skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm all in when it comes to call bullshit on something. But because we (hackers) are used to boolean decisions, we are looking for counter-examples.

But these are just non-arguments when the finding is "In 9 out of 10 cases, ...". The anecdote is the 1 out of 10 case.

Let's try to question anything, and when it is suspicious - by all means, say so! But, I guess what the author is trying to say (beyond the whole Downvote discussion) is that we should try to reason and make a proper argument. Especially one that is not already addressed in the research.
Even between minor versions / security updates?
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This company was probably an extremely easy investment decision:

1) Facebookers: Check

2) Data Scaling experience: Check

3) In-Memory with SQL semantics: Check

4) New-York based software that can be sold to quant funds: Check

I'm excited. It's downloading now.
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I was there with my Zenbook (running Arch). A few guys with macs made comments about it, “ahh, I see you've got the Macbook Air ripoff.” in a condescending tone.

A witty retort eluded me, so I said "Yup." like a plank.
Probably the part where it usually can't find your JDK (and barfs with some random error on startup as a result) until you edit a config file or set some environment variable(s). NetBeans on the other hand usually finds 5 different JDKs on your system and asks which one you would like to use.
Forgot whimsy doesn't play on HN - too many literal thinkers. Sorry, I'll refrain.
In the release preview it's minimised by default.
Will 'showrooming' kill businesses?
No, because that from import will not put 'ghost' in your namespace, only Ghost.
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Well, I always click the Win key for the win :-D, but it gets really annoying to have the whole screen change to a stupid looking menu in order to open another app. An alternative is to use the desktop, but I've given up on desktop icons a long time ago...
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thanks for pointing it out, fixed!
Converting git commit history to a full text index
I gotta say, I'm pretty impressed with how Microsoft go in for supporting all these relatively new technologies on their own stack. Considering what they've done in the past.
> Java never caught on

There is a whole world beyond the desktop. Java 'caught on' in a big way.
I was commenting on the "I produced these great results. Want to buy some of the same?" which is archetypical in sales.

That has nothing to do with the integrity or honesty of the person, which I have repeatedly praised.

It's the difference between saying "you are X" and saying "what you said is X"
Heroku Down Again
"again, not manufacturing the hardware" -- well, you noticed all Macs have nvidia or amd/ati GPUs and Intel processors, and are assembled by Foxconn?

"That's because Apple isn't a real hardware company, it's all white-labelled." I guess?
p.s. Eric, two annoyances about your site: once I've been dumped on to the developers subsite, it's non-trivial to get back to the main company homepage.

Also, pricing. Come on, man! Pricing!!
thanks for pointing things out, fixed!
How about because almost any computer (including Apple's) can run Windows AND all your hardware will work just fine with it

Ah, no. Having been a windows support/user for nearly 20 years, I am all too familiar with the 'find-the-drivers' dance, in particular, find-the-network-drivers, from which you can manually search the internet and find the rest. Then you get the fun of having a series of different things keeping themselves updated. A friend of mine even when so far as to make a 'golden XP installer', which was a standard XP install disk slipstreamed with 686 different network card drivers.

And boy it's fun trying to find the right Windows drivers. Easy for us experienced folk, because we know what scam sites look like. But to naives, it can be hard to tell the difference between what might work and scam sites, let alone actually trying to find the name of the chipset you're hunting for.

So if the argument is 'ease of installing', Windows most definitely does not get a free pass.
Isn't this a problem wish all databases?
Damn, you're absolutely right. That's what I get for reading code too early in the morning.
I'm baffled by this statement. You seem to be drawing comparisons between Flash and Java when Flash's use cases would describe about 10% of the use cases of Java. Are you referring to Java in the browser only? Or are you referring to all Java? In the world of non-browser software, the statement that Java is perceived as "insecure" is simply not true.
> I think modern art is

I think what you are describing is "art I don't really see the merit of". Modern art - as understood by most people - encompasses Van Gough through Matisse, Hockney through Warhol.

Is the work of Dali an "allergic reaction"? How about Roy Lichtenstein? How about Jackson Pollock? How about Tracey Emin? Where do you draw the line here?

If you draw the line at the point where you stop seeing the artistic merit, and if you start defining art from that purely subjective view point, you're surely missing out. What about artists who fall just past the line where you see the artistic merit? Is it possible you just don't understand that work? Will you start to define art as purely mechanical skill? If not, where will you define it?

I leave you with: https://xkcd.com/793/
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The camera actually has told us a lot of unexpected things about "what is art?" e.g. Objectivity is a lie, accurate representation alone is worthless (the snapshot is not art unless the artist says so), representation is boring, there are no "beautiful things", etc.
That's the thing -- what does Linux need at this point? Not much, and the things that are needed are not at the kernel level. The things on the kernel level that are needed are mostly from device manufacturers -- there is no shortage of people to do the work of writing a video driver, for example, if the specs were there.

Nearly every incompatibility we see right now is a result of a hardware company not releasing complete specs. It isn't for lack of coders that suspend/hibernate isn't working universally.

There are enough people working on the big pyramid.
Also, how do you do this without having to handle the customers DNS lookups as well?
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the controls are absolute, with:
j goes left
l goes right
k goes down
i goes up.

If you are a vim user, you'll be confused and fell like things are reversed. Sorry :(
So, you claim that unlike helicopters, memristors are part of the nature?
Successful programmers have beards
Unless you are a true original in every sphere, then we can make a reasonable guess that the majority of what you believe lies within the known sets of human beliefs. Then from observing your actions and reactions to stimuli, (ie, your interaction on this board), we could extrapolate from there and make a reasonable guess on your beliefs on a wide variety of subjects. It won't be absolutely correct, obviously, but it won't be a complete shot in the dark either.
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After using Puppet and Chef for small production deployments and local vagrant setups, salt looks promising in terms of performance and transparency.
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not bugs; tradeoffs by design :)
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It's a chicken-and-egg situation, agreed, It just seems really strange to me that they spent so much effort pushing and developing the software side, without putting any effort into the hardware, when the two clearly have to go hand-in-hand.

Microsoft had the software stack ready - imagine if they had released (via partners) high-dpi laptops and screens shortly afterwards? That actually might have made a Windows machine a compelling and desirable product, instead of just an expensive way to run a browser.
This is utter hogwash.

I'm as critical as anyone (probably more so, check my comment history) of academic biology because of my background in it. There are certainly things wrong it. And due to the nature of biology, replicating results is really hard. It's a fact of life when you deal with systems that are not perfect, not identical and very opaque.

But to say that "Science has been supplanted by money and politics" is stretching the problems of biology into a mountain of conspiracy.

Furthermore, I'm reading your "source" and it reads loudly as "I'm an underfunded big-pharma research who has neither the time nor the resources to properly replicate studies". Did you know that most big pharma labs do not have access to the academic literature? They mostly read abstracts because there is little budget to actually purchase the required papers.

How much do you trust labs that are A) only trying to recreate data so they can make a drug out of it and B) aren't even reading the original data? While academic labs can have grad students toil away on hard experiemnts for literally years before they perfect them...how long do you think Pfizer or Merck or Glaxco-Smith is going to let their paid researchers fiddle away on a project that is probably low priority anyway?

Because, of course, the high-priority projects are the reformulations of penis-enlarging drugs or cholesterol medication...you know, the ones that actually make money.

If you are looking for snake oil and shady research, I dare you to read any research paper that comes out of big pharma labs. We would routinely read them just for laughs because they are (often) downright terrible.
Another bad decision in a long stream of management incompetence.
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I agree with you: I think Tracey Emin is more sophisticated than most make out.

I confess, though, that I was amused when I read the bit about her tent going up in the Momart fire.
Just like in The Wire, except Zurich version lasted a few years longer :L)
Thanks! We'll add a link back to memsql.com =) What did you think of the video and diagram on developers?
Then you get stuck with a pile of uncommented VB6 written by accountants. Short-sightedness is its own punishment.
Anecdotes have their place, especially in complex domains. For example, I have a friend who uses medical marijuana successfully to control MS symptoms. That is a sample size of one, but it certainly colors my view of the debate. I have a much deeper view into the decision making process of a MS sufferer now than I would otherwise, one that goes beyond spasticity, pain, and cognitive scores.
Indeed, Part 1 of this post was all about that, and is definitely worth reading too.

http://www.empiricalzeal.com/2012/06/05/the-crayola-fication...
Flagged as a duplicate. Please stop sneaking duplicates past the filter through tricks such as replacing "http" with "https".

Previous submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4106269
Yes, polls, surveys and feedbacks are in the roadmap. We are not a lot interested in SMS/USSD since it's really under control of operators, but would like to invest more in exchanging data using 3G/4G networks.

It's really a good idea to trigger rules when an app is not used after a certain period of time. Will think on it :)
Maybe that's why we keep our eyes closed while we sleep.
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I would love this to happen.

But I see some issues.
Who should spin-off the inevntions?

People who studied for years and perhaps joined university staff after their degrees are most likely not trying this.
They are just the wrong sort of people (there are exceptions for sure). If you have been studying that long you most probably like theoretical work and are just not interested in practical realization.

The only way this whole idea can work out is if you focus on the freshmen. They should get the opportunity to get involved in potential spin-offs even they yet don't have knowledge about the product/invention in detail.

Hard to do but awesome if it works out.
Doesn't make sense. If the content is 'bad', moderator could expunge it. Or writer could be counseled on giving better posts. Or any number of things.

The voting system on HN sometimes demotes bad content. Far more often (discussed widely elsewhere) its used to assert agreement or disagreement. When used in this sense, its a sort of instant-poll.

In the case of anecdotal argument, it forms an ad-hoc 'scientific' experiment. The HN population weighs in using their own experience. Those who's memory (or ok, memory-triggered emotion response) aligns with the author may upvote etc.

To 'bad content' is uniformely suppressed instead, this social experiment is lost, and the community loses. The merit of instant-polls is debatable, but other such polls are supported here. In fact the test group on HN may exceed the original 'scientific paper' group by an order of magnitude. Its statistical significance may exceed a graduate student's narrow study.
And modern art tends to presuppose that the viewer has the necessary context, often neglecting the aesthetic hook.
I'm not sure if I remember good enough, but I do think the first iPhone didn't have any folders or second screens of apps – just one.
Good lord, what stupidity. The only usable netflix interfaces are the 3d party ones. The vanilla site is atrocious.
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If you believe adults don't troll with complicated pieces, you probably don't get Tracy Emin.

While I wish I was trolling you right now, I am being serious.
Disagree. Successful entrepreneurs are lottery winners with attitude, by and large. The programming field is no longer young, we should give up that old excuse. And no you are not being straw-manned, the argument is. Good to not take things personal here.

Studies are necessarily narrow and context-laden, even 'solid and definite' ones. The suggestion to automatically downvote anecdotes is too broad, and should be refuted.
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We do have open sourced chip cores: http://opencores.org/

It's still in its infancy, and faces a lot of challenges that open source software doesn't, but it's come a long way in a few years.
The bean counters are out in force. Must be a sign that they are threatened.
A strawman of who exactly? Of the Christian scientists that believe in one true world as created by God? Of the Platonist scientists that believe in the one true essence of things? Of the reductionist scientists, that believe everything is reducible to the fundamental properties of the fundamental particles? Or of the small minority of scientists that do without a belief in one true underlying reality?

Do you actually know any scientists, as you so pointedly asked someone else?
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I can open a program in my quick-launch-bar with one click before you even typed the first letter of that program.
Maybe it's not a design feature, but it gets in the way.

(And yes: I'm using Windows 7 with the Windows Classic theme.)
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For integrated billing and expense, I was thinking of building my own which will integrate freshbooks and expensify along with import/export feature.
Indeed they are.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor

It has been known for decades that laws of nature imply a fourth fundamental electronic element (besides resistor, capacitor and inductor).

>>> The Memristor is believed to be the missing 4th circuit element. Memristor is basically a charge-dependent resistor. The reason that the memristor is radically different from the other fundamental circuit elements is that, unlike them, it carries a memory of its past. When you turn off the voltage to the circuit, the memristor still remembers how much was applied before and for how long. That's an effect that can't be duplicated by any circuit combination of resistors, capacitors, and inductors, which is why the memristor qualifies as a fundamental circuit element. Memristors can be combined into devices called crossbar latches, which could replace transistors in future computers, taking up a much smaller area. They can also be fashioned into non-volatile solid-state memory, which would allow data density of about 100GB/1sqcm. This can be implemented for designing circuits with lesser components, lesser expenses and lesser power consumption. Also coupling the crossbar latch with FPGA (Field Processing Gate Array) technology, we can potentially make processors so dynamic that they would never get obsolete. Giving a practical solution to reduce the millions of tonnes of computer waste generated each year...[1]

[1]: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1742116
It depends strongly on the specific application. The actual GL calls themselves, once data is on the GPU, execute at the same speed as in native applications, because it's the same hardware/drivers/API. But, the roundtrips between JS code (and JS datatypes) and the GPU could kill performance even more than CPU<->GPU roundtrips normally do. So depends on how good the application is at avoiding those.
I am with you. I am wondering when exactly these desktop power users will even see Metro. Nearly all the apps I use day-to-day are pinned to my task-bar.
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I don't "get" sports. I do not understand the appeal of watching a bunch of dudes run around a field trying to get a ball in a goal. Not to mention all the evidence we've seen of what sports like football and boxing do to the bodies of athletes. (Or what that may imply about the organizational bodies and spectators of those sports.)

But, I don't get to pretend like the sports world is full of pretentious dickheads. Kinda funny how that works. Somehow what "normal" people do is always right and good and creative stuff is degenerate or snobby bullshit.
There are 5 possible collisions: top edge, left edge, right edge, bottom edge and the tail.

Your proposal does not cover the top edge.
I define companies by WHAT MAKES THEM MONEY. I can't tell if people are pedantic or dense.

Apple makes money by selling hardware. Microsoft makes money by selling software. Google makes money by selling ads. Amazon makes money by selling goods.

Graphic for the insanely dense: http://visualign.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/applemicrosoftg...
Your blog post is broken, the link to the netflix post is set as the title of the href.

For anyone that wants to read it: http://developer.netflix.com/blog/read/Upcoming_Changes_to_t...
The Dock. Is it baffling how people can do real work via the Dock? I myself use QuickSilver, but I don't ponder over how people do real work without it.
Looks promising. Love how it inter-operates with MySQL driven apps.

I should be able to try it for one of my apps over this weekend!
I've seen a lot of these new SQL databases, and they all seem to compare themselves to MySQL. That seems like a particularly easy target, since MySQL's main strength is speed, and it's a fundamentally old-school (ie slow) design which has sacrificed everything else to get half-fast. What I'd like to know is how any of these compare in features and reliability to the featureful, reliable databases like Oracle and Postgres.

(For specific examples that I've run into recently: does it have geo-spatial extensions, and does it crash and burn and corrupt all its data if a malloc() fails)
I'm obviously missing something. Is SQL really the bottleneck for SQL performance? I'm not sure how much compiling down to C++ will help.

Is there more to this than the article suggests?
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Thats the one being in development, Allthough it's going a bit slower recently. There are plans to completely overhaul the project. Since it was built upon fork upon fork. Lots of decisions are outdated.
I don't get this trend of porting stuff from emacs to vim.

If I clearly understand the point of emacs's org mode, I don't get how it could go along vim considering it's a "powerful text editor" not an IDE. It just don't match the intended worflow (at least mine).

I much prefer how mutt is handling things, just taking care of emails and delegating text editing to vim.
News flash: most art, like most things in general, is not very good. Film at 11.
Looks useful. Drop in mysql compatibility is a huge plus for many projects that are tied to mysql (for whatever reasons).

Does anyone know if there are any plans for having MongoDB style replica sets (e.g. sharded and replicated databases in a cluster)?

Also, it would be great if it supported the native mysql replication, so you could have MemSQL replicas of a master mysql DB.
Let's break the Hibernate-PC continuum
The problem with pyjamas(compiler) is that it's a part of pyjamas. pyjaco is just a compiler
Yes you scan over the screen and it might be hard to find the things you want on day one. That's how it was with our iPhone and Androids too on the first day we got them.

When the iPhone was released, there was a single home screen. Everything that was available to you was visible from the start. What you see is what you get.
I think its that its an in memory database, optimised for memory as opposed to disk. The SQL to C++ seems a bit of a confusion to me, I guess it means it has a JIT SQL compiler to optimise the query to native opcodes. Meh. But the in memory and mysql wire compatibility are big wins.
Yes, Heroku is down. They have a status page that lets you know about that sort of thing. It seems like folks like to keep an eye on certain service status pages and post them here real quick for some easy karma or something. This is HN, not the Heroku/AWS/PaaS/SaaS service status page. Those pages are easy to find and now there's one less spot for a really interesting article on the front page.
I love watching Linux talk, he looks like he is always suppressing rage (... the hulk?). Also, this talk has one of my all time favorite quotes

"People who get offended should be offended." ... zen
Yes. They also put "just hit a button on the keyboard to unlock" on a god-damn laptop.

So yes, they can detect if you have touch or a keyboard. It's your choice.
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Or just click the file browser from the task bar in desktop mode.