skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MySQL is a fully featured RDBMS. An example would be enterprise system or websites.

SQLite is also a RDBMS but a lightweight one, it doesn't require it's own process, clustering or user management unlike MySQL or others RDBMS. SQLite consist of a single file and a library to make your application interact with it. The typical example is storing bookmarks on a web browser, or minor database in mobile apps.

SQL is the language standard to interact with RDBMS. While it's the same language, it has minor non-standard variations flavors (like Microsoft's Transact-SQL).

NoSQL is a broad term to refer to databases that are less restricted on the database's model associations than a relational one.
Beyond Rational Idiotism
Programmer Anarchy [video]
"You'll have kids/idiots trying to steal and shoot these things down." agree. the fact people can steal it is an issue.
And do you think that an intelligent woman is going to appreciate being wolf-whistled? (hint: she doesn't).
Ive been thinking alot about the ethics of it and its really hard. Personally id love to live forever but i am not sure if any form of meaningful live extension is due within my generation (i am 30 now). Probably not. Would be kind of sad to be the last gen to have normal lifespans though. On the other hand dying from non natural causes in a world like that would be even more dramatic.
Looking at these data:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dio...

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=USA+total+primary+energ...

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=USA+vs+India+coal+consu...

USA should make do with one gas-guzzling truck less per person, instead of bullshitting their pseudo-intellectual "green" preaching on India and China.
The argument of stealing a package is no different than following around UPS trucks to steal them.
BTW, you don't have any contact info here or (publicly visible) in your profile, do you probably won't get very much of a response.
You really need an EE or CompSci degree these days. That's the first point of call.

I don't have either but it was a little different when I started. I managed to build a reputation up on the side and go from there. Eventually people stop asking about qualifications.

EE is probably more important than a comp sci education for embedded work. Its a fairly complicated field which deals with things far below the abstraction of a machine.

If anyone mentions the word Arduino though, stop listening there and find someone else. They're assumed to be like the real world but are faaaar from it.
Instead, only the largest companies can defend patents, which is just as bad, or worse.

Patent application fees should reflect the real cost of processing the application. If improving patent quality requires an increased processing cost, then this should happen, since not doing so unreasonably increases future litigation costs for everyone. Subsidizing small companies' applications might then be reasonable if we want to promote startups and smaller research groups, but there's no reason to subsidize the largest companies' applications.
Sorry to hear about you being fired. Hit me up directly (email in profile) and I'll ping you a copy of a guide to going freelance I wrote
What would we need more life for? To consume more experiences, people and things? Do you really need 100 years to become what you are, learn empathy and letting go, and to get some perspective? Personally I think if you can't hack it in 50 years, you can't hack it in 5000 either. Health is nice, youth is fun, but living longer for the sake of living longer is something I pity rather than envy.
Yes. There's not much to this article. Same goes for a kid shooting it. It would just like a kid shooting a car or a person. The law provides protection. I suspect regulation will be the biggest obstacle - as it already is in the US.
Some people "bet" on concept of accelerating progress. Also the ageing population issue has to be solved somehow. Making people immortal and work forever sounds like good option.
I think you've misunderstood the point of the signature.

If they drop it next door, they note which house they dropped it at and also have a signature to show someone actually took it.

The point is not to show that a particular person received the package, but that someone received the package. 99.9% of the time that's enough. If it wasn't and was impacting their bottom line, they'd have started taking photos of recipients by now.
The Secret to QuizUp's Record Setting Viral Growth
By letting guys be guys, does that mean that the ones not whistling are not guys?
I couldn't agree more. Paying retail brokers is a rip off. Low cost ETFs are the way to go. Buy HDV ETF.
By air? Surely what we need is a hyperloop for sandwiches?

The toast sandwiches can be prepared anywhere in the world, then sent under the ocean in little magnetically accelerated capsules. Because the capsules are travelling in a vaccume, your sandwich would arrive still warm.
Lets leave aside everything else. One Indian's per capita emission should be exactly equal to one American's per capita emission. Isn't that justice?

The world's per capita emission in 2010 was 3 times that of India. US emits 10 times more than us on a per capita basis. It befuddles me. HN please explain how India is in the wrong here?
>It's all well and good for the unmanned vehicles to fly to a particular GPS site, but how does it then find the package's intended recipient?

The drones could be almost fully automated - fly to this GPS point above the person's house, at which point control is handed to a pilot for the landing & package drop.

>How is the transfer of the package enacted? What stops someone else stealing the package along the way?

I'd imagine the same way it's done today, the same way USPS/UPS handles packages - by dropping them on my porch and hoping my neighbors are honest.

>And what happens when next door's kid decides to shoot the drone with his BB rifle?

He gets a spanking and the drone gets repaired? The same thing that would happen if he shot the tires off the Fedex truck?

This article raises some good points about the political ramifications of drone technology, and some excellent ones about it being a PR move to squelch negative reporting, but I'm left with the feeling that, if he were alive a century ago, James Ball wouldn't be out of place writing an article titled "Sears & Roebuck to stop horse-drawn carriage delivery in favor of the automobile? Don't believe the hype".
They're trying to solve a very real problem for their industry. I would also point out that others may want to get involved. To wit: Google mainstreamed the idea of automating cars yet mercedez, bmw, etc. will probably beat them to the punch en masse. Whether amazon solves it or walmart/target/USPS/FedEx/UPS/etc. we all win.
I doubt there will be enough plant carnage to warrant a class action case and a single plant is barely small claims court material.
Ah yes, an old friend. Here is the submission that has lots of discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2450424

That's old enough that comments are closed, so if you want to add anything you'll need to do it here.

There are other submissions, none of which have significant discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2843893

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6392471

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2432213

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2892712

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6271778

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3854847

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5685840

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2422396

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4485328
I've never taken a standard test like that of Mensa, but the ones I've taken over the last 5-6 years have scores in the range 138 to 145, but I don't think it's a good indicator of overall brain capacity. Maybe just a level of your Logical ability.
Except you'd also have to deal with the delivery driver. It's valid to observe that a bored kid may not think much of shooting down a small unmanned quadrotor, whereas they might not be so keen to attack a delivery man or a car containing a delivery man.
Amazing. Am loving following this language and its take o. structural typing.

Question: Is Intel so dominant that optimization of AMD chips isn't a high priority? Not complaining.
Maybe I don't understand evolution completely, but aren't we all born with the same fitness level? Maybe high IQ makes one fractionally higher in fitness in a particular aspect, but presumably there are lots and lots of other aspects (running speed, etc.) which overall balance out.

Anecdotally, I grew up in a poor rural area, and of my gifted class (of kids with 130+ IQ), 15% didn't even finish high school. And, I'll estimate that 50% didn't go to college. In fact, of my immediate family (6), all have been gauged as having high IQ. However, I'm the only one that had finished college without help (by 90% luck). And, a couple of my other siblings have now finished college with my financial help. In my experience, location and family are much more important to potential achievement.
Heh, even HN seemed to fall for it.
From Turing to Snowden: how US-UK pact forged modern surveillance
Take a look at graze.com if you haven't already. Their model seems to be working - you select a bunch of stuff you like and you receive a selection randomly.

Good luck! I think you'll need to find your niche because coffee delivery to offices isn't something new. Most offices get their coffee deliverered. You can differentiate by having a higher end product, perhaps providing some background on where it came from etc
You wait until the driver leaves. It's safer than stealing from a drone; someone buying air delivery is probably home and might catch you in the act. If the UPS driver left a package at the door and nobody came out for it, the recipient's probably not home.
There are things that you see as hype, and dismiss them. And then there is hype, which you desperately want to be true.

Somebody will figure out a way.
It could also be done via client side JS. Load the first 2 pages of results with the true scores and then use JS to add the randomness factor.

This way the page can be cached.
I'll read any book Mike Pall recommends.
I believe Intel platforms is supposed to be understood as x86 chips.

If you look at the samples they specify /AMD64 for 64 bit and /386 for 32bit.
Infinite Grid of Resistors
Actually, this article spotted the real story here. It's just PR for Amazon, and very well timed PR at that.
Not really. When you declare a variable the system assigns it an address on stack. When you try to read it, it reads the value currently stored at that address. Subsequent reads all read from the same address.

Unless you have something else writing to this address, the value will not change. Since the program's stack is only available to that program, it will stay the same.
Coding without first having very good English literacy is quite difficult, especially considering that programming languages use much field-specific technical jargon.
Telefonica shutters VoIP provider Jajah
And that kids is how we will revolutionize the drug smuggling ... even if amazon don't deliver. Or any smuggling for low weight high price items.
Preaching? Hardly. My first paragraph was all about how India is going to be one if the countries hit the hardest by climate change. Once you understand that, you have to try and come up for an explanation as to why they are acting against their own interest. India needs more developed countries to stop polluting, and I really don't see how throwing a spanner in the works does not seem to me to be a winning strategy for convincing the big polluters to stop. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe they have a really cunning plan, but we're talking about a country that got into a nuclear arms race with its neighbour, so I'm thinking that we're not talking about diplomatic geniuses playing a game if geopolitical chess. I would be happy to be wrong, but in the mean time my money is on the Indian government doing stupid things for base political considerations.
I think this argument is flawed on two fronts.

First, the gap between rich and poor is a ridiculous argument for saying the "rich" should stop learning new skills. Property is one thing, we can debate that forever (as far as I'm concerned, neither capitalism nor communism nor any of their variants can yet claim victory, if ever), but knowledge? We now have to stop our children from knowing stuff in order to create a more egalitarian society? That's too insane even for my European "socialist" standards.

Second, learning all kind of basics, from math to biology to chemistry are all accepted parts of the curriculum. In this age computer sciences should be a normal part of that. We don't teach kids to write so that they will become literary geniuses, we don't teach them biology so they'll cure cancer. We teach them a basic understanding upon which they can either build, or at the very least use it to have better grasp on the world around them. Just like mixing some chemicals in the lab, or writing a simple essay, basic coding is an exercise to help them learn. There is neither the intention nor the expectation that they will become programmers when they grow up.
I love how The Guardian thinks that in six hours it can think of several dealbreaker problems that Amazon hasn't thought of in six months.
Regrettably, Google Translate can't translate the text embedded in the images. Can anybody translate further?
> asking people to stop living voluntarily.

Haha, I would love to. Here's my argument: For any single living person "hogging" the universe, there are an infite number of possible persons waiting to get a shot at life. After a while of living, most people experience diminishing returns and get jaded. New people do not have that problem. So if you're really about life, and not just for your own tiny little sliver and interpretation of it, the choice is clear. The extreme of that would be "Logan's Run", so I guess the optimimum is somewhere in between that, and a bunch of people living forever just because they're either scared or selfish.
Kindle Books are on sale for Cyber Monday, which books should I buy
I am planning to buy a few Kindle Books as Amazon as a good sale running, which Books should I buy? I already got the following today:

The Personal MBA: A World-Class Business Education in a Single Volume

All Marketers Are Liars: The Underground Classic That Explains How Marketing Really Works--and Why Authenticity Is the Best Marketing of All

Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think

The Effective Executive (Harperbusiness Essentials)

The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses

The Four Steps to the Epiphany

Epic Content Marketing: How to Tell a Different Story, Break through the Clutter, and Win More Customers by Marketing Less

What the Dog Saw: and other adventures

Outliers: The Story of Success

Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Harper Business Essentials)

David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling GiantsGladwell, Malcolm
The important part is at the end:

"Bezos' neat trick has knocked several real stories about Amazon out of the way. Last week's Panorama investigation into Amazon's working and hiring practices, suggesting that the site's employees had an increased risk of mental illness, is the latest in a long line of pieces about the company's working conditions – zero-hour contracts, short breaks, and employees' every move tracked by internal systems. Amazon's drone debacle also moved discussion of its tax bill – another long-running controversy, sparked by the Guardian's revelation last year that the company had UK sales of £7bn but paid no UK corporation tax – to the margins."
>"Okay," said Harry, "let me put it this way. Do you want to die? Because if so, there's this Muggle thing called a suicide prevention hotline -"
Completely anecdotal on my part! A couple of times I've logged in to find Bitcoin covering most of the top 10. It's not a full-scale occupation yet ;)
"to pick up and take the energy contained in the planet gravity"

Really? :-(
Asset class correlations are more stable then stock correlations and thus can be used more reliably in portfolio construction. If you are not smart enough to pick a stock or asset classes then your money will whither away.
That's why they don't just leave packages on the street, at least not any package I've had delivered by courier in the UK. You have to sign for it otherwise it goes back to the depot and they leave you a note.
That's not what's going on - it's a PR battle about what the story about Amazon is on Cyber Monday.

Is it anti-competitively avoiding tax, poor working conditions, or drones?
Here is some more info, looks like a perpetual motion machine to me. http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:RAR_Energia_Ltda_Grav...
I read this story yesterday, when "The Independent" published a piece, a little bit lengthier:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10486452/Child-taken-...
I was surprised at the amount of trackers on the net after I installed Ghostery. News publishers are the worst in my experience - up to 20 ad/tracking plugs on one page. Insane. Sadly, some sites do not work properly if you (Ghostery) disables them.

Unlike the author, it's not the amount of JS that bothers me, but the amount of trackers involved. Companies you never hear about collecting loads of data on your online activity.

I was looking for shoes on one site then days later visited a totally unrelated resource. They showed me ad with the exact boots I viewed. Thankfully, with Ghostery this doesn't happen.
It would not be that hard to write an app to authenticate the person picking up the package to the drone.

You don't know when the UPS guy is going to show up, but presumably, with this system, it's fast enough that you will be right where the order is dropped off.
You probably wouldn't want to be born into a world where no one dies. You'd have loads of old people with enormous wealth, and no incentive to give even a tiny bit of that to the young.

(And please don't say "taxes" ... How do you tax people who hold a massive insuperable block vote?)
I suggest you ask a Russian to make you a salad. It would break you in gently to the world of salad eating, I think you would enjoy it :]
He appears to be advocating telling them the absolute minimum possible to achieve your objectives; and, in the case where you have been invited to say something, never to say anything. It is spectacular advice.

Though clearly the situation here is not one where the victim was invited to speak, if he had taken the advice to heart, he would have realized that speaking to the police in any capacity is extremely dangerous, and perhaps averted this disaster.
That someone believes this is, frankly, embarrassing.
>Men were repressed too

Ah, this old argument. Yes, and modern feminism would not disagree with you. What this argument does is try to shift the responsibility away from the oppressor (in this case, patriarchy), akin to the slave owner saying to the slave that he's also had a hard life.
Must be regional. Whether a signature is required is up to the shipper, and Amazon generally doesn't request one. You could follow a UPS driver around in the US and pick up boxes from in front of doors all day. There are 1700 YouTube videos called "UPS package thief".
It's pretty rare in the States to have a sign-for package. I've had $3k worth of refrigerated medicine left on my doorstep all afternoon.
I occasionally ask friends if they could take a pill to live forever, would they?

Most say No.

I then add that everyone else would have access to them too, so their friends and family would also be around. They think a bit more.

Some then say Yes, but some still say No.

I then say they'd go back to a 25 year old's body.

Then they pretty much all say Yes.

The war disappears as soon as you change the conversation. I'm from a secular country though, so I don't what the American Religious Right would say.
What I'm finding weird is that the skepticism over droned delivery feels like its more than the scope of Amazon.com, the world's largest internet retailer with super cheap prices, being able to deliver stuff via drones within 30 minutes. Doesn't that count for being anything sublime?

Would it be unpredictable that USPS/Fedex/DHL start doing something like it too?
Status quo bias much?

If there are things worth living for and important to learn, it is incredibly illogical to postulate there there is a maximum length of lifetime after which they aren't desirable/important anymore. Especially one that just happens to be the currently normal one.

How would you react to the assertion that 20 years of adult life are enough to experience everything worth experiencing and everyone who doesn't commit suicide at 40 is greedy and pitiable.
Dunno, but they'd prolly be knockoffs of the better-looking Unmanned Helvetica Vehicles. ;)
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The construction company will be sued for low quality work that prevents the device from running?
>I love how The Guardian thinks that in six hours it can think of several dealbreaker problems that Amazon hasn't thought of in six months.

No, what they actually think is that in six hours they can think of several dealbreaker problems that Amazon has also thought of but doesn't care about, because it's a publicity stunt.
You cannot convince people to stop going to casinos and play against the odds, imagine convincing them not to pick stocks. I agree 100% with the author but I'm still picking up my stocks and not ready to give up the fun
Yes, I've come to think this too. It's a sobering thought given that we're probably going to be one of the last generations that's actually true for.
Expanding Context in Diffs
Ever heard of a rubber biscuit?
What's your point? Stipulate that we agree with you. Now what?
What were they thinking? 'Our small model didn't work but that was because of the relative large friction force, so we just need to build a larger prototype?'

I don't see how this should work!
> at which point control is handed to a pilot for the landing & package drop

So now you have to put a camera and a remote control system with a range of many miles on the drone. And it can only work if there's a line of sight.

Fail.
Adafruit Trinket-based "support emergency button"
If you have experience with SQL you might be far better off than I was. Try starting with the book in this thread; it seems like an excellent starter book and covers many concepts that frankly, myself and others had to piece together from Stack Overflow questions.
The best advice I can give you is to start with a project; what do you want to make? If you're set on Rails, jump into Ruby using the nice online book Learn Ruby the Hard Way. Consider checking out Rails for Zombies for a nice, fun intro into Rails and then dive into the book listed in this thread.
Best of luck! Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!
If this comes true, I shall order a book and get a bot for free [If you know what I'm saying :D]