skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would not be strong refuting evidence. Given both genetics and environment factors (smart successful parents have more to teach, perhaps), I would expect successful children from successful parents. On the other hand, in a society where success were arbitrary, I would expect high incoherence between parent and child success.

I suppose by "anyone can make it" we could literally mean, "irrespective of your abilities anyone can make it", but I don't think that's the sense most people mean and that's not the meaning of meritocracy. Talent and/or a hard working mien are not bestowed randomly at birth.
Chrome Web Store Revived From Flatline
No, because XFS doesn't eat your data if you're using decent hardware with decent applications. See

http://flamingspork.com/talks/2007/06/eat_my_data.odp

It's probably not the best choice for a basic desktop without UPS, though, or a laptop.
Would be really interested to see an actual prototype.
Oh no doubt, and I think naming conventions is something that takes practice over time in this situation - too verbose leads to 'wasted' space, too little leads to making it near impossible for someone to view the database. Since indexes don't store the key names that does alleviate part of the problem as well.

I tend to leave the default _id in place as it also acts as a 'created_on' timestamp, saving the need to add an additional field.

Thanks for the deck. It's always good to hear about situations that didn't work out well and what can be learned going forward (though I do think you'd have a better experience using the 1.8 branch than you did with 1.4).
[My comment on the blog post follows.]

Great post.

Dug is absolutely right in saying that our present difficulties in computer security lie not with brute-force flooding of pipes (i.e., DDoS), but rather with targeted, strategic attacks on smaller subsets of systems (think Stux).

However, I would disagree with the statement “users are the new target”. Indeed, it is far easier to gain access to resources by attacking the users who control those resources. But I think it is far more damaging (and therefore lucrative to the adversaries) to attack infrastructure systems on a wide-scale. People may be the initial entry point of the attack, but I still think the greater target is technology behind our infrastructure.
Steve, you have addressed the very important point that much of our infrastructure (economic, transportation, military, …) is based on on solid systems operating securely and reliably. Let us call these critical systems. These are the ones that are vulnerable to crippling cyberattacks.

I posit that our infrastructure should not be based on these systems at all.

Any critical system should have no connection to the Internet. In fact, it should have no concept of the Internet. One might go so far as to say that any critical system should have no I/O with the rest of the world. (Recall that Stuxnet was thought to be propagated initially by USB.) This would help ensure that infrastructure-crippling cyberattacks do not propagate. Though preventing a system from communicating with the outside world will drastically reduce its value in controlling our infrastructure. This is the unfortunate nature of the security-versus-usability problem.

How do we secure ourselves? Let us hope that we will simply enjoy a “new spring”.
sferik, the developer of that project, has talked a bit about his thoughts on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/#!/sferik/status/83585135836016640

https://twitter.com/#!/sferik/status/83588359066353664

https://twitter.com/#!/sferik/status/83600376061894656

https://twitter.com/#!/sferik/status/83616031309967360
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maybe you should have thought of that when you were choosing a wife.
Federal judge: Apple Bid to Bar Amazon 'Appstore' 'Likely' to Be Denied
Tokyo is my standard database for personal projects and goes great with Lua. Both are lightweight and fast, Cabinet has an excellent binding, and Tyrant has embedding.
Is it possible HN has a very strong bias on web developers? Because in "serious business" or at least in my case in finance, you almost always find Oracle and DB2 being the leading DBs and maybe Sybase and maybe-maybe mysql or mssql but hardly ever postgre no matter how awesome it is and definitely never-ever something hip and cool and latest-fashion/fad like Mongo or Couch.
Oracle is a bear to get setup. Nearly impossible, best I can tell, but the feature set is incredible. It's like Excel 2003 -- pretty much every feature you might want is in there somewhere, just need to find out how to expose it. For example, I've seen people say that its auditing and regulatory support has no peer. I don't really know that stuff well, but the ppl who told me spent non-trivial amounts of time with other solutions to see that Oracle made the most sense.

My point, if all you ever need from a database is solved with key/value store then Oracle is not mildly interesting.
I like that Nokia has laid out visually the physical 3d objects that model the interface behavior. iPhone applications frequently seem to ignore this very basic idea. The level of realism even gets down to specifying a common light source which all icons and 3d elements should reflect.

I also like/am curious about the color guidelines, namely that each application should "own" a single highlight color, which then gets used consistently in its headers, labels, and form controls. The applications demoed in the docs have a much more consistent and less kitschy look than many brightly-colored, inconsistent iPhone apps.
They are an ATDC company with 2 co-founders and Eckoff.
The point at which law becomes a hinderance and not help is when it gets changed or broken.

Basically, all you are suggesting is: go find a "citizen" to trap in matrimony in order to be a legal immigrant?

The matrimony route is especially relevant, since in the US it is the one of the faster means to obtaining citizenship compared to other methods immigrate legally.

Here is the reference:

http://reason.com/assets/db/07cf533ddb1d06350cf1ddb5942ef5ad...
even when i was jumping through all the hoops for my GC (took me 7+ years), i still felt strong compassion for these poor guys sitting under the hot midday Sun on San Antonio cross El Camino and ready to work for minimal money while i was driving by in air conditioned car to my nice hi-tech job.

Yes, if my GC failed, i'd be strongly disappointed, to say the least, would be forced to start to think again where to go - Canada, England, Germany, Australia... didn't want back to Russia (even though programmer's salary there would make me live comparably much better than i live here) - tough choices ...

These poor guys waiting for a piece of a tough dirty day job - what choice they have? what alternative did they have before crossing into US illegally if what they have now is supposedly a better one?
I never said you are completely, objectively wrong. I just disagreed with a point.. On that note, I see nothing untidy.

No hostility meant by "you argue". You provided a critique, an argument. I'd open the dictionary... ;)
The correlation may mean nothing. Perhaps the strong guilds managed to attract women, because the leadership was able to manage the boys to behave better.

It's wrong to say that better guilds had women, so women cause better guilds. The only thing you can say is that annectodally the better guilds had women.
IBM DB2.
It's still unmatched for XML support.
iSeries DB2. still.
Well, that's good. Thanks for the clarification.
Ditto (http://dropc.am). Very write heavy load for us, which Riak handles without blinking. Fault tolerant, robust, and easy to administer. Every machine is identical, no special "master" nodes or anything like that.
Also, do not forget or underestimate the cheek-in-tongue "Nobody got fired for buying Oracle" in this case.
Microsoft buying RIM: Bad idea, or worst idea ever?
The variance, just from glancing at that chart seems extraordinarily high. I'd be very hesitant to draw conclusions.
>InnoDB with clustered indexes is pretty hard to beat for many scenarios. I hate that Oracle owns it, but damn it works well.

After Oracle stopped distributing the source on their website, an open-source project started continuing its development here: http://www.haildb.com/
Maybe she'd show more interest if she didn't find it slow and buggy?
That's inaccurate. Illegal presence greater than 6 months and less than a year subjects a departing alien to a 3 year bar on re-entry absent a waiver. Illegal presence for longer than a year ups that to a 10 year bar. There are also lifetime bars on re-entry but they are reserved for much narrower and more egregious violations, like election fraud, aiding terrorism and so on.
I don't think they will do this anytime soon, but they might introduce extra restrictions on where Silverlight can run, like they have with ActiveX. They are still promoting in-browser Silverlight for internal business apps.
Final Cut Pro X is essentially a new product - it's rewrite, in 64-bit Cocoa, Core Media, Grand Central Dispatch, OpenCL, etc, etc, etc.

Apple took a long, hard look at FCP (which has only incrementally changed in the last several years) and took the opportunity to overhaul its UI, workflow and feature set.

Necessarily, things will be radically different and confronting to users who have been used to the same product in the same way for a decade.

To get a v1.0 product out the door, you inevitably have to make compromises, and FCPX has numerous limitations as a result. But I'm sure they are already working on the next revision which will address the most urgent of these.

Also I think that many people do not really understand the new features and workflow yet.
It's really courageous of him to come ahead with his story. I really hope he gets shipped back to the Philippines.

Go ahead and call me a xenophobe now. Whatev.

I think it is in poor form for the NYT to print this manipulative article that tries to make me feel bad for the gay, minority, do-gooder author and excuse his years of criminally fraudulent behavior.

Sure, call me heartless. But, this guy is cheating you, and not in the "Oh cool hack" kind of way. He is cheating you in a Bernie-Madoff-conned-me-out-of-my-money-for-ponzi-investments-so-that-he-could-live-a-cushy-life kind of way.
My wife has the Samsung Galaxy S. I guess it's good enough for her as she never complains.
You're missing the point - if it's a fundamental architecture flaw that cannot be fixed, then Silverlight in its current (beta) form suffers from the same problems.

You typically don't rush out fixes for beta
versions of products

You can find fixes of open-source projects as soon as they are committed.

Microsoft made a bold claim, people are curious about how they fixed Silverlight if indeed they did that. If not a new Silverlight release, than at least write some kind of blog post explaining what's different in Silverlight.

But I'd bet this is typical of Microsoft; right hand, meet left hand, please communicate :)
> First to file trumps first to invent? That sounds awful and a step backwards?

How so?

Are you thinking it means that A can invent something, B can see it, and then B can rush to the patent office, get there before A, and get the patent? That's not a problem, because B is not an inventor in this case and is not entitled to a patent.

All first to file really means is that in the case of two independent inventors whose inventions overlap, the patent goes to the one who files first. That person is still subject to all the usual requirements for novelty, utility, non-obvious to one skilled in the prior art (and note that the other inventor's invention might be prior art if it was disclosed).

With first to invent, you have the problem of determining which competing inventor actually invented first--which is often quite subjective (many inventions develop over the course of a long stretch of research, and saying when exactly the inventor actually had the inventive step is not well defined), and involves a lot of interpretation of things like lab notebooks, recollection of discussions, and stuff like that.

First to file is much cleaner--just look at the timestamp on the filing.
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Firefox uses it.
Variety is also good. Just because you know you love these ten apps doesn't mean you want to be confined to them. I have 350 apps on my ipod, I only use five weekly, but if I had to stay entertained for a few days I'd play all 100+ games. I'd still prefer my Kindle.
Infographic: Recent Over the top valuations explored
I'm in the same boat. It's been difficult. I cannot express how grateful I am to Jose Vargas for writing this story.

I was brought here as a kid 13 years ago. I'm 24 now. I also graduated from a "top" university -- like that matters. I guess my parents weren't smart enough to get a fake social security card for me back then, I wish they were. I've also been fighting for the Dream Act for what feels like an eternity. I made a site and still maintain it, have met with Senators, protested in front of the White House, several times, other things. I'm loosing hope. I lost hope in Congress long ago. I lost hope in this President in December, when he failed to stand by us and the vote. I don't have anything left to wait for.

I'm still "hiding," most of my friends have no idea, but I see less and less reason to do so every day. I just can't take it anymore. I'm worth _something_. I'm competent coder, and fuck it all, at least I got that, my mind, and my family.

Anybody who wants to debate the pros and cons of immigration reform can go to hell. I'm done reading the hate mail. I'm done debating. I am done listening to those masked bigots. I know what it is like to live like this having done nothing wrong. I know that I don't deserve the punishment. If we can't agree on the fact that I am American and should have basic rights, then we have nothing to talk about. I'm not asking for anything except recognition.

Btw, people who were brought here on fake documents, as me and Jose, can't get married for papers. So even if Jose wasn't gay, he wouldn't be able to adjust based on marriage. It's unfortunate that people who come here on student visas get married -- assuming they have enough money -- and have a green card in six months. People like me and Jose, homebred Americans if ya will, are forever tarnished with this inherited title. Hello, my name is "illegal immigrant." That's what I feel like every single day. Every morning in the shower, I utter the words "I am so fucking tired." And I am.
Yeah... I realize you'd have to battle a big vocal segment of HN, but it would be a favor to the many lurkers who just need to hear the other side of the story.
I've never worked much with other databases other than SQL Server. But one time I had to work with Oracle and MySQL, I had trouble getting a good enough client (like SQL Server Management Studio) even though I was ready to pay.

May be it's my personal preference, I tried many clients (TOAD, DBArtisan, SQL Developer, SQL Plus etc.) and found that none was as polished (not that i'm mentioning functional) and integrates well with Windows as the one from Microsoft.

It's off topic, but the same applies for Visual Studio and other IDEs.
This will have no effect on patent trolling whatsoever.
Forgot to mention: It also lists video content authors and their reputations based on their popularity (the links their videos get.)
I found your comment to be vague and I asked for clarification while citing a specific concern. The fact that you mentioned a law professor and political capital is mostly meaningless. Due to my employment I see all kinds of issues related to undocumented workers and all kinds of violations of immigration and employment law. Legally most undocumented workers have little to no options. A family petition if they are lucky, leaving the country and applying for re-entry if they aren't. That's an oversimplification, but not much.

Edit: Thanks for the clarification and the reason for being vague. I understand your intent much more clearly now.
Canada job opportunities for those outside Canada?
I'd really love to work and perhaps immigrate to Canada, and was wondering if HN'ers from Canada are hiring (seeing as I'm hearing it's much more immigrant-friendly than the US)!
What exactly has he conned you out of? He paid his taxes, he contributed to American society. It seems pretty clear that he put in more than he took. Who's losing by having him here?
He meant bubble as in 'echo-chamber', and in that sense of the word it isn't overused.

It's not outlandish or absurd to design something you might want, but it is a bit silly to ignore a larger market with the same underlying need.
Syntevo products (SmartSVN, SmartGit, SmartSynchronize) are actually bearable. I started using SmartSVN back when I used to use three platforms for desktop (Win, Linux, Mac) interchangeably and continued using it for subversion after moving to Mac.
Won't see myself using SmartGit though (we are moving to git). Will stick to command line with occasional launch of GitX or other native client.
We built the Mac app because 1) we wanted it 2) to learn how a desktop client should work prior to tackling other platforms.

Beyond that, one-third of our traffic uses Macs. It's not a small market for us.
Just as a side note, make sure you had SQL browser service running! It is not running by default on some setups
Riak, PostgreSQL, MySQL
So how many people sold crack here, or at least bought?
The MeeGo platform is pretty open source. You can see the components the N9 uses here: http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com/unstable/beta/Fremantle_Updat... (lots of cool stuff if you're a Linux geek).

Nokia's "UX" and built in apps, however, are not open source.
Does the lack of websockets in most users browsers also cripple the web? Node's plenty good at HTTP. In fact it's excellent at HTTP. In any case, they are pretty clear about what it will take to get them to add it.
YQL goes a little way in this direction, but I think all yahoo products should have a public API.

Then we can have mashups created by the public, and then Yahoo can pick and choose.
I was kinda hoping that this was a law about Dutch cookies. Oh well, a boy can dream.
So is 192 the magic number? As long as we get 192 samples, we have enough data for our experiment!
Your services can be spread out across as many apps as you want.

If you need more than 4 services, you can simply purchase more - no need to upgrade to enterprise.
The Illusion of Productivity
What do you think of MarkLogic?
I think what may have thrown some people off is your usage of the word "scheme". For myself, it elicits more negative connotations and throws off the message somewhat without spending more brain cycles.
Well, there are classic geeks here, and there are "business geeks" :-) To me, the article looked like a user's report of the pleasure of using the N9, with a few comments about the product "winning" or being "dead on arrival" because everything has to be related back to making money, a typical (and tiresome) business geek compulsion. When you look at it that way, his personal experience using the N9 is real topic of the post and the only real content, and the rest is just a nervous tic that can be discarded without any loss in meaning.

No offense meant, by the way, I just wanted to point out that everybody has different priorities when reading these posts.
How is he cheating me or you? What is he taking away from you?
Ask HN: Should I force users to validate their email address after signing up?
I develop browser extensions that require people to create an account on my website in order to customize the extensions' behavior.

A while back, someone told me I should simplify the registration process in order to improve the number of signups.
So I only ask for an email address, first name, last name, and password. And there's no email validation.

Turns out that about 50% of the account created are never used. So I email people a few times:
- after one week to ask them if there was a problem
- after two weeks to offer a free trial of the paid upgrade
- after one month with a short user survey

It appears that less than 5% of these emails generate an action from the inactive users.
Is this normal ?
Are most people entering fake email addresses ? Are most of my emails blocked by spam filters ?

Should I force user to click a link sent to their mailbox right after registering ?
Would that help my future emails go through their spam filter ?

I would love to have your opinion on this...
Thanks!
How and who is he cheating? You think he's not paying taxes? You think he's contributing to overloaded social services?

From what I can tell he's not working under table. (i.e. taxes are being withheld and paid on behalf of whatever social security number he's using.) And he obviously was unable to avail himself of college financial help due to his immigration status, so it seems pretty unlikely that he's able to be a drain on many other social programs.

So how he is cheating me?
Very surprising thing is the upward change in Microsoft SQL Server, that too in HN.

On a lighter note, does this support the theory of HNers who complain that HN is not the same any more and it has been generalized?
Patents.

Now that Microsoft has no longer the antitrust ghost to haunt them, they are free to do a lot of nasty things.
You disagreed with the point which I never made ("spacing produces clutter"), putting words into my mouth ("you argue").
My credit card is through Fidelity, here's the link:

http://personal.fidelity.com/products/checking/content/inves...
I haven't used GitHub extensively but from what I was understanding the whole control via terminal was a quite educational thing on its own.

I am planning to start using it though so I wanted to ask, should I stick to the terminal or am I making a big deal out of nothing?
The employee would have three days to bring in documents showing work eligibility. If after three days the employee couldn't do so the employer would no longer be able to offer any benefits (employment, health insurance etc). You can call USCIS if you want confirmation on that process.
There is an implementation of exact real arithmetic that has been verified in in Coq[1] and also an implementation in Haskell[2] which may or may not do what you want to do.

It really does depend on what you want to compute. For instance, I can provide a simple implementation in Haskell that includes addition, multiplication and square roots:
data Real = Real

add :: Real -> Real -> Real
add _ _ = Real

multiply :: Real -> Real -> Real
multiply _ _ = Real

squareRoot :: Real -> Real -> Real
squareRoot _ _ = Real

zero :: Real
zero = Real

one :: Real
one = Real

but it isn't very interesting as you can't print things or test for equality...Any implementation of real numbers that includes those is going to be much harder[3].

[1]http://videolectures.net/aug09_spitters_oconnor_cvia/
[2]http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Exact_real_arithmetic
[3]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarskis_undefinability_theorem
While I have worked a heroics shop and learned to not do that again, I got a completely different read of that. It is a PG real artist ship speach not a to the death, or for queen and country speach.
A Phony Tale of Woe
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I think it would be fair to say that Jet (Microsoft Access) is a least as much a database as SQLite.
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