skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MSSQL has been compiling plans to bytecode, but not in a manner which can be directly or JIT compiled to machine code. There is a big difference in compilation & runtime performance with an LLVM-based approach, which can be directly or JIT compiled.

That said, stale plans and parameter sniffing are problems with any system that optimizes and caches plans, regardless of whether the cached plans are compiled to bytecode or machine code (including Oracle, etc.).

The exception is Hekaton (MSSQL's in-memory database), which transpiles entire stored procedures to C (http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p1095-nagel.pdf). This approach is very much optimized for in-memory OLTP, which is a different use case than Postgres's.
I used safari in normal mode and didn’t notice any refreshing.
More tech workers can’t afford to live where they work
(I get a ton of misdirected email because I have a six character gmail address with a common name.)

My rule is that I'm willing to "steal" the account and cancel it or change the email for "unimportant" services, like dating sites. For financial institutions, I contact the institution instead. (My email has gotten associated with at least two bank accounts that aren't mine.)
The True Story of the the Rolls-Royce Guru
Take Crohn's for example. Sure you can be on Remicade for a decade with no significant flare-ups. Then the day Remicade stops being effective you're completely screwed. Plus your situation got worse over time, you just didn't get the messages your body has been trying to send you. Remicade was essentially the firewall.
You're certainly right that formal definitions are important. However, on this forum, I think informality can be appropriate. Though there are variations and inconsistencies, in the theoretical cryptography community, second preimage resistance is most often formalized as "universal one-wayness" and preimage resistance is formalized as "one-wayness."

I did however was careless when I claimed that shrinking by 1 bit suffices for preimage resistance. The hash function needs to shrink by at least log(n) bits to rule out computationally-bounded adversaries finding preimages.

Also, apologies for the formatting of my OP - I don't post here often.
> There is no recourse in the law for someone stealing your phone and signing away your entire property once e-Sign comes in force everywhere.

I agree with you on this. Currently however, this is how it is with everything online. Take any 2-FA service. It's either SMS based or through Google authenticator/yubikey etc. To expect non tech savvy people to use yubikey or Google authenticator is going to be a hardsell.

> I'm just tempted to take a large strength antennae and build a Aadhaar-OTP Wardriving tool.

Hahaha! Provided you know the Aadhaar number for the associated OTP as well ;)
What this story leaves out is why we are moving away from thrombolytics - besides them kinda sucking.

Once a clot has matured they tend to be useless, which is part of why there’s a solid upper cap on time to administration. You cross a line where any clot they’re likely to bust isn’t one you want to bust. So, a window of a couple of hours. Urokinase doesn’t change that, to my knowledge.

Surgical removal of the clot, on the other hand, has recently been shown to offer enormous benefit to at-risk tissue (tissue not yet dead but in the watershed area) 24 hours later, without risk of hitting the wrong clot. It’s no miracle either, but evidence is piling up that it’s got more Pros and fewer Cons.

Thus, no one really following armchair hypotheses (one old non RCT trial not withstanding) about combining two increasingly undesirable drugs.

I respect the guy’s thought and effort, and have to admit he might be right about their combined effectiveness, but this article leaves out a lot of the context as to -why- this isn’t getting attention. Writing a hagiography-by-omission is below what I’ve come to expect from statnews.
Sqawk [1] is an Awk-like program that uses SQL and can combine data from multiple files. It is powered by SQLite.

[1] https://github.com/dbohdan/sqawk
You may have just helped me identify celiac disease. I've had gastro issues for over 10 years. I've also experienced the DH symptoms with no resolution. Tuesday I have a gastro/endoscopy scheduled to check for issues. This feels like another clue on the long road to figuring this all out. Thank you!
Did you just make an ad hominem?

Allow me to remind you that the current PM who is pushing so hard for Aadhar was against it when opposition because he was worried about the "security".
Creator here! I am really excited to share this Augmented Reality experience and see what you all think about it. The idea of that the camera is your paint brush, and the world is your canvas really stuck out to me, so I made this so people can doodle and sketch in your world! Let me know what you all think and what other features I should add.

Here is the link of the snapcode to share with friends: https://www.snapchat.com/unlock/?type=SNAPCODE&uuid=ecc37994...
Dept of Homeland Security Solicitation for Media Monitoring Services
If you are a direct contractor, it sounds like the IRS would consider you an employee. If you are actually an employee of a company that contracts you out to a 3rd party, then this doesn’t apply.

”The IRS developed the 20-Factor Test shown below to help employers evaluate whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor. No one factor on the test is more indicative of employee status than another. If there is a high number of “yes” marks, then it will most likely indicate the presence of an employment relationship, a high number of “no” marks may or may not indicate a contractor relationship.”

https://www.regent.edu/admin/busoff/pdf/20-questions1099test...
The Gilder Paradigm (1996)
>But firstly, no one wants this infinite set of email addresses

Weird, I've been using this feature for a decade. It's one of the features that keeps me on Gmail.
All the obvious ones: closed platforms, walled gardens, lack of repair or upgradeability, overpriced hardware, general user and developer hostility, excessive secrecy, arrogance, security bugs, planned obsolescence. Then there's the more subjective stuff: I find their UIs appalling and I'm not a fan of their design aesthetic.
You have commented twice saying "We." And it is not clear who the "we" is. Do you work for mailinator, Twilio, Google?
This one is strange to me, as I can't help but see it as an offset of sorts. The problem unresolved, has been pushed onto the next generation. That generation, having encountered the same problem, will then, too, push it to the next generation.

> "what's important in life"

Very common epithet. The important thing in your life is the next person? And then the important thing in the life of that person is their next person? Wait, what?

Something here is just not right.
Nextgrid, though at the moment it's still a work in progress (building an entire telco core network from scratch by yourself takes a looooong time), but in the meantime you can get the numbers from my carrier partner directly: https://aa.net.uk/telecoms.html

Those are UK mobile numbers, with SIP for voice and webhooks for texts, and all lookup tools I've found recognise their numbers as "Three" (a mobile carrier in the UK) mobile numbers.

I am not actually sure how those guys interconnect to Three, it could even be literally a bunch of GSM modems with real SIMs in it. My long-term plan is to get rid of the middleman and become a carrier myself (get a number range allocated by OFCOM, UK's telco regulator) and offer both SIMs and API-driven numbers (with no way of distinguishing which is which from the outside).
Indeed. I can grab RPi and accessories virtually at the local mall (or at least i keep seeing ads for them from various store chains).

ODROID? Forget about it, has to order from abroad. Tinker Board, not sure. I think i have seen one specialist online store offer up the Orange PI.
Interesting. I tried to convert an iPhone photo from jpg to pdf (from phone) and it threw the following error: "C952B34B-95B4-4908-9018-C224DBB753A1.jpeg - File not in jpg format"
Beep command can probe for existence of other users files, including root
Ask HN: What are some things to look out for fraud in ecommerce application
Here is some of the things which I can think of but wanted to get more thoughts...

[1] Unusually large orders or high-priced orders

[2] Expedited shipping on large quantities or high-priced orders

[3] Expedited shipping when billing and shipping addresses differ

[4] Make sure the billing address matches the IP location.

(5) Limit the number of declined transactions.

(6) Customers who make multiple orders from different credit cards

(7) Machine Learning - supervised classification - the system is told in advance which already-reviewed orders are fraud, and then asked to predict whether another order is fraud based on what it’s seen so far

(8) Anomaly detection
Like that time half the Rolling Stones ran a corner shop:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY4isQVSgDg
Complete a private pilot certificate with an instrument rating for good measure and fly general aviation?
> address bar at the bottom of the screen

What's the advantage of this?
North Alabama represent!
I used windows phone for more than 3 years. Lumia 630, 730 and 550. To be honest it is way better than android and iphone in terms of usability. I concur with OP that metro UI and all dark theme was the best and unique. I recently switched to android because of lack of updates in the basic apps that I was using. It is still my backup phone. Ohh forgot about the keyboard and unified messaging system. Loved cortana. One thing is I want to point out that all email clients and calendar app should learn to do things right way outlook apps in windows phone did. If you don't believe me use the native outlook and calendar apps you will start hating the google clients. Great jobs phone team at Microsoft!
Will this be open-sourced? I'd like the idea of a self-hosted version of this. Good work!
>Bitcoin's valuation is too unstable at the present to be a good store of value

Are you framing your Store-of-Value judgement on a very narrow, confirmatory window of time? There have only been 5 months out of the past 96 months of Bitcoin's existence where bitcoin trades have been at a net loss. Additionally ~81.7%[1] of buy volume is in the black (by a healthy amount: 20X).

>If bitcoin ends up the year down 90% (not unreasonable)

Would you sell me a call at 10% of spot-market price? I would love to buy that.

[1](14.786+1.379+1.158+1.265)/22.728
I have the same problem with Netflix, Uber and other sites. They simply do not check the email. It's an absurd. And the biggest problem is that the person who mistakenly uses my email asks a hundred times to reset MY password. Gmail and these sites need to take this issue more seriously.
Technically you can run it indefinitely. Meteor is open source and the Meteor team has been actively working with community members to do PRs and what not. There are enough people on it that the ball (to some extent) would be picked up by community folks. Perhaps not a bad thing, either, as it could breathe some new life into it.
Months Before Deadly Crash, Helicopter Pilots Warned of Safety Issues
Typically when I implement user self-registration for my portal-website clients, I use a variation of your third option:

1. Enter email address and some out-of-band information that only an existing-account-holder should know. Eg: a web portal for a utility company could ask for the account number and amount due from a recent bill.

2. Send confirmation email with a code/link.

3. After user enters a valid code, continue registration by gathering additional user details, password, and (usually) recovery Q&A.

The user account is not created until step 3; if they provide a fake email, it's as if the registration attempt never occurred. Absolutely no access is granted until after the final step.

The extra details in step #1 only works for website registration of a user that has a pre-existing relationship with the company, of course. For a new account, email address is all you should request at that point.
I'm not turning anything around. The claim I was responding to was that suggesting the use of LSD was more dangerous or more irresponsible than suggesting the use of SSRIs.

I'll say it again: There's no evidence the use of LSD is more dangerous than SSRI's.
Sorry, I was commenting from the perspective of a company that uses phone verification for account signups to help with fraud. I am not affiliated with any of the listed company.
We're trying this with "Payment Banks". The DBT scheme itself tries to solve it by directly debiting money from your account and crediting it to the shopkeeper's account on a monthly basis automatically, but the real implementation is still cash withdrawls as of now.

The Kenyan-SMS has also led to a monopoly of mpesa in the market, which the RBI is trying to avoid by bringing some decent regulations in the space of digital banking.
I've seen cases where antidepressants saved people's lives.
I've also seen cases where they were pushed on people who needed psychotherapy and not medication. Access to quality psychotherapy is unfortunately very low.
> The fact that they used OTP (and tout it as a security feature) is so disheartening

I do not anywhere mention it as a security feature. I actually mention that I find it appealing as I don't want to go through the hassle of obtaining a DSC just to verify my returns. Everifying through Aadhaar is simpler. To expect someone to hack it is quite remote as it would require knowledge of multiple things: my Aadhaar number, access to my network, knowing the date and time of when I decide to file my returns, having to utilise the OTP before i use it or it expires. It's possible for a really concerted attacker but then I start to question his sanity. It's much easier to just break into my home and get me to sign at gunpoint. ;)
Same as someone selling a religious app or any other entertainment app.

The only issue I have is when people take astrology too seriously. I hope you’re putting some sort of an “*” that it’s for entertainment purposes and people shouldn’t make serious life decisions on what you say.
Michael Sandel on Reich’s the Common Good
It means a lot, it means that the person who's responsible for your therapy (which might involve drugs) has studied for years (it takes a while until one's a psychiatrist!). It means they understand the fundamentals required for their title. Such credentials are worth a lot in our societies, hence the high wage. Perhaps not in the alternative medicine field where you're flocking around but realise you are the exception here; not the norm.

Also, those professionals aren't necessarily the same people. Do you fault Linus Torvalds for a bug in the Windows NT kernel because he's a software developer? Science is constantly in motion and questioning itself. The drug usage in the past before drugs were illegal (pre-2nd part of 20th century) was more irresponsible, and its thanks to science and law this has reduced. And specifically, SSRIs are more safe than antidepressants used before SSRIs such as TCAs and MAOIs.
The law isn't on your side if you log into a litigious person's account without their permission.
> Some people pick the right path. Many don't.

Is there really a right or wrong path to take? I thought one thing that happens as you get older is you realize there was never a right or wrong path to be taken. But, what do I know, I'm still young.
I would imagine it's something you want to access semi-frequently and would be easier to reach at the bottom (with you thumb) than at the top. Just a guess.
Bull market for stocks turns 9, could it be the longest?
I miss it too... live tiles, outlook integration, camera, fresh new UI
Tesla and Ford are the only major current American automakers who haven't filed for bankruptcy, right?
What's reckless about it? It also seems reckless to suggest using SSRIs when we know low-serotonin does not cause depression. We know the hypothesis of low-serotonin causing depression is false, which is the entire reason for engineering then prescribing SSRIs. Yet they're still prescribed despite dubious efficacy at treating depression, and risk of dangerous side-effects and dependence.
–+freedomfortheoppressed
What is your solution ? It kind of seems like Aadhar should be better managed... rather than reinvent another identity system, sure I am optimistic that Aadhar will improve (Its a very new system compared to SSN or other identity systems)

Regarding ballooning costs, so many successful programs have had costs that exceeded the plan, so far with Aadhar there has been no evidence that the ballooning costs have been debilitating and on the contrary Aadhar seems to be helping.
Are Microsoft's Edge benchmarks falsified?
I'd personally avoid Parse as it's been shut down. I worked with someone who had inherited a Parse-based app last year and we had to do a fair amount of gymnastics to get it working smoothly. That was just my personal experience, though.

A good rule of thumb: if it works for you, use it. There's a lot of ballyhoo about keeping up with the tech Joneses which is mostly unnecessary. It's the most common excuse I see people using for not sitting down and just building their idea (we teach people how to build their own products at Clever Beagle). Tech always changes. If you're truly successful, at some point you will have to migrate to some new technology. Most concern about "blowing up" is just hubris disguised as optimism.

There isn't, hasn't, and will likely never be a permanent, perfect solution. Every single piece of technology has gotchas and idiosyncrasies. Use what you understand and makes you productive—the rest will take care of itself in time.
yep, looks like an error at the frontend. I’ll look it to it. Thanks for reporting it
Generally speaking, IMHO, making the interface easier, in practice, doesn’t actually make using statistical methods correctly easier and that’s scary.

SPSS is a classic example - and the social sciences have had a series of discredited papers over recent years due to poor application of statistical methods. Just because you can put a dataset in and get values out - even values that look significant, it doesn’t mean they are - did all of the assumptions and requirements of the methods/tests you used hold true/pass with your data?

So, while I haven’t looked closely at this tool, all I saw was talk of the interface and the ease of getting results even if “you don’t know where to start”. That scares me. Especially when you start talking about applications in domains like medicine. That could be lives in the balance. Would we want civil engineers using tools like this to build bridges? Or people designing nuclear reactors?

To me, this is worse, not better unless it somehow helps you actually understand when, why and how to correctly use these tools.
Is Science Hitting a Wall?
Absolutely. Netflix is using ID created by some other service as their ID without verifying with the other service if the ID in question belongs to the user who is claiming it's theirs. There needs to be a 2nd factor to confirm whether an ID belongs to someone - password/confirmation/code/pin which Netflix doesn't use here at all.
I booted up my computer and saw this shiny new page:

https://microsoftedgewelcome.microsoft.com/en-us/speed/rs3

Looking into the methodology, I can't even get close to replicating. In all my tests, Chrome and Firefox are 20-35%+ better off than Edge? I used:

https://chromium.github.io/octane/

I tried on 2 different machines, but none using the same processor and RAM size as they have used.
Will more sites also increase edit times perchance?
The Reaction Commerce[0] team is building their version of a modern eCommerce stack with Meteor[1]. They also received a Series A round of funding, lead by GV, in Oct '17 based on the work they've been doing[2].
[0]: https://reactioncommerce.com/
[1]: https://github.com/reactioncommerce/reaction
[2]: https://venturebeat.com/2017/10/31/reaction-commerce-raises-...
I disagree with:

> can’t easily jump to another the way they can at Google or Apple.

I've never worked at Google or Apple, but I work in AWS. I see people switching teams, across different organizations within AWS and the retail business. When I first started, you had to stay on your team for 1 year before you could transfer, now there is no such restriction.

I will agree with the

> encouraging teams to operate independently using whatever technology makes the most sense
"Economists show that increased research efforts are yielding decreasing returns."
This comment was about historical events and in direct response to parent, it does not reflect my own views or ideologies. Things that shaped the past seem relevant even if those things were ideological. This looks like censorship by users who just don't like the ideas (which are not necessarily my own). Anyway no problem.
Same with me, I have someone who is in the US (I'm in the UK) who has registered for a university and attempted to buy a car using my email address.

They must be fairly disorganised as I keep getting emails about overdue library fees. No matter how many times I email these places, they never remove the email from their system. I'm hoping GDPR might give me a hand with that, though I'm doubtful if they're places like a US University.

Email validation is a must for all services, people make mistakes and clearly some people don't even know their own email address. This is a problem with both Google and Netflix. Netflix are being negligent and Google should retire this feature.
What are you making? Nuclear bombs?
Unless someone comes up with a single-use-only phone number, this idea is not going to work.
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Good point and this 'logical' way of determining an object is a cube is something i wondered about as well.

It should be possible, if the subject is given enough time and approaches the task from a rigorous angle, to deduce that the object must be a cube. through a path like...

eyes -> visual processing of the brain -> logical facts about -> mental model of the object in question -> categorizing the mental model -> determining what the object is.

However, I think, the fundamental issue is that in sight, touch etc, typically the concious/logical part of the brain is not involved in determining objects. probably because this is much to slow. There is dedicated hardware/software that does this as far as i am aware.

There are people with the condition where they cannot name, or identify objects from touch but can from sight, even more interesting some people can identify things from touch with their right hand, but not with their left.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astereognosis
China's global kidnapping campaign may now be reaching inside U.S. borders