skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"First, there are many scenarios in which that server loses all its data no matter what. If there is water damage, fire, some hardware problems, etc..."

Err! So there are burglers and other evildoers sneaking through the city. Does that mean I should stop locking my door, since burglaries happen anyway?

"In the real world, traditional durability often isn’t even done correctly. If you are using a DBMS that uses a transaction log for durability, you either have to turn off hardware buffering or have a battery backed RAID controller."

Or you write to raw devices, which perform pretty neatly. The fact that a _lot_ of databases are set up and managed in a crappy way justifies that this is considered the norm? I don't think so.

Here's for the disclaimer. I don't know anything about MongoDb and not a helluvalot about NoSQL databases.

But I think the reasoning behind this post is not very sound. No matter which database.
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Hah. If you think Giant Eagle is crap, you should step into a Kroger sometime.

I grew up around Pittsburgh, then moved to Atlanta for school ~9 years ago. Talk about a substantial drop in supermarket quality...
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"inexperienced college students is very likely to build a large system that goes terribly, horribly wrong"

Maybe you should hire them when it is their third system? First one goes horribly wrong because of lack of engineering, second goes horribly wrong because of over-engineering (the well known second-system syndrome) and by the third they should be ready to go.
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It's quite normal in any company to avoid paying invoices until the very last minute. It only depends whether that is "on the day" or "when we get a letter from their lawyers".

It's entertaining, as an engineer, to see your accounts department deal with a vendor who doesn't threaten, they simply shrug and switch you off. The most entertaining example I ever saw of this was back in the 90s, when the company I was working for "lost" all its clients domain names... Of course I had kept copies of the email renewal notices I'd forwarded to them.
Nice update. The gumboots are cool...
There's also a quote, about that quote, by David Moser:

>> 'Someone once said that learning Chinese is "a five-year lesson in humility". I used to think this meant that at the end of five years you will have mastered Chinese and learned humility along the way. However, now having studied Chinese for over six years, I have concluded that actually the phrase means that after five years your Chinese will still be abysmal, but at least you will have thoroughly learned humility.'
Assuming x is a truth value--either 0 or 1--then !x gives the same result as these expressions:

1 - x
x ^ 1
(x + 1) & 1

In x ^ 1, ^ is exclusive or, not exponentiation. But exponentiation can also do the trick:

0 ^ x
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I've actually used http://www.tinc-vpn.org/ to tunnel Tokyo Tyrant between data centers. It was a bit flaky at times though, so hardware Cisco tunneling looks like a good option if you have access to the firewall in your environment (eliminates all cloud providers).
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Yet another grotesque patent awarded: Mining personal data
"You have to work on stretching your payables because every dollar you get in extended payables is an interest-free loan"

Wouldn't it be better to simply ask for more money up front, rather than creating a shitty relationship by trying to stealthily extract more money through interest? I think trust between business partners is worth a lot, and not paying bills on time is not good for building trust.
You could try making the simplest version of each solution and see which one(s) are actually useful?
Myspace is good as a home page for musicians, due to the high availability of bandwidth for sample tracks. Virtually every musical artist who is anything at all, has a home page there.

Facebook is a poor replacement as you must be logged in to be able to see a Facebook page.

I don't like being spied on, so I don't have a Facebook account, and never will.

As a pure social networking site for ordinary people, MySpace's days are long over.
Both the communications minister and the PM are, despite being in the Labor Party, actually quite religious and conservative.

Translation: "no True Social Democrat would ever be in favor of censorship."

This is a classic example of the "no true Scotsman" fallacy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

In the US, campus speech codes against "hate speech" are often worse than this, and campuses overwhelmingly conform to left-leaning views. http://www.thefire.org/index.php
It wasn't?
(2 minutes ago from web)
It's not a requirement to do it in Java. Just saying...
I'm not sure if you are joking or not, but trust me, Iran is not that bad.
I’m a front-end developer, so I get to experience this battleground every day. I expect my designers to come up with stuff that’s going to work well for UX, and I expect the back-end developers to code in a maintainable and performant way. Meanwhile I sit in the middle as a buffer and tie everything together.

Really, it just comes down to respect.
If it becomes more common, we might see GitHub being gamed or spammed by people trying to create artificial networks.
German tanker with wind turbines goes out to sea, fills up with hydrogen
Ask HN:  Are there any email services as good as Gmail but not as intrusive?
I have several separate facets of my life, that I really don't like to have them intrude on each other. And, the release of Buzz has caused an unwelcome convergence of those parts of my life, and it's fueled my privacy paranoia. Yes, I can and have turned Buzz off. But, it's dialed up a long simmering desire to distance myself from Google's products for the sake of privacy.

The problem is, their email and calendaring services are so damn good, and they work so well on my Android phone. Are there any other privacy friendly, really good email and calendaring products that people are using? I'd be willing to use another hosted solution if it was good.
The beef we purchased directly from a farmer (all cows are 100% pastured and grass-fed) are processed and packed by Cheplic in Finleyville, PA.

Of course, the farmer isn't processing an obscene amount of cattle each year, either, and he only sells directly to consumers, face-to-face, so a small butcher can actually handle that sort of volume.
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But what if I am buying locally raised and processed grass-fed beef? Local is hardly nonsense. Every two weeks I meet the guy actually raising the animals to buy our food (beef, chicken, milk, cheese, eggs). I can't think of a more appropriate way to do business with something as important as what I put in my body.
I don't know the situation elsewhere, but something that surprised me here in the UK is the disclosure requirements. We have a lot of rules on describing ingredients and nutrition in food, some statutory, others widely accepted industrial practices. However, even the statutory rules let food suppliers "forget" certain things, like IIRC up to 10% of added water in meat products. In other words, they can legally say "no added water" with anything up to 10% added, or reduce greater actual amounts accordingly. I'm not sure I see any public interest in that kind of rule, unless it really is an essential part of the production process that literally everyone (including the local butcher with a local supplier competing with the supermarkets) is going to have to do.
"If they have a skill and you don't, why should they come work for you?"

I would only hire people that are more skilled than me on their areas.

They should come work for me exactly because I do this :)
Me, too.

It was available for mobile users immediately, but it also didn't seem to be integrated into mobile GMail when I first looked at it.
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Don't see security questions addressed.

Any transaction involving anything of value is going to have to be full secure transaction. A secure transaction takes time and effort for a person to make.

Any new supposedly "simple and easy" transaction system is going to have to remove security somewhere. Within 6 months of launch, everyone is the world is going to wake up to find one morning all their flattr cake are belong to some guy in a Former Soviet Republic. After a few failed desperate patch attempts wind up with more cake being bulk shipped to former Soviet Republics, Flattr will be declard a flop.
Thank you very much Dennis, Scraplr's site is under heavy development, what you mentioned is what we have in mind to implement.

on tag line for chocaholic that is similar to madebyelephant, we are big fan of Tim Van Damme. What we have in mind that it is a common words which represents what we do.
I am not sure that "margins tending to zero" applies at all to any market where the marginal cost of producing is non-zero.
Chinese shut down a hacker training site
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If you are in the middle of your academic career then it will be an early stage and it will be a good idea to look at how you should do essay writing on different high school research paper topics.
that's really good to hear. a misleading title, thought the article would be negative. this is more like how it's disruptive to other social networks that aren't open. that's a good thing, openness always wins.
Surely you need there to be no restriction on resources as well as an free market in order for the profits to tend to zero. A free market doesn't help if one person/group owns all the resources (though I gather Adam Smith's free market definition excluded monopolies this doesn't appear to be within the modern definition).
I see a key difference between driving cars and interacting on Internet, besides the nature of the dangers: it is important to know how to act on Internet without censorship, whereas I don't see the point of knowing how to drive without a seatbelt.

Now it can be discussed whether temporary censorship is a good pedagogic tool, which is the heart of the disagreement here, but the seatbelt analogy doesn't hold water.

I personally tend to believe into responsibiling rather than censorship, because:

- most censorships don't work well and get healthy kids to react against them; there's nothing worse than foolishly relying on a censorship that doesn't work.

- I tend to believe that when you trust people, they try very hard to be trustworthy.

- Our society is deresponsibilising everyone (it's the microwave vendor's fault if you're dumb enough to microwave your cat); giving a sane sense of responsibility to my kids is probably one of the best competitive edge I can give them in life.

- I'm ideologically libertarian when it comes to ideas, free speech and communications (not so much when it comes to economy, but that's off-topic)
If this is the American Management Services I remember from years ago, they were a standard DC-area government contractor. Having once worked for one such, I have to think that running AMS is not quite the same thing as running a company that produces something other than billable hours.
It's disruptive all right; it fucking keeps bothering me about trying it right after i sign in to gmail. And it doesn't seem to take 'no' for an answer.
we're investigating the issue that you mentioned. Meanwhile, could you send us your email address to hi[at]madebychocaholic[dot]com so we can send you an invite.
I have a pair. While they're good for simple actions to swiping to answer the phone, browsing or using apps is an exercise in frustration.
"It could be written by my 50-year-old uncle who's "in IT"."

What does that mean? Does your 50-year-old uncle exist? I am 48 and I am "in IT" and I work mostly with men between the ages of 21 and 27. Despite their youth, their very long/very short hair, and their t-shirts, some of them are genuine fuddy-duddies (old-fashioned, conservative, set in their thinking, however you want to call it). The chief focus of their conservatism is an almost religious adherence to doctrine, to how things have been so far in their very short lifetimes.

Here's what someone my age thinks: Google has introduced a "service" that politely adds to the annoyance of our lives. If google cared about what users wanted, they would be improving their core business, search, which is becoming increasingly polluted by spam.
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Do you speak Gaelic?

This is something I don't understand, living as I do in Wales. Stornoway, say, is the name of the place? If that is the name then for a Gaelic person the name should be "Stornoway" (or I'd accept a transliteration) and not something that is pronounced differently, no?

When I speak to a Russian I don't change my name to Па́вел, it's my name. I can understand to some extent people in another country applying a different name, or applying a different pronounciation of the same word (eg Paris), but I don't understand why you'd translate a name.

/rant
European parliament rejects SWIFT deal for sharing bank data with US
Am I alone in believing that one should not send subject-less emails?
Really? I was only automatically following my real friends.

I keep my full address book in Google Contacts (1000+ ppl, including long-gone friends/workmates/classmates). Perhaps because I use Gmail as my main personal account it was able to figure out who was who.
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Perhaps I am in the large minority but so far I have found Buzz to be engaging and quite useful. I wanted to try out a local restaurant and put the question to Buzz and received eight insightful responses in less than an hour. I enjoy it and I think it has plenty of "stickiness" as a lot of my non-technophobe friends are already using it quite heavily.
For a while, there were a lot of 'ditches' marked on the terrain map of the US. That was some sort of glitch, though, I'm sure.

Also, I'm curious to see how long it takes them to update this:

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Via+Monte+...

That overpass is now complete and operational, as of a month or two ago.
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All programs attempt to expand until they can read email. Those that do not are replaced by those that can -- Zawinski's Law
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And this is why phishing actually works...
At this point Buzz isn't a consumer product, even I (a geek) find it difficult. This can change as more applications pop up using the Buzz api, until then Twitter and Facebook are perfectly safe

ADD: the biggest issue with Buzz for me is the borders of privacy are not clear enough. On Twitter I'm in the public mode, on Facebook and email - in private (was).

Now I need to adjust my self-control system to not leak something unintentionally.
Google chat was there right in your gmail for ages, did you find it inconvenient for contacting old friends?
http://everything2.com/title/I+am+forced+to+smoke+my+cat - sorry!
I am trying to migrate from Facebook to Buzz. From the look of things it suits me better. I never enjoyed Facebook that much as it seems there is a race to get the most friends and I find all the photo sharing a little disturbing.
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I think there may be a spot, say in the mid 20s, where you become emotionally committed to a particular technology stack and everything else is compared against that reference. So there is quite often quite a lot of stiction there to move to a new stack.

When I was in my mid 20s (nearly 20 years ago) I was developing in Common Lisp and PostScript. And while I am still very fond of those technologies, once I left an academic environment I didn't really have much option but to go for a sequence of, comparatively mundane, platforms.
That's logical.

BTW GitHub destroys the universe. Thank you for everything you do!
I really enjoy Mixergy interviews. Andrew is doing an incredible job--this was no exception. I'm also enjoying The Changelog, which is similar, though they interview people who contribute to OOS.

I think my favorite quote has to be: "You're in Beunos Aires? That's the Internet for you."
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But, would you say the same for a doctor ?
Buzz should be Google's own starting point for leading into Wave. I think they should turn Wave into the all encompassing aggregator of everything. Then, throw that whole package into Chrome, as opposed to Wave standalone, make it clean/fast, and it would be pretty fun to use. I'd be in Chrome all day without having to load any other social site
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There are so many complications involved in PSD to HTML, PSD to XHTML and PSD to Word Press conversions. Not anyone and everyone will be able to handle these conversions comfortably. We are bound to end up with problems if we try to perform these conversions without enough experience. Moreover, inexperienced hands will take longer time for the conversions.
BSD xargs doesn't seem to have the -a option.
My mum came along for a trip to the market a few weekends ago and had me looking for well aged porterhouse. She told me to look specifically for the yellowing fat as its a sign of age. She grabbed one that looked sickeningly yellow but I can confirm that this was one of the most tender porterhouses I've had.
Spoiler alert: See also Oleg Kiselyov's "Monadic i/o and UNIX shell programming" (http://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/monadic-shell.html).
This makes me sad.

I think xsl is my Vietnam. I still have flashbacks.
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>Then came Twitter, which is mostly pointless, since I really don’t care what anyone else is doing at any particular moment and have no desire to tell others what I’m doing either

Does anyone still use Twitter that way?
Keep doing that and you'll go blind
Who plays on pirate servers? It's not as common as the like 80-20 pirates-players for PCs games is it?
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"If there’s one thing I’ve been surprised by while trying to start startups, it’s the extent to which the business landscape is shaped by law."

Yes. People who go to law school, if the law school is any good, learn about "freedom of contract" and how much that has to do with the business environment in a country. Most of the examples in this blog post are examples of regulatory restrictions on freedom of contract, and those restrictions are indeed what shape the business environment even more than natural resource disparities among countries or other things that members of the general public suppose make one country or another thrive.
"I am starting is a new kind of venture firm specializing in funding early stage startups "

who are you..? Would be beter to know you before thinking of applying...

Chirag..is it your own venture ?
It's more likely if you have grep and several other operations piped together - the normal buffering leads to grep only printing every time it gets a full block of data, typically several lines.
Seriously? It doesn't mention who you actually are, there's spelling problems all over the place, and the header looks like you're pitching kindergartners. You should take down the site, nuke this thread, get your stuff together, and relaunch in six months.
That's fine until ten years from now someone really wants to make an ass out of you -- not your friends, not random people, but you -- and go on a digging spree.

That sort of security by obscurity only works until someone starts looking with a specific thing in mind.
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How would you do that with eggs?
I use Twitter to read news, updates from organizations and look at space pictures from astronauts. I kind of have replaced Google Reader with Twitter.
There are two approaches in my opinion. The first is the smarter of the two.

Interface with your target market non-stop, figure out exactly what they would pay for. If you can do this, try to get a commitment (and maybe even try to get them to pay) in advance, before you've even created the product. It's important to understand - you shouldn't say, "what would you pay for?" as they'll probably tell you 1000 things they think they need but don't. If you can come up with clear, easy to use solutions, to problems they would pay to solve (weather its saving money, time, etc.). Then often times, especially in the b2b space - you can get potential clients to pay in advance (maybe offer them some kind of deal for being an evangelist). Taking this approach is a good way to make sure your business will be generating revenue from day 1.

The second approach is essentially the opposite. If your product is really going to be easy to build, and you don't think you have the time to spend interfacing with potential customers. Quit. Or just build it and spend many nights making changes until you find people who will pay for it.

Bottom line is this, if you can't find people to pay for it in advance (or at least committing to beta program etc.) - prior to building the product, how likely are you to find people who will pay for it after it's live?

Back to your original question, do some research as to which business has the largest opportunity for profit based on market size, competition, value proposition etc. And also which business would hypothetically be easier to create. Then go talk to both sets of targets markets, as stated above. That should help you make your decision.
Yep. Our site kind of sucks right now. We def need to improve it.
The blank gif shows in chrome as a missing image (really ugly) http://iamstarting.com/Blank.gif.

Looks very unprofessional overall - invest in a designer first and relaunch.
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The problem is that experienced people cost a lot of money, and since they are typically older with things like a family to support, mortgage to pay, etc, are going to be more risk averse.

Especially in the early stages, all projects are more or less a crapshoot, so in order to tempt someone away from that 200k a year job, you're going to need to hand over a lot of equity, raise a lot of money, or overpower them with sheer force of charisma.

If you want to hire five of these people, you better be heavily bankrolled, or rolling natural 20s.
>Google has taken open data standards to battle against a marketplace of competitors that are closed and proprietary to varying degrees. This is a very big deal.

In the same way that identi.ca beat twitter in the market?