skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming they're unique you could do that just by using the username as the key to join the score table to the user table on. Everything would be the same as the example in the article, but without the join needed when you're just getting the names with their scores.

Optimising a database for storage is really only a good idea when the additional redundant data is going to take up huge amounts of space. Storage is cheap. Making a query run faster isn't. Generally speaking you're better off optimising to reduce the number of joins and subqueries because they're the things that usually slow you down.
I'd wager most people agree with you, despite the majority opinion you see on HN. User engagement levels have been higher on every mobile-optimised site I've worked on, when compared to mobile users looking at a desktop version.
Somehow I missed this. At first sight I figured Ionic was Yet Another Framework, but this looks potentially amazing. Will check it out.
It does not.

Here's the diff between 1.8.0 and 1.7.12

http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/changeset/01d52c2b460da263fd1557...
He's exaggerating. Or is just making silly assumptions.

I don't know about Germany, but when I was considering moving from the UK to California, the total tax difference I was looking at was 1-2 percentage points at my (high) salary level. Even compared to Norway which hardly has the reputation as a low tax country, my then salary and consumption would only lead to 3-4 percentage point more tax. This was when I included the amount of VAT I'd pay on average (even the 25% VAT on most goods and services in Norway contribute surprisingly little, as of course for starters this is on your net income, and secondly peoples largest expenses tends to be things like rent or mortgage payments etc., so the amount of your salary that actually goes on stuff taxed at the max VAT rates in Europe ends up fairly small).

Even compared with Belgium (which has one of the highest all-in tax rates in the world - well above Germany as far as I remember) California taxes would be well above half more most people.

The US in general isn't nearly as low-tax as some people would like to believe. I seem to remember that e.g. in OECD rankings the US comes pretty close to the top in the worldwide rankings and middle of the road when looking at developed countries.

Of course, if you cherry-pick tax brackets and assume a state with no state income tax, and suitably low sales taxes and lack of other local taxes in the US I'm sure you can find somewhere really cheap, though most of them will likely be places few people wants to live.
It seems to me that most of the claims that posts are "att odds with the groupthink" and claims that posts are "downvoted for questioning HN conventional wisdom" refer to posts that are in line with the frequently-articulated positions of at least as large of a segment of the HN community as any that they are at odds with.

Its natural to want to think that those who disagree with or downvote you are engaging in "groupthink" or defending "conventional wisdom" and those who agree with or upvote you are independent thinkers or rewarding independent thought.

But I don't think upvoting is any less prone to groupthink or downvoting any less prone to having a substantive basis.
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"Iowan here. There are almost no family farms left at all."

We still have family farms in North Dakota, so I guess it might be a regional thing. Also, for those counting incorporations (like a couple of newspapers), you have to be stupid not to incorporate.
I don't think you've looked very carefully at the graphic in the second article. You might want to compare the bar chart on the right against a list of countries in the Middle East. The Middle Eastern countries listed are:

Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Yemen

Of those, only Jordan and Saudi Arabia are contributing large numbers of fighters. On the whole, the Middle Eastern countries on the list are contributing relatively few. The next biggest contributors are Tunisia, Bosnia and Kosovo, none of which are in the Middle East.

On top of that, note that BELGIUM is sending at least as many fighters as all of the following Middle Eastern countries (and yes, I am taking into account the different scales on each chart):

Bahrain, Kuwait, Lebanon, Palestine, Turkey, Yemen

Basically, I think you may be forgetting that the "Middle East" isn't anywhere outside of the USA and Europe with lots of brown people.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US-Inflation-by-year.png

Doesn't really apply after 1980. In any case, workers typically don't hold large cash savings - what matters far more is the effect of inflation vs pay negotiations. The higher the inflation, the more frequently workers need pay rises and the larger they have to be. This makes the stakes higher and provokes strikes. This was a big driver of the UK industrial strife in the 70s.

http://www.livingstandards.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/De... has a UK-US comparative study but only uses data from 1972 onwards, which doesn't help. It claims that runaway health costs are a big part of the equation, among other things.

(I want to find some UK graphs covering the same time period to see whether they show the same effect, and for other non-Bretton Woods countries as well)
A few things:

* Service animals aren't just dogs. Miniature horses, pigs, cats, whatever. Don't forget Emotional Support Animals. (Why are those important? Because they enable people with special needs / mental illness to function in "normal" situations.)

* Uber drivers don't want animals in their personal cars, got it. But it's a choice to be an Uber driver, not a choice to be disabled or need an emotional support animal. When we think about this, we should think about who has the choice here.

There's an easy fix.

Default every Uber drive to accept all animals. Allow the Uber drivers to opt out, and in so doing lower their rank in search and have a badge next to their name, "Restrictions Apply" or something along those lines. Let their customers choose if they want to give money to people who are discriminatory. People with the disabilities shouldn't be forced to check a box or ask for special assistance, that's why you would default all drivers to accept pets and explain why it's important. Being able to provide a service to all users is important, but for fringe groups there isn't always an economic drive to do so. Like providing a seat belt, training with how to handle service animals should be mandatory. (The one driver put a service dog in the trunk?! Please tell me he isn't working at Uber any more.)

Personal note: Ever tried to take a kid who has special needs to see the Grand Canyon? What started out as a dream trip was soured by people in hotels making a huge stink about Emotional Support Dogs, and reminding us at every turn that we had a special needs kid with us. People could have been kind, they could have pulled us aside, or read the notes from their boss that we were coming... but every time we hit a new hotel people would inevitably yell at my cousin, who has DS, because he would bring his dog with him to the lobby or near the pool, or even on a trail. "No pets allowed!" Even though we called ahead, the staff on the ground wasn't trained to deal with service animals. Without his dog, the world was a scary place form my cousin; Emotional Support Dogs are like hearing aids or canes or a pair of glasses that way.

Anyway if you see someone who has a dog in a place you wouldn't normally expect to see a dog, please assume they have a good reason for it. You don't know how much damage you can do with one comment, or one harsh tone. We're all just trying to get through the day as best we can.
They're just being facetious. That reason is immediately followed up by:

> In other cases, our partners had already run out of spaces on the year's Schedule D and feared that another entry would require them to attach a separate sheet.
John Deere was the Apple of tractors, 20 years before Apple was Apple. It's killed off all the competition [1] for their tractors' ability to "just work" - even at a premium. Deere coupled high quality hardware with high quality service, whereas most other tractors tried to compete on cost by dropping one. Apple vs HP; Deere vs Case. It served them well in the long run, if made things dicy early on. There is no competition any more. And the development lead and capital required to compete with their machines, and their repair/distribution network is immense.

[1] http://www.tennesseetractor.com/assets/Uploads/jd-timeline.j...
I don't see anything wrong with this. However I would not do it myself. I have no issues being productive throughout the day.

Can this drug be abused? If there are no harmful side effects all should be good to go!
With a gold standard, you have little/no inflation. (Although from 1933-1971 it was only a partial gold standard, because individuals could not redeem their dollars for gold. Only foreign central banks could trade dollars for gold.)

In a paper money system, you have inflation of 10%-30%. (The CPI is currently low, but it is a misleading and biased statistic.)

When you have 10% inflation, who gets that new money? It isn't workers. That 10% goes to the government (deficit spending), big banks (quantitative easing), and large corporations (who can borrow cheaply).

Inflation concentrates wealth among insiders, because they get to print and spend the new money ahead of everyone else. 10%+ annual inflation is a 10% tax on the total value of the economy, with it all going to insiders.
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Does not look like it[1].

[1] http://nginx.org/en/CHANGES-1.8
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This is what iteration looks like. Would you like to not have the opportunity to see smaller releases? You can look away.
It sort of is.

The Wired article mentions that some farmers are preferring to buy old tractors without the electronics. This demand increases the value for the used market and should depress the value of new tractors. There will likely be a growth in the business of maintaining old tractors and, potentially, enough public awareness of the benefits of tractors without electronics that another manufacturer can step in.

Or it might fizzle. Markets don't solve every problem, but they usually solve the problems people are willing to pay for.
Right. They're at exactly opposite ends of the spectrum, from what I understand: A container uses OS-level namespace techniques to allow different environments to run on the same kernel, whereas a hypervisor runs underneath the kernel to multiplex hardware such that multiple entirely unrelated OSes can run on the same computer at the same time.
He's wrong because he's not looking at enough data. The 1930s to 1975 was an anomaly in wealth distribution. The prevailing trend if you look at a another centuries worth of data is different:

In the 18th and 19th centuries western European society was highly unequal. Private wealth dwarfed national income and was concentrated in the hands of the rich families who sat atop a relatively rigid class structure. This system persisted even as industrialisation slowly contributed to rising wages for workers. Only the chaos of the first and second world wars and the Depression disrupted this pattern. High taxes, inflation, bankruptcies, and the growth of sprawling welfare states caused wealth to shrink dramatically, and ushered in a period in which both income and wealth were distributed in relatively egalitarian fashion. But the shocks of the early 20th century have faded and wealth is now reasserting itself.

As a general rule wealth grows faster than economic output, or in other terms: r > g (where r is the rate of return to wealth and g is the economic growth rate). Other things being equal, faster economic growth will diminish the importance of wealth in a society, whereas slower growth will increase it (and demographic change that slows global growth will make capital more dominant). But there are no natural forces pushing against the steady concentration of wealth. Only a burst of rapid growth (from technological progress or rising population) or government intervention can be counted on to keep economies from returning to the “patrimonial capitalism” that worried Karl Marx. Governments should step in now, by adopting a global tax on wealth, to prevent soaring inequality contributing to economic or political instability down the road.

In simple terms, rich peoples' invested wealth grows faster then poor peoples' wealth due to compounding interest. This is the true reason for the wealth gap AND this is the prevailing economic theory of wealth inequality among academia.
I would say it wasn't until the 90's that automation technology was sophisticated enough to start displacing workers. Before then it was used to do new things or amplify worker productivity. A TV remote from the 80's wasn't taking away a job from a house servant who would stand by to change the channel for you. Consider how the development of machine tools in 1800's created more opportunity for work in areas that were previously limited to skilled craftsmen.
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Up/Down voting on HN and most other sites makes me think of the Yo app, where there are simply too few choices to express what you wish to say. A simple solution which I doubt will ever be enacted would be to increase the options from 2 (3 if you count clicking the time stamp then flagging) to 5: useful, not useful, agree, disagree, flag. Then those votes could be used more intelligently to determine the best display order for comments.
> I am in my early 30's and I guarantee I live to see the death of the actual family farm.

Maybe the small corn and soybean farms. Which is a race to the bottom anyway.

Small farms are booming here in MI but they are all either in veggies, mixed livestock systems, fruit, dairy or specialty crops of some sort.

Small farmers need to think outside the box, adjust to the changing times and maximize their ROI/acre.

- software dev with agroecology background
"All they care about is whether or not it works."

Which is why they care more about this issue than someone without a mega-tractor. These vehicles need to be operational when they're called upon, every minute of downtime costs a substantial amount of money that adds up incredibly fast. Sure, they have service contracts but waiting on a technician and waiting even longer for a replacement part is out of the question. A broken sensor will disable a tractor even if it would run perfectly fine without it. Mega farms care about losing the ability to improvise repairs in the field and/or take the risk of long term damage if its outweighed by the cost of the short term downtime.

I've experienced the results of an ECU that can disable a perfectly functional vehicle. I had a ride day with one of our service technicians in our Class 7 truck. The "Check Engine" light had been coming on intermittently throughout the day but we ignored it as it came on inconsistently and we were already 2 hours behind. On our way back to our branch the light came on again at highway speed and 30 seconds later the engine went into "limp home" mode and then shut itself off. We came to a rest on the side of the highway, tilted slightly into a ditch. After calling the local service manager we were informed that the head gasket had blown and the last technician to drive the truck was supposed to refill the coolant and let us know about the issue. We hiked down the road with the empty coolant bottles the last tech left for us and brought back 20 gallons of water, filling the expansion tank. So we should be good as long as we kept tabs on the water level, right? Nope. The water level sensor was placed in in a position where we couldn't fill the tank high enough for it to read the tank as full due to the angle of the truck in the ditch. It wouldn't start without a "safe" reading from the sensor and we couldn't level the truck out without it's own power. That sensor left us stranded for 3 hours until a repair truck arrived and had us running in less than 10 minutes by jacking up the low side of the truck. Now imagine losing half a day during harvest for the same bullshit reason.
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I wonder if it will ever make sense for full vertical integration of agriculture? Could one company own the seed DNA, land, all related equipment, and sell the outputted product directly to consumers?

Could technology ever give one company such a great advantage that they could buy land at a price which would be a great loss to everyone else? The answer could be less about technology and more about the subsidized enforcement of intellectual property law and the strength or weakness of anti-trust law.

We look at this from an IP right/wrong standpoint, but a lot of moral questions regarding food production sit outside that realm as long as many people are either not getting enough food or getting too much of food that is damaging their bodies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US-Inflation-by-year.png

Inflation existed before the decoupling, and has been low in the US since the early 80s. Nominal wage rigidity is important but the gold standard does not guarantee price levels or wage levels.
Applying concepts from one scientific discipline to other disciplines does seldom fit. I think it is more a sign of pseudo-scientific trickery to back the own thinking, that is most often used in unsound economical theories.

It is a fact, that while monopolies are good for the monopolists, it is bad for societies at large. And no "ecological" concepts can convince me from the opposite. One example: While bigger banks are good for the bankers, because countries have to rescue them, it is very bad for those countries, as everybody (except politicians) can see since 2008.

With your "ecological" theory, someone also could argue, that dinosaurs are better than mammals.
If someone can provide a definition of rich and can show the majority of people meeting that definition of rich stay in that class for very long, I'd be interested in seeing the data supporting it. I have looked for years and always found the opposite whenever a dataset allowed answering the question.

For any reasonable definition of rich ( * ) (by total wealth or by total income, for example), and for any dataset from which I can check the claim "the rich get richer," I have found that the majority of those in that definition of rich do not stay in that class. So it seems far more accurate to claim the rich get poorer.

It's hard to find such datasets, but some that you can find that demonstrate this are (I don't care to chase them down, and my notes on it are not where I am sitting):

1) the majority born into the top quintile don't end up there (although the most likely quintile to end up in is the top). I think St. Louis Fed has studies on this.

2) the richest Americans, as measured by Forbes 400, demonstrate that the majority are first generation in that class. This you can check yourself quite easily.

3) Various tax studies show that people don't stay at the top for income.

Sure, a wealthy person rarely falls to zero, but once you fix a definition of rich and see how long people in that class stay at that definition, the majority simply do not last.

(*) if you define rich as the top 90% of people by wealth, which is not a very common way to define it, then the majority stay in it over time.
They went beyond updating and Americanizing the British show, and ended up with contrived drama and bad Putin impersonation. Writing a good show is hard!
Me too, and I can't help but feel this paints an overly rosy picture of the state of ES6 in TS. Truth is: it's coarse and minimal.

See the status here:

http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/

The column below "babel" is what you would get when you program raw ES6 and transpile using Babel. The column below TypeScript is, unfortunately, what we are currently dealing with. Many lacking features.

So far, 1.5 doesn't look like it will bridge this gap substantially.
All pages are mobile friendly, and 90% of mobile user all they do is facebook and instagram...
TC throwing around buzzwords and a "meh" about a late to market idea that, while an interesting idea, would really require a level of automation I doubt this has.

A full orchestration solution where its basically:

docker pull $image; docker run $image $nodeID

$nodeID = nodeID or can be left blank to assign to a random node based on current load.

Then update a cluster stats/dashboard page.

Even then, its basically just trying to compete with things like CoreOS, Docker's orchestration stuff its working on, Kubernetes, etc.
It's really just a matter of time until such manufacturing has a viable open source mainstream alternative. Then we can look forward to small dev shops building affordable custom robots for everyday use.
It is still a thing for people to take their combines down south and work their way back to the north. My Dad and some of my coworkers did that in summer as youths. Pay is pretty good for someone with no degree and you don't get anytime to spend the money. Nicer now than back in the day since the cabs have all sorts of extras like satellite radio, air conditioning, and GPS.
> I find it worrying that Google has enough power to dictate the direction of the internet is such profound ways. Remember when people would get up in arms when Microsoft created de facto standards?

They're playing catch-up, not dictating. Mobile-friendly has been the rule not the exception for web developers for years.
So you're looking at the composition of people in power, and you're saying "those people, the ones in power, DON'T have power".

I guess once you start denying objective reality and common sense, you can go anywhere, including "women secretly rule the world". Well done.
Always? I don't think so. Copyright is a few hundred years old at most.
Yes, but I originally emailed that address so I don't think it was a reaction to me (or even a passive aggressive gesture). Taylor had a week's heads up and chose to dismiss my report.
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That still leaves all the people who currently own licenses to tractors instead of tractors with poor prospects. Suddenly they are forced with the decision of putting up with John Deere's BS or investing in a whole new tractor. And that is if this wonderful market solution were to spring up tomorrow.

That goes without saying that this issue is bigger than the tractor market. Car manufacturers are hopping on board and there are even fewer options for cars without protected computers in them. This issue is only getting more pressing as more daily objects become integrated with computer systems.
It is however considered a good practice and recommended [1].

[1]: https://crackstation.net/hashing-security.htm
I think the advice usually is to build everything yourself.

Local delivery? Seems like a saturated market. How are you going to compete with Amazon?
> You can replace the buffer stop with an incline too steep to climb

There generally isn't the room to plop down hills instead of buffer stops. Instead it's possible to use energy-absorbing buffer stops (rather than the traditional "hard" buffer stops), possibly with e.g. dowty retarders on the track beforehand to force specific speed ranges on incoming trains.