skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Markets cannot incentivize conservation. They are designed to maximally use all available resources. In most cases it's a good thing, but in few cases it is catastrophic. (Think about it - the more is the resource being conserved, the more relatively abundant it becomes, and the cheaper it becomes in the market. The conservation of resource can only be done if it's use and extraction is punished, and free market only gives positive incentives.)

(That's why the markets cannot solve global warming for example, and that's why free market fundamentalists are often unable to believe that global warming is happening.)
Umm in 2015/2016 Stanford's tuition was $46k while Harvard was $45k.

If it's not Ivy League why am I paying more to go there then the hallmark ivy league school?
Are vectorized random number generators actually useful? – Daniel Lemire's blog
> So, I was wondering why they didn't use fossil itself

Fossil is a SCM for files. LiteTree is a branching RDBMS.
Yesterday, as I was taking a left turn with my motorcycle on a big intersection with flashing red signals, I couldn't help but wonder if I'd be able to communicate with self driving cars that it's my turn. It was chaotic and required some level of consensus among the vehicles involved.
Laurene Powell Jobs pushes back on her stepdaughter's memoir
> and someone from 1994 would likeky have little trouble with windows 10, or even an iphone (after getting past the touchscreen).

The touch screen is a huge thing, that is like saying "after getting past the mouse" going from the 80s to the 90s.

Can you imagine trying to teach someone from 1994 about an iPhone? "So you need to tap and hold on some UI elements. No there isn't an indication which ones, you just sorta guess and get used to it. Yeah like right clicking, except slower, and the menu options aren't consistent. Oh some other elements you tap, but you tap HARD on. Some elements you tap and hold hard on, and here is the manual for all the ways you can tap, double tap, tap and hold, and some other gestures, for that one single button you have. If you get a newer iPhone, the button is gone and instead there are just magic swipes you do from off screen in different directions and distances to get different behaviors."

And then try explaining how the file system thing is all sorts of weird.
I've been looking over a year for something reasonably good and not as messy as Omni. I didn't upvote and it might be manipulated but I did enter my email.
Probably not as bad as if your last name is Null.
https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/

In the early 80s I worked with a guy who wanted an unlisted phone number (back in the days of paper telephone directories). He was really miffed at the idea that the phone company would charge him an extra $10 (or similar) per year for this "service". ("Ten dollars to NOT do something?!? That's extortion!") He couldn't believe this so he asked for a list of service charges which they mailed to his home. Apparently changing your name was free. So, for several years you could call "Kirk, James T., Capt." I guess he showed them.
Bonus: saved $10 per year.
Extra bonus: frequent crank calls at all hours, for free.

Funny thing is I can't remember his real name.
> In this benchmarking test are the data durability guarantees the same for both LiteTree and vanilla SQLite?

Who cares if you get more bongoliomarks.
Switching.social – Ethical alternatives to popular sites and apps
The terms are confusing for a non-American.

My understanding is that in the USA you can't buy a "fully-automatic rifle", which is what the rest of the world calls a machine gun. Nor can you buy an "automatic weapon" which is a gun that looks like an automatic rifle. You can buy a semi-automatic AR-15, which can shoot 45 rounds or so per minute.

As an Aussie, I'm also cool with not allowing people to have AR-15s. A round or two a minute should be enough for most people.
I understand your frustration, but we do not yet have a universal platform to facilitate OTP. There is also hesitation about using SMS for OTP as it is trivial to take over a persons phone number. Not everyone has a smart phone, myself included. I believe the issue is a bit more complex than passwords vs. OTP.

Also there is the issue of not all services not supporting OTP, SAML, OAuth, etc. Things are slowly evolving in that direction, but there will be services that require passwords for a very long time. There are still services that do not even support encryption.

All of that said, you could certainly provide an incentive to your user base to use MFA/OTP. Blizzard did this by giving players more inventory space if they enabled SMS and hardware tokens on their account. That won't convert everyone and they still have to support password algorithms.
California becomes second US state to commit to clean energy
ETL tools just can't compete with a tool that forces code to do anything. It might seem backwards, but we've abandoned all non-code environments and force pure-code for configuration for all of our pipelines.
It's a great experiment work, but I don't think it is practical. Remember UML to code generation? That was/is much more detailed and I am not sure if it's even used nowadays.
Very accessible!
Why? It was hosted on GitHub before Microsoft purchased it.
What Should You Do with Disengaged Employees?
"Look Matty, I'm computing!"

I've never seen this video so far in. Made me realise how terrible hierarchal things are, especially with a mouse. Click, Click, Click, Click, Click, Click.

Give me "locate", or Mac's spotlight, any day of the week.
all i remember about the microsoft network, is that it would kill my compuserve setup by putting a new winsock.dll file in place. it was the only file that windows 95 would detect as "corrupt" when i reinstalled the compuserve one.

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs201/projects/corpo...
It's so dangerous to ride bikes in cities nowadays that that only the most dangerous bikers dare to ride.

If we had the infrastructures to protect the non-racers, you would have non-racers on the road and would feel like that the vast majority of bikers are mellow.
I really like it, but I haven't renewed as I can't read the books on my kindle (and with some of the technical books kindle reading isn't the best anyway). I hear my employer might have a license though which is great. Either way I'm waiting to take full advantage of it again when I have my iPad learning setup ready to go.
I'm 34, and that's not my experience.

>According to a new survey from Discover, millennials are outperforming older generations when it comes to saving for their future. In a national study of 2,205 people, Discover finds that 81 percent of millennials are currently saving in some capacity, compared to 74 percent of Generation Xers and 77 percent of baby boomers.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180110005313/en/Dis...
Valimail offers US election boards and campaigns its anti-spoofing service free
Original discussion was flagged[0]. Anybody happen to know why?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17864799
I worked at an ISP in the '90s, and our first paid customer was John Blank. On several occasions, a well-meaning biller would delete his account because it was "obvious a test".
Most social / economic critique is steeped within the system of its focus, which doesn't negate the critique.
Same in LA:

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-del-mar-sea-leve...

Herb Montgomery and his wife, Janet, have lived in Del Mar's low-lying Beach Colony just east of Camino Del Mar for 20 years.

He knows the ocean is creeping closer to his property and he says the city has an obligation to protect his home, valued at $3.2 million, from the rising waters

Things are going to get ugly down the road.
The problem is that the smaller, curious topics—like puffins—tend to get sucked into the nearest black hole, i.e. the nearest large generic controversy. If we allow this, then the site will consist of the same few comments about the same few topics over and over. That's bad for intellectual curiosity. It also causes the site to burst into flames—not good for curiosity either.

I called this 'dumb' above because you can reliably see such threads deteriorate as you read down and to the right.
This is specifically related to business internet price caps, and the court said the FCC has the right to define the boundary for 'competitive' as being within 1/2 mile of a competitor.

Yes, it's not logical, and it's nonsensical, but it's not exactly as dire as the headline makes it sound, and it doesn't relate to residential broadband.
She should change her first name to
'or 1=1;drop table customers;commit;--', sit back, and watch the fireworks.

by the way, best use case of this I've ever seen? It was pasted on a sticker on a car's bumper, right below the license plate, in a nice easy to read/OCR font. Now, I've no idea if the speed/traffic/tracking cameras read it and acted on it or not, but the idea amused me.
Since they’re calling it go 2 perhaps they could just make an exception for println by having an alternative with no error (like map access with k,ok or just k).
Health mobile apps are coming of age
Seems like in front of a glacier's path when it's about to start growing is a bad place to put something that you want to survive for future generations to read.
Vice is getting their articles from imgur now?

https://imgur.com/gallery/MeMGmx4
Another reason: Your tasks/dags aren't portable from one system to another. Your tasks+dags are your code base. You can't create something and share it with others very easily.
Shameless plug: nightfall.org is up and running fairly stable (again) and has a quite nice web client at https://nightfall.org/webclient.htm
I definitely didn't mean to pick on you personally and am sorry if I came across that way. For more explanation see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17870574.
The value `null` and the value `"null"` are not the same thing in Javascript, and `null == 'null'` is `false`.
That’s funny that the municipal speed limit for a 200 sq mile area including urban and rural densities is 30 mph. What a coincidence that most of the roads just so happen to have conditions that 30 mph is always the right speed. It’s 30 mph in the city which seems pretty reasonable but in fact seems too fast in some parts (this is an old non grid city)... meanwhile oh they bump it to 35 mph for a county road that is suburban to rural and two lanes wide in each direction. That same basic road with similar traffic patterns and construction is 45 mph the next county over. And then.. the next state over everything urban is 25 now.. even though that state gets a lot less rain and snow.

And explain to me how the laws of physics or “science” change across state lines. Because if you’ve ever driven from one state to the next in the US you will quickly learn that each DOT has its own theory of how to do things and how to assign speeds. The PA turnpike is 70 mph now and I refuse to believe you have any science to back up why that 70 mph is more appropriate than the 65 mph for the NYS thruway which is wider, straighter, flatter, better lit , in overall better shape throughout the state...also why is the speed 65 in bumblefuck as well as an hour outside of nyc (I lived through the politics of northeast road transportation and bud shuster so spare me your science counterargument, I already know it’s a pile).

I feel like you are or might be related to a traffic engineer and I honestly don’t want to hurt your feelings.
VR ironically might fit the exact definition that he's going for with the iPhone as being a "real trend."

His friends, and many others, definitely have let their headsets catch dust. But there is a core that does use them every day, and probably won't stop any time soon, and it's certainly being put to work in non-gaming use cases.

I think he's being properly cautious, though, using the date as qualifier.

Windows Mobile phones were out for years well before the iPhone was, and were pretty similar in terms of capability and even hardware, but never reached its type of traction.

When it comes down to it, there were only a few key features and a lot of polish (many still argue over how much more polished it really was) which differentiated the iPhone to go on to sell billions, versus competing products from Palm and Microsoft partners to sell a hundredth of that.

Even in retrospect, it's not straightforward to pin the how and why. Back in 2007, it would have been very hard to guess correctly. It's hard to fault people who dismissed the iPhone as being yet another failed mobile project, and also hard to fault people who thought that PocketPC's would revolutionize computing.
Dropbox dropping linux support
Reminds me of the bank I used to write code for.
* Correct. Adding a column requires providing a value for that column, and it will generally use NULL or the default value of the column when doing so. It does that because it has to (a column must have a value even if it's NULL). The only other time you may see DDLs "changing" data is certain data type changes. For example, if you change an approximate numeric data type to a precise numeric data type (e.g., float vs decimal) or vice-versa or some other data type with different levels of precision (e.g., SQL Server datetime vs datetime2), but you may still get errors or warnings.

* Correct. Adding a constraint or unique index will always require scanning the data to complete the transaction to ensure that it's consistent with the new rules. It's safe to assume that modifying the schema of a table itself in essentially any way will always require an exclusive table lock to complete. Even creating an index will often lock a table. PostgreSQL does allow you to create some indexes without a lock with the CONCURRENTLY option [0] and other RDBMSs may have similar options, but that's an additional feature that you'll want to check in your specific implementation with their own caveats.

* Correct. The design of the relational model which traditional SQL RDBMSs implement as a whole is to focus on ACID [1] compliance and strict determinism. It's focused on being correct first and foremost, and things like performance and availability take a backseat to that (which is where NoSQL data stores step in with different focuses). You wouldn't want to have that kind of focus on a social media site where it's more important to be available first and who cares if a bit of data is lost or broken or out of date now and then, but a financial, government, or medical system must store data correctly and must correctly retrieve data that it claimed to store correctly. Accuracy is paramount in those systems. This is one reason why DBAs have fairly universal reputations as extremely cautious perfectionists (the other reason is that if you don't design your tables and normalize your data it becomes extremely difficult to work with down the line).

MySQL is somewhat notorious for breaking many of the above rules, especially prior to MySQL 5.0. That is half the reason why it tends to have such a poor reputation among DBAs (the other reason being that Oracle is a terrible vendor). MySQL used to allow you to store invalid dates, would silently modify or truncate data rather than error, etc. It's much, much better now, but reputations are hard to repair in a world of strict rules and deterministic functions.

[0]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/sql-createindex.h...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID_(computer_science)
Active Desktop came with IE4, worked just as badly on Win95.

As a concept it wasn't terrible, but with machines of the day it was massively unstable and a resource hog, and almost every home user was on dialup, which meant that there was no access unless you were actively using the internet.
Blame everyone who upvoted this clickbait low-quality article to... over 200 points. Jesus
You can message the moderators
Even when I was a kid, my parents would be speeding and yelling at other cars that were speeding much faster than them. Perhaps those exact words weren't used, but they were definitely complaining about people driving too fast.
> author choose to paint Magnetic as better alternative to Flash (in capacity dimension)

I'm having trouble finding where in the article that occurred.

To me, it seemed to ignore flash/SSD, as the principle premise was that tape survives due to its low cost (at scale), so only the highest-density HDDs were mentioned.
Even following at a safe distance, if you stop suddenly, they will have to stop suddenly. The point is, don't stop suddenly unless you HAVE to.

Try to be smooth and predictable.
Facebook employee group champions “political diversity”
You could probably recreate that with a web scraper and browser plugin:

Use the bloated webpage several times while a learning algorithm watches which links you click. Once it's trained, it then renders the document in an invisible frame buffer, extracts the clickable links, and presents them to you on a clean UI.

If privacy weren't a concern, the plugin could aggregate clicks to the same site among different users and learn much faster. So it watches 500 users visit yelp.com and notices none of them click on the ad or the privacy policy, so the ad link us stripped from the simplified view.

Something similar could be done with news sites. Render that bloat off screen, extract the article, render it in a 1990's style page (or just a json file that can be rendered however you like, say in lynx)
Sure, but you are still relying on the fact that other people never make mistakes so if you are not keeping the appropriate distance you are counting on other people to drive predictable all the time which will never be the reality (medical emergency, dropping your coffee in your lap,...)
California regularly survives 6.0 earthquakes with minimal damage, because our building codes require earthquake-safe construction. For example, the 2008 Chino Hills quake, at 5.5 intensity, caused almost no damage other than the unsecured contents of store shelves falling onto the floor.

In contrast, a slightly stronger quake in DC (5.8) caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to structures, including to the Washington Monument, because the local building codes did not contemplate earthquakes.
I love Dr Bronner's, but I haven't been able to turn it into a decent shampoo. Even after mixing it with different things. It's a bit too drying and my scalp develops a thick sebum layer.

It's a great handwash and all-purpose cleaner. It's good as a bodywash, but too drying. I'm trying to find some good probiotic soap as a replacement.

For Dr Bronner's to work effectively and cheaply, I think it's key to dilute and to use a foaming pump.
How can crypto get ready for quantum computers?
Relevant: https://www.reddit.com/r/xboxone/comments/9a0wuc/my_name_is_...
No offense, but before I take counter advise from a stranger, care about to share your credibility?
A explanation for why carving out exceptions for evil people in open source licenses ultimately harms the ecosystem:

- http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8106

- https://www.fsf.org/patrons/licensing/20050211.html
No. Simply providing two ways to executate with 256bit or 512bit ALUs is not enough to prevent side channels, you can still time the execution time to read the side channel.

The key to closing the side channel is not allowing speculated instructions to trigger the activation of the 512bit ALUs. Hold off for a few cycles until execution of those instructions is confirmed.
Why Open Source Works for the Renewable Energy Sector
Do I hear Kai Ryssdal?
How to Secure Microservices on AWS with Cognito, API Gateway, and Lambda
Who has used FitPay around here?
I think there's a legitimate desire in wanting to avoid "politics". It's a more specific instance of avoiding the trap described by 'perfect is the enemy of good'. Here's a good Tumblr post to which I linked earlier today in a similar HN thread:

- [The Grey Tribe — Activism, Accessibility, Setting Good...](https://the-grey-tribe.tumblr.com/post/175038067648/activism...)
Encapsulation. It doesn't look like you can separate private and public variables there.
Already discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17732912

And your title is misleading at best. Please don't editorialize, and if you do, don't do so dishonestly.
I think it negates the critique because one has defined a different level or participation for oneself than what is allowed to those being critiqued. When Microsoft has any hand in the activities of I. C. E., that's bad. But if I add to Microsoft's business either by participating in their other activities (e. g., GitHub) or adding to a network effect, that's okay? Perhaps it's an heavy-handed version of "clean hands", but I see hypocrisy in saying, "these are bad people and we do not want to associate with them...unless we need publicly-accessible source control."
Do you read any kinds of books on how to get better?

I am addicted to them. As a kid I used to read books on judo, karate, the guitar, programming, and how to be a spy.

I now read books on startups, investing, programming and writing.

The actual improvement comes from the practice, but I still feel the books and advice play a critical role. They can do the following:

1. They pump me up to go and practice.

2. They actually demonstrate particular exercises or thought experiments.

3. They just get me thinking about the particular item

4. They make me fell less alone because others are thinking about it

5. They make the activity seem important in the life affirming sense of it is worth my time

I think all we can ask of "startup advice" is that it fill a similar niche.
I have some older hard disk drives, and none of my current hardware will recognize the drives, even though the interface cable fits.

Ditto for my 5.25" floppy drives.

I finally threw away my old magtapes because there is no way to read them.

I threw away my zip disks for the same reason. And my MD disks. And my old tape cartridges from the 90s - no way to read them.

My old computers I retired in perfect working order will no longer boot (probably bad capacitors, who knows).

VHS and LaserDisc players are no longer made.

The only long term solution I've found is to buy new hard disks every year and copy the data forward.
Check Point gets a fifth-generation snub from Wikipedia
Taxes are usually used in markets to act as "punishments". A carbon tax or a cap-and-trade system would effectively use markets to stop global warming.
This is trauma inducing. Well done
First name Seymour?
I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, not wanting your work to be used for purposes you deem evil seems commendable.

On the other hand, imagine how a trend of this could look. Library X is off-limits for companies doing GMO. Library Y is off-limits for advertising companies. Database X can't be used by anyone who contracts with the defense department. And the restrictions are updated as various issues come into the news.

In that case, using open source would suddenly be very risky. What if your company is deemed bad by someone who makes something you depend on?

The rational move would be to use proprietary software, whose standard is "whoever pays us".
Of course. But we didn't really start off by arguing about state-level beliefs. You claimed the people most affected by sea level rise least believe in it--presumably as a dig at republicans (haha they're so blinkered by ideology they can't even see their own self interest!) And I claim that, no, republicans mostly do not live on the coasts, are not the most affected, and thus there is no tension between their ideology and their self-interest.
Our tools have gotten more complex because our requirements have grown with them. People might say they want a simple CRUD app, but expectations grow very quickly.