skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me add to the amazement by pointing out that there even seems to be "Price is Right fanfiction" out there [0].
Tho it's hosted on angelfire and the texts are saved as word documents, which is either really odd or really smart, depending on the intentions of the creator.

[0] http://www.angelfire.com/funky/plinkoman/fan_fiction.html
“Commercial development would still be allowed, but developers would need to put up bonds to pay for those buildings’ eventual demolition.”

This is actually an extremely sound policy Louisiana has put forth for handling a situation they have little control over. I’d expect it to become a model for other coastal states who will be facing similar issues as sea level rises (with exceptions for very wealthy communities, such as Miami Beach, where they can fund hundreds of millions of dollars in preventative measures for the moment).
The buyout for one family in the article is about $25,000 per person and the article talks about ~60,000 people.

That family is probably on the lower end of the buyout cost, but it puts the total cost of a buyout in the range of $1 billion or $10 billion.

So then the question is how much flood protection can be built for a similar cost.

I think there's also issues with flood controls for one area making flood control in other areas more difficult. So drawing a line can help with that.
Completely eliminates all the hastle of surfing the web.
Even in model Japan privatized rail, the govt still regulates fares.
Like Assange, he likes to be very vocal and opinionated about western democracies problems (like Catalonia in my country, Spain) while remaining silent on Russia, the paradise of democracy and freedom. He can keep his app for himself. Now let the downvotes begin.
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LOL And probably why I think linux is so cool now. The envy I had of people who had window managers!
I ported my Fi number back to Google Voice when I cancelled service. There were a number of prompts on the way too, so I'm not sure what the author did wrong here...
Among the published articles was one that concluded that children who drank malted breakfast beverages — a category dominated in Malaysia by Milo, a sugary powder drink made by Nestlé — were more likely to be physically active and spend less time in front of a computer or television.

Well, malted drinks are a staple in South Asia. In India the brand called Cadbury Bournvita is the go to food for most mothers. As if the added sugar is not enough, quite a lot of parents tend to add 1-2 additional spoons of sugar. Then there is Horlicks by GSK. Milo is way behind.

The company said its review of the article on the breakfast study and other research was intended “to ensure that the methodology was scientifically correct.”

What kind of standards, practices and internal controls do these guys have to ensure scientific correctness of a paper?
And use a typewriter to put on the page numbers- because of that $%#& margin requirement...
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>> It's what the headlines would read if this was about a sports star.

This is probably the correct interpretation. "Poaching" seems to be the word used when a person is specifically targeted because of their experience. They're viewed as key, so it's not just good for the one hiring them, but bad for the company losing them. If you think of hiring as dragging a net through the water an sifting through the catch, poaching would be more like spear fishing.

Or it could just be sensational headline writing.
Maybe it's an age thing? As a casual observer I seem to recall most memory studies being on younger individuals. Often times ones where the brain is still developing. Maybe this study is more about older brains?
I never understood why product placement upsets people so much. Unless the premise is pure fantasy or a completely alternate reality, real brands help more quickly get me past the sense artificiality that is drama/theater that suspends disbelief. I can get engrossed more quickly. When I see products that are similar and obvious knock-offs of a brand that avoids the name or trademark design, I'm immediately somewhat distanced again from the performance. I genuinely court it. Surely I'm not the only one who feels that way.
Is it really? Would like to know more about what current generations think.
All about averages
Yeah, same here. I used to be "addicted" to videogames but nowadays I don't play at all. I fly planes and going to start racing next year.
Maybe, but Google definitely isn't better. They transcribe your voicemails for you to make their voice recognition better, and unless it's changed I don't remember ever seeing a setting to turn it off. Does Microsoft do this?
GGUgghvgghgg
Seems a bit slow on the uptake. It was clear in 2013 from what Apple did with the 5S that in-house CPU was a big win.
It did leak. Everybody "knows" the government has been experimenting on Aliens and alien technology since at least Roswell. There are even articles in the New York Times about warehouses storing alien artifacts!
It appears that you are the author of this project.
If you don't record audio, it should be legal in most states (unless prohibited by your employer).

LAWS ON RECORDING CONVERSATIONS IN ALL 50 STATES [PDF]:
https://www.mwl-law.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/LAWS-ON-R...
Yup in contrast the American regime has about 1000x [1] the death toll but at least those people weren't bulldozed and it didn't make you and me feel too bad.
Calling the other side evil is easy. Spotting hypocrisy is easy. Doing something about hyprocisy is much harder. It involves admitting to ourselves that all of us are capable of doing dumb shit.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
> [1] Opposite is low voltage switching power supplies where the output voltage is low and currents are high. You see people use active diodes to avoid voltage drops despite the expense. Even then 90-95% efficiency is common.

Thanks, I din't know about this one at all. I should have paid more attention during the lectures, missed this part totally.
More like: In ________, ________ Take Money from ________
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I think Puffs looks like a cool new project:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15711767

Edit: Looks like it was renamed to Wuffs: https://github.com/google/wuffs

It's a domain-specific language for parsers that should be fast and must be correct, and it includes relatively light-weight verification.
My inclination is to agree but I work for a bank and we're in process of replacing all systems hosted on our mainframes. Will we ever get there is another question but that's the current road map.
Tangential: Anyone here used both BigQuery and Redshift?

Here's the primary reason that is currently keeping me on Redshift:

Redshift is basically Postgres at the query layer which is insanely cool: All the Postgres tooling works with it. All the Postgres expertise I have carries over. It feels like a lot less of a "lock in".

Anyone care to chime in?
Like what? There really isn't any more to tell.
On a safari
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The article mentions Informix, which has also been an IBM product for a number of years now. That makes it at least five major RDBMS code bases inside IBM.

I spent a few years managing DB2 instances at a previous employer and I've seen it hold its own against mixed workloads (i.e. shitstorms of bad-behaved applications and people running ad-hoc queries) that I don't think even a well tuned PostgreSQL could handle today.

DB2 has some really annoying quirks(1) and that IBM'ish feel that's very hard to explain, but it's also very understandable (from a tuning perspective) for such a complex piece of software.

DB2 for Windows seemed mostly crap compared to Linux or AIX, though.

(1) For example, at least since I've last looked into it, DB2 had no decent MVCC(2) and it was a real pain to deal with all the lock-related problems that would arise from large write/update transactions running in parallel with small reads.

(2) At some point (9.5, IIRC) they tried to simulate MVCC by letting transactions read previous row versions from the transaction log. This seemed to come with its own set of significant drawbacks.
I used to have a DVR and it did help of course. But I was never fond of having to pay the rental fees of the unit for this feature. True it is still better.
Yeah, same point though. Seems like a pretty unsurprising title for an article.
I asked my graduate school classmates who were from China and got similar result. Very few of them said they heard of the event after they got to the U.S. and Googled it, but couldn't believe what they read since none of it appears in their life before they left China.
Tatsuya Takahashi understands the importance of accessibility in design. He has lowered the barrier to entry for new instrument buyers that want to get into analog synthesis, and that’s what has made him so successful.
I'm fairly sure that DB2 for LUW (Linux/Unix/Windows) likely counts as a single code base. And I imagine that's x86 and power (and maybe Sparc? probably big or little endian. And support for Solaris, Aix, etc).

It's the esoteric platforms like mainframe or as/400 that need custom code bases
I looked at the maps of a couple of the towns mentioned. These are not easy places to protect.

Articles should show the maps.
It upsets at least some people precisely because it often breaks suspension of disbelief. Not many people complain if the hero drives a cool real car or uses a Dell laptop, but it is irritating if the technician in a crime show is telling everyone how they are using "Microsoft Windows Photo somethingorother" to enhance the image of the suspect (when they've been using the typical TV made-up interface that looks totally different everywhere else), or they hold a glowing logo on a device always just in frame.
The poster talks about a State.
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Ask HN: Is it too late to find a mentor after 30 for a software developer?
I got into software development without any education or prior experience at the age of 25 and learned iOS development. I work as an iOS developer & consultant and I feel I'm doing dead-end freelance gigs, which doesn't feel like they will get me very far. I want to be involved in backend development as well but I don't have a clear path as to how I can make that happen. A mentor might have been very good to have here to at least offer second opinions, but I am unable to find one, since the people good enough to be a valuable mentor usually don't stay in this country(I'm in Turkey). Even if there was, I feel like age might be an issue.
Where and how does one find a mentor? Is it too late to find a mentor after 30?
There is an app called “Alfred” that does almost exactly this. It just doesn’t have Snowden as a “founder.”
Business books only? The books that have done the most to increase my income were the technical books that permitted me to learn entirely new skills.
Is this what you're talking about? http://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education
I think this is satire. If it is, it's damned good. If not, it's at worst practical.
Is there a feedback feature for voicemail transcription? Otherwise, how would it improve their models?
Many people would consider the simpsons intros part of the show not a traditional intro. Seeing what Bart writes on the chalkboard was my favorite part of the show as a kid.
What I find most illuminating is how the current generation’s thoughts are so dramatically different than the Chinese-American’s whose parents left/escaped

In the states we have alot of Cantonese speaking people with a disdain for the party and the outcome, masquarading their opinion and obsolete language as relevant and other Americans treat it as canonical

My experience with mainlanders is complacency and contentment with the expected role of government, who have no idea why some people focus on an old uprising as if nothing else happened in 30 years

Not supposed to be a popular opinion but thats what Ive observed
Inertia is a powerful thing. There are still companies using Unisys “mainframes”, which are nothing more tha emulators of old Univac, Sperry, and other platforms running on a Xeon, but metered at some ridiculous MIPS leasing rate.
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How awful. When the british and the US are doing it, it's protecting national security and nothing happens.
Then when the russians are doing it it's suddenly cyber crime.
It is cyber crime, yes. But don't forget the real offenders.

See https://www.lawfareblog.com/cutting-cord-legal-regime-protec...
What happened to the Tank Man, did he survive the protest?
Do they also plan to cater to the lower end.
Yes, comparing the entire history of American war crimes against one domestic incident in China will give you a much bigger American death toll number.

A fairer comparison would include Mao's killing of 45 million of his citizens.
A minus times a minus is a plus
Thanks for the feedback. I've filed an issue here: https://github.com/scrimba/community/issues/188. Will try to implement next week!
I don't know why more things aren't PostgreSQL protocol compatible. It seems like a relatively easy way to make a system accessible to a huge ecosystem.

CockroachDB is the only other well-known project I know of that does this (but of course, it's not really an analytic database right now).
It’s still SQL at the end of the day so not a big deal, BigQuery has a newer Standard SQL dialect now too.

It is nice to be able to reuse existing tooling for redshift but we’re willing to make the trade for bigquery since the no-ops model is so much nicer. It’s basically magical how well it works.
What if it isn't actually an alloy but instead is some kind of alien-engineered nanomaterial?

(This is purely scifi musing from my behalf, I don't believe in some kind of cover-up at this scale.)
Ones that are driven by the persuit of profits and well-met KPIs, that's what.
> Caring about how much money is in your hand also hurts your chances of winning because you become less likely to buy the sabotage.

I haven't seen the show, but if you buy all the way to zero, what's the point of playing then? Is there a prize besides the amount of money you keep? Because if I won and only walked home with $100, it would seem like a waste of time.

It does seem like a good strategy on that game would be to intentionally not win though, as you don't want to come across as a strong cook until the very last round.
A high probability reason NATO is aware of Russian activity in the vicinity of undersea cables is NATO activity in the vicinity of undersea cables. Activity in the vicinity of undersea cables has been an intelligence option for around fifty years [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells
Tip: If someone faces the Nytimes paywall, just open it on a private tab.
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Martin Shubik once claimed to me that he more or less invented Diplomacy.

I forget whether this was based on his involvement in So Long Sucker, or whether he claimed a more direct connection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Long_Sucker
Any plans for a sqlite version?
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Not an iOS developer, so please excuse any incorrect details, but:

My understanding is that Swift and Objective-C can each be compiled together with libraries that use the other language. So writing in one language doesn't preclude use by users writing in the other language.

BUT you need to include header files for both. My company actually has to ditch a third party SaaS last year because they'd written a new SDK and header files were available only for Obj-C.
I'm no social justice warrior, but would you kindly edit your comment not to be so gauche.

EDIT: Not sure how I can get downvoted to -4 within a couple of minutes of my post. Parent poster literally says

* Society has transitioned to office work rather than manual work

* People can afford larger portions because they are wealthier

while mentioning

* the dry kitchen is inside the house, and is almost a show-piece. The wet kitchen is where the real action happens (albeit by the maid), but is typically a lean-to adjoining the back of the house.

I'm sure the maid doesn't avoid manual work, and a lean-to

https://www.google.com/search?q=lean-to&tbm=isch

literally outside the house is the opposite of an office.

In the United States you have to be extremely wealthy to have a maid, because maids are expensive, since they make a living wage. A normal office job by no means allows for it. Parent's attitude shows vast wealth inequality they seem completely blind to. Clearly maids make peanuts, apparently while working in a lean-to outside the home they work for, and without even being considered in the set of "people".

Again I'm not a social justice warrior, not trying to drum up outrage. Parent should have figured this out for themselves and edited their comment, I shouldn't be at -4 for requesting a light edit.

To make sure I was rooted in facts, after this edit I googled "malaysia wealth inequality" - which I didn't know anything about, the only thing I knew is what I read from parent post's attitude - and got a Wikipedia page that says "Malaysia has the highest income disparity between the rich and poor in Southeast Asia, greater than that of Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam and Indonesia."

I'm not "outraged" at the parent poster or anything like that, I'd just request a tiny amount of sensitivity.
Most of these were during wartime. Criminal and regrettable, of course. However, attacking your own citizens while protesting in your own cities somehow seems a bit different.

yup?
The difference is that we're trying to do something about it. Kids learn about many of the bad things America did (slavery, extermination of the native Americans, Vietnam war atrocities, nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki, etc.). They're taking down civil war monuments all over the country. The same will happen with Columbus soon--Los Angeles has already renamed Columbus Day in favor of the indigenous people he exterminated, and there are proposals to do the same/take down Columbus monuments in Baltimore, D.C., New York, etc.
No one knows who he was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man
The area prone to high flooding looks quite large (https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iEYD3VfM5np...). I suspect if you're a town in that area you'd have to enclose yourself - recreate a very expensive watertight castle - to survive.
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But isn't the land valuable (or potentially valuable) and won't its loss be irrecoverable?

Of course they are allowing commercial developments to continue, check this out:

Louisiana – Other Oil & Gas Infrastructure: http://www.dnr.louisiana.gov/assets/images/oilgas/refineries...

Louisiana – pipelines and platforms: http://www.dnr.louisiana.gov/assets/images/oilgas/refineries...
"I called them up and they asked me to come in for an interview — so I brought this thing I'd made, this sequencer synth thing. I showed it to them and they gave me the job."

https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2017/12/08/tatssynth_custom...

This is how you get a good engineering job -- show your impressive thing to people as high up as possible (and everyone else). You'll still have to do a whiteboard interview, but it'll be mostly a formality.
No, there were multiple F18s. Each with a pilot. Multiple radar contacts, with the associated radar operators.

Also, why do you say, "none of the other three pilots involved or ship crewmen backing his story up." That's not true.
So how can we explain that the delivery delay in most countries (apple.com) is very short? And was only a few weeks after the launch? Apple is very strong with financial: I suspect they replaced a decreased volume of sales by a higher margin per product.
I agree on quality, but I am surprised that the TV industry hasn't evolved yet beyond typical 30 second commercial spots. Maybe we haven't hit critical mass of people ditching cable TV - the likely culprit being sports.

With YouTube we see people not relying on direct ad revenue, but rather embedding sponsors into their content. And doing things like recommending products and using Amazon referrals to generate revenue from their channels. I guess the problem with broadcast TV is that commercials still work just as well as they did, they just have a smaller audience.
Absolutely agree; pointless in writing an article about coastal erosion and not providing a map.

Polders and Dikes of The Netherlands for comparison: https://www.thoughtco.com/polders-and-dikes-of-the-netherlan...
IMO that would be a bad overreaction. Journalism needs to fund itself and I'd much rather they do so by subscription than with more and more shitty ads. We shouldn't shut them out from the internet at large.
The "old internet" I remember is still alive and well when I play older video games. I don't think less than 75% of the messages on their online platforms are anything other than hateful slurs.
The suppliers received reduced quantity orders, so I doubt that.
Ugh. You know, I don't expect the Motherfucking Website framework, but here are some of the external domains (excluding numerous subdomains) accessed when viewing this text article with a few images:

cloudfront.net
stripe.com
googleadservices.com
optimizely.com
webtype.com
bootstrapcdn.com
ads-twitter.com
disqus.com
facebook.net
optinmonster.com
google-analytics.com
twimg.com
optnmstr.com
mstrlytcs.com
facebook.com
newrelic.com
disquscdn.com
stripe.network
fastly.net
More like chrome now
I would love to learn grap(1).
No equation was plotted with the tools from Heirloom.
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I'm curious, would this be legal?
Docker based on LXC and added a few things. The fact that they were well funded made outreach easier compared to the open source LXC project and Docker became many peoples first introduction to containers.

Once they got traction they quickly dumped LXC around version 0.9 and created their own engine in GO. All the while misleading and letting misconceptions and plain untruths about LXC being 'difficult', some 'low level tool' or 'bash scripts' spread unchecked by their ecosystem. So the model is not only take open source tech, but bash them in public and forget about giving anything back.

LXC is much simpler to use and understand both conceptually and in practical use. Docker is basically a hijack of an open source project supported by the SV crowd and the level of support and misinformation can be verified by HN posts in the last 3 years. Docker posts routinely clock 600-1000 votes in short periods of time and are full of marketing and misinformation.

That's history but the culture continues. Docker and other related projects continue to liberally wrap open source projects while downplaying them, ie overlayfs, aufs, kernel namespaces, cgroups, Linux networking tools, nginx, consul, haproxy and more. Someone had to create those projects and make them usable. This would not be a bad thing if they actually made things simpler, but they keep adding more and more layers of complexity.

What incentive is there for people to create these high value open source tools if vc funded companies like Docker and corporate funded projects like Kubernetes simply wrap them, downplay them and hog the attention and funding? These kind of projects basically cut the tree they sit on for their own short term benefit.
same creator as Two and a Half Men and some of those other shows you’re probably thinking of so that’s an apt comparison
You just can't really build dikes around southern Louisiana in a way that makes any sense. Soon enough you'll be seeing similar issues in eastern Carolinas and Florida.
TIL Angelfire is still around.
http://curvefever.io
Is a pretty cool lightcycles/tron-likegame, but with curves instead of right angles.