skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It’s then either a post-modern joke or a Marxist irony (or both at once) that we are able to buy shares of us. But either way, I don’t want you buying shares of me."

I've seen arguments like this made a few times, and I find them fascinating in the way they treat "data about me" and "me" as synonymous. It's like that old story about people who believed taking a photograph would steal your soul.
The article's arguments aren't that convincing. Geospatial indexing? That's an application-specific function that shouldn't be bloating a database engine. If anything, the grocery list of crap mentioned by this article makes me DOUBT Postgres's focus on being an efficient database.

The other problem is that every host offers MySQL. Not so with Postgres.
This seems like a great program, I would have love to do it, too bad that I am in France !
Aside from the lovely Link Bait article, imagine my surprise at seeing a '.xxx' domain on HN's front-page.
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I don't necessarily disagree, but the assumption that not providing support on a free service is evil is the more flawed idea, I think.

Also, as I recently discovered, Google does have a for-pay phone support service for Gmail users, as well as all the other forms of support they offer in the form of message board, how tos, google groups, etc.
Hm, the first .xxx domain I've seen on HN and it's not even off-topic (although a little flamebaity).
Wait, one box? What are clusters then?
great post Jason!
Oh, wow this is really awesome. Shame I could never use it, since it's out of my price range as a hobbyist. Seems insane they don't offer pricing that covers my use case, especially with stuff like home robotics being such a big thing these days. There's no way I could afford even 1/10th of the $3.5k they want for the full version, and I'm not a student so I couldn't buy the $75 student version. I'd have no problem paying $150-200, just to play around with this.
Wonderful, this is also posted on an '.xxx' domain so it is categorised as adult material by my company's proxy. Gee thanks.

From the comments here though I'm not missing anything.
Allow me to disagree. China is an opressive government, but that fact gets conveniently ignored by other countries who use it as a factory floor. My own country (Brazil) is riddled with corruption for decades and still economy moves forward driven by credit and consumption. Somalia, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Laos, Burma, just to name a few, are plagued with porvertry as result of bad governance and ethnic genocides but the only movement for change you see there is voluntary work paid by donations - you don't see USA or Europe interested in democracy there because they don't have oil to get sucked or money to buy their crap.
It didn't change the meaning, because everyone understood what he said. The human mind is amazing at that. If you're going to be pedantic, fine, but own up to it.
When mass transit suspends there is normally a notification of estimated downtime.
"I seriously want someone to tell me just ONE feature that MySQL has over Postgres. I ask everybody this question, and I haven't heard a single thing. "

Built-in two-way (aka master/master) replication.
While it's a worse database, the /systems/ I've seen built on MySQL are all better than those built on "real" databases.

This could be a symptom of which businesses choose which databases. Large established businesses are probably going to prefer the commercially supported database, and are probably also going to have the resources to build impressive systems.
I wonder how posts like this make it to the front page. This is clearly a opinionated and poorly researched article that gives no evidence for any of its claims, except that a few features this user wants are included in PostgreSQL. There is still plenty of space PostgreSQL has to make up before it is better then MySQL in every way. The knowledge gap alone is enough to keep MySQL around.
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Jury doesn't find Google to infringe two Oracle patents
Most consumer items are not investment, they are expenses. So one shouldn't have any hopes of holding or appreciating in value. Why you expect your TV be an investment that raises in value? Do you expect the same from your shoes?
Amazon RDS support.
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What difference does it make? She's not the judge or jury, so she can be as biased as she wants. It's a blog. Who cares who is paying for it?
I was actually discussing this today:

> Schema-less data, array columns, queueing, full-text searching, geo-spatial indexing, it's insane what Postgres can do.

Ok for arrays and geo. Maybe for integrated search. But where is the line between bloat and useful features? Do they really need queueing in the database itself, or schema-less parts? Each part is something that needs maintenance, possible bugfixes and caring about when you update any internal part. Just checking for regressions and keeping them up to date with internal interface changes is going to take some time.

See a similar issue which came up in the mysql -> drizzle move. How can we judge what is slowing the project down and what is going to make it into production somewhere?
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Who can't get what?

http://venturebeat.com/2012/02/07/developers-ask-why-path-is...

iOS was designed to allow this. AV won't fix this, either. Users will share any data to use a certain app.
Compelling... Still, I've made it this far, I think I'll just continue to Remain Fake.
I wasn't intending to describe Bill Gates (although his fortune is currently $60b which is 60x what Zuckerberg apparently has in the bank and bigger than IIRC his holdings of Facebook), but most billionaires don't seem nearly as serious or careful about their philanthropy as Gates. Take Zuckerberg - he's not off to a good start with just donating millions to schools; that's not going to change anything like Gate's "let's eliminate polio forever" would.
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Show HN: LiveRoom
http://forum.opalang.org

We built this real-time discussion tool for our own website.

Do you think we should launch it as a standalone project?
There is a thriving industry of premium WordPress themes, many of which will be deployed without code edits.
Florian pretended to be a FOSS advocate for a very long time and refused to disclose his clients, when it was clear for all that he was being paid by Microsoft.
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Perhaps the art of finding clever improvements for finding clever improvements in life should be called "lifehacking-hacking"? Then some one will post an article about how to more efficiently post articles about how to more efficiently post articles about life tricks, which will be called "lifehacking-hacking-hacking."
Hooray for the Aluminum Knight. The rounded rectangles of the universe salute you.
The ketchup is just a good demonstration. they can apply that coating to a million other things... Pipes, tubes... Take a smaller bottle, cover it outside and you got yourself a dildo. It's all about potential possibilities not "food" :)
Your ad hominem is rather disgusting. Put up evidence or shut up.

I called Florian as a corporate shill here more than a year ago based on publicly available information. I believe him "outing himself" is more recent.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2128882

Edit: Also pj called it.
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120419070127103
In the complaint, page 10, line 3. Chi-Hua Chien organized a dinner for partners and explicitly excluded women because "they would kill the buzz."

Reading the complaint shows that KPCB was following the standard playbook for removing an employee cleanly. A lesson for the kids out there: HR works for the company, not for you. Never reveal anything to HR.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/94433811/Kleiner-Perkins-Ellen-Pao
Only you can answer this question, but as all the expected advice has been offered, I think I should at least suggest that you can possibly bring it up to your manager.

I've worked in places where I felt involved enough, or integral enough that I could have a candid conversation with my employer to say "Hey, if this is how it is, that's cool, I'll try to find something somewhere else. If not, then cool, I love working here."

The important part is to keep it low key, low volume and low intensity. Start off with how much you like where you are, and your co-workers / management, yadda yadda (assuming it's true -- if not, then leaving is the more obvious answer) -- but you MIGHT be able to have that conversation and get an exception.

Of course, cover your bases. Be ready to be unemployed if they react negatively.
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People, particularly rich people, do leave China in considerable numbers. The same with Brazil. States with corrupt or inefficient governments do go bankrupt, sizeable amounts of people leave one way or another, and some of them are forced to improve (for some values of improvement) as terms of their financial rescue.

All the things you mentioned do happen, the issue is that few things concerning large organizations happen fast. Even in near-perfect-capitalist Silicon Valley environment organizations as troubled as Yahoo or Palm can keep on going for quite a while.
Had an account for a few years, deleted it months ago. Nobody was really my "friend" on there anyway, just people I knew before, and now don't live anywhere near them anymore, or have any kind of contact with them. I felt no need to share my whole life with the internet. What's the point? I'm not narcissistic, and I certainly don't need an employer or the government snooping on everything that I do.
"Wow" is right. There's also this interesting gem right after: https://twitter.com/FedcourtJunkie/status/205371711233851392

> Juror said it was his opinion that more tech savvy jurors were less likely to go for limits on openness. Ie they were pro google

This really says it all. Ultimately Oracle can only win if the jury is borderline luddite.
setuidgid is written in C. No bugs yet reported.

Plan 9 doesn't have the concept of superuser. "sudo" is moot. Plan 9 is written in C.

Just two examples that come to mind.

Maybe it's not the language. Maybe it's the person using it.

There is never going to be a perfectly "idiot-proof" language that shares the power of a language like C. But many still seem to believe this is possible.
I have nothing against Postgres, I use it daily in many, many projects, but this article is ridiculous. How did this make the front page?
> Back when I was in college, 2003-2007, I remember going to lecture halls and sitting in the back. Every student had a laptop out, and all they were doing was posting garbage on other peoples walls. I was so disgusted with the popularity contest that was facebook, I vowed never to take part in it.

I could not possibly agree more with you.
Something similar happen to me with http://pixelcloud.com/

I was out in SF for the first time having a meeting with some interesting folks about Pixelcloud and after the meeting they decided to show me around SF and we ended up eating at a restaurant they picked. To my surprise the guy sitting right behind me had a Pixelcloud shirt on. We laughed and pretended the whole thing was staged even though there was no way possible.
It makes a lot of difference, see how Florian gets treated by the crowd around here(not to mention the jabs at him in the article linked), in spite of coming clean about his affiliations with Oracle. There's a big perception by many here that PJ is impartial and independent, and a disclosure by PJ will show whether that's justified or not.
did this post just disappear from hn? I cant find it on the front page anymore and neither on the second, third, or new... something to do with the xxx tld?
As opposed to some private-equity fund waving a magic wand and screwing you over?
It really depends. A good pair of headphones can be had for big discounts used. For in ear headphones, you can usually buy replacement ear pads and for over ear, you can often replace the foam that goes over your ear. I would never buy a lower quality pair, but I've bought a few different high end headphones that I scored on.
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> Geospatial indexing? That's an application-specific function that shouldn't be bloating a database engine.

You could just as well say that multi-text-encoding sort/group collation, compound keys, or, for that matter, indexes on anything other than primary keys, are "application-specific function[s] that shouldn't be bloating a database engine"--and then go back to using BerkeleyDB.

The point of relational databases is not data warehousing, nor is it to batch-execute preprogrammed queries on extremely-denormalized data at hyperspeed (that's what NoSQL and all that other noise is about.) The niche RDBMSes fill, is that they provide an abstraction layer for doing unforeseen data analysis using arbitrary relational projections and selections while the database remains online, without having to worry about (or modify!) the underlying data-structures. "SELECT user_id WHERE ST_Distance(location, my_house) < 100 AND has_beer = TRUE" is a perfectly sensible question to ask of any database that stores locations of things (and whether they have beer), whether or not that's part of the application that put the data there.
I should've noted in the article, almost all of those are optional extensions to Postgres
It's interesting that people are upvoting this submission, yet the comments are almost all calling it flamebait.
Before I begin, I'm not trying to troll you and am certainly not trying to be disrespectful. However, cashing out $1B of stock and buying a company (which could turn into a serious competitor) for $1B have absolutely nothing to do with each other.

The sale of stock was about liquidity, diversity and paying off taxes. It was the right financial decision (that any advisor worth his/her fees would recommend).

Finally, Mark Zuckerberg did not buy Instagram. He negotiated the sale on behalf of a company which he happens to own a controlling interest in. Legally, Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg are different entities.
> You have to think a bit more about what OO really is about.

If you want to have a respectful debate, I'm completely game. If you'd prefer to continue with your incredibly condescending tone, then I'll bow out here.
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You could always register for a class at your local community college to get the necessary student ID. But I agree, a 'home user/general nerd' version would be great, possibly with limitations on export or suchlike.

I'm interested in playing with it too, although strangely there doesn't seem to be any way to get audio or MIDI into or out of it, which is a pity. I'm sure it wouldn't be too difficult to add on, since Mathematica has that sort of thing built in.
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Stross answers his own question - he just doesn't want to go there. Turn your back on the Enlightenment's ideological values. Until the 21st century can accomplish this, it'll stay a tired, stale clone of the 20th.

SF and even fantasy are existentially dependent on plausibility. The more rules you break, the more you have to obey the ones you don't break. How can anyone find Enlightenment values plausible in 2012? What Enlightenment experiment hasn't been tried? Which one succeeded?

There's a lovely bit of counterreality in one of the original Gibson novels - Count Zero I think - in which US housing projects (UK: "council housing") have become dynamic centers of green innovation, with windmills on the roof and everything. Could you believe this in 1983? Just barely. From 2010, the reality:

http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/2010/10/end-of-cabrini-gre...

Don't miss the arguments (between cops!) about whether or not it was safe to take the elevators. What do your Enlightenment values have to say about that?

The next century (or two) will be about figuring out how to either (a) change human beings into something else, or (b) reconcile technical change with the grim, unspeakable reality of the human condition. That's a condition human beings understood much better before the Enlightenment. You certainly won't find any Cabrini-Greens in, say, Louis XIV's France...
Postgres has had solid replication since 8.4
This is a good point, and a new nuance on familiar arguments. It's still the same argument, but now with fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders.
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where does postgres need to catch up? and what knowledge gap?
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Facebook isn't one of them. They exist for the sole purpose of providing value to their shareholders. So, any way they can sell your data, they will.
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Gmail is not a used rake.

[Dick comes to the door of Tom.]

Dick: Hey Tom, I see that you don't have a mailbox. I have a few hundred extras down the street, would you like to use one on the condition that I might analyze who is sending you mail and the like? It's really secure and it's all the rage in the city you can store 2000 pounds of mail forever blah blah blah. You should really use it!

Tom: Sure Dick, it's a real help to have an address for bills, personal correspondence, etc. And I can use it to establish residency and so on.

[Tom puts the address in his letterhead, tells everyone to use it, makes several job applications with it, etc. He uses it for everything. Every service he uses authenticates him by his access to this box.]

[One morning Tom goes out to his box and sees it has been padlocked. After a great deal of searching, Tom finds an unofficial contact for Dick.]

Tom: Hey Dick, can you unlock the box for me? I am expecting a check, a letter from my daughter, etc.

Dick: Sorry, I can't do that. And I can't tell you why. What did you expect for free? Anyway, how did you get this number?
Although your unique story would have been more interesting, I definitely agree with a lot of what you said.

I graduated college June 4 of last year, and have gone through a couple ideas already. I put serious effort into 2, one being an e-commerce startup I hope to launch this summer. I've definitely had to re-evaluate how much my time is worth over the past year, and that is one of the most important pieces of advice I give to my friends just graduating now.

I planned on working for ~6 months to pay down some debt (credit cards and student loans) and save some money to move to the city (NYC or SF). Ended up getting a great job teaching the computer class at an elementary school and running a staff development program for about 30 elementary school teachers. Its an hourly job, no salary, but I definitely end up working more than 40 hours each week. I'm so drained after dealing with young kids all day that it's incredibly hard to put in more work on a startup.

I really am only able to do it due to two things: first, thank god for breaks, vacation time my first year, and being a school days only employee. Second, finding a great co-founder that keeps me motivated and focused (and also happens to be my significant other - not always a great choice, but for us it's amazing... our third date turned into a three hour long brainstorming session for the e-commerce project I mentioned above).

While I see things working out great in the future, and I'm definitely getting a lot out of my current job (I definitely want to do an education focused startup, and I feel like this age group is impossible to learn about without working with them directly), it is very hard to manage work / life balance when it's really work (day job) / work (startup) / life balance. Getting into a routine, finding sufficient motivation and willpower, and realizing how valuable time is at this point in life is important before even thinking about being able to reasonably work on your own projects or startup.
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I find this to be a very important extension....I would be surprised if Adblock didn't have this built in though.
What bias? You may be confusing bias with opinion. "Equal time" is not unbiased reporting, and having a clear opinion is not bias, unless your opinion turns out to be consistently wrong.
>There's a big perception by many here that PJ is impartial and independent, and a disclosure by PJ will show whether that's justified or not.

And? Either his data is correct and forthright or incorrect and misleading. It's quite possible to be biased as fuck and still report objective fact. Until such time as the data skews, I don't particularly care what flag he flies.
>I called Florian as a corporate shill here more than a year ago based on publicly available information. I believe him "outing himself" is more recent.

So if Florian made up a pseudonym like PJ did, and posted articles only with it, he would have avoided your scrutiny of publicly available info and "outing" and all that, right?

>Put up evidence or shut up.

There is no way for the common person do that,

So the moral of the story is there is that Florian should made sure that there was no public information about him like PJ very successfully did and he would've been shielded from all the shill accusations like PJ is now? It's funny to to see Groklaw lob the accusations while not revealing anything about PJ that will allow someone to do some research like you did.
Be really good. Publicize that fact. Don't call attention to competitors. Don't go picking fights.

Don't take Getting Real as some sort of gospel; it's a aphoristic collection of anecdotal observations based on limited experience and selective recollection. That's not to say it isn't useful, but it's just one data point among many.
I wish I understood what that sentence is supposed to mean. "Life debt"? It seems to be in code, or shorthand, or jibberish.
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PJ is suspiciously silent when it is IBM using patents to threaten open source projects, or when it is IBM writing in an amicus brief to the Supreme Court that:

Patent protection has promoted the free sharing
of source code on a patentee’s terms---which has
fueled the explosive growth of open source software
development
Difficult: the Google API doesn't seem to support random access to files, only whole downloads. So you'd need a caching layer to buffer any changes, prefetch, etc...

And even then, it would be catastrophically slow for true random access. Note that even Dropbox isn't implemented with FUSE; it just watches your ~/Dropbox folder with (presumably) inotify.
You need to grow thicker skin, that first sentence was in no way condescending and gives you no reason to just ignore the rest of his comment.
I like him and his show, but there have been more than a few instances when corolla just won't shut up. A few guests I was really hoping to hear from have gotten about four sentences in edgewise. When he's taking the interview seriously he does a good job.
Personally, you can't blame people for doing their jobs.

You can however blame them for repeat spamming you. Blaming the list is just dumb.
If you used Internet access to write this post, where do you draw the line?
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