skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By 'enum' I meant in the more general sense, a constrained set of a few values. In our case the original schema designer used a text column for states: 'active,' 'dead,' etc. The planner would generally guess incorrectly about the range of values it might expect to find in a text column like that and working around it required hand fiddling.

(Disclaimer: forgive me, it's been a few years since I've had to deal with this specific problem, some of the details may be off.)
How about show success, but adjust the confirmation e-mail accordingly. For example, if the e-mail address is not registered you could say something like "We received a request to recover your password on our service but see that you are not registered for our service with this e-mail address." ?
"That company tried to translate code from one programming language to another using only regular expressions."

Ha! I know a guy who essentially got a US patent for roughly the same idea. His non technical bosses were so impressed that they gave him a raise and made him "Director of Analytics" at what was (or rather should have been) an Analytics heavy company.
Same here:
Error 310 (net::ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS): Demasiados redireccionamientos.
Please DON'T do that. Don't type people's email addresses into whatever forms you come across online.
rel="nofollow" is only useful for pages which are intended to be indexed, google's search results pages are not, which is why they don't use it for the links in search results.

The point is: up until now search indexing has had a robust opt-out mechanism. Bing has changed that and has muddied the waters with vague hand-waving. The question still remains: should there still be a way for sites to opt-out of search indexing? If so, then why can't robots.txt continue to be that mechanism? If robots.txt can't be that mechanism then what should be the new standard. If not, then that opens an entirely new can of worms. A can that I think we're better off not opening.
Eh, all is fair in war and business. They didn't break any laws, so let's throw fair and ethical out the window.

First off, who is to say this site is a 25K site? Web developer rates are all over the map, you can pretty much pull any number out of your ass in declaring how much your site could have cost to build. I bet I could have found someone who would have charged 50K. ;)

This site was done in only three weeks. That includes the time taken to figure out all this stuff and gather submissions. They also essentially took the design and coded the site themselves, that's going to take a chunk out of the cost. This site wasn't very complex to take that long.

So, you did a lot of the work yourself. That's going to take a big chunk out of the cost. A lot of people aren't willing to do this. Some people just want to deal with one person who is a professional in this industry. People doing work for free aren't industry professionals, they are doing this on the side (or they are bored.)

So... why did it cost you so much then? I bet I could have done it for $1500, but not for someone else. ;)
Do you bicycle?

Do you remember learning how to ride?

Knowing rigid-body mechanics, the theory of angular momentum, gyroscopic effect, etc. isn't going to keep your ass in that seat. Contrariwise, by trying and falling many times you learned how to balance yourself atop an unstable structure of wheels and frame when you were five years old.

Programming is the same. To feel confident in your ability to program, you simply have to do it. A lot. And you will write a lot of crappy, crappy code. Just keep doing it.
I feel both can be used very easily by starters but once you graduate to a professional blogger, wordpress offers you with more(and better) options.
This is ideal! VC generalists may be successful businessmen in the general sense, but investors who don't know your industry are inherently dumb money regardless of how much they swear up and down that they bring value to the table.
Never had a Facebook account, never will. I see it as a closed fractured environment of the web, that needs to go the way of Friendster and Myspace.
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Seems like everyone has to watch what they say and do these days. With brand reputation and social monitoring, the big brands aren't messing around. I can see both pros & cons to these type of policies at larger brands.
I would personally go with wordpress simply because of the visual options available to you. I previously used Blogger and found it difficult to give my blog its own personal feel given the UI limitations and Wordpress easily solves this issue. I highly recommend setting up an account on both services so you can mess with the options and settings yourself, everyone has their own preference.
I don't know who wrote this, but...be more spammy on whose authority? According to what metrics? A hunch?

If hacker news started emailing me every day telling me about HOT NEW FEATURES! I probably never would have started using it.
I think it's the background-on-a-background. I see a rectangular white area behind the content and a light grey background surrounding the white area. The whole thing should be white so the pieces of the page seem like they are naturally grouped together instead of trapped and constricted together inside the little white rectangle.
Announcement of a $3 million algorithm competition (Netflix Prize but bigger)
No, actually it's about saving $22K.
It's ironic that Jeff espouses the benefits of writing, yet nearly all of his blog posts are simply brief snippets of text that link together larger paragraphs written by others.

Almost every time I visit his blog I come away wondering what exactly he added to the conversation.
Indeed. The key thing to remember is that you don't have to be perfect to be better.

Yes, from a security standpoint it's bad practice to encourage users to click links in email, or to send one-click login links in email that don't expire in a short amount of time. However, not every website is a bank, and for the vast majority of sites protecting access to the site itself takes a backseat to securing the user's password (which more often than not tends to be shared amongst many sites).
Are you honestly telling me that you wouldn't be able to figure out how a hash table implementation worked if all the types and variable names were changed to single letters?

Yes, probably not. I've looked at code that I've personally written with variable names -- in the debugger and still scratched my head trying to figure out what I had done. And not trying to overstate my ability, but I tend to be someone who is generally pretty good at reading code.

Here's some code you might run across in some DSP code. There are some globals, and hopefully I translated it correctly. But in any case, w/ good function variable naming I could understand the intent in a few seconds. Without it, I think I'd scratch my head for some time. How long does it take you to figure out what it does (or what it is intended to do)?

ov f(){
xx b, hh, i, pp, j, jj = PL, k;
xx D = NN>>2*b,d=n-2*zz;
t *z[B]; t *p, m, n, q, oo;
for (i=0; i<B; i++) z[i] = &X[ro[i]*jj];
for (b=0; b<D; b++) { f(b, hh, d);
for (i=0; i<B; i++) { pp=ro[i];
k = (b << zz) + i;
p = &YY[(hh<<zz) + (pp<<(n-zz))];
for (j=0; j<B; j+=SS) { m = z[j][k];n=z[j+1][k];q = z[j+2][k];oo = z[j+3][k];
p[j]=m;p[j+1]=n;p[j+2]= q;p[j+3]=oo;}}}}
A possible solution is to get the email account holder to send an email to lostpassword@website.com. Auto-reply with a password reset form, or a welcome email in the case with no existing account (maybe you could fast-track account creation here, with a link "Oops, please delete this account. I didn't mean to do that.").

It doesn't really solve the problem of figuring out which email address you used to create your account, but it allows you to provide feedback to the user that the account does/does not exist.

An alternative solution would be to just email whatever account you enter on the website, with the appropriate wording depending whether or not they have an existing account, but this approach seems like it'd be too easy to spam random people.
The total domestic residential mortgage book kicks in around 750,000 contracts for a total of 100bn EUR in the Republic. 3% of that is according to a Goldman Sachs report a pessimistic default rate. 3bn EUR sounds to us like pocket change these days.

The responsibility is not shared as evenly across Ireland as is commonly thought.
I get 400+ emails a day and sometimes can't get through all of them.

Make sure you apply for the conference at the website since I have four people working full-time on going through applications and you can't get lost there!!!

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Why? What did you go back to school to study? It seems to me like running your own (assuming tech. oriented?) company would be a much better place to learn than school would.

Although I'll admit that this is a dream of mine. Someday make enough money to go back to school as a "gentleman scholar"...
Why rockets were an inevitable technological development.
I also think that the homepage needs to be cleaned up a bit, especially below the fold. Just way too much text. Great concept though!
That's good; that'll mean fishing expeditions like this will warn the, er, fish.
Sniffing traffic on the internet backbone is orders of magnitude more difficult than sniffing traffic on an open access point. Even if you could do it, making it practical is a terrific challenge of scale.
Now they have three problems...
http://blog.steveklabnik.com/the-hardest-decision-ive-ever-m...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1916622
I have a big problem with this because it takes advantage of people who need the money, otherwise they wouldn't be participating in this kind of contest. It's one thing if you have ten participants and you pay the winner the equivalent of 10x the value of one site. But that's not happening here. If there are ten sites worth of work being done, only one site worth of pay is being spent.

Let's make a comparison:

Let's say a day's worth of yard work is worth $100. Ten home owners in a neighborhood need yard work done. They get ten unemployed people to each do the work on their homes. These people really need the money. At the end of the day, the person who does the best job gets the $100, and the rest get nothing. Ten houses worth of yard work has been done, but only one day's worth of pay is given out.

Yeah, you can get away with it, but it's because you're taking advantage of people. Just because you can ask for it and just because you'll find people to do it doesn't make it right.
I considered this, but it makes an easy way for someone to cause the site problems. I guess coupled with captcha it could work, but someone could send a lot of emails to different people, if enough mark it as spam they might have problems as it is TECHNICALLY unsolicited, but I guess at the same time I could do the same with registering...
In what way, specifically, is it shady? Is using a crowdsourced design service inherently shady?
More importantly perhaps, if the crush doesn't know the specific email address I used to submit, how can it find me? It might be good to allow users to connect multiple email addresses to their account to allow for more matches.
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I agree. My personal situation is that I am consulting for a startup to pay my bills and bootstrap my own startup.
I agree! How about: '...but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant...History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time-and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.' ~HST

Really though I feel bad hanging any "western" literary quote on top of the amazing events in Egypt. I'm sure something from Egyptian culture would make a more appropriate quote than either Shakespeare or Hunter Thompson. Trying to follow the unfolding events has brought tears to my eyes of both joy and sadness more than once, and I am in awe of the courage and spirit and dynamic human energy of the revolution in progress.
Those custom crush messages are just begging for trouble: Hint - "I shagged one of your parents."
If I were serious about sending something through this, I'd be worried that using FB connect would leak information. Besides, why would I want my friends to know that I'm not confident enough to approach someone I had a crush on? ;)
I'm not sure where all of this is going to end up, but to me it reads like a rehash of the thick/thin client see-saws that the market has been supporting since the dawn of client-server computing. Where personal information is both stored and contributed will be a big implementation choice as more people generate content about themselves on the Internet.
There's nothing antisocial about assessing your use of a service and deciding its benefits are less significant than its costs.
Jason, are you sure this thing works? users are saying still see 2 votes to this comment, despite I think more than 10 voted...
All of my blog posts have buttons for Digg, Reddit, Delicious, Facebook and StumbleUpon, none of which I use. There are a thousand other buttons I could add too. Hell, I have Adsense banners which I almost never see on account of Adblock.

It's not hypocrisy, it's compatibility. Every social networking site offers a bunch of new interactions, and you can support members without endorsing membership.
I don't understand this viewpoint at all. No one is holding a gun to the designers heads. When I first got started in marketing and SEO, I did a lot of work for free. The confidence and references it gave me let me get paid work very soon after. Are you saying I shouldn't be allowed to do that?
At one place I worked, Sybase told us we wouldn't need to hint the queries or force a plan with the new 12.x series. With the amount of data we were pushing, that was complete bunk. We ended up forcing every plan.
They are going to buy lots of RAM. I'm excited about redis nodes running on low power, small ARM A15-based linux servers with lots of RAM and an SSD. Diskless, fanless and 3-5 watts per node in the data center.
Would Ted Codd tell his boss to cut the database division? It turned out to be a win for IBM, but if the writing was on the wall, would he seriously cut his own division and go work on something else? There are thousands of second best-second brightest that think they're amazing. They might make something cool someday, they might not. Do you expect them to give up their budget in a bad year?
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I didn't say that at all, but thank you for putting words in my mouth.

What I did say is that suggesting the American populace stop seeing movies if they don't like the treatment is silly. The American populace isn't going to ever stop seeing movies.

It wont happen, and so suggesting that it happen is moot.
I wouldn't say its shady ... its just human nature to try and commoditize anything that costs money ... its up to designers to try and resist this ... plus you should be blaming the people that fall for it and are actively helping the (commoditization) process along.
Jason, BusinessReel(http://www.businessreel.com), which is a vertical search engine for business for sale listings.
It would be really great to attend the Launch conference.
Blatant self-promotion? Yes, but that's not particularly interesting on the web, it's a form of Ad Hominem ("He would say that, because he runs SO"). Here's a variation of the same criticism:

Jeff Atwood says that being a great programmer is not about having technical skill, it's about communicating well. This is clearly an observation born out of narcissistic bias, since he freely admits that he is not a great programmer, and he is much more famous for writing words than code.
. . . like your account information.

Oops.
Most of the complaints I hear about crowdsourced design services come from people who don't participate in them (just for the record, I don't either). It seems kind of presumptuous to say the designers are desperate and being taken advantage of. Maybe the long-term value is worth it for them (e.g., winning 10% of contests)? Maybe they find it a fun way to build experience?
What is the difference beween this and when I was just starting to learn online marketing, and I worked for free? The designers choose to enter the contest, they know how much their time is worth.
There was a website that did this around 2002 and it was funny because I'm pretty sure their technique for getting new users was to send false positive spam messages, "Someone has a crush on you. Come to find out who." Really nobody did, but you inevitably went to the site and entered the email of every person that you had a crush on in the off chance it was real. Then, BAM email database expanded rapidly. This idea is super viral.
Imagine if an open source toolkit allowed you to connect yourself with other wordpress (or whatever) users with all the usual facebook type widgets. Would you use facebook at all?

That investment that Goldman made in Facebook will ultimately prove to be one of the more boneheaded investments in recent times. Just my prediction.
That doesn't sound right. In default conditions, PostgreSQL will shy away from doing index scans unless you're operating on <0.1% of the table. The planner builds a selectivity figure for the table based on table dimensions, index statistics, the operator used (= is more selective than <), and of course it's estimation of cost for the various operations needed to run the query. The decision to perform an index or sequential scan usually has little to do with the table size ratio during a JOIN. It's likely your index statistics were poor and/or the server configuration was messed up.
Thanks, I was trying to remember where this article was.
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This isn't about getting paid. This is purely a comparison.

If I'm stealing a movie that by definition means I'm not buying that movie.

Thanks for the downvotes though.
I think we're arguing past each other. The J prototype took me part of a morning to figure out (and get working on more modern hardware), but I wasn't familiar with APL conventions at the time. Code like that is slower to read, just not impossible.

About your code sample - I haven't done anything with digital signal processing code, so I couldn't tell you. It looks like some sort of wave transformation, but that's like saying code from a 3D rendering engine is "doing something with triangles", sorry.

Most of the APL functions are only a line or two long, though - that makes a big difference. "accumulate i..N", "get new vector with a[i] + w[i]", etc. The only part that is individually complex is the parser.
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Spec work controversy aside, they make a statement at the end I find ironic:

The one big drawback is that it is a time-consuming endeavor, and to manage a good contest takes a decent amount of planning and focus.

I've worked through redesigns with many clients, and the time they spent on running this contest is on the low end. Plus, they did more work than they really needed to by emailing contributors and coding it themselves. If they want to take the easy way out (crowdsourcing) then they may as well go all the way.

Managing a "good contest" takes anything but a decent amount of planning and focus, and is not time consuming.
The article convinced me that it is for good that I never created a Facebook account. Recently I have been under lot of peer pressure to create a Facebook account for so called social-connectivity.
We are a group of 4 guys, trying to make something cool.

Vidtonic's Homebrew DIY Android TV kit (http://www.vidtonic.com). The idea being if you can build your PC, you can build your own TV. The kit has everything you need to build your own Android TV (panels, main board, cool enclosure, etc..).

The TV kit is a 1080p HDTV, in sizes from 22" up to 42". We are expecting to start shipping kits this summer... we also will be selling the boards standalone as an Android development platform (it also has HDMI output).

The kit is for people that enjoy building, enjoy tinkering, and enjoy open platforms...

Hey, even if we don't get upvoted, drop us a line if you are interested in the kit - we love feedback.
Cost/value whatever. I'm talking about other people's perceptions of you, which aren't logical. This is the anti-social behavior i'm talking about: you're right, the world's crazy.

"If one person calls you a donkey, ignore him; if five people call you a donkey, buy a saddle"
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Not my startup (my friend Caleb's), but I think YoBongo should get a table. They're awesome.
Nothing wrong with citing "Western" literature, they're doing that themselves :-)

http://totallycoolpix.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/30012011_e...

True story, I grew up reading the Grimm tales in Arabic and was SHOCKED as a grown man when I discovered they were not original Arabic works :-)
Actually, there are pretty good methods of this for piracy. If you search for the torrent title (IE: "Battleship Potemkin aXXo", etc) and "subtitle", you can generally find a subtitle for your version in my experience. Have a listing for movie, then version of movie (German edition, Director's Cut, terrible American theatrical release that cuts out the bit where last part was all a dream, etc). If piracy and fans can solve an issue like that, surely the studios can too.
I assure you that contention was not an issue on a restored backup. At that point PostgreSQL did not have the option to have read-only slaves. But for reporting, day old data was acceptable so that wasn't a problem.

It still doesn't solve the problem that you really want to tune differently for OLTP and data warehousing, and the server was tuned for OLTP.
I think painting the people who partake in these 'contests' as victims is a bit hyperbolic ... they simply should know better.

Maybe if designers redirected their efforts from pouring opprobrium on the people who follow natural human tendency of wanting good work done on the cheap to educating members of their profession on the dangers of partaking in spec work ... things might be different.
> but it seems like a large part of this market would want numeric-only URLs

Except for maybe douglasadams.42 ;)
I have been using Geckoboard for a few weeks now but, sadly, none of my ventures have enough traffic for me to see the value in paying for the service (at this point). I believe that it is an awesome product but I believe the price barrier is going to be a huge deterrent for average webpage owners. You might consider going freemium and perhaps allow only 1 site/account up to 1000 views/day (these numbers are only to get my point across). The hope is that you gain a larger user base, including many who would have to upgrade if/when their sites get traction.
Very interesting. Problem is, my friends know that I'm a tech geek and I'll probably be the one using this website to inform them.
All of this says nothing about e.g. the fact that Facebook is a corporation whose business model revolves around the acquisition of information about its users.

I'm paranoid about information about myself. I left Facebook because I want explicit, direct control over what information about me is made available to whom. Yes, Facebook has privacy controls, but they are Facebook's privacy controls.
I'm currently working part-time on my own startup
Can any designers here give us a clue on how much it would've taken them to make a design of about that quality? Naturally if you work no spec it's going to be better... but approximately?