skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Author here. Just a small explanation: target audience are mostly those who would like to add OLAP to their apps with simple multi-dimensional reporting needs (see trivial hello-world example [1]). This release brings new star/snowflake aggregation browser which can be (roughly) considered to your analytical data as ORM framework is to your transactional data - some magic happens between your code and the database that makes your life easier.

Visualisation is not yet included and will be added in modular form of "presenters" [2]. If anyone with web/JS skills would like to help, he is welcome, as my skills in this area is little bit weak. There is unmaintained and unfinished prototype of JavaScript front-end as well [3]. Flask based example of simple dimension browsing is included in the source [4].

If you need any help with model creation, you encounter any issues, have a suggestion let me know.

[1] https://github.com/Stiivi/cubes/blob/master/examples/hello_w...

[2] https://github.com/Stiivi/cubes/issues/53

[3] https://github.com/stiivi/cubes.js

[4] https://github.com/Stiivi/cubes/tree/master/examples/sandbox...
Thanks for the response. Yeah, most of the online materials seem to be very specific projects with code samples or just entirely reference (class listings and descriptions). It seems like the books are where you get into the deeper topics, but they get outdated relatively quickly.
Well, it's either true or it's not. I don't see how humility would change anything here.
That's more credit than I personally am willing to give the head of a cable company at this point. If they constantly act like they have no idea what is going on, perhaps indeed they don't.
I think Apple can be more open and be just as successful. I don't think they can be as open as Wozniak wants and still be successful.

Apple's biggest strength to me is timing and execution. They didn't invent the tablet, but they made it better and at a time when more people were ready for it.

I think the time is coming that being more open will be an advantage. Right now controlling your entire experience (to me) produces better products. I think Apple will patiently wait for the time and likely execute it correctly.
Yea, I get that on any 720p + movie. Basically any mkv that may have subtitle support.
Your body is transforming at this very moment through mitosis. Gradually, cell by cell and depending on what kind of activity you are performing you are becoming stronger, smarter, weaker or dumber. Regarding consciousness, my personal belief is that there is no continuity and it's more like the frame rate of a video or sample rate of a song.

You could read about the Buddhist concept of impermanence and the five aggregates of being which sounds similar to the idea of a metamorphosis, only not just human but everything changing all the time.
I read it correctly. My point was they _did_ cut and paste. The paragraphs are virtually identical. I was quoting him out of context to illustrate a point that he answered his own question.
The library analogy is spot on. I can't proclaim to know professional workspaces, but as a student, it's incredible how much more productive I am in a university library than alone in my own bedroom.

There's something about the hushed, low, but unmistakable presence of serious people in a grand room built and utilized for grand purposes. How could you resent working in a space like this?

http://harperlibrarycommons.uchicago.edu/
Would be great to have a kickstarter for suing dirtbags, like in this example. Classactionstarter or something...
"Not that you would" Implies that you could. I was pointing out that they could not, for two rather poignant reasons. I didn't mean to do it offensively, but the point is that syncing and managing the huge amount of data that they have would be difficult and impractical over the internet even today, and this was also 13 years ago. Especially then, maintaining a single "master" copy on a single linux machine was in fact a pretty decent solution to the problem.
Google Prices its Cloud SQL Offering
Fantastic! I'm definitely interested, kudos to Patricia and everyone else for the effort of setting this up!
Ok can someone help me out here, I'm going to the zoom version of it here:
http://gigapan.com/gigapans/103187

But it seems, well, quite underwhelming? I zoom in a bit and it just goes low res very quickly. I was expecting to be able to go a lot deeper.
Mitt Romney has a really funny 404 page
Were you paid? Or part of a "help a free project" endeavor ?
The question is not whether pirating a movie is morally right or wrong but rather "how much damage to the internet and the society are we willing to accept when chasing people who copy movies?". Having to pay a fine when you're caught copying a song is fine. Having to pay inflated damage claims (tens of thousands of dollars for a single song) is not. Monitoring large portions of the internet only to support an industry that missed a crucial point is not fine either. So that's why no one defending piracy shows up here: Since pretty much no one is defending piracy as "morally right."

(edit: fixed stupid autocorrection errors.)
"It portrayed the average Princeton/Yale/Harvard/Stanford student as extremely bright and morally earnest but ultimately rather uninspired and herd-like conformists."

Colleges go out of their way to select 'herd-like conformists' during the admissions process, so why would they then try to change them once they got there? This Brooks article never made any sense to me.
Unfortunately, in this case, the typos reinforce the idea this person is fundamentally disrespectful. Given that his comments here are part of a PR campaign, he should be taking more care with them in order to make the right impression.

I go by Michele -- with one L. It is my actual middle name. People routinely misspell it with two L's. Sometimes they realize it and apologize for the error. I have found that how someone reacts to being told it is one L says a lot about their character. Decent people are quick to offer sincere apologies. Assholes are quick to use it as a new excuse to piss all over me and make fun of me.
The attitude is prevalent in the design of many ORMs. I'm both a huge advocate of ORMs and of SQL. A good ORM provides a simple and direct mapping from storage to the object model. But most ORMs go beyond that and try to cover all the query and performance possibilities available from SQL. Some ORMs have their own text-based query language!

I've met developers who can happily (and effectively) work with an ORM but hardly even know SQL! They certainly don't know SQL well enough to use it in the situations were it would be most effective.

I'm starting to feel like really effective set-based understanding of SQL is becoming sort of a lost art.
Some responses from the Dart team: https://plus.google.com/115362263245161504841/posts/82jKeP4Y...
Are you an aggregator or a publication?

If you're an aggregator, then the thing to bring to your readers' attentions is the link to the original blog post. That way you drive traffic to the original content. For good examples of what this looks like, see Hacker News or Techmeme, or any of John Gruber's link posts on Daring Fireball.

If you're a publication, and it seems to me that you're positioning yourself that way, then write your own original stuff. You can still play off stories like this, but the way to do it is to extend the story with your own original reporting. Interview cab drivers about it. Dig out the story of how those buttons got into that interface. Who decided to put them there? Who build the software? Who designed the interface? In other words, add value.
Well, you can also do it in one layer:
http://google.com/flights

There is a lot of "slack" in how travel is priced due to all kinds of agreements about what rates you're allowed to show. That's partly why package deals can be so good. These are not simple problems to solve, even in a best-case scenario.
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This link might help you all out: http://docs.python.org/release/3.1.5/index.html or are we going to eventually have every single Python doc page posted to HN?

It there's no Python news, that doesn't mean you should post random tutorials instead. This is getting tiresome. Flagged.
You fixed it. looks good now.
اللجنة العليا للانتخابات الرئاسية
Revenue By Channel:

Merch/Tix Recordings

Torrent Yes No

Radio Yes Yes

A very popular meme: "but musicians make most of their money from concerts anyways". No; after recoup and automatic per-sales royalties, label financing provided musicians with a solid middle-class income. Also: most midlist- and- below artists make very little money touring; the popular conception of how lucrative touring is is queered by cognitive bias from hugely and anomalously successful major acts.
Oatmeal - nikola tesla
Obviously, Ms. Susman's circa-1998 home computer would in no way be able to replicate the level of storage provided by the Sun server cluster and its 4.5 TB disk array (http://www.hoise.com/primeur/99/articles/monthly/AE-PR-09-99...).

What was deleted, per Loren Carpenter on Quora, was, "in effect the database(s) containing the master copies of characters, sets, animation, etc. The frames were to be computed from that. A few hundred MB, if I remember." (http://www.quora.com/Pixar-Animation-Studios/Did-Pixar-accid...)

A little more detail than provided in the video, where they just called it, "the film", as if the movie's entirety of data were both deleted and duplicated on that home PC.
The facts are one thing. What's really damning is the structure in which those facts are presented. If you compare the original appearance of TNW's article with Joshua's article, the paragraphs are almost identical, with a few words changed here and there.
That is great news. Groupon is a great company that can help build local business, local communities and in turn raise the popsicle index.

That make it far more important than what Facebook or any other trendy startup is doing.
Here we go again!

Piracy and plagiarism are different things. Piracy is when you copy something without permission. Plagiarism is when you fail to attribute a source.

Piracy as we discuss it here almost never involves plagiarism. Have you ever seen a movie torrent where the movie was claimed to be produced by some pirate group instead of the actual movie studio that really made it? I've never even heard of such a thing.

The community here tends to find plagiarism far more distasteful than piracy. And there's absolutely nothing inconsistent about that. There is no reason that these two quite disparate concepts require someone to have a common stance on both.
50 or so employees. We're a digital agency. My team is great and so are the rest of my co-workers. Management is a joke. The projects are fun - however, that's the problem. We're rarely working on projects. We're usually fixing bugs in this horrible codebase we have or tacking on features onto the horrible code. I'd say in the whole organisation there are only 2 people, plus myself, who actually care about writing good code.
I'd love to - that's why I posted it here!

(you can use the email address on the main guide page if it's more convenient)
I meant to imply that Nvidia the company doesn't need to support Wayland specifically, rather that Wayland has multiple ways to support the GPU without the company's involvement.
Falkvinge is a Pirate
That makes no sense [to me]. I can't work out any plausible or implausible reason that would happen when you used gmail. How would your cookies change to your friends? Has she used your PC before?
So revenues up from $295m to $559m and operating income from -$146mn to $-12mn. Managing to grow revenue while narrowing the gap to black by quite a margin, good on them. I just wish they would quite re-stating the non-GAAP numbers. What value do they have beyond letting the press release have a dubious headline?
HTML5 Lessons from LinkedIn using Node.js
Original Discussion from it's first appearance on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3906143

Also, blog post from presumably the author about how the idea hadn't really taken off: http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/21266287229/givin...

and discussion of said post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3852413
David Lowery says that's not true. He says that your idea of how much artists make from touring suffers from cognitive bias: we pay attention to the anomalously successful huge touring acts, but that the reality is bimodal: a very few major touring acts, and then a huge cluster of artists who make less than minimum wage from even respectably attended club shows.

Neko Case made some comments to the effect of how much her returns were from touring _Middle Cyclone_. I went to that show in Chicago, which packed the large Chicago Theater. Neko Case was repeatedly featured on NPR and other media venues. She is anomalously successful. How amazingly lucrative do you think that tour was for her? Hint: if you're picking between being Neko Case and a senior engineer at Google just based on the money...

Of course, Steve Albini's famous "Some Of Your Friends May Already Be This Fucked" made much the same point about touring. He'd put it this way: if you're picking between being a midlist touring act and a senior manager at Wendy's just based on the money...

Meanwhile, the popular conception of how lucrative a label recording contract was is also mistaken, because it failed to take into account recoup rates and automatic per-sales royalties that are paid out even when albums don't recoup. In reality, the recording contract alone both financed the (very expensive) professional-quality recording of music and provided musicians with a base-level middle class income.
APIs Have Been Copyrightable for 22 Years
Am I the only one who liked the new OSX version?
Brutally honest is OK. Brutally stupid, which is what your tweets look like to me, is not OK.
Row-By-Agonizing-Row, or iterating over a list of rows and operating on each individually with a new query.

Your average Java programmer is used to iterating over collections in a while loop, where 30,000 in-memory objects can be quickly modified. It's tempting for said programmer to do the same to ORM-backed objects and issue 30,000 sql update statements across the wire.
What did VMWare do prior to "virtualization extensions" ?
Zee again. Full response: http://bit.ly/JxoWae
As a rule people don't buy everything they torrent, but they also don't buy everything they hear on the radio. So, the existence of people who buy things they have downloaded before is all it takes to disprove the idea that it never happens. The reality is Bittorrent and the Radio both raised the bar on what it takes before people will break out the checkbook. But, they do not prevent people from paying for music.
I don't know who the hell David Lowery is and I don't really like Counting Crows' music, but I don't know what music taste has to do with this discussion. Duritz wasn't saying that bittorrent is going to fix all of music's problems, he's just admitting the new realities and figuring how to work with them, "You can either cry about it or make use of it" he says.

You can dismiss Duritz' experience as an ad hom argument, but the fact that he has been able to keep his business going for over 20 years, long past his hit songs, including owning a record label where he guided other bands, shows that he is not stupid when it comes to this subject. I reacted to your cavalier dismissal of his point of view.

On an off topic note, your link gave me a new perspective on your attacks against one of the most important orgs of our times, the EFF. I'll just say that I think if the entire professional music industry disappears we will still, as a society, enjoy tons of music. As long as people enjoy making the stuff it will be produced, same with software and video. But if we lose the internet as a open democratic channel of communication that will take a very long time to replace.
"I think that Apple could be just as strong and good and be open, but how can you challenge it when a company is making that much money?"

I think he knows it well. Like it or not Apple is AAPL, or there to make money for shareholders. Would "being open" result in more money for the people that bought a tiny slice of a $500 Billion pie? Will any CEO try when they're making $50 Billion or whatever they're making this year in profit? Not sure
To clarify: I credited the source where I found the article, quite clearly, in the text prior to the image. I thought (wrongly, it would seem) that Rediff News had produced the image themselves.

I did not see the tweet from Dhananjay, and never got an email or anything else about it. Now that I have seen it, I have credited my source, as I always attempt to do.
Are Dads the New Moms?
Then we'd have to stop referring to a lot of what goes on TV, radio, and in the newspapers as journalism.
Tumblr already has a lot of the userbase that LiveJournal used to have, even without comments, but it lacks LiveJournal's useful privacy controls.
Sure, I agree, there are lots of aspects of his public persona that he could stand to work on. It doesn't make calling out typos less petty or more interesting. The difference between "Person makes harmless typo" and "Person I don't like makes harmless typo" is in your emotions, not in the substance of the comment.
Radio is still no good for 'real' discovery. If you're really into music discovery, give Audiogalaxy a shot. Here's something to start with: http://www.audiogalaxy.com/mix/11997-The%20Coding%20Zone/
This is one of the reasons I think people err by reading too much into accounts from the 'Stanford Prison Experiment'.

The students then (as now) weren't a sample of all people, but a particular kind of privileged young male, especially deferential and trusting towards professors, and especially willing to role-play with confidence that some other authority was managing the consequences.
There needs to be some sort of standard for citing other peoples work, sort of like an updated Chicago Manual of Style (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation#Citation_styles) for online publications. These days we have all these content mills that put out very little original work... I don't know what the proper method should be, how much work you can take etc. Also remember this - The New York Times spent weeks writing an article about how Wal-mart and Target learn your secrets and then Forbes wrote a knock-off that stole a bunch of their traffic.
http://nickoneill.com/how-fortune-stole-a-new-york-times-art...

This also reminds me that as much as possible we should try to link to the original source on HackerNews, it's in the guidelines! (http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

Back in July, I spent a lot of time putting together an infographic for FeeFighters on the tech boom and bubble (http://feefighters.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/tech-...). We got links back from tons of magazines, including Forbes, Mashable, Fast Company, etc. Many of them didn't link to either us or KissMetrics (our partner who did the design work), but most complied after sending an email or tweet.
One place, Bostinno - refused to link to us at all, despite multiple tweets and emails to them, for some reason deciding to credit Mashable: http://bostinno.com/2011/07/13/are-we-in-a-tech-boom-or-bubb...
Massholes.
OWASP Broken Web Applications Project
I'm making a stronger claim. As a rule, I'm saying, people† don't ever buy what they torrent, because there is no practical reason to do so. Which is clearly not true of the radio. The radio drove sales of recorded music; BitTorrent saps those same sales.

† (substitute "the mass market" if you're hyperliteral and can't get past the fact that you yourself violate the rule)
Earliest wall art (37,000 years before present) is found in France
The fact that this guy may be wrong does not justify brutally downvoting his comments until they are nearly invisible. That detracts enormously from the discussion and makes HN look like vindictive children.
To be honest, if I changed an ID on a URL, I expect it to say "not found" or "not authorised" if I am not allowed to see it.
If it doesn't say such things, than I can expect that it is ok to view.

That is what I have come to expect of such web pages.
Science 2.0 reporting with photographs:

http://www.science20.com/news_articles/earliest_aurignacian_...

New York Times reporting:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/science/oldest-cave-art-in...

Abstract of study from Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences:

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/05/08/1119663109
Poverty, though a real problem, is an orthogonal issue to this.
You are right though that debt creation and 'identity management' go together. Interestingly, these dirt poor people who are not 'indentity managed' have better balance sheets (standing at zero) than your average US college graduate.
If there are enough low-volume customers willing to pay a premium for a higher level of service, then it might might economic sense. Sure, a small individual customer isn't giving them enough business to be worth making all of these expensive changes, but the aggregate of all small customers combined might.

It isn't quite like replacing the meat section with a vegetarian section... its more like adding an organic foods section to a supermarket. Those supermarkets still might make most of their money on things like the meat, but certain people willing to pay a premium for perceived quality take advantage of the organic section. People who want meat can still buy meat, but there are enough people who buy organic to make it worth dedicating the shelf space.

Edit: I wonder if the reason we don't see this level of service in the market yet is because the type of players who would benefit most from these features are likely to be small local/regional carriers who lack the expertise/resources to develop and implement the technology. If I'm in Chicago and I need to get some time-sensitive documents to a law firm by the end of the day, I call a small local courier.

Perhaps the best solution would be a third-party SaaS platform that offers these advanced logistics/tracking/service features and targets smaller local/regional carriers. A single third party developer could spread development costs over a large number of customers in order to build a much more robust platform than would be economically feasible to develop in-house.
"I don't know who the hell David Lowery is and I don't like Counting Crows but I'm going to continue arguing as if the primary source this person just cited wasn't one click away, and not only that, as if the person who cited that source hadn't taken the time to summarize in bullet form that very source. And also, I'm going to sound irritated about it."
> Worth mentioning is the article on the usability blog from which Mr. Gross hotlinked his image of the interface

Although Mr Gross did not hotlink the image. Notice the images locations and file types are different.
As a member of generation Y, I think the original "Organisation Kid" article really got what is wrong with my generation. We're not lazy, entitled, or afraid of competition, despite hundreds of articles by gen X/boomers claiming the opposite. We compete and work hard but never ask what it's all for.
Someone had ran RM * on their shared storage, deleting the file system. They were "saved" by someone having a copy of the movie on their PC at home.

The data wasn't gone (only the file system was nuked), but would have required specialist intervention to restore. Or a hacker with the right tools (assuming such tools exist for the *nix file systems - they certainly do for fat32 and NTFS)..