skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It makes sense because he figured that those two people were a big enough sample. That would have been my intuition too.
Thanks for sharing, great article. I think most of the folks singing the praises of Postgres over MySQL have never had to operationally support both databases in complex multi-DC replication environments. The answer to many replication issues with Postgres is 'rebuild the DB from scratch', which is a terrible answer when you have large databases.

I thankfully no longer have to support Postgres in production, but I can still vividly recall that terrible sense of dread I'd get in my stomach whenever I'd receive a replication alert for a Postgres database.
It might be reasonable to talk to cops in those situations. I don't know. "Don't talk" seems to apply to when you are, or might be, accused of a crime. There, your guilt or innocence does not matter in the least. Don't talk.

You're right that nobody recommends demanding a lawyer for a traffic stop. But they do recommend not talking to the officer beyond the minimum requested. For example, it's standard for an officer who catches you speeding to ask "do you know how fast you were going?" If you give a number that's over the posted limit, then they have you admitting to breaking the law. If you give a number that's under the limit and they know you were going faster then they have you lying to an officer.

I don't think it's worth keeping in mind that Ken White is a defense attorney because I've seen this exact advice from many places, both lawyers and cops, and there's never any disagreement. I have seen cops say that traffic stops will go a lot easier if you're nice and polite to the officer. But that does not mean you have to answer all their questions. Immediately shouting "I demand a lawyer!" is a good way to get written up for every minor infraction the officer can find, but nicely declining to answer questions you're not required to answer is fine.
Exactly why I think black people are worthless. After all, at one time black people worked for free!

(/s)
Yeah, France shared information about Moussaoui, Russia shared information about Tsarnaev, so it's hard to imagine U.S. withholding similar kind of information in similar situations, so it was probably a bluff.

But still, that's playing hardball.
I don't see why shitty people should get credit for being overtly shitty.
Huh. Doesn't the fact that Pirate Party's and Independence Party's results are well within each other's confidence intervals make it a tie?
Question: Will I be seeding if I use Rivulet? Where I live, I believe that I can download but not seed.
https://filippo.io/psa-enable-automatic-updates-please/

I can also recommend to enable automatic updates. It won't hurt, and if it does, it will be far less than a hacked server can cause in amount of damage.
N+4 months of salary as severance? That's pretty sweet.
Not a brit, so I'm curious: what's wrong with The Guardian?
voting seems at this point to be theatre to silence the masses.
Because this is an informal conversation, not some nitpicky debate society. Somebody asked a question and I gave my opinion as a response.
From my experience C# was pretty much following Scala down the functional road, and the syntax was quite similar. Maybe you should check out Scala.

Edit: I say "was" because I used to develop C# and had experience porting C# apps to Scala (so that we could run it on linux, lol).
But answering "no" doesn't mean that, sometimes, the answer to these headline's question isn't "no". It simply means that Betteridge's law isn't always correct. Which I agree because, citing another pop/internet culture adage "only a Sith deals in absolutes".
I am biased towards Massimo because he's a fellow Italian, but what does this mean for the Arduino hardware?
Is the company successful? Do you see any other positive sides the CEOs working attitude?
The GP wasn't saying that all middlemen add inefficiencies or destroy value, only that these particular ones do since you're forced to use them regardless of need.
I'm pro gun rights, but if I could, I'd specifically outlaw sales of guns to anybody who's buying it based on a fantasy of taking out an active shooter.
I have one question: is it right to destroy a whole culture just to be the good guy afterwards?
It was bugging me that the target of the "rosser" link was not pointing to the comment he shared his bulk update technique so I dug it up for anyone else interested:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9018756
Is this site down for anyone else? Would be ironic if they didn't patch their own servers and got DDossed
I would imagine this would be something that Google would be skittish to get into. Flu symptoms are a) common and b) well known. Tracking symptoms of arbitrary potential epidemics could be very difficult to design, let alone verify, and there's little benefit to Google. Not even PR if they raise a false flag.
Look up private information retrieval (PIR) and oblivious RAM (ORAM). EDIT: This particular bit from the announcement "but we're pushing query logic and decryption keys client-side" seems to point to ORAM.

I was recently reading a number of ORAM papers, considering to implement something as a side-project to play a bit with modern C++. The overhead is significant, but practical, i.e., far less than homomorphic encryption.
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I'm about your age and I live in Italy (not exactly the most advanced democracy ever). We still vote with pencil and paper. I see no issue with that: I go in with my voting document (that I received via mail), I vote, I go out. It takes 5 minutes of my time, and it happens every few years.

The reason why young people don't vote, I think, is mainly because indifference towards politics and/or the candidates, not because it's a hassle to vote.
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The numerous assaults prove otherwise: http://time.com/3693737/uber-new-delhi-india-rape-case/ http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/04/more-bad-ne...
What's interesting how interchangeable American overstepping in privacy (and trying to catch Snowden) and the Ukrainian situation with Russia.

The odd part is that the media seems to think it's all Putin, but the US is almost always referred to as the entity (as opposed to simply Obama).

Everyone seems to keep expecting the world to react, specifically the EU, but nothing seems to ever happen.
Therefore, Women are only approximately 78% of a man.

There are issues when we take the "Market is always right" approach to defining our morals btw. I prefer if our morals came from another power.
That may be the case, but if you cut off America's access to oil, food and other things they're a net importer of, you'd pretty soon restrict their military abilities regardless of their military spending - they can't let their non-military population starve and go homeless. A huge expensive military with billions of dollars worth of machinery isn't going to run very long without food/water for its personnel, supplies and fuel - even if they have almost half of the global military spending. The first rule of a fight is never fight someone at their own game. They'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. At some point you have to say "Hey, enough of this bullshit. You may think you run this planet, but you're one country of 196. The rest of us are tired of your shit, we all deserve to be treated with respect. If you want to be part of the team, step up and be part of the team, but you're not going to dictate to the rest of us how you want it to be."
https://angel.co/blockai/jobs/32804-front-end-engineer
My job. Sitting at home in my pajamas, in a place a hell of lot cheaper than SF, making about the same amount these guys are offering (according to a link someone posted further up). I think I'll go for a walk at lunch, and keep working from the nature preserve down the road because it's a nice day. And when my wife gets home, 90% of the time the laptop closes and I'm off the clock.

If you can't imagine a job paying $100k+ that lets you also have a life, you're not looking hard enough. Or maybe I'm just lucky to not be a programmer.
Employers pay their employees exactly what they're worth - by definition.

That makes no sense to me. When I hire someone, it's in the expectation that the extra money they bring in is more than what they're being paid. They're worth what they bring in, and because I want to make a profit, I pay them a bit less than that.
I work for Canonical (www.canonical.com)

We have some offices and legal presence in some countries that require it, but most of the engineers are work-from-home only. My team is completely work-from-home, including manager, product manager, and QA engineers. We're 12 in 7 different countries and 3 continents (used to be 4 :) )

Only designers and some sales people have a hard requirement to be in the office, AFAIK.

EDIT: for the sake of my personal pride I updated the numbers of countries my team is distributed to. it was WRONG. I hate wrong! :)
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There's a tremendous amount of idealization involved there -- that the cost of renegotiation/finding a new job is zero (it's not), that no systematic effects outside the market exist lowering salaries (they do), etc.

As an approximation, employees are paid what they're worth. It's an approximation, not definitional.
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It depends on how you count, due to overlap, such as rice paddies that are flooded with water releases that eventually head downstream. That could be counted under environmental or ag. If you take out the environmental water, ag is 80%.
Damn right they are, if they're doing it without pay. Any union would put a stop to that. A shame America's "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" are unwilling to act in their own interest.
Had the chance to meet Massimo quickly long time ago; a truly passionate innovator and honest at hearth.
I'm so sorry to read this story and I feel as much proud of what he did as much disappointed and disgusted for the "dark side" of the story.
#keepPushing Massimo!
They're easily exploitable if (a) they're writes, (b) they're arbitrary, (c) they're targeting an architecture with an IVT mapped at 0x0, and (d) they're in code that can actually write the IVT (ie, an RTOS, or kernel code).

That's a pretty rare set of circumstances.

NULL pointer writes are also exploitable in the general case if they're offset, but none of these appear to be.
I'm baffled that anyone would think that's a great idea. Compelling drivers to pay someone to do something that nearly all drivers have no problem doing themselves seems absurd. Please explain your reasoning.
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How do "micro-expressions" differ from Orwell's "facecrime"?

For that matter, how do "micro-expressions" differ from the DPRK (North Korea) crime of "half-hearted clapping" (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/12/12...)? Is there a univerally-accepted set of "bad" "micro-expressions", or is this just another inconsitently applied administrative judgement?
For one problem I had recently, I found MySQL a better fit.

It supports unsigned ints which Postgres doesn't and it has bitcount built in. I am aware these are probably rarely used, but I wanted them for what I was trying to do (compare large combinations of DNA sequence). I tried implementing it in Python / Numpy and Java and PG but MySQL was still the fastest. (I am fairly sure if I spent more time, I could improve any of the solutions, but for a similar level of effort MySQL (plus Python) won.
> I'm actually astonished given Germany's strength in Europe that they didn't just say GFY!

Germany isn't a sovereign country. Having foreign (US) troops on your soil makes you dependable on the policies of that foreign country. There are many other reasons why Germany cannot (and doesn't want) to "say GFY" to the US.
> I'd expect every commercial OS to be at least as good...

You can expect whatever you want. That doesn't make it likely or even reasonable. That's kind of my point. You say that it's not set up for people that tweak their computer...I build systems and don't have that problem because I learned how it actually works and don't really get hung up on how I wish it worked.
As one of Arduino's very first distributors (http://littlebirdelectronics.com), this explains the total disarray we've seen with communicating (what we only now know is two) companies. I'm shocked that Massimo hasn't contacted their partners (like us) to tell them what was going on!
The "defector", Gianluca Martino, is also Italian, no?
"Licensing hassles". That's silly. 99% of people using MySQL or PostgreSQL will never have to think about the license. LGPL is sufficient for making software that interacts with the database without having any obligation to provide source for anything other than changes you make to the database software. So, unless you're shipping the database itself as your product, you don't need to care about the license of MySQL/MariaDB or Postgres beyond knowing you can use them as a database for your products without encumbrance.

I consider PostgreSQL the better database most days, but license FUD is counter-productive.
See, things like these should've been in that article. The rest of it was "everything is a tie except for JOINs but they've been working fine in MySQL since 5.6.5 so I chose Postgres". I've personally suffered through hours of deployment in a legacy MySQL application with a few million records. Thanks for this tidbit, I'm that much more curious about Postgres now
Your [pretty long] passphrase can be your key. Or you can take your key file with you.

Having the key derived from your password is also possible, but I think not really that secure.

SpiderOak and Mega deal with this problem as they have e2e encrypted file storage
Uber and Lyft don't provide per-ride accounting for rides for this reason. I think spotify could get away with "N plays - total $X" in this case, especially since user privacy is at stake. Also the %30 cut is extremely easy to model -- a user that pays $10 with a 30% cut is like a user that pays $7 without one.
I had this idea to build a community around the digital products people (including myself) sell without setting up the whole site. The shortened link with a payment system and social interactions (prior to downloading) would help with getting something in people's hand in no time while building up the interactions.

So I built SendFlare. Easily create a challenge and let the user pay for the download or make social interaction prior to download. For example, you could setup to "Post a Tweet" challenge before downloading the product. Once the user tweets the message, he/she can download the file.

Here is an example SendFlare link: https://sendflare.co/l/alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland - You can accept payment or social interaction for the product. There are still many features are missing. I think there is a potential for this product. What do you guys think? (20% Coupon: HN2015)
Whether anyone here thinks that is serious enough or not...that's pretty freaking cool. Right on.
> At least as American client states we get rock and roll and blue jeans, right comrades?

There is much truth in jest... :-/
There are no quotation marks about it; it still counts.
Probably, since five digits requires 1,369,560 decimals and six digits 14,118,307.

Each extra digit seems to require ~ ten times as many decimals.
A naive guess is that most of that is filesystem overhead. Were you using tmpfs?
Everything we do at 18F is open source, usually as public domain. Interested in working on this stuff? Come work with us: https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/02/25/We-Are-Hiring/
1. Fairfax County, VA.

4. The revenue generation aspect of traffic enforcement is deeply worrying. However, I don't think you have to be a bad cop to participate in that. The problem is the system, where the laws are written in a way that ignores how people actually behave, and thus virtually everyone breaks them. There's no need to entrap or falsely accuse people for the purposes of revenue generation, because there's more than enough true violations out there.

How are people in your area unable to know what law they broke? It's always been clear for everyone I know: exceeding the posted speed limit, parking where prohibited, etc. The issue is simply that driving the posted limit is nearly impossible in many cases (everybody else is going faster and it's dangerous if you don't too), parking signs have poor visibility and are difficult to understand, etc.

"Bad cops" is an easy answer to the woes of modern-day policing, but I just don't think it's the root of the problem.
Yeah but the people who program the robots can be racist.
Meteor is like Unix; some people want Windows!
Doesn't that reveal information to the server based on which B-trees the client accesses?
Seems to be similar to ORAM, that's right. And practical enough to be implemented: fulltext search query to aws takes about 0.5 s (not slowing down when multiple clients do these queries in parallel)
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Alright even though it's light on information you've certainly caught my attention. Is there a GitHub page setup yet that I can follow?
Are DHHS and Ed not on there yet? Or do they just not rank very highly?
I'm working on a pretty advanced solution right now (F# + PCLs), everything works both fine both in VS and Mono's xbuild.
Don't forget your share of the initial capital costs and wear due to weathering, both of which are substantial.
That depends. If it is a truly just, and wise society that comes out in the end, one where everyone is better off. . . .

It's the chaotic good versus lawful good argument. If the end result is peace and prosperity for all people in equal ways, then why not?

What's the saying about omelettes and eggs?
How do you become addicted to drugs or alcohol?
The server knows which pieces of the trees are you reading. That's all it knows.
Nope. The irony (maybe the wrong word) is that despite all the "public outrage" when it came down to a decision on whether or not to have the data - German officials (seemingly) chose to have the information. It shows a disconnect from what those are saying publicly about Snowden and the NSA and what actions are actually taking place.

Being "cut off" from American intelligence should be a no-brainer (as the shout from the attendee showed) for any country that finds the NSA's actions and data sharing to be unlawful or unhelpful.
For most of humanity musicians have earned their living through live performance. The last 70 years have been an extreme outlier as recording and playback technology has matured, but now the novelty and barrier to entries are gone, and the supply is flooded. I don't see any shortage of new artists willing to give their music away to get discovered. I also don't see streaming services succeeding with just Top 40 (diversity of music has never been higher). Sure some artists will pull their catalog or straight up retire out of spite, but I don't see any trends or market forces pointing to this "inevitable" outcome.
Hello! Hopefully you have not forgotten about this. I sent an email yesterday and got answered today. This is what the rep told me:

> Unfortunately we no longer offer our laptops without an OS. We do get the operating systems at a discounted price so I can see what I could do as far as pricing on a new system for him. If there is a specific configuration you had in mind that would be perfect! That way I can see what the pricing would be with me.

Let me know if you are interested on more info or what me to forward you to her.
Thanks for sharing -- great ideas. I've often heard the admonition to charge more.

I have a relative who owns a photography business. After years of taking pictures at family events for free he decided to start charging. How do you balance favors for friends/family with the need to maintain your professional persona and your business?
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Uber plays a dangerous game and knows the risks, sure. What about the consumers? They're getting into vehicles that are probably underinsured. Do they know the risks? If they are involved in some sort of accident, do they realize that Uber is going to wash their hands of the incident and point at the "independent contractor"?
When I was a grad student I spent most of my time working in the labs. I too experienced deterioratingn social skills. Got a retail job at the mall on weekends to interact with more people.
He's correct, that doesn't make us proud tho
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Pleas aren't scrutinized by trial, but they are heard in court: http://wakeforestlawreview.com/2015/01/fourth-circuit-holds-.... At least at the federal level, judges may only accept a guilty plea after conducting a colloquy with the defendant and convincing themselves that the plea is voluntary, the defendant knows his rights and consequences of the plea, and that there is a factual basis for the plea. In federal courts, the factual basis will usually be a detailed document enumerating the facts the prosecution is prepared to prove at trial, which if proven will establish the defendant's guilt.
You still need some client libraries to connect to the database: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2038881/gpl-and-libmysqlc...
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I have not seen Win 8 so I can only speak from the previous 10 years of experience - they should fix the UX. I always hated how complicated and perplexing everything was and when something failed Win would almost laugh in my face blaming me for it.
I immediately thought of Russell's paradox[0] but turns out they are indeed related[1].

0.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_paradox

1.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_paradox#Application...
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> if you cut off America's access to oil, food and other things they're a net importer of

Not sure where you got that idea but the US is a net exporter of both.

> The rest of us are tired of your shit

But apparently not tired enough to actually do anything.
Tracking symptoms of arbitrary potential epidemics could be very difficult to design

Does it need to be terribly precise, though?

If, for example, lots of searches spring up for vomiting or sweating in a small radius, I'd imagine that'd raise a "Hey, you might like someone to look at this flag," which could be useful - just as long as the computers aren't shouting all day long.
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Plugins can and do work well some of the time. Other times they don't.

If something has been brought into the main package, its usually a sign of maturity, and stability and usefulness to a large number of people.
EU doesn't syp on their own citizens so NO.
And yet you will continue to see people, invariably Americans, argue that the Germans do not want to see US bases close, because they are dependent on the jobs. The 1960's called and they want their economic argument back.

If the German economy was capable of taking on re-unification costs, Germany could easily handle greater autonomy w.r.t. the US.
I love this idea. 30s ago I just read an NYT headline "Are wearable devices worse for you than cigarettes?"

No.
Is there an update anywhere about how close libressl is to "prime time"?
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Even if he was, that speaks to one of the main issues with Windows: most of the time you get a Windows machine, it has manufacturer-installed software. Microsoft could choose to control that through their licensing, but they don't.