skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
* EXCEPT is valuable for VIEWs, e.g. VIEW of JOIN with multiple tables containing the same column. If those tables get new columns added, you want the view to automatically include those new columns.

Yes, obviously those new columns can have name conflicts and break the view just the same -- but I'd much rather have compile-time errors than the scaling nightmare of having to remember to explicitly name dozens of columns each time, to make sure the new columns appear in the view.

Obviously, ORMs address these sorts of problems at the cost of portability between programming languages and third party tools (that don't use your ORM). Yuck.
Is Weaveworks Cortex completely open source? Does it require Weave Cloud subscription to post messages to Slack?
The keel of a modern sailboat does provide "righting moment" to help keep the boat upright, but it's also used to provide hydrodynamic lift in opposition to the sails so that the boat can sail somewhat upwind. These two goals have to be balanced against each other and against performance in the context of mass and friction.

I suppose though a drone has more flexibility in design parameters by not having people and people-related supplies on board.
How Kriya Labs is making wealth from (agro) waste
A bunch of kids from IIT Delhi are incubating a process to convert agro waste to paper pulp thereby unlocking huge value for farmers who, otherwise, were burning rice straw and other agro waste contributing to the horrendous pollution problem in New Delhi.

https://medium.com/tales-of-tier-2-cities/kriya-labs-converting-waste-to-wealth-1935a4c8aa69
Why can’t you just refinance a loan with this kind of interest?
Yes, yes, we know all about "how it works in Europe" and it's famed effects. We also know how high your taxes are to pay for all of it. At least you still have loans that make people responsible for outcomes unlike all the "this is free, that is free" types who usually post on here about their utopias.

The article is bs--who worries about $24K? People bad at math, that's who! She didn't know the interest rates? She couldn't figure out a loan amortization table? Her dad couldn't?

The article is so disingenuous. There are so many ways someone even with zero skills could pay off the loans. It's not a question of being able to, it's a question of not being so lazy, inanimate, and "poor me."

There are immigrants who come to the US with literally nothing, work 2-3 jobs and in just a few years are buying a business.
It seems to me that Amazon the business doesn't really need to turn a profit as long as it's stock price stays high because then its investors are still making money.

Now the thing that Amazon has for it that Moviepass does not is that Amazon gets to collect user data and use that to sell more for itself. Moviepass seems to get to collect user data, however it doesn't own the theaters so it must find partnerships with the bigger theater chains. They're hedging that they can create such a large user base and show that they can bring a lot more traffic to theaters and with that increased traffic (and lower ticket price for the customer) will sell more concessions.

For Moviepass to work ticket prices must go down (at least for them) while theaters still make more money because of larger concession sales.
i meant robbed or damaged by a bad actor, Analysis I meant for user's own use by user.
My sense is that it's mainly speculative, with a strong base of "honest" demand from people with security concerns (ransomware, drugs, money laundering, other crime) that preclude them from using the regular banking system.

This is all on top of the initial users, Usenet-style "cryptoanarchists" who actually got the whole network running in the first place, but who are now a tiny minority of actual users, though perhaps a majority of the people who have already made a fortune on this stuff, and thus are now leading investment in the space. In a way, these are just speculators who bought early for reasons other than money (like for example, that it seemed like a cool conceit from a William Gibson novel).
No..if there really is a problem with his edits, there'll be a discussion and he'd be banned from that topic, which does happen (e.g, the top editor to the Donald Trump article also has 1800 edits to it but is indefinitely banned from that topic). That is far better than having this easily abusable system.
For medicine or law, the typical debt numbers are alot higher than $24k:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/1-million-mistake-becoming-a-do...

https://www.studentdebtrelief.us/news/average-medical-school...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertfarrington/2014/12/18/law...
What’s next? Car drones, rail drones and sub-marine drones? Bike drones?!
Ask HN: How big is HN Community?
Is there anything official / speculative that states the size of the community?
Here are 3 reasons:

- Some items at WF aren’t at a standard grocery store

- Excellent, vast selection of cold / hot ready to eat food

- Locations
Considering Germany's history, maybe they aren't the best example of dealing with "hate".

History has shown that the best antidote to hate is sunlight. Let the hateful spew hate and let people see it. The vast majority of people are going to be turned off by it.

People forget that germany once banned hitler and the nazi party and censored it. Amazingly enough, when you make something taboo, it makes it more attractive to the people.

Also, keep in mind that all the anti-facebook, anti-social media, etc propaganda lately has nothing to do with "hate". It's all about take control over an information medium.
It's Sam's Club vs Jeff's Club vs Covetton House

Pick your unique curated lifestyle today.
But the real question is: Should stupid hurt?

I very distinctly remember listening to a conversation between two fellow undergrads while I was waiting in line at the student loan office at my college circa 1993. It went something like "Ya man, I'm taking out extra funds this fall so I can buy a car and party with the cash." And the response was laughter and "I'm getting some Pioneer speakers for my stereo."

Brainiacs, all.
Lotteries are marketed pretty directly to lower income folks, and you can tell it's working because they're the ones buying most of the tickets. They also spend a higher percentage of their income on it. This is just sort of empirically clear, like do you see lottery signs in upper middle class areas? Nope. You see them in the "poor" grocery stores (not Whole Foods), gas stations, and liquor stores. For maximum convenience, some check cashing/pay day loans have lottery booths too.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/lottery-is-a-tax-on-the-poor-...

> If it wasn't for this scholarship you'd have overall worse schools, and a brain drain on your hands.

I mean, if you're OK with this kind of redistribution (FWIW I am too, it makes a lot of sense) then I think we should ask the richest of us to foot it, not the poorest of us.
People Who Live in Small Towns and Rural Areas Are Happier Than Everyone Else
The title is “How to write your own BitTorrent client in Java by using Bt library”

The article says nothing about building a bittorrent client, it talks about interfacing with a library which implements a bittorrent client API.
Palo Alto pastor resigns after tweets about city: 'An elitist shit den of hate'
All grocery stores sell what you refer to as organic food (what I would call organic and health foods). Whole Foods carries more of them than a typical grocery store like Kroger.

There are products available at one and not the other, which is why I at least sometimes shop there.
In terms of default narratives in the press, the interesting thing about Amazon's Whole Foods play is that the small fraction of the US grocery market cost Amazon almost as much (~$13b) as Walmart's recent acquisition of Flipkart (~$16b) giving it a prominent position in Indian eCommerce. Walmart was seen as overpaying and the business press is still breathless over Whole Foods...even when Amazon is basically replicating Sams Club.
Waiting for "how to write bittorrent library" series ;)
When did college turn from learning institutions into career factories?
Yeah, although I feel I get more response from my Facebook ads than radio and print, I’m usually disappointed how few new customers it creates.

However, paying to “boost a post” on Facebook is much better. So much so that I’ve dropped nearly all other advertising. Running an ad can only target so well, as it’s mostly based on plain old demographics. But boosted posts also take into account those who have liked your business page, responded to your prior posts, and who their friends are. At least, that’s the impression my results have been given me.

While hard numbers and analysis would be nice to see of course, I have little interest in seeing hard numbers in this case. My proof is that I was able to slash my ad budget by over half, and yet still more than double my business. Over a year later with mostly just Facebook, business is still growing.

I’m sure the nature of my business is rather well suited to Facebook though. I’m a sole proprietor offering group entertainment services on a local scale. Im sure the ch companies and other less localized businesses may not get as good results.
It's incredibly hard to scale a customer service organization as quickly as they've had to. It's definitely a growing pain that will improve - it's a good problem to have.
You forget that there are also ignorant people who just take the loan whatever the deal is regardless if what they do makes sense - it just "feels" right for them. Then when the time comes to pay it back, they'll just try to moan it away. If there is enough people with such attitude so that it could be a good number of voters, there will be a politician willing to climb on it and force companies one way or another to waive the loans.
Ultimately people should be taught to take responsibility and not that ignorance pays off.
> Not for iOS though, atleast without a jailbreak.

If you have persistence, no jailbreak is needed. Would require you to binary patch the executable then resign the binary using your own Apple Dev account. Far from trivial, but still doable and without Jailbreaking.
Could mean people with SSNs which are prime ...
I'm optimistic that they'll be able to almost solely based on their poaching of Jim Keller. If there's a major revolution in instruction sets or architecture to support ML or energy efficient HPC, he's one of the few people with the technical experience and political clout to change the future of Intel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Keller_(engineer)
> What even is this article?

It's pretty much like every other article from the media in regards to facebook and social media. A propaganda attack to take control over an information medium by the traditional media.
For those of us who only occasionally upgrade our hardware, its not a huge advantage either way.
Amazon's game is pretty clear:

1) under price to get market dominance,

2) then increase prices higher than competition

3) before customers realize they're actually more expensive than the competition.

I stopped trusting Amazon at step 3 and only shop there if they actually have the cheapest option. They act like grocery stores: advertise a low price on one item to get you in the door, but profit off the other items.
Why do they cover beer? Seems like alcohol companies did some work under the table...
Your definition of data is too narrow. The result of any experiment is just data. All the human brain has to work with is just data. Either there is enough information to distinguish correlation from causation analytically, or humans are actually incapable of distinguishing the two. That doesn't mean current analytic techniques are advanced enough to do it, just that it is possible for machines if it is possible for man.
I’m hearing more and more of kids in school that are unable to secure loans for years 3 and 4. They’re dropping out, paying on years 1 and 2.
Here is one from 2015.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9219581

will be good to know as of 2018
> OOPS! THAT PAGE CAN’T BE FOUND.
You’re kidding, right?

You’re commenting on this thread about Coinbase, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges. Seems very centralised.

I actually wonder (and I’m sure someone’s done the math), what would be the transaction cost and confirmation times of the Bitcoin network if it approached the number of transactions as the Mastercars or Visa networks?
The average lawyer makes around 60k to 70k. Borrowing 200k to make that is nonsensical.

School is too expensive now. Its a travisty fof the next generation.
There doesn't need to be competition if anyone can 'afford' it through a government-subsidized loan.

It's not exactly a shocking recent revelation either: https://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/18/opinion/our-greedy-colleg...

'ACCOUNTING FOR THE RISE IN COLLEGE TUITION' [PDF] http://www.nber.org/papers/w21967.pdf
And then I consider where those smaller airborne particles might land that could be ingested by people/animals. Say, in an open marketplace where there are produce/food vendors shooing Rhesus monkeys away.
I imagine autonomous bicycles using gyroscopes to stay stable, highly integrated camera's with environment comprehension (Waymo off-the-shelf chips) to redistribute them over the city at night.
I graduated nearly the same year as the dates listed in the article, and I find it hard to sympathize with the author.

Why did she go to private university? There's no shortage of public universities with substantially better financial terms unless you get a FULL RIDE to a private institution.

When she had $67000 she decided to take another $24000 loan? With a variable interest rate? In the year 2010, 2 years after the financial crisis of 2008 she didn't understand how a variable interest rate was disastrous? I need to either suspend disbelief to entertain that idea or deduce that the author was beyond clueless -- she was actively disinterested in her future.

There is zero useful introspection on lessons learned or things she could have done better. Her takeaway in all this:

> If I can appreciate anything about this struggle, it’s that it was ultimately in the pursuit of something bigger than I would have achieved if I had taken a job just out of high school in the Bronx.

I think many of us here agree there is an issue with predatory lending and student loans. The problem I have with this article is that it sets the debate back. For the civil rights movement, the NAACP very carefully considered and skipped a number of people to challenge segregation laws until Rosa Parks. This woman is no Rosa Parks.
Entrepreneurs Can Capitalize on the New Gig Economy
Harvest Moon
I think you've missed the point. Strip out the product names (which is all those node numbers are, as you say) and understand that the comment is still entirely correct - they are struggling with their outdated manufacturing method and now losing ground.
one of capitalism's greatest hits
Don't go wild on this, or I suppose you might end up with another condition, which could be worse:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achlorhydria
In addition to the sibling comments, it's worth noting that this would neither be instantaneous nor does quantum computing work by "trying all the solutions at once."

Some examples of refutations of this myth:

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3 (comic)

https://www.quora.com/How-does-quantum-computer-consider-all...
When it got this expensive. It's hard to imagine a private university providing enough value as a "learning institution" to justify the cost to the student.

Community college, on the other hand, is a wonderful learning institution--my local CC has continuing ed classes that are basically free for city residents, and anyone can learn nearly anything there, without going into life-altering debt.
Unless you're one of their users.
A basic personal finance class in high school would go a long way. Anyone take one of those in high school ( or even college )?
I would imagine is comes down to how many of the benefits you use.

No particular benefit of Prime solidifies my decision to subscribe but collectively a handful do.

I would imagine most long term members don't take advantage of all the Prime benefits but rather a select few that align with their habits.

The problem Amazon has to juggle is profitablity with members. I would guess if you used all of the benefits then Amazon might lose money on you. So Amazon has to price Prime such that it is appealing to as wide enough audience as possible to offset the loss incurred from people who maximize their benefit and at the same time offer benefits that are niche enough that not all members utilize them while at the same time perceived at potentially beneficial to all members.
Unfortunately, there are folks who jump right to the RCA, with often devastating impact upon their ability to deliver functional products reliably and on time. Moreover, when doing an RCA, you need to be able to objectively examine every aspect of the decision making, implementation, and execution tree. Not allowing every decision to be questioned and reviewed means you enable a route for poor decisions driven by other than business/technical needs to enter in.

The irony in this, is that these non-questionable, sacred-cow like requirements, which cannot be investigated without causing sturm und drang as well as profound political problems, are often themselves, the root cause of multiple/many problems that one encounters. That you cannot investigate the entire space of issues means that there will be regions of terra incognita for your analysis.

I've seen this at every single company I've ever worked at. Including my own startup. Much of what I learned about this came from my time at SGI/Cray, where specific holy grails could not be questioned.

It is very ... very ... hard, to admit that your systems could somehow be problematic. It is tremendously humbling to see conclusive proof. It changes your engineering mind set when you do accept this, from being defensive to something better. Your architectures improve, your assumptions are less WAG-ish.
>She's paid 20k as a waitress

no?

>When I finally got my first full-time office job at the start of 2013, it paid less than $20,000 a year
This is an interesting piece and a great read all the way through. _why was an enigmatic character in the Ruby community and his apparent 'infocide' bears writing about, especially wrapped in a narrative about learning to program and his apparent legacy in the wider Ruby community.

Sure he want's to be left alone, but that's not reason for flagging this article or calling it a 'disgrace'. It's not really about uncovering him at all, and the reporter doesn't even make contact.
Making Sense of Mortgages: The Problem, and the Opportunity
Hell, I would love to know about one. I’m sure they exist somewhere and I would love to know more about the logistics of it.
> Ultimately people should be taught to take responsibility and not that ignorance pays off.

You mean like the people who keep lending money to students who aren't going to be able able to pay it back?
Are you sure it wasn't just some larger set that included everyone at your firm? E.g. everyone in your industry, or everyone at your office park?
Correct link.

https://www.denverpost.com/2018/05/18/small-towns-rural-happ...
This may be an alternate explanation for what seem to be 3 out of 5 buyers in line at Apple iPhone launch events in NYC area being Chinese nationals with no English?

I assumed they were reselling locally in the NYC grey market electronics shops, but why all Chinese? Taking non-crippled phones back home, or making it easier for tourists to get in these shops, makes sense.
UK/England: branch libraries in outlying suburbs and small towns/out of town estates are closing as a result of changes in the local authority funding formula devised by the national government. The larger cities have a central library with a full range of services.

In the UK there is the inter-library loan service. As the name suggests, I can track down a reference to a book, then I can request the book via the inter-library loan service, where it is delivered to my local library. I can then borrow the book or consult it on the premises (depends on cost/rarity of the book). Most public libraries will charge a fee, usually a few pounds.

The COPAC library catalogue tells me which university libraries contain copies of the book I want to read which can speed up the inter-library loan turn around (usually 3 weeks).

https://copac.jisc.ac.uk/

To me this management of information that has not yet been digitised and that is not widely disseminated is very valuable now and again. Discovery and search made more efficient by free use of (expensively gathered) metadata on a public database.
Turn JavaScript off entirety, only enable it to specific sites.

Works 80% of the time, though. Many sites do client-side JS-based rendering.
I don't know if the lead/silver mix was different.

The paper specifically calls out mining activity around the Rhine as having significant impact on the lead signal, with a 2-5 fold greater impact compared to Spanish sites. The authors suggest that the 700s spike in lead pollution was driven by increased activity in France and Britain (which once again has a many fold greater impact on this measurement than in Spain).

Also, doing a cursory look at sources suggests that the eastern empire relied far more on gold and bronze coinage than silver, suggesting another possible source for the lack of an Eastern Empire signature.
Autopwn v2.0 – A Simple Bash Based Metasploit Automation Tool
This story is OVER a year old, the article is dated February 2017
Selenium Mobile JSON Wire Protocol Specification
…but they will still be selling individual non-subscription licenses through their own website, so anyone who wants to avoid a subscription can still do so.
This Is What Georgia Tech Thinks College Will Look Like in 2040
To me, there's nothing wrong with adding some fictional accounts to illustrate how you envision the site working and to create vibranancy in hope of attracting more users. It is what Reddit did and if Reddit is a good thing then that's what it took to make that good thing.

I'd put it this way, if faking users makes a better experience for actual users and actual users are your priority then this is a case where the ends ethically justify the means. It might even be the case at this stage that prioritizing a singular representation of yourself on the platform is putting your interests above those of the users. In any event, even if it doesn't work, fictionalizing users moves you out of your comfort zone and that's a good thing to inform your future decisions and projects.

Good luck.
Quote from the article: "As evidence, the research notes that Ebola virus has been found on the outside of face masks worn by health workers caring for victims of the disease. It also points out that the virus has been passed between animals via respiration. And the authors say that Ebola can infect certain cells of the respiratory tract, including epithelial cells, which line body cavities, and macrophages, a type of white blood cell that consumes pathogens.

The paper notes that breathing, sneezing, coughing and talking can release droplets of fluid from the respiratory tract that travel short distances and most likely cause infection by settling on a mucous membrane. Those actions also release smaller airborne particles capable of suspension in mid-air that can be inhaled by others. Technically, both qualify as aerosols, the paper says."

Consider where those smaller airborne particles might land that could be ingested by people/animals. Say, in an open marketplace where there are produce/food vendors shooing Rhesus monkeys away.
not every state has as an elite engineering state school like Georgia though :/

I got into GT out of state for CS but I'd end up paying like 40k/year so I decided against it.
article is 3 years old.