skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The very phrasing of the question betrays the author's weak understanding of the subject. Of course games aren't art. Games are a medium.

And like any modern medium, it can be used to make art such as the game We the Giants, or the film Un Chien Andalou. It can also be used to make things that some might not consider to be purely art but that at least indisputably contain a lot of art, such as most any RPG or Hollywood movie. And of course there's also your straight-up entertainment - a sports game or a sports broadcast.
Left out the fact that Schema-changing operations are transactional (big win over MySQL).

[Edit: In migrations, specifically. Also! No mention of the MySQL dual-license JDBC driver malarky... Not that it's a success of Postgres' as much as it's a failure of MySQL's... ]

I'd never heard of Window Functions (not an Oracle user, and been on MySQL for a few years... left Postgres for replication and haven't made it back quite yet).. but I desperately want them. The idea of effectively aggregating over groups in a group by (which is how I understand these Window doohickeys) is something I come up on a few times a year and get really frustrated by.

I think the only killer feature I'm left wanting from some RDBMS at this point is managed-sequences... The idea that I have a related list of things that I want to keep a sequence column for, and would like the database to understand the concept and help me maintain it.
Does not work with local area network. I've tried to ssh on my VM.
I'm ignorant of hedge funds, so can't comment. I have read many laments from institutional investors about being screwed; they're the shareholders I'm thinking of (eg my county's investment manager, the team managing my 401k).

I'm aware of the "low information voter" problem. And yet I'm a pollyanna. I believe (as a matter of faith) that high quality information leads to high quality decisions.

Given the choice between corporate rule (oligarchy) and mob rule, I guess I'd side with the mob.
A quicker mnemonic for me is that the white arrows are multiplying by 3 mod 7, which is an equivalent operation to multiplying by 10 mod 7.
Wow some of the content there is great. Forget about searching the deep web. For me deep is the real gems buried under the first 100 or so results where stuff actually gets interesting!
Yes, this. Though, this is also the case with any other app you may hand your credentials to.

FWIW, it was reviewed internally by Google security people before going live.
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Right, but I think the analogy was not comparing that kind of band to a startup. Following the analogy that's more like open source contributors. They do it because they enjoy the craft and want to make something they will enjoy and feel proud of, they know/hope that there will be fans when they do what they feel they should.

VC funded startups are exactly like a band that says "what should I sound like? What should our next song be? How do we get more listeners really fast?". They need a hit record to even have a chance of making a return on the investment that's been put in, so they better be making a top 40 song (or a mobile social media sharing app/site).

I think I was wrong about your view of music being naive, i think we were just comparing different types of bands and startups here. Match up manufactured record label band and VC funded startup and they match quite well. I have some family and aquaintances who've worked as record execs and you better believe they look at it as a customer oriented problem solving. None of them like the music they push all that much, if they like music at all, they just know how to find/make music that sells.
Yeah, I just managed to embarrass myself in half a dozen IRC channels. More so than usual.
as the day SSH became vulnerable to CSS cross-domain exploits :)
That was it?
Sounds like Hulu Plus customers won't be required to be cable subscribers, right? Can anybody confirm this?

If this is the case, than this move doesn't really matter as any free watchers can simply start paying $8/mo (instead of $50+ for cable).
Was the test successful? Rather underwhelming visually.
But this is due to the larger forces of supply and demand for US treasury bills. So it's the US's role as an empire that makes its sovereign debt demanded by nations with less solid foundations.

The US enjoys this position largely b/c of its size but also b/c of the frequent policymaking folly that occurs in other nations.

The only thing that can impose true discipline on this process is the existence of competition.... it's the only thing that could decrease demand for US Treasury bills.

It's obvious that we're not currently experiencing hyper-inflation, but the configuration of the world that will allow the trend to continue becomes less certain the further things get extended.

Imagine someone issues you a credit card with a $1 per month minimum payment. As long as you can keep getting the limit increased you'll surely be able to make the payment each month, no matter what other spending you do. The US is able to keep borrowing and borrowing, and its creditors are very lenient b/c they lack a better option.
I believe it because my food bill has increased approximately 50% in 3 years and gas prices are at the same level as during the bubble in 2008 but with a much more subdued economy. I don't understand how an article with an NGDP chart and some fancy hand waving negates this.
Do Chromebooks ship with a terminal application? If not, that would be a good use case.
The whole "Chrome as OS" thing will benefit from this.
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http://www.gamesozo.com/2012/04/farm.html
The author (rginda, http://www.hacksrus.com/~ginda/) is a Google Chrome developer. You're probably already trusting his code by running Chrome.
Even worse, it was just a 2 second test.
Which part about "STATIC FIRE TODAY" did you miss?
According to their twitter, yes. "SUCCESS - 2 second burn!"

http://twitter.com/#!/spacex
Any good hacker will code around bullshit.
Yeah I kinda felt that too, but then I thought "that's a spaceship!"
Can you refute the point that we can't have positive job growth and negative real GDP? Then how is overall inflation more than 2-3%?
Assuming that the article is dead-on about everything (which it certainly isn't), Google won't be MySpace-dead. The interesting thing about Google is that they've gone way beyond mere business models. Google is making AR glasses. Google is making autonomous cars. Google is creating new programming languages. These aren't bottom line things; these are "enhance the world" things.

If Google "disappears", they'll turn into an IBM or a Microsoft. Not even Amazon is quite at that level. And Facebook is absolutely not at that level. Maybe one day, but not yet. Being a Zuckerberg hater, I don't expect it to ever happen.
Yeah, all the water and steam obscures the view... They did say "good static fire" before ending, though.
The best part of that article is the list.

"Ronny Conway – Andreessen Horowitz"

Uh, what?
This app is part of a small whitelist of apps that can make this type of connection. It's a temporary solution though. The Chrome team is working on ways to make the functionality more widely available.
Removing Wikipedia might be a mistake. Otherwise, it's great.
"SUCCESS - 2 second burn!"

http://twitter.com/#!/SpaceX/status/197056890595852289
Short answer but probably extremely cliche: working on something I have personal interest in.
No. from the page "It uses Native-Client to connect directly to ssh servers without the need for external proxies." it IS a ssh client. no http proxies.
Audio Engineer Andy VanDette On Remastering 15 Rush Albums
Show HN: A basic Coffeescript tool for displaying if a store is open/closed
It shows the problem with using tags <or metadata> for ranking rather than considering the source of the information.

Yahoo became the goto portal because the quality of their links was high. Google overtook them because metadata was the only practical way to keep up with the pace at which the web was expanding.

However, after more than a decade of SEO, it's limitations are evident as the long tail gets increasingly harder to reach with search engines based on the Google model, e.g. "Purchase empiricist philosophers on eBay."

My suspicion is that Google is abandoning neutral search for personalized search in part because of the problems SEO represents when it comes to neutral searching and personal tracking provides an algorithmic way of establishing the quality of results for ranking purposes. One which is easier than attempting to develop a neutral curation algorithm.
Fundraising disclosed to date:

1/18/2012 $0.01 of Common

1/31/2012 $34,105.20 of Common

1/31/2012 $665,000 Convertible note

1/31/2012 $249,133 Preferred stock

4/20/2012 $150,000 Convertible note

This is not comprehensive, so there may well be financing not yet disclosed. Also, they're represented by Wilson Sonsini, in case anyone cares.

[edit: formatting]
Ubuntu 12.04 – a controversial release for the makers of Ubuntu?
Taking the absurd seriously...

I dabble in a blog featuring $1 meals. I get snide quips from people criticizing "oh, but are you taking costs of running a gas/electric stove into account? betcha haven't taken THAT into account!" So...several meals posted (or coming soon) are indeed cooked over an open fire of random deadwood.

So lighten up. The query is a half-serious challenge to go a step further. Those of us who HAVE lived without Internet for significant periods know it's not that big a deal (though not trying to trivialize it either) and think a good comparable exercise IS to shut off the main breaker, shred the credit cards, and shift into a lower gear for a while. Sounds harsh to some, sounds like a delightful challenge to others.
What's your job / how do you pay your bills?
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it's a toy for now. don't over think it. But it have fun possibilities.
Looks like it. This is extremely exiting stuff in general but I agree with you on this stream in particular.
I'm guessing if you have a chrome book it would be a nice solution.
The mission to the ISS is scheduled for May 7th [1]. Exciting times!

[1] http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/30/11472882-wat...
You can connect to a remote audio server. I've used this feature to output sound from my laptop through my desk speakers even when my laptop is unplugged from its docking station.
Any links to past talks?
Congress won't touch employer-provided health care, because providing health care to employees is a popular corporate tax break.

As to third party insurance: Yes, technically you can buy third-party insurance. But, no, it really isn't a remotely functional market. In short, if you don't really need the insurance, you can probably get reasonable coverage. But if you actually need it, it will be too late and nothing will be remotely affordable and/or cover much.
Not a typo. Ronny Conway is Ron Conway's son.
Hehe yeah not quite as thunderous as a Saturn :P
But consider this like the rocket version of a Prius :)
Please forgive a tiny bit of snark. I've long heard that if aspirin had been discovered today, the FDA would have never allowed it to be sold OTC to people. Along those lines, in aviation there's a saying: Wilbur and Orville would have never gotten permission to build the Wright flyer if they applied last year.

I'm a vitamin junkie (Don't pick on me, it's my FSM), so I've been taking low-dose aspirin for over a decade now. If I remember my health-nut mythology correctly, the theory is that inflammation (and especially inflammation related to blood sugar spikes) is believe to be a contributing factor to a lot of bad stuff: diabetes, cancer, aging, and so on.

Interesting to see aspirin continuing to make the news. Amazing drug.
I remember back 15 years ago or so when I was a kid visiting Chrysler's proving grounds testing facility there were some self-driving mini vans that had robotic drivers. They were driving (I think) on predefined paths and not on the open road.

I know nothing more about them but it is evidence that people at car companies have not been totally ignoring the concept.
I get the part about not using the internet. Easy enough. But not using the internet & still getting stuff done? That I'd like to see.
Project Oberon. The Design of an  Operating System  and Compiler
Odd that they don't mention this at all, but this article seems like it was either cut-and-pasted from several sources, or written in a rush.

(Why would you ever end an article with something like "Comcast’s own NBCUniversal, for example, has a patchwork approach to authentication." as your last sentence?)
Google engineer creates Android + NFC beer tap, KegDroid
I welcome the well-tested, never-tiring, unimpaired, highly predictable, self-driving AIs! :-)

No more drunk drivers, no more mothers dealing with their kids while driving, city buses whose drivers don't need breaks, rental cars that drive themselves from their lot to your house (they pick you up instead of you picking them up), 100% automated home food/parcel delivery, etc.

The future is awesome.
A couple second delay before my car permits me to open the door? No thanks...
Links to Wikipedia could appear in a separate box near the top...it should be this way on Google and Bing as well...because Wikipedia is either exactly what someone wants or exactly what they don't want.
What's the trouble with PostgreSQL's sequence support? (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/interactive/sql-createseq...)
The implication is that it is more important to adjust one's perception of the actions of others than it is to alter the actions of others.
It seems like every post from this blog gets autoposted to HN.
This is the first off-brand search engine I've seen that's, in some sense, cooler than Google.

For one thing, the huge miasma of spam websites that dominates the SERPs just isn't there -- I hope this lights a fire under Google's butt and people see another world is possible.
All this with a team of only THREE. Socialcam really is following in Instagram's footsteps.
Not really. You write pacman as the lecturer tells you, the templates and direction (s)he gave you are not yours.

After two weeks sweat, take what you have learnt and write a game using pygame, or a browser based seduction game using anonymous twitter accounts and pinterest images. Anything really.

That's yours, the skills you have learnt are yours. Thank your lecturer publicly when you IPO
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I think this would only be true for school projects or for research.

Most projects are relatively shallow and uninteresting--they're great for learning, but not good testaments of your skill. The sort of projects professors are going to worry about are the sort where you get an extremely detailed spec and a bunch of code to start from, and all you have to do is fill in the blanks. This sort of project is great for grading--everybody basically writes the same thing--but pretty meaningless otherwise.

If you have a really open-ended project where you get to come up with your own design and code everything yourself, I really doubt a professor would stop you from posting it. I'm working on a project like that right and the professor encourages us to open-source it.

If you're doing research, you may also have issues with copyright. I'm not sure you will, but it's plausible. However, at the very least, you'll be able to link to your papers, which is also good. That said, the research projects my friends are working on are all up on GitHub, so it clearly isn't an issue there.

Finally, especially as a student, you should have some nice side projects outside of class. I don't think you would have any problems posting code that you worked on entirely by yourself. And this is exactly the code that is most interesting.
"Additional HTTP Status Codes" is now RFC 6585" - Roy T. Fielding
Any idea what show that was?
I like to think of it as maximizing the following equation. How fast is my main vim going to be * percent of my vim editing time vs. how fast a one off system is * performance penalty for sometimes trying the functions that you have in the main system * the percentage time spent editing in that system.

I find that the most time is spent for me in my main vim session on my computer and the ancillary servers do not need the more advanced text editing features because I am just not in them that often.
While I respect the pragmatic nature of your argument, I think it's important to understand not just the limit of the system but the underlying mechanisms.

If increasing the money supply is "free", then why not just increase it a whole bunch this year and end poverty?

I think the view you express implicitly puts too much trust in policymakers and assumes the system under study to be more stable than we really have evidence to believe it is. Incidentally it is precisely those two characteristics that led to the crash a few years ago.
Is there a software that balances databases on different servers just like mongodb sharding works, by range? So for example i have a SaaS and each customer has 1 database. And the databases are migrated from one server to another automatically? If not is there something similar? Thanks
The readability can be improved a lot:
* The grey text has very low contrast.
* The color coding seems arbitrary
* I would indicate links use a blue text, and remove the turquoise box.

You don't want the CV to take the reader's attention from the content and answering the question - "do I want to hire this person?"
I think no one here assumes Chopra speaks with any authority as to the physiology of the brain. Yes, he's a doctor - of internal medicine with a specialism in endocrinology, but that hardly qualifies him to discuss the brain. That being said, I think the key to understanding the brain physically is to read this book:
An Anatomy of Thought: The Origin and Machinery of the Mind
by Ian Glynn

And to understand the inner workings of the brain and how it theoretically functions:

Society of Mind
by Marvin Lee Minsky

I believe the idea that the mind is just a "set of agents" is best explained in "Society of Mind".
You're right, typical "cut and paste" journalism. Useless article.

I cut the cable over a year ago and I don't regret it at all. I now have $48 for DSL, Hulu plus, Netflix, and Amazon Prime, and I'm paying much less than I was for cable and the selection of shows on hulu plus is just awesome. I particularly love the selection of BBC shows.

Cable TV is dead to me.
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An essential premise of his argument is that real GDP can't decline if jobs are being added. So if jobs are being added, and they seem to be, then real GDP growth must be positive. Real GDP growth is nominal GDP growth (4%) minus inflation, so inflation must be no more than 4% to keep real GDP growth positive.

"Let's try a thought experiment. If inflation really is 10 percent, that implies that real GDP fell around 6 percent last year. How bad is that? That's roughly where the economy was in the first quarter of 2009. Basically, complete free-fall. And thanks to Okun's Law -- which relates real GDP and unemployment -- we can guesstimate what that would mean for jobs. A back-of-the-envelope estimate says that unemployment should have risen between 3 and 4 percent in that scenario. Instead, we added 1.899 million jobs in the last year."

But of course jobs and production (GDP) do not need to grow in lockstep. This assumes that productivity is constant. If productivity is falling, then production could be declining even as the number of jobs increases.

For example, if the star employee (say Steve Jobs) of your company (Apple) no longer works there, your company may still suffer a production loss even if several employees are hired to replace the star. This is a case where production can fall even as employment increases.
Why would anyone want Wikipedia in search results is beyond me. If I want to read a Wikipedia article, I can just search Wikipedia itself. I know the kind of information it has, so there is no point in "ranking" it against other websites.
OT: the NY Post's website has absolutely awful advertisements. Embarrassing for a company that many would consider a major, reputable news agency.
Just out of curiosity: why do you plan on keeping your personal projects closed source?
Well, "making art for hire" is not exactly the same as "being paid for your art".

The former is when you already have a buyer lined up before you start working. For example, a rich man in the Renaissance era might ask an artist to make him a sculpture of Bacchus fucking Ariadne. (You'd be surprised how many renowned artists were paid to make porn for rich folks.) In that case, the buyer might pay for the block of marble and cover the artist's expenses while he sculpts, in addition to paying him a handsome fee for his work. But then the buyer also has a direct influence on every aspect of the end product. If the buyer wants the girl in the sculpture to look like his underage mistress, it's going to happen even if the artist thinks it's a bad idea.

The latter is a broader concept, and it includes the case where you produce something first and then look for buyers. Novelists often work in this way, spending years to perfect their works without any buyer lined up. Some people who have no problem with this broader concept might still be uncomfortable about the narrower case of "making for hire", because of the direct influence that the buyer's spec has on the product. If you build it first and then look for buyers, at least you have a chance to show people that they might want to do things in a way they never even thought of before.
Yes, we did in fact end up having to create a US company for stripe. I can still say that the kickstarter policy drove our decision to create our own payment system now though.

The way we handle it is by creating a US company that acts as our "publisher" and does a 30%/70% revenue split with us. We need to have an "arms length agreement" with the company to avoid paying double tax, so the reason we use 30%/70% is because we can prove precedent for it with other publishing deals (ie; The app store) which is a requirement for such deals.

We then pay all the expenses that we incur in US dollars (server hosting, bandwidth etc) from the US companys 30%. Doing this actually saves us the currency conversion fees as well (Which are especially nasty from credit cards). Anything left over in that company we can dump into advertising once we are really released.

After that, the 70% that comes to NZ is just normal income with nothing special about it and we can use it to pay our staff and (hopefully) our founders one day!

Could we have used this setup for kickstarter? Perhaps, but after we decided to go it alone, we realised that it was time for our own billing system anyway (as we will need it at release) and having that stuff rock solid before then would have non-trivial value for us.
That's right. But Secure Shell also knows how to connect to an HTTP-to-ssh relay.
1. the site is not hosted in the US. (or UK)

2. The decision is for ISP. So no argument regarding the piratebay is valid at all.

3. The ISPs are not fitting into any of those rules.

4. If ISPs must block access to the pirate bay, then it must block access to every connection that would infrige a law if the territorial barrier were removed. In this case, a US/UK person accessing something that is illegal in the US/UK but not illegal where the pirate bay is being hosted.

consequences of number 4 would include:

AT&T DSL will have to block access from California residents to http://dmv.ny.gov/, as that site promote speed limits and GPS placement on the windshield that are illegal in california.
> Not paying bills online, not making plans over email, etc., etc.

If he's married, I'd wager 90% of those things will still get done over the internet; but instead of clicking a mouse, he'll ask his wife.
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