstract has the relative consequences. My comment has the absolute consequences.

Since there are maybe a fixed 230 working days in a year, a thing that takes me from 10 absences to 12 absences is worse for me than a thing that takes me from 1 absence to 2 absences. I'd rather not compare the two as 20% up vs 100% up.

If anyone else felt the same, my comment would help.
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For those looking for a somewhat more reputable source for news on this article, CNN[0] has a good piece.

[0] http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/07/autos/gm-china-electric-car/...
India's Flipkart's Tech
Vespa, using its own malloc: https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa/tree/master/vespamallo...
Because the child's personal computer resides in their room. This means less room (no pun intended) for control over active times, more costs involved because of computers not being shared, and also enforces the child to be excluded from social environment. It is a double edged sword. Both options have their pros and cons, and none is ideal.
In an engineering centric product. Why would a mom and pop email / news / casual gaming portal succeed directly because of good engineering? Time and time again we massively over-play our role in many business stories.
I admit I don't have much experience with web or mobile apps, but I thought that some UI elements like 'pull down to refresh' or 'bottom navigation' [0] are harder to get 100% right in a web app. Am I wrong?

[0] https://m.imgur.com/a/m63BW
Yet bank accounts typically require at least a copy of state-issued ID to open, all without national ID!

Part of the resistance to national ID is also a question of federalism - we do not officially have a 'national government' - we have a 'federal government', even though in practice it is hardly federal anymore.
One thins is that Linux users often have suboptimal graphics drivers installed (probably cause the open source drivers tend to be incomplete/buggy and the official drivers from AMD/nvidia aren't installed by default on most linux distros).

Another is that it's just generally a lot more heterogeneous than windows and mac (lots of different distros with variously up to date libraries, drivers, etc).
Wasn't that Great Filter even tho it might qualify as a Great Filter, I managed to find the paper [0], it's about applying the "Principle of Mediocrity".

[0] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journa...
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it wouldn't surprise many if a FOIA analysis were to discover that this scheduled downtime were to coincide with the peak usage time for prior enrollments
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> Do you have to pay to make it a plex client? Chromecast to? Can you run vlc on it? Can it transcode? Can you run an opensource game on it? Run a decent browser on it? Steam? How about the collection of Classic Atari games?

There are probably hundreds of us!
The article deflates its own headline:

During the slowdown, police continued to respond to calls, and the arrest rate for major crimes (murder, rape, robbery, felony assault, burglary, grand larceny, and grand theft auto) remained constant. But the arrest rate for non-major crime and narcotic offenses dropped, as did the number of stop-and-frisk events.

So the crime that dropped was that which the cops stopped pursuing because there were no calls about it. No action means no official, recordable data.

There's a lot of shady and shoddy data in the social "science" around crime. As has been said more generally, torture the data enough and it will tell you whatever you want to hear. IMHO, the best indicator to look at is murder rate, because there is a body which has to be dealt with and accounted for in the stats, despite any political pressures.
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Funny thing is they used to have interactive charts without Flash. But then I've always felt the janitorial staff worked on google.finance. When companies go out of business or merge they stick around in the site for months sometimes. Or ever try the stock screener? What an unsmiling pile of poor. Yet they have the data and the horsepower to do amazing things with it, but since it apparently makes no revenue, its not worth the effort unless the night cleaning folks feel like writing a little code.
Isn't stuff like that exactly counteracting Rusts raison d'etre?

> // This is safe; nothing else will use or hold onto the raw sock fd.

> Ok(unsafe { net::UdpSocket::from_raw_fd(sock) })

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/crosvm...
In my experience, the tech crowd is pretty average when it comes to social media (ab)use.
> We're all technical folks here. What possible reason could there be to close the site every Sunday morning for 12 hours? In what situation would that ever be the best answer for users?

Database compaction?
Isn't this common knowledge? Kids who go to daycare get more sick in the beginning, less sick in general.
The biggest difference is that Dyson's existing motors are all effectively cooled 'for free' by passing the air that they are blowing through the motor. The biggest difficulty of making a motor really small and powerful is heat dissipation.

With a car the motor can't be cooled in that way (at least not at low speeds and not as easily), so I imagine the design is a bit different.

Incidentally that is why they don't make wet & dry vacuums - in those the air can't go through the motor so it can't cool it.
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Since Rust is one of the most energy efficient languages and also safe, it sounds like a good fit for Google. I always wondered if they would pick it up.
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That's still natural selection, with browser vendors executing the selection part.

The problem with the web is ultimately the same as with everything else in this industry - it's that the fitness function sucks. And that, unfortunately, is caused by economic incentives being broken, which is not a trivially fixable problem.
They also haven't figured out how to tell a laptop is a laptop and there are times when it should NOT be installing the latest patches.
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> and the users are typically non-technical (from "I know how to open Word" to "Where's the 'Any' key?")

This isn't nearly as true as it used to be, because those people are on phones and tablets now. People who actually use desktops fall into one of 3 categories: content creators, office workers, and gamers.

Microsoft has ruined Windows by trying to make it into a webapp with a tablet UI in a vain effort to recapture that audience.

Meanwhile, the Linux Desktop has sacrificed any chance it once had of being decent by constantly sacrificing transparency of operation on the alter of "just works".

So here we are, stuck in a world where a really shitty version of Windows is still just barely the least-worst choice.
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So does everybody. Let’s get rid of international trade.
Outside of general purpose libraries that are found in most software projects it's not based on any existing software. It's built from the ground up by Oath, and the companies that preceded it: Yahoo, FAST, Overture since early-mid 2000s.

This article has some more details about the history: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/26/yahoo-open-sources-vespa-for...

Disclamer: I work on the Vespa team in Trondheim, Norway.
OBJECTION: Whataboutist Fallacy

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

In addition, making a claim from a fresh anonymous account conveys the message that you do not actually stand behind it, giving it zero credence.
Whether you want
Rust to go
or, Go to rust
I would have bet on it. Greater exposure to germs, probably worse hygiene and higher levels of stress.
Looks good but can any React experts comment as to

- whether or not this really uses best practices?

- leverages React to the fullest?
I'm not sure wtf you just said, but I'm pretty sure I agree with it?

Note to people who work in tech: If you are abetting the thought police in China, you are ethically just as bad as they are. Act accordingly. Resist authoritarianism everywhere it appears and don't think for even a second that if you are a good leftist that the other "good leftists" (there is no such thing in reality) will spare your life. It always goes bad and then the mass murders begin.
People being off for stress related illness doesn't necessarily protect them from future stress (unless their treatment includes resilience). It also increases pressure on colleagues, increasing their risk of stress related illness.
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> This is a little difficult on Windows or POSIX systems.

How so ? it's not like you are using the Win32 or POSIX APIs in 2017 anyways
Is there a webinar for webtraining webtrepreneurs how to use a webstation? ;)
Either the Jaguar CD[0] or Flashback[1], depending on how flexible you are with the "atari made" part.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Jaguar_CD
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Flashback
The problem is not so much factual/nonfactual content as the opinion and contextualisation, as well as the choice of stories. You can generally tell the stuff that's at least trying to be an objective report because it's syndicated AP/newswire content and is substantially identical across the different news sites.

But there's no real boundary between that and the opinion.

e.g. opinion: http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/09/26/tucker-carlson-battles...

news: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/09/27/mortar-rounds-land-a...

(both items selected from the Fox front page above the fold at time of writing)

The simple act of deciding what is and is not "newsworthy" is not objective and cannot be made objective. So truly objective news is impossible.
> People NEED an alternative to Facebook messenger, Facebook WhatsApp, closed source Viber and Telegram

In a broad sense, they don't actually - being pretty much happy with all these messengers.
People are going to be people, regardless of what a government does.

Those behaviours can be associated with a certain socio-cultural origin, but on the list of reasons I'd say "internet censorship" is down the list
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Not a safe subset anyone would want to use at least. You could just not use pointers in your code and you'd have memory safety.
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> With NoSQL, the key/values are a lot simpler to replicate apparently.

If all you need is a key/value store, I can see how that simplifies replication. Eg, if you have the key "foobar" and a 12-node cluster, you convert it to a number using a hash function, do "module 12", and that tells you which node to store the value on. If you want to store it on 2 nodes, do this again with a second hash function.

That's lovely - as long as you don't need to join records, and never will. It's a risky prediction.
It it talks, it takes too much time to parse, and it becomes too specific.

Pictures, maybe with a max 0.5 sec animation are okay, and no sound. (At least that's my hunch.)
Can AI be the key to human-centric organizations?
Because HN is actively policing "dangerous viewpoints" as well? Things are further down the rabbit hole than you may perceive you know.
but what about anything that is > 100% of my attention span?
What forced Microsoft to clear up its act, was the feedback at GDC and similar events, nothing to do with SteamOS.

The very fact that Asus and others never really bothered that much to sell Steam Machines, shows how much market relevant it was.
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We are talking about America, not the UK. "Sundays, 12am-12pm" has a well established meaning in the US. It's ambiguity in the UK (or elsewhere) is irreverent to a US audience.

We should all move to 24 hour time, yes, there's absolutely no disagreements from me there. AM/PM confusion is completely unnecessary.

However, 24 hour time is not used for anything in the US outside of a few industries (military, aviation, probably transportation). Not even train or bus schedules are given to the public in 24 hour time in the US (in my experience). If you used 24 hour time for anything at all while communicating with the general public you will confuse people. Especially the elderly. 00:00 is complete jibberish to the average American, so in this case they did the right thing given the audience.

We do some (paper) logging at work and a (larger than I imagined) percentage of the workforce (including most people older than 50%) were very, very confused by it. (Even though the instructions are the very simple "if it's after noon add 12 to the hour.")
Comments like this remind me why I rarely browse hn.

How does this administration hate the American people?
I read all your comments here so far. My problem is that (at least for us here at HN) there is no clear call to action. Maybe you could re-iterate what skills/things you need help with. I would gladly offer my support in these domains: http://generativestuff.com/sparring/
The default is safe ownership semantics. Using unsafe blocks on occasion when it makes sense is an important feature.

The important bit to me is that the default pointer type and the standard library don't start you out on the wrong foot.
Some banks offer virtual credit card numbers for one time use. It works great online.

There are phone payment methods like Apple Pay and whatever Google uses that protect your identity. The burden should be on the providers of these services to secure themselves.
The report rates also dropped. You just cherry picked to attack the article here.
No! Unsafe code is perfectly reasonable in rust, it’s just totally clear where it is and can be reviewed to make certain it’s safe.
This is a quintessential example of not basing policy on evidence of harm. Any decision that affects others (such as policy) should be empirically-based, or risks being simply wrong/bad (as I would surmise it is, in this case).
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> You really think that Twitter should be censoring the president of the United States?

Given his output that frequently and flagrantly breaks their TOC? Yes. And I'd go further - they should permaban him for the things he's repeatedly said over the last 5 years.
It is kind of funny how software engineers can engage in lengthy discussion about tooling. Imagine the same for architects. Instead of looking at the building they would talk about the type of hammer they used while building it.
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Yes, there is definitely a "monkey sphere" phenomenon going on, but when a couple billion people still live behind the Iron Curtain and US media abets the crime, you have to wonder. I despise Google and all the other western corporations for not upholding western standards of openness and dialog--along with the scientific method, it is all that humanity has to move forward with.
Cory Doctorow's first book, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, is about a society in which everyone is pretty much immortal thanks to brain back up technology. I would definitely add him to the list.

Also:
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Yeah and the whole point of the article is to discuss why. Thanks for your contribution anyways
- A slight increase in resolution so that the defaults are once again pixel-doubled.

- FaceID

- 32gb ram, I guess. I'd buy it if available, but if not... meh.

I like the new keyboard. I don't care one way or the other about the touch bar.
Well, for a fleet of refrigerators, it might be nice to have a place to see data from the entire fleet. Power requirements, temperature, failures or failure indicators, etc.

A large supermarket would most likely want something like that. With serial ports, they'd have to design a system themselves, including the boxes to attach to the individual serial ports.

Of course, for a technically skilled individual, a serial port is much preferable.
Yeah nah it's going to bomb. Ouya 2.0 but with a nostalgic brand attached. To actually sell in any worthwile amount a console NEEDS to have a proper developer support. And I mean BIG developer, not a bunch of indie studios porting their preexisting products to linux.
Of course they haven't turned good. "Open Source" is a buzzword in business right now and just like "cloud" the intended audience for the word has no idea what it actually means.
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In regards to the "broken windows" model of policing, which sounds eerily like Kristallnacht:

"But the authors argue that the data suggests the opposite is true. “The results,” they write, “imply that aggressively enforcing minor legal statutes incites more severe criminal acts.” Rather than proactive policing deterring major crime, Sullivan and O’Keeffe think it’s more likely that this kind of aggressive enforcement “disrupts communal life, which can drain social control of group-level violence.” In other words, overly aggressive policing brings a level of social disruption that actually leads to more crime—and the reduced proactive policing during the slowdown produced a calming effect."

Emphasis, mine.

Link to Nature article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41562-017-0211-5
You're right.

This seems like a hard problem, esp. since OP is so emphatic that $300 is preferrable to $500. Let me see if I can figgure this out for us both.

1 child x $500 = $500

1-or-more x $500 = $500-or-more

Oh! That must be it! This solution would be more expensive to implement, and therefore, since cost is a factor, this solution would be less preferable!

Glad I took the time to work this one out, I certainly was very confused as well.
I don't care if heathcare.gov goes down. Heath will just have to be on his own.

If healthcare.gov goes down, though...
It isn't clear to me how that is supported. Are you saying rates of short-term and long-term sickness ought to have the same correlation with office layout? Why?
At least Fuji and Olympus have realised the new model cycle is getting longer so they are releasing new firmware features until the replacing model is launched.

Canikon aren't doing new features in firmwares, seems more like bug fixes and Sony is somewhere inbetween at least with the A7-series...

Sony A7 series have also some kind of small apps you can buy and download from their store to your camera. Haven't seen that many apps there =(
I thought they added a switchable global shutter mode, no? Maybe i'm getting it confused with another model. Probably!

I'm only now looking into DSLR's for a low-light option. Funnily enough, the ones that stand out to me are the Samsung NX1 and the Fuji XT2. Samsung oddly has great motion cadence, but awful macro-blocking. Fuji, unsurprisingly, has beautiful colours. Unfortunately both are only 8 bit, which is kind of a deal-breaker for me.

As an aside, how rare and cool to get to geek out on Hacker News over this stuff!
This article doesn't even answer its own question of "how".

For those interested in the topic, I highly recommend Connie Bruick's Predators' Ball and Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis.

> Adam Smith, the father of modern capitalism

I hope we can stop conflating free markets for capitalism. Capitalism is to free markets what communism is to socialism. Adam Smith was very much focused on free markets, not capitalism. The author of the article, makes it clear later with

> Adam Smith, who believed that for markets to work, all players must have equal access to information, transparent prices and a shared moral framework
I saw the flash player alert yesterday and thought my computer was infected by some malware! I can't believe Google doesn't have a chart control to put there.
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well, as was reported by one individual, that moving away from their bed caused the noise to stop and moving back to their bed caused them to hear the noise again, might possibly rule this out.
In a previous job we had a central master MSSQL database and several replicas of this database globally. This was all run on Windows (obviously) Were I still there, and were this arrangement still in effect, I would certainly be interested in migrating the installations on Windows to installations on CentOS, if only to make the server fleet that much more homogenous.

So, to answer the question, to eliminate Windows server installations in a predominantly Linux environment, yes.
Apple is being sued for patent infringement by a Native American tribe
You know... there's a difference between "(...) with people on ARM, Google, Apple, Blommberg, Sony, IBM, Microsoft's payroll?" and "people on Google payroll". In one case you have many companies cooperating, in the other - just one company.
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From what I can tell, that idea came from some HN users' guess when the licence matter was posted here.