skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you look carefully, you'll find that a whole heck of a lot of those banks, insurance companies, and so forth are already using something that falls into the NoSQL realm -- Lotus Notes/Domino. The use case for a document-based, schemaless database is already well understood, if not always by the developers using it (or by the developers who grew up on a strict diet of relational databases).

It boils down to this: do you need addressing that would not be well-served by structured, tabular data? Relational databases are (or should be) extremely efficient at accessing data that can be arranged neatly into tables and read using the equivalent of pointer math. They suck, though, when the data is stored outside of the table (as large text fields, blobs, and so forth would be). The more heterogeneous and variable the data, the worse performance gets. A schemaless database gives up efficiency with tabular data, often precluding efficient runtime joins and, consequently, multiple orthogonal data access paths (data normalization) for a more efficient generalized access.

As a thought experiment, imagine a data quagmire where, in order to make the data fit a SQL table, every cell in every row in the database would need to be varchar(17767) and may contain multiple character-delimited values (or not --each record can be unique) and every row can have an arbitrary number of cells. That's what schemaless data can, and often does, look like -- and something like Notes or CouchDB can work with that comfortably and with an efficiency that cannot be matched by a relational representation of the same data.
Google / Apple fist-fight is about the biggest story in tech, and will likely impact the next few decades of dev!

The two principals meeting in public without Steve's hands wringing Eric's neck is a real story.
Two things:

1. This is why there is a need for some true tech-savvy people to stand up and run for political offices starting yesterday. Policies such as this and net-neutrality are a bigger issue about our true and natural rights as citizens of the U.S. and not just someone imposing limits on our beloved internet. People need to stop looking at this as some fantasy or digital extension of oneself and realize that it is becoming a major part of our life and how we navigate through it. I feel like this is why people don't see that the implications are about stomping all over our constitution because it isn't a physical property.

2. Among the many concerns one could raise in this article, the most alarming is even considering allowing anyone but our own people and government to control this policy on our soil.
The generals are still willing to chat at least:

http://gizmodo.com/5503004/steve-jobs-and-eric-schmidt-spott...
"He went into the project figuring that he wouldn't find any vulnerabilities with the dumb fuzzer. "But I found bugs, lots of bugs. That was both surprising and disappointing." And it also made him ask why vendors like Microsoft, Apple and Adobe, which have teams of security engineers and scores of machines running fuzzers looking for flaws, hadn't found these bugs long ago."

Or, maybe the companies have already found those bugs and more, but focus their efforts on bugs that surface in the wild and don't spend resources on the others. If they fix all the bugs, then they spend money on some bugs that would never have surfaced. Just a guess.
I think most folks on Hacker News are interested parties. These three sections seem completely unrelated to any of the problems in our financial system.
Sure technically speaking he would be =) I'd say that Cameron is just a 'tad' more involved in film making though.
Like sands through the hourglass...
Ok, I understand there's a limitation on the length of titles. But did you really have to resort to making Your into Ur?
Bespin Embedded 0.6.3 released
Why Does Anyone Decide To Start A Company?
But even so, it's no more powerful than a finite state machine if the tape length is finite.
The main issue from my perspective - beyond performance - is flexibility of the NoSQL model. Specifically the document store concept. The main analytics player is the data warehouse currently which has served very well over the years but comes with certain rigidity mainly in programming and cost. Of course, not to detract from their success, OLAP data warehousing is very mature with a rich toolbase.

The flexibility of the NoSQL model coupled with the exposure of your data to the m/r paradigm is the big win from my vantage. Almost every NoSQL solution will expose your data via bindings in virtually every programming language allowing almost any programmer to leverage NoSQL. Now you kinda have to have experience with data warehousing. Cost wise, what you would spend in licensing can be invested in hardware but more specifically talent instead.

Secondary data reuse as a concept is highly unstructured. Sure your primary systems capture data in specific formats but your analysis can take you in all kinds of directions. Being able to slice and dice without having to pre-define will be huge.
Does anyone still play this?

edit: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10236...

This game is seriously awesome, yes the player count is low but you can find certain times where there's actually a full server.

You can get this game for dirt cheap from places like Amazon.com merchants and such... I payed only $0.01 plus shipping for my copy... Bought a bunch more for my friends so we can all LAN party at least...

$19.99 on Steam.
Unfortunately in this case the attack was accurate. The article starts with a correct but not novel explanation of dumb political games, then veers abruptly into libertarian cheerleading. The author mentions things like "too big to fail" but ignores the fact that companies got this way through deregulation in the first place. All in all, a disappointingly shallow argument.
If you think your sales cycle is 3 months, you should double that estimate. Sales cycles tend to be much longer than us optimistic entrepreneurs think. Just wanted to share our experience because knowing how long cycles really are would have helped us plan a lot better.
Huh? You pay the fare to get a seat on the plane.

If you want the luxury of choosing a specific seat, you then have the option of paying an additional $10 to be assigned the specific seat that you so desperately need.

Other airlines do this too - it's not unique to WestJet.

To be honest, if the flight was less than about 2 hours i'd probably take my chances as I boarded. More than 2 hours and i'd happily pay $10 to get a decent seat.
Because we're talking about a business. Capital expenses must be written off as depreciation over time. Operational expenses can be written off immediately. For tax reasons this can be a big deal.

However, you can buy servers through a leasing company to get this benefit; you don't have to use EC2.
He and half of the rest of the Valley.
Here in Cambridge we call that a bicycle.
If preventing confusion is one's goal, using a name which includes the name of an existing VM is not the best choice.
I think this is completely wrong. Bill gates and warren buffet don't mind sharing, but they do want you to honor your contracts with them and purchase your goods. Just because they don't lend people money means that they those who cannot afford their goods just don't purchase them. Whereas banks when banks expect you to pay your debts they are "greedy and don't want to share". Also don't forget Buffet is a banker too, how much of goldman sachs and other banks does he own?
That seems to make sense from the business point of view (well - not every business works like that, but I'm sure there are people out there who would agree). Unfortunately. Maybe internet needs more hackers these days? Leaving bugs unresolved should never equal saving money.
django, twisted
An internal crack IT team is the only way to make something meaningful happen. Consultants should only be brought in when there is no in house capacity/capability. The best way to make applications happen is to have the programmer intimately know the requirements by being on site and intermixed with the end users.
The more this story develops the more it seems like watercooler gossip that has spilled into the blogosphere. As much as they may have opposing products Apple and Google still rely on each other a lot which makes an open war between execs seem unlikely
Turing machines don't define speed. So if the human is willing to get notified of a tape overrun, and splice on more tape, it is infinite.
Enterprise Collaboration
The video of this IASA ITARC summit is now available including PDFs of the presentation slide decks.
Just read Mamet’s unqualified (in the sense of phrased-as-universally-applicable) statements as being about his particular corner of the acting world. He likes to overstate his case, but there’s room in the world for more than one kind of good production.

McKellen and Mamet are like, say, Picasso and Monet. We can all agree that Three Musicians is brilliant without seeing it as a proof by example that Monet’s ideas about painting were wrong.

Edit: while I’m here, I second the recommendation of McKellen’s Richard III.
Elections have consequences.
It's ridiculous.

Driving without a license plate in the Valley : Smoking weed in public in SF.
Microsoft Explains Odd Bill Gates-Jerry Seinfeld Commercials
I picked David because his achievements seemed more concrete. The "marketing" and "sustainability" stuff sounded like fluff to me. I didn't read much more of the article after I found out he chose the other guy.
In terms of single type, domestic only, cheap tickets and informal staff they do.

They do still do seat numbers unlike SWA/Easyjet - don't understand why. Yes if you are flying long haul with a family you want to sit together, but a typical 1-2hour hop you just waste time getting up and down to let other people past. You still end up changing seats anyway as they shuffle people around to put families together or deal with unsuitable people in exit seats.
The Serial Entrepreneur Behind OfferPal- Anu Shukla
I am pretty excited to see how their distribution system works out -- being able to get racing games on NASCAR.com and so on is probably a real help to developers who want to diversify away from so much reliance on Facebook. I remember Mark Pincus remarking that whenever Facebook changes something he has to worry.
Contests that don't have a sweepstakes component are generally simpler from a legal perspective -- many states regulate contests in which prizes are awarded at random.

Contest losers sometimes sue on grounds that the contest sponsor supposedly changed rules after the fact. (Such suits are often brought for breach of a "unilateral contract" (see generally http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract#Bilateral_v._unilatera...). With that in mind, it's usually better for contest rules to be as detailed as practicable, especially as to how winners will be selected.

(This isn't legal advice, we don't have an attorney-client relationship, etc., etc.)
Habits of highly successful web developers (journalism edition)
The title is not of TFA, but of a post TFA is responding to.

TFA is a rambling, defensive piece that lurches to a "don't be judgmental based on a small sample" conclusion even as the writer throws out anti-Western snipes, perhaps forgetting that the original piece's writer is Indian as well.

I wish I could have my time back for looking at either post.
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There are a couple of larger models where the crew rest area is in the cargo hold. It's a removable unit the full width of the plane - equal to two of those 5sided luggage pods and is very comfortable.

Airlines looked at using them as sleeping berths for first class passengers but it's difficult to meet the escape time requirements.

Although you chances of exiting the aircraft in 90secs if it crashed in the middle of the Atlantic in the middle of the night are pretty small - the FAA has to pretend it's possible.
Best of luck, although I can't help a smile at the irony of creating a group for loners.
Although it's not particularly common, there's no real barrier to using Objective-C on any platform that has a gcc port, since it's one of the supported front-ends. If you liked it, you could use it to make native Linux apps, in lieu of C or C++ or whatever else you might use.
They are known as the 50-cent party:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
The Lestig talk offers some fairly convincing arguments that what you say is not the case. Fructose is inherently problematic. Fiber merely mitigates the effects, which are still there and wouldn't have happened at all had you eaten something without sugar at all.

Furthermore, while drinking sodas every day is perhaps a choice, what about the example of walking down the bread aisle and finding that something like 95% of the varieties listed HFCS as an ingredient? It's not just that sodas and juice drinks are ubiquitous, heavily-marketed, cheap, tasty, and designed to maximize consumption and therefore profit through use of diuretics and sodium and therefore people find themselves making the dietary choice to drink them with meals instead of water, but also the fact that HFCS is used in an enormous number of processed foods.

Bread, pizza dough, tomato sauce, cookies, candy bars, chocolate, yogurt, sports drinks, salad dressing, BBQ sauce, chocolate milk... HFCS is everywhere because it's cheap, because it makes food taste better, and because it doesn't fill you up so people will consume (and therefore buy) more of it.

On the one hand, fats are more calorie-dense, but sugar doesn't fill you up (and in my experience salt has a similar effect but I work out and sweat a lot so that could be why). So the combination of sugar and fat is the killer combination.

Try this experiment: for a single day, try to eat 4,000 calories of nothing but a simple starchy food (like white rice) with some fat, like olive oil. This is a low fiber, high calorie diet. My guess is that you'll feel incredibly full after all the rice and oil. You may not even be able to reach 4,000 calories in 16 hours. You'll have to force yourself to eat by the end.

Then, a few days later after you've sent some fiber through your digestive system to clear out any blockage you caused eating so much rice, try the same thing with soda and cookies. Get a couple boxes of your favorite HFCS-sweetened cookies and a couple of 2-liter bottles of your favorite soda or better yet, juice drink. See how hard it is to reach 4,000 calories now. My guess is that you'll have no trouble, although you may feel a bit ill by the end of the day.
I liked Edmond! Had some great performances too.
the government makes the laws

Elected representatives make the laws.

and can declare virtually everything top secret

Only according to exemptions from the FOIA and other legislation (i.e. laws made by elected representatives). The relevant exemption here being for information "specifically authorized under criteria established by an Executive order to be kept secret in the interest of national defense or foreign policy". If you'd like to read the most recent Executive order to that effect: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13526

without any checks and balances

Executive secrecy is subject to judicial review. This was established in amendments to the FOIA in 1974, which were in fact vetoed by the Executive, but the veto was overridden by Congress. You can read more here: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB142/index.htm
The point was that the people saying that republicans always vote against social reform, or that major social reform bills are always starkly partisan, are lying.
Parallel, not serial. Customers at the front slow the others down as they board and stow luggage, but not by much.
This is exactly why I built the apps I have: I needed them. Luckily, it seems that other people need them too.
I've flown Ryanair several times and they routinely stop people from boarding with masses of carry-on. Really, if have a lot of stuff they'll tell you to go back to check-in and handle it there.

This truly seems to cost both aggravation and time - but perhaps only for the first time. I'd hazard a guess that only a few people, of each Ryanair flight, are rookies. Most people, when faced with harsh measures, really do learn quickly. Perhaps this is, overall and long-term, a cost efficient way to do business.
TRIZ: a methodology for generating innovative ideas and solutions
I dunno, maybe I'm more romantic, but my kind of programming celebrities appear in mailing list text-only posts rather than paparazzi pictures.
There are two aspects to this problem. The first has been solved. 256-bit AAC is indistinguishable from uncompressed audio. One might argue that improvements could be made in the base rates: going 20-bit, 96Khz. Even that, is almost not enough to qualify as a "marginal" improvement. None but the best ears can tell any difference at all.

The second is a rather vexing problem: The crappy quality of DA convertors. While Apple has done a service by switching entirely to high-quality AAC in iTunes, their iPods have been a mixed bag. They skimp on the DA circuitry. The Macbook Pros are even worse. Horribly noisy audio output.
Good idea. I just submitted it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1222192
"Really? That’s where you want to go?"

Lose the ego-investment/chip on your shoulder/BS. Nobody's impressed, and this isn't a schoolyard.

Where I "want to go" is exactly what I said. People will talk about the design first: how much they like it, how much they don't like it, whatever. We are not robots, and those of us with normal vision will pick up on color, shape, and arrangement before they read any of the text.

Simple rule: if you're going to be offended at people talking quite a bit about the striking color (or other design element) you used for your web page, whether appreciatively or not, don't use that striking color.
Except that the computational capacity of the universe is finite (see http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0110141).
What's the deal with these joke admissions to American universities. President of some silly high school club? Who cares?
Classical music is more suspect because it's attention grabbing. Rhythmic music is better.
I've done some of work in the area. Most of the companies that use, or even require fuzzing in their software development procedures, have a certain problem: the same people who write the parsers write the fuzzers. When they write these fuzzers, they make some too-strong assumptions on the formats of the data involved.

Writing smarter fuzzers may be needed to fully exercise certain file formats, say where certain blocks of data need to match a CRC elsewhere. But smart fuzzers fail where the authors fail to account for edge conditions. Having both in your toolset is invaluable.

Regardless, it's sad for companies like Apple that they're not doing any of this.
Upvoted for using the term "data quagmire." Many examples instantly shot through my head and I began laughing hysterically.
Apple’s share of US gaming revenue jumps 500%
I suspect here in the USA we'll have many new entrepreneurs created by the layoffs that will come when marginal companies find they can no longer afford good - but not great - employees.
TJX hacker receives second 20-year sentence
A colleague of mine (Eli Van Zoeren) wrote a jQuery plugin that lets you use these new capabilities:

http://www.newmediacampaigns.com/page/nmcformhelper

In browsers that don't support features, they are emulated in javascript.
It's not just that he picked the other guy, he expects everyone to agree with him, and yet like you I chose the "wrong" guy.

Explaining the "amazing" reason that everyone picks his choice seems much less impressive at that point, particularly as it mostly seems like an ad for a book.

Does anyone actually talk like this (from the comments):

It’s interesting that you mention science fairs. I actually have a chapter in my new book where I take the awe-inspiring resumes of two Intel winners, then break down, step by step, the reality of their achievement
This doesn't appear to work, whether I'm logged in or not. I'm pretty shocked that it ever did. Almost every automated scanning tool catches this, and Paypal has an in-house security team.
Strange name change, but a good programming environment (although I more frequently use Emacs+Gambit-C Scheme because I like being able to effortlessly build small compiled applications - harder to do in PLT Scheme).

I look forward to the Racket release this summer.
> 1) Government Software jobs pay less than civilian. It can take up to 6 months of paperwork to hire someone. While that paperwork is in process the job applicant must wait and can't be hired. Guess what kind of developers the government gets?

Which New York City law mandates this? (not doubting that there may be one)

Hiring someone for the New York City government can take up to 6 months? What is it typically? (which is the only thing we should care about here without reason to believe it would be atypical)

>3) Paperwork. There's massive amounts of it. One of my coworkers spent 1 month writing paperwork for 10 lines of code.

Do you guys work for the city government in NYC? Somewhere comparable?
I think we can be sure that they are wrong, but not that they are lying.
Kind of like naming something with the word "hacker", it could be something good or something bad. The "News" bit of "Hacker News" adds context that makes it seem legit, even if you initially take "Hacker" as something negative. There is no implicit context for "PLT Racket". Just my $.02, but it's not a good choice of names.
A 'manhattan' like project with this as a focus would be an amazing thing, just something like that targeted at creating an AI would be quite something. But with everybody turning over their dimes and no 'enemy' to justify the expense against I doubt that will happen.
I think his opinions (also on writing) are spot-on. His ability to put them into practice is hit-and-miss. Many people suffer from a similar problem, and I have to count myself among them from time to time. I am not a very big fan of his creative work - although when he does hit the target, he can be very very good - but I am a big fan of his teaching work.

Maybe he is a good teacher precisely because the things he talks about about do not come to him easily or consistently, but but are struggled for over and over again. Tortoise/hare and all that.
I was just thinking about if a webapp could setup a protocol handler, similar to the way Tweetie uses "tweetie://" in its Mobile Safari bookmarklet. I wouldn't mind using something like Notifo to push notifications to my users but it's unclear how my offline webapp could be launched from the notification.
Yup, that's the one.
Dumb fuzzers find things in Microsoft code all the time, and Microsoft spends huge on external teams to write fuzzers.
Gravity Emerges from Quantum Information, Say Physicists
This is somewhat equivalent to WikiLeaks' release strategy: tell the organization that you have evidence of XYZ problem, but don't describe the exact nature and scope of the evidence, then pressure them to come clean and fix the problem themselves; hopefully this leads to more comprehensive "cleanup" efforts that have a larger positive long-term effect.

How relevant is the WikiLeaks strategy in the field of security?
whats unimpressive is all the spelling mistakes in the article. the end.
There's just not a lot to go on. The SAT score is one of the few nationally comparable objective measures, and obviously measures only a specific kind of aptitude. High-school GPA is objective but hard to compare across schools, and measures only specific things as well (ability to do well in high-school classes). Essays might give you more information, but might be written by someone other than the student. You end up falling back on some sort of evidence that the student has independent interests/motivations, whether president of some club, or webmaster of some site.