skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You really should read the recent report on the Millenium development project and how its goals have been reached.

http://mdgs.un.org/unsd/mdg/Resources/Static/Products/Progre...

The media paints a black picture because that sells clicks, but in fact, the world is now a much better place than it has ever been. Despite population growth, fewer and fewer people live in extreme poverty. More and more children have access to education. Child mortality is down. More people have access to clean water. And, outside that report, wars kill fewer people than before.

I don't think capitalism is "unfettered", but the access to global market economy has been a factor in bringing this development throughout the world, particularly in China and India, which used to have huge numbers of extremely poor people.
It isn't MySQL at all. It just has a facade on the front compatible with MySQL's API.
One cannot discuss long-term copyright without mentioning the mickey mouse graph.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090811/0123105835.shtml

Copyrights have been extended so many time that the legal system has forgotten how to deal with expiration. The concept of profitable works "falling" into public domain is strangely foreign to most IP lawyers.
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If nobody had the foresight, they would have all been fine with joining Google and they wouldn't have failed. Google didn't have the foresight.
This also needs proper VCS support - by which I mean DVCSes that let you pile commits up to the same files one after another sanely, or reviews after commit rather than before (better have a good branching setup!)

My last job was perforce (no unsubmitted commit stacking) with everyone developing directly against a single branch. In theory, code reviews were supposed to happen before hand.

In practice, I submitted small changes from the hip, and complained when my coworkers gave me a week long spitball of unrelated features in a single mega-commit. Not that I wasn't guilty of that myself. Bleh.
Hollywood is slowly decaying into irrelevance. This is a sign that they know their days are numbered. People are not going stop pirating, hell the whining and draconian measures to get people to stop pirating their movies makes me want to pirate the shit out of it even more.

Plenty of video services like netflix, amazon prime are producing their own quality tv shows that exceed most of the crap movies we get. Everything is CG or some dumb plotline about sex. I'm sure films & tv shows will turn out from tech giants. I think if Google jumped in and began paying celebrities to star in their movies it could do well. I've always thought Hollywood to be a propaganda machine.
However, post 1990, the number of people killed in wars and conflicts has gone down significantly.
But search is only metadata. Metadata is not important ...
How do they make a living if they aren't working at all?

That seems like a shockingly high figure of people who have the means to avoid any sort of labor productivity. I can only conclude that "are not working today" is loosely defined or that these people were unfit for working at all, since someone that has the means to quit work and not have to look for other work elsewhere probably hasn't lead a very rigorous labor existence.

Also, this appears to be study of only the ones that left. I'm certain I could find 716 men that left the tech industry too, and come up with a set of reasons why they left. Looks like a classic case of selection bias. There doesn't appear to be one women who stayed in the industry in that study. Does that mean I should conclude from this study that 100% of women leave tech? Simply put, you need to survey more than just those that left.

That study comes across as far more biased than the biases it's trying to combat.

It's far more interesting to discuss base rates. Start with a sample of women in tech, follow them over n-years (you can get a good representative sample by choosing different cohorts like those that are recent grads to those with 5-10 years industry experience) and do the same with men. After 2-3 years check out how many from from each gender from that sample have left the industry. Interview them to find out why.

My ex was a documentary filmmaker interested in social causes and whatnot and I've seen how the sausage is made firsthand and know how data and statistics are twisted to support an agenda. Good statistics that strive to be impartial almost never produces numbers as "story-worthy" as the ones from that study, which means you need to question the numbers presented and also ask which figures were conveniently omitted.
I assume that male VC are worse at balancing the maternity calculation with the additional energy, motivation and intellectual skills a woman could bring to the team. Well that's a weak assumption and I have no data to back it, but I'm not at all naive enough to think they are in a secret cabal looking for each other.
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Is the title on the link related to the article? Am I missing something here?
JSCS 2.0 release
It's just a storage engine, albeit a very good one (I was on the beta); storage engines act as a plugin to the mysql/mariadb server layer, and are typically just a separate binary.
Tests of Perceptual Hash (PHASH) Compare Metric
Put your phone on silent and leave it in your bag. Look at the notifications each app is broadcasting and turn them into silent notifications. Optionally have an override when somebody important tries to call you through your phone.

You might as well ask, does Skype/Hangouts/Slack/Email etc on your work machine interfere with your productivity? Yes if you let it.

One of the reasons I like Full Screen mode on OSX. It removes distractions.
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What? This is bullshit. Where does the most popular television abd film content come from? Hollywood - including the Netflix only stuff.
now where did i put the fuzzing finds of nasm...
Lets not talk about how much of a pain CloudSQL is to use
Dynamo + lambda + sns?
Strangely, I'm not terribly bothered by your story because an attitude like that strongly held means there is little to no chance I'd end up in such a toxic environment for me. This big upside is that it saves the time and energy possibly I would have invested in a place that is going to suck.

As I grow older I've learned it's not merely enough to know where you want to want. You also need to know where you don't want to work. Extreme overtly environments like that make that choice really simple.

There will always be people workplaces where such bigotry thrives. We should minimize how common such workplaces are. At the same time, there is a benefit of have a few workplaces here and there that attract and retains such people because it keeps those people from entering the labor market and being employed at a company with men and women who would rather not deal with such bigoted bullshit.
"features a 5.5-inch, 1080p screen"

I hope it's not the same screen as in the One... Other than that, it looks like a good improvement.
Having the hour be the same everywhere is something that I can get behind, until I start to worry about when the "day" changes. Let's say you're in some unfortunate place where 12am happens at local noon. When someone says "let's get lunch on Tuesday" what do they mean?
The closest thing to Aurora would be Clustrix; scale at the storage level behind a single entry point.

Aurora is more than just RDBMS as a service.
Can you really smear a company who's reputation is already beyond repair?
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=995543
> Why always assume everybody is evil ?

Perhaps not actively evil, but maybe amoral?

Some people do things others consider bad not explicitly to be evil or for personal gain but because they "don't see the problem so why not?" or because they are focused on other priorities and are either simply unaware or consider the problem(s) being caused elsewhere to be worth a movement toward some "greater good" by there assessment of good.

It happens in politics all the time: things like "we'll never get X to agree to Y so we'll have to let that slip even though we are vehemently against it, but if we do let that slip (despite the resulting anger back home) we'll probably get them to agree to Z which otherwise they never would and that is a big bonus". That is a very active and large scale example, but people make similar rationalisations on a smaller scale day-in-day-out, sometimes almost completely subconsciously.
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A Postgres to MySQL client mapping middleware is probably the holy grail? I think it's been done in the JDBC space.
In which even remotely conceivable case can it be a good idea to strap a gun to a drone?
A Single Molecule Transistor
More than 90% of the sex industry in thailand is the Thai market.
Boiled lamb brain with a splash of citrus juice - sweet memories of my childhood in Paris !
How large a proportion of people are able to de-solder surface mounted components and replace them? I'm not asking how many can learn to do so and get the equipment, but how many who knows how to do it and have the equipment.

No policies like this are made with the expectation they'll stop everyone. They just want to raise the barrier sufficiently.
I picked Jekyll cause it works out of the box with github pages.
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ask hn:Development stack for a new web app: Angular vs. Ember?
One of the key decisions we have to make as a web-based startup is our tech stack. Given a two year development time we have to predict where the cool kids will be by the time our basic site/web app is funded and ready for the big time. For a complex web app two front end techs seem to lead mind share at the moment, Angular and Ember. (Yes, I realise that React is great, too, but this does not offer enough for our needs).

We are convinced that Node.js is the backend we want to use. It is fast and multi threaded. Both Angular and Ember will work well with this.

Both seem to have their fanboys who swear that one is the best.

Frankly, the technical argument between the two is moot - both will do our job well.

Two years ago, it seemed that Angular was leading, then last year Ember, but recently Angular seems to have the community weight behind (see http://eviltrout.com/2013/06/15/ember-vs-angular.html).

I would love to hear thoughts or stats that will support one or the other (or both). I am sure both will be around in two years. But will one start to take a lead over the other? Will one have a limited number of (expensive) developers? Will one start to lose new tech support? The technical advantages of each does play a part, but other factors often influence longer term success of a platform:- developer adoption rates, support, enterprise adoption rates and so on.

So the decision is not about which will be technically better. It is which will be 'cool' in the community in two years time... which will have the critical number of developers.. which will considered as a 'good' tech in two years time by investors and so on.

Any thoughts to help make this decision between Angular and Ember would be most welcome.
> For example, it's practically impossible to fly into USA, rent a car, and book a hotel for a week unless you have a credit card that has several thousand dollars of credit. Even

I pay for stuff all the time in the US using a debit card. I've never been declined because it's a debit card.
That's because economists know how growth is measured, and know you can have growth and reduce resource use and energy usage at the same time.

Yes they are currently correlated, but not strictly. Growth is measured by what people spend, if people spend extra money on entertainment, and less on cars but overall more. You would see less physical resources being used. There's no strict rule linking the two.
I wonder if the threat of continuous attack and litigation could hurt shareholders of the MPAA's partners more than Google itself. Particularly since the last decade of investment into anti-piracy campaigns and measures has not curved piracy.
A disabled school dropout who built a light aircraft
Knowing Visa's business practices and being a Stripe customer this does not make me comfortable.
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It's cheap for what you get. Try comparing it to an iPhone, specs and price.
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So you're saying that when the Economist says "But the Valley’s influence over the future of consumers and capitalism is here to stay. It has become a nexus of dealmaking and fortune-seeking, a realm of creativity and wild ideas, and it will remain so.", it is wrong?

(I wonder if the first comenters actually read the article...)
Amazon Aurora – New Cost-Effective MySQL-Compatible Database Engine for Amazon RDS

* https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/highly-scalable-mysql-compa...

It's an engine for MySQL.

Aurora Database Architecture by Amazon Web Services:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TbRxwcux3c&list=WL&index=5
Remember when the US sued ibm for 30 years and lost? Pretty much the same reason.
Many US banks have free bank transfers.
Then protect the airwaves, not my router from myself. It shouldn't be much harder than shooting down illegal radio channels, am I wrong? If someone runs a router on channel 14 and it interferes with some legal signal, then they can go out, track down the source and fine the person who runs the router. Make fines high enough to scare most people to use illegal bands, make some example cases in media. If you can't make example cases then why bother?
Please note that the distinction between credit and debit card does not exist everywhere, when I moved to the UK, I spent at least an hour discussing with someone trying to understand the concept. To me, they were just all credit cards.
I don't want to start here any flame war or something, but that's the main reason why I've switched to Windows Phone OS - for 100$ - 150$ You've got the system that runs like a charm (I'm not smartphone power user so all apps I need are available in Windows Store)
Ask HN: What are the habits you notice in conspicuously happy person?
Irrespective of social, financial or other influencing factors, we see many people who are always genuinely happy! What are the habits/ qualities/ philosophies you personally feel that contribute to this?
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Ask HN: DiskDefrag comes with “Optimize SSD” option, does it make any sense?
I installed the latest version of Auslogic DiskDefrag and it comes with a "Optimize SSD" option, says "System optimization helps extend your SSD's service life by reducing the number of write requests, since the main problem with SSD drive is the limited number of write cycles flash memory cells cab handle."

Does this makes sense at all? I'm no expert myself and always thought SSD required no defrag or particular care - thoguth I'd ask for opinions here.
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Is it a vis/mastercard debit card being treated as a credit card or just a bank debit card?
In many companies:

- saying "it's going to take me X months because of the technical debt" is not an acceptable answer to the manager;

- working 15 hour days and taking X months more than the deadline is rewarded particularly if every diff is recorded in some kind of micromanagement tool used by the manager, for being "team spirit" even and especially with lower productivity.

Since not everybody can hop jobs easily, a successful way to survive in such a situation CAN be to just pretend to work long hours, put in the face time, enthusiastically play along with the micromanagement game and hope the job market will improve before the company goes under or the department is disciplined for its lack of productivity, and before this situation takes too deep a toll on your intellectual ability and happiness. The key is continuous small, trackable deliverables, and focusing on additive changes rather than improving the existing codebase.

It's important not to think about karma as such managers get promoted out of the way before their results catch up with them, and you'll just get more miserable as you watch them fly higher and higher on their column of hot air.

/rant
I'd like to upvote this twice.
No Cloudformation support yet? I don't see it in the docs.
You need to talk to your manager, it's their job to understand your situation and help you (and therefore the business) to succeed. There is a possibility they won't get that in which case you need to look for a new job (that won't be hard). Pushing yourself too hard can be an issue, doing it with a backing track of stress around others impressions of your competence is a recipe for disaster.

There should be a way out of this which will leave you, your manager and your coworkers happy and productive and your company successful as a result. Focus on that belief when you plan to talk to your manager, and try to ignore any fear you have about negative impressions they may have of you. And take a break as soon as possible.
Didn't the economist famously predict the eventual triumph of the horse over the petrol engine in the early 20th century?
Lightbeam lets you see and block individual third party sites. It's actually pretty good.
Just back it up, fastboot unlock, and flash a recovery image. You'll thank yourself you did it. As per your questions:

1. Not that easy to completely brick. If you try to flash the wrong recovery or boot, it will fail to start even in recovery mode (bricked?). I've done that to mine, but I was still able to boot it up while tethered (I have two phones and I inadvertently used the image for my other phone on my One Plus).

2. Loads of guides on their forums or google in general. Also, Nexus 4 or 5 guides are the same procedure, just replacing with the relevant images and ROMs (the OnePlus One's codename is Bacon, in case you're looking at what roms to download).
I'd just browse dealextreme or aliexpress: http://www.dx.com/attr/cell-phones-accessories-599/cell-phon...

e.g. http://www.dx.com/p/xiaomi-4-quad-core-android-4-4-3-bar-pho... which can be compared against the OnePlus 2 here: http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/xiaomi-mi-5-needs-to... (headline says mi5, scroll down)
Oh god. Just checked out this dbgr situation. Looks like they allow you to run arbitrary code inside one of their docker instances. DISASTER.

Never ever use docker for security. With a Linux kernel local root exploit (which are indeed plentiful), one can escape from a docker container into the initial namespaces of the system.

It doesn't even look like they bother keeping their kernel up to date either.

DISASTER!

I liked the approach I saw at a couple other sites -- compile an interpreter to JavaScript with emscripten, and have all the code execute client side.
Um, a multi megaton nuke of the city center would have the same effect or worse.
There isn't a tech bubble but a valuation bubble in the private market.

The tech sector in general is undervalued with a few select companies unfortunately having absurdly high valuation and getting all the press.

While I do not fear a tech sector crash I do worry about how far down those who get all the attention will drag everyone else.
What's the minimum spec to be considered "flagship?"
Twitter mulls replacing 'favorite' button
Good point. I must think more often.
Quote of the day for me so far: "According to Bitcoin Watch, the aggregate power of the bitcoin network is about 4.8 x 1021 FLOPs. Using your own estimates, this would be enough to simulate 4 or more brains."

I have been wondering recently if there is some way of combining cryptocurrencies with deep learning. I know the Bitcoin hash calculations are used to secure the transactions, but if there was some way of either re-purposing these calculations or adding some additional ones, then that could unleash a massive amount of computing power. Plus if you could mention both machine learning and the blockchain in the same sentence you'd be sure to get a lot of interest from VCs.
It depends, normally in order of preference LTS, LTS backports, then latest release. So then if you want the newer version you can do apt-get install <package>/<release>. I typically use Apt::Default-Release "<release>" in a separate apt.conf.d file.
Sony z3 compact is the one you're looking for. Sadly it's one of the dying breed of non huge phones with flagship specs and good software (just don't upgrade to Lollipop, it's junk).
Are MBAs really an indicator of a bubble?
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I would only be interested in the retrieval of the raw data of a meshtag. It's of course smaller than the shortened url. I always wanted to make a simple method to mark my handwritten notes, scan them, then the scanned pages "organize themselves" by the hand drawn tag (in this case meshtag) at the top right corner.
Not for me. There are so many different ways people use feed readers. Google reader was amazing in how many different workflows it supported.
Kong crosses 10,000 downloads
You could just use keep your contacts locally. You don't have to sync to Google.
You're right the whole "sexism in tech" is probably not a problem at all. It's all totally made up. It can't possibly be that bad. /s
@bmir-alum-007 : sure, you have some good points. Don't worry, I haven't bought a Ferrari.
They claim to be technical skill/programming meritocracies.
I still don't understand how gender plays into this, I have no data to support my presumptions. But I would think that it might make an effect but not a significant one.
I think you need to specify your historical period and geographical region before you can claim that a great number of people had access to productive land and economic independence before industrial revolution. My perception of history is that the majority of people in post-hunter-gatherer societies have always lived under someones thumb.

"But that's ignoring the fact that we have still robbed that person of free will because we have robbed them off the means of production"

Who is "we" and what are the means of production that have been robbed from this person? Sure, poverty makes people dumb because all their energies are go to economic struggle - but being born to poverty does not imply that anything was stolen from them. I'm not saying poverty does not suck because it does. But it's not an act of personal malfeasance but a systems error.

It would be very cathartic if one could just blame all the rockefellers for the economic inequality in this world but the world is not that simple.

"Slavery has changed, it is a more sustainable model now, with less chance of uprising, as people such as yourself actually defend it"

I think you are being silly. The specific difference between slavery and current economic trends now is that to fix slavery the people needed to implement fundamental changes to the economy and legal system at large scales. Nowadays to give people a little more independence in developed economies would only require a sustainable model of basic income which is more of a political hassle rather than anything since most developed countries already have extensive systems of income transfer.