skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some interesting points from the whitepaper regarding the above:

"VoltDB provides data access via stored procedures in order to minimize round trips between the client and the server. Stored procedures are written in Java - each procedure is a single Java class. Within the stored procedure definition, users interact with a VoltDB database via an OLTP-focused subset of standard SQL, including many-way joins, group-bys, ordering, aggregates, common arithmetic expressions, limits, etc."

"Distributed execution planner assigns work to engines, which operate exclusively on their assigned partitions"

I'm assuming this means they've reduced join functionality in order to get a much better scale-out profile. I wonder what this means for people writing apps on top of it.
When will the madness stop?
Who defines GDP and how are they doing it? That's what actually matters. You can define your way out of any situation-it doesn't mean it actually changed for the better.
Actually, in this case, I don't think there are any major looming patent threats. Part of this is because this industry is much slower-moving than software (so that 20 years isn't forever), but part of it is because what we've done is sufficiently different that no reasonable patent for an existing device could cover the core of our invention. (As I said above, conventional wisdom was that this was impossible, right up until we made it work.) One way of describing our research would be to say that this technology has been evolving down a certain path for 50 years, and we backed up a ways and went off in a different direction. (It's not quite that revolutionary, but it isn't that active a field.)
At the risk of generalizing I think the type of people who watch cable news tend to want something to get upset about. They want drama, fear, shouting, and big loud opinions all presented to them in a way where they can feel smarter without actually understanding much of anything. Pretty much the same reason conservative talk radio is so popular. I suspect most normal middle America sort of people are happy getting their news from morning shows or the network news. Liberals tend to read either online or paper.
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Richard Stallman's beard achieves sentience [Happy April 1 HN]
I disagree, an I think the PLT scheme people who are teaching programming via scheme to high schoolers and college freshmen would disagree as well. Scheme is fundamentally simple. There is virtually no syntax. Scoping is lexical, and makes obvious sense, and there are really only a few "keywords". In no time a programmer should be able to pick it up and write simple programs with it. It does take a while to truly master however, but you can get away without continations and macros for quite some time.
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I would describe H-Store as a key-value store that can perform occasional joins. The fact that so many Web 2.0ers are using join-less NoSQL databases shows that such workloads probably aren't join-heavy.
I think that FathomDB's product is scalable to the degree that the existing database vendors are able to scale using multi-node clusters. Oracle's RAC tops out at 100 nodes. All of the other vendors (Teradata, Greenplum, etc) have some niche or secret sauce that allows them to scale vertical markets like OLAP. I don't see them scaling to Google or Facebook scale with an ACID-compliant relational database. They aren't really bringing anything new to the table other than a cheaper price point.

You bring up a very good point with the join issue. In addition, I'm wondering how they're going to scale writes. This is the bottleneck that eventually chokes RAC out, as it has to hold true to ACID principles. Even without ACID guarantees, eventually the system would spiral down into a chaotic quagmire of inconsistency as it scales. You've essentially got to have an locking and/or arbitration system that can quickly return an absolutely-positively we-wrote-this-in-a-consistent-way after a write query is executed. Nevermind trying to execute MVCC transactions over a cluster of nodes.

SQL can be scaled, ACID can't. Without ACID, the warm fuzzy feeling SQL gives you isn't quite as warm and fuzzy.
Please read:
http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/RS22793_20080123.pdf
Bernanke consistently believed that there was no systemic risk in the financial markets, that the Fed could handle anything that came up without trouble, and that there was no housing bubble. On the major issues of our time he has never been correct.

I'm no economist but I have read a few books on the topic of varying degrees of depth. I saw this crisis coming and got out of the stock market and went to a job that was far safer than the one I had (which was based on the housing industry continuing to grow).

Check out the Peter Schiff Was Right videos on Youtube for some humor on this topic.
Why Yahoo Has Limited Growth Opportunities - Innovator's Dilemma
If you append all the vimrc together you get this:
http://brianh.nfshost.com/vimrc.html
A SANS handler's toolkit.
United States' Net Position Deteriorates
I guess you're being voted down because:

a) overt politics doesn't mix well with HN, and

b) left/right is a matter of perspective.

As an observer from a country where the most conservative Prime Minister since federation was still some way to the left of Obama, I'd characterise both MSNBC and CNN as occupying the centre left of the right. In contrast, my Republican father in law considers them pinko-commie bastards. Who is right?
The office sure looks safe with Wheezy and Dozy on the door (by Jeremy Clarkson)
Here's a counter: http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/was_the_citi_bailout_really_a.p...
Why wine isn’t an investment
Interestingly, the Finder might go away before the command line. The first answer that popped into my head to give you was "mdfind"—and then I realized that it wasn't "by name," but rather by Spotlight metadata. File names have already hit the limit of infinitesimal usefulness.
Woopra is a great realtime analytics service. I'm building our iPhone client...
Mathematical Theorem Suggests Humans Really Are Sheep
Its a latex pun (about a very annoying error). If you've ever written a math paper with long equations you instantly get it..
Please read this too: http://useconomy.about.com/od/grossdomesticproduct/p/GDP.htm
And its fair to speculate that this lack of substance is contributing to the ratings decline by making places like CNN boring or immediately interchangeable with the web. Why spend your time watching what feels like "easily" produced news that often consists of summaries of YouTube/Twitter or a split screen featuring spin from either party made of pure opinion and devoid of critical analysis?

There is no production value in either of those categories that would build brand identity or loyalty from its consumers. Without actual journalism a news source is just a broadcast medium for press releases and there is nothing stopping consumers from tuning out or finding an interchangeable service.

There probably isn't a big enough market of people that care to sustain it, but it would be wonderful if a rainbow pot of gold could fund a 24/7 channel consisting of Frontline and This American Life caliber journalism.
Ah,

It doesn't really matter what the government makes or doesn't make with these transactions.

By guaranteeing these companies, saying the companies are too big to fail, they've granted them a junior right to print money. If an investor knows the government is going to buy Citibank bonds in a pinch, the investor can buy without caring at all whether Citibank is making a profit.

So the bad effects won't come in terms profit or loss on these transactions but rather through these guarantees' effect on the currency and the economy as a whole.
SimpleDB and App Engine are geo-distributed, but it looks like FathomDB isn't.
$8 billion pays for about two months of war in Afghanistan.
Traditional schools aren't working. Let's move learning online.
sydney!!
I'm quite impressed, and many thanks for the documentation! All in all, a much more readable library than I've ever seen.

btw, did you know your documentation [1] has bad links for point_in_rec ? All links I've found link to mem_alloc.

http://legacy.imatix.com/html/sfl/
Wow, maybe a little more than 20 hours notice next time? Glad you're getting this together and all, but can you all figure out what the April date will be and announce it this week too?
Congratulations Patrick. Excited to see what your next venture turns out to be.

For those who aren't aware, Patrick is incredibly helpful off-HN also. As in, if you email him, he always gets back to you, no matter how busy he is.

Thanks for being so awesome :)
RTM is brilliant I've found. I've got access to it from pretty much anywhere (within gmail, in my browser, on my phone etc), so its a great way to keep tasks organised.
In the US, business cycles are declared by the National Bureau Of Economic Research - and their definition of recession is not just about GDP:

The NBER does not define a recession in terms of two consecutive quarters of decline in real GDP. Rather, a recession is a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales.
There is a digital camera shop that does this as well. I think they have been doing it for a long time.
I had issues with passenger at an event where a couple thousand people were relying on my app (about 1 thousand concurrent). I had a single dual quad machine running a rails 3-pre app on ruby 1.9, which was mem leaking every 30-45 min and melting down the goods. On site, I switched from nginx + passenger to apache + passenger so I could use a max-requests-per-worker type directive (only available with apache + nginx), which didn't solve my problems. I made one more leap (on the spot) to nginx + unicorn, and problem solved. It also saved me at least 1gb of normal operational ram.

I still think passenger is great for low demand sites. It took a while to figure out everything that had to be done for unicorn, which included a proper unicorn config file, a rake task to start/stop/restart, and a matching init.d script for my ubuntu; I also wrote a rake task to install the init.d script. Someone should post that stuff online.
3) Marry a Japanese person
Ask HN: Best Phone Number Area Code?
I'm building stuff with Heroku, but am wondering which area codes work best for every body/is best generally (reputation, 'prestige' (or something)).

Right now I have a (202), which is form Washington, D.C.

I was debating between numbers from California, New York, Chicago...

Whast do you think?
I own a shit ton of domains

Well, you're the expert. Who am I to argue with anybody who owns a "shit ton" of domains?

As someone whose domestic partner ...has had numerous
death threats

OK, on this, I'd say you're a liar. Anybody actually in that situation, I guarantee, would understand perfectly why anonymity on the net is often considered important to people. You are either a complete dolt, or a liar (or both, I suppose)

I enjoy the convenience DH offers me in keeping my name out of Google. My reasons have nothing to do with whether or not my sites are sleezy. They're not. Privacy for myself and my family is not something I should need to justify to some random git (look it up) on HN.
Ah, another one bites the dust by the hands of an "enterprise" software vendor. These guys make money selling free software to big companies that are too stupid to realize that their support contract is about as valuable as the paper it's written on.
This headline is totally misleading. As the article mentions, when you factor in the money given to AIG (a huge proportion of which went straight to Citibank) the US Government is still down.
Wow. Fox News as a reputable source? The fact that they refer to "climate-gate data" as if the data itself is even slightly disputed by responsible scientists shows how little they care about the actual story. This article strikes me as a bit of quote-mining followed by a lot of sheer bull. When your standard of "expert" is someone like Watts, I really can't take your article seriously.
Ask HN: Anyone ever used jQuery ThemeRoller for a project?
I'm starting up a re-design (finally) of ShouldIGetTheBook(SIGTB), however, I lack any real artistic skills. I've been playing with a lot of the jQuery UI stuff lately and it seems pleasant looking and easy to hook in to. Anyone out there have any experience with it? How did it work for you? Does the end product look professional (not just some run of the mill theme)? Actually, any thoughts at all on using jQuery ThemeRoller to design your site would be great.

Thanks!
Would You Like Fries (540 Calories) with That?
Most of Us Suck at Multitasking
Recession means whatever you want it to mean. The GDP stabilization we have seen (in America) is the result of Ponzi financing by the Fed and Treasury, along with continuing to turn a blind eye to financial fraud.

If I were the usual Atlas Shrugged-thumping Reaganite wingnut this is where I would point out that Ponzi financing is unsustainable and the size of the government must be slashed. Fortunately I am saved from that embarrassment by the fact that Berkshire Hathaway can now borrow money more cheaply than the U.S. Treasury. The bubble has popped and the economy is taking the second leg down.

You can see it in the grocery stores -- the deflationary decline is here. Wal-Mart tried heroically to raise prices for a while, but now they are back to cutting prices on basic necessities. The inventory rebuilding that stabilized GDP is finishing up.

And then there is the health care "reform" plan that is about to rip the guts out of the economy. If people are having trouble buying groceries, it will break them to be forced to buy a gold-plated health plan that covers singing chiropractors. Nor can they afford the massive penalty tax in lieu of insurance. Nor can they afford to neglect diabetes and medical treatment because of the new health care supply taxes.

And let's not even think about the energy rationing measures. The 2008-2009 leg of the recession was caused mainly by the spike in energy and metal prices. Cap-and-trade will spike energy prices just as badly, guaranteeing that the economy will plummet down again as much as it already has.
Well, ok then, but it does say something that they nod in the direction of "what everyone else defines a recession as, very specifically" before offering their own redefinition :)
I think there are some great opportunities for online instruction of special needs children in post secondary education, and too a lesser extent special coursework for motivated students. It does take a certain amount of self-discipline to do online study that I'm not sure most kids have. I also have fears about the type of society we create online not being as intimate and having a tendency to create too many thin relationships.
Was the Citi Bailout Really a Good Deal?
How I made $3.42 answering a question on Aardvark
This is an April Fools - right?
So based on that, was CNN twice as full of "drama, fear, shouting" last year?
BBC deprecates RealMedia streams after 14 years of use
Ruby Practical Training Exercises
I appreciate the well-thought-out post, but you're contradicting yourself.

If the fed and treasury are keeping rates too low and increasing the money supply too aggressively, we should be seeing <i>in</i>flation. But we're not. That indicates to me that interest rates should be kept low and quantitative easing should be pursued until the threat of deflation recedes. You can't raise the specter of deflation and then demand that the government stops borrowing or raises interest rates -- that's contradictory. Japan in the 90s/00s and the US in the 20s/30s had a deflationary cycle precisely because they attempted austerity measures too quickly.

Also, I'm pretty sure singing chiropractors are not mentioned in the healthcare bill :). The rest of your points are similarly exaggerated or inaccurate.

EDIT: Wait. Seriously. Did you say that the 2008-2009 collapse was primarily caused by commodity prices? You never heard of a little industry called "housing"?
Shepard's Tones
This is big and falls right in line with their stance on China in my opinion. They must be having some very long and serious discussions over at Google about responsibly handling the data they collect. It has always been bizarre to me that companies are obligated to hand over data vs every other type of investigation request (physically) needs to be via a warrant.

Edit: I'd like to elaborate that I also feel the service provider should have the option of providing the data if they so choose on a case-by-case basis. I think there is much to be said of "physical" illegal activity online being easy to stamp out (with regard to child porn, rape, stalking and other morally heinous things).
FOX "News" and its clear conservative mindset all-around hates the sciences in general; flagged on the grounds of complete bias.
The US government's Citibank investment is paying off because a bit of that huge stream of government cash/debt flowing into the economy has sloshed into Citi's bowl. The total overall net for the US government and us taxpayers will still be hugely negative. The first government divestments will be net gains. The realization of pain comes later.

I'm cranky right now. My opinion tomorrow might be different.
A thousand people enjoy taking the picture - that's worth a lot. A hundred actually think they took a good one and post it. An editor browses flickr or whatever and quickly finds a good one and offers that person $50 or a photo credit, and makes their day. Everyone wins, except the professional photographer.
There are and I've been to a few but I'm guessing it doesn't compare to a meetup in San Fran or Boston. Anyone else care to comment on this..?

5 hours on the 5 to SF and 4 hours to Palo Alto isn't that far =)
What about startups outside US? Two programmers in México could eat (mostly tacos) a whole month for $200.

Maybe regulations for investing in latinamerican startups are looser?
"In the rare cases I need to step outside of UTF-16 to the higher planes, it would work transparently for me up to the point where I start slicing strings naively."

This is a red herring. Because of combining characters, it is rarely valid to slice between Unicode code points, regardless of encoding. Even in the BMP, a semantic symbol can be composed of multiple code points.
The Comprehensive List of Window Managers for Unix (currently 191 listed)
Why I'm rejecting your email attachment
Star Trek iPADD
Here's What A $100,000 Salary Gets You In 20 Global Cities
Depends on who your audience is. 404 is pretty amusing :-)
Very nice. How about something that can be used worldwide (India, for instance)?
Well, I for one haven't yet met a girl in my area who enjoyed sci-fi.
I'm no fan of Fox News, but my understanding is that lots of the climate data /is/ disputed, because the raw data is gone and all we have is either irreversibly 'corrected' data or summarized reports of the data. That's not trustworthy or useful, because without the original raw data you can't reproduce any of the analysis. Without the ability to reproduce the analysis, you're not doing science anymore.

To connect back to the article, if the claim is true that 90% of the thermometers for one of the datasets are positioned too close to structures that alter their readings, and there's no information available about exactly what those influences are for each thermometer, then we can't model and correct for the influences. Again, the data is useless. It can't even be used to say what the temperature is 100 feet away from the thermometer, let alone globally.
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Could you elaborate on the legal issues you're facing en route to going worldwide?
I just watched the video entitled "Working with Buffers" so I don't quite get your reference
It's not a problem -- to infringe, the name has to be similar enough to confuse the public, and it has to be in the same market.
"Learning online won't turn America into a nation of home-schooled nerds, sitting in their basements, keyboards clacking."

Is that such a bad thing?
A Much More interesting article about climate data: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2010... .

(Agreed with the other commenters, I refuse to take FN as a serious source)
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I know, but none where available :(
No problem, we'll adjust the data to fit the model
Except URI's aren't uniform. They're used in so many ways as to be confusing. For instance:

"git://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip.git"
vs
"smtp://user:pass@hostname/domain"
vs
"http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=krainboltgreene
vs
"chrome://history/"

The user name appears in the path, the username section, and the query params. All of these are pretty "standard" uses. So while they might be called "uniform" the reality is absolutely different.
Crazy, Magic, Impossible: Polaroid Film Is Back
Things looked pretty scary before the bail-out. I don't think it's been long enough for the full economic effects to have been realized, but, if you believe the hype, a major crisis was averted. IMO, the bailout was a necessary band-aid solution, although you can't keep on doing it.

I think a better solution is stronger regulation of banks. Banks are a major part of our economy, and shouldn't be allowed to make so many risky investments. They can't "print money" if we carefully regulate the types of investments they can enter into. That strategy seems to have worked out for Canada.

I know Americans are generally against regulation, but I think that, absent government regulation, banks would need to maximize short-term gain, even at the risk of a crash in the future. People put their money in whichever bank offers the highest return. If Bank A has a bunch of risky investments, which will crash in 10 years but give a good payout until then, they can offer higher interest rates than their more conservative competitors. Competitor B would be forced to adapt, because its depositors will probably be gone within 10 years.

Another idea is progressive taxation for banks: Tax the big banks more than smaller banks. That would create an economic incentive for smaller banks, and banks are less likely to get "too big to fail." Not sure if this would work (for example, if many smaller banks invested in sub-prime mortgages, and defaults started occurring around the same time)
The problem you have with the flow of CNN and MSNBC towards Fox is the same problem I have with televised news of all sorts. TV as a medium does not do a good job of informing people much of anything outside of what it takes to keep them glued to the screen: flying infographics, plenty of hyperbole and lowbrow opinion.
I don't want to sound like an ass or ungrateful or anything, but the FSF needs to wise up. People won't switch until the alternative is a lot better than what they currently have. Why would a normal person care about the file format of an attachment? Hell, how many people even know the format of the files they are working with? (I mean the extensions, not the file layout or anything) They just care about being able to open it. They have a raft of better shit to be doing and that's how it should be.

tl;dr: Make OpenOffice 10x better than Office and you won't have to cajole people to switch. Don't do that and we'll ignore you like we've been doing.
Mapquest bring free turn-by-turn directions to the iPhone
Building a terabyte-scale data cycle at LinkedIn
Uncommon around here, but I love Outlook. I've tried Gmail, Thunderbird, and others but nothing handles the Email + Contacts + Calendar + Tasks problem as well as Outlook, IMHO.

I've also used Basecamp, but I like having my To Do list integrated with my email.