skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://blog.zacharyvoase.com/2010/02/03/django-project-conve...

Is much more complete IMHO
"The reason we didn't have direct democracy before is because it wasn't practical before "

Is simply not true. Why did we (and by we I mean land owning white men) vote for congressmen directly but not senators or the president? Obviously the mechanism for voting was in place, but they did not use it for 2 of the 3 federal offices. They were specifically trying to distance the choice of president and senators from the poeple. It was only later that the voting base was expanded, people started voting directly for senators and the president (and technically, it's still a little indirect to the president).
> It also has a single feature that I find incredibly cool: it supports automatically generated row IDs. It's been a while since I last tried Oracle and Postgres, but at the time you had to create a second table just for a sequence number and it was extremely awkward to handle.

Must have been a while indeed. Postgres's SERIAL datatype has been available at least since 6.4. Postgres 6.4 was released in 1998.
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Yes (that's noted in the gist). But the end result's the same, instead of writing AUTOINCREMENT you write SERIAL. That's about it, the only issue may happen if you drop the table (the sequence will not be dropped, not a huge issue in practice)
I try to add value to the world as well. I don't see how those things are exclusive?

And yes, it is very selfish. I try to optimize for my own happiness. Which includes helping others, being nice, adding value, doing things that make life less fun in the short term but better in the long term.
It will be very interesting to see how this approach will work with dictated speech.

Also let's not forget that the word-level error rate can be reduced by using statistical data about words sequences.
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Please not another like button. I long for a time when there wasn't 6 or 7 like buttons for different websites on every blog article screaming "Pick me! Pick me!" and causing visual clutter.

At a former company I worked at our CTO likened our product which had many warts to a machine with many levers. He then went on to compare our customers to monkeys that we had trained to pull the levers in the right order. Pull them in the wrong order and you get an electric shock or something.

Every time I see a cluster of like buttons on a web page I think of monkeys and levers.

This functionality could totally be implemented on the server end. When you submit a link it could tell you that the story was already submitted and when.

Wishing the like buttons would just go out of fashion...
MySQL was popular for the same reason No-SQL is - it lacked features, but it was fast as hell with no tuning. Postgres did more, so it had to be slower, and it was tuned to work on minimal resources (and not steal all your RAM). Like MongoDB today, MySQL was tuned to work fast, at the costs of both reliability, and being a poor citizen on a shared host.

There are other factors - you could limit its use of disk space (so hosts liked it), but mostly it was a good key-value store with some database functionality.

People who wanted a "real" database used Postgres. People who wanted to write a web app used MySQL.
Did you notice any differences in performance?

Edit: I'm not saying there are, but it feels like there might be some repercussions when you take the underlying implementation into account. It would be interesting to know if someone conducted comparative tests about this.
Damn, I've been using vim for almost a decade and didn't realize that /<term> worked as a movement so you can do things like y2/foo and yank to the second occurrence of “foo” (to use the example from the tutorial).

That's why I scan every beginner vim tutorial that comes across hn. I always learn something
> It also had a reputation for being faster then PostgreSQL

It was indeed much faster when reading (probably still is on MyISAM) due to the lack of everything (especially transactions and any concept of data integrity).
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Meh. They're not focusing on software as in printer drivers. They're focusing on software as in enterprise architecture and professional services. There, 600 MB is the basic client demo you put together in half a day.
Did they actually replace the HMM with a neural network? I'm only going by the abstract, but it seems that they just replaced the usual Gaussian mixture models with their neural networks.

The link in the article didn't work for me; I'm referring to: https://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=153...
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Thanks for recommending my article. I'd also recommend this other one:

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> PostGre

It has never been named "PostGre".

Its original name was Postgres, the current one is PostgreSQL with Postgres the accepted nickname.
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"Logic programming is a cool idea, but not that useful for most things"

Except that many regard Prolog as a precursor that little used language SQL.
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We don't write comments like this here.

Ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2934523

Are you genuinely trying to be funny or is this OK coming from you on HN?

Sorry if this appears kvetchy, but clearly I need to get the rules around here straight before I open my mouth again.
The article seems to ask how to define a referential term without using reference (i.e. left/right, up/down, clockwise/anti-clockwise, without reference to a static point). Using the example of radio waves, if I wanted to express a basic kind of reference I would start by using pitch (e.g. low pitches to high).

For direction (left vs right), I would broadcast a "beam", increasing in strength on one side, so hopefully an intelligent enough civilization could measure that from "left" to "right" the beam got stronger, perhaps again using pitch to help guide. The problem then would be conveying whether they should follow the broadcast "left to right" or the received "left to right" (i.e. imagine someone holding up their left hand, do they mean your left hand, as in match them, or your right hand, as in mirror them).
Sql is slightly older than Prolog. They may have come from similar roots. And sql is used as an embedded subset not a whole systems programming language.
Feynmann discusses this problem in one of his lectures on symmetry. He seemed to suggest that chirality of any physical system was relative, though you may have to down to the subatomic level to completely reverse everything.

If I recall correctly, this segment ended urging listeners to beware of new friends who, after hearing about all our customs, reach out to shake with the wrong hand.
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If you don't mine me asking, how old are you and how are you currently making money? I'm assuming you saved some for a bit before you left wherever you used to live. I'd actually be interested in anything you have to say.
The real problem with measuring real things is that real things have infinite dimensions. You can only measure along a limited number of dimensions, and if you want to make a ranking you can only directly compare one (scalar) dimension at a time.

So in the end you will always get overoptimization over those dimensions you are measuring, to the detriment of the other dimensions. I don't think there is a better solution than continuously changing the dimensions of measurement.
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Google has already said that they will release the ICS source code.
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I didn't realise the TAC ads had come through to you blokes - the times I've visited I've only seen ads like the pinky ones. I stand corrected. The pinky ads are still stupid, though - as if the problematic young blokes are going to respond to that :)
People who do something that changes their lives for the better usually enjoy letting other people know how they can try to do the same thing. It's exciting for the person who succeeded, so they want to show others "the way." It may come off as elitist, but I think it's just excitement.
I kind of second the earlier replier with not really liking the attitude here:

>It works, and it's a marvel of engineering, but it's not "artificial intelligence." It's pretty much a big stack of statistical hacks piled up over the years.

>The nice thing is that a deep belief network can figure out a lot of this structure automatically, much closer to how the brain works.

Really, the brain works very much like a neural net? I was under the impression it was hacked together by the statistical process known as evolution stacked over many years... I'm wondering if this idea of "this time it's not a mere math hack!" is a case of the 'Lemon Glazing Fallacy': http://lesswrong.com/lw/vv/logical_or_connectionist_ai/

I do agree with you that it's hardly a leap forward. Marketing is fun.
Gave up on the article when he renamed Pluto. Feels like a rant, reads like a rant and it's nothing but a rant on how Cocoa is great compared to HTML5 and calls that "Linuxification".

Call me back when every phone runs Cocoa apps.
Have you looked at Tree Style Tabs[1]?

I think it fits right in with your characterization of tabs as frozen stacks of information. It takes the concept even further by visualizing the relationship between tabs. I compulsively open stuff in background tabs, and it's very nice to have those tabs as children to the originating tab. In part because it lets me kill a parent tab along with all children, but without affecting anything else, with a few clicks. It also lets me drag a whole thread of tabs to a new window or bookmark it etc. etc. Finally, having a vertical tab list makes efficient use of wide-screen displays and you can still read useful amounts of the page title even with 25+ tabs.

Oh and here's another one that might be even more useful to you, with your emphasis on the browser history: Tab History Redux[2]. Tabs opened from links (e.g. via mouse3) retain the history of the originating tab. Yeah. This is one of those things which I can't understand why it hasn't been part of all browsers for years. It just makes sense.

Both addons work fine in Firefox Nightly (9) with forced compatibility using the Add-on Comaptibility Reporter[3].

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-history-r...

[3] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compat...
Yes, the whole first half of the article I kept thinking it was a comparison between OSX Cocoa applications and browser web apps. I guess I'm just old-school for not assuming mobile nowadays.
We run into this situation in programming quite a bit. The answer is refactoring: taking the principles and patterns that work, streamlining them, ditching the cruft that works for a few edge cases but mostly gets in the way, simplifying the underlying metaphor of the system, and re-asssembling.

The only way to do this with much larger systems, such as systems of governance, is revolution or exploring new lands. Personally I'm a bit concerned about revolution -- the assumption with refactoring is that the people refactoring understand what the "good" parts are and what the "bad" parts are. They also need to be able to generalize and simplify in order to keep the system cognitively approachable. In my experience, it's very easy to be angry-tear-down-the-system guy, very difficult to actually refactor. As the author points out, it's not that these systems are entirely useless. The hell of the thing is that the reasons for creating these systems are still very valid.

I remain convinced that programmers (hackers) have a lot to add to the discussion when talking about complex, brittle systems. After all, we spend a lot of time both working with them and fixing them. To me, programming and systems architecture is applied philosophy. Very cool stuff.
> It's easy to forget that there are more praiseworthy goals in the world than having a successful social network when that's what everyone actually praises.

I became depressed the day when realized that some of most bright engineers working for one of the most unique companies of our times spent their time and energy and intellectual resources on cloning a social network (google+ vs. FB). And I'm not really claiming that they should save the world or anything, I'm just saying that with the huge amount of data that they have gathered so far and considering the human capital they have available they could start answering a lot of very interesting questions, which gave bugged us as an intelligent species for quite a long time (think linguistics-related issues, for example).
Tests...
As the comments in the original article (and the HN-thread about it) shows that many finds that chrome is _vastly_ superior to firefox in this regard for real world scenarios (where you actually leave your browser on for long periods etc.).
Firefox profiles do exactly what you want.
I didn't read the study I mentioned, just had it related to me by one of the folks involved. You raise a good point, perhaps it may have been hard to determine that very gradual change of opinions of drunk driving as being a large factor - certainly seat belts and the introduction of the TAC ads produced significantly improved road toll numbers in a short period of time, hence are more easily noted.
> "We're going to concentrate on our core competency, software."

And we're going to do it by dropping the premiere retail project that contains software we wrote ourselves.
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They've also been in business for 30 years (founded 1981)

SEOMoz has been in business since 1981? Wow.. what did they optimize for back then - library catalogs?
While I really like DuckDuckGo and wish them success and more press I found this 'interview' very superficial and uninteresting. I wish people would stop up-voting stuff like this.
Calculators became their primary focus because they became profitable.
> Today it is feasible to directly poll everybody about every issue, so we no longer need the proxy. If you say everyone cannot be educated about every issue, fine, I can "follow" PG's votes on wall street reform and grellas's votes on IP tort reform [...]

You'd love Hyperarchy (http://blog.hyperarchy.com/2011/07/19/hyperarchy-democracy-f...)
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It is good to see this but it is also an indictment against Django that there is no one, true way to get it all set up. Since everything is a python module it really does not matter how everything is configured, only that it can be found somewhere on the path, however this causes a great deal of confusion when getting started that leads to a lot of frustation until the module penny drops.
You should try to be close to your clients.
If we can bank online, we can vote online.

Only if you ignore that pesky anonymous voting problem. I want my bank to know exactly what transactions I made when, and keep detailed logs of those transactions. I don't want some government body have detailed logs of exactly how I voted.
Speaking of mod_wsgi, what's the best replacement for nginx?
What would be awesome was if there was a corresponding Map which showed where in the ocean the image is coming from -
Zen monks _are_ celibate. Forming a family and having kids is a choice, it's not a random constraint that falls down on you from the sky.
What I would love (and suppose I should make) is a CodeAcademy sequence for vi.
Thanks, I didn't realise they had a montage... gets a bit hectic there in the middle.
I would use the phenomenon of the "right hand rule" from electrical engineering as the frame of reference. This is a universal chirality inherent in the use of electronics. And if we're communicating with them via radio waves, we can safely assume they're comfortable with the domain.

Of course, that is assuming that they don't exist in some sort of weird bubble of the universe that operates with antimatter instead of regular matter (and is therefore using some mysterious positron-based "electricity"). I suppose if that were the case, our rendezvous would be disastrous anyway, so destruction of the gate would probably be the best possible outcome...
Well, if someone would like to run some simple tests (Open the same test of, say, 50 tabs in Chrome and FF and leave them overnight) and then measure memory usage, then I'd be fascinated to see some concrete figures.
Anecdotal (read: personal) experience suggests that rich people are more likely to be minimalists. Case in point, my brother is extremely wealthy and even though he likes nice things, his houses are always very sparsely outfitted, his cars never have any personal stuff in them, everything is extremely clean and besides his laptop, he doesn't carry around any personal possessions.

Compared to that, I hardly scrape by in an absurdly small apartment, and until recently it was stuffed to the brim. My car is full of things. I'm a slob. And all the poor people I know are too. Recently, I have started to throw away or auction off a huge part of my stuff and it feels really liberating (how many computers does a person need, anyway).

I wonder if being poor triggers people to hoard and/or to prefer complicated items. For example, I observed that rich people tend to have really simple furniture that is reduced to its core function, whereas poor people tend to have complicated-looking things and a lot of them. Poor households are absolutely cluttered.
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I never thought looking at underwater lava formations could be so mesmerizing. I could easily spend an hour or more looking at that. Half of it is just lure of the ocean, and half of it is just the coolness of watching a live feed of a underwater robot from the comfort of my den at 5:00 AM.

I wonder if that's a stereoscopic camera. The depth of field looks good, but I had a problem gauging distance several times. Some formations, viewed straight on, looked small until the robot came around for a side view and I realized they were much bigger than I thought.
I went in thinking this would be about the process model gaining traction with the new release of Heroku only to find a rant on native vs mobile iOS apps. Horrible title.
I agree, the discussion here has immediately taken a technical dimension for the same reasons that engineers are really poor at evaluating the real world value and far-reaching social implications of the technology they create.

This is not an article about the technical difficulties of running today's Internet or email. It is about the transition from revolution to institution. Centralisation limits the disruptive potential of the Internet and in the long term will transform it from an enabling technology into another obstacle that needs to be overcome.

This is just another step in a long series of advancements that have transformed human existence: organised Agriculture, Centralised Government, The Written Word, The Legal System, Mathematics, Science, Democracy, Free Markets, Finance, The Industrial Revolution, Publishing, Education, Modern Medicine, Personal Automobiles, and the Mass Media. In the idealistic minds of the pioneers, the potential was evident and intentions often subversive. Today these have invariably matured into terribly inefficient monstrous empires that are fiercely resistant to innovation or new ideas. With the resources to move the world, why should they move for anyone?

Personal Computing and the Internet are new and exciting, the gatekeepers remain engineers because they are the only ones that seem to be able to get it to do anything. Despite the convenience argument, building a centralised infrastructure will lead to the inevitable takeover by the same maniacs that run everything else. Of course, it may take a few generations before Google's superbly engineered infrastructure is operated by a Manufacturing/Pharmaceutical/Petroleum/Media/Retail/Finance/Defense conglomerate whose alumni occupy every significant position in Government. Why should we bother?

"After this, let's build the biggest, most bad-ass super robot weapon ever because it's cool and fun, we'll use a master password because it's more convenient and surely that bully that eats all our lunches might be watching intently, but he's too stupid to understand advanced control theory."

That being said, I would like to work at Google, the smart kids building the biggest, most bad-ass super robot weapon ever.
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"To start with, you don't need as many semicolons."

Is this a cute way of saying you will end up with fewer lines of code to do the same thing, or that you just don't need to use semicolons?

I think if you're trying to convince someone to use a new language, you should be a little more clear.
My frustration with the freedom box is that the way they pitch it, it will only appeal to the nerdiest nerds. I think it's an awesome idea, but for it to make any impact it has to have better packaging.
It does. However warnings+strict are lexical so it will only apply to the module or scope where use Moose is put.
Sorry! It's really not meant to be a trick. The book is under a CC license. I provide the PDF version at Green Tea Press, the LaTeX source for anyone who wants to make a modified version, and a not very good HTML version (some of the math is broken). O'Reilly provides the printed and Kindle versions.

Right now all versions have the same content, but I will continue to revise, so you can think of the version on Green Tea Press as the draft of the second edition.

I know it can be confusing, but I hope the benefits of the free license make up for it.
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