skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PgBouncer is basically a requirement of any production Postgres system, but I've always wondered why it simply wasn't part of the Postgres package itself? For instance, it means a dedicated EC2 instances is necessary for getting the most out of AWS RDS - even the whole point of RDS is to avoid managing that server..
Interesting chart enclosed in the SEC filing for LunaDNA, a company that will give you shares in exchange for your DNA and other personal health data.
Usually the HVAC system can’t handle this many bodies.

Also, OSHA has rules about the ratio of bathrooms to humans of either gender are available and I’m pretty sure some of these employers are way over the limit. Good argument for reducing density or at least increasing gender equality in your open office plan.
They're scared that it might become popular and cost them too much.

The airline's business model is to try to charge people from point to point, this scheme takes advantage of that fact to find savings.

The airlines could, instead, change how they charge (e.g. per land mile/per minute in the air) but then it becomes harder to justify why direct flights that are cheaper for the airline to run cost consumers more, not less. And why inefficient indirect flights cost consumers less in spite of being more expensive for the airlines.

Airlines need to keep their current business model to prop up their hubs, but they need hubs due to their current business model. If you invented airlines today (particularly with the new Airbus and Boeing aircraft coming on-tap with greater range) you'd see far fewer hubs, and more direct point to point flights.

This is airlines trying to slow the inevitable, which is that they need to evolve.
Fuck United, and any other company that wants to abuse the credit reporting system for this. How would they even prove you have a debt? I paid for a ticket, and the airline provided said ticket. Whether I choose to use the ticket or not should be entirely up to me, and choosing not to fly doesn't magically incur them extra debt that I'd be liable for.

This is especially ridiculous with how exorbitant ticket change fees are. I was in San Jose a few weeks ago and decided last minute to stay a few days longer in SF. It would have cost me 125 dollars to cancel or change my already booked SJC-SEA flight, and it would have netted me <90 dollars in credit so I was essentially paying 35 dollars for the privilege of telling Alaska that I wasn't going to fly with them. Of course I instead just skipped the leg and booked a new flight separately.
Nah, this isn't a legal debt that they can forward to a collection agency, as pointed out in the article. They can't legally ding your credit for this (you've paid all your actual outstanding obligations to them), and if they do, I imagine the counterclaims could be significant (reputational damage, monetary losses due to higher interest rates or ineligible loans, etc.).

Now, if this were the "social credit" system of a certain country, well, then maybe they really could blackmail you (because you violated a "social order" by playing ticketing games...).
We are quite literally running out of productive things to do so we (the collective group) are all currently micro-optimizing everything we can lay our hands on. It's like a pond that's shrinking with all the fish gasping for air.

A paradigm shift is necessary before we end up strangling ourselves.
Google has properly opened the path for games streaming to the web browser.
Being into the Cloud Gaming industry since 2012 we found this path was getting good enough and decided to start building a cooperative game streaming platform at Dixper. We have now it up and running at https://dixper.gg and we are seriously building not only streaming tech but great comunity and optimizing how games use your hardware resources to enable smooth gaming. Great news for all the industry!
This. A good manager is a force multiplier.
That doesn't contradict Pournelle's observation. The balance of power tends towards those who work for the organization in most firms.

The bigger question in my mind: why firms at all? If individual PMs are so great, why bother with employees? Wouldn't you rather just contract all the elements of a technical project to other folks for a fixed fee?

I do wonder what portion of good ol' boys and good ol' fashion nepotism tend to fill out the "PM" position on big firm's org charts.
The difference is that not taking a flight is like returning the fries to let someone else immediately buy them.
Digital IDs Are More Dangerous Than Thought
A tool for visualization and analysis of profiling data
I doubt United will prevail in there efforts. It's "Contract of Carriage"[1] rule 6, sub-section J is where they put in all the verbiage about how they think they should be able to penalize you for avoiding their fare structures. It is pretty bogus and I'd love to see it litigated, to do that you really would have to do this stuff enough to get them to take action against you citing that rule, and then (now that you have standing to sue) you would need to sue them. I would recommend setting this up early because their lawyers haven't yeat put in a mandatory mediation clause to this contract. When they do it will be harder.

Either way, I think they will lose. And when it becomes clear that they can't extract value this way from passengers it will cause ticket prices to change to more accurately reflect actual costs.

[1] Updated 9/27/18 with section 6.J --https://www.united.com/ual/en/us/fly/contract-of-carriage.ht...
Good on them for working hard to get affiliate points for a brand new Tesla. It took them working their butts off to get one.

I found the article to be full of unbiased information and also more personal info in the "ELECTREK’S TAKE" section.
I'm an outsider, but I read that there was a feeling of a democracy deficit happening.
> It's to fix the industry.

I'd love to see the industry fixed but I have very little belief that that will happen. And a dominant safe haven would have the same effect as fixing the industry in the longer term, after all, an industry that is predatory and that marginalizes half the talentpool available is very much ripe for disruption.

Karmijn is doing fine, and they are promoting gender diverse management teams and founders, not just females.
I also find myself doing a similar thing in loops - 'continue'ing early instead of wrapping everything in conditionals.
> create a bunch of data and upload it to the cloud. Once there, it's out of your control, and can be subpoenaed and used against you.

honestly don't know why anyone uploads to the cloud. there's tons of reasons not to, starting from the icloud hacks to [your favorite app]'s RCE bug.

it takes 5 seconds & $30 (pi) to spin up your own server. it's fun to do and at least you know the only possible F-up is between you, your linux server & your comprisable ISP
Hmm, not sure if I'm missing something here, but it seems like something's a bit off with the menu on mobile with this site. When I tried to open it on a smartphone, all I got was a white block with a bit of text in, and on responsive view on a desktop it simply doesn't load at all.

Seems like that may be a bug you may want to look into there.
Twilio to Acquire SendGrid for $2B
Market cap is meaningless due to spot price and order book spoofing on unregulated exchanges.

Without 3rd party audits, all the cryptocurrency exchanges can be assumed to be operating fractional reserves and wash trading.

Notice how once Chinese exchanges were forced to implement a fee on trades, their entire trading volume nearly disappeared.

See the integrity report from the New York Attorney Generals office:

https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/vmii_report.pdf
I'm a TA for a RL class and would love to hear more about your online course. If you have any content that's ready for viewing, that would be great.
Yes, correct. Many of my friends have experienced the same. The genders share the fact that we are flawed human beings.
Knights of the Old Republic had a pretty great twist. You still wind up being the hero, but it's still a real pull the rug out moment.
All of the valley is in a bidding war for talent right now. I don't think there has ever been a better time to be a software engineer.

There was a while when startups were more attractive for compensation than FAANGs, but the big companies really stepped up their game.

Nowadays you can work at a startup and hope to make a few million dollars in the unlikely event that it IPOs and you got in early enough to have a lot of shares, or you can work at a FAANG and be guaranteed to make a million dollars every 4-5 years, or even more frequently, and you'll have better benefits too.
They can threaten to ruin your credit. Legally they can't trash your credit and create fake debt.
I'll ask her about it. Thanks!
Offers of career advancement in exchange for sexual favors are really really bad, regardless of whether or not someone took them up on it, and regardless of whether they benefited from it later. Not just from the victim's perspective- the person who made the offer of a quid pro quo is just literally a shitty manager or investor and I would question every other aspect of their leadership ability and character. If they can't figure out the blindingly obvious, simple stuff, who knows what other blind spots they have. It's a huge red flag about someone's judgement.

For an investor, their main professional task is to determine if someone is a good risk for investment (possibly with other people's money, who are trusting this person to make good decisions). If their criteria is a quid pro quo for sexual favors rather than whether or not someone's startup is a good place to invest, they're not doing their job. They're doing the opposite of their job.

Likewise, a manager who promises advancement in exchange for sexual favors is advancing someone based on their willingness to sleep with them rather than whether or not the person is a good candidate for advancement. Again, not only is that manager doing a shitty job at being a manager, they're almost doing the worst possible job at being a manager. It's akin to promoting someone based on their personal loyalty to the manager rather than their ability to do the job. It happens all the time but that doesn't make it any better.

TL;DR, even ignoring whether or not someone is a victim in this situation, and not caring about any of the moral or ethical aspects, the harasser has still shown themselves to not be worthy of their job. The most selfish, amoral interpretation of the situation still demands getting rid of the harasser, even if all you care about is business success and are willing to overlook everything else.
You could say "the system failed" the American people, and I would agree. We got a bad justice. However, this system and this process has nothing to do with Ms. Ford, and it did not "fail" her. She should have received her justice a long time ago, from a completely different authority. Perhaps the police, the courts, her parents, the school system, or whoever failed her. Those are completely different entities, and they have nothing to do with selecting Supreme Court justices. Having some justice dude approved or not by the Senate is not something that can possibly answer for teenage sexual assault.

If Kavanaugh had been charged and convicted at the time of the alleged assault, and had never become a lawyer let alone a judge, the reptiles would have just selected someone with identical values as the next justice.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18222888
The airline didn't lose any money.

The airline was paid as agreed for the itinerary.

The seat on the last leg of the flight will be empty, which actually saves the airline money since it will take less fuel to transport less weight.

And the airline can resell that empty seat to a standby passenger and double-dip if they wish.
The sad answer is these behaviors just aren’t all that high risk, despite what “#himtoo” would have you believe. Take the most extreme form of sexual assault: rape. The best statistics we have(1) say that only 31% of all rape is even reported at all. Out of 1000 rape occurrences 994 (!) times the perpetrator will see ZERO jail time. It’s hard to find equivalent statistics for murder, but compare that to a murder “close” rate of 56% in the US, as reported by the FBI.

There are obviously a hundred shades of gray between rape and an unwanted compliment. So if rape is the most extreme, and the most risky, and you have a 70% chance of literally nothing happening and the chance of seeing actual jail time is statistically zero... this whole category of behaviors is definitely not “high risk”.

1. Statistics compiled by the RAINN institute which uses the US Justice Department’s reporting for its main data sources. More info here: https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system
You'd think that, but you can write off some amount of that as a loss. I don't think it means, "I should have gotten $1m for this space this year because that's what I think its worth and I didn't get that so $1m write-off," but something to this affect.

This is happening in cities big and small.
>BTW, slavery STILL exists in many of those parts of the world.

We know it still exists and one example is at the fault of the USA there is now open slave trade in Libya [1]. We also still have legal slavery in our prison system as a law. 500,000 dead in Iraq due to illegal wars, laughed at and claimed as 'good' [2]. Cambodia, Laos, Iraq, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Korea, Libya, the list doesn't end! The world would likely be a much better place if the USA didn't have it's fingers in everything, everywhere, nearly every country, killing people in mass, all around the world for decades [3][4]. The first chapter, the preface even, of Noam Chomsky's 'Manufacturing Consent' goes into extraordinary detail about USA's history of genocide and atrocities all around the world, and it's all totally sourced in full. I suggest everyone read it.

I've seen estimates between 6 million and 20 million killed by USA in wars since WW1, and that's only by war and conflict, most absolutely provoked by the USA.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S2qtGisT34

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM0uvgHKZe8

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-do-we-ignore-the...

[4] https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrociti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declarationism . I also found http://www.members.tripod.com/candst/doisussc.htm which says "that there are at least 100 United States Supreme Court cases that mention the words "Declaration of Independence" somewhere in the dicta of that opinion. Yet, not one single case can be found where the authority for the holding in that case was the Declaration of independence."
Why do you believe that we are that near peak oil?
That's a fine perspective. While I do think catcalling should be illegal, I don't think it should carry the same punishment. Never the less, we're still talking about workspace harassment here.
Dunno about Manhattan, but Toronto used to rebate property taxes on unused real estate.

The solution is simple here. A high property tax rate on unused real estate.

Who would vote against that?
Blaming the users is usually not the most effective way forward.
Ask HN: Is Ruby on Rails still worth learning?
I'm looking to learn more about web software. I like the all in one approach of the Rails framework, but fear it may be losing popularity. Any thoughts? If you were to advise someone today what the best approach to learning web development would be, what direction/resource/book would you recommend?
> Ahh yes, the "known false debts act of 1789". 


Fair Credit Reporting Act of 1970:

> Your creditor must not supply information to a CRA that it knows (or should know) is inaccurate. That includes:

> - reporting a debt as charged off when you settled it or paid it in full

> - misstating the balance due

> - reporting late payments when you paid timely

> - listing you as a debtor on an account when you were only the authorized user, or

> - supplying credit information on an account where identity theft was previously reported (or failing to maintain a reasonable procedure for you to report identity theft).

Violations can result in civil damages[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Credit_Reporting_Act#Civi...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Credit_Reporting_Act#Furn...
Ivo – A teletype no more (2011)
> What happens to the world if the price of gasoline spikes 50-100% in a mere year or two?

An uptick in EV sales, I'd guess. Gasoline was about 55% more expensive less than a decade ago, recall. We survived. I don't think it would get all that interesting until gasoline gets around $10 or more per gallon in today's prices.
a better question is who owns our digital interactions. currently it's generally not us.
Rust and Bitter C++ Developers with Jim Blandy [podcast]
Why stop at storefronts?
Falsely damaging someone's reputation in writing is libel. I think if more companies abused the credit rating system, they and the credit bureaus would see a lot more libel claims.

It would even make sense to mechanize these libel claims via a bunch of templates, sort of like how airhelp.com works.
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/01/05/using-real-names...
No, the group that's in the room supports them, but also considers them strategically unreliable and a bit mentally unstable. Yes, your average urban socialist group does sometimes co-organize with Antifa or anarchist black blocs, to some extent.

So then they are fine with crimes and violations of human rights done in their name. That clarifies their true ethical positions and that they are not principled in their "activism."

Which makes it amazing how often the cops downright falsify their reason for hitting or shooting someone!

The judiciary well knows that there is a temptation to lie when violence has entered the picture. The way to fight this is to be the side that is above lies and deception. Antifa and anarchist black blocs have demonstrated that they aren't above immoral acts, as those who know the history and sometimes co-organize with them.
My little one-man indie open source space game supports multi-crew, pilot (navigator), turret gunner, engineering, comms, damage control, science (scanning) and game-master stations. It's called Space Nerds In Space. I also lack sufficient PvE content and PvP density, but I'm raking in $17 a month on patreon.
Mattermost wont work correctly with SSL, admin account dissappears, no control
Link breaks and goes to old unsecure url even though is not anywhere in script. just buggy it seems in univention. Admin account disappeared, no console access, wont go smoothly over https, not secure, is buggy
I'm really glad to see this on the front page of HN. My company is building API-based security tools to help medical device vendors prevent these kinds of vulns. There is huge risk in this class of IoT device, but not a ton of engineering effort going into addressing it.
The longer this post has been up, the more I'm realizing that there are a ton of games that fit this mold. There's no massive $100Mil+ budget games that really do it, and that's fine. These games aren't meant to be massive money makers, but more expand on the types of stories you're able to tell in the medium.
> There is an unsavory political/propaganda purpose to putting catcalling and rape in the same category

Unless one views combatting unwanted sexual conduct to which people are subjected without consent as an unsavory purposes, no, there isn't.

> The eliding of crimes of vastly differing degrees of severity is another warping of law enforcement and the judiciary which totalitarian states have used to oppress individuals.

True, but irrelevant, for several reasons: first, this isn't a law enforcement issue; second, while the category of discussion overlaps with criminal conduct, it is not a discussion of crime as such, but of a category united by shared features not incliding criminality; third, no one is suggesting equivalency or arguing for ignoring the distinctions between acts within the category while discussing the broad category.
If it's hosting one site there isn't much point in trying to obfuscate what that site is.
Isn’t that what GDPR aims to do?
We talked this summer in a wonderfull warm night about it. Usually there are some kind of bugs around at nighttime. But there was not even one around. Our idea was, because of all light is LED now, or something like this.
Acquihires from 2005 to Today: From Hype to Pragmatism (2016)
No matter what script config I have treid, alwasy gets this error: Please check connection, Mattermost unreachable. If issue persists, ask administrator to check WebSocket port.

Really not impressed have wasted a ton of time and cant even keep a straight admin account
Imagine if "page views" of your friends profiles were leaked...
The weekend submission of this article had a comment with a marketing to law enforcement video linked
https://www.dropbox.com/s/x83gyclt497fi8t/Ring%20Neighborhoo...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18215293
Technically, the equivalent is telling them to "keep the fries" since airlines can then re-sell your ticket or offer it to standby customers.
"Transportation makes up the largest share of emissions."1)

Transportation is still only 28%, slightly more than a quarter. Electricity & "industry" account for 50%.

Further, I remember a discussion with the president of Mercedes who was pushed for cleaner cars. He mentioned that one ocean-going freight vessel pollutes more than 450k cars combined (here is an article in that same trend (2).

I love the notion of quiet, electric cars, but the "industry" that pollutes these cars, and the "electricity" that is needed to charge these cars still accounts for 50% of the pollution. So, until ocean freighters are cleaned up, the net effect on pollution will likely be zero.

1) https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...
2) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1229857/How-...
I will always recommend the 'Amish Hackers' article by Kevin Kelly [0] which describes the sophisticated relationship the Amish have with technology.

[0] https://kk.org/thetechnium/amish-hackers-a/
Twilio to acquire SendGrid in all-stock deal valued at $2B
This is insane on a whole other level, because United profits when you don't get on that 2nd leg.

If they're overbooked, they avoid having to pay to bump someone.

They incur less in fuel costs, as the plane lands in its destination city with a slightly greater fuel load.

Some passenger somewhere has a more pleasant flight because they have an empty seat next to them.
We are forced to drive and consume less, avoiding climate change extinction? Sounds like a thing to hope for rather than a concern.
I wonder how much internal sites, hardware appliances, IPMIs, and other infrastructure hardware play into that number.
Expanding to spend the money that they've raised, perhaps? After all if they've already raised it, it doesn't really matter what they're spending it on. In normal game dev they would have to make a game that people wanted to buy.
Figuring out what to do is the hardest part. Engineering is typically the least significant part of the success or failure of a company.
Most ISPs have dynamic IPv4 addresses, but IPv6 removes that necessity. This WILL help tracking.
A catastrophic decline has also been reported in Germany: https://phys.org/news/2017-10-three-quarters-total-insect-po...
I imagine it's encrypted over the wire, but since the model is "processed in the cloud", it has to be decrypted to do anything useful with it.

I suppose they could not log anything that could allow correlation to a user/ip, but that creates a different security problem.

I don't see a real technical solution here other than doing all the processing locally.
Taking "machine learning" to the next level, I suppose.