skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is rare that a population has a long term sustainable soldier/war economy. Merchants have always needed supporting trades (farmer's for food and raw material, sailors for shipping, for example).

Today we have enough technology that an engineer can build a soldier or a merchant (or a farmer or a sailor). We are all familiar with drones and vending machines.

It is important that an engineer not constrain his thinking though. Neither of these replacements does everything a human can do. Sometimes a soldier takes a bullet for a civilian and sometimes a merchant haggles and gives discounts to needy.

Even though these replacements are not perfect they still compete with humans for jobs. We are still a long way from creating a robot engineer. If you want a job that won't be replaced quickly think like an engineer.

We are also closer than ever but still a long way from having a robot doctor or lawyer and will likely be requiring humans for anything resembling a bedside manner or sympathy. Hopefully there will be jobs alongside these artificial replacements for human experts for some time.
The point of the alias is to make it more user-friendly and less error-prone.
Rational thieves, that's a new concept. Are you sure you haven't been overexposed to macroeconomics material recently?
Everything I've heard about the lives of doctors and lawyers says that by and large (discounting the handful of percent of outliers) those professions make living on welfare or working at McDonald's for minimum wage look like brilliant career moves. I wouldn't look to them for models of how to do things.

I do, mind you, think it is a good idea to encourage programmers to improve their negotiating skills and understand a little about business and politics.
This whole anti-"negativity" thing is just an attempt to impose Bay Area passive-aggressive culture on every participant in the discussion, even though we "in tech" come from (and ought to come from) all over the world.

It makes me fucking sick that people get downvoted for expressing unpleasant but completely accurate accounts of what is actually going on.
It seems there is a lot of hunger for a tool like this that can be used in team mode.

With regards to recording positives/neutrals/negatives - I like this thinking. This could be something that the user could record at any point in time during the week, knowing that it is safely stored (and remembered) for their next upcoming retrospective. I always remember getting ready for retrospectives and retrospectively struggling to recall what really annoyed and pleased me. To try and counter this we put a 'box of emotions' in the middle of each workspace where anyone could put a sticky note when they felt something that they wanted to record for retrospective!
It gets more complicated if you have some other modified content that you wanna leave untouched. You then need to stash it or commit it separately.

The point of the alias is to make it all more user-friendly and less error-prone.
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The source code is there for anyone to do whatever they like with it. Of course you could use this in-process and strip away the server logic, it's even split into source files to make that easy (nosql.[hc] are the files that implement the key-value store, everything else handles the fcgi requests).
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edit: Sorry, I missed the "1 sentence" guideline.

I have a lot of Oracle commentary in my post history, but I would still like to chime in again with a specific case that may be interesting to some people here. I'm totally unaffiliated with Oracle, so if it sounds like a pitch, it's just because I've had a long, positive experience with their technology.

There is absolutely nothing on the market, commercial or OSS, that can touch Oracle Database. If you really take advantage of it, it'll be clear.

I wrote a couple of big financial software applications, and reporting is a huge component. One of the key differentiators in my product vs the competition is that all of the reporting is ad-hoc, whereas theirs is batch. This is important to my customers, because they typically have planning and modeling work to do, and waiting around for batches just won't fly.

There are a few ways to get this kind of ad-hoc reporting experience, but the easiest is by directly issuing queries against the data. For this to be viable, though, you need two things: An expressive data manipulation language and the ability to exercise the hardware.

Oracle is the only database that delivers. Oracle's support for modern SQL and its proprietary extensions (e.g., [1]) are incredibly powerful, but they're expensive CPU-wise. However, Oracle will parallelize these, effectively running a single query over n cores.

Without those features, I'd have been building change monitors, data diffing algorithms, solvers, and all of that stuff to support background partial recomputation. Job runners, queuing, cache invalidation... man, just thinking about all that stuff again makes me realize just how nearly impossible it would have been to get this company off the ground.

Also, a note on pricing: it's expensive if you need these features, and licensing truly is arcane, but their are some pretty good options now. Several others have pointed to Oracle's free and cheap offerings, like XE and SE1, but Oracle is available on RDS with licensing included. You can quite literally amortize the licensing cost by the hour and quit anytime, and it's nothing more than an option when you provision your instance.

All that said, if you really need it, buying a $40k license is an awful lot cheaper than buying a couple $150k engineers to make it work on some other platform.

This has really informed my philosophy, especially when doing things on a startup budget. Get the best tools you can and use the hell out of them for all they're worth. There are thousands of engineer-years behind Oracle, and they've tackled a lot of hard problems for you. It's always a shame when I look at an operation and see people doing suboptimal reimplementations (you did you own materialized view?) because nobody read the docs...

[1] http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14223/sqlmod...
I think having the possibility to not be anonymous would ruin it for the team. Some people might want to show how much they love the company (honest or not) by switching of anonimity. The anonymous group would thus become suspicious.
Unfortunately that “control of discrimination” can change uncontrollably in the future so any system we develop now should have some thought to the risks of leaving data which could be abused by a bad actor in the future.

The BackStory podcast had a recent episode on the history of surveillance in America:

http://backstoryradio.org/shows/keeping-tabs-2/

Among other topics, one segment discussed how a racist official in Virginia used data collected in the 19th century to protect free African Americans as part of his effort to enforce racial purity laws in the 20th century:

“HELEN ROUNTREE: In the county courthouses, there was another kind of record made, and that was the register of free Negroes. He had to get a certificate stating that they were of free birth, otherwise they could be kidnapped and sold into slavery.

The law about that went in in 1806. Plecker was able to get copies of those registers – every county had one. And then if he got a tip later and he could have his people trace geologically back to a free negro register, he had that present-day person as a person of African ancestry.”

The full segment is worth listening to:

https://soundcloud.com/backstory/one-data-point-one-drop
Nah it needs history as demonstrated by the OPs myopic stance. Ever hear of a liberal arts education? I wonder why that became popular?
Spectral Representations for Convolutional Neural Networks [pdf]
90s: 3.5 million shares in Netscape for a few 100 million... although only the beginning, that is modest compared to today.

As another commentator pointed out... valuation vs price.
Those hats fail really hard. An IR led looks like a point of dim light on cam. You need hundreds of them to achieve an obliterating effect.

You often see the hat. You rarely see what it looks like to various cameras.
I'm not sure what forum software you run but the majority can be modified. The way I would approach this is to modify the output and replace all instances of supported embed URLs with https.
The US govt thinks otherwise. They insist that only by registering a copyright can you protect your work in court. Any 'poor mans copyright' techniques are never useful in court.
>Financial Independence

Do other countries teach much about personal finance in High School or even College? I think this is one area that is lacking in US curriculum, at least when I graduated high school a decade ago. Sure I could budget a project but was I able to make informed and responsible financial decisions in my early/mid 20s?

Students need to know the burdens that student loans are going to put on them after school ends. Parents may not know or remember what it was like to be a college kid trying to make ends meet. I saw many kids take heavy loans to live somewhat comfortably. Once they got "adult jobs" they still cant make ends meet after graduation due to loan repayments.
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I'm excited to try out the maildir support. I've been looking forward to this coming out.

I don't really understand the Thunderbird to IceDove flow, I wonder when these features will make it to Debian unstable/testing?
Your comment is why I mentioned financial literacy and financial independence. The economy is a huge system with many moving parts, so while I do agree with your statement, I think you'd get a better ROI by teaching people how to manage money.

I'm a huge fan of "Your Money or Your Life" and by extension the Financial Integrity program, which advocates for people to rethink their relationship with money as well teaches people how to make income regardless of employment status.
Club Mate has 20mg/100ml.

Red Bull, Rockstar, Monster and similar energy drinks have ~32mg/100ml (I've seen anything from 28 to 32, but 32 seems to be a legal limit and the most popular).

A 500ml can of Rockstar or Monster has 160mg of caffeine.

The caffeine content of regular caffeine pills I can buy at the pharmacy (plain packaging, just branded as "caffeine") is 0.2g per pill, i.e. 200mg (or 100mg per half).

A cup of regular coffee typically contains about 95mg of caffeine.

If a handful of servings of 100mg of caffeine per day would pose a major health risk, the majority of the population in developed nations would already be affected, whether they drink Club Mate or not.

For reference: I would say that in a given day I don't think I've ever drunk more than two liters of Club Mate. Normally I drink about two bottles over the period of a work day. I barely ever drink it outside of work.

I would say that on a typical day (including holidays and weekends) I consume between 100mg and 250mg of caffeine. That's the equivalent of one to two-and-a-half cups of coffee.

EDIT: Google seems to agree that up to 400mg of caffeine a day is safe for most healthy adults. I should probably also point out that some people are just naturally very sensitive to caffeine, so that may explain why you reacted so strongly to Jolt Cola -- especially if you do not normally consume any other sources of caffeine like coffee, tea or dark chocolate.
Nice! wasn't familiar was autostash.
I don't mean to derail a rant with inconvenient facts, but 75% of France's power comes from nuclear power and they have the ITER fusion research facility.
The above comparison was about the difference between JS in browser and server-side.

> How much time did you actually spend evaluating Meteor?

A week? I saw the fibers dependency.

> Meteor is using fibers on the server and thus the code is written in the synchronous style.

There is no library (promises, fibers) that alleviates the simplicity of being able to do:

users = User.objects.all()

And not having to wrap it in a promise.

I should add, we went from Meteor -> Express -> Django. It was such a relief to invest time in our features, and not having to have the downsides of every minute DB / API being asynchronous. I could elaborate.
I have a theory that the folk tales of changelings - babies being stolen by and replaced with fairies - are probably sparked by children with autism in the past. From what I understand, sometimes a child can seem to be developing neurotypically for a long time before developing symptoms of Asperger's or autism pretty suddenly.

If you're a farmer in 1400, your child suddenly stops being communicative, and effectively turns into a different person. Obviously fairies did it.
One of my coworkers actually created a system to do this manually in Google Docs almost a year ago. This post was a gentle reminder to me that there are always other smart people working on almost the same exact idea as you. Also a reminder that usage is like oxygen for a startup. He never actually built out the product, but proved demand manually using Excel. he should have built this - I'm glad someone did though and great execution Retroospect.
Probably works a lot better than the crappy peoplesoft system my college bought into...
Icons in Safari aren't lined up like they should be compared to Chrome.
I will be happy to get aggregated info based on company/country/day etc..
Maybe if you have a rare and beautifully printed treasury bond, it's worth more than the (now antique) cash it cost!
What's wrong with just using thermostats in each building? This seems way over-engineered.
Any time a UBI is mentioned I think it is important to point out that the program is traditionally paired with (and funded exclusively by) a Land Value Tax. This is an important point because the UBI is not an income redistribution mechanism, but rather it is a mechanism for paying out to society the rent paid to society for the right to own land and enjoy the provlidge of property rights institutionalizing the concept of land ownership. This is akin to the citizens's dividend paid out from state oil revenues in Alaska.

For more information on the reasoning behind these ideas, see the works of Henry George and Thomas Paine.
But that doesn't work for sites that don't support HTTPS. It would either break the embed by trying to connect over HTTPS anyways, or try to load a bunch of HTTP content into an HTTPS page which browsers will complain about.
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This is basically why Kubernetes exists: for all the plumbing, discovery, etc required on top of bare containers.

It still requires work to go from zero to production-quality stack, of course.
Or at the very least with iframes. If you run a forum and you're allowing directly embedded content, you're trusting that content not to break your security.
Not perfect, but wikimedia scores a respectable A on ssllabs:

https://dev.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=wikimedia.org...

Same IP as en.wikipedia.org, so does that mean they're using SNI to serve different certs? http://caniuse.com/#search=sni
On Wikipedia, one of the issues is that a lot of the behind-the-scenes JavaScript gadgets (for routine administration/maintenance tasks) are written by community members.

When HTTPS was first rolled out on Wikipedia (before that we had the joy that was a single secure server for all language sites - secure.wikimedia.org), a lot of these scripts wouldn't work because they hard-coded protocols and so on. Fixing all those edge cases was quite difficult. The scripts are often abandonware but essential for admins to do their jobs.

One of the downsides of community projects like Wikipedia...
There are whole subfields of mathematicians who would agree in spirit with "I do it numerically, much easier that way" :-)
DBA & PL-SQL/UNIX Developer here. Primary work with Oracle and SQL Server. Also support PG, and MySQL.

SQL Server hands down has the best GUI tools, none of the other DB's can even match this. Lots of information/documentation online. Makes life a lot easier. With Flashback being added to SQL16, it's going to be really hard to beat. Setting up, and maintaining HA options like Mirroring, Clustering, Replication is significantly easier that all the other DB's I've used.

Oracle is great, and also a pain in the ass. Works on any OS...but in my experience works best on Solaris. They really need to improve their tools. If you want to be effective you pretty much have to use the command line, and sql plus. There is nothing wrong with that, and in fact I prefer this method for most things. However, once you get used to SQL Server, it's crazy how much time you save, by having simple tools. Data Grid sucks ass, and is just a pain. They try to push this now, instead of the command line tools, pretty big mistake in my eyes. Oracle also has a lot of new features that are truly awesome. Like Audit Vault, and data masking.

PG is pretty awesome, but most enterprise level applications do not support it. Same issue with MySQL. The learning curve is also steeper for these. I don't believe MySQL, or PG can come close to SQL Server, or Oracle.
Exactly. The problem is that News sites rely on advertising.

Due to the general low technical quality of adv companies/companies' suppliers/customers etc you will find often find an image/flash/js served over plain HTTP or with a bad certificate.

That single HTTP bit will immediately trigger the terroristic browser behaviours we learned to accept and love, including but not limited to: red signs, technical jargon pop ups, fully red pages with jargon disclaimers of all sorts and "getme outta here" buttons.

Funnily enough, I remember reading a technical blog post written by Guardian devs themselves, citing this very problem.
The US has (a) a much greater insistence on credit and credit checks (b) a pseudo-ID system in the "social security number" that doesn't really work and (c) much weaker consumer protection.

"ID theft" really means "credit fraudulently obtained in one's name". That this is a problem for the person whose name was used and not the business defrauded is a tribute to the US's strong pro-business culture.
From what little I know about German beverages, it seems like many of them have cool slogans. I used to drink Afri-cola back in the day, and I think the slogan was 'Kein Vergnuegen ohne Gefahr' or roughly 'No pleasure without danger'.
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I'd draw a ton of distinctions, in fact, I'd draw one per person. Everyone's unique.

But I have no idea what in my post would even remotely lead you to the conclusion that I am the one treating "autism" as an atomic condition that you either have or don't, what with all the distinctions you'll find in it if you look.

My concern is that I know where this sort of "acceptance" push leads. Already I see autism researchers have to precede their perfectly acceptable and even wonderful research with "Not that autistic people aren't wonderful, but..." That's a step, no, that's several steps down the road to where soppy-headed thinkers start babbling about "autistophobia" and run the researchers out of town on a rail.

(And then congratulate themselves on running the researchers out of town on a rail.)

Oh, jeez, when I typed that word I really hoped it was a neologism... https://www.google.com/search?q=autistiophobia That's not what my son needs. I don't think internalizing that one is intrinsically and inescapably a victim is good for anybody's psychology but he really wouldn't be able to deal with life if he incorporated that into his worldview.

(And carefully note my claim there... it is not that people are not sometimes victims, even at scale, and it's not that sometimes they don't need this pointed out... but convincing someone that they are intrinsically and inescapably eternally a victim is a terrible thing to do to a human being.)
Doesn't YC give 120K for 7%? An incubator/accelerator that isn't as good as YC (and therefore has less to offer) should have a better deal than that to make up for the difference. Given YC as a baseline, an investment of 10K GBP == 15488 USD should be taking less than 0.9% of the company.
I just get a 5 pound bag of actual yerba mate and drink that with some hot water -

http://www.amazon.com/EcoTeas-Organic-Yerba-Loose-5-Pound/dp...
They are very complicated pipelines to model. It is simpler if you simply treat other consumers of your services as customers who can't change their code at every whim. They've invested time and money in to your API, and are going to be pissed if you change it all the time.

Obviously this isn't the exact scenario you're in at the moment, but if you're big enough -- this is exactly what it'll be like.

Implement backwards compatible changes and implement tracking on the users of the old features you want to disable. When your tracking shows nobody is using the old features, delete them.

That is how we manage it.
Yeah, I know. Free speech zones is what the blog post was in response to.
What was it about then?
> “We are probably the most risk-seeking investors in the world,” said Matt Clifford, EF’s co-founder.

This is a great quote, but the reality is more like: "If we didn't start a firm that invests in companies before they exist, we wouldn't have any dealflow."

> Despite the risk-–30% of the entrepreneurs EF funds drop out without ever creating a company –Clifford said he has no difficulty finding investors for his venture firm.

Most prospective LPs can't get into top funds, but in markets like the one we have today, they don't go home. They funnel their money into second, third and fourth-tier funds. There were a lot of these in the first .com boom.
Well then, it's probably good that we don't have school children design our bridges :-)
I think iframes will result in a embedded content warning?
On the Internet, if Facebook redeploys and breaks you, that's your problem, it's kind of fine for Facebook.

But in an organization or company, if Team-A redeploys and breaks Team-B, that's everyone's problem, it's not really fine.

So yeah, microservices are like a mini Internet -- to a point.
Now imagine the cops in that comic have an unlimited amount of post-its which catalog the most minute and esoteric details about the faces of everyone in their city.

Also imagine that the cops have the ability to sift through and read those post-its at mechanical speeds.

Also, instead of cops they are Wal-Mart greeters.

Then you get closer to reality than the comic did regarding the topic of computer vision.
> a USB condom is not a solution, it only prevents power sources using data channels.

Of course it is not a perfect solution, but (like a real condom) it is a partial solution to the infection problem that is effective and not very burdensome. Charging is a major mode of vulnerability to USB attacks, quite likely the single biggest. And compared to the big, multi-sided task of redesigning USB and the systems around it, providing a USB condom for charging is cheap and straightforward.

> "apparent" - you don't know what they're doing about this on the inside.

Yes, this is why I used that qualifier. However, for a variety of reasons it does not seem probable that they happen to be preparing a big push on this issue internally.
I'm currently working on a Express/Angular contract. I'd say the debug tooling in WebStorm for the Express server is more sophisticated than the browser debug tooling for the front end, if only for shortcuts like "run to cursor". And that's even before we get into SpyJS (which to be honest can work on either the front or back end).
> This seems good, but too limited. Why not make it so that wikipedia can only be served over HTTPS?

That's what they're doing. From the second paragraph: "We will also use HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)"