skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen so many small business owners ripped off by their business managers or partners due to simple ignorance of accounting that it really should be a required course.

My father is an architect and home builder. After building his first two homes after college he made almost nothing. He went back to night school and took financial accounting, real estate/broker courses and sales courses. He's more a business man than an architect.
Life at Low Reynolds Number (1976) [pdf]
> Between their extremely competitive (often free) pricing, and their deals to mandate preinstallation of all of their products on various platforms, it's kinda amazing

I think someone at Google is secretly grateful for the existence of Amazon's Android fork (FireOS). They can rightly claim: "Android is free and open source - you don't have to take our version if you don't like our T&C's. You can fork your own competing version (that you maintain), like Amazon did"
ActiveRecord is reinventing Sequel
Absolutely Matt. It is also shocking that most people believe that "peer reviewed" is synonymous with "reproduced study". It is not. One is editorial the other requires longer and heavier work.
You are both right. The softer the science, the worse the effect. I trust physics more than biology, and I trust biology more than sociology. Well, that implies I trust sociology... I really don't. Anything softer than physiological psychology is basically in the 'don't trust this until you have verify it, and then still mostly don't trust it'.
Lol, I've seen this once in a lifetime fluke 5 times now and I was only born in 1973.

In financial planning it's called vulture money.
Nexus Security Bulletin
You could use the Stallman method and download pages with wget to read.
But very few drugs cause damage to other people, excluding distribution-related violence. Really there's just the trio of opiates, meth and cocaine that lead to real social problems of people commiting crimes while on/obtaining drugs. But, then, there's the point: if your drug use is hurting other people, your actions are already a crime. It can be useful, sometimes, to criminalize a harmless behavior that usually leads to harmful behavior if it would be impractical to enforce laws agains the harmful behavior. But its much easier to enforce laws against theft or starting fights than against possession of small quantities of a substance.

Apart from those outliers I listed above, the only common negative result to people other than the user is their lack of productivity and the economic implications of that. And even of those outliers, most users are not addicts and do not hurt others with their drug use.
> What Apple (and Amazon) are being accused of is abusing their market power to root out competition.

But market power is well defined as the ability to raise the market price of a good above its marginal cost while still earning a profit. People seem to be confusing market power with predatory pricing, which is a very different concept.
Electron isn't an editing component, it's the combination of Node and Chromium that sits under VS Code and Atom and a whole bunch of other apps, many of which have nothing to do with text editing.
I'm very interested to hear some of the details about how the storage engine was ported to Linux. One of the advantages of SQL Server was how well it exploited the Windows overlapped I/O model for disk access. When running large selects, backups, or restores, SQL Server always uses the full bandwidth of my disk subsystem. When I built a prototype of my application on PostgreSQL (which I would much rather run for its free licenses and more mature indexing), I had to tweak all kinds of things to get it to use the full bandwidth of my disk system and I was not always successful.
>And it's odd, because when programmers see programming in movies they see how bad that depiction is, so I'm not sure why the meme of "psychology is just sitting around nattering about feelings" is so strong.

The Gell-Mann Amnesia effect probably best explains this. I think you might find it interesting:

> Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.

> In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”

> — Michael Crichton

Also I promise it is a coincidence I've responded to you twice in such rapid succession!
Ahhh..the Staten Island to Manhattan commute. I know that world well my friend.

Nice work on getting a remote job. That must make things much easier.
All points well said. You spoke my mind really. I felt the same way. All of the stuff that I've worked on, it's not just so some company can get richer. The story is that we're helping people. They also will likely use our products for a lot longer and get a lot more productive use out of it than any game.

Side note: Didn't Mojang get bought by Microsoft? Are they still considered small? (NOTE: I've not researched this is a serious, not-loaded question..)
The best (and only) thing to do now is to come completely clean and develop new and much more rigorous standards for determining both correlation and causality.

The practice of science is a very human affair. That means politics and clan thinking. Science, like the press, develops a popular "narrative" about how things work. New research tends to magically confirm that narrative.

I suspect this has been going on for a very long time.

I love science. And I understand that there are a lot of demagogues that want to create these false battles between science and the ignorant. For many of those folks, they will want to circle the wagons. Don't let folks know how bad things are!

To those folks, I'd ask them to remember that the strength of science is its tentative nature and ability to adapt. Sure, people aren't so good at that, but science is. Stick to that and do your best to toss emotions out of it.
I remember when Oracle became available for Linux - that was the beginning of a new era in terms of the legitimacy it conferred on Linux. (Yes, I know, Oracle the company sucks, but that's tangential to this particular discussion).

I wonder if this is the beginning of a similar change in the industry.
How long until the memory of the last antitrust action by a major government fades?
because sites can be hacked or changed at any time, the ability of users to avoid offenders is basically zero.
Melbourne startup Culture Amp scores $10M to build workplace culture
I find that syntax "good enough" for my own usage. YMMV when considering it outputting not just files with txt as extension, but also somewhere on its name.

Someone else mentioned a workaround by adding the escaped dot in order to be fully equivalent to the dir syntax.
Yes, but there are complications. Two obvious complications are that the purchaser may not be considered to be consenting if they are not aware of the health risks of a product they're purchasing, or if they have a physical dependency.
Yeah, but the economics of those businesses do not scale as well as software.
In practice, rights are protections provided by other people, and you can't provide them if you are too fucked up.
When an undergrad, I had access to a quite impressive religious library affiliated with a quite reputable protestant theology school. As part of the undergrad criteria, taking a religious course of some sort was mandatory to achieve graduation. I picked something along the lines of Chirstianity and Public Life, and eventually needed a topic for a research essay for the course.

Through my research, what I can definitively state is that numerous psychoactive substances - drugs, if you will - are mentioned by and incorporated into nearly every noteworthy world religion in some way, shape, or form. Yes, mostly for the use of the 'visionary' class like the priests and shamans, but it's all right there in the texts that such things had a legitimate role in the respective religious pursuits. I recall a couple cases regarding Native Tribal rights with psychoactives, but those were very limited in scope in the grand scheme of things.

Thus, overall I came to the conclusion that US drug laws are fundamentally at odds with the notion of religious freedom from persecution. I plan on doing nothing of importance with this perpsective however. It's just one of those situations that make me go pause and say "Huh, how about that."
You've got some other awesome visualizations
You're forgetting the price floor imposed by cost of living, which is already higher than minimum wage. For your claim to hold, it would have to be the case that workers could survive on less than minimum wage.
of course, the major downside to this is that linux admins will now have the possibility that they have to work with sql server
Peeple is finally launching today, but its niceness is a front
Great article. I'll be sharing this with some colleagues that work in drug discovery.
Sorry, I conflated monopoly and trusts in responding to the parent based on its language. In many people's minds they are the same.

My post was meant to elucidate why monopolies (like price-gouging) are not themselves illegal. It's the consequences on the market which are tracked.
irrelevant politics, but if you aim to be included in the kernel at some point, you must go for GPL or live with "kernel tainted" messages.

which i think is great.
I’ve lost track of this metaphor.
Apparently going to be Product manager on Photos according to some Anonymous Googler.
Does the GPL allow me to sell copies of the program for money?

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#DoesTheGPLAllow...
*2chan, also known as Futaba Channel. Futaba is a "clone" of 2ch with support for images.
So that's great as a concrete reason for why you choose to do this — doesn't it seem far more useful as a thing to talk about than the vagaries of “a far better OS for what ZFS users would be wanting anyway” or the unspecified “painful times I was forced to use Linux”?
If you get sick and die of drug use you don't get to work as much and buy as much stuff from the companies, and that hurts the bottom line.
Maybe the case has merit or not but I am really tired of just imposing fines. We have reached a point where big companies and banks can do whatever they want and the worst thing that can happen is to pay a small portion of their earnings. Basically they are outside the law.
"Your rights end where someone else's begin" is a reasonable rule of thumb, but it doesn't hold up to much scrutiny without a much more specific theory of rights. An obvious example is that many people consider things like health care, a living wage, shelter, food, etc. to be human rights, in which case one could argue that putting a competitor out of business simply by offering a better/cheaper product more efficiently violates the rights of the losing competitor.
Yeah I'm still reeling from reading this headline. My reaction is kind of like that scene in Super Troopers where the kid eats a bag full of mushrooms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb-cAJRZrlA
Ask HN: Interactive data visualization products?
I'm working on a small project that needs to show interactive data visualizations, but doesn't have the budget for Tableau or PowerBI. Other solutions I'm finding either are static (only show charts, no ability to change/filter views) or are far to costly (and don't seem to be great to implement in a web portal for users).

Any SaaS products out there people are using/know of and are impressed with?
Do you do mostly 40h week, get your overtime properly paid and asked nicely to do extra hours on the weekends?

And have the opportunity to spend valuable time with family and friends?

I do.
I don't think Exchange uses any interface other than LDAP to hit Active Directory, so I'd think there's at least a fighting chance that the AD requirement could be satisfied by other LDAP servers.

I can't speak to the IIS integration anymore-- I quit following that at a low level back in the Exchange '03 timeframe. I would suspect there's a clear line between IIS and Exchange, however, that could be used to facilitate an adapter layer for a flexible HTTP(S) server like nginx. The SMTP, POP, and IMAP services, though, would probably involve a lot of re-implementation.
Are you saying that your proof that Amazon was doing predatory pricing is an Amicus Brief supporting Apple where the publishers that were accused with apple make the claim?

It is a joke, isn't?
In undergrad, I learned how to about p-values but never quite understood how they were actually useful. Now, as a bioinformatics graduate student, I've come to understand that my original instinct was right all along.
Yes. Does it create a situation where any appreciable number of people will pay money for copies of the program? No. See CentOS. (Though they may pay money for related consulting or hosting services).
Paying for a tool that does the job is one thing. But SQL Server's licensing scheme is so fucked up that I see companies building custom servers for the sole purpose of gaming it (extremely low core count and high clock rates). That shouldn't be the goal of software licensing
In this niche Oracle occupies the "ridiculously expensive" position.
Can an addict give consent? Addiction is coercion.
Well, firstly I didn't learn all accounting. I learned enough to read a balance sheet, understand the accrual method, and do day-to-day bookkeeping (by the time my business is big enough to need more than that, I will hire an accountant, or bench.co, or whatever). It took about two weekends, and the OP was my most important source. A whiteboard is helpful.
Either you're being serious, in which case I find the argument fairly ludicrous, or you're sarcastically pointing out some ludicrous logical consequences of a certain framework of "rights."
But didn't they just work with the publishers on determining the model for the Apple iBook store? Even if they discussed and agreed for some pricing model to which all adhered in at that moment effectively just starting iBook store, how was that colluding?

The iBook store didn't exist before, so Jobs had to win the publishers somehow, that means that all had to agree to some model that would be favorable to them and certainly more favorable than Amazon's.

And how was that anti-competitive or worse?

Does anybody have some exact references, like the court decision that explains that?
Yeah, they did. I'm not sure how independent they are, but they're still around roughly 50 people it seems.

I was just making the point that unless it's essentially you and a couple buddies, profit and revenue is the elephant in the room.

Or the center-piece, depending on how brutally honest management wants to be about it.
Where is the "paradox"? I assume that you mean that by pure hypothesis testing both Alice and Bob reject the null hypothesis at the alpha=0.05 level, for example. The fact that the p-value is irrelevant is by design: you perform the test and either you reject the null hypothesis or you don't. But in fact most people won't do "pure" hypothesis testing and will conclude (somewhat incorrectly) that the evidence against the null hypothesis is indeed stronger in Bob's experiment.

Edit: and why would be the answer to the second question "no"? The hypothesis testing procedure doesn't provide any point estimate at all so the question doesn't really mean anything in that setting.
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I've read a few times that Microsoft is actually making quite a lot of money with Linux, offering services around it etc., a quick google search just have me this (though a bit older): http://www.wired.com/2015/09/microsoft-built-linux-everyone-...
> documentation

The pg documentation is quite through and informative.

> integration

Meaning? "Integration" in and of itself is meaningless because that depends on what we're integrating with. Rust integration? pg is much better. Some obscure windows-only business tool that most people have never heard of? well, it integrates with what they want it to (probably mssql). Some obscure BSD-only business tool that most people have never heard of? well, it integrates with what they want it to (probably pg or mysql).

> tools

Again, meaningless unless you discuss what the actual differences are. Being able to be used on BSD makes pg infinitely superior in terms of tooling for my cost function.
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We love Segment, but what I'd like to know is how you guys managed to get a year's worth of funding for four people to mess around on obviously difficult to monetize ideas. What sorts of initial funding did you have? How does that work?
Wow. So there are enough of you to staff a council? I do concur that as a collective, you provide rather good advice.
>In the end I was incredibly lucky, landing a junior role at a major UK studio owned by a console manufacturer just after they had made some more experienced engineers redundant.

Company that fires experienced engineers to hire junior ones? Doesn't sound that lucky.
The Feb 2016 release has a new setting that (I believe) persists between updates:

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/3182

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/faq#_how-to-di...
I solved it by breaking it into two queries in my sproc. Suboptimal, but also done :)
Show HN: Wagbee – an exploration in collecting and visualizing information
Silicon Valley Backing Apple Because 'fbiOS' Precedent Would Apply to Them Too
Sybase has not kept their end up to what Microsoft has been pushing in SQL Server. Transact-SQL is nicer on SQL Server and the last time I used Sybase the query planner was problematic to the point of needed to force loads of indexes.
They have their own Microsoft Linux, but it's for Azure internal use only.
I wouldn't hold my breath. I'm guessing this is more tied to the .Net moves to Linux and getting their full web stack on Linux. Though if their long term strategy is to give up Windows Server, then everything may come to Linux.
> So theoretically, they could release a CDDL license version 1.3 that has radically updated text in order to be GPL compatible. However, since that effects all CDDL licensed code, they would end up relicensing every bit of CDDL code (related to Oracle or not) in the entire world.

Though of course since laws are made by lawyers and not nerds, the new license may well be invalid and nothing would change at all except for lots of confusion.

Which makes you even more right.
I have thought about it. There is a lot of data behind the scenes on how the news sites are behaving; when they post, when they make edits, what kind of updates they make etc and also I run some NLP on the stored data to try to find what edits are more important, that data isn't displayed anywhere at the moment.

It still isn't totally clear to me who the customer would be though and the basic features (i.e. how it is now) will always remain free.

At the moment it is still a little buggy, especially displaying the diffs on the page, so I am focused mainly on ironing that out.
And there is now going to be yet another misc 8 cent charge on my bill. Where is my 50 cent rebate for going paperless and saving them the stamp?
Sometimes innovation requires breaking rules. Uber wouldn't have had the success it's had if it had gone through "proper" channels. While it made them successful, I'd argue that it also benefited consumers.
So far Google has been integrating OpenJDK 7, still curious to see if they say anything at Google IO.

How is it being addressed?

You mean the communication to leave to the community the porting of OpenJDK to mobile platforms? Or having the RoboVM guys at JavaONE, but giving them zero support other than publicity?

I am not confident that Google will move away from their fork, most likely they will adopt something else, specially with ChromeOS and Android merging.
Exactly. I have had a few cold interview offers through StackOverflow, even fewer from my website. But after meeting people at events, they check my website, and in some cases this leads to further discussion. The 'spam-vs-interesting' ratio of those discussions is much better compared to what I used to get when I had a LinkedIn account.
I'm pretty sure someone born when they acquired the source to Sybase is now old enough to vote.
Why does that sound so much like a kid saying "That didn't hurt" while furiously rubbing the punched arm?

Apple cared enough to try and appeal the case to the highest possible level (SCOTUS). To paraphrase a commenter on Ars Technica: $500,000,000 is a lot of iPads/MacBooks sold. All down the drain due to anti-consumer shenanigans.
You are correct. I've edited the comment to reflect this.
The Gmail Moment – Delight of the Unknown
In a previous job at a University, we had a couple SGI big irons from the 1999-2002 era. A 64-way Origin 3800 and a 16-way Onyx 3800. Along with a similar vintage SAN and some misc bits.

When I left in 2010, eBay was the source of something like one replacement HDD per 10-14 days for the SAN (73GB dual-port fibre channel, full-height...) and the two machines (made of modular "bricks") had been whittled down to a single franken-SGI of something like 20 CPUs. Some of the older processing workload still ran on there (i.e.: the student graduated ages ago...)

A few dual 5300-series (8 cores) Xeons had replaced the SGIs in most workloads and left the old 500Mhz R14000 far in the dust. Lots more RAM too. Let's not even get started on the advantage as far as HVAC and power went.
I'm not finding much in the way of settlement results (overshadowed by similar sounding, more recent news), but articles like this: http://goodereader.com/blog/commentary/agency-pricing-for-eb... claim that the publishers were forced to abandon the agency model:

"When the publishers all settled out of court they were forced to renegotiate their e-book distribution contracts with Amazon, Apple, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Google and all of the other minor players."

That article also says HarperCollins since returned to it, and this one: http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2014/simon-schuster-strikes-... says Simon Schuster returned to it as well. I'm not sure about the others.
Gob-smacked.
I want a "black box" kitchen load the groceries in one side get food on clean plates on the other side. Then, put dishes in a pile that goes in for next time. and it probably needs to be less than $1 per meal since I'm cheap.
> Morning standup's that become quick resolution and priority meetings for project managers for either early or late tickets;

How it works for us :-

In our standups, no questions are allowed, and no dialog.

If PMs and a team-member need to convene it's strictly after/outside standup so no-one else's time is wasted.

If something urgent (production server is down) needs to be prioritized, it goes on the board as a VIT ticket.

No team member is ever compelled to interrupt what they are currently working on to pick up a VIT ticket. This forces management to correctly estimate the value of automated fail-over, redundancy, one-click deployment/roll-back systems etc.
Forget about raising money right now. Build shit fast. Ship ship ship ship ship ship ship.

Read "The Lean Startup":

http://www.amazon.com/Lean-Startup-Entrepreneurs-Continuous-...