skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If someone was working on privileged information (financials etc) then yeah it's probably not great to look at the screen, but if everyone is working on the same projects, then there shouldn't be any restrictions.

Personally, I'm the only one I work with to have my screens facing out to the public eye. Hiding behind screens just invites distractions. There's nothing that could be on my screens that is sensitive enough to hide. Even if other developers saw what was there, the worst that could happen would be 5 minutes trying to explain what a specific core function did, and an hour wasted trying to get out of a trivial one sided conversation about conspiracies all stemming from how their component doesn't handle multibyte characters and how they have to strip them out (yeah don't ask, just don't... best not to).
I was actually in the room listening as the question came up to the team that makes this tool, its not off the table at all.

The value to them is Azure, which hosts open source databases, why not give your customers the decent tooling at the same time?

You'll even find things in the tool that reference non-Microsoft language, eg the button generally labeled "Estimated Execution Plan" in SQL Server Management Studio is labeled "Explain".

The methodology behind the plugin absolutely allows abstracting out the MSSQL specific components, its just an open source fork of VS Code.
Starbuck with more caffeine never mentioned in these propaganda pieces
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> I still wonder why Google sold Boston Dynamics

It's a money pit, albeit a cool one. But that doesn't matter. Ruthless doesn't see the coolness, just the dollar signs.

> and no other transportation or defense manufacturer scooped them up

See "money pit." Defense manufacturers are all about how to extract money from the government, and this doesn't do that for at least 10 more years. Transportation is already a cut-throat industry built around fees and doublespeak, so... no joy there either.

Boston Dynamics needs a R&D friendly rich company to leech off while doing their work, which could cost upward of a billion dollars over the next five years. Softbank, from what I can tell, is pretty much exactly that - they're willing to invest in Uber for goodness sake...
Check them out on http://magiccards.info There are online stores linked there that would buy them from you also.
This is a very underrated comment.

The second point, that the FCC is not the correct body, was something I had never thought of before. Why is the FCC trying to make anti-trust rules? The FDA doesn't make anti-trust rules for companies it oversees.
Not all medicine is practised within the legal framework that you labour under. If you are a doctor then you should be able to publish your real opinions here, within reason (prefaced with a short disclaimer if you deem it necessary, I would, along the lines of "I'm a MD, practising in <country> and this my personal opinion") and I, for one, would love to hear them.
I just logged an issue suggesting a change of license: https://github.com/Microsoft/sqlopsstudio/issues/102
Depends on the language. Never encountered a C++ or C compiler bug, but I've hit 2 separate & nasty Python runtime environment bugs (one that caused a segfault because of some memory trampling from having too many file descriptors open, and one edge-case sorting bug).
The interdependency of technology between cities, states and nation-states shouldn't be underestimated. How many books are available today that can describe how to make a semiconductor? Will these books survive? How about the process to create pure silicon? Or the lithography necessary to create CPUs? And with multiple nuclear detonations, the likelihood of EMP effects is high; this will cripple civilization as much as any explosions or fallout.

Sure, technology can survive; witness the gunsmiths in the Hindu Kush who can recreate a functioning Enfield rifle (or ak-47) from scrap metal. But the world would be set back at least 100 years or more, and much knowledge would be lost because of poor archiving, poor dissemination, and the death of experts who are invaluable.
I don't think it's a specific technology that made me the most money. Rather, skills like the demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly has been far more useful. In particular I have been hired at jobs where I knew neither the domain nor much of the technology stack.

In general I think programmers overestimate the value of knowing specific technologies, and underestimate other skills (for example, more here on how productivity takes far more than knowledge of technology: https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/10/04/technical-skills-pro...).
Music from Earth – list of songs on the Golden Record attached to Voyager 1
If I hadn’t worked in precisely that field and seen how easily we gave out data sharing agreements to partners, ...

But I did. No, I use the word “trivial” knowingly.
> This is psychological warfare to extract money from people and sell them on unregulated, virtual gambling, often including targeting children. These companies are indeed taking out patents on methods for how to push people over the edge and nudge them more towards being comfortable taking out their wallet just to have fun in video games. As a gamer, I find this a disgusting perversion of a hobby I've had since a child. Some of you may argue that they've done nothing illegal, but from a more innocent viewpoint, they are taking the most popular themes and IPs and holding them hostage, squeezing them just to pad the bottom line.

“Tapped In: How EA Combined The Simpsons and Video Gambling to Make $130 Million (and counting)” is a 10,000 word mini-book that attempts to explain how “freemium” games like The Simpsons: Tapped Out have more in common with video gambling than they do with traditional video games."

https://deadhomersociety.com/tapped-in/
Trust me, I know. I was answering the question of why a solution to a very hard problem in one space sees pervasive application, and a similarly impressive solution in robotics gets no interest beyond backfliping robots on youtube.
Ssms has menus and GUIs and such for all the non database SQL Server items like SSIS, SSAS (full cube browser), SQL agent, CLR, plus creating more advanced objects like Credentials and application roles and scenarios like suggesting indexes and performing DB maintenance.

This is purely a database development tool, at least in its current form.
Maybe it's just me, but I don't think basing a whole book on a sparsely-documented SoC from a notoriously proprietary company is a great idea at all. There are plenty of other ARM processors with far more documentation available, and if your goal is to teach how computers work from the hardware up, also plenty of other much simpler and equally well-documented microcontrollers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy

Not sure if that adds much to the conversation, it is a v. common shorthand to use linux for gnu + linux.
Alas, I am not. Thanks for the offer.
[technical-discuss] UN-pluggable consensus
What the original paper really needs is an extension to the world of the spooky and quantum. Right!?
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There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.

A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

given memories, things, and time.
https://rust.godbolt.org/ is good for playing around with this stuff: https://godbolt.org/g/9TgVXg
Same here. Zoom has been great for our company. We found google hangouts to be very unreliable and buggy (audio constantly not working, pixelated videos, etc). Zoom has a free tier for calls up to soemthing like 45 min. Most of our company is on the free tier and we have pro accounts for the sales and account teams who spend more time on calls. The zoom rooms (for conf rooms) is a bit pricier but you can use your own hardware.
They recently started putting a good amount of affiliate products in-line with their other articles. Flat out deceptive titles leading you to believe they were reviews or viral content.
You're probably referring to factoring, you're right... age-old product. The opportunity here is to bring sales & customer success automation to the unsexy accounting world.
Any Jitsi users out there? I found the demo rather flaky, but haven't installed my own server yet.
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Shock as $140m bike-share startup CEO goes AWOL ahead of impending collapse
and add to it simulated knee breaking... might have a product idea here.
The 2ndQuadrant team is building OmniDB: https://github.com/OmniDB/OmniDB
No, not if your language has totality checking like Idris, Agda, Lean, etc. Granted, it can sometimes be finicky to prove totality - the type checker naturally has to be a little conservative due to the impossibility of solving the halting problem, but for most things with array bounds checking it shouldn't be an issue.
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We didn't solve alcoholism by outlawing alcohol, we are only really recovering from that product by creating a culture of respect and social norms, which means we need to critically think about how we're spending our time and the signs of any manipulation as a part of becoming an adult.
I dunno, it's actually exciting imo. Means we've got more speed to see yet from Rust! :)
Well Microsoft does offer PostgreSQL on Azure from what I can tell... https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/postgresql/
Very cool thanks for sharing. One of those things that is non obvious until you read it, then totally obvious.
> rewards positive social outcomes and disincentivises negative social outcomes

Therein lies the problem. Who is to decide what is a social positive or negative among some of the more nuanced and innocuous bits of society?

This is not a road we should travel down any further than we have already.
These discussions have some options:

Google Data Studio | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15446049 (Oct 2017, 228 comments)

PopSQL – Modern, collaborative SQL editor for your team | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15377339 (Oct 2017, 49 comments)

Franchise – An Open-Source SQL Notebook | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15303833 (Sep 2017, 63 comments)
I'm interested, can you please elaborate on the changes you noticed?
terrible Linux support. Its hard to understand how a company whose products are built on a Linux platform and who use dogfood this product for all their internal needs, doesn't have good Linux support.
And I completely agree. That's why I said the post"...has a valid core idea. Politicians often cherrypick science that agrees with their ideology to further their agenda."

But I'm sorry the sentence I quoted isn't blatant crankery but it is loaded with conspiracy innuendo.
Back to basics and primate dominance behavior?
Could you please post civilly and substantively here, or not at all?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Because hangouts is buggy as hell. Just this morning, I was on a call with folks who could hear me, but I couldn’t hear them. They even closed their browser and tried to login again. No luck! Hangouts is never my first choice for a conference call.
They discuss photo and video storage on iCloud specifically:

> Apple’s iCloud Photo Library is a cloud-based solution for photo and video storage. However, due to Apple’s strong commitment to user privacy, we couldn’t use iCloud servers for computer vision computations. Every photo and video sent to iCloud Photo Library is encrypted on the device before it is sent to cloud storage, and can only be decrypted by devices that are registered with the iCloud account.
They’re branded ”for the enterprise”. ”We don’t want Google to hear our internal discussions” is a commonly-expressed sentiment, and for some reason executives see Lync et al as more secure.
Ignoring modern Studies in favor of a 27-year-old New York Times article? Right, something smells here.
Turns out that’s surprisingly complex. I was just going to clarify that iHeartMedia is the real answer, but: Clear Channel Communications as we know it became iHeartCommunications, wholly held by iHeartMedia, Inc., which is apparently distinct from the iHeartMedia division of iHeartMedia, Inc. That division operates iHeartRadio as a brand, I’m pretty sure, and inherited the Clear Channel IP and production-side stuff. I think a lot of the actual transmitter assets and licenses were held by CCC (or maybe CCB?), but the buyout that took them private meant they lost their FCC special treatment and had to park a bunch of stations on entities like Aloha until someone bought them. Which is about as slow a market as you’d expect a decade later:

http://streamingradioguide.com/licensee-list.php?showall=on&...

I’ve read the Wikipedia page a couple times now and still haven’t reverse engineered that labyrinth. Don’t read about mass media ownership in large doses; you’re likely to stroke out.

Given the Bain buyout and associated debt has spun iHeartMedia firmly around the drain for years, it’s a bit amusing to see Pai soften up the very regulations that made it a complicated deal in the first place. Sinclair 1, Clear Channel 0.
In my view, it's not at its peak partly because startups have drunk a bit too much of the "Startups are all about execution" Kool Aid and forgot that executing on crappy ideas just produced crap.

To the average marketer, some HN threads are absolutely mind-boggling. Not too long ago, someone posted a thread essentially saying that he had freshly graduated from a top school and assembled a team of brilliant people, but they couldn't find anything to do with all their talent.

How is that possible?

Y Combinator's motto is "Make something people want."

Well? What are startups waiting for?

Mostly, they've again drunk a bit too much Kool Aid here — the "get out of the building" and "customer development" type. These are both good things to do — but if your original impetus is stupid (business-wise), you'll only converge towards mediocre outcomes.

In fact, it's very easy to come up with things that people want. Because people have always wanted the same things, and probably always will. Everything the market provides is there to satisfy basic, universal human needs [1].

Fundamental needs and desires are the magma on which the tectonic plates that define product categories and product are moving. They're the deepest drivers of product adoption.

Current product categories and products are just a byproduct of those needs meeting technological and economic limitations.

Find out how you can satisfy some fundamental need better by leveraging technological changes, and you'll have a good startup idea.

Or so I believe.

[1] http://changingminds.org/explanations/needs/needs.htm
Those fuckers are gonna kill the web, aren't they?
> In contrast, Puffs today performs as fast as C, with arithmetic overflow checks. They just happen to be compile time checks.

I'll grant that's largely true, but as far as I can see it's not entirely true. For example, to quote a comment from one of the example .puffs files:

// Set history_index (modulo 0x8000) to the length of this
// remainder. The &0x7FFF is redundant, but proves to the
// compiler that the conversion to u32 will not overflow.

In this case, the redundant operation is equivalent to a disabled arithmetic overflow check, although it's (commendably) made more explicit.

Similarly, in decode_lzw.puffs, I think (could be wrong) that some of the conditions in 'if' statements, e.g. "(width < 12)", should always be true unless the image is malformed. In a way, this is substituting for a runtime array bounds check and/or overflow check that might be hit if the condition weren't present. Here too, Puffs arguably wins by making the check explicit. If I'm right that the author stuffed in extra conditions where demanded by the compiler, rather than properly considering the consequences of their being false (e.g. should probably result in returning an error), then there's some argument that it would be better to crash than silently misbehave. But even then, at least Puffs makes the problem relatively obvious, whereas in e.g. Rust you just have to trust that your code won't perform any overflows.

> And sometimes overflow is indeed a concern (search for "underflow" in https://blog.chromium.org/2012/05/tale-of-two-pwnies-part-1....).

Integer overflow is a huge concern in C, but much less of one in memory-safe languages, where a buffer size being miscalculated should result in a controlled panic rather than memory corruption (…at least if you're not interfacing with unsafe code). Still, an overflow is effectively a miscalculation, incorrect behavior, and with any kind of incorrect behavior there's always a chance it will compromise security in some way.
Twilio conference lines - cost $1/mo plus 1 cent/caller/minute. Hard to beat.
> Intellectual laziness.

It's more of a coping mechanism, is it not? I've read roughly half of the things you've listed, but definitely don't remember most of the nuances.

By default, people don't know (or care) about philosophy, and religion is a type of philosophy. It's a bit like bashing people for not taking the time to read Kant.
I understand the sentiment, but in the long run, I don't think it does us good to promote fiction over the truth, even in instances where we think the fiction will do more immediate good. We can't make sense of the world unless we understand it, and it's hard to predict what new insights we can gain from truth.
Socrates was annoying enough to get himself poisoned.
Has facebook done any of that? Did you come to facebook because of an ad, or was it because you wanted to keep in contact with your friends and family? The fact that they are trying to use those social ties to make you look at more ads is what's amoral, not the fact that they sent you an email that doesn't apply to you as a "hook".
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The conservative position on this topic is strange, as they generally resist federal meddling...unless it benefits their agenda
This is a good time to ask: is there any good SQL IDE for Oracle better than SQL Developer?
It doesn't need to be. Just sell the robots to both sides, and let the robots destroy each other.
I get in while it's hot, and then turn it to cold.
If this helps to bring sanity to the cost of schooling, then so be it.

Colleges have raised rates consistently each year. There's always money for big athletic programs, rich salaries at the top, etc.

Students find themselves facing huge fees, outright scams WRT books, etc. It's a racket.

I welcome this move as a step closer to legitimizing online/MOOC degrees. We'll all be better off.
Show HN: Quickfix, the best stupid idea for fixing problems in Node modules
If you believe the news, there’s a breakthrough every other week!
> A smart contract that auto-pays upon (phased) delivery, etc.

That's a solid idea in theory. We tried something similar but had a tough time getting companies to be comfortable with the autopay feature (e.g. like your comcast or cell phone bill) because most people think that the role of accounts payable is to pay as slowly as possible without pissing off your vendors. That means that the squeaky wheel gets the grease, but to nag politely is a nuanced art. The folks who do it the best manage the relationships with the people that actually cut the checks super carefully. They view it as the last step in their customer engagement cycle. Happy to chat more about what we've learned or how we're approaching this: carlos[at]tesorio.com
What exactly did you expect to happen, pensions to workers?
It is incredibly different.

* One person/company buying one newspaper, vs

* One company buying every news channel that serves a given area.

The first is just an entrant in the market. The second is anti-competitive and propagandizing.
oh derp, I actually noticed that a couple of times but there's so many "AR for X" startups that I get them confused.
i wonder how the white nationalists are not preying on this Indian guy? after all, everything is business?
Technically it's correct. It's just really odd in tone; it almost sounds like it's unusual or negative that these utilities were not written to be completely cross-platform, as if that would be a norm.
My wife takes this deduction every year. Most doctors in their 30s or 40s (depending on their specialty) take this deduction. You probably know lots of folks who take, but they never talk about it. I’m sure that will change soon.
Demovfuscator | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11961345 (June 2016)

references Movfuscator discussions:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10021259

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9751312
I'm an MD, practicing in the US.

I don't know the actual legality. But here's what I do know from attempting to implement multiple projects within the US for clinical care and for clinical research: most providers, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies we have worked with have balked at the ability to have high resolution data fed into their medical record or research data systems. In most cases, they are worried that if they had the data, they would have to act on it were something to be concerning. And they do not want that responsibility.

Example: we were in talks to feed in near-realtime blood glucose, activity, and blood pressure measurements from patients on a clinical trial. Surely that would be useful for better sussing out the effects of a research drug than the current process (patient comes in every few months to get measured or have their log data entered or meter data downloaded)? Nope, multiple top 5 pharma companies didn't want the responsibility and liability of seeing their data that often, because what if a patient had super low or super high glucose and they later died? You had the ability to act on it but didn't.

They'd rather just not have it at all. It sounds ridiculous. And again, I don't know the actual legal/liability issues, but based on my experience with malpractice cases, I could see a viable case to be made. And there are certainly institutions out there who believe the benefit is worth the cost of that responsibility for certain use cases. But my experiences have definitely made me reconsider some of these things.

All that said, I am definitely in favor of collecting more health data (somehow), because until we have more data we won't know its utility. So far, in general it has been shown that more testing and more information often doesn't lead to better outcomes, but the cost of data is getting lower -- aside from aforementioned liability cost/fear.
I was going to post when I saw this hours earlier but decided not to because of the down-votes but fuck it.

I know for certain that I'm not the only one that applied to YC that got rejected that's really ticked off at this list of @#$#$#$. But whatever.
> As someone in the tech field and an Orthodox Christian doing a masters in theology, I find it incredibly frustrating that there is absolute sheer ignorance about Christian theology.

Can you come up with an explanation that is succinct and correct? All the christian apologetics I read end up saying virtually the same thing, they just pretend they aren't by saying the same thing in a 10,000 word treatise.

It's like every time I read about how $deity isn't a violation of cause and effect, it always ends up being some long winded special pleading.

> You claim this is the Christian view of the atonement. Where do you get this? Is it scriptural? Patristic?

Could you break down each part of the fairly short sentence and explain how it's wrong? Preferably without the quantum jesus that both is and is not god.
Toad used to be a great choice. I would look there.
As a former gymnast I can confirm that is indeed a backflip. Pretty good one at that!